As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 9, 2016

Securities Act File No. 333-205154

 

U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549



 

FORM N-2

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
o Pre-Effective Amendment No.
x Post-Effective Amendment No. 4



 

ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)



 

200 Park Avenue, 7 th Floor
New York, New York 10166

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(212) 922-8240

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Paul J. Echausse, Esq.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Alcentra Capital Corporation
200 Park Avenue, 7 th Floor
New York, New York 10166

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)



 

COPIES TO:

Steven B. Boehm, Esq.
Harry S. Pangas, Esq.
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
700 Sixth Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: (202) 383-0100
Fax: (202) 637-3593



 

Approximate date of proposed public offering:   As soon as practicable, after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

If any of the securities being registered on this form are offered on a delayed or continuous basis in reliance on Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered in connection with a dividend reinvestment plan, check the following box. þ

 

 


 
 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 (SEC File No. 333-205154) (the “Registration Statement”) is to file certain exhibits to the Registration Statement as set forth in Item 25(2) of Part C. Accordingly, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement consists only of a facing page to the registration statement, this explanatory note and Part C of the Registration Statement, including all exhibits identified as being filed herewith or incorporated by reference herein. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 does not modify any other part of the Registration Statement. As a result, the remainder of the contents of the Registration Statement previously filed are hereby incorporated by reference herein. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. As permitted by Rule 462(d), this Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 shall become effective upon filing with the SEC.


 
 

ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION
PART C
OTHER INFORMATION

Item 25. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(1) Financial statements

 
  Page No.
Unaudited Financial Statements:
        
Consolidated Financial Statements of Alcentra Capital Corporation:
        
Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities as of September 30, 2015 (unaudited)     F-2  
Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2015 (unaudited)     F-3  
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Net Assets for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2015 (unaudited)     F-5  
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2015 (unaudited)     F-7  
Consolidated Schedule of Investments as of September 30, 2015 (unaudited)     F-9  
Financial Statements of BNY Mellon-Alcentra Mezzanine III, L.P.:
        
Statement of Operations for the period from January 1, 2014 to May 7, 2014 (unaudited)     F-3  
Statement of Changes in Net Assets for the period from January 1, 2014 to May 7, 2014 (unaudited)     F-5  
Statement of Cash Flows for the period from January 1, 2014 to May 7, 2014 (unaudited)     F-7  
Notes to Unaudited Financial Statements     F-18  
Audited Financial Statements:
        
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm     F-42  
Consolidated Financial Statements of Alcentra Capital Corporation:
        
Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities as of December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013     F-44  
Consolidated Statement of Operations for the period from May 8, 2014 (commencement of operations) to December, 31 2014     F-45  
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Net Assets for the period from May 8, 2014 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2014     F-46  
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the period from May 8, 2014 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2014     F-47  
Consolidated Schedule of Investments as of December 31, 2014     F-48  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements     F-54  
Financial Statements of BNY Mellon-Alcentra Mezzanine III, L.P.:
        
Statement of Assets and Liabilities as of December 31, 2013     F-44  
Statement of Operations for the period from January 1, 2014 to May 7, 2014 and for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012     F-45  

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  Page No.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets for the period from January 1, 2014 to May 7, 2014 and for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012     F-46  
Statement of Cash Flows for the period from January 1, 2014 to May 7, 2014 and for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012     F-47  
Consolidated Schedule of Investments as of December 31, 2013     F-52  

(2) Exhibits

 
(a)(1)   Articles of Amendment and Restatement (1)
(b)(1)   Bylaws (1)
(c)   Not applicable
(d)(1)   Form of Base Indenture (7)
(d)(2)   Form of First Supplemental Indenture (7)
(d)(3)   Form of Global Note (included as Exhibit A to the Form of First Supplemental Indenture) (7)
(d)(4)   Statement of Eligibility of Trustee on Form T-1 (15)
(d)(5)   Form of Supplemental Indenture (7)
(d)(6)   Form of Second Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (8)
(d)(7)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Second Supplemental Indenture) (8)
(d)(8)   Form of Third Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (9)
(d)(9)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Third Supplemental Indenture) (9)
(d)(10)   Form of Fourth Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (10)
(d)(11)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Fourth Supplemental Indenture) (10)
(d)(12)   Form of Fifth Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (11)
(d)(13)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Fifth Supplemental Indenture) (11)
(d)(14)   Form of Sixth Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (12)
(d)(15)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2020 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Sixth Supplemental Indenture) (12)
(d)(16)   Form of Seventh Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.750% Notes due 2022 (12)
(d)(17)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.750% Notes due 2022 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Seventh Supplemental Indenture) (12)
(d)(18)   Form of Eighth Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.25% Notes due 2020 (13)
(d)(19)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.25% Notes due 2020 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Eighth Supplemental Indenture) (13)
(d)(20)   Form of Ninth Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.50% Notes due 2020 (13)

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(d)(21)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.50% Notes due 2020 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Ninth Supplemental Indenture) (13)
(d)(22)   Form of Tenth Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.50% Notes due 2021 (17)
(d)(23)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.50% Notes due 2021 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Tenth Supplemental Indenture) (17)
(d)(24)   Form of Eleventh Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.50% Notes due 2021 (18)
(d)(25)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.50% Notes due 2021 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Eleventh Supplemental Indenture) (18)
(d)(26)   Form of Twelfth Supplemental Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.50% Notes due 2021 (20)
(d)(27)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.50% Notes due 2021 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Twelfth Supplemental Indenture) (20)
(d)(28)   Form of Thirteenth Supplement Indenture relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2021*
(d)(29)   Form of Global Note relating to the Alcentra Capital Internotes® 6.375% Notes due 2021 (included as Exhibit A to the Form of Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture)*
(d)(30)   Form of Warrant Certificate and Warrant Agreement (16)
(d)(31)   Form of Articles Supplementary Establishing and Fixing the Rights and Preferences of Preferred Stock (16)
(e)   Form of Dividend Reinvestment Plan (3)
(f)   Not applicable
(g)(1)   Form of Investment Advisory Agreement between Registrant and our Adviser (3)
(g)(2)   Form of Letter Agreement between the Registrant and Alcentra NY, LLC (3)
(h)(1)   Selling Agent Agreement by and among the Registrant, Alcentra NY, LLC and Incapital LLC, dated May 31, 2016*
(i)   Not applicable
(j)   Form of Custody Agreement with State Street Bank and Trust Company (4)
(k)(1)   Form of Master Administration and Accounting Agreement between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (4)
(k)(2)   Form of License Agreement between the Registrant and Alcentra NY, LLC (2)
(k)(3)   Form of Registration Rights Agreement (2)
(k)(4)   Form of Senior Secured Revolving Credit Agreement among the Registrant and ING Capital LLC (4)
(k)(5)   Form of Guarantee and Security Agreement among the Registrant and ING Capital LLC (4)
(k)(6)   Amendment No. 1 to the Senior Revolving Credit Agreement, dated December 19, 2014, by and among the Company as borrower, the Lenders party thereto and ING Capital LLC, as Administrative Agent, Arranger and Bookrunner (5)
(k)(7)   Incremental Commitment Agreement, dated as of December 19, 2014, by and among the Company, as borrower, the Increasing Lenders party thereto and ING Capital LLC as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (5)
(k)(8)   Form of Amendment No. 2 to the Senior Revolving Credit Agreement, to be entered into by and among the Company as borrower, the Lenders party thereto and ING Capital LLC, as Administrative Agent, Arranger and Bookrunner (7)

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(k)(9)   Amendment No. 3 to the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of August 11, 2015, by and among the Company as borrower, the Lenders party thereto and ING Capital LLC, as Administrative Agent, Arranger and Bookrunner (14)
(k)(10)   Incremental Commitment Agreement, dated as of August 11, 2015, by and among the Company, as borrower, the Increasing Lenders party thereto and ING Capital LLC, as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (14)
(k)(11)   Amendment No. 4 to the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of March 2, 2016 by and among the Company, as borrower, the Lenders party thereto and ING Capital LLC, as Administrative Agent, Arranger and Bookrunner (19)
(l)(1)   Form of Opinion and Consent of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, counsel for Registrant (16)
(l)(2)   Opinion and Consent of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, counsel for Registrant, dated May 31, 2016*
(l)(3)   Opinion and Consent of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, counsel for Registrant, dated June 9, 2016*
(m)   Not applicable
(n)(1)   Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (16)
(n)(2)   Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (15)
(n)(3)   Consent and Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm*
(o)   Not applicable
(p)   Not applicable
(q)   Not applicable
(r)(1)   Code of Ethics of the Registrant (6)
99.1   Statement of Computation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges (16)
99.2   Form of Prospectus Supplement for Common Stock Offerings (16)
99.3   Form of Prospectus Supplement for Preferred Stock Offerings (16)
99.4   Form of Prospectus Supplement for At-the-Market Offerings (16)
99.5   Form of Prospectus Supplement for Rights Offerings (16)
99.6   Form of Prospectus Supplement for Warrants Offerings (16)
99.7   Form of Prospectus Supplement for Retail Note Offerings (16)
99.8   Form of Prospectus Supplement for Institutional Note Offerings (16)

* Filed herewith.
(1) Previously filed in connection with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-194521) filed on March 12, 2014, and incorporated by reference herein.
(2) Previously filed in connection with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-194521) filed on April 9, 2014, and incorporated herein by reference.
(3) Previously filed in connection with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-194521) filed on April 22, 2014, and incorporated herein by reference.
(4) Previously filed in connection with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-194521) filed on May 8, 2014, and incorporated herein by reference.
(5) Previously filed in connection with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 29, 2014, and incorporated herein by reference.

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(6) Previously filed in connection with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-199622) filed on January 14, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference.
(7) Previously filed in connection with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-199622) filed on January 28, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference.
(8) Previously filed in connection with Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-199622) filed on February 12, 2015 and incorporated by reference herein.
(9) Previously filed in connection with Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-199622) filed on February 20, 2015 and incorporated by reference herein.
(10) Previously filed in connection with Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-199622) filed on February 26, 2015 and incorporated by reference herein.
(11) Previously filed in connection with Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-199622) filed on March 5, 2015 and incorporated by reference herein.
(12) Previously filed in connection with Post-Effective Amendment No. 7 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-199622) filed on April 2, 2015 and incorporated by reference herein.
(13) Previously filed in connection with Post-Effective Amendment No. 8 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-199622) filed on April 15, 2015 and incorporated by reference herein.
(14) Previously filed in connection with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on August 12, 2015, and incorporated herein by reference.
(15) Previously filed in connection with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-205154) filed on June 23, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference.
(16) Previously filed in connection with the Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-205154) filed on December 21, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference.
(17) Previously filed in connection with the Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-205154) filed on February 4, 2016 and incorporated herein by reference.
(18) Previously filed in connection with the Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on form N-2 (File No. 333-205154) filed on February 11, 2016 and incorporated herein by reference.
(19) Previously filed in connection with the Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on form N-2 (File No. 333-205154) filed on February 19, 2016 and incorporated herein by reference.
(20) Previously filed in connection with the Registrant’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the year ended December 31, 2015, filed on May 6, 2016, and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 26. Marketing Arrangements

The information contained under the heading “Plan of Distribution” on this Registration Statement is incorporated herein by reference.

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Item 27. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

 
Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee   $ 29,050  
FINRA filing fee   $ 38,000  
NASDAQ listing fee   $ 40,000  
Printing expenses   $ 50,000  
Accounting fees and expenses   $ 100,000  
Legal fees and expenses   $ 100,000  
Miscellaneous   $ 25,000  
Total   $ 332,050  

Note: All listed amounts are estimates except for the Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee and FINRA filing fee.

Item 28. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control

Alcentra Capital Corporation, directly or indirectly, owns 100% of the following consolidated subsidiary:

Alcentra BDC Equity Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

Item 29. Number of Holders of Securities

The following table sets forth the approximate number of record holders of the Registrant’s common stock as of December 18, 2015.

 
Title of Class   Number of
Record Holders
Common Stock, $0.001 par value     3,809  

Item 30. Indemnification

Reference is made to Section 2-418 of the Maryland General Corporation Law, Article VII of the Registrant’s charter and Article XI of the Registrant’s Bylaws.

Maryland law permits a Maryland corporation to include in its charter a provision limiting the liability of its directors and officers to the corporation and its stockholders for money damages except for liability resulting from (a) actual receipt of an improper benefit or profit in money, property or services or (b) active and deliberate dishonesty established by a final judgment as being material to the cause of action. The Registrant’s charter contains such a provision which eliminates directors’ and officers’ liability to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law, subject to the requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or the 1940 Act.

The Registrant’s charter authorizes the Registrant, to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law and subject to the requirements of the 1940 Act, to indemnify any present or former director or officer or any individual who, while serving as the Registrant’s director or officer and at the Registrant’s request, serves or has served another corporation, real estate investment trust, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise as a director, officer, partner or trustee, from and against any claim or liability to which that person may become subject or which that person may incur by reason of his or her service in any such capacity and to pay or reimburse their reasonable expenses in advance of final disposition of a proceeding. The Registrant’s bylaws obligate the Registrant, to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law and subject to the requirements of the 1940 Act, to indemnify any present or former director or officer or any individual who, while serving as the Registrant’s director or officer and at the Registrant’s request, serves or has served another corporation, real estate investment trust, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise as a director, officer, partner or trustee and who is made, or threatened to be made, a party to the proceeding by reason of his or her service in that capacity from and against any claim or liability to which that person may become subject or which that person may incur by reason of his or her service in any such capacity and to pay or

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reimburse his or her reasonable expenses in advance of final disposition of a proceeding. The charter and bylaws also permit the Registrant to indemnify and advance expenses to any person who served a predecessor of the Registrant in any of the capacities described above and any of the Registrant’s employees or agents or any employees or agents of the Registrant’s predecessor. In accordance with the 1940 Act, the Registrant will not indemnify any person for any liability to which such person would be subject by reason of such person’s willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office.

Maryland law requires a corporation (unless its charter provides otherwise, which the Registrant’s charter does not) to indemnify a director or officer who has been successful in the defense of any proceeding to which he or she is made, or threatened to be made, a party by reason of his or her service in that capacity. Maryland law permits a corporation to indemnify its present and former directors and officers, among others, against judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable expenses actually incurred by them in connection with any proceeding to which they may be made, or threatened to be made, a party by reason of their service in those or other capacities unless it is established that (a) the act or omission of the director or officer was material to the matter giving rise to the proceeding and (1) was committed in bad faith or (2) was the result of active and deliberate dishonesty, (b) the director or officer actually received an improper personal benefit in money, property or services or (c) in the case of any criminal proceeding, the director or officer had reasonable cause to believe that the act or omission was unlawful. However, under Maryland law, a Maryland corporation may not indemnify for an adverse judgment in a suit by or in the right of the corporation or for a judgment of liability on the basis that a personal benefit was improperly received unless, in either case, a court orders indemnification, and then only for expenses. In addition, Maryland law permits a corporation to advance reasonable expenses to a director or officer in advance of final disposition of a proceeding upon the corporation’s receipt of (a) a written affirmation by the director or officer of his or her good faith belief that he or she has met the standard of conduct necessary for indemnification by the corporation and (b) a written undertaking by him or her or on his or her behalf to repay the amount paid or reimbursed by the corporation if it is ultimately determined that the standard of conduct was not met.

Adviser

The Investment Advisory Agreement provides that, absent willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties or by reason of the reckless disregard of its duties and obligations, Alcentra NY, LLC, our Adviser, and its officers, managers, agents, employees, controlling persons, members and any other person or entity affiliated with it are entitled to indemnification from the Registrant for any damages, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and amounts reasonably paid in settlement) arising from the rendering of the investment adviser’s services under the Investment Advisory Agreement or otherwise as an investment adviser of the Registrant.

The law also provides for comparable indemnification for corporate officers and agents. Insofar as indemnification for liability arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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The Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with its directors. The indemnification agreements are intended to provide the Registrant’s directors the maximum indemnification permitted under Maryland law and the 1940 Act. Each indemnification agreement provides that the Registrant shall indemnify the director who is a party to the agreement, or an Indemnitee, including the advancement of legal expenses, if, by reason of his or her corporate status, the Indemnitee is, or is threatened to be, made a party to or a witness in any threatened, pending, or completed proceeding, other than a proceeding by or in the right of the Registrant.

Item 31. Business and Other Connections of Investment Adviser

A description of any other business, profession, vocation or employment of a substantial nature in which the Adviser, and each managing director, director or executive officer of the Adviser, is or has been during the past two fiscal years, engaged in for his or her own account or in the capacity of director, officer, employee, partner or trustee, is set forth in Part A of this Registration Statement in the sections entitled “Management.” Additional information regarding the Adviser and its officers and directors is set forth in its Form ADV as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC file number 801-62417) and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 32. Location of Accounts and Records

All accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Section 31(a) of the 1940 Act and the rules thereunder are maintained at the offices of:

(1) the Registrant, Alcentra Capital Corporation, 200 Park Avenue, 7 th Floor, New York, New York 10166;
(2) the Transfer Agent, Computershare Trust Company, N.A., P.O. Box 30170, College Station, TX 77842-3170;
(3) the Custodian, State Street Bank and Trust Company, 225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110; and
(4) the Adviser, Alcentra NY, LLC, 200 Park Avenue, 7 th Floor, New York, New York 10166.

Item 33. Management Services

Not Applicable.

Item 34. Undertakings

(1) The Registrant undertakes to suspend the offering of shares until the prospectus is amended if (1) subsequent to the effective date of its registration statement, the net asset value declines more than ten percent from its net asset value as of the effective date of the registration statement; or (2) the net asset value increases to an amount greater than the net proceeds as stated in the prospectus.
(2) Not applicable.
(3) Registrant undertakes in the event that the securities being registered are to be offered to existing stockholders pursuant to warrants or rights, and any securities not taken by shareholders are to be reoffered to the public, to supplement the prospectus, after the expiration of the subscription period, to set forth the results of the subscription offer, the transactions by the underwriters during the subscription period, the amount of unsubscribed securities to be purchased by underwriters, and the terms of any subsequent underwriting thereof. Registrant further undertakes that if any public offering by the underwriters of the securities being registered is to be made on terms differing from those set forth on the cover page of the prospectus, the Registrant shall file a post-effective amendment to set forth the terms of such offering.

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(4) The Registrant hereby undertakes:
(a) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to the registration statement:
(i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act;
(ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement; and
(iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.
(b) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of those securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and
(c) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering; and
(d) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the 1933 Act to any purchaser, if the Registrant is subject to Rule 430C: Each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 497(b), (c), (d) or (e) under the 1933 Act as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A under the 1933 Act, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness; Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.
(e) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under the 1933 Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of securities, the undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to the purchaser:
(i) any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 497 under the 1933 Act;
(ii) the portion of any advertisement pursuant to Rule 482 under the 1933 Act relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and
(iii) any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

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(f) To file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement, and to suspend any offers or sales pursuant the registration statement until such post-effective amendment has been declared effective under the 1933 Act, in the event the shares of the Registrant is trading below its net asset value and either (i) Registrant receives, or has been advised by its independent registered accounting firm that it will receive, an audit report reflecting substantial doubt regarding the Registrant’s ability to continue as a going concern or (ii) Registrant has concluded that a material adverse change has occurred in its financial position or results of operations that has caused the financial statements and other disclosures on the basis of which the offering would be made to be materially misleading.
(5)

(a)

for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the Registrant under Rule 497(h) under the 1933 Act [17 CFR 230.497(h)] shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective; and

(b) for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of the securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(6) Not applicable.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement on Form N-2 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in New York City, in the State of New York, on this 9 th day of June 2016.

ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION

By: /s/ Paul J. Echausse

Name: Paul J. Echausse
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Paul J. Echausse and Ellida McMillan, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute and file this registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any or all amendments (including, without limitation, post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, with all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect thereto, with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other regulatory authority, granting unto such attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing appropriate or necessary to be done in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as he himself might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement on Form N-2 has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

   
Signature   Title   Date
/s/ Paul J. Echausse

Paul J. Echausse
  President and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 9, 2016
*

Paul Hatfield
  Chairman of the Board of Directors   June 9, 2016
/s/ Ellida McMillan

Ellida McMillan
  Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer and
Secretary
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
  June 9, 2016
*

T. Ulrich Brechbühl
  Director   June 9, 2016
*

Douglas J. Greenlaw
  Director   June 9, 2016
/s/ Edward Grebow

Edward Grebow
  Director   June 9, 2016
*

Rudolph L. Hertlein
  Director   June 9, 2016
* Signed by Paul J. Echausse pursuant to a power of attorney signed by each individual and filed with this Registration Statement on June 23, 2015.


   

Exhibit d.28

 

THIRTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

between

 

ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION

 

and

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

 

as Trustee

 

Dated as of June 9, 2016

 

THIS THIRTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of June 9, 2016, is between Alcentra Capital Corporation, a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). All capitalized terms used herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Base Indenture (as defined below).

 

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

 

The Company and the Trustee executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of January 30, 2015 (the “Base Indenture” and, as supplemented by this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time of the Company’s unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as provided in the Indenture.

 

The Company previously entered into the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 30, 2015 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 12, 2015 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture”), the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 20, 2015 (the “Third Supplemental Indenture”), the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 26, 2015 (the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture”), the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 5, 2015 (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”), the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 2, 2015 (the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture”), the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 2, 2015 (the “Seventh Supplemental Indenture”), the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 15, 2015 (the “Eighth Supplemental Indenture”), the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 15, 2015 (the “Ninth Supplemental Indenture”), the Tenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 4, 2016 (the “Tenth Supplemental Indenture”), the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 11, 2016 (the “Eleventh Supplemental Indenture”), and the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 19, 2016 (the “Twelfth Supplemental Indenture”), each of which amended and supplemented the Base Indenture. The First Supplemental Indenture, the Second Supplemental Indenture, the Third Supplemental Indenture, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, the Tenth Supplemental Indenture, the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture, and the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture are not applicable to the Notes (as defined below).

 

 

 

  

The Company desires to issue and sell $1,744,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.375% Notes due 2021 (the “Notes”).

 

Sections 901(4) and 901(6) of the Base Indenture provide that without the consent of Holders of the Securities of any series issued under the Indenture, the Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental to the Base Indenture to (i) change or eliminate any of the provisions of the Indenture when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of the supplemental indenture that is entitled to the benefit of such provision and (ii) establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Section 201 and Section 301 of the Base Indenture.

 

The Company desires to establish the form and terms of the Notes and to modify, alter, supplement and change certain provisions of the Base Indenture for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes (except as may be provided in a future supplemental indenture to the Indenture (“Future Supplemental Indenture”)).

 

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture to provide for the issuance of the Notes and all acts and things necessary to make this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding, and legal obligation of the Company and to constitute a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done and performed.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:

 

ARTICLE I
TERMS OF THE NOTES

 

Section 1.01.        Terms of the Notes . The following terms relating to the Notes are hereby established:

 

(a)          The Notes shall constitute a series of Senior Securities having the title “6.375% Notes due 2021.” The Notes shall bear a CUSIP number of 01374TAN2 and an ISIN number of US01374TAN28.

 

(b)          The aggregate principal amount of the Notes that may be initially authenticated and delivered under the Indenture (except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107 or 1305 of the Base Indenture, and except for any Securities that, pursuant to Section 303 of the Base Indenture, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered under the Indenture) shall be $1,744,000. Under a Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate pursuant to Board Resolutions or an indenture supplement, the Company may from time to time, without the consent of the Holders of Notes, issue additional Notes (in any such case “Additional Notes”) having the same ranking and the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as the Notes. Any Additional Notes and the existing Notes will constitute a single series under the Indenture and all references to the relevant Notes herein shall include the Additional Notes unless the context otherwise requires.

 

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(c)          The entire outstanding principal of the Notes shall be payable on June 15, 2021.

 

(d)          The rate at which the Notes shall bear interest shall be 6.375% per annum (the “Applicable Interest Rate”). The date from which interest shall accrue on the Notes shall be June 9, 2016, or the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or provided for; the Interest Payment Dates for the Notes shall be June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing December 15, 2016 (if an Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, then the applicable interest payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day and no additional interest will accrue as a result of such delayed payment); the initial interest period will be the period from and including June 9, 2016, to, but excluding, the initial Interest Payment Date, and the subsequent interest periods will be the periods from and including an Interest Payment Date to, but excluding, the next Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity, as the case may be; the interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date, will be paid to the Person in whose name the Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be June 1 and December 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Payment of principal of (and premium, if any, on) and any such interest on the Notes will be made at the office of the Trustee located at 60 Livingston Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55107, Attention: Alcentra Capital Corporation (6.375% Notes due 2021) and at such other address as designated by the Trustee, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided , however , that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register; provided , further , however , that so long as the Notes are registered to Cede & Co., such payment will be made by wire transfer in accordance with the procedures established by The Depository Trust Company and the Trustee. Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

(e)          The Notes shall be initially issuable in global form (each such Note, a “Global Note”). The Global Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication thereon shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A to this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture. Each Global Note shall represent the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and each shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges and redemptions. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Security Registrar, in accordance with Sections 203 and 305 of the Base Indenture.

 

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(f)          The depositary for such Global Notes (the “Depositary”) shall be The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York. The Security Registrar with respect to the Global Notes shall be the Trustee.

 

(g)          The Notes shall be defeasible pursuant to Section 1402 or Section 1403 of the Base Indenture. Covenant defeasance contained in Section 1403 of the Base Indenture shall apply to the covenants contained in Sections 1007 and 1008 of the Indenture.

 

(h)          The Notes shall be redeemable pursuant to Section 1101 of the Base Indenture and as follows:

 

(i)          The Notes will be redeemable in whole or in part at any time or from time to time, at the option of the Company, on or after June 15, 2017, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest payments otherwise payable for the then-current semi-annual interest period accrued to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.

 

(ii)         Notice of redemption shall be given in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid or by overnight courier guaranteeing next-day delivery, to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed, not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date, at the Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register. All notices of redemption shall contain the information set forth in Section 1104 of the Base Indenture.

 

(iii)        Any exercise of the Company’s option to redeem the Notes will be done in compliance with the Investment Company Act, to the extent applicable.

 

(iv)        If the Company elects to redeem only a portion of the Notes, the Trustee will determine the method for selecting the particular Notes to be redeemed, in accordance with Section 1103 of the Base Indenture and the Investment Company Act and the rules of any national securities exchange or quotation system on which the Notes are listed, in each case to the extent applicable.

 

(v)         Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes called for redemption hereunder.

 

(i)          The "Survivor's Option" is defined in Section 2.01 and is a provision in the Notes pursuant to which the Company agrees to repay that Note, if requested by the authorized representative of the beneficial owner of that Note, following the death of the beneficial owner of the Note, so long as the Note was owned by that beneficial owner or the estate of that beneficial owner at least six months prior to the request.

 

Upon the valid exercise of the Survivor's Option and the proper tender of that Note for repayment, the Company will repay or repurchase that Note, in whole or in part, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the deceased beneficial owner's interest in that Note plus unpaid interest accrued to the date of repayment, subject to the Company’s discretionary right to limit such repayments or repurchases as specified herein.

 

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To be valid, the Survivor's Option must be exercised by or on behalf of the person who has authority to act on behalf of the deceased beneficial owner of the Note (including, without limitation, the personal representative or executor of the deceased beneficial owner or the surviving joint owner with the deceased beneficial owner) under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction.

 

The death of a person holding a beneficial ownership interest in a Note as a joint tenant or tenant by the entirety with another person, or as a tenant in common with the deceased holder's spouse, will be deemed the death of a beneficial owner of that Note, and the entire principal amount of the Note so held will be subject to repayment by the Company upon request. However, the death of a person holding a beneficial ownership interest in a Note as tenant in common with a person other than such deceased holder's spouse will be deemed the death of a beneficial owner only with respect to such deceased person's interest in the Note.

 

The death of a person who, during his or her lifetime, was entitled to substantially all of the beneficial ownership interests in a Note will be deemed the death of the beneficial owner of that Note for purposes of the Survivor's Option, regardless of whether that beneficial owner was the registered holder of that Note, if entitlement to those interests can be established to the satisfaction of the Trustee. A beneficial ownership interest will be deemed to exist in typical cases of nominee ownership, ownership under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, community property or other joint ownership arrangements between a husband and wife. In addition, a beneficial ownership interest will be deemed to exist in custodial and trust arrangements where one person has all of the beneficial ownership interests in the applicable Note during his or her lifetime.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company has the discretionary right to limit the aggregate principal amount of Notes as to which exercises of the Survivor's Option shall be accepted by the Company from authorized representatives of all deceased beneficial owners in any calendar year to an amount equal to 2% of the principal amount of all Notes outstanding as of the end of the most recent calendar year. The Company also has the discretionary right to limit to $250,000 in any calendar year the aggregate principal amount of Notes as to which exercises of the Survivor's Option shall be accepted by the Company from the authorized representative of any individual deceased beneficial owner of Notes in such calendar year. In addition, the Company will not permit the exercise of the Survivor's Option except in principal amounts of $1,000 and multiples of $1,000.

 

An otherwise valid election to exercise the Survivor's Option may not be withdrawn. Each election to exercise the Survivor's Option will be accepted in the order that elections are received by the Trustee, except for any Note the acceptance of which would contravene any of the limitations described in the preceding paragraph. Notes accepted for repayment through the exercise of the Survivor's Option normally will be repaid on the first interest payment date that occurs 20 or more calendar days after the date of the acceptance. For example, if the acceptance date of a Note tendered through a valid exercise of the Survivor's Option is December 1, 2016, the Company would normally repay that Note on the interest payment date occurring on June 15, 2017, because the December 15, 2016, interest payment date would occur less than 20 days from the date of acceptance. Each tendered Note that is not accepted in any calendar year due to the application of any of the limitations described in the preceding paragraph will be deemed to be tendered in the following calendar year in the order in which all such Notes were originally tendered. If a Note tendered through a valid exercise of the Survivor's Option is not accepted, the Trustee will deliver (at the expense of the Company) a notice by first-class mail to the registered holder, at that holder's last known address as indicated in the Note register, that states the reason that Note has not been accepted for repayment.

 

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With respect to Notes represented by a Global Note, DTC or its nominee is treated as the holder of the Notes and will be the only entity that can exercise the Survivor's Option for such Notes. To obtain repayment pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option for a Note, the deceased beneficial owner's authorized representative must provide the following items to the broker or other entity through which the beneficial interest in the Note is held by the deceased beneficial owner:

 

· a written instruction to such broker or other entity to notify DTC of the authorized representative's desire to obtain repayment pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option;

 

· appropriate evidence satisfactory to the Trustee (a) that the deceased was the beneficial owner of the Note at the time of death and his or her interest in the Note was owned by the deceased beneficial owner or his or her estate at least six months prior to the request for repayment, (b) that the death of the beneficial owner has occurred, (c) of the date of death of the beneficial owner, and (d) that the representative has authority to act on behalf of the beneficial owner;

 

· if the interest in the Note is held by a nominee of the deceased beneficial owner, a certificate satisfactory to the Trustee from the nominee attesting to the deceased's beneficial ownership of such Note;

 

· written request for repayment signed by the authorized representative of the deceased beneficial owner with the signature guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange or of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States;

 

· if applicable, a properly executed assignment or endorsement;

 

· tax waivers and any other instruments or documents that the Trustee reasonably requires in order to establish the validity of the beneficial ownership of the Note and the claimant's entitlement to payment; and

 

· any additional information the Trustee reasonably requires to evidence satisfaction of any conditions to the exercise of the Survivor's Option or to document beneficial ownership or authority to make the election and to cause the repayment of the Note.

 

In turn, the broker or other entity will deliver each of these items to the Trustee, together with evidence satisfactory to the Trustee from the broker or other entity stating that it represents the deceased beneficial owner.

 

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The Company retains the right to limit the aggregate principal amount of Notes as to which exercises of the Survivor's Option will be accepted in any one calendar year as described above. All other questions regarding the eligibility or validity of any exercise of the Survivor's Option will be determined by the Trustee, in its sole discretion, which determination will be final and binding on all parties.

 

(j)          The Notes shall not be subject to any sinking fund pursuant to Section 1201 of the Base Indenture.

 

(k)          The Notes shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

(l)          Except for the Survivor’s Option described above, holders of the Notes will not have the option to have the Notes repaid prior to the Stated Maturity.

 

(m)          The Notes are hereby designated as “Senior Securities” under the Indenture.

 

ARTICLE II

DEFINITIONS

 

Section 2.01.          Except as may be provided in a Future Supplemental Indenture, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes but no other series of Securities under the Indenture, whether now or hereafter issued and Outstanding, Section 101 of the Base Indenture shall be amended by adding the following defined terms in appropriate alphabetical sequence, as follows:

 

“‘ Exchange Act ’ means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any statute successor thereto.”

 

“‘ GAAP ’ means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the opinions and pronouncements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, which are in effect from time to time.”

 

“‘ Survivor's Option ’ means, where applicable, the right of a holder of a Note to require the Company to repay such Note prior to its Stated Maturity upon the death of the owner of such Note, subject to the provisions hereof relating to such option.”

 

ARTICLE III
COVENANTS

 

Section 3.01.          Except as may be provided in a Future Supplemental Indenture, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes but no other series of Securities under the Indenture, whether now or hereafter issued and Outstanding, Article X of the Base Indenture shall be amended by adding the following new Sections 1007 and 1008 thereto, each as set forth below:

 

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“Section 1007. Section 18(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act .

 

The Company hereby agrees that for the period of time during which Notes are Outstanding, the Company will not violate Section 18(a)(1)(A) as modified by Section 61(a)(1) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 or any successor provisions thereto of the Investment Company Act of 1940, whether or not the Company continues to be subject to such provisions, but giving effect, in either case, to any exemptive relief granted to the Company by the Commission.”

 

“Section 1008. Commission Reports and Reports to Holders .

 

If, at any time, the Company is not subject to the reporting requirements of Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act to file any periodic reports with the Commission, the Company agrees to furnish to the Holders of Notes and the Trustee for the period of time during which the Notes are Outstanding: (i) within 90 days after the end of the each fiscal year of the Company (which fiscal year ends on December 31), audited annual consolidated financial statements of the Company and (ii) within 45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter of the Company (other than the Company’s fourth fiscal quarter), unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Company. All such financial statements shall be prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with GAAP.”

 

ARTICLE IV
MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 4.01.          This Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws. This Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of the Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

 

Section 4.02.          In case any provision in this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

Section 4.03.          This Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture may be executed in counterparts, each of which will be an original, but such counterparts will together constitute but one and the same Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture. The exchange of copies of this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile, .pdf transmission, email or other electronic means shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile, .pdf transmission, email or other electronic means shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

 

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Section 4.04.          The Base Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Base Indenture and this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument with respect to the Notes. All provisions included in this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture supersede any conflicting provisions included in the Base Indenture with respect to the Notes, unless not permitted by law. The Trustee accepts the trusts created by the Base Indenture, as supplemented by this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions of the Base Indenture, as supplemented by this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture.

 

Section 4.05.          The provisions of this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture shall become effective as of the date hereof.

 

Section 4.06.          Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, the terms and provisions of this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture shall apply only to the Notes and shall not apply to any other series of Securities under the Indenture and this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture shall not and does not otherwise affect, modify, alter, supplement or change the terms and provisions of any other series of Securities under the Indenture, whether now or hereafter issued and Outstanding.

 

Section 4.07.          The recitals contained herein and in the Notes shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, the Notes or any Additional Notes, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, authenticate the Notes and any Additional Notes and perform its obligations hereunder. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Notes or any Additional Notes or the proceeds thereof.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

  ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION
   
  By:  
  Name: Paul J. Echausse
  Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
   
  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION , as Trustee
   
  By:  
  Name: David W. Doucette
  Title: Vice President

 

[ Signature page to Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture ]

 

 

 

  

Exhibit A – Form of Global Note

 

This Security is a Global Note within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of The Depository Trust Company or a nominee thereof. This Security may not be exchanged in whole or in part for a Security registered, and no transfer of this Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than The Depository Trust Company or a nominee thereof, except in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture.

 

Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company to the issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment and such certificate issued in exchange for this certificate is registered in the name of Cede & Co., or such other name as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, any transfer, pledge or other use hereof for value or otherwise by or to any person is wrongful, as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

 

Alcentra Capital Corporation

Alcentra Capital InterNotes ®

 

No. __ $
  CUSIP No. 01374TAN2
  ISIN No. US01374TAN28
   
  Survivor’s Option:
  x  Yes         ¨ No

 

6.375% Notes due 2021

 

Alcentra Capital Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Maryland (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of __________________DOLLARS ($___________) on June 15, 2021 and to pay interest thereon from June 9, 2016 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on June 15 and December 15 in each year, commencing December 15, 2016, at the rate of 6.375% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be June 1 and December 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. This Security may be issued as part of a series.

 

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Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office of the Trustee located at 60 Livingston Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55107, Attention: Alcentra Capital Corporation (6.375% Notes due 2021) and at such other address as designated by the Trustee, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register; provided, further, however , that so long as this Security is registered to Cede & Co., such payment will be made by wire transfer in accordance with the procedures established by The Depository Trust Company and the Trustee.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

  ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION
   
  By:  
  Name:
  Title:

 

Attest  
   
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
   
  By:  
    Authorized Signatory

 

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Alcentra Capital Corporation

Alcentra Capital InterNotes ®

6.375% Notes due 2021

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Senior Securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of January 30, 2015 (herein called the “Base Indenture”, which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Base Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Base Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee, and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered, as supplemented by the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture relating to the Securities, dated June 9, 2016, by and between the Company and the Trustee (herein called the “Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture”, the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture collectively are herein called the “Indenture”). In the event of any conflict between the Base Indenture and the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture shall govern and control.

 

This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, which series is initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $          . Under a Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate pursuant to Board Resolutions or an indenture supplement, the Company may from time to time, without the consent of the Holders of Securities, issue additional Securities of this series (in any such case “Additional Securities”) having the same ranking and the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as the Securities. Any Additional Securities and the existing Securities will constitute a single series under the Indenture and all references to the relevant Securities herein shall include the Additional Securities unless the context otherwise requires. The aggregate amount of outstanding Securities represented hereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges and redemptions.

 

The Securities of this series are subject to redemption in whole or in part at any time or from time to time, at the option of the Company, on or after June 15, 2017, at a redemption price per security equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest payments otherwise payable for the then-current quarterly interest period accrued to the date fixed for redemption.

 

Notice of redemption shall be given in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid or by overnight courier guaranteeing next-day delivery, to each Holder of the Securities to be redeemed, not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date, at the Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register. All notices of redemption shall contain the information set forth in Section 1104 of the Base Indenture.

 

Any exercise of the Company’s option to redeem the Securities will be done in compliance with the Investment Company Act, to the extent applicable.

 

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If the Company elects to redeem only a portion of the Securities, the Trustee or the Depositary, as applicable, will determine the method for selecting the particular Securities to be redeemed, in accordance with their standard operating procedures and the Investment Company Act, to the extent applicable. In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

 

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes called for redemption.

 

Except as provided pursuant to the Survivor’s Option, Holders of Securities do not have the option to have the Securities repaid prior to June 15, 2021.

 

Pursuant to the Survivor's Option affirmatively specified on the face hereof, the Holder of the Security shall have the right to require the Company to repay a Security prior to its maturity date upon the death of the beneficial owner of the Security as described below. The Company calls this right the "Survivor's Option."

 

Upon exercise of the Survivor's Option, and subject to the Company’s discretionary right to limit such repayments or repurchases as specified herein, the Company will either repay or repurchase any Security (or portion thereof) properly tendered for repayment by or on behalf of the person (the "Representative") that has authority to act on behalf of the deceased beneficial owner of the Security at a price equal to the sum of:

 

· 100% of the principal amount of the deceased beneficial owner's beneficial interest in such Security, and

 

· accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of such repayment or repurchase, subject to the following limitations.

 

The Survivor's Option may not be exercised unless the Security was owned by the beneficial owner or the estate of that beneficial owner at least six months prior to such exercise. In addition, the Company may limit the aggregate principal amount of Securities as to which the Survivor's Option may be exercised as follows:

 

· In any calendar year, the Company may, in its sole discretion, limit the aggregate principal amount of Notes accepted for redemption to 2% of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Securities as of December 31 of the most recently completed calendar year. The Company calls this limitation the "annual put limitation."

 

· For any individual deceased beneficial owner of Securities, the Company may limit the aggregate principal amount of Notes accepted for redemption to $250,000 for any calendar year. The Company calls this limitation the "individual put limitation."

 

The Company will not make principal repayments pursuant to the exercise of the Survivor's Option except in principal amounts of $1,000 and multiples of $1,000. If the limitations described above would result in the partial repayment of any Security, the principal amount of the Security remaining outstanding after repayment must be at least $1,000.

 

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An otherwise valid election to exercise the Survivor's Option may not be withdrawn. Each Security (or portion thereof) tendered pursuant to a valid exercise of the Survivor's Option will be accepted in the order all such Securities are received by the Trustee, unless the acceptance of that Security would contravene the annual put limitation or the individual put limitation. If, as of the end of any calendar year, the aggregate principal amount of Securities (or portions thereof) that have been tendered pursuant to the valid exercise of the Survivor's Option during that year has exceeded either the annual put limitation or the individual put limitation for that year, any exercise(s) of the Survivor's Option with respect to Securities (or portions thereof) not accepted by the Company during such calendar year because such acceptance would have contravened either such limitation shall be deemed to be tendered in the following calendar year in the order all such Securities (or portions thereof) were originally tendered.

 

Any Security (or portion thereof) accepted for repayment or repurchase pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option will be repaid or repurchased on the first Interest Payment Date to occur at least 20 calendar days after the date of acceptance. If that date is not a Business Day, payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day. In the event that a Security (or any portion thereof) tendered for repayment or repurchase pursuant to valid exercise of the Survivor's Option is not accepted by the Company, the Trustee will deliver (at the expense of the Company) a notice by first-class mail to the registered Holder, at that Holder's last known address as indicated in the Security register, that states the reason that the Security (or portion thereof) has not been accepted for repayment.

 

Subject to the foregoing, in order to validly exercise the Survivor's Option, the Trustee must receive from the Representative of the deceased beneficial owner:

 

· appropriate evidence satisfactory to the Trustee (A) that the deceased was the beneficial owner of such Security at the time of death and the interest in such Security was owned by the deceased beneficial owner or his or her estate at least six months prior to the request for repayment or purchase, (B) that the death of such beneficial owner has occurred, (C) of the date of such death, and (D) that the Representative has authority to act on behalf of the deceased beneficial owner;

 

· if the interest in the Security is held by a nominee of the deceased beneficial owner, a certificate satisfactory to the Trustee from such nominee attesting to the deceased's beneficial ownership of the Security;

 

· a written request for repayment signed by the Representative, with the signature guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange or of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States;

 

· if applicable, a properly executed assignment or endorsement;

 

· tax waivers and such other instruments or documents that the Trustee reasonably requires in order to establish the validity of the beneficial ownership of the Security and the claimant's entitlement to payment; and

 

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· any additional information the Trustee reasonably requires to evidence satisfaction of any conditions to the exercise of the Survivor's Option or to document beneficial ownership or authority to make the election and to cause the repayment or repurchase of the Security.

 

Subject to the annual put limitation and the individual put limitation, all questions as to the eligibility or validity of any exercise of the Survivor's Option will be determined by the Trustee in its sole discretion. The Trustee's determination will be final and binding on all parties.

 

The death of a person holding a beneficial interest in a Security as a joint tenant or tenant by the entirety with another person, or as a tenant in common with the deceased Holder's spouse, will be deemed the death of the beneficial owner of the Security, and the entire principal amount of the Security so held will be subject to the Survivor's Option. The death of a person holding a beneficial interest in a Security as a tenant in common with a person other than such deceased Holder's spouse will be deemed the death of the beneficial owner of a Security only with respect to the deceased Holder's interest in the Security. The death of a person who, during his or her lifetime, was entitled to substantially all of the beneficial interests of ownership of a Security will be deemed the death of the beneficial owner for purposes of the Survivor's Option, regardless of the registered Holder of the Security, if such beneficial interest can be established to the satisfaction of the Trustee. Such beneficial interest will be deemed to exist in typical cases of nominee ownership, ownership under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, community property or other joint ownership arrangements between a husband and wife and custodial and trust arrangements where one person has substantially all of the beneficial ownership interest in the Security during his or her lifetime.

 

So long as this Security is a Global Security and is registered in the name of DTC or a nominee thereof, DTC or such nominee shall be the Holder of such Security and therefore shall be the only entity that can exercise the Survivor's Option with respect to this Security. To obtain repayment or repurchase pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option with respect to such Security, the Representative must provide to the broker or other entity through which the beneficial interest in such Security is held by the deceased beneficial owner (i) the documents described in the third preceding paragraph and (ii) written instructions to such broker or other entity to notify the Depositary of such Representative's desire to obtain repayment or repurchase pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option. Such broker or other entity shall provide to the Trustee (i) the documents received from the Representative referred to in clause (i) of the preceding sentence and (ii) a certificate satisfactory to the Trustee from such broker or other entity stating that it represents the deceased beneficial owner. Such broker or other entity shall be responsible for disbursing any payments it receives pursuant to exercise of the Survivor's Option to the appropriate Representative.

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity, security, or both reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for sixty (60) days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity and/or security. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

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No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company, the Trustee, or the Security Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee, or the Security Registrar and any agent of the Company, the Trustee, or the Security Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee, the Security Registrar, or any agent thereof shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

The Indenture and this Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

 

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OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT PURSUANT TO THE SURVIVOR’S OPTION

 

Pursuant to that certain Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture between Alcentra Capital Corporation and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture”), the undersigned hereby irrevocably request(s) and instruct(s) the Company to repay this Security (or portion hereof specified below) pursuant to its terms at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount hereof to be repaid, together with accrued and unpaid interest hereon, payable to the date of repayment, to the undersigned, at                                         . (Please print or typewrite name and address of the undersigned)

 

For this Security to be repaid, the undersigned must give to the Trustee at 60 Livingston Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55107, Attention: Alcentra Capital Corporation (6.375% Notes due 2021), or at such other place or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holders of the Securities, not more than 60 days nor less than 30 days prior to the date of repayment, (i) this Security with this "Option to Elect Repayment" form duly completed, and (ii) any and all documentation required by the Supplemental Indenture to exercise the Survivor’s Option.

 

If less than the entire principal amount of this Security is to be repaid, specify the portion hereof (which shall be increments of US$1,000) which the holder elects to have repaid and specify the denomination or denominations (which shall be an Authorized Denomination) of the Securities to be issued to the holder for the portion of this Security not being repaid (in the absence of any such specification, one such Security will be issued for the portion not being repaid):

 

US$

 

Dated:

 

   
  Signature
   
  NOTICE: The signature on this "Option to Elect Repayment" form must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within Security in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

 
Signature  
   
NOTICE: The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations, and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to Rule 17Ad-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  

 

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The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of the within Security, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations.

 

TEN COM - as tenants in common

TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties

JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT-    Custodian    
  (Cust)     (Minor)

 

  under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
   
   
  State
   
  Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(a) unto:

 

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY

NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING

NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

 

(Please print or typewrite name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)

 

 

 

 

the within Security and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints

 

 

to transfer said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

 

 

Dated:

 

   
  NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the within Security in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

   
Signature Guarantee  
   
NOTICE: The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stock-brokers, savings and loan associations, and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to Rule 17Ad-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  

 

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Exhibit h.1

 

Execution Version

 

SELLING AGENT AGREEMENT

 

by and among

 

Alcentra Capital Corporation,

 

Alcentra NY, LLC

 

and

 

Incapital LLC

 

May 31, 2016

 

 

 

  

May 31, 2016

 

Alcentra Capital Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of Maryland (the “Company”), Alcentra NY, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Adviser”) registered as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Advisers Act”), and Incapital LLC, an Illinois limited liability company (the “Purchasing Agent”), confirm their agreement in the form of this Selling Agent Agreement (this “Agreement”) as follows:

 

I.

 

The Company proposes to issue and sell its Alcentra Capital InterNotes ® due 12 months or more from date of issue (the “Notes”). The Notes will be issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of January 30, 2015, as amended and as supplemented from time to time (the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The terms of the Notes will be described from time to time in a Prospectus (as defined herein). The Company has authorized the issuance and sale of up to $15,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes. As of the date hereof, the Company has sold approximately $5,401,000 in aggregate principal amount of Notes.

 

Subject to the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, the Company hereby (1) appoints the Purchasing Agent as agent of the Company for the purpose of soliciting offers to purchase the Notes and the Purchasing Agent hereby agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to solicit offers to purchase Notes upon terms acceptable to the Company at such times and in such amounts as the Company shall from time to time specify and in accordance with the terms hereof and (2) agrees that whenever the Company determines to sell Notes pursuant to this Agreement, such Notes shall be sold pursuant to a Terms Agreement (as defined herein) relating to such sale in accordance with the provisions of Section VI hereof between the Company and the Purchasing Agent, with the Purchasing Agent purchasing such Notes as principal for resale to dealers (the “Selected Dealers”), each of whom will purchase such Notes as principal. The Company reserves the right to appoint additional agents (the “Agents”) for the purpose of soliciting offers to purchase the Notes, which agency may be on an on-going basis or a one-time basis. Any such Agent shall become a party to this Agreement and shall thereafter be subject to the provisions hereof and entitled to the benefits hereunder upon the execution of a counterpart hereof or other form of acknowledgment of its appointment hereunder, including the form of letter attached hereto as Exhibit G , and delivery to the Company of addresses for notice hereunder and under the Procedures (as such term is defined in Section V(b) ). After the time an Agent is appointed, the Company shall deliver to the Agent copies of the documents delivered to the Purchasing Agent on the date hereof under Sections III(a) , III(b) , III(c) , III(d) , III(e) and III(f) and, if such appointment is on an ongoing basis, Sections VIII(b) , VIII(c) and VIII(d) hereof.

 

The Company has entered into an investment advisory agreement, dated as of May 5, 2014, as renewed by the Company’s Board of Directors on March 25, 2016 (the “Investment Advisory Agreement”), with the Adviser. The Company has entered into a Master Administration and Accounting Agreement, dated as of May 5, 2014 (the “Administration Agreement”), with the State Street Bank and Trust Company (the “Administrator”).

 

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II.

 

(a)          The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a Registration Statement on Form N-2, as amended (File No. 333-205154). Such Registration Statement became effective on December 21, 2015, and the Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Trust Indenture Act”).

 

(b)          For the purposes of this Agreement the following terms shall have the following meaning:

 

(1)         “ Registration Statement ” as of any time means the registration statement, as amended by any amendment thereto, registering the offer and sale of the Notes, among other securities, in the form then filed by the Company with the Commission, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus, prospectus supplement and/or pricing supplement deemed or retroactively deemed to be a part thereof at such time that has not been superseded or modified. “Registration Statement” without reference to a time means such registration statement, as amended, as of the time of the first contract of sale for the Notes of a particular tranche, which time shall be considered the new effective date of such registration statement, as amended, with respect to such Notes. For purposes of this definition, information contained in a form of prospectus, prospectus supplement or pricing supplement that is retroactively deemed to be a part of such registration statement, as amended, pursuant to Rule 430C under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “1933 Act”) shall be considered to be included in such registration statement, as amended, as of the time specified in Rule 430C under the 1933 Act.

 

(2)         “ Statutory Prospectus ” means, collectively, (i) the base prospectus relating to various securities of the Company that is included in the Registration Statement at the time the Registration Statement is declared effective, (ii) the prospectus supplement relating to the Notes, filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 497 under the 1933 Act (“Rule 497”) prior to the offer and acceptance of the Notes of a particular tranche, and (iii) any preliminary pricing supplement used in connection with the Notes of a particular tranche, as filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 497, including in each case, any document incorporated by reference therein.

 

(3)         “ Prospectus ” means, collectively, the Statutory Prospectus (excluding any preliminary pricing supplement) and the final pricing supplement relating to the Notes of a particular tranche filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 497 that discloses the public offering price and other final terms of such Notes and otherwise satisfies Section 10(a) of the 1933 Act.

 

(4)         “ Applicable Time ” means the time agreed to by the Company and the Purchasing Agent as the time of the pricing of the Notes of a particular tranche, which, unless otherwise agreed, shall be the time immediately after the Company and the Purchasing Agent agree on the pricing terms of such Notes.

 

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(5)         “ Representation Date ” means the date of each acceptance by the Company of an offer for the purchase of Notes, the Applicable Time, the date of each delivery of Notes (the date of each such delivery to the Purchasing Agent as principal being hereafter referred to as a “Settlement Date”), and any date on which the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other than by an amendment or supplement providing solely for the establishment of or a change in the interest rates, maturity or price of Notes or similar changes), or there is filed by the Company with the Commission an Annual Report on Form 10-K, a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, or a Current Report on Form 8-K required by Item 2 of Form 8-K.

 

III.

 

The Purchasing Agent’s obligations hereunder are subject to the following conditions:

 

(a)          On the date hereof, the Purchasing Agent shall have received the following legal opinions, dated as of the date hereof and in form and substance satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent:

 

(1)         The opinion and negative assurance of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, counsel for the Company (“Sutherland”), which shall be substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A .

 

(2)         The opinion and negative assurance of Troutman Sanders LLP, counsel for the Purchasing Agent (“Troutman”), in a form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent.

 

(b)          On the date hereof, the Purchasing Agent shall have received a certificate of the President and Chief Executive Officer and the Principal Financial Officer or any other authorized officer of the Company satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent, dated as of the date hereof, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Disclosure Package (as defined herein) and this Agreement and (i) to the best of their knowledge the representations and warranties of the Company in Section VII(a) of this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the date of such certificate with the same effect as if made on such date and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the date of such certificate; (ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued and, to the knowledge of such officer, no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or threatened; and (iii) since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there has been no material adverse change in or affecting the business, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries considered as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

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(c)          On the date hereof, the Purchasing Agent shall have received a certificate of the President and Chief Executive Officer or any other authorized officer of the Adviser satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent, dated as of the date hereof, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Disclosure Package (as defined herein) and this Agreement and the representations and warranties of the Adviser in Section VII(b) of this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the date of such certificate with the same effect as if made on such date and the Adviser has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the date of such certificate

 

(d)          On the date hereof, the Purchasing Agent shall have received a letter from KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) dated as of the date hereof and in form and substance satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent confirming that they are independent public accountants within the meaning of the 1933 Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission and stating the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.

 

(e)          On the date hereof, the Company and the Adviser shall each furnish the Purchasing Agent with a certificate of its Secretary, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent.

 

(f)          On the date hereof with respect to any purchase of Notes by the Purchasing Agent, Troutman shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as such counsel may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling such counsel to pass upon the issuance and sale of Notes as herein contemplated, or in order to evidence the accuracy and completeness of any of the representations and warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, contained herein; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of Notes as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Purchasing Agent and Troutman.

 

The obligations of the Purchasing Agent to purchase Notes as principal, both under this Agreement and under any Terms Agreement, are subject to the conditions that (i) no litigation or proceeding shall be threatened or pending to restrain or enjoin the issuance or delivery of the Notes, or which in any way questions or affects the validity of the Notes, (ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission, (iii) there shall not have occurred since the date of such Terms Agreement a downgrading in the rating assigned to any of the Company’s debt securities (including the Notes) or the Company’s revolving credit facility by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, as such term is defined in Section 3 of the 1934 Act (as defined herein), and no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities (including the Notes) or the Company’s revolving credit facility and (iv) there shall not have occurred since the date of such Terms Agreement any change, or any development involving an impending prospective change, in or affecting the business, financial position or results of operations of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto since the date of the applicable Terms Agreement), each of which conditions shall be met on the date of the Terms Agreement and on the corresponding Settlement Date. Further, if specifically called for by any written agreement by the Purchasing Agent, including a Terms Agreement, to purchase Notes as principal, the Purchasing Agent’s obligations hereunder and under such agreement, shall be subject to such additional conditions, including those set forth in subsections (a) , (b) and (c) above, as agreed to by the parties, each of which such agreed conditions shall be met on the corresponding Settlement Date.

 

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IV.

 

In further consideration of the agreements herein contained, the Company covenants as follows:

 

(a)          The Company will notify the Purchasing Agent as soon as practicable (i) at any time when a prospectus relating to the Notes is required to be delivered under the 1933 Act, any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement shall become effective, or any supplement to the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus shall have been filed in relation to the Notes, (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the Commission relating to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, (iii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or for additional information in each case in relation to the Notes, and (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus, or of the suspension of the qualification of the Notes for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes. The Company will promptly effect the filings necessary pursuant to Rule 497 and will take such steps as it deems necessary to ascertain promptly whether the form of prospectus transmitted for filing under Rule 497 was received for filing by the Commission and, in the event that it was not, it will promptly file such prospectus. The Company will make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement pursuant to Section 8(d) of the 1933 Act, and, if any such stop order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment.

 

(b)          The Company will give the Purchasing Agent notice of its intention to file or prepare any additional registration statement with respect to the registration of additional Notes or any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus (other than an amendment or supplement providing solely for a change in the interest rates or maturity dates of Notes or similar changes) and will furnish the Purchasing Agent with copies of any such registration statement or amendment or supplement proposed to be filed or prepared a reasonable time in advance of such proposed filing or preparation, as the case may be, and will give the Purchasing Agent a reasonable opportunity to comment on any such proposed amendment or supplement.

 

(c)          The Company will deliver to the Purchasing Agent without charge, a copy of (i) the Indenture, (ii) the Registration Statement (as originally filed) and of each amendment thereto (including exhibits filed therewith or incorporated by reference therein) and (iii) a certified copy of the corporate authorization of the issuance and sale of the Notes. The Company will furnish to the Purchasing Agent as many copies of the Prospectus and the Statutory Prospectus (both as amended or supplemented) as the Purchasing Agent shall reasonably request so long as the Purchasing Agent is required to deliver a Prospectus in connection with sales or solicitations of offers to purchase the Notes under the 1933 Act.

 

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(d)          The Company will prepare, with respect to any Notes to be sold through or to the Purchasing Agent pursuant to this Agreement (and any applicable Terms Agreement), a pricing supplement with respect to the Notes, including the interest rate, optional redemption period and maturity date, in substantially the applicable form attached as Exhibit C (a “Pricing Supplement”) and will file such Pricing Supplement with the Commission pursuant to Rule 497 (i) in preliminary form no later than the time at which the proposed pricing information is first used in connection with a public offering or sale and (ii) in final form not later than the close of business on the second business day following the earlier of the date of determination of the offering price or the date it is first used in connection with a public offering or sale (or such earlier time as may be required under the 1933 Act).

 

(e)          Except as otherwise provided in subsection (l) of this Section, if at any time during the term of this Agreement any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the reasonable opinion of counsel for the Purchasing Agent or counsel for the Company, to further amend or supplement the Prospectus in order that the Prospectus will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances existing at the time the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, or if it shall be necessary, in the reasonable opinion of either such counsel, to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order to comply with the requirements of the 1933 Act, immediate notice shall be given, and confirmed in writing, to the Purchasing Agent to cease the solicitation of offers to purchase the Notes and to cease sales of any Notes by the Purchasing Agent, and the Company will promptly prepare and file with the Commission such amendment or supplement as may be necessary to correct such untrue statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement and Prospectus comply with such requirements.

 

(f)          Except as otherwise provided in subsection (l) of this Section, on the date on which there shall be released to the general public interim financial statement information related to the Company with respect to each of the first three quarters of any fiscal year or preliminary financial statement information with respect to any fiscal year, the Company shall furnish promptly such information to the Purchasing Agent and thereafter shall cause promptly the Prospectus to be amended or supplemented to include financial information with respect thereto, as well as such other information and explanations as shall be necessary for an understanding thereof, as may be required by the 1933 Act or otherwise.

 

(g)          Except as otherwise provided in subsection (l) of this Section, on the date on which there shall be released to the general public financial information included in or derived from the audited financial statements of the Company for the preceding fiscal year, the Company shall furnish promptly such information to the Purchasing Agent and thereafter shall cause promptly the Registration Statement and the Prospectus to be supplemented or amended to include such audited financial statements and the report or reports, and consent or consents to such inclusion of the independent accountants with respect thereto, as well as such other information and explanations as shall be necessary for an understanding of such financial statements, as may be required by the 1933 Act or otherwise.

 

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(h)          As soon as practicable after furnishing with the Commission, the Company will make generally available to its security holders and to the Purchasing Agent an earnings statement or statements of the Company and its subsidiaries which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the 1933 Act and Rule 158 under the 1933 Act.

 

(i)          The Company will arrange, if necessary, for the qualification of the Notes for sale under the laws of such states and jurisdictions as the Purchasing Agent may designate and the Company agrees to and will maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required to complete the distribution and sale of the Notes; provided that in no event shall the Company be obligated to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to service of process in suits, other than those arising out of the offering or sale of the Notes, in any jurisdiction where it is not now so subject. The Company will file such statements and reports as may be required by the laws of each jurisdiction in which the Notes have been qualified as above provided. The Company will promptly advise the Purchasing Agent of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Notes for sale in any such state or jurisdiction or the initiating or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.

 

(j)          The Company, during the period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the 1933 Act, will file all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “1940 Act”) and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “1934 Act”) within the time periods required by the 1940 Act and the 1934 Act, respectively.

 

(k)          The Company has filed or will file each Statutory Prospectus and Prospectus pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 497 within the prescribed time period.

 

(l)          The Company shall not be required to comply with the provisions of subsections (e) , (f) or (g) of this Section or the provisions of Sections VIII(b) , (c) and (d) during any period from the time (i) the Purchasing Agent has suspended solicitation of purchases of the Notes pursuant to a direction from the Company and (ii) the Purchasing Agent shall not then hold any Notes as principal to the time the Company shall determine that solicitation of purchases of the Notes should be resumed or shall subsequently agree for the Purchasing Agent to purchase Notes as principal.

 

(m)          The Company will use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes in the manner specified in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package under “Use of Proceeds.”

 

(n)          The Company will use its best efforts to qualify and subsequently maintain its qualification as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Subchapter M of the Code” and the “Code,” respectively).

 

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(o)          The Company will cooperate with any reasonable due diligence review conducted by the Purchasing Agent (or its counsel or other representatives), including, without limitation, providing information and making available documents and senior corporate officers, as the Purchasing Agent may reasonably request; provided , however , that the Company shall be required to make available documents and senior corporate officers only (i) at the Company’s principal offices and (ii) during the Company’s ordinary business hours. The parties acknowledge that the due diligence review contemplated by this subsection (o) will include, without limitation, during the term of this Agreement a quarterly diligence conference to occur within five Business Days after each filing by the Company of its Annual Report on Form 10-K and each Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q whereby the Company will make its senior corporate officers available to address diligence inquiries of the Purchasing Agent and will provide such additional information and documents as the Purchasing Agent may reasonably request.

 

(p)          The Company will comply with all requirements imposed upon it by the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act and the 1940 Act as from time to time in force, so far as necessary to permit the continuance of sales of, or dealings in, the Notes as contemplated by the provisions hereof and the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package.

 

(q)          The Company shall use its best efforts in cooperation with the Purchasing Agent to permit the Notes to be eligible for clearance and settlement through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company.

 

(r)          Unless otherwise agreed upon in any Terms Agreement between the Purchasing Agent acting as principal and the Company, between the date of such Terms Agreement and the delivery of Notes to the Purchasing Agent as principal with respect to such Terms Agreement, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Purchasing Agent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, offer, sell or issue, or enter into any agreement to sell or issue, any debt securities of the Company in the United States intended primarily for sale to retail investors (other than the Notes to which such Terms Agreement relates or another series of Notes) which have substantially similar maturities and other terms as such Notes and which are payable as to principal and interest in the currency in which such Notes are payable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may enter into any agreement to sell or issue debt securities of the Company so long as such debt securities are expected to be listed on a national exchange and the Company provides the Purchasing Agent with three days’ prior written notice of the issuance of such securities.

 

(s)          If any debt securities of the Company (including the Notes) or the Company’s revolving credit facility are rated by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, as such term is defined in Section 3 of the 1934 Act, the Company will notify the Purchasing Agent as soon as practicable, and confirm such notice in writing, of any change in the rating assigned by such nationally recognized statistical rating organization(s) or the public announcement by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any such debt securities (including the Notes) or the Company’s revolving credit facility, or the withdrawal by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization of its rating of any such debt securities (including the Notes) or the Company’s revolving credit facility.

 

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V.

 

(a)          The Purchasing Agent proposes to use its reasonable best efforts to solicit offers to purchase the Notes upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package and upon the terms communicated to the Purchasing Agent from time to time by the Company. For the purpose of such solicitation the Purchasing Agent will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package as then amended or supplemented that has been most recently distributed to the Purchasing Agent by the Company, and the Purchasing Agent will solicit offers to purchase only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will solicit offers to purchase the Notes only as permitted by the 1933 Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation of offers to purchase the Notes commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of instructions (which may be given orally) from the Company, the Purchasing Agent will suspend promptly solicitation of offers to purchase until such time as the Company has advised the Purchasing Agent that such solicitation may be resumed.

 

Prior to any issuance, and as to each issuance, the Company and the Purchasing Agent will agree on the applicable minimum denomination of the Notes. The Purchasing Agent is not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the services of any other broker or dealer in connection with the offer or sale of the Notes without the consent of the Company. Unless otherwise instructed by the Company, the Purchasing Agent shall communicate to the Company, orally or in writing, each offer to purchase Notes. The Company shall have the sole right to accept offers to purchase Notes and may reject any proposed offers to purchase Notes as a whole or in part. The Purchasing Agent shall have the right, in its discretion reasonably exercised, to reject any proposed purchase of Notes, as a whole or in part, and any such rejection shall not be deemed a breach of its agreements contained herein. The Company agrees to pay the Purchasing Agent, as consideration for soliciting offers to purchase Notes pursuant to a Terms Agreement, a concession in the form of a discount equal to 1.95% of the initial offering price of each Note actually sold (the “Concession”); provided , however , that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree also to a Concession greater than or less than such percentage. The Concession with respect to each tranche of Notes will be set forth in the related Pricing Supplement. The Purchasing Agent or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned Concession in such proportions as they may agree.

 

Unless otherwise authorized by the Company, all Notes shall be sold to the public at a purchase price not to exceed 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest, if any. Such purchase price shall be set forth in the confirmation statement of the Purchasing Agent or Selected Dealer responsible for such sale and delivered to the purchaser along with a copy of the Prospectus (if not previously delivered) and Pricing Supplement.

 

(b)          Procedural details relating to the issue and delivery of, and the solicitation of purchases and payment for, the Notes are set forth in the Administrative Procedures attached hereto as Exhibit D (the “Procedures”), as amended from time to time. Unless otherwise provided in a Terms Agreement, the provisions of the Procedures shall apply to all transactions contemplated hereunder. The Purchasing Agent and the Company each agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each in the Procedures as amended from time to time. The Procedures may only be amended by written agreement of the Company and the Purchasing Agent.

 

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(c)          The Company and the Purchasing Agent acknowledge and agree, and each Selected Dealer will be required to acknowledge and agree, that the Notes are being offered for sale in the United States only.

 

VI.

 

Each sale of Notes shall be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit B (a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Notes to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof, by the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering of such Notes by the Purchasing Agent. The offering of Notes by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement to purchase Notes pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Notes to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of Notes to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate index or formula (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Notes, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the Notes are proposed to be reoffered, and the time and place of delivery of and payment for such Notes, whether the Notes provide for a Survivor’s Option, whether the Notes are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Notes purchased, without the consent of the Company, the Purchasing Agent is not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, nor may it reallow any portion of the Concession paid to it. Terms Agreements, each of which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, or as otherwise agreed to between the Company and the Purchasing Agent, may take the form of an exchange of any standard form of written telecommunication between the Purchasing Agent and the Company.

 

VII.

 

(a)          The Company represents and warrants to the Purchasing Agent, as of the date hereof and as of each Representation Date as follows:

 

(1)         The Company meets the requirements for use of Form N-2 under the 1933 Act. The Registration Statement has been declared effective under the 1933 Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued under the 1933 Act, and no proceedings for any such purpose, have been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are contemplated by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information has been complied with.

 

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(i)          At the respective times the Registration Statement, and any post-effective amendment thereto, became effective, and at each Settlement Date, the Registration Statement, and all post-effective amendments thereto complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act and (excluding any post-effective amendment for the purpose of filing exhibits thereto) did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. Neither the Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto, as of its date, at the respective times the Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement was issued, and as of the date hereof, as of each Applicable Time and as of each Settlement Date, included or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The representations and warranties in this subsection shall not be made with respect to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement or Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the Purchasing Agent for use in the Registration Statement or Prospectus it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished to the Company in writing by the Purchasing Agent consists of the information described in Section IX(e) below.

 

(ii)         At the respective times the Prospectus was filed, as of the date hereof, as of each Applicable Time and as of each Settlement Date, it complied and will comply in all material respects with the 1933 Act, and if filed by electronic transmission pursuant to EDGAR (except as may be permitted by Regulation S-T under the 1933 Act), will be substantially identical to the copy thereof delivered to the Purchasing Agent for use in connection with the applicable offering.

 

(iii)        On the date hereof and at the respective times the Registration Statement, and any post-effective amendment thereto were, or is, filed, the Indenture complied or will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.

 

(iv)        As of each Applicable Time and Settlement Date, the Statutory Prospectus, any preliminary Pricing Supplement relating to the Notes used at or prior to any Applicable Time and any final Pricing Supplement relating to the Notes of a particular tranche, when considered together (collectively, the “Disclosure Package”) will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The representations and warranties in this subsection shall not be made with respect to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the Purchasing Agent for use in the Disclosure Package it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished to the Company in writing by the Purchasing Agent consists of the information described in Section IX(e) below.

 

(2)         KPMG, which has expressed its opinion with respect to certain of the financial statements (which term as used in this Agreement includes the related notes thereto) and supporting schedules filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement and included in the Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act.

 

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(3)         The financial statements (together with the related schedules and notes) filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement and included in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package present fairly the consolidated financial position of the Company (including any predecessor entity) as of and at the dates indicated and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods specified. Such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may be expressly stated in the related notes thereto. The consolidated selected financial data included in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package presents fairly in all material respects the information shown therein and has been compiled on a basis consistent with the consolidated financial statements included in the Registration Statement. All disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and regulations of the Commission) comply in all material respects with Regulation G under the 1934 Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K of the 1933 Act, to the extent applicable. There are no financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that are not included as required.

 

(4)         The Company maintains a system of internal control over financial reporting sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that financial reporting is reliable and financial statements for external purposes are prepared in accordance with GAAP and includes policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP, and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with the authorizations of management and directors of the Company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

 

(5)         The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the 1934 Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including material information pertaining to the Company’s operations and assets managed by the Adviser, is made known to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer by others within the Company and the Adviser, and such disclosure controls and procedures are effective to perform the functions for which they were established.

 

(6)         Except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus or Disclosure Package, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus or Disclosure Package: (i) there has been no material adverse change, or any development that could reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, net asset value, prospects, business or operations, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity (any such change or effect, where the context so requires is called a “Material Adverse Change” or a “Material Adverse Effect”); (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity, have not incurred any material liability or obligation, indirect, direct or contingent, not in the ordinary course of business or entered into any material transaction or agreement not in the ordinary course of business; and (iii) except for regular periodic dividends on the Company’s common stock, there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company or, except for dividends paid to the Company or other subsidiaries, any of its subsidiaries on any class of capital stock, or repurchase or redemption by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any class of capital stock.

 

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(7)         The Company and each of its subsidiaries have been duly incorporated or organized, as the case may be, and are validly existing as corporations or other entities, as the case may be, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of their incorporation or organization, as applicable, and have the corporate or other applicable power and authority to own, lease and operate their properties and to conduct their business as described in the Prospectus and, in the case of the Company, to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign corporation or entity, as applicable, to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except for such jurisdictions where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change. All of the issued and outstanding capital stock or equity interest of each subsidiary has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance or claim other than under the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Agreement and related agreements, as amended, that the Company has entered into with ING Capital LLC and the other lender parties thereto.

 

(8)         The Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any shares of stock or any other equity or long-term debt securities of any corporation or other entity other than (i) 100% of the equity interests in Alcentra BDC Equity Holdings, LLC and (ii) those corporations or other entities described in the Prospectus under “Prospectus Summary—Recent Developments” and “Portfolio Companies” (each a “Portfolio Company” and collectively, the “Portfolio Companies”). Except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company does not control (as such term is defined in Section 2(a)(9) of the 1940 Act) any of the Portfolio Companies. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company is not required, in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation S-X under the 1933 Act, to consolidate the financial statements of any corporation, association or other entity with the Company’s financial statements other than Alcentra BDC Equity Holdings, LLC.

 

(9)         The Company has duly authorized, executed and delivered any agreements pursuant to which it made the investments described in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package under the captions “Prospectus Summary—Recent Developments” and “Portfolio Companies” (each a “Portfolio Company Agreement”). To the Company’s knowledge, except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, each Portfolio Company is current, in all material respects, with all its obligations under the applicable Portfolio Company Agreement(s), no event of default (or a default which with the giving of notice or the passage of time would become an event of default) has occurred under such agreements, except to the extent that any such failure to be current in its obligations and any such default would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

 

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(10)        The Company has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the 1940 Act and has filed with the Commission, pursuant to Section 54(a) of the 1940 Act, a duly completed and executed Form N-54A (the “Company BDC Election”); the Company has not filed with the Commission any notice of withdrawal of the BDC Election pursuant to Section 54(c) of the 1940 Act; the Company’s BDC Election remains in full force and effect, and to the Company’s knowledge, no order of suspension or revocation of such election under the 1940 Act has been issued or proceedings therefore initiated or threatened by the Commission. The provisions of the charter and bylaws of the Company and the operations of the Company are in compliance in all material respects with the provisions of the 1940 Act applicable to business development companies and the rules and regulations of the Commission applicable to business development companies.

 

(11)        This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company; the Investment Advisory Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company; and the Administration Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company; the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Administration Agreement constitute valid and legally binding agreements of the Company, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers) or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally.

 

(12)        The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, issue, sell and perform its obligations contemplated by the Notes. The Notes have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly issued and executed by the Company in accordance with this Agreement, any Terms Agreement and the Indenture, assuming due authentication of the Notes by the Trustee, upon delivery to the Purchasing Agent against payment therefor in accordance with the terms hereof and any Terms Agreement, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, and other laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

 

(13)        The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Indenture. The Indenture has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, and other laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); the Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act. The Indenture conforms in all material respects to the description thereof in each of the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package and the Notes will conform to the description thereof in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as amended or supplemented.

 

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(14)        The statements set forth in each of the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package under the captions “Description of Our Notes,” “Specific Terms of the Notes and Offering” and “Description of the Notes” insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Notes and under the captions “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” and “Additional U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations,” insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, are accurate in all material respects.

 

(15)        Neither the Company nor any subsidiary is in violation of or default under its (i) charter, articles or certificate of incorporation, by-laws, or similar organizational documents; (ii) under any indenture, mortgage, loan or credit agreement, note, contract, franchise, lease or other instrument, including any Portfolio Company Agreement, the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Administration Agreement, to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject; or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or such subsidiary or any of its properties, as applicable, except for such violations or defaults as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(16)        The Company’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Notes, the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of the Notes, the Indenture, any Terms Agreement and consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and by the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package (i) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, have been effected in accordance with the 1940 Act and will not result in any violation of the provisions of the charter, articles of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or similar organizational documents of any subsidiary, (ii) will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, or require the consent of any other party to, any existing instrument, except for such conflicts, breaches, defaults, liens, charges or encumbrances as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) will not result in any material violation of any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court decree applicable to the Company or any subsidiary and (iv) will not affect the validity of the Notes or the legal authority of the Company to comply with the Notes, the Indenture, this Agreement or any Terms Agreement. No consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or registration or filing with, any court or other governmental or regulatory authority or agency, is required for the Company’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of the Notes, the Indenture, any Terms Agreement or consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and by the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, except such as have already been obtained or made under the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Trust Indenture Act and such as may be required under any applicable state securities or blue sky laws or from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”).

  

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(17)        The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess sufficient trademarks, trade names, patent rights, copyrights, domain names, licenses, approvals, trade secrets and other similar rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”) reasonably necessary to conduct their businesses as described in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package; and the expected expiration of any of such Intellectual Property Rights would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of infringement or conflict with asserted Intellectual Property Rights of others, which infringement or conflict, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, would result in a Material Adverse Effect. To the Company’s knowledge, none of the technology employed by the Company has been obtained or is being used by the Company in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the Company or any of its officers, directors or employees or otherwise in violation of the rights of any persons.

   

(18)        The Company, its subsidiaries and, to the Company’s knowledge, each controlled Portfolio Company (i) are in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (“Environmental Laws”); (ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses; and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except where such noncompliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or approvals would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(19)        The Company and each subsidiary possess such valid and current certificates, authorizations or permits issued by the appropriate state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except where the failure to possess such certificates, authorizations or permits would not result in a Material Adverse Effect, and the Company has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such certificate, authorization or permit which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, could result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(20)        (i) The terms of the Investment Advisory Agreement, including compensation terms, comply in all material respects with all applicable provisions of the 1940 Act and the Advisers Act and (ii) the approvals by the board of directors and the stockholders of the Company of the Investment Advisory Agreement have been made in accordance with the requirements of Section 15 of the 1940 Act applicable to companies that have elected to be regulated as business development companies under the 1940 Act.

 

(21)        There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against the Company, which is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package (other than as disclosed therein), or which might reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or which might reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement, the Notes, the Indenture and any Terms Agreement or the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder or thereunder. The aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Company is a party or of which any of its property or assets is the subject that are not described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(22)        There are no contracts or documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package or to be filed as exhibits thereto by the 1933 Act that have not been so described and filed as required.

 

(23)        As of the respective times of use, any advertising, sales literature or other promotional material (including, but not limited to “prospectus wrappers,” “broker kits,” “road show slides” and “road show scripts” and “electronic road show presentations”) authorized in writing by or prepared by the Company used in connection with the public offering of the Notes (collectively, “Sales Material”) and set forth in Exhibit F does not materially conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and, when taken together with the Prospectus, does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein in light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading. Moreover, all Sales Material complied and will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act (except that this representation and warranty shall not be made with respect to statements in or omissions from the Sales Material made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to the Purchasing Agent furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the Purchasing Agent expressly for use therein).

 

(24)        The Company has been organized and operated, and is currently organized and operates, in compliance in all material respects with the requirements to be taxed as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Code. The Company intends to direct the investment of the proceeds of the offering described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package in such a manner as to comply with the requirements of Subchapter M of the Code.

 

(25)        The Company and its subsidiaries have filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and have paid all taxes required to be paid by any of them and, if due and payable, any related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against any of them, except for any taxes, assessments or penalties as may be contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings. The Company has made adequate charges, accruals and reserves in the applicable financial statements referred to in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package in respect of all federal, state and foreign income and franchise taxes for all periods as to which the tax liability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has not been finally determined. The Company is not aware of any tax deficiency that has been or might be asserted or threatened against the Company or any subsidiary that could result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(26)        The Company has not distributed and will not distribute any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes other than the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package.

 

(27)        Except as otherwise described in the Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Disclosure Package, there are no persons with registration rights or other similar rights to have any securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise registered by the Company under the 1933 Act.

 

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(28)        The Company’s shares of common stock are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the 1934 Act and are listed for quotation on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”). The Company has taken no action designed to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of its common stock under the 1934 Act or delisting its common stock from NASDAQ, nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission or FINRA is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Company has continued to satisfy, in all material respects, all requirements for listing its common stock for trading on NASDAQ.

 

(29)        The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that might be reasonably expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Notes.

 

(30)        The documents filed by the Company with the Commission under the 1934 Act and the 1940 Act, complied, and will comply, in all material respects, with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the 1940 Act, as applicable, and, with respect to the 1934 Act documents, as of the date hereof, each Applicable Time, and as of each Settlement Date, did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company has filed all reports required to be filed pursuant to the 1940 Act and the 1934 Act, except where the failure to file such reports would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(31)        Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package (i) no person is serving or acting as an officer, director or investment adviser of the Company, except in accordance with the provisions of the 1940 Act and the Advisers Act, and (ii) no director of the Company is an “interested person” (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, an “affiliated person” (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the Purchasing Agent except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package.

 

(32)        Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any employee or agent of the Company or any subsidiary, has made any contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for, any federal, state or foreign office in violation of any law or of the character required to be disclosed in the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package.

 

(33)        There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees or indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company or any of the members of any of them, except as disclosed in the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package.

 

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(34)        The Company has not been advised, and has no knowledge that it and each of its subsidiaries are not conducting business in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of the jurisdictions in which it is conducting business, except where failure to be so in compliance would not result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(35)        The Company has complied in all material respects with Sections 302 and 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and has made the evaluations of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures required under Rule 13a-15 under the 1934 Act.

 

(36)        Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that has resulted or would result in a violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “FCPA”), including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA.

 

(37)        The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the applicable money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar applicable rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(38)        Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use any of the proceeds received by the Company from the sale of Notes contemplated by this Agreement or any Terms Agreement, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available any such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

 

Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Purchasing Agent or to Troutman shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Purchasing Agent as to the matters covered thereby.

 

(b)          The Adviser represents and warrants to the Purchasing Agent as of the date hereof and as of each Representation Date as follows:

 

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(1)         Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, except as otherwise stated therein, there has been no material adverse change in the financial condition, or in the earnings, business affairs, operations or regulatory status of the Adviser, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or would otherwise reasonably be expected to prevent the Adviser from carrying out its obligations under the Investment Advisory Agreement (an “Adviser Material Adverse Change” or an “Adviser Material Adverse Effect,” where the context so requires).

 

(2)         The Adviser has been duly organized and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with full power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement and to execute and deliver and perform its obligations under the Investment Advisory Agreement; and the Adviser is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to qualify or be in good standing would not otherwise reasonably be expected to result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect.

 

(3)         The Adviser is duly registered with the Commission as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is not prohibited by the Advisers Act or the 1940 Act from acting under the Investment Advisory Agreement for the Company as contemplated by the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package. There does not exist any proceeding or, to the Adviser’s knowledge, any facts or circumstances the existence of which could lead to any proceeding, which might adversely affect the registration of the Adviser with the Commission.

 

(4)         There is no action, suit or proceeding or, to the knowledge of the Adviser, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or, to the knowledge of the Adviser, threatened, against or affecting the Adviser, which is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package (other than as disclosed therein), or which would reasonably be expected to result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect, or which would reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement or the Investment Advisory Agreement; the aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Adviser is a party or of which any of its property or assets is the subject which are not described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to its business, would not reasonably be expected to result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(5)         The Adviser is not in violation of its certificate of formation or limited liability company operating agreement or in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Adviser is a party or by which it may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Adviser is subject, or in violation of any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree except for such violations or defaults that would not reasonably be expected to result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Investment Advisory Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and therein and in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (including the issuance and sale of the Notes and the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Notes as described in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”) and compliance by the Adviser with its obligations hereunder and under the Investment Advisory Agreement do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Adviser pursuant to such Agreement except for such violations or defaults that would not reasonably be expected to result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the limited liability company operating agreement of the Adviser; nor will such action result in any violation of any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, government instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Adviser or any of its assets, properties or operations except for such violations that would not reasonably be expected to result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect.

 

(6)         This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Adviser; the Investment Advisory Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Adviser; the Investment Advisory Agreement constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Adviser, except as (i) the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers) or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and (ii) rights to indemnification and contribution may be limited to equitable principles of general applicability or by state or federal securities laws or the policies underlying such law.

 

(7)         No filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any court or governmental authority or agency is necessary or required for the performance by the Adviser of its obligations hereunder, in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Notes hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Investment Advisory Agreement or the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (including the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Notes as described in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”), except (i) such as have been already obtained under the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act, (ii) such as may be required under state securities laws and (iii) the filing of the Notification of Election under the 1940 Act, which has been effected.

 

(8)         The description of the Adviser contained in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading.

 

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(9)         The Adviser possesses such valid and current certificates, authorizations or permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by it (collectively, “Governmental Licenses”), except where the failure so to possess would not reasonably be expected to, singly or in the aggregate, result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect; the Adviser is in compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Governmental Licenses, except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect; all of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except when the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect; and the Adviser has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Governmental Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would reasonably be expected to result in an Adviser Material Adverse Effect.

 

(10)        The Adviser is not aware that (i) any executive, key employee or significant group of employees of the Company, if any, or the Adviser plans to terminate employment with the Company or the Adviser or (ii) any such executive or key employee is subject to any non-compete, nondisclosure, confidentiality, employment, consulting or similar agreement that would be violated by the present or proposed business activities of the Company or the Adviser except where such termination or violation would not reasonably be expected to have an Adviser Material Adverse Effect.

 

(11)        To the Adviser’s knowledge, each controlled Portfolio Company (i) is in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (“Environmental Laws”); (ii) has received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of it under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct its respective businesses; and (iii) is in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except where such noncompliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or approvals would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

Any certificate signed by any officer of the Adviser and delivered to the Purchasing Agent or to Troutman shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Adviser to the Purchasing Agent as to the matters covered thereby.

 

(c)          All representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the Company contained in this Agreement or in certificates of officers of the Company or the Adviser submitted pursuant hereto shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Purchasing Agent or any controlling person of the Purchasing Agent, or by or on behalf of the Company, and shall survive each delivery of and payment for any of the Notes.

 

VIII.

 

(a)          Each acceptance by the Company of an offer for the purchase of Notes, and each delivery of Notes to the Purchasing Agent pursuant to a sale of Notes to the Purchasing Agent, shall be deemed to be an affirmation that the representations and warranties of the Company and the Adviser made to the Purchasing Agent in this Agreement and in any certificate theretofore delivered pursuant hereto are true and correct at the time of such acceptance or sale, as the case may be, and an undertaking that such representations and warranties will be true and correct at the time of delivery to the Purchasing Agent of the Note or Notes relating to such acceptance or sale, as the case may be, as though made at and as of each such time (and it is understood that such representations and warranties shall relate to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package as amended and supplemented to each such time).

 

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(b)          Except as otherwise provided in subsection (l) of Section IV , each time:

 

(1)         the applicable Terms Agreement so specifies (unless waived by the Purchasing Agent);

 

(2)         the Company files an Annual Report on Form 10-K, a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or a Current Report on Form 8-K required by Item 2 of Form 8-K with the Commission; or

 

(3)         if required by the Purchasing Agent after the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package has been amended or supplemented (other than by an amendment or supplement providing solely for interest rates, maturity dates or other terms of Notes or similar changes or an amendment or supplement which relates exclusively to an offering of securities other than the Notes),

 

the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Purchasing Agent (i) a certificate of the President and Chief Executive Officer and the Principal Financial Officer or any other authorized officer of each of the Company and the Adviser satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent (an “Authorized Officer”) dated the date specified in the applicable Terms Agreement or dated the date of filing with the Commission of such supplement or document or the date of effectiveness of such amendment, as the case may be, in form satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent to the effect that the statements contained in the certificate referred to in Section III(b) hereof which was last furnished to the Purchasing Agent are true and correct as of the date specified in the applicable Terms Agreement or at the time of such filing, amendment or supplement, as the case may be, as though made at and as of such time (except that such statements shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package as amended and supplemented to such time) or, in lieu of such certificate, a certificate of the same tenor as the certificate referred to in said Section III(b) , modified as necessary to relate to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such certificate and (ii) a certificate of the Secretary of each of the Company and the Adviser dated the date specified in the applicable Terms Agreement or dated the date of filing with the Commission of such supplement or document or the date of effectiveness of such amendment, as the case may be, in form satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent to the effect that the statements contained in the certificates referred to in Section III(d) hereof which were last furnished to the Purchasing Agent are true and correct as of the date specified in the applicable Terms Agreement or at the time of such filing, amendment or supplement, as the case may be, as though made at and as of such time (except that such statements shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package as amended and supplemented to such time) or, in lieu of such certificate, a certificate of the same tenor as the certificate referred to in said Section III(d) , modified as necessary to relate to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such certificate.

 

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(c)          Except as otherwise provided in subsection (l) of Section IV , each time:

 

(1)         the applicable Terms Agreement so specifies (unless waived by the Purchasing Agent);

 

(2)         the Company files an Annual Report on Form 10-K, a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or a Current Report on Form 8-K required by Item 2 of Form 8-K with the Commission; or

 

(3)         if required by the Purchasing Agent after the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package has been amended or supplemented (other than by an amendment or supplement providing solely for interest rates, maturity dates or other terms of the Notes or similar changes or an amendment or supplement which relates exclusively to an offering of securities other than the Notes),

 

the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished forthwith to the Purchasing Agent and Troutman the written opinion of Sutherland, dated the date specified in the applicable Terms Agreement or dated the date of filing with the Commission of such supplement or document or the date of effectiveness of such amendment, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent, of the same tenor as the opinion referred to in Section III(a)(1) hereof, but modified, as necessary, to relate to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such opinion; or, in lieu of such opinion, counsel last furnishing such opinion to the Purchasing Agent shall furnish the Purchasing Agent with a letter substantially to the effect that the Purchasing Agent may rely on such last opinion to the same extent as though it was dated the date of such letter authorizing reliance (except that statements in such last opinion shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such letter authorizing reliance).

 

(d)          Except as otherwise provided in subsection (l) of Section IV , each time:

 

(1)         the applicable Terms Agreement so specifies (unless waived by the Purchasing Agent);

 

(2)         the Company files an Annual Report on Form 10-K, a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or a Current Report on Form 8-K required by Item 2 of Form 8-K with the Commission; or

 

(3)         if required by the Purchasing Agent after the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package has been amended or supplemented to include additional financial information of a type typically derived from the Company’s accounting records or financial statements and required to be set forth therein under the provisions of Form N-2 under the 1933 Act,

 

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the Company shall cause KPMG to furnish the Purchasing Agent a letter, dated the date specified in the applicable Terms Agreement or dated the date of effectiveness of such amendment, supplement or document filed with the Commission, as the case may be, in form satisfactory to the Purchasing Agent, of the same tenor as the portions of the letter referred to in Section III(c) hereof but modified to relate to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as amended and supplemented to the date of such letter; provided, however , that if the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package is amended or supplemented solely to include financial information as of and for a fiscal quarter, Purchasing Agent may limit the scope of such letter to the unaudited financial statements included in such amendment or supplement.

 

(e)          The Company hereby acknowledges that (1) the solicitation of purchases of the Notes and any purchase and sale of the Notes pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the Purchasing Agent and any affiliate through which they may be acting, on the other, (2) the Underwriters (as defined in Exhibit E hereinafter) are acting as principal and not as an agent (except as provided herein) or fiduciary of the Company and (3) the Company’s engagement of the Purchasing Agent in connection with the offering and the process leading up to the offering is as an independent contractor and not in any other capacity. Furthermore, the Company agrees that it is solely responsible for making its own judgments in connection with the offering (irrespective of whether the Purchasing Agent has advised or is currently advising the Company on related or other matters). The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Purchasing Agent has rendered advisory services of any nature or in any respect, or owes an agency (except as provided herein), fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

 

IX.

 

(a)          The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Purchasing Agent, the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Purchasing Agent and each person who controls the Purchasing Agent within the meaning of either the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or the 1940 Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act, the 1940 Act or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Sales Material or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided , however , that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the Purchasing Agent specifically for inclusion therein. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have. Any indemnification by the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to the requirements and limitations of Section 17(i) of the 1940 Act.

 

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(b)          The Purchasing Agent agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who signs the Registration Statement, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or the 1940 Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to the Purchasing Agent, but only with reference to written information relating to the Purchasing Agent furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the Purchasing Agent specifically for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity. The Purchasing Agent agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any loss, claim, damage, liability or action to which they are entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Section IX(b) . This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Purchasing Agent may otherwise have.

 

(c)          Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section IX of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section IX , notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from liability under subsection (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in subsection (a) or (b) above. The indemnifying party shall be entitled to appoint counsel of the indemnifying party’s choice at the indemnifying party’s expense to represent the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below); provided, however , that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. Notwithstanding the indemnifying party’s election to appoint counsel to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest, (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action or (iv) the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding.

 

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(d)          In the event that the indemnity provided in subsection (a) , (b) or (c) of this Section IX is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Company and the Purchasing Agent severally agree to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending the same) (collectively “Losses”) to which the Company and the Purchasing Agent may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and by the Purchasing Agent on the other from the offering of the Notes; provided , however , that in no case shall the Purchasing Agent be responsible for any amount in excess of an amount represented by the percentage that the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Purchasing Agent bears to the total sales price from the sale of the Notes sold to or through the Purchasing Agent to the date of such liability. If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is unavailable for any reason, the Company and the Purchasing Agent shall severally contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Purchasing Agent on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Company shall be deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by it, and benefits received by the Purchasing Agent shall be deemed to be equal to an amount represented by the percentage that the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Purchasing Agent bears to the total sales price from the sale of the Notes sold to or through the Purchasing Agent. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or any alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information provided by the Company on the one hand or the Purchasing Agent on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Company and the Purchasing Agent agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d) , no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section IX , each person who controls the Purchasing Agent within the meaning of either the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act and each director, officer, employee and agent of the Purchasing Agent shall have the same rights to contribution as the Purchasing Agent, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act, each officer of the Company who shall have signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this subsection (d) .

 

(e)          The Company acknowledges that the name of the Purchasing Agent appearing on the front cover of the Prospectus, the name of the Purchasing Agent appearing in the Summary section of the Prospectus on page 11 and the third and fifth sentences of the fifth paragraph under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus constitute the only information furnished in writing by or on behalf of the Purchasing Agent for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity.

 

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X.

 

The Company may elect to suspend or terminate the offering of Notes under this Agreement at any time; the Company also (as to the Purchasing Agent) or the Purchasing Agent (as to itself) may terminate the appointment and arrangements described in this Agreement. Upon receipt of instructions from the Company, the Purchasing Agent shall suspend or terminate the participation of any Selected Dealer under the Master Selected Dealer Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit E . Such actions may be taken, in the case of the Company, by giving prompt written notice of suspension to the Purchasing Agent and by giving not less than 5 days’ written notice of termination to the Purchasing Agent, or in the case of the Purchasing Agent, by giving not less than 5 days’ written notice of termination to the Company and except that, if at the time of termination an offer for the purchase of Notes shall have been accepted by the Company but the time of delivery to the purchaser or his agent of the Note or Notes relating thereto shall not yet have occurred, the Company shall have the obligations provided herein with respect to such Note or Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the other parties in writing of any such termination.

 

The Purchasing Agent may terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase the Notes, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, (i) if there has been, since the date of such agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto since the date of the applicable agreement), any change, or any development involving an impending prospective change, in or affecting the business, financial position or results of operations of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto since the date of the applicable agreement), or (ii) if there shall have occurred, since the date of such agreement, any outbreak or material escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity or crisis, financial or otherwise, the effect of which is such as to make it, in the sole judgment of the Purchasing Agent, impracticable or inadvisable to market the Notes or enforce contracts for the sale of the Notes, or (iii) if, since the date of such agreement, trading in any securities of the Company has been suspended by the Commission or a national securities exchange, or if trading generally on either the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities have been required, by either of said exchanges or by order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, or (iv) if there shall have come to the Purchasing Agent’s attention any facts that would cause the Purchasing Agent to believe that the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Notes, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading, or (v) if there has been, since the date of such agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto since the date of the applicable agreement), a downgrading in the rating assigned to any of the Company’s debt securities (including the Notes) or the Company’s revolving credit facility by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, as such term is defined in Section 3 of the 1934 Act and any such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities (including the Notes) or the Company’s revolving credit facility or (vi) if, since the date of such agreement, a banking moratorium shall have been declared by either federal or New York authorities.

 

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Any Terms Agreement shall be subject to termination in the Purchasing Agent’s absolute discretion on the terms set forth or incorporated by reference therein. The termination of this Agreement shall not require termination of any agreement by the Purchasing Agent to purchase Notes as principal, and the termination of any such agreement shall not require termination of this Agreement.

 

If this Agreement is terminated, Section IV(c) and (e) , Section IX and Section XIII hereof shall survive and shall remain in effect; provided that if at the time of termination of this Agreement an offer to purchase Notes has been accepted by the Company but the time of delivery to the Purchasing Agent of such Notes has not occurred, the provisions of all of Section IV , Section V(b) and Section VI shall also survive until time of delivery.

 

XI.

 

Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all statements, requests, notices and advices hereunder shall be in writing, by telephone if promptly confirmed in writing or by e-mail, and if to the Purchasing Agent shall be sufficient in all respects if delivered in person, sent by telex, facsimile transmission (confirmed in writing), e-mail or registered mail to the Purchasing Agent at its address, e-mail address or telex or facsimile number specified below and if to the Company shall be sufficient in all respects if delivered in person, sent by telex, facsimile transmission (confirmed in writing), e-mail or registered mail to the Company at its address, e-mail address or telex or facsimile number specified below. All such notices shall be effective on receipt.

 

If to the Company or the Adviser:

 

Alcentra Capital Corporation

200 Park Avenue, 7th Floor

New York, New York 10166

Attention: Paul J. Echausse, Esq.

Telecopy: (212) 448-9652

E-mail: paul.echausse@alcentra.com

 

If to the Purchasing Agent:

 

Incapital LLC

200 South Wacker Drive, Suite 3700

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Attention: Brad Busscher, General Counsel

Telecopy: (312) 379-3701

E-mail: bbusscher@incapital.com

 

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or at such other address as such party may designate from time to time by notice duly given in accordance with the terms of this Section.

 

XII.

 

This Agreement shall be binding upon the Purchasing Agent and the Company, and inure solely to the benefit of the Purchasing Agent and the Company and any other person expressly entitled to indemnification hereunder and the respective personal representatives, successors and assigns of each, and no other person shall acquire or have any rights under or by virtue of this Agreement.

 

XIII.

 

This agreement shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the state of New York applicable to contracts executed in and to be performed in that state. Each party to this Agreement irrevocably agrees that any legal action or proceeding against it arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment rendered against it in connection with this Agreement may be brought in any federal or New York State court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, and, by execution and delivery of this Agreement, such party hereby irrevocably accepts and submits to the jurisdiction of each of the aforesaid courts in person, generally and unconditionally with respect to any such action or proceeding for itself and in respect of its property, assets and revenues. Each party hereby also irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such action or proceeding brought in any such court and any claim that any such action or proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Each party hereto also irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

XIV.

 

If this Agreement is executed by or on behalf of any party, such person hereby states that at the time of the execution of this Agreement he has no notice of revocation of the power of attorney by which he has executed this Agreement as such attorney.

 

The Company will pay the following expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including: (i) the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement; (ii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the Notes; (iii) all expenses incurred in preparing, printing and distributing the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package to investors or prospective investors, (iv) the fees and disbursements of the Company’s auditors, of the Trustee and its counsel and of any paying or other agents appointed by the Company; (v) the printing and delivery to the Purchasing Agent in quantities as hereinabove stated of copies of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; (vi) if the Company lists Notes on a securities exchange, the costs and fees of such listing; (vii) the cost of providing CUSIP or other identification numbers for the Notes; (viii) all reasonable expenses (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of Troutman) in connection with “Blue Sky” qualifications; and (xi) any fees charged by rating agencies for the rating of the Notes. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not be obligated to pay any fees and expenses incurred by Troutman in connection with this Agreement other than as set forth in clause (viii) of this Section XIV.

 

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This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Purchasing Agent with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

This Agreement may be executed by each of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, and by each of the parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which counterparts, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Facsimile signatures shall be deemed original signatures.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us a counterpart hereof, and upon acceptance hereof by you, this letter and such acceptance hereof shall constitute a binding agreement between the Company and you.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION
   
  By: / s / Paul J. Echausse
  Name: Paul J. Echausse
  Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
   
  ALCENTRA NY, LLC
   
  By: / s / Paul J. Echausse
  Name: Paul J. Echausse
  Title: Senior Vice President

 

Confirmed and accepted  
as of the date first above written:  
   
INCAPITAL LLC  
   
By:   /s/ Christopher O’Connor  
Name: Christopher O’Connor  
Title: Managing Director  

 

[Signature Page to Selling Agent Agreement]

 

 

 

  

EXHIBIT A

 

Form of Opinion and Negative Assurance of Sutherland

 

A- 1  

 

   

EXHIBIT B

 

Terms Agreement

 

____________, 20__

 

Alcentra Capital Corporation

200 Park Avenue, 7th Floor

New York, New York 10166

 

Attention: Treasurer

 

The undersigned agrees to purchase the following aggregate principal amount of Alcentra Capital InterNotes ® :

 

$__________

The terms of such Notes shall be as follows:

CUSIP Number: ______

Notes:

Coupon Type:

Interest Rate Provisions:

 

(i)          annual interest rate: ______

(ii)         interest payment frequency: ______

(iii)        step-up provision, if any: ______

 

Maturity Date: ______

Price to Public: ______

Purchasing Agent’s Concession: 1.95%

Net Proceeds to Issuer: ______

Settlement Date, Time and Place: ______

Survivor’s Option: ______

Optional Redemption/Repayment, if any: ______

Initial Redemption/Repayment Date[s]: ______

Applicable Time: ______

Redemption/Repayment Price: Initially ______% of Principal Amount and declining by ______% of the Principal Amount on each anniversary of the Initial Redemption/Repayment Date until the Redemption/Repayment Price is 100% of the Principal Amount.

 

[Any other terms and conditions agreed to by the Purchasing Agent and the Company]

 

  INCAPITAL LLC
   
  By:  
  Title:  

  

B- 1  

 

 

ACCEPTED  
   
ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION  
   
By:    
Title:    

 

B- 2  

 

  

EXHIBIT C

 

Form of Fixed Rate Pricing Supplement

 

Filed under Rule 497

Pricing Supplement Dated:

(To Prospectus Dated December 21, 2015File No. 333-205154 and Prospectus Supplement dated May 31, 2016)

Pricing Supplement No. ________

 

ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION

 

Alcentra Capital InterNotes ®

 

Trade Date: ________

Issue Date: ________

 

CUSIP
NUMBER
ISIN
NUMBER
PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT
SELLING
PRICE
GROSS
CONCESSION
NET
PROCEEDS
COUPON
TYPE
COUPON
RATE
               

 

COUPON
FREQUENCY
MATURITY
DATE
1 ST COUPON
DATE
1 ST COUPON
AMOUNT
SURVIVOR’S
OPTION
PRODUCT
RANKING
REDEMPTION
INFORMATION
             

 

Step Info: ___

Other Terms: ___

 

C- 1  

 

  

EXHIBIT D

 

Administrative Procedures

D- 1  

 

  

EXHIBIT E

 

[Incapital Form Master Selected Dealer Agreement]

 

E- 1  

 

  

EXHIBIT F

 

Sales Material

 

1.          Investor Fact Sheet filed under Rule 497(a) on May 6, 2016

 

2.          Alcentra Capital InterNotes® screen shot filed under 497(a) on May 31, 2016

 

F- 1  

 

  

EXHIBIT G

 

Form of Agent Joinder Letter

 

[Date]

 

[Name and Address of Agent]

 

Re: Alcentra Capital InterNotes ® (the “Notes”) Issuance of [$_________] Alcentra Capital InterNotes ® by Alcentra Capital Corporation Due __________, Sold on __________, for Settlement on __________ (the “Notes”)

 

Dear __________:

 

The Selling Agent Agreement dated May 31, 2016 (the “Agreement”), among Alcentra Capital Corporation (the “Company”), Alcentra NY, LLC and Incapital LLC (the “Purchasing Agent”), provides for the issue and sale by the Company of the Notes.

 

Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Agreement and subject further to the Administrative Procedures that are an exhibit to the Indenture referred to in the Agreement and expressly made a part of the Agreement, the Company hereby appoints you as Agent (as such term is defined in the Agreement) [on an on-going basis in connection with the purchase of the Notes] [in connection with the purchase of the Notes, but only for this one transaction] . Your appointment is made subject to the terms and conditions applicable to Agents under the Agreement and terminates upon [termination of the Agreement] [payment for the Notes or other termination of this transaction] . Accompanying this letter is a copy of the Agreement, the provisions of which are incorporated herein by reference. Copies of the documents previously delivered to the Purchasing Agent under the Agreement are available upon request.

 

This letter agreement, like the Agreement, is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

If the above is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return this letter to us on or before settlement date. This action will confirm your appointment and your acceptance and agreement to act as Agent [on an on-going basis in connection with the purchase of the Notes] [in connection with the issue and sale of the Notes] under the terms and conditions of the Agreement.

 

Very truly yours,  
   
ALCENTRA CAPITAL CORPORATION  
   
By:    
Name:    
Title:    

 

G- 1  

 

  

ALCENTRA NY, LLC  
   
By:    
Name:    
Title:    

 

AGREED AND ACCEPTED  
   
[Name of Agent]  
   
By:    
Name:    
Title:    

 

G- 2  

Exhibit (l)(2)

 

[Letterhead of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP]

 

 

May 31, 2016

Alcentra Capital Corporation

200 Park Avenue, 7 th  Floor

New York, New York 10166

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as counsel to Alcentra Capital Corporation, a Maryland corporation (the “ Company ”), in connection with the registration statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-205154) (the “ Registration Statement ”) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”),  previously declared effective by the Commission, relating to the public offering of securities of the Company that may be offered by the Company from time to time as set forth in the prospectus dated December 21, 2015, which was included in Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement, and which forms a part of the Registration Statement (the “ Base Prospectus ”), and a prospectus supplement dated May 31, 2016 (the “ Prospectus Supplement ” and together with the Base Prospectus, the “ Prospectus ”). This opinion letter is rendered in connection with the public offering of up to $9,599,000  in aggregate principal amount of the Company’s unsecured Alcentra Capital Internotes® (the “ Notes ”), as described in the Prospectus.

 

The Notes will be issued in one or more series pursuant to a base indenture, filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, entered into between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”) on January 30, 2015 (the “ Indenture ”), as supplemented by one or more supplemental indentures (each, a “ Supplemental Indenture ”) to be entered into between the Company and the Trustee. The price and terms of any series of Notes will be set forth in one or more supplements to the Prospectus Supplement .

 

As counsel to the Company, we have participated in the preparation of the Registration Statement and have examined originals or copies of such records, documents or other instruments as we in our judgment deem necessary or appropriate for us to render the opinions set forth in this opinion letter including, without limitation, the following:

 

(i) the Articles of Amendment and Restatement of the Company (the “ Charter ”), certified as the date hereof by an officer of the Company;

 

(ii) the Bylaws of the Company, certified as of the date hereof by an officer of the Company;

 

(iii) a Certificate of Good Standing with respect to the Company issued by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of the State of Maryland as of a recent date (the “ Certificate of Good Standing ”);

 

(iv) resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company relating to, among other things, (a) the authorization and approval of the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement and (b) the authorization, execution and delivery of the Indenture, certified as of the date hereof by an officer of the Company; and

 

(v) the Indenture.

 

With respect to such examination and our opinion expressed herein, we have assumed, without any independent investigation or verification, (i) the genuineness of all signatures on all documents submitted to us for examination, (ii) the legal capacity of all natural persons, (iii) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, (iv) the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as conformed or reproduced copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copied documents, and (v) that all certificates issued by public officials have been properly issued. We also have assumed without independent investigation or verification the accuracy and completeness of all corporate records made available to us by the Company.

 

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As to certain matters of fact relevant to the opinions in this opinion letter, we have relied upon certificates of public officials (which we have assumed remain accurate as of the date of this opinion), upon certificates and/or representations of officers and employees of the Company, upon such other certificates as we deemed appropriate, and upon such other data as we have deemed to be appropriate under the circumstances. We have not independently established the facts, or in the case of certificates of public officials, the other statements, so relied upon.

 

This opinion is limited to the contract laws of the State of New York and the Maryland General Corporation Law, as in effect on the date hereof, and we express no opinion with respect to any other laws of such jurisdictions or the laws of any other jurisdiction. Without limiting the preceding sentence, we express no opinion as to any state securities or broker-dealer laws or regulations thereunder relating to the offer, issuance or sale of the Notes. This opinion letter has been prepared, and should be interpreted, in accordance with customary practice followed in the preparation of opinion letters by lawyers who regularly give, and such customary practice followed by lawyers who on behalf of their clients regularly advise opinion recipients regarding, opinion letters of this kind.

 

In rendering our opinion, we have assumed that (i) the issuance, offer and sale of Notes from time to time and the final terms and conditions of the Notes to be so issued, offered and sold, including those relating to price and amount of Notes to be issued, offered and sold, (a) are in accordance with the Indenture and the applicable Supplemental Indenture, and have been duly authorized and determined or otherwise established by proper action of the Board in accordance with the Charter and Bylaws, (b) do not violate any applicable law, (c) do not violate or result in a default under or breach of any agreement, instrument or other document binding upon the Company, and (d) comply with all requirements or restrictions imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company, (ii) the Notes have been (a) duly executed and delivered by the Company and duly authenticated by the Trustee in each case, in accordance with the Indenture and the applicable Supplemental Indenture, and (b) delivered to, and the agreed consideration therefor has been fully paid at the time of such delivery by, the purchasers thereof, (iii) the Supplemental Indentures applicable to each series of Notes are duly authorized, executed and delivered in accordance with its terms by each of the parties thereto, and (iv) the Notes will not include any provision that is unenforceable against the Company.

 

In rendering our opinion, we have further assumed that (i) the Trustee is duly organized and validly existing in good standing in its jurisdiction of organization, (ii) the Trustee has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Indenture and the Supplemental Indentures, and (iii) each of the Indenture and the Supplemental Indentures constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation, and is enforceable against, the Trustee in accordance with its terms. We have not independently investigated or verified any of the foregoing assumptions.

 

On the basis of and subject to the foregoing, and in reliance thereon, and subject to the limitations and qualifications set forth in this opinion letter, we are of the opinion that, the issuance of the Notes will be duly authorized and, when issued, each issuance of the Notes will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

 

The opinions expressed in this opinion letter are (a) subject, as to enforcement, to (i) any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer or conveyance or other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought; (b) strictly limited to the matters stated in this opinion letter, and without limiting the foregoing, no other opinions are to be implied and (c) only as of the date of this opinion letter, and we are under no obligation, and do not undertake, to advise the addressee of this opinion letter or any other person or entity either of any change of law or fact that occurs, or of any fact that comes to our attention, after the date of this opinion letter, even though such change or such fact may affect the legal analysis or a legal conclusion in this opinion letter.

 

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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm in the “Legal Matters” section in the Registration Statement. We do not admit by giving this consent that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.

 

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  /s/ Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

 

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Exhibit (l)(3)

[Letterhead of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP]

 

June 9, 2016

 

Alcentra Capital Corporation

200 Park Avenue, 7 th  Floor

New York, New York 10166

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as counsel to Alcentra Capital Corporation, a Maryland corporation (the “ Company ”), in connection with the registration statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-205154) (the “ Registration Statement ”) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”),  previously declared effective by the Commission, relating to the public offering of securities of the Company that may be offered by the Company from time to time as set forth in the prospectus dated December 21, 2015, which was included in Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement, and which forms a part of the Registration Statement (the “ Base Prospectus ”), and a prospectus supplement dated May 31, 2016 (the “ Prospectus Supplement ” and together with the Base Prospectus, the “ Prospectus ”).  This opinion letter is rendered in connection with the public offering of $1,744,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.375% notes due 2021 (the “ Notes ”), as described in Pricing Suppplement No. 1 to the Prospectus dated June 6, 2016 (the “ Pricing Supplement ”).  All of the Notes are to be sold by the Company as described in the Registration Statement and related Prospectus and Pricing Supplement.

 

The Notes will be issued pursuant to an indenture, filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, entered into between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”) on January 30, 2015, as supplemented by a thirteenth supplemental indenture, substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, to be entered into between the Company and the Trustee (collectively, the “ Indenture ”).

 

As counsel to the Company, we have participated in the preparation of the Registration Statement and have examined originals or copies of such records, documents or other instruments as we in our judgment deem necessary or appropriate for us to render the opinions set forth in this opinion letter including, without limitation, the following:

 

(i) the Articles of Amendment and Restatement of the Company, certified as of the date hereof by an officer of the Company;

 

(ii) the Bylaws of the Company, certified as of the date hereof by an officer of the Company;

 

(iii) a Certificate of Good Standing with respect to the Company issued by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of the State of Maryland as of a recent date;

 

(iv) resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company relating to, among other things, (a) the authorization and approval of the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement and (b) the authorization, execution and delivery of the Indenture, certified as of the date hereof by an officer of the Company;

 

(v) the Indenture; and

 

(vi) a specimen copy of the form of the Notes to be issued pursuant to the Indenture in the form attached to the Indenture.

 

With respect to such examination and our opinion expressed herein, we have assumed, without any independent investigation or verification, (i) the genuineness of all signatures on all documents submitted to us for examination, (ii) the legal capacity of all natural persons, (iii) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, (iv) the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as conformed or reproduced copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copied documents, and (v) that all certificates issued by public officials have been properly issued. We also have assumed without independent investigation or verification (i) the accuracy and completeness of all corporate records made available to us by the Company and (ii) that the Indenture will be a valid and legally binding obligation of the parties thereto (other than the Company).

 

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As to certain matters of fact relevant to the opinions in this opinion letter, we have relied upon certificates of public officials (which we have assumed remain accurate as of the date of this opinion), upon certificates and/or representations of officers and employees of the Company, upon such other certificates as we deemed appropriate, and upon such other data as we have deemed to be appropriate under the circumstances. We have not independently established the facts, or in the case of certificates of public officials, the other statements, so relied upon.

 

This opinion is limited to the contract laws of the State of New York and the Maryland General Corporation Law, as in effect on the date hereof, and we express no opinion with respect to any other laws of such jurisdictions or the laws of any other jurisdiction. Without limiting the preceding sentence, we express no opinion as to any state securities or broker-dealer laws or regulations thereunder relating to the offer, issuance or sale of the Notes. This opinion letter has been prepared, and should be interpreted, in accordance with customary practice followed in the preparation of opinion letters by lawyers who regularly give, and such customary practice followed by lawyers who on behalf of their clients regularly advise opinion recipients regarding, opinion letters of this kind.

 

Based upon and subject to the limitations, exceptions, qualifications and assumptions set forth in this opinion letter, we are of the opinion that, when the Notes are duly executed and delivered by duly authorized officers of the Company and duly authenticated by the Trustee, all in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, and delivered to the purchasers thereof against payment of the agreed consideration therefor, the Notes will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

 

The opinion expressed in this opinion letter is subject, as to enforcement, to (i) any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer or conveyance or other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.

 

The opinions expressed in this opinion letter (a) are strictly limited to the matters stated in this opinion letter, and without limiting the foregoing, no other opinions are to be implied and (b) are only as of the date of this opinion letter, and we are under no obligation, and do not undertake, to advise the addressee of this opinion letter or any other person or entity either of any change of law or fact that occurs, or of any fact that comes to our attention, after the date of this opinion letter, even though such change or such fact may affect the legal analysis or a legal conclusion in this opinion letter.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm in the “Legal Matters” section in the Registration Statement. We do not admit by giving this consent that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  /s/ Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

 

 

 

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Exhibit (n)(3)

 

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  KPMG LLP
  345 Park Avenue
  New York, NY 10154-0102

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Board of Directors of

Alcentra Capital Corporation:

 

We consent to the use of our audit reports dated March 9, 2016 with respect to the consolidated statements of assets and liabilities, including the consolidated schedules of investments of Alcentra Capital Corporation as of December 31, 2015 and 2014, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in net assets, and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2015 and for the period from May 8, 2014 (commencement of operations) through December 31, 2014 and the statements of operations, changes in net assets and cash flows of BNY Mellon-Alcentra Mezzanine III, L.P. for the period from January 1, 2104 through May 7, 2014, and related notes to the consolidated financial statements and to the reference to our firm under the headings “Selected Financial and Other Data” and “Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” in the prospectus supplement dated May 31, 2016 (the “Prospectus”). These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. In connection with our audits of the aforementioned consolidated financial statements, we also audited the related information included in the senior securities table as of December 31, 2015 and 2014 included in the Prospectus. The senior securities table is the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the consolidated senior securities table based on our audits.

 

In our opinion, the senior securities table, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein. 

 

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New York, New York

May 31, 2016

 

  KPMG LLP is a Delaware limited liability partnership, the U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity.