As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 28, 2016

Registration No. 333-212514

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

 

Amendment No. 1

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

o Pre-Effective Amendment No.  

o Post-Effective Amendment No.  

 

MEDLEY LLC

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

Delaware		6282		27-2437343
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

Medley LLC
280 Park Avenue, 6 ^th Floor East
New York, New York 10017

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(212) 759-0777

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

John D. Fredericks
General Counsel
Medley LLC
600 Montgomery Street, 35 ^th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
Telephone: (415) 568-2760

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

COPIES TO:

R. Cabell Morris, Esq. Winston & Strawn LLP 35 W Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60601-9703 Tel: (312) 558-5609 Fax: (312) 558-5700		Stuart Gelfond, Esq. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP One New York Plaza New York, New York 10004 Tel: (212) 859-8000 Fax: (212) 859-4000

 

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

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box: o

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer o		Accelerated filer o
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Title of Securities Being Registered		Amount Being Registered				Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Note				Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price (1)				Amount of Registration Fee
Notes due 20   (2)		$	28,750,000				100	%		$	28,750,000			$	2,895.13	(3)

(1)

Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933 solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee. The proposed maximum offering price per security will be determined, from time to time, by the Registrant in connection with the sale of the securities registered under this Registration Statement.

(2)

There is being registered hereunder an indeterminate number of debt securities of the Registrant as may be sold, from time to time. In no event will the aggregate offering price of all securities issued from time to time pursuant to this Registration Statement exceed $28,750,000.

(3)

Previously paid.

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

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THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS IS NOT COMPLETE AND MAY BE CHANGED. WE MAY NOT SELL THESE SECURITIES UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION IS EFFECTIVE. THIS PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS IS NOT AN OFFER TO SELL THESE SECURITIES AND IT IS NOT SOLICITING AN OFFER TO BUY THESE SECURITIES IN ANY STATE WHERE THE OFFER OR SALE IS NOT PERMITTED.

Subject to Completion dated July 28, 2016

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

MEDLEY LLC

$    

    % Notes Due 20

Medley LLC (“Medley”, the “Company”, “we” or “us”) is the operating company of Medley Management Inc., a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) and traded under the symbol “MDLY.” We are an asset management firm offering yield solutions to retail and institutional investors. We focus on credit-related investment strategies, primarily originating senior secured loans to private middle market companies in the United States that have revenues between $50 million and $1 billion. We generally hold these loans to maturity. Our national direct origination franchise, with over 80 people, provides capital to the middle market in the United States.

We are offering $     in aggregate principal amount of     % Notes due 20   (the “Notes”). The Notes will mature on           , 20  . We will pay interest on the Notes quarterly in arrears on     ,     ,     , and      of each year, beginning           , 20  . We may redeem the Notes in whole or in part at any time or from time to time on or after           , 20  , at the redemption price of 100% of aggregate principal amount, plus any accrued and unpaid interest, as discussed under “The Offering — Optional Redemption” and “Description of Notes — Optional Redemption” in this prospectus. The Notes will be issued in minimum denominations of $25 and integral multiples of $25 in excess thereof.

The Notes will be our direct senior unsecured obligations and rank pari passu with all outstanding and future unsecured unsubordinated indebtedness issued by Medley LLC.

We intend to list the Notes on the NYSE, and we expect trading to commence thereon within 30 days of the original issue date under the trading symbol “    .” The Notes are expected to trade “flat.” This means that purchasers will not pay, and sellers will not receive, any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes that is not included in the trading price. Currently, there is no public market for the Notes. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 21 to read about factors you should consider, including the risk of leverage, before investing in our securities.

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined under the federal securities laws and, as such, may elect to comply with certain reduced public company reporting requirements for future filings. See “Prospectus Summary — Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company.”

This prospectus contains important information you should know before investing in our securities. Please read it before you invest and keep it for future reference.

		Per Note				Total
Public Offering Price		$				$
Sales Commissions		$				$
Proceeds to the Company, before expenses (1)		$				$

(1)

Before deducting expenses payable by us related to the offering, estimated at $       . See “Plan of Distribution” in this prospectus.

The public offering price set forth above does not include accrued interest, if any. Interest on the Notes will accrue from      , 2016 and must be paid by the purchaser if the Notes are delivered after      , 2016.

The purchasing agent may also purchase up to an additional $      aggregate principal amount of Notes offered hereby, to cover over-allotments, if any, within 30 days of the date of this prospectus. If the purchasing agent exercises this option in full, the total public offering price will be $     , the total sales commissions paid by us will be $     , and total proceeds to the Company, before expenses, will be $     .

THE NOTES ARE NOT DEPOSITS OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS OF A BANK AND ARE NOT INSURED BY THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OR ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY.

Delivery of the Notes in book-entry form only through The Depository Trust Company will be made on or about            , 2016.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Incapital

The date of this prospectus is            , 2016

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You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus, any free writing prospectus prepared by us or information to which we have referred you. We have not authorized any agent, dealer, salesman or other person to give any information or to make any representation other than those contained in this prospectus. You must not rely upon any information or representation not contained in this prospectus. This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any security other than the registered securities to which this relates, nor does it constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such an offer or solicitation in such jurisdiction. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate as of the date on its cover. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since then.

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS			ii
PROSPECTUS SUMMARY			1
THE OFFERING			15
RISK FACTORS			21
RATIOS OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES			46
USE OF PROCEEDS			47
CAPITALIZATION			48
SELECTED HISTORICAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION			49
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS			52
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS			68
MANAGEMENT			103
EXECUTIVE AND DIRECTOR COMPENSATION			104
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS			107
PRINCIPAL MEMBERS			109
DESCRIPTION OF NOTES			110
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION			118
CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF DELAWARE LAW AND OUR LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT			121
CERTAIN UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS			123
CERTAIN ERISA CONSIDERATIONS			127
LEGAL MATTERS			128
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM			128

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PRESENTATION OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION

The issuer and sole obligor of the Notes issued in this offering will be Medley LLC. The consolidated financial information included in this prospectus is financial information of Medley LLC and its subsidiaries.

Included in this prospectus are Medley LLC’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, the consolidated statements of operations, changes in equity, and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2013, the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and the unaudited condensed statements of operations, changes in equity, and cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2015.

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The diagram below presents the historical correlation between growth in our AUM, fee earning AUM and management fees (amounts in millions).

Business Strategy

We believe that our deep and long-standing investor relationships, founded on our diverse product offering and disciplined management of our investors’ capital, have facilitated the growth of our existing business and will assist us with the development of additional strategies and products, thereby increasing our fee earning AUM in the future. We have dedicated in-house capital markets, investor relations and marketing specialists. We have frequent discussions with our investors and are committed to providing them with the highest quality service. We believe our service levels, as well as our emphasis on transparency, inspire loyalty in our investors and support our efforts to continue to attract investors across our investment platform.

Direct origination and active monitoring of the loan portfolios we manage are important success factors in our business, which can be adversely affected by difficult market and political conditions, such as the turmoil in the global capital markets from 2007 to 2009. We adhere to a disciplined investment process that employs these principles with the goal of delivering strong risk-adjusted investment returns while protecting investor capital. Our focus on protecting investor capital is reflected in our investment strategy; at March 31, 2016. We had total commitments of $3.7 billion with approximately 71% of investments secured by first lien positions and 89% of outstanding loans current on repayment. ² We believe that our ability to directly originate, structure and lead deals enables us to consistently lend at higher yields with better terms. In addition, the loans we manage generally have a contractual maturity of between three and seven years and are typically floating rate (at March 31, 2016, approximately 79% of the loans we manage, based on aggregate principal amount, bore interest at floating rates), which we believe positions our business well for rising interest rates.

Our senior management team has on average over 20 years of experience in credit, including originating, underwriting, principal investing and loan structuring. As of March 31, 2016, we had over 80 employees, including over 40 investment, origination and credit management professionals, and over 40 operations, accounting, legal, compliance and marketing professionals, each with extensive experience in their respective disciplines.

We have made significant investments in our loan origination and underwriting platform and believe it is scalable and can support our future growth within the competitive investment management business. These

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Prior to making an investment, the investment team subjects each potential borrower to an extensive credit review process, which typically begins with an analysis of the market opportunity, business fundamentals, company operating metrics and historical and projected financial analysis. We also compare liquidity, operating margin trends, leverage, free cash flow and fixed charge coverage ratios for each potential investment to industry metrics. Areas of additional underwriting focus include management or sponsor (typically a private equity firm) experience, management compensation, competitive landscape, regulatory environment, pricing power, defensibility of market share and tangible asset values. Background checks are conducted and tax compliance information may also be requested on management teams and key employees. In addition, the investment team contacts customers, suppliers and competitors and performs on-site visits as part of a routine business due diligence process.

Our disciplined underwriting process also involves the engagement of industry experts and third-party consultants. The investment team routinely uses third-party consultants and market studies to corroborate valuation and industry specific due diligence, as well as provide quality of earnings analysis. Experienced legal counsel is engaged to evaluate and mitigate regulatory, insurance, tax or other company-specific risks.

After the investment team completes its final due diligence, each proposed investment is presented to our investment committee and subjected to extensive discussion and follow-up analysis, if necessary. A formal memorandum for each investment opportunity typically includes the results of business due diligence, multi-scenario financial analysis, risk-management assessment, results of third-party consulting work, background checks (where applicable) and structuring proposals. Our investment committee requires a majority vote to approve any investment.

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In addition to the data provided by our borrowers, we may also utilize various third parties to provide checks and balances throughout the credit management process. Independent valuation firms may be engaged to provide appraisals of asset and collateral values or external forensic accounting groups may be engaged to verify portfolio company financial reporting or perform cash reconciliation. We believe this hands-on approach to credit management is a key contributor to our investment performance.

Our Funds and Separately Managed Accounts

We provide our credit-focused investment strategies through various funds and products that meet the needs of a wide range of retail and institutional investors.

Our permanent capital vehicles, MCC and SIC, offer investors risk-adjusted yield opportunities. Given their permanent capital nature and focus on senior credit, they provide a high degree of fee income visibility. Additionally, we have a strong institutional investor base for our long-dated private funds and SMAs, which have been an important source of diversified capital for our business.

We launched MCC (NYSE: MCC), our first permanent capital vehicle, in 2011 as a BDC. MCC has grown to become a BDC with approximately $1.3 billion in AUM as of March 31, 2016. MCC has demonstrated a 44% compounded annual growth rate of AUM from inception through March 31, 2016.

We launched SIC, our first public non-traded permanent capital vehicle, in 2012 as a BDC. SIC is now offered on a continuous basis to investors through over 170 broker dealers representing over 17,900 registered investment advisers (“RIAs”) as of March 31, 2016. Since inception, SIC has demonstrated rapid growth. During the year ended December 31, 2015, SIC increased assets under management by $360 million to $1.2 billion, a 45% increase year over year.

Our institutional capital vehicles include our long-dated private funds and SMAs and have contributed significantly to our AUM growth. Since December 31, 2014 our institutional AUM has grown 75%.

We launched MOF I, our first long-dated private fund, in 2006, MOF II, our second long-dated private fund, in 2010 and MOF III, our third long-dated private fund, in 2014. Our long-dated private funds are managed through partnership structures, in which limited partnerships organized by us accept commitments or funds for investment from institutional investors and high net worth individuals, and a general partner makes all policy and investment decisions, including selection of investment advisers. Affiliates of Medley serve as investment advisers to our long-dated private funds. The limited partners of our long-dated private funds take no part in the conduct or control of the business of such funds, have no right or authority to act for or bind such funds and have no influence or the voting or disposition of the securities or assets held by such funds, although limited partners often have the right to remove the general partner or cause an early liquidation by super-majority vote. As our long-dated private funds are closed-ended, once an investor makes an investment, the investor is generally not able to withdraw or redeem its interest, except in very limited circumstances.

Our Sources of Revenue

The significant majority of our standalone revenue is derived from management fees, which includes both base management fees earned on all of our investment products as well as Part I incentive fees earned from our permanent capital vehicles. Our base management fees are generally calculated based upon fee earning assets and paid quarterly in cash. Our Part I incentive fees are generally based on net interest income, subject to a hurdle rate, and are also calculated and paid quarterly in cash.

We also earn performance fees from our long-dated private funds and some of our SMAs. Typically, these performance fees are 15% or 20% of the total return above a hurdle rate. These performance fees are accrued quarterly and paid after return of all invested capital and an amount sufficient to achieve the hurdle rate of return.

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We also receive incentive fees related to realized capital gains in our permanent capital vehicles that we refer to as Part II incentive fees. Part II incentive fees are payable annually and are calculated at the end of each applicable year by subtracting (i) the sum of cumulative realized capital losses and unrealized capital depreciation from (ii) cumulative aggregate realized capital gains. If the amount calculated is positive, then the Part II incentive fee for such year is equal to 20% of such amount, less the aggregate amount of Part II incentive fees paid in all prior years. If such amount is negative, then no Part II incentive fee will be payable for such year. As our investment strategy is focused on generating yield from senior secured credit, historically we have not generated Part II incentive fees.

The following table sets forth certain financial information for the periods presented. During fiscal year 2015, we adopted new consolidation guidance that resulted in the deconsolidation of our Consolidated Funds, effective January 1, 2015. Prior to 2015, we consolidated certain funds in our consolidated financial statements, which resulted in us reporting significantly greater amounts of assets, liabilities, total equity and cash flows, but had no effect on the amount of reported net income attributable to Medley LLC for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013. For further information, see “Critical Accounting Policies — Principles of Consolidation” and Note 2, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” to our audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 included in this prospectus.

		Three Months Ended March 31, (unaudited)								Years Ended December 31,
		2016				2015				2015				2014				2013
		(Amounts in thousands, except AUM)
Consolidated Financial Data:
Net income attributable to Medley LLC		$	850			$	9,899			$	23,140			$	38,424			$	23,637
Net income margin (1)			4.8	%			38.9	%			34.3	%			46.6	%			39.6	%
Balance Sheet Data (at period end):
Total assets			110,681								118,147				906,858				550,292
Total liabilities			136,230								136,917				285,134				104,331
Members’ deficit			(35,961	)							(18,311	)			(5,350	)			(18,554	)
Total equity (deficit)			(38,013	)							(18,770	)			621,724				445,961
Non-GAAP Data: (2)
Core Net Income			6,547				12,854				32,158				41,598				23,206
Core EBITDA			9,067				15,462				41,721				47,957				25,662
Core Net Income Margin			37.3	%			50.4	%			47.7	%			50.4	%			38.9	%
Other Data (at period end, in millions):
AUM		$	5,012			$	3,924			$	4,779			$	3,682			$	2,283
Fee Earning AUM		$	3,169			$	3,165			$	3,302			$	3,058			$	2,006

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Industry Trends

We are well positioned to capitalize on the following trends in the asset management industry:

De-Leveraging of the Global Banking System .  After an extended period of increasing leverage, commercial and investment banks have been de-leveraging since 2008. Bank consolidation, more prudent balance sheet discipline, changing regulatory capital requirements and the increasing cost and complexity of regulatory compliance have led banks to meaningfully withdraw from markets such as non-investment grade middle market and commercial real estate lending. This has created a significant opportunity for non-bank direct lenders like Medley.

Increasing Demand for Yield-Oriented Investments by Retail Investors .  A key demographic trend driving demand for yield is the aging population in the United States. Retirees generally have shorter investment horizons, with a sharper focus on stable, income-generating portfolios. This dynamic, amplified by the shortage of yield-oriented opportunities in the current low interest rate environment, has resulted in strong demand for yield-oriented investments by an aging population. Through our permanent capital vehicles, MCC and SIC, we believe we are well-positioned to capitalize on this growing retail investor demand.

Shifting Asset Allocation Policies of Institutional Investors .  The low interest environment is leading institutional investors to increasingly rotate away from core fixed income products, such as liquid debt securities, toward less liquid credit and absolute return-oriented products. It is estimated that from 2013 to 2017, U.S. fixed income investors will reallocate $1 trillion of assets from traditional fixed income strategies to next generation fixed income products, with these next generation fixed income products representing nearly 80% of the annual revenue created by fixed income mandates from U.S. investors. ⁴ In addition, we believe that the pension liability gap in the United States will continue to drive defined benefit pension plans toward more stable and higher return investment strategies. Similar to pension funds, insurance companies are increasingly turning to credit investments to offset their longer-term liabilities.

Unfunded Private Equity Commitments Drive Demand for Debt Capital .  As of March 31, 2015, private equity firms had in excess of $1.3 trillion in available capital for investment, up $400 billion from 2013 levels. ⁵ Lending to private companies acquired by financial sponsors requires lenders to move quickly, perform in-depth due diligence and have significant credit and structuring experience. In order to successfully serve this market, lenders need to commit to hold all, or the significant majority of, the debt needed to finance such transactions. We believe that banks, due to the regulatory environment, will continue to reduce their exposure to middle market private loans. We believe this creates a significant supply/demand imbalance for middle market credit, and we are well positioned to bridge the gap.

Competitive Strengths

We have enjoyed rapid growth in our business. Since the launch of our first permanent capital vehicle in January 2011, permanent capital has grown to represent 50% of our AUM as of March 31, 2016. Since December 31, 2014, we have grown our AUM from institutional capital by 75%. We believe that the strong growth in overall AUM positions Medley to capitalize on favorable industry trends going forward.

Stable Capital Base .  A significant portion of our AUM consists of permanent capital. As of March 31, 2016 approximately 50% of our AUM was in permanent capital vehicles, which generally do not have redemption provisions or a requirement to return capital to investors. Our stable capital base makes us a reliable financing source.

Strong Cash Flow Generation .  For all periods presented, over 45% of our total revenue was derived from base management fees, a reliable and predictable revenue stream. The remainder of our management fees is composed of Part I incentive fees, although less predictable, these fees are paid quarterly in cash and contribute to our cash flow. Total management fees represents a strong source of cash and enables us to

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continue to invest in our business, seed new products and provide investors with an attractive dividend. See “Description of Business — Our Fee Structure.”

Direct Origination, Disciplined Underwriting and Active Credit Management .  We believe that the combination of our direct origination platform, disciplined underwriting and active credit management is an important competitive advantage and helps us preserve capital and generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our investors. Our ability to directly originate, structure and lead deals enables us to be more opportunistic and less reliant on traditional sources of origination. It also enables us to control the loan documentation process, including negotiation of covenants, which provides consistent underwriting standards. In addition, we employ active credit management and interact frequently with our borrowers.

Growing an Increasingly Diverse Investor Base .  Our fundraising efforts are diversified across distribution channels and investment products. Our ability to raise capital across institutional channels, public markets, and non-traded RIA channels has enabled us to consistently increase AUM. We have dedicated in-house capital markets, investor relations and marketing professionals who are in frequent dialogue with investors. Our emphasis on transparency and communication has been an important part of the growth of our investor base.

Experienced Team .  Our senior management team has on average over 20 years of experience in credit, including origination, underwriting, principal investing and loan structuring. As of March 31, 2016, we had over 80 employees, including over 40 investment, origination and credit management professionals, and over 40 operations, accounting, legal, compliance and marketing professionals, each with extensive experience in their respective disciplines. We employ an integrated and collaborative investment process that leverages the skills and knowledge of our investment and credit management professionals. We believe that this is an important competitive advantage and has allowed us to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to our investors over time.

Experience Managing Permanent Capital Vehicles .  We have significant experience raising and managing permanent capital vehicles. In particular, we have demonstrated an ability to grow our permanent capital vehicles in an accretive manner for investors, and to prudently manage our liabilities. As of March 31, 2016, MCC has issued an aggregate of $754 million of new common equity net of underwriting costs as well as $695 million aggregate principal amount of debt financing, exclusive of SBIC and JV facilities. As of March 31, 2016, SIC has raised approximately $807 million of new common equity net of underwriting costs as well as $770 million aggregate principal amount of debt financing capacity, exclusive of JV facilities. SIC has raised, on average, $10.5 million of net equity capital per month during the three months ended March 31, 2016. As of March 31, 2016, consistent access to the capital markets has allowed our permanent capital vehicles to achieve compounded annual AUM growth rates since December 31, 2014 of 9%, since December 31, 2013 of 35% and since December 31, 2012 of 48%. Furthermore, we have created a robust infrastructure to manage our permanent capital vehicles, including financial reporting, accounting, valuations, investor relations, legal and compliance functions.

Our Growth Strategy

We believe that Medley’s strong growth is attributable to our investment philosophy and results, our emphasis on client communication and service, and our ability to attract, develop and retain high caliber professionals. As we continue to expand the business, we intend to:

Organically Grow our Core Business .  We expect to grow AUM in our existing permanent capital vehicles, and may launch additional permanent capital vehicles or similar long-dated investment products in the future. We also intend to increase AUM in our long-dated funds and managed accounts both by expanding existing investor relationships and through attracting new investors. We have made significant investments in corporate infrastructure to support our growth.

Expand our Credit-Focused Product Offerings .  We intend to grow our investment platform to include additional investment products that are complementary to our core credit offerings. As we expand our product offerings, we expect to leverage our existing retail and institutional investor base, and to attract new investors. Finally, we expect to leverage our direct origination platform, underwriting process and active credit management capabilities to grow related investment product offerings.

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Pursue Additional Strategic Relationships .  We have established valuable relationships with industry participants and large institutional investors who, among other things, provide market insights, product advice and access to other key relationships. We also have important relationships with large fund investors, leading commercial and investment banks, global professional services firms, key distribution agents and other market participants that we believe are of significant value. As we expand our product offerings and market presence, we intend to pursue opportunities through additional strategic relationships.

Recent Developments

On June 3, 2016, Medley LLC entered into a Master Investment Agreement with DB MED INVESTOR I LLC and DB MED INVESTOR II LLC (the “Investors”) to invest up to $50 million in new and existing Medley managed funds (the “Joint Venture”). Medley LLC will invest up to $10 million in exchange for common equity interests in the Joint Venture. The Investors will invest up to $40 million in exchange for preferred equity interests in the Joint Venture. On account of the preferred equity interests, the Investors will receive an 8% preferred distribution, 15% of the Joint Venture’s profits, and up to 8% of the net advisory fee revenues from one of Medley’s future funds. Medley has the option, subject to certain conditions, to cause the Joint Venture to redeem the Investors’ interest in exchange for repayment of the outstanding investment amount plus the Investors’ share of any unrealized profits in the Joint Venture at the time of redemption. Subject to certain other conditions, Medley also has the option to buy back the Joint Venture’s interest in the net advisory fee revenues from one of Medley’s future funds at fair market value. The Joint Venture has a term of seven years.

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Risks Related to the Notes

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company

As a company with less than $1.0 billion in revenue during our most recently completed fiscal year as of the initial filing date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, we qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”). As an emerging growth company, we may take advantage of specified reduced disclosure and other requirements that are otherwise applicable generally to public companies that are not emerging growth companies. These provisions include, but are not limited to:

We may take advantage of these exemptions for up to five years or such earlier time that we are no longer an emerging growth company. We will cease to be an emerging growth company upon the earliest of: (1) the end of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of this offering; (2) the first fiscal year after our annual gross revenues are $1.0 billion or more; (3) the date on which we have, during the previous three-year period, issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities; or (4) the end of any fiscal year in which the aggregate worldwide market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates (or public float) exceeded $700 million as of the end of the second quarter of that fiscal year. We have taken advantage of reduced disclosure regarding executive compensation arrangements in this prospectus, and we may choose to take advantage of some but not all of these reduced disclosure obligations in future filings. If we do, the information that we provide investors may be different than you might get from other public companies.

The JOBS Act permits an emerging growth company such as us to take advantage of an extended transition period to comply with new or revised accounting standards applicable to public companies. We are choosing to “opt out” of this provision and, as a result, we will comply with new or revised accounting standards as required when they are adopted. This decision to opt out of the extended transition period under the JOBS Act is irrevocable.

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Our Structure

Medley LLC is a partially owned subsidiary of Medley Management Inc. (the “Manager” or “Medley Management Inc.”), a holding company whose sole asset is its controlling equity interest in Medley LLC. Medley Management Inc. operates and controls all of the business and affairs and consolidates the financial results of Medley LLC and its subsidiaries. Medley Management Inc. owns 100% of the voting equity interests in Medley LLC and 19.85% of the issued and outstanding LLC Units of Medley LLC. The remaining LLC Units (80.15%) are held by Brook Taube, Seth Taube, and other members of senior management (“Senior Management Owners”). The LLC Units do not have voting rights. Medley Management Inc. and the Senior Management Owners have also entered into an exchange agreement under which the Senior Management Owners (or certain permitted transferees) have the right (subject to the terms of the exchange agreement), to exchange their equity interests in Medley LLC for shares of Medley Management Inc.’s Class A common stock on a one-for-one basis, subject to customary conversion rate adjustments for stock splits, stock dividends and reclassifications.

Holders of equity interests in Medley LLC (other than Medley Management Inc.), were, subject to limited exceptions, prohibited from transferring any such equity interests that were held by them as of September 23, 2014 (the date of consummation of the initial public offering (the “IPO”) of Medley Management Inc.), or any shares of Medley Management Inc.’s Class A common stock received upon exchange of such equity interests, until September 23, 2017 without Medley Management Inc.’s consent. Thereafter and prior to September 23, 2018 and September 23, 2019, such holders may not transfer more than 33 1/3% and 66 2/3%, respectively, of the number of Medley LLC’s equity interests held by them as of September 23, 2014 (the date of consummation of Medley Management Inc.’s IPO), together with the number of any shares of Medley Management Inc.’s Class A common stock received by them upon exchange therefor, without our consent. While this agreement could be amended or waived by Medley Management Inc., the holders of the equity interests in Medley LLC (other than Medley Management Inc.) have advised us that they do not intend to seek any waivers of these restrictions.

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The diagram below depicts our current organizational structure (excluding those operating subsidiaries with no material operations or assets). There is no contemplated change to our ownership structure resulting from the completion of this offering.

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SUMMARY HISTORICAL CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL AND OTHER DATA

The following summary historical consolidated financial and other data presents selected data on the financial condition and results of operations of Medley LLC and, for periods prior to May 29, 2014, the financial condition and results of operations of Medley LLC and Medley GP Holdings LLC. Medley LLC and Medley GP Holdings LLC are considered the predecessor of Medley LLC for accounting purposes.

During fiscal year 2015, we adopted new consolidation guidance that resulted in the deconsolidation of our Consolidated Funds, effective January 1, 2015. Prior to 2015, we consolidated certain funds in our consolidated financial statements, which resulted in us reporting significantly greater amounts of assets, liabilities, total equity and cash flows. The consolidation of these funds also had the impact of decreasing management fees and performance fees and increasing interest and other income of Consolidated Funds and net investment gains (losses) of Consolidated Funds, but had no effect on the amount of reported net income attributable to Medley LLC for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013. For further information, see “Critical Accounting Policies — Principles of Consolidation” and Note 2, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” to our audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 included in this prospectus.

This financial data should be read together with “Our Structure”, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the historical financial statements and related notes thereto included in this prospectus.

For periods prior to our reorganization and the IPO of Medley Management Inc. on September 29, 2014, all payments made to our senior professionals who are members of Medley LLC, including guaranteed payments, were reflected as distributions from members’ capital. Subsequent to the reorganization and IPO of Medley Management Inc., all guaranteed payments made to our senior professionals who are members of Medley LLC are recognized as compensation expense.

We derived the following summary consolidated financial data of Medley LLC as of December 31, 2015 and 2014 and for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 from the audited consolidated financial statements of Medley LLC included elsewhere in this prospectus. The consolidated statement of operations data for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 and the consolidated historical balance sheet data as of March 31, 2016 have been derived from unaudited consolidated financial statements of Medley LLC included elsewhere in this prospectus. The unaudited consolidated financial statements of Medley LLC have been prepared on substantially the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements and include all adjustments that we consider necessary for a fair presentation of our consolidated financial position and results of operations for all periods presented. The results for any interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year. Additionally, our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for any future period.

		Actual
		For the Three Months Ended March 31, (unaudited)								For the Years Ended December 31,
		2016				2015				2015				2014				2013
		(Amounts in thousands)
Statement of Operations Data:
Revenues
Management fees		$	16,263			$	17,520			$	75,675			$	61,252			$	36,446
Performance fees			(591	)			6,336				(15,685	)			2,050				2,412
Other revenues and fees			1,899				1,624				7,436				8,871				5,011
Total revenues			17,571				25,480				67,426				72,173				43,869

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		Actual
		For the Three Months Ended March 31, (unaudited)								For the Years Ended December 31,
		2016				2015				2015				2014				2013
		(Amounts in thousands)
Expenses
Compensation and benefits			5,868				7,221				26,768				20,322				13,712
Performance fee compensation			(71	)			112				(8,049	)			(1,543	)			7,192
Consolidated Funds expenses			—				—				—				1,670				1,225
General, administrative and other expenses			7,979				4,507				16,836				16,312				12,655
Total expenses			13,776				11,840				35,555				36,761				34,784
Other income (expense)
Dividend income			222				222				886				886				886
Interest expense			(2,118	)			(2,085	)			(8,469	)			(5,520	)			(1,479	)
Other expenses, net			(751	)			(262	)			(1,641	)			(1,773	)			(483	)
Interest and other income of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				71,468				52,550
Interest expense of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				(9,951	)			(2,638	)
Net realized gain (loss) on investments of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				789				(16,080	)
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				(20,557	)			(3,361	)
Net change in unrealized depreciation (appreciation) on secured borrowings of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				1,174				(306	)
Total other income (expense), net			(2,647	)			(2,125	)			(9,224	)			36,516				29,089
Income before income taxes			1,148				11,515				22,647				71,928				38,174
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes			35				326				392				1,854				1,639
Net income			1,113				11,189				22,255				70,074				36,535
Net income attributable to non-controlling interests in Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				29,717				12,898
Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests in consolidated subsidiaries			263				1,290				(885	)			1,933				—
Net income attributable to Medley LLC		$	850			$	9,899			$	23,140			$	38,424			$	23,637
Net Income Margin (1)			4.8	%			38.9	%			34.3	%			46.6	%			39.6	%

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		As of March 31, (unaudited)				As of December 31,
		2016				2015				2014				2013
		(Amounts in thousands)
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents		$	65,231			$	71,300				86,006			$	5,395
Total assets			110,681				118,147				906,858				550,292
Loans payable			100,883				100,871				100,885				27,990
Members’ deficit			(35,961	)			(18,311	)			(5,350	)			(18,554	)
Total equity			(38,013	)			(18,770	)			621,724				445,961
Other Data (at period end, in millions):
AUM			5,012				4,779				3,682				2,283
Fee earning AUM			3,169				3,302				3,058				2,006

		For the Three Months Ended March 31, (unaudited)								For the Years Ended December 31,
		2016				2015				2015				2014				2013
Non-GAAP Data (1) :
Core Net Income (2)			6,547				12,854				32,158				41,598				23,206
Core EBITDA (2)			9,067				15,462				41,721				47,957				25,662
Core Net Income Margin			37.3	%			50.4	%			47.7	%			50.4	%			38.9	%

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The table above includes non-GAAP financial measures that are not presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. These measures deconsolidate the Consolidated Funds and include certain adjustments in order to present operating results that we believe are most reflective of our performance. There are limitations associated with the use of non-GAAP financial measures as compared to the use of the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure. These measures supplement and should be considered in addition to and not in lieu of the results of operations discussed further under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations — Results of Operations,” which are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Furthermore, such measures may be inconsistent with measures presented by other companies. Please see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Managing Business Performance — Non-GAAP Financial Information,” and, for a reconciliation of these measures to the most comparable measure in accordance with U.S. GAAP, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations — Reconciliation of Certain Non-GAAP Performance Measures to Consolidated U.S. GAAP Financial Measures.”

(2)

Core EBITDA is an income measure used by management to assess the performance of our business. Core EBITDA is calculated as Core Net Income before interest expense as well as taxes, depreciation and amortization. Core Net Income is an income measure that is also used by management to assess the performance of our business through the removal of non-core items, as well as non-recurring expenses associated with the IPO of Medley Management Inc. It is calculated by adjusting net income attributable to Medley LLC to exclude reimbursable expenses associated with the launch of funds, certain one-time severance costs to former employees, amortization of stock-based compensation expense associated with grants of restricted stock units at the time of the IPO of Medley Management Inc. and, for periods prior to January 1, 2015, adjustments to reverse the effect of the consolidation of Consolidated Funds.

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contractual duties as general partner. However, the applicable fund partnership agreements may permit the limited partners of each respective fund to remove us as general partner by a majority or, in certain circumstances, a super majority vote. In addition, the partnership agreements provide for dissolution of the partnership upon certain changes of control.

Our SMAs are governed by investment management agreements that may be terminated by investors at any time for cause under the applicable agreement and “cause” may include the departure of specified members of our senior management team. Absent cause, the investment management agreements that govern our SMAs are generally not terminable during the specified investment period or following the specified investment period, prior to the scheduled maturities or disposition of the subject AUM.

Termination of these agreements would negatively affect the fees we earn from the relevant funds, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

We may not be able to maintain our current fee structure as a result of industry pressure from fund investors to reduce fees, which could have an adverse effect on our profit margins and results of operations.

We may not be able to maintain our current fee structure as a result of industry pressure from fund investors to reduce fees. Although our investment management fees vary among and within asset classes, historically we have competed primarily on the basis of our performance and not on the level of our investment management fees relative to those of our competitors. In recent years, however, there has been a general trend toward lower fees in the investment management industry. In September 2009, the Institutional Limited Partners Association published a set of Private Equity Principles (the “Principles”), which were revised in January 2011. The Principles were developed to encourage discussion between limited partners and general partners regarding private equity fund partnership terms. Certain of the Principles call for enhanced “alignment of interests” between general partners and limited partners through modifications of some of the terms of fund arrangements, including proposed guidelines for fees and performance income structures. Although we have no obligation to modify any of our fees with respect to our existing funds, we may experience pressure to do so in our funds. More recently institutional investors have been allocating increasing amounts of capital to alternative investment strategies as well as attempting to reduce management and investment fees to external managers, whether through direct reductions, deferrals or rebates. We cannot assure you that we will succeed in providing investment returns and service that will allow us to maintain our current fee structure. For example, on December 3, 2015, we agreed to reduce our fees from MCC and beginning January 1, 2016, the base management fee from MCC was reduced to 1.50% on gross assets above $1 billion. In addition, we reduced our incentive fee from MCC from 20% on pre-incentive fee net investment income over an 8% hurdle, to 17.5% on pre-incentive fee net investment income over a 6% hurdle and introduced a netting mechanism and incentive fee income is subject to a rolling three-year look back. Under no circumstances will the new fee structure result in higher fees to MCC Advisors LLC. Fee reductions on existing or future new business could have an adverse effect on our profit margins and results of operations.

A change of control of us or Medley Management Inc. could result in termination of our investment advisory agreements.

Pursuant to the Investment Company Act, each of the investment advisory agreements for the BDCs that we advise automatically terminates upon its deemed “assignment” and a BDC’s board and shareholders must approve a new agreement in order for us to continue to act as its investment adviser. In addition, pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act, as amended (the “Investment Advisers Act”), each of our investment advisory agreements for the separate accounts we manage may not be “assigned” without the consent of the client. A sale of a controlling block of our or Medley Management Inc.’s voting securities and certain other transactions would be deemed an “assignment” pursuant to both the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act. Such an assignment may be deemed to occur in the event that our Senior Management Owners dispose of enough of their interests such that they no longer own a controlling interest in us. If such a deemed assignment occurs, there can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain the necessary consents from clients whose funds are managed pursuant to separate accounts or the necessary approvals from the boards and shareholders of the SEC-registered BDCs that we advise. An assignment, actual or constructive, would

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trigger these termination and consent provisions and, unless the necessary approvals and consents are obtained, could adversely affect our ability to continue managing client accounts, resulting in the loss of AUM and a corresponding loss of revenue.

The historical returns attributable to our funds should not be considered as indicative of the future results of our funds or of our future results.

The historical performance of our funds is relevant to us primarily insofar as it is indicative of fees we have earned in the past and may earn in the future and our reputation and ability to raise new funds. Poor performance of the funds we advise could cause a decline in our revenues and could therefore have a negative effect on our operating results. Also, there is no assurance that projections in respect of our funds or unrealized valuations will be realized.

Moreover, the historical returns of our funds should not be considered indicative of the future returns of these funds or from any future funds we may raise, in part because:

The future internal rate of return for any current or future fund may vary considerably from the historical internal rate of return generated by any particular fund, or for our funds as a whole. Future returns will also be affected by the risks described in this prospectus, including risks of the industries and business in which a particular fund invests.

If we are unable to consummate or successfully integrate development opportunities, acquisitions or joint ventures, we may not be able to implement our growth strategy successfully.

Our growth strategy may include the selective development or acquisition of asset management business, advisory business or other business or financial products complementary to our business where we think we can add substantial value or generate substantial returns. The success of this strategy will depend on, among other things: (a) the availability of suitable opportunities, (b) the level of competition from other companies that may have greater financial resources, (c) our ability to value potential development or acquisition opportunities accurately and negotiate acceptable terms for those opportunities, (d) our ability to obtain requisite approvals and licenses from the relevant governmental authorities and to comply with applicable laws and regulations without incurring undue costs and delays, (e) our ability to identify and enter into mutually beneficial relationships with venture partners and (f) our ability to properly manage conflicts of interest. Moreover, even if we are able to identify and successfully complete an acquisition, we may encounter unexpected difficulties or incur unexpected costs associated with integrating and overseeing the operations of the new business or activities. If we are not successful in implementing our growth strategy, our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.

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We depend on third-party distribution sources to market our investment strategies.

Our ability to grow our AUM, particularly with respect to our BDCs, is dependent on access to third-party intermediaries, including investment banks, broker dealers and RIAs. We cannot assure you that these intermediaries will continue to be accessible to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. In addition, pension fund consultants may review and evaluate our institutional products and our firm from time to time. Poor reviews or evaluations of either a particular product, or of us, may result in institutional client withdrawals or may impair our ability to attract new assets through these consultants.

An investment strategy focused primarily on privately held companies presents certain challenges, including the lack of available information about these companies.

Our funds have historically invested primarily in privately held companies. Investments in private companies pose certain incremental risks as compared to investments in public companies including that private companies:

Finally, limited public information generally exists about private companies and these companies may not have third-party debt ratings or audited financial statements. We must therefore rely on the ability of our funds’ advisors to obtain adequate information through due diligence to evaluate the creditworthiness and potential returns from investing in these companies. Additionally, these companies and their financial information will not generally be subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other rules that govern public companies. If we are unable to uncover all material information about these companies, our funds may lose money on such investments.

Our funds’ investments in investee companies may be risky, and our funds could lose all or part of their investments.

Our funds pursue strategies focused on investing primarily in the debt of privately owned U.S. companies.

Senior Secured Debt and Second Lien Secured Debt.   When our funds invest in senior secured term debt and second lien secured debt, our funds will generally take a security interest in the available assets of these investee companies, including the equity interests of their subsidiaries. There is a risk that the collateral securing such investments may decrease in value over time or lose its entire value, may be difficult to sell in a timely manner, may be difficult to appraise and may fluctuate in value based upon the success of the business and market conditions, including as a result of the inability of the investee company to raise additional capital. Also, in some circumstances, our security interest could be subordinated to claims of other creditors. In addition, deterioration in an investee company’s financial condition and prospects, including its inability to

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raise additional capital, may be accompanied by deterioration in the value of the collateral for the debt. Consequently, the fact that debt is secured does not guarantee that we will receive principal and interest payments according to the investment terms, or at all, or that we will be able to collect on the investment should we be forced to enforce our remedies.

Senior Unsecured Debt.   Our funds may also make unsecured debt investments in investee companies, meaning that such investments will not benefit from any interest in collateral of such companies.

Subordinated Debt.   Our subordinated debt investments will generally be subordinated to senior debt and will generally be unsecured. This may result in a heightened level of risk and volatility or a loss of principal, which could lead to the loss of the entire investment. These investments may involve additional risks that could adversely affect our investment returns. To the extent interest payments associated with such debt are deferred, such debt may be subject to greater fluctuations in valuations, and such debt could subject our funds to non-cash income. Since the applicable fund would not receive any principal repayments prior to the maturity of some of our subordinated debt investments, such investments will be of greater risk than amortizing loans.

Equity Investments.   Certain of our funds make selected equity investments. In addition, when our funds invest in senior and subordinated debt, they may acquire warrants or options to purchase equity securities or benefit from other types of equity participation. Our goal is ultimately to dispose of these equity interests and realize gains upon our disposition of such interests. However, the equity interests our funds receive may not appreciate in value and, in fact, may decline in value. Accordingly, our funds may not be able to realize gains from such equity interests, and any gains that our funds do realize on the disposition of any equity interests may not be sufficient to offset any other losses our funds experience.

Most loans in which our funds invest will not be rated by any rating agency and, if they were rated, they would be rated as below investment grade quality. Loans rated below investment grade quality are generally regarded as having predominantly speculative characteristics and may carry a greater risk with respect to a borrower’s capacity to pay interest and repay principal.

Prepayments of debt investments by our investee companies could adversely impact our results of operations.

We are subject to the risk that the investments our funds make in investee companies may be repaid prior to maturity. When this occurs, our BDCs will generally use such proceeds to reduce their existing borrowings and our private funds will generally return such capital to its investors, which capital may be recalled at a later date pursuant to such fund’s governing documents. With respect to our SMAs, if such event occurs after the investment period, such capital will be returned to investors. Any future investment in a new investee company may also be at lower yields than the debt that was repaid. As a result, the results of operations of the affected fund could be materially adversely affected if one or more investee companies elect to prepay amounts owed to such fund, which could in turn have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

Our funds’ investee companies may incur debt that ranks equally with, or senior to, our funds’ investments in such companies.

Our funds pursue a strategy focused on investing primarily in the debt of privately owned U.S. companies. Our funds’ investee companies may have, or may be permitted to incur, other debt that ranks equally with, or senior to, the debt in which our funds invest. By their terms, such debt instruments may entitle the holders to receive payment of interest or principal on or before the dates on which we are entitled to receive payments with respect to the debt instruments in which our funds invest. Also, in the event of insolvency, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or bankruptcy of an investee company, holders of debt instruments ranking senior to our funds’ investment in that investee company would typically be entitled to receive payment in full before we receive any distribution. After repaying such senior creditors, such investee company may not have any remaining assets to use for repaying its obligation to our funds. In the case of debt ranking equally with debt instruments in which our funds invest, our funds would have to share on an equal basis any distributions with other creditors holding such debt in the event of an insolvency, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or bankruptcy of the relevant investee company.

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Subordinated liens on collateral securing loans that our funds make to their investee companies may be subject to control by senior creditors with first priority liens. If there is a default, the value of the collateral may not be sufficient to repay in full both the first priority creditors and our funds.

Certain debt investments that our funds make in investee companies are secured on a second priority basis by the same collateral securing senior secured debt of such companies. The first priority liens on the collateral will secure the investee company’s obligations under any outstanding senior debt and may secure certain other future debt that may be permitted to be incurred by the company under the agreements governing the debt. The holders of obligations secured by the first priority liens on the collateral will generally control the liquidation of and be entitled to receive proceeds from any realization of the collateral to repay their obligations in full before our funds. In addition, the value of the collateral in the event of liquidation will depend on market and economic conditions, the availability of buyers and other factors. There can be no assurance that the proceeds, if any, from the sale or sales of all of the collateral would be sufficient to satisfy the debt obligations secured by the second priority liens after payment in full of all obligations secured by the first priority liens on the collateral. If such proceeds are not sufficient to repay amounts outstanding under the debt obligations secured by the second priority liens, then our funds, to the extent not repaid from the proceeds of the sale of the collateral, will only have an unsecured claim against the investee company’s remaining assets, if any.

Our funds may also make unsecured debt investments in investee companies, meaning that such investments will not benefit from any interest in collateral of such companies. Liens on such investee companies’ collateral, if any, will secure the investee company’s obligations under its outstanding secured debt and may secure certain future debt that is permitted to be incurred by the investee company under its secured debt agreements. The holders of obligations secured by such liens will generally control the liquidation of, and be entitled to receive proceeds from, any realization of such collateral to repay their obligations in full before us. In addition, the value of such collateral in the event of liquidation will depend on market and economic conditions, the availability of buyers and other factors. There can be no assurance that the proceeds, if any, from sales of such collateral would be sufficient to satisfy our unsecured debt obligations after payment in full of all secured debt obligations. If such proceeds were not sufficient to repay the outstanding secured debt obligations, then our unsecured claims would rank equally with the unpaid portion of such secured creditors’ claims against the investee company’s remaining assets, if any.

The rights our funds may have with respect to the collateral securing the debt investments our funds make in their investee companies with senior debt outstanding may also be limited pursuant to the terms of one or more intercreditor agreements that our funds enter into with the holders of senior secured debt. Under such an intercreditor agreement, at any time that obligations that have the benefit of the first priority liens are outstanding, any of the following actions that may be taken in respect of the collateral will be at the discretion of the holders of the obligations secured by the first priority liens: the ability to cause the commencement of enforcement proceedings against the collateral; the ability to control the conduct of such proceedings; the approval of amendments to collateral documents; releases of liens on the collateral; and waivers of past defaults under collateral documents. Our funds may not have the ability to control or direct such actions, even if their rights are adversely affected.

There may be circumstances where our funds’ debt investments could be subordinated to claims of other creditors or our funds could be subject to lender liability claims.

If one of our investee companies were to go bankrupt, depending on the facts and circumstances, including the extent to which our funds actually provided managerial assistance to that investee company or a representative of us sat on the board of directors of such investee company, a bankruptcy court might re-characterize our funds’ debt investment and subordinate all or a portion of our funds’ claim to that of other creditors. In situations where a bankruptcy carries a high degree of political significance, our funds’ legal rights may be subordinated to other creditors.

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we or our funds could become subject to a lender’s liability claim, including as a result of actions taken if we or our funds render significant managerial assistance to, or exercise control or influence over the board of directors of, the borrower.

Our funds may not have the resources or ability to make additional investments in our investee companies.

After an initial investment in an investee company, our funds may be called upon from time to time to provide additional funds to such company or have the opportunity to increase their investment through the exercise of a warrant or other right to purchase common stock. There is no assurance that the applicable fund will make, or will have sufficient resources to make, follow-on investments. Even if such fund has sufficient capital to make a desired follow-on investment, we may elect not to make a follow-on investment because we may not want to increase our level of risk, we prefer other opportunities or we are limited in our ability to do so by compliance with BDC requirements or maintaining RIC status, if applicable. Any decisions not to make a follow-on investment or any inability on our part to make such an investment may have a negative impact on an investee company in need of such an investment, may result in a missed opportunity for us to increase our participation in a successful operation or may reduce the expected return on the investment.

Economic recessions or downturns could impair our investee companies and harm our operating results.

Many of our investee companies are susceptible to economic slowdowns or recessions and may be unable to repay our funds’ debt investments during these periods. Therefore, our funds’ non-performing assets are likely to increase, and the value of our funds’ portfolios are likely to decrease during these periods. Adverse economic conditions may also decrease the value of any collateral securing our senior secured or second lien secured debt. A severe recession may further decrease the value of such collateral and result in losses of value in such portfolios. Unfavorable economic conditions also could increase our funding costs, limit our access to the capital markets or result in a decision by lenders not to extend credit to us on terms we deem acceptable. Occurrence of any of these events could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.

A covenant breach by our investee companies may harm our operating results.

An investee company’s failure to satisfy financial or operating covenants imposed by us or other lenders could lead to defaults and, potentially, termination of its debt and foreclosure on its secured assets, which could trigger cross-defaults under other agreements and jeopardize an investee company’s ability to meet its obligations under the debt or equity instruments that our funds hold. Our funds may incur expenses to the extent necessary to seek recovery upon default or to negotiate new terms, which may include the waiver of certain financial covenants, with a defaulting investee company. To the extent our funds incur additional costs and/or do not recover their investments in investee companies, we may earn reduced management and incentive fees, which may adversely affect our results of operations.

The investment management business is competitive.

The investment management business is competitive, with competition based on a variety of factors, including investment performance, business relationships, quality of service provided to investors, investor liquidity and willingness to invest, fund terms (including fees), brand recognition and business reputation. We compete for investors with a number of other investment managers, public and private funds, BDCs, small business investment companies and others. Numerous factors increase our competitive risks, including:

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In addition, the attractiveness of our funds relative to investments in other investment products could decrease depending on economic conditions. This competitive pressure could adversely affect our ability to make successful investments and limit our ability to raise future funds, either of which would adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our funds operate in a competitive market for lending that has recently intensified, and competition may limit our funds’ ability to originate or acquire desirable loans and investments and could also affect the yields of these assets and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our funds operate in a competitive market for lending that has recently intensified. Our profitability depends, in large part, on our funds’ ability to originate or acquire credit investments on attractive terms. In originating or acquiring our target credit investments, we compete with a variety of institutional lenders and investors, including specialty finance companies, public and private funds, commercial and investment banks, BDCs, small business investment companies, REITs, commercial finance and insurance companies and others. Some competitors may have a lower cost of funds and access to funding sources that are not available to us, such as the U.S. government. Many of our competitors or their funds are not subject to the operating constraints associated with qualifying as a RIC under subchapter M of the Code or compliance with the Investment Company Act. In addition, some of our competitors may have higher risk tolerances or different risk assessments, which could allow them to consider a wider variety of investments, offer more attractive pricing, transaction structures, covenants or other terms and establish more relationships than us. Furthermore, competition for originations of and investments in our target assets may lead to the yields of such assets decreasing, which may further limit our ability to generate satisfactory returns. Also, as a result of this competition, desirable loans and investments may be limited in the future and our funds may not be able to take advantage of attractive lending and investment opportunities from time to time, thereby limiting their ability to identify and originate loans or make investments that are consistent with their investment objectives. We cannot assure you that the competitive pressures our funds face will not have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Dependence on leverage by certain of our funds and by our funds’ investee companies subjects us to volatility and contractions in the debt financing markets and could adversely affect our ability to achieve attractive rates of return on those investments.

MCC, SIC and our funds’ investee companies rely on the use of leverage, and our ability to achieve attractive rates of return on investments will depend on our ability to access sufficient sources of indebtedness at attractive rates. While our permanent capital vehicles, MCC and SIC, are our only funds that currently rely on the use of leverage, certain of our other funds may in the future rely on the use of leverage. If our funds or the companies in which our funds invest raise capital in the structured credit, leveraged loan and high yield bond markets, the results of their operations may suffer if such markets experience dislocations, contractions or volatility. Any such events could adversely impact the availability of credit to business generally and could lead to an overall weakening of the U.S. and global economies. Any economic downturn could adversely affect the financial resources of our funds and their investments (in particular those investments that depend on credit from third parties or that otherwise participate in the credit markets) and their ability to make

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principal and interest payments on, or refinance, outstanding debt when due. Moreover, these events could affect the terms of available debt financing with, for example, higher rates, higher equity requirements and/or more restrictive covenants.

The absence of available sources of sufficient debt financing for extended periods of time or an increase in either the general levels of interest rates or in the risk spread demanded by sources of indebtedness would make it more expensive to finance those investments. Certain investments may also be financed through borrowings on fund-level debt facilities, which may or may not be available for a refinancing at the end of their respective terms. Finally, the interest payments on the indebtedness used to finance our funds’ investments are generally deductible expenses for income tax purposes, subject to limitations under applicable tax law and policy. Any change in such tax law or policy to eliminate or substantially limit these income tax deductions, as has been discussed from time to time in various jurisdictions, would reduce the after-tax rates of return on the affected investments, which may have an adverse impact on our business and financial results.

Similarly, our funds’ investee companies regularly utilize the corporate debt markets to obtain additional financing for their operations. Our investee companies are typically highly leveraged. Those that have credit ratings are typically non-investment grade and those that do not have credit ratings would likely be non-investment grade if they were rated. If the credit markets render such financing difficult to obtain or more expensive, this may negatively impact the operating performance of those investee companies and, therefore, the investment returns of our funds. In addition, if the markets make it difficult or impossible to refinance debt that is maturing in the near term, some of our investee companies may be unable to repay such debt at maturity and may be forced to sell assets, undergo a recapitalization or seek bankruptcy protection. Any of the foregoing circumstances could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our funds may choose to use leverage as part of their respective investment programs. As of March 31, 2016, MCC and SIC were our only funds that used leverage. As of March 31, 2016, MCC had a NAV of $536.8 million, $1.3 billion of AUM and an asset coverage ratio of 247%. As of March 31, 2016, SIC had a NAV of $703.1 million, $1.2 billion of AUM and an asset coverage ratio of 254%. The use of leverage poses a significant degree of risk and enhances the possibility of a significant loss to investors. A fund may borrow money from time to time to make investments or may enter into derivative transactions with counterparties that have embedded leverage. The interest expense and other costs incurred in connection with such borrowing may not be recovered by returns on such investments and may be lost, and the timing and magnitude of such losses may be accelerated or exacerbated, in the event of a decline in the market value of such investments. Gains realized with borrowed funds may cause the fund’s NAV to increase at a faster rate than would be the case without borrowings. However, if investment results fail to cover the cost of borrowings, the fund’s NAV could also decrease faster than if there had been no borrowings. In addition, as BDCs registered under the Investment Company Act, MCC and SIC are each permitted to issue senior securities in amounts such that its asset coverage ratio equals at least 200% after each issuance of senior securities. Each of MCC’s and SIC’s ability to pay dividends will be restricted if its asset coverage ratio falls below at least 200% and any amounts that it uses to service its indebtedness are not available for dividends to its common stockholders. An increase in interest rates could also decrease the value of fixed-rate debt investments that our funds make. Any of the foregoing circumstances could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Some of our funds may invest in companies that are highly leveraged, which may increase the risk of loss associated with those investments.

Some of our funds may invest in companies whose capital structures involve significant leverage. For example, in many non-distressed private equity investments, indebtedness may be as much as 75% or more of an investee company’s total debt and equity capitalization, including debt that may be incurred in connection with the investment, whether incurred at or above the investment-level entity. In distressed situations, indebtedness may exceed 100% or more of an investee company’s capitalization. Additionally, the debt positions originated or acquired by our funds may be the most junior in what could be a complex capital structure, and thus subject us to the greatest risk of loss.

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Investments in highly leveraged entities are also inherently more sensitive to declines in revenues, increases in expenses and interest rates and adverse economic, market and industry developments.

Furthermore, the incurrence of a significant amount of indebtedness by an entity could, among other things:

As a result, the risk of loss associated with a leveraged entity is generally greater than for companies with comparatively less debt. For example, a number of investments consummated by private equity sponsors during 2005, 2006 and 2007 that utilized significant amounts of leverage subsequently experienced severe economic stress and, in certain cases, defaulted on their debt obligations due to a decrease in revenues and cash flows precipitated by the subsequent economic downturn during 2008 and 2009.

We generally do not control the business operations of our investee companies and, due to the illiquid nature of our investments, may not be able to dispose of such investments.

Investments by our funds generally consist of debt instruments and equity securities of companies that we do not control. We do not expect to control most of our investee companies, even though we may have board representation or board observation rights, and our debt agreements may impose certain restrictive covenants on our borrowers. As a result, we are subject to the risk that an investee company in which our funds invest may make business decisions with which we disagree and the management of such company, as representatives of the holders of their common equity, may take risks or otherwise act in ways that do not serve our interests as debt investors. Due to the lack of liquidity for our investments in private companies, we may not be able to dispose of our interests in our investee companies as readily as we would like or at an appropriate valuation. As a result, an investee company may make decisions that could decrease the value of our investment holdings.

A substantial portion of our investments may be recorded at fair value as determined in good faith by or under the direction of our respective funds’ boards of directors or similar bodies and, as a result, there may be uncertainty regarding the value of our funds’ investments.

The debt and equity instruments in which our funds invest for which market quotations are not readily available will be valued at fair value as determined in good faith by or under the direction of such fund’s board of directors or similar body. Most, if not all, of our fund’s investments (other than cash and cash equivalents) are classified as Level III under Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 820 —  Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures . This means that our funds’ portfolio valuations will be based on unobservable inputs and our funds’ assumptions about how market participants would price the asset or liability in question. We expect that inputs into the determination of fair value of our funds’ portfolio investments will require significant management judgment or estimation. Even if observable market data were available, such information may be the result of consensus pricing information or broker quotes, which

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include a disclaimer that the broker would not be held to such a price in an actual transaction. The non-binding nature of consensus pricing and/or quotes accompanied by disclaimers materially reduces the reliability of such information. Our funds retain the services of an independent service provider to review the valuation of these loans and securities.

The types of factors that the board of directors, general partner or similar body may take into account in determining the fair value of a fund’s investments generally include, as appropriate, comparison to publicly traded securities including such factors as yield, maturity and measures of credit quality, the enterprise value of an investee company, the nature and realizable value of any collateral, the investee company’s ability to make payments and its earnings and discounted cash flow, the markets in which the investee company does business and other relevant factors. Because such valuations, and particularly valuations of private securities and private companies, are inherently uncertain, may fluctuate over short periods of time and may be based on estimates, our determinations of fair value may differ materially from the values that would have been used if a ready market for these loans and securities existed. Our funds’ NAV could be adversely affected if determinations regarding the fair value of such funds’ investments were materially higher than the values that such funds’ ultimately realize upon the disposal of such loans and securities.

We may need to pay “clawback” obligations if and when they are triggered under the governing agreements with respect to certain of our funds and SMAs.

Generally, if at the termination of a fund (and sometimes at interim points in the life of a fund), the fund has not achieved investment returns that (in most cases) exceed the preferred return threshold or (in all cases) the general partner receives net profits over the life of the fund in excess of its allocable share under the applicable partnership agreement, we will be obligated to repay an amount equal to the extent to which carried interest that was previously distributed to us exceeds the amounts to which we are ultimately entitled. This obligation is known as a “clawback” obligation. Medley had not received any distributions of performance fees through March 31, 2016, other than tax distributions, a portion of which is subject to clawback. As of March 31, 2016, we recorded a $7.1 million clawback obligation that would need to be paid if the funds were liquidated at fair value as of the end of the reporting period. Had we assumed all existing investments were worthless as of March 31, 2016, there would be no additional amounts subject to clawback.

Although a clawback obligation is several to each person who received a distribution, and not a joint obligation, the governing agreements of our funds generally provide that, if a recipient does not fund his or her respective share, we may have to fund such additional amounts beyond the amount of carried interest we retained, although we generally will retain the right to pursue remedies against those carried interest recipients who fail to fund their obligations. We may need to use or reserve cash to repay such clawback obligations instead of using the cash for other purposes. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Contingent Obligations.”

Our funds may face risks relating to undiversified investments.

While diversification is generally an objective of our funds, there can be no assurance as to the degree of diversification, if any, that will be achieved in any fund investments. Difficult market conditions or slowdowns affecting a particular asset class, geographic region or other category of investment could have a significant adverse impact on a fund if its investments are concentrated in that area, which would result in lower investment returns. This lack of diversification may expose a fund to losses disproportionate to economic conditions or market declines in general if there are disproportionately greater adverse movements in the particular investments. If a fund holds investments concentrated in a particular issuer, security, asset class or geographic region, such fund may be more susceptible than a more widely diversified investment portfolio to the negative consequences of a single corporate, economic, political or regulatory event. Accordingly, a lack of diversification on the part of a fund could adversely affect a fund’s performance and, as a result, our results of operations and financial condition.

Third-party investors in our private funds may not satisfy their contractual obligation to fund capital calls when requested, which could adversely affect a fund’s operations and performance.

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commitments when we call capital from them for those funds to consummate investments and otherwise pay their obligations when due. Any investor that did not fund a capital call would be subject to several possible penalties, including having a meaningful amount of its existing investment forfeited in that fund. However, the impact of the penalty is directly correlated to the amount of capital previously invested by the investor in the fund and if an investor has invested little or no capital, for instance early in the life of the fund, then the forfeiture penalty may not be as meaningful. Investors may also negotiate for lesser or reduced penalties at the outset of the fund, thereby limiting our ability to enforce the funding of a capital call. Third-party investors in private funds often use distributions from prior investments to meet future capital calls. In cases where valuations of existing investments fall and the pace of distributions slows, investors may be unable to make new commitments to third-party managed investment funds such as those advised by us. A failure of investors to honor a significant amount of capital calls for any particular fund or funds could have a material adverse effect on the operation and performance of those funds.

Our funds may be forced to dispose of investments at a disadvantageous time.

Our funds may make investments that they do not advantageously dispose of prior to the date the applicable fund is dissolved, either by expiration of such fund’s term or otherwise. Although we generally expect that investments will be disposed of prior to dissolution or be suitable for in-kind distribution at dissolution, and the general partners of the funds have only a limited ability to extend the term of the fund with the consent of fund investors or the advisory board of the fund, as applicable, our funds may have to sell, distribute or otherwise dispose of investments at a disadvantageous time as a result of dissolution. This would result in a lower than expected return on the investments and, perhaps, on the fund itself.

Hedging strategies may adversely affect the returns on our funds’ investments.

When managing our exposure to market risks, we may (on our own behalf or on behalf of our funds) from time to time use forward contracts, options, swaps (including total return swaps), caps, collars, floors, foreign currency forward contracts, currency swap agreements, currency option contracts or other strategies. The success of any hedging or other derivative transactions generally will depend on our ability to correctly predict market or foreign exchange changes, the degree of correlation between price movements of a derivative instrument and the position being hedged, the creditworthiness of the counterparty and other factors. As a result, while we may enter into a transaction to reduce our or a fund’s exposure to market risks, the transaction may result in poorer overall investment performance than if it had not been executed. Such transactions may also limit the opportunity for gain if the value of a hedged position increases.

While such hedging arrangements may reduce certain risks, such arrangements themselves may entail certain other risks. These arrangements may require the posting of cash collateral at a time when we or a fund has insufficient cash or illiquid assets such that the posting of the cash is either impossible or requires the sale of assets at prices that do not reflect their underlying value. Moreover, these hedging arrangements may generate significant transaction costs, including potential tax costs, which may reduce the returns generated by a fund. Finally, the CFTC has made several public statements that it may soon issue a proposal for certain foreign exchange products to be subject to mandatory clearing, which could increase the cost of entering into currency hedges.

Our business depends in large part on our ability to raise capital from investors. If we were unable to raise such capital, we would be unable to collect management fees or deploy such capital into investments, which would materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our ability to raise capital from investors depends on a number of factors, including many that are outside our control. Investors may downsize their investment allocations to credit focused private funds or BDCs or to rebalance a disproportionate weighting of their overall investment portfolio among asset classes. Poor performance of our funds could also make it more difficult for us to raise new capital. Our investors and potential investors continually assess our funds’ performance independently and relative to market benchmarks and our competitors, and our ability to raise capital for existing and future funds depends on our funds’ performance. If economic and market conditions deteriorate, we may be unable to raise sufficient amounts of capital to support the investment activities of future funds. If we were unable to successfully raise capital, our business, results of operations and financial condition would be adversely affected.

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We depend on our senior management team, senior investment professionals and other key personnel, and our ability to retain them and attract additional qualified personnel is critical to our success and our growth prospects.

We depend on the diligence, skill, judgment, business contacts and personal reputations of our senior management team, including Brook Taube and Seth Taube, our co-Chief Executive Officers, senior investment professionals and other key personnel. Our future success will depend upon our ability to retain our senior professionals and other key personnel and our ability to recruit additional qualified personnel. These individuals possess substantial experience and expertise in investing, are responsible for locating and executing our funds’ investments, have significant relationships with the institutions that are the source of many of our funds’ investment opportunities and, in certain cases, have strong relationships with our investors. Therefore, if any of our senior professionals or other key personnel join competitors or form competing companies, it could result in the loss of significant investment opportunities and certain existing investors.

The departure for any reason of any of our senior professionals could have a material adverse effect on our ability to achieve our investment objectives, cause certain of our investors to withdraw capital they invest with us or elect not to commit additional capital to our funds or otherwise have a material adverse effect on our business and our prospects. The departure of some or all of those individuals could also trigger certain “key man” provisions in the documentation governing certain of our funds, which would permit the investors in those funds to suspend or terminate such funds’ investment periods or, in the case of certain funds, permit investors to withdraw their capital prior to expiration of the applicable lock-up date. We do not carry any “key man” insurance that would provide us with proceeds in the event of the death or disability of any of our senior professionals, and we do not have a policy that prohibits our senior professionals from traveling together.

We anticipate that it will be necessary for us to add investment professionals both to grow our business and to replace those who depart. However, the market for qualified investment professionals is extremely competitive and we may not succeed in recruiting additional personnel or we may fail to effectively replace current personnel who depart with qualified or effective successors. Our efforts to retain and attract investment professionals may also result in significant additional expenses, which could adversely affect our profitability or result in an increase in the portion of our performance fees that we grant to our investment professionals.

Our failure to appropriately address conflicts of interest could damage our reputation and adversely affect our business.

As we have expanded and as we continue to expand the number and scope of our business, we increasingly confront potential conflicts of interest relating to our funds’ investment activities. Certain of our funds may have overlapping investment objectives, including funds that have different fee structures, and potential conflicts may arise with respect to our decisions regarding how to allocate investment opportunities among those funds. For example, a decision to receive material non-public information about a company while pursuing an investment opportunity for a particular fund gives rise to a potential conflict of interest when it results in our having to restrict the ability of other funds to take any action.

In most cases, Medley is permitted to co-invest among our private, separately managed accounts, our public business development companies and other advisory clients. We have adopted an order aggregation and trade allocation policy designed to ensure that all of our clients are treated fairly and to prevent this form of conflict from influencing the allocation of investment opportunities among clients. Allocations will generally be made pro rata principally based on each fund or advisory client’s capital available for investment. It is Medley’s policy to base its determinations as to the amount of capital available for investment on such factors as: the amount of cash on hand, existing capital commitments and reserves, if any, the targeted leverage level, the targeted asset mix and diversification requirements and other investment policies and restrictions or otherwise imposed by applicable laws, rules, regulations or interpretations.

We may also cause different funds to invest in a single investee company, for example, where the fund that made an initial investment no longer has capital available to invest. We may also cause different funds that we advise to purchase different classes of investments or securities in the same investee company. For example, certain of our funds hold minority equity interests, or have the right to acquire such equity interests, in some of our investee companies. As a result, we may face conflicts of interests in connection with making business

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decisions for these investee companies to the extent that such decisions affect the debt and equity holders in these investee companies differently. In addition, we may face conflicts of interests in connection with making investment or other decisions, including granting loan waivers or concessions with respect to these investee companies given that we also manage private funds that may hold equity interests in these investee companies. In addition, conflicts of interest may exist in the valuation of our investments and regarding decisions about the allocation of specific investment opportunities among us and our funds and the allocation of fees and costs among us and our funds. Though we believe we have appropriate means to resolve these conflicts, our judgment on any particular allocation could be challenged. If we fail to appropriately address any such conflicts, it could negatively impact our reputation and ability to raise additional funds and the willingness of counterparties to do business with us or result in potential litigation against us.

Rapid growth of our business may be difficult to sustain and may place significant demands on our administrative, operational and financial resources.

Our AUM has grown significantly in the past and we are pursuing further growth. Our rapid growth has placed, and planned growth, if successful, will continue to place, significant demands on our legal, compliance, accounting and operational infrastructure, and will increase expenses. In addition, we may be required to continuously develop our systems and infrastructure in response to the increasing sophistication of the investment management market and legal, accounting, regulatory and tax developments. Our future growth will depend in part on our ability to maintain an operating platform and management system sufficient to address our growth and may require us to incur significant additional expenses and to commit additional senior management and operational resources. As a result, we may face significant challenges:

We may not be able to manage our expanding operations effectively or be able to continue to grow, and any failure to do so could adversely affect our ability to generate revenue and control our expenses.

We may enter into new lines of business and expand into new investment strategies, geographic markets and business, each of which may result in additional risks and uncertainties in our business.

We intend to grow our business by increasing AUM in existing business and, if market conditions warrant, by expanding into complementary investment strategies, geographic markets and business. Accordingly, we may pursue growth through acquisitions of other investment management companies, acquisitions of critical business partners or other strategic initiatives, which may include entering into new lines of business. Attempts to expand our business involve a number of special risks, including some or all of the following:

Entry into certain lines of business may subject us to new laws and regulations with which we are not familiar, or from which we are currently exempt, and may lead to increased litigation and regulatory risk. If a new business does not generate sufficient revenues or if we are unable to efficiently manage our expanded

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operations, our results of operations will be adversely affected. Our strategic initiatives may include joint ventures, in which case we will be subject to additional risks and uncertainties in that we may be dependent upon, and subject to liability, losses or reputational damage relating to systems, controls and personnel that are not under our control. Because we have not yet identified these potential new investment strategies, geographic markets or lines of business, we cannot identify for you all the risks we may face and the potential adverse consequences on us and your investment that may result from any attempted expansion.

Extensive regulation affects our activities, increases the cost of doing business and creates the potential for significant liabilities and penalties that could adversely affect our business and results of operations.

Our business is subject to extensive regulation, including periodic examinations, by governmental agencies and self-regulatory organizations in the jurisdictions in which we operate. The SEC oversees the activities of our subsidiaries that are registered investment advisers under the Investment Advisers Act. In addition, we regularly rely on exemptions from various requirements of the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), the Investment Company Act, the Commodity Exchange Act and the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. These exemptions are sometimes highly complex and may in certain circumstances depend on compliance by third parties who we do not control. If for any reason these exemptions were to be revoked or challenged or otherwise become unavailable to us, we could be subject to regulatory action or third-party claims, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

The SEC has indicated that investment advisers who receive transaction-based compensation for investment banking or acquisition activities relating to fund investee companies may be required to register as broker-dealers. Specifically, the SEC staff has noted that if a firm receives fees from a fund investee company in connection with the acquisition, disposition or recapitalization of such investee company, such activities could raise broker-dealer concerns under applicable regulations related to broker dealers. If we receive such transaction fees and the SEC takes the position that such activities render us a “broker” under the applicable rules and regulations of the Exchange Act, we could be subject to additional regulation. If receipt of transaction fees from an investee company is determined to require a broker-dealer license, receipt of such transaction fees in the past or in the future during any time when we did not or do not have a broker-dealer license could subject us to liability for fines, penalties or damages.

Since 2010, states and other regulatory authorities have begun to require investment managers to register as lobbyists. We have registered as such in a number of jurisdictions, including California and New York. Other states or municipalities may consider similar legislation or adopt regulations or procedures with similar effect. These registration requirements impose significant compliance obligations on registered lobbyists and their employers, which may include annual registration fees, periodic disclosure reports and internal recordkeeping, and may also prohibit the payment of contingent fees.

Each of the regulatory bodies with jurisdiction over us has regulatory powers dealing with many aspects of financial services, including the authority to grant, and in specific circumstances to cancel, permissions to carry on particular activities. A failure to comply with the obligations imposed by the Investment Advisers Act, including recordkeeping, advertising and operating requirements, disclosure obligations and prohibitions on fraudulent activities, could result in investigations, sanctions and reputational damage. We are involved regularly in trading activities that implicate a broad number of U.S. securities law regimes, including laws governing trading on inside information, market manipulation and a broad number of technical trading requirements that implicate fundamental market regulation policies. Violation of these laws could result in severe restrictions on our activities and damage to our reputation.

Our failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations could result in fines, censure, suspensions of personnel or other sanctions, including revocation of the registration of our relevant subsidiaries as investment advisers or registered broker-dealers. The regulations to which our business are subject are designed primarily to protect investors in our funds and to ensure the integrity of the financial markets. They are not designed to protect our members. Even if a sanction imposed against us, one of our subsidiaries or our personnel by a regulator is for a small monetary amount, the adverse publicity related to the sanction could harm our reputation, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our business in a number of ways, making it harder for us to raise new funds and discouraging others from doing business with us.

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Failure to comply with “pay to play” regulations implemented by the SEC and certain states, and changes to the “pay to play” regulatory regimes, could adversely affect our business.

In recent years, the SEC and several states have initiated investigations alleging that certain private equity firms and hedge funds or agents acting on their behalf have paid money to current or former government officials or their associates in exchange for improperly soliciting contracts with state pension funds. In June 2010, the SEC approved Rule 206(4)-5 under the Investment Advisers Act regarding “pay to play” practices by investment advisers involving campaign contributions and other payments to government officials able to exert influence on potential government entity clients. Among other restrictions, the rule prohibits investment advisers from providing advisory services for compensation to a government entity for two years, subject to very limited exceptions, after the investment adviser, its senior executives or its personnel involved in soliciting investments from government entities make contributions to certain candidates and officials in a position to influence the hiring of an investment adviser by such government entity. Advisers are required to implement compliance policies designed, among other matters, to track contributions by certain of the adviser’s employees and engagements of third parties that solicit government entities and to keep certain records to enable the SEC to determine compliance with the rule. In addition, there have been similar rules on a state level regarding “pay to play” practices by investment advisers.

As a number of public pension plans are investors in our funds, these rules could impose significant economic sanctions on our business if we or one of the other persons covered by the rules make any such contribution or payment, whether or not material or with an intent to secure an investment from a public pension plan. In addition, such investigations may require the attention of senior management and may result in fines if any of our funds are deemed to have violated any regulations, thereby imposing additional expenses on us. Any failure on our part to comply with these rules could cause us to lose compensation for our advisory services or expose us to significant penalties and reputational damage.

New or changed laws or regulations governing our funds’ operations and changes in the interpretation thereof could adversely affect our business.

The laws and regulations governing the operations of our funds, as well as their interpretation, may change from time to time, and new laws and regulations may be enacted. Accordingly, any change in these laws or regulations, changes in their interpretation, or newly enacted laws or regulations and any failure by our funds to comply with these laws or regulations, could require changes to certain of our business practices, negatively impact our operations, AUM or financial condition, impose additional costs on us or otherwise adversely affect our business.

If regulatory capital requirements — whether under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), Basel III, or other regulatory action — were to be imposed on our funds, they may be required to limit, or increase the cost of, financing they provide to others. Among other things, this could potentially require our funds to sell assets at an inopportune time or price, which could negatively impact our operations, AUM or financial condition.

In July 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act, among other things, imposes significant new regulations on nearly every aspect of the U.S. financial services industry, including new registration, recordkeeping and reporting requirements on private fund investment advisers. Importantly, while several key aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act have been defined through final rules, many aspects will be implemented by various regulatory bodies over the next several years. While we already have several subsidiaries registered as investment advisers subject to SEC examinations, the imposition of any additional legal or regulatory requirements could make compliance more difficult and expensive, affect the manner in which we conduct our business and adversely affect our profitability.

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In December 2013, the Federal Reserve and other federal regulatory agencies adopted a final rule implementing a section of the Dodd-Frank Act that has become known as the “Volcker Rule.” The Volcker Rule generally prohibits insured banks or thrifts, any bank holding company or savings and loan holding company, any non-U.S. bank with a U.S. branch, agency or commercial lending company and any subsidiaries and affiliates of such entities, regardless of geographic location, from investing in or sponsoring “covered funds,” which include private equity funds or hedge funds and certain other proprietary activities. The effects of the Volcker Rule are uncertain but it is in any event likely to curtail various banking activities that in turn could result in uncertainties in the financial markets as well as our business. Although we do not currently anticipate that the Volcker Rule will adversely affect our fundraising to any significant extent, there is uncertainty regarding the implementation of the Volcker Rule and its practical implications, and there could be adverse implications on our ability to raise funds from the types of entities mentioned above as a result of this prohibition.

In March 2013, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Department of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation published revised guidance regarding expectations for banks’ leveraged lending activities. This guidance, in addition to proposed Dodd-Frank risk retention rules circulated in August 2013, could further restrict credit availability, as well as potentially restrict certain of our investing activities that rely on banks’ lending activities. This could negatively affect the terms and availability of credit to our funds and their investee companies.

The Dodd-Frank Act authorizes federal regulatory agencies to review and, in certain cases, prohibit compensation arrangements at financial institutions that give employees incentives to engage in conduct deemed to encourage inappropriate risk-taking by covered financial institutions. Such restrictions could limit our ability to recruit and retain investment professionals and senior management executives.

Present and future BDCs for which we serve as investment adviser are subject to regulatory complexities that limit the way in which they do business and may subject them to a higher level of regulatory scrutiny.

MCC and SIC, and other BDCs for which we may serve as investment adviser in the future, operate under a complex regulatory environment. Such BDCs require the application of complex tax and securities regulations and may entail a higher level of regulatory scrutiny. In addition, regulations affecting BDCs generally affect their ability to take certain actions. For example, each of MCC and SIC has elected to be treated as a RIC for United States federal income tax purposes. To maintain their status as a RIC, such vehicles must meet, among other things, certain source of income, asset diversification and annual distribution requirements. If any of our BDCs fails to qualify for RIC tax treatment for any reason and remains or becomes subject to corporate income tax, the resulting corporate taxes could, among other things, substantially reduce such BDC’s net assets.

In addition, MCC and SIC are subject to complex rules under the Investment Company Act, including rules that restrict certain of our funds from engaging in transactions with MCC and SIC. Under the regulatory and business environment in which they operate, MCC and SIC must periodically access the capital markets to raise cash to fund new investments in excess of their repayments to grow. This results from MCC and SIC each being required to generally distribute to their respective stockholders at least 90% of its investment company taxable income to maintain its RIC status, combined with regulations under the Investment Company Act that, subject to certain exceptions, generally prohibit MCC and SIC from issuing and selling their common stock at a price below NAV per share and from incurring indebtedness (including for this purpose,

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preferred stock), if their asset coverage, as calculated pursuant to the Investment Company Act, equals less than 200% after such incurrence. If our BDCs are found to be in violation of the Investment Company Act, they could lose their status as BDCs.

We are subject to risks in using custodians, counterparties, administrators and other agents.

Some of our funds depend on the services of custodians, counterparties, administrators, prime brokers and other agents to carry out certain financing, securities and derivatives transactions. The terms of these contracts are often customized and complex, and many of these arrangements occur in markets or relate to products that are not subject to regulatory oversight, although the Dodd-Frank Act provides for new regulation of the derivatives market. In particular, some of our funds utilize arrangements with a relatively limited number of counterparties, which has the effect of concentrating the transaction volume (and related counterparty default risk) of such funds with these counterparties.

Our funds are subject to the risk that the counterparty to one or more of these contracts defaults, either voluntarily or involuntarily, on its performance under the contract. Any such default may occur suddenly and without notice to us. Moreover, if a counterparty defaults, we may be unable to take action to cover our exposure, either because we lack contractual recourse or because market conditions make it difficult to take effective action. This inability could occur in times of market stress, which is when defaults are most likely to occur.

In addition, our risk-management process may not accurately anticipate the impact of market stress or counterparty financial condition, and as a result, we may not have taken sufficient action to reduce our risks effectively. Default risk may arise from events or circumstances that are difficult to detect, foresee or evaluate. In addition, concerns about, or a default by, one large participant could lead to significant liquidity problems for other participants, which may in turn expose us to significant losses.

Although we have risk-management processes to ensure that we are not exposed to a single counterparty for significant periods of time, given the large number and size of our funds, we often have large positions with a single counterparty. For example, some of our funds have credit lines. If the lender under one or more of those credit lines were to become insolvent, we may have difficulty replacing the credit line and one or more of our funds may face liquidity problems.

In the event of a counterparty default, particularly a default by a major investment bank or a default by a counterparty to a significant number of our contracts, one or more of our funds may have outstanding trades that they cannot settle or are delayed in settling. As a result, these funds could incur material losses and the resulting market impact of a major counterparty default could harm our business, results of operation and financial condition.

In the event of the insolvency of a prime broker, custodian, counterparty or any other party that is holding assets of our funds as collateral, our funds might not be able to recover equivalent assets in full as they will rank among the prime broker’s, custodian’s or counterparty’s unsecured creditors in relation to the assets held as collateral. In addition, our funds’ cash held with a prime broker, custodian or counterparty generally will not be segregated from the prime broker’s, custodian’s or counterparty’s own cash, and our funds may therefore rank as unsecured creditors in relation thereto. If our derivatives transactions are cleared through a derivatives clearing organization, the CFTC has issued final rules regulating the segregation and protection of collateral posted by customers of cleared and uncleared swaps. The CFTC is also working to provide new guidance regarding prime broker arrangements and intermediation generally with regard to trading on swap execution facilities.

The counterparty risks that we face have increased in complexity and magnitude as a result of disruption in the financial markets in recent years. For example, the consolidation and elimination of counterparties has increased our concentration of counterparty risk and decreased the universe of potential counterparties. Our funds are generally not restricted from dealing with any particular counterparty or from concentrating any or all of their transactions with a single counterparty. In addition, counterparties have generally reacted to recent market volatility by tightening their underwriting standards and increasing their margin requirements for all categories of financing, which has the result of decreasing the overall amount of leverage available and increasing the costs of borrowing.

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A portion of our revenue and cash flow is variable, which may impact our ability to achieve steady earnings growth on a quarterly basis.

We believe that base management fees are consistent and predictable. For all periods presented, over 45% of total revenues was derived from base management fees. Due to our investment strategy and the nature of our fees, a portion of our revenue and cash flow is variable, due primarily to the fact that the performance fees from our long-dated private funds and SMAs can vary from quarter to quarter and year to year. For the three months ended March 31, 2016, total revenues of $17.6 million included a reversal of performance fees of $0.6 million. For the year ended December 31, 2015, total revenues of $67.4 million included a reversal of performance fees of $15.7 million. For the three months ended March 31, 2015 and for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, performance fees were 25%, 3% and 5% of our total revenues, respectively. Additionally, we may also experience fluctuations in our results from quarter to quarter and year to year due to a number of other factors, including changes in the values of our funds’ investments, changes in our operating expenses, the degree to which we encounter competition and general economic and market conditions.

We may be subject to litigation risks and may face liabilities and damage to our professional reputation as a result.

In recent years, the volume of claims and amount of damages claimed in litigation and regulatory proceedings against investment managers have been increasing. We make investment decisions on behalf of investors in our funds that could result in substantial losses. This may subject us to the risk of legal liabilities or actions alleging negligent misconduct, breach of fiduciary duty or breach of contract. Further, we may be subject to third-party litigation arising from allegations that we improperly exercised control or influence over portfolio investments. In addition, we and our affiliates that are the investment managers and general partners of our funds, our funds themselves and those of our employees who are our, our subsidiaries’ or the funds’ officers and directors are each exposed to the risks of litigation specific to the funds’ investment activities and investee companies and, in the case where our funds own controlling interests in public companies, to the risk of shareholder litigation by the public companies’ other shareholders. Moreover, we are exposed to risks of litigation or investigation by investors or regulators relating to our having engaged, or our funds having engaged, in transactions that presented conflicts of interest that were not properly addressed.

Legal liability could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations or cause reputational harm to us, which could harm our business. We depend to a large extent on our business relationships and our reputation for integrity and high-caliber professional services to attract and retain investors and to pursue investment opportunities for our funds. As a result, allegations of improper conduct by private litigants or regulators, whether the ultimate outcome is favorable or unfavorable to us, as well as negative publicity and press speculation about us, our investment activities or the investment industry in general, whether or not valid, may harm our reputation, which may be damaging to our business.

Employee misconduct could harm us by impairing our ability to attract and retain investors and subjecting us to significant legal liability, regulatory scrutiny and reputational harm. Fraud and other deceptive practices or other misconduct at our investee companies could similarly subject us to liability and reputational damage and also harm our business.

Our ability to attract and retain investors and to pursue investment opportunities for our funds depends heavily upon the reputation of our professionals, especially our senior professionals. We are subject to a number of obligations and standards arising from our investment management business and our authority over the assets managed by our investment management business. The violation of these obligations and standards by any of our employees could adversely affect investors in our funds and us. Our business often require that we deal with confidential matters of great significance to companies in which our funds may invest. If our employees were to use or disclose confidential information improperly, we could suffer serious harm to our reputation, financial position and current and future business relationships. It is not always possible to detect or deter employee misconduct, and the extensive precautions we take to detect and prevent this activity may not be effective in all cases. If one or more of our employees were to engage in misconduct or were to be accused of such misconduct, our business and our reputation could be adversely affected and a loss of investor confidence could result, which would adversely impact our ability to raise future funds.

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In addition, we could be adversely affected as a result of actual or alleged misconduct by personnel of investee companies in which our funds invest. For example, failures by personnel at our investee companies to comply with anti-bribery, trade sanctions or other legal and regulatory requirements could expose us to litigation or regulatory action and otherwise adversely affect our business and reputation. Such misconduct could undermine our due diligence efforts with respect to such companies and could negatively affect the valuation of a fund’s investments.

Our substantial indebtedness could adversely affect our financial condition, our ability to pay our debts or raise additional capital to fund our operations, our ability to operate our business and our ability to react to changes in the economy or our industry and could divert our cash flow from operations for debt payments.

We have a significant amount of indebtedness. As of March 31, 2016, our total indebtedness, excluding unamortized discount, was approximately $105.0 million. Our substantial debt obligations could have important consequences, including:

Our Senior Secured Credit Facilities impose significant operating and financial restrictions on us and our subsidiaries, which may prevent us from capitalizing on business opportunities.

The credit agreements that govern our Senior Secured Credit Facilities impose significant operating and financial restrictions on us. These restrictions will limit our ability and/or the ability of our subsidiaries to, among other things:

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In addition, the credit agreements governing our Senior Secured Credit Facilities require us to maintain, with respect to each four quarter period commencing with the four quarter period ending December 31, 2014, a ratio of net debt to Core EBITDA not greater than 3.5 to 1.0. The ratio of net debt to Core EBITDA in respect of the Senior Secured Credit Facilities is calculated using our standalone financial results and includes the adjustments made to calculate Core EBITDA. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources — Debt Instruments.”

As a result of these restrictions, we will be limited as to how we conduct our business and we may be unable to raise additional debt or equity financing to compete effectively or to take advantage of new business opportunities. The terms of any future indebtedness we may incur could include more restrictive covenants. We cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain compliance with these covenants in the future and, if we fail to do so, that we will be able to obtain waivers from the lenders and/or amend the covenants.

Our failure to comply with the restrictive covenants described above as well as other terms of our other indebtedness and/or the terms of any future indebtedness from time to time could result in an event of default, which, if not cured or waived, could result in our being required to repay these borrowings before their due date. If we are forced to refinance these borrowings on less favorable terms or are unable to refinance these borrowings, our results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.

Operational risks may disrupt our business, result in losses or limit our growth.

Our business relies heavily on financial, accounting and other information systems and technology. We face various security threats, including cyber security attacks to our information technology infrastructure and attempts to gain access to our proprietary information, destroy data or disable, degrade or sabotage our systems. These security threats could originate from a wide variety of sources, including unknown third parties outside of Medley. Although we have not yet been subject to cyber-attacks or other cyber incidents and we utilize various procedures and controls to monitor and mitigate these threats, there can be no assurance that these procedures and controls will be sufficient to prevent disruptions to our systems. If any of these systems do not operate properly or are disabled for any reason or if there is any unauthorized disclosure of data, whether as a result of tampering, a breach of our network security systems, a cyber-incident or attack or otherwise, we could suffer financial loss, a disruption of our business, liability to our funds, regulatory intervention or reputational damage.

In addition, our information systems and technology may not continue to be able to accommodate our growth, and the cost of maintaining the systems may increase from its current level. Such a failure to accommodate growth, or an increase in costs related to the information systems, could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

Furthermore, we depend on our offices in New York, where a substantial portion of our personnel are located, for the continued operation of our business. An earthquake or other disaster or a disruption in the infrastructure that supports our business, including a disruption involving electronic communications or other services used by us or third parties with whom we conduct business, or directly affecting our headquarters, could have a material adverse effect on our ability to continue to operate our business without interruption. Although we have disaster recovery programs in place, these may not be sufficient to mitigate the harm that may result from such a disaster or disruption. In addition, insurance and other safeguards might only partially reimburse us for our losses, if at all.

Finally, we rely on third-party service providers for certain aspects of our business, including for certain information systems, technology and administration of our funds and compliance matters. Any interruption or deterioration in the performance of these third parties or failures of their information systems and technology could impair the quality of our funds’ operations and could impact our reputation, adversely affect our business and limit our ability to grow.

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We are an emerging growth company and intend to take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements.

We are an emerging growth company, and, for as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we currently intend to take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements, including, but not limited to, not being required to have our independent registered public accounting firm audit our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our registration statements and periodic reports. We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years following the completion of this offering. We will cease to be an emerging growth company upon the earliest of: (i) the end of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of this offering; (ii) the first fiscal year after our annual gross revenues are $1.0 billion or more; (iii) the date on which we have, during the previous three-year period, issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities; or (iv) the end of any fiscal year in which the aggregate worldwide market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates (or public float) exceeded $700 million as of the end of the second quarter of that fiscal year. Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can also delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this accommodation allowing for delayed adoption of new or revised accounting standards, and, therefore, we will be subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies.

Our internal controls over financial reporting may not meet all of the standards contemplated by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and failure to achieve and maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could have a material adverse effect on our business.

Our internal controls over financial reporting may not meet all of the standards contemplated by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that eventually we will be required to meet. Because currently we do not have comprehensive documentation of our internal controls and have not yet tested our internal controls in accordance with Section 404, we cannot conclude in accordance with Section 404 that we do not have a material weakness in our internal controls or a combination of significant deficiencies that could result in the conclusion that we have a material weakness in our internal controls. Once we are no longer an emerging growth company, our independent registered public accounting firm will be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting on an annual basis. If, once we are no longer an emerging growth company, we are not able to complete our initial assessment of our internal controls and otherwise implement the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner or with adequate compliance, our independent registered public accounting firm may not be able to certify as to the adequacy of our internal controls over financial reporting.

Matters impacting our internal controls may cause us to be unable to report our financial information on a timely basis and thereby subject us to adverse regulatory consequences, including sanctions by the SEC or violations of applicable stock exchange listing rules, which may result in a breach of the covenants under our financing arrangements. Confidence in the reliability of our financial statements also could suffer if we or our independent registered public accounting firm were to report a material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting.

Our tax treatment depends on our status as a partnership for United States federal and state income tax purposes. If the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) were to treat us as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes, which would subject us to entity-level taxation, or if we were subjected to a material amount of additional entity-level taxation by individual states, then our cash available for payments on the notes and our other debt obligations could be substantially reduced.

It is possible, in certain circumstances, for us to be taxed as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes. Although we do not believe that we are or will be (or should have been) so treated, if we were treated as a “publicly traded partnership,” we might be taxed as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes. If we were taxed as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes, we would pay United States federal income tax on our taxable income at the corporate tax rate, which is currently

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a maximum of 35%, and would likely pay state and local income tax at varying rates. Therefore, our treatment as a corporation would result in a material reduction in our anticipated cash flow and could materially adversely affect our ability to make payments on the notes and our other debt obligations. In addition, changes in current state law may subject us to additional entity-level taxation by individual states. Because of widespread state budget deficits and other reasons, several states are evaluating ways to subject partnerships to entity-level taxation through the imposition of state income, franchise and other forms of taxation. Imposition of any such taxes may substantially reduce the cash available for payments on the notes and our other debt obligations.

Recent legislation could subject us to federal income tax liability.

Pursuant to the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017, if the IRS makes audit adjustments to our federal income tax returns, it may assess and collect any taxes (including any applicable penalties and interest) resulting from such audit adjustment directly from us. If, as a result of any such audit adjustment, we are required to make payments of taxes, penalties and interest, our cash available for payments on the notes and our other debt obligations may be substantially reduced. These rules are not applicable to us for tax years beginning on or prior to December 31, 2017.

Risk Factors Relating to Investing in the Notes

The Notes will be unsecured and therefore will be effectively subordinated to our existing secured indebtedness and any secured indebtedness we may incur in the future.

The Notes will not be secured by any of our assets or any of the assets of our subsidiaries. As a result, the Notes are effectively subordinated to the currently existing secured indebtedness we or our subsidiaries have, including the obligations under the Senior Secured Credit Facilities, and any secured indebtedness we may incur in the future (or any indebtedness that is initially unsecured to which we subsequently grant security) to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness. In any liquidation, dissolution, bankruptcy or other similar proceeding, the holders of any of our existing or future secured indebtedness and the secured indebtedness of our subsidiaries may assert rights against the assets pledged to secure that indebtedness in order to receive full payment of their indebtedness before the assets may be used to pay other creditors, including the holders of the Notes.

The Notes will be structurally subordinated to the indebtedness and other liabilities of our subsidiaries.

The Notes are obligations exclusively of Medley LLC and not of any of our subsidiaries. None of our subsidiaries is a guarantor of the Notes and the Notes are not required to be guaranteed by any subsidiary we may acquire or create in the future. Any assets of our subsidiaries will not be directly available to satisfy the claims of our creditors, including holders of the Notes. Except to the extent we are a creditor with recognized claims against our subsidiaries, all claims of creditors of our subsidiaries will have priority over our equity interests in such subsidiaries (and therefore the claims of our creditors, including holders of the Notes) with respect to the assets of such subsidiaries. Even if we are recognized as a creditor of one or more of our subsidiaries, our claims would still be effectively subordinated to any security interests in the assets of any such subsidiary and to any indebtedness or other liabilities of any such subsidiary senior to our claims. Consequently, the Notes will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness and other liabilities of any of our subsidiaries and any subsidiaries that we may in the future acquire or establish. Our subsidiaries may incur substantial indebtedness in the future, all of which would be structurally senior to the Notes.

The indenture under which the Notes will be issued contains limited protection for holders of the Notes.

The indenture under which the Notes will be issued offers limited protection to holders of the Notes. The terms of the indenture and the Notes do not restrict our or any of our subsidiaries’ ability to engage in, or otherwise be a party to, a variety of corporate transactions, circumstances or events that could have an adverse impact on your investment in the Notes.

Servicing our indebtedness will require a significant amount of cash. Our ability to generate sufficient cash depends on many factors, some of which are not within our control.

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general economic, financial, competitive, legislative, regulatory and other factors that are beyond our control. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flow to service our debt and meet our other commitments, we may need to restructure or refinance all or a portion of our debt, sell material assets or operations or raise additional debt or equity capital. We may not be able to effect any of these actions on a timely basis, on commercially reasonable terms or at all, and these actions may not be sufficient to meet our capital requirements. In addition, the terms of our existing or future debt arrangements may restrict us from effecting any of these alternatives.

We may be able to incur substantially more debt and enter into other transactions, which could further exacerbate the risks to our financial condition described above.

We may be able to incur significant additional indebtedness in the future. Although the credit agreements that govern our Senior Secured Credit Facilities and the indenture governing the Notes contain restrictions on the incurrence of additional indebtedness and entering into certain types of other transactions, these restrictions are subject to a number of qualifications and exceptions. Additional indebtedness incurred in compliance with these restrictions could be substantial. These restrictions also do not prevent us from incurring obligations, such as trade payables, that do not constitute indebtedness as defined under our debt instruments.

Although we intend to list the Notes on the NYSE or Nasdaq, an active trading market for the Notes may not develop, which could limit the market price of the Notes or your ability to sell them.

The Notes are a new issue of debt securities for which there currently is no trading market. We intend to list the Notes on the NYSE or Nasdaq within 90 days of the original issue date under the symbol “    .” Although we expect the Notes to be listed on the NYSE or Nasdaq, we cannot provide any assurances that an active trading market will develop for the Notes or that you will be able to sell your Notes. If the Notes are traded after their initial issuance, they may trade at a discount from their initial offering price depending on prevailing interest rates, the market for similar securities, our credit ratings, general economic conditions, our financial condition, performance and prospects and other factors. The purchasing agent has advised us that they intend to make a market in the Notes, but they are not obligated to do so. The purchasing agent may discontinue any market-making in the Notes at any time at their sole discretion. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that a liquid trading market will develop for the Notes, that you will be able to sell your Notes at a particular time or that the price you receive when you sell will be favorable. To the extent an active trading market does not develop, the liquidity and trading price for the Notes may be harmed. Accordingly, you may be required to bear the financial risk of an investment in the Notes for an indefinite period of time.

If we default on our obligations to pay our other indebtedness, we may not be able to make payments on the Notes.

Any default under the agreements governing our indebtedness, including other indebtedness to which we may be a party that is not waived by the required lenders, and the remedies sought by the holders of such indebtedness could make us unable to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes and substantially decrease the market value of the Notes. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flow and are otherwise unable to obtain funds necessary to meet required payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest on our indebtedness, or if we otherwise fail to comply with the various covenants, including financial and operating covenants, in the instruments governing our indebtedness, we could be in default under the terms of the agreements governing such indebtedness. In the event of such default, the holders of such indebtedness could elect to declare all the funds borrowed thereunder to be due and payable, together with accrued and unpaid interest, the lenders under any other debt we may incur in the future could elect to terminate their commitments, cease making further loans and institute foreclosure proceedings against our assets, and we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation. If our operating performance declines, we may in the future need to seek to obtain waivers from the required lenders under other debt that we may incur in the future to avoid being in default. If we breach our covenants under other debt and seek a waiver, we may not be able to obtain a waiver from the required lenders. If this occurs, we would be in default under other debt, the lenders could exercise their rights as described above, and we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation. If we are unable to repay debt, lenders having secured obligations could proceed against the collateral securing the debt. See “Description of Notes” in this prospectus.

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A downgrade, suspension or withdrawal of the credit rating assigned by a rating agency to us or the Notes, if any, or change in the debt markets could cause the liquidity or market value of the Notes to decline significantly.

Any credit ratings assigned by a rating agency to us are an assessment by rating agencies of our ability to pay our debts when due. Consequently, real or anticipated changes in our credit ratings will generally affect the market value of the Notes. These credit ratings may not reflect the potential impact of risks relating to the structure or marketing of the Notes. Credit ratings are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security, and may be revised or withdrawn at any time by the issuing organization in its sole discretion. Neither we nor any agent undertakes any obligation to maintain any credit ratings assigned to us or the Notes or to advise holders of Notes of any changes in our credit ratings. The conditions of the financial markets and prevailing interest rates have fluctuated in the past and are likely to fluctuate in the future, which could have an adverse effect on the market prices of the Notes.

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RATIOS OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

The following table contains our ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the periods indicated, computed as set forth below. You should read these ratios of earnings to fixed charges in connection with our consolidated financial statements, including the notes to those statements, included in this prospectus. The pro forma ratio of earnings was not impacted by greater than 10%, and per the guidance of SEC Regulation S-K Item 503(d), such pro forma disclosure has been excluded in this registration statement.

		Actual
		For the Three Months Ended March 31, (unaudited)								For the Years Ended December 31,
		2016				2015				2015				2014				2013
		(Amounts in thousands)
Computation of Earnings:
Income before income taxes		$	1,148			$	11,515			$	22,647			$	71,928			$	38,174
Add: loss from equity investees			5				184				180				—				—
Add: Fixed charges			2,118				2,085				8,469				5,520				1,479
Less: net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests in consolidated subsidiaries			263				1,290				(885	)			1,933				—
Total Adjusted Earnings		$	3,008			$	12,494			$	32,181			$	75,515			$	39,653
Computation of Fixed Charges:
Interest expense		$	2,118			$	2,085			$	8,469			$	5,520			$	1,479
Total fixed charges		$	2,118			$	2,085			$	8,469			$	5,520			$	1,479
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges			1.4				6.0				3.8				13.7				26.8

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth our capitalization as of March 31, 2016, actual and as adjusted for the issuance of the Notes offered hereby. This table should be read together with the information contained in this prospectus, including “Use of Proceeds,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the historical financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this prospectus.

		March 31, 2016
		Actual				Offering Transactions Adjustments (1)				As Adjusted
		(Amounts in thousands)
Loans payable		$	100,883			$				$
Other liabilities			35,347
Redeemable non-controlling interest			12,464
Members’ deficit			(35,961	)
Non-controlling interests in consolidated subsidiaries			(2,052	)
Total Equity			(38,013	)
Total Capitalization		$	110,681

(1)

Reflects the effect on loans payable of the issuance of Notes in this offering for an assumed aggregate amount of $    million, net of issuance costs of $    million. Also reflects the application of the net proceeds to repay outstanding amounts under the Term Loan Facility of $    million.

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		Three Months Ended March 31, (unaudited)								Years Ended December 31,
		2016				2015				2015				2014				2013				2012
		(Amounts in thousands)
Statement of Operations Data:
Revenues
Management fees		$	16,263			$	17,520			$	75,675			$	61,252			$	36,446			$	25,325
Performance fees			(591	)			6,336				(15,685	)			2,050				2,412				765
Other revenues and fees			1,899				1,624				7,436				8,871				5,011				2,152
Total revenues			17,571				25,480				67,426				72,173				43,869				28,242
Expenses
Compensation and benefits			5,868				7,221				26,768				20,322				13,712				11,477
Performance fee compensation			(71	)			112				(8,049	)			(1,543	)			7,192				5,148
Consolidated Funds expenses			—				—				—				1,670				1,225				1,653
General, administrative and other expenses			7,979				4,507				16,836				16,312				12,655				9,679
Total expenses			13,776				11,840				35,555				36,761				34,784				27,957
Other income (expense)
Dividend income			222				222				886				886				886				245
Interest expense			(2,118	)			(2,085	)			(8,469	)			(5,520	)			(1,479	)			(831	)
Other expenses, net			(751	)			(262	)			(1,641	)			(1,773	)			(483	)			(552	)
Interest and other income of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				71,468				52,550				39,001
Interest expense of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				(9,951	)			(2,638	)			(2,666	)
Net realized gain (loss) on investments of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				789				(16,080	)			(1,600	)
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				(20,557	)			(3,361	)			(10,103	)
Net change in unrealized depreciation (appreciation) on secured borrowings of Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				1,174				(306	)			787
Total other income (expense), net			(2,647	)			(2,125	)			(9,224	)			36,516				29,089				24,281
Income before income taxes			1,148				11,515				22,647				71,928				38,174				24,566
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes			35				326				392				1,854				1,639				1,087
Net income			1,113				11,189				22,255				70,074				36,535				23,479
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests in Consolidated Funds			—				—				—				29,717				12,898				11,561
Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests in consolidated subsidiaries			263				1,290				(885	)			1,933				—				—
Net income attributable to Medley LLC		$	850			$	9,899			$	23,140			$	38,424			$	23,637			$	11,918

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		As of March 31, (unaudited)				As of December 31,
		2016				2015				2014				2013				2012
		(Amounts in thousands)
Statement of Balance Sheet Data
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents		$	65,231			$	71,300			$	86,006			$	5,395			$	1,292
Investments, at fair value			15,505				16,360				9,901				10,173				9,929
Management fees receivable			13,028				16,172				15,173				8,921				4,672
Performance fees receivable			1,944				2,518				5,573				3,339				928
Other assets			14,973				11,797				6,889				5,308				3,530
Assets of Consolidated Funds:
Cash and cash equivalents			—				—				38,111				60,355				74,133
Investments, at fair value			—				—				734,870				453,396				356,619
Interest and dividends receivable			—				—				6,654				2,969				3,100
Other assets			—				—				3,681				436				229
Total assets		$	110,681			$	118,147			$	906,858			$	550,292			$	454,432
Liabilities and Equity
Loans payable		$	100,883			$	100,871			$	100,885			$	27,990			$	6,514
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities			33,880				34,223				25,540				17,613				12,666
Performance fee compensation payable			1,467				1,823				11,807				16,225				10,858
Liabilities of Consolidated Funds:
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities			—				—				5,767				1,325				1,084
Secured borrowings			—				—				141,135				41,178				16,374
Total liabilities			136,230				136,917				285,134				104,331				47,496
Redeemable Non-controlling Interest			12,464				—				—				—				—
Equity
Non-controlling interests in Consolidated Funds			—				—				625,548				464,475				407,353
Non-controlling interests in consolidated subsidiaries			(2,052	)			(459	)			1,526				40				40
Members’ deficit			(35,961	)			(18,311	)			(5,350	)			(18,554	)			(457	)
Total equity (deficit)			(38,013	)			(18,770	)			621,724				445,961				406,936
Total liabilities and equity		$	110,681			$	118,147			$	906,858			$	550,292			$	454,432

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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

We are the operating company of Medley Management Inc., a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) trading under the symbol “MDLY.” Medley Management Inc. controls our business and consolidates our financial results in its financial statements. Excluding the impact of corporate income taxes, our net income before non-controlling interests would be the same as reported by Medley Management Inc.

We are an asset management firm offering yield solutions to retail and institutional investors. We focus on credit-related investment strategies, primarily originating senior secured loans to private middle market companies in the United States that have revenues between $50 million and $1 billion. We generally hold these loans to maturity.

We manage two permanent capital vehicles, both of which are BDCs, as well as long-dated private funds and SMAs, with a primary focus on senior secured credit. Our year over year AUM growth as of March 31, 2016 was 28% and was driven by the growth in our long-dated private funds and SMAs. Our compounded annual AUM growth rate from December 31, 2010 through March 31, 2016 was 36% compared to our compounded annual Fee Earning AUM growth rate of 26%, which have both been driven in large part by the growth in our permanent capital vehicles. Since September 2015, we received over $1 billion of new institutional capital commitments, bringing AUM to over $5 billion. As this new capital gets deployed, we expect our Fee Earnings AUM to grow. We believe our 36% compounded annual growth rate of AUM from December 31, 2010 through March 31, 2016 compares favorably with both small and middle market asset manager peers, who had an average compounded annual growth rate of AUM of 2.2% for the same period ¹ . As of March 31, 2016, a combination of consistent access to capital markets by our permanent capital vehicles and periodic institutional capital commitments allowed us to achieve compounded annual AUM growth rates since December 31, 2014 of 28%, since December 31, 2013 of 42% and since December 31, 2012 of 38%. Since the launch of our first permanent capital vehicle in January 2011, permanent capital has grown to represent 50% of our AUM as of March 31, 2016. As we have grown our AUM in permanent capital vehicles over time, we also have maintained a consistent presence in the institutional market, with AUM in long-dated private funds and SMAs growing from $1.0 billion as of January 1, 2012 to $2.5 billion of AUM as of March 31, 2016.

Over the past 14 years, we have provided in excess of $6 billion of capital to over 300 companies across 35 industries in North America.

Business Strategy

We believe that our deep and long-standing investor relationships, founded on our strong performance, disciplined management of our investors’ capital and diverse product offering, have facilitated the growth of our existing business and will assist us with the development of additional strategies and products, thereby increasing our fee earning AUM in the future. We have dedicated in-house capital markets, investor relations and marketing specialists. We have frequent discussions with our investors and are committed to providing them with the highest quality service. We believe our service levels, as well as our emphasis on transparency, inspire loyalty in our investors and support our efforts to continue to attract investors across our investment platform.

Direct origination, careful structuring and active monitoring of the loan portfolios we manage are important success factors in our business, which can be adversely affected by difficult market and political conditions, such as the turmoil in the global capital markets from 2007 to 2009. Since our inception in 2006, we have adhered to a disciplined investment process that employs these principles with the goal of delivering strong risk-adjusted investment returns while protecting investor capital. Our focus on protecting investor capital is reflected in our investment strategy; at March 31, 2016, approximately 71% of secured investments across our funds were first lien positions. We believe that our ability to directly originate, structure and lead deals enables us to consistently lend at higher yields with better terms. In addition, the loans we manage generally have a contractual maturity of between three and seven years and are typically floating rate (at March 31,

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2016, approximately 79% of the loans we manage, based on aggregate principal amount, bore interest at floating rates), which we believe positions our business well for rising interest rates.

Our senior management team has on average over 20 years of experience in credit, including originating, underwriting, principal investing and loan structuring. As of March 31, 2016, we had over 80 employees, including over 40 investment, origination and credit management professionals, and over 40 operations, accounting, legal, compliance and marketing professionals, each with extensive experience in their respective disciplines.

We have made significant investments in our loan origination and underwriting platform and believe it is scalable and can support our future growth within the competitive investment management business. These capabilities, combined with our active approach to credit management, have helped us generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our investors.

Prior to making an investment, the investment team subjects each potential borrower to an extensive credit review process, which typically begins with an analysis of the market opportunity, business fundamentals, company operating metrics and historical and projected financial analysis. We also compare liquidity, operating margin trends, leverage, free cash flow and fixed charge coverage ratios for each potential investment to industry metrics. Areas of additional underwriting focus include management or sponsor (typically a private equity firm) experience, management compensation, competitive landscape, regulatory environment, pricing power, defensibility of market share and tangible asset values. Background checks are conducted and tax compliance information may also be requested on management teams and key employees. In addition, the investment team contacts customers, suppliers and competitors and performs on-site visits as part of a routine business due diligence process.

Our disciplined underwriting process also involves the engagement of industry experts and third-party consultants. The investment team routinely uses third-party consultants and market studies to corroborate valuation and industry specific due diligence, as well as provide quality of earnings analysis. Experienced legal counsel is engaged to evaluate and mitigate regulatory, insurance, tax or other company-specific risks.

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necessary. A formal memorandum for each investment opportunity typically includes the results of business due diligence, multi-scenario financial analysis, risk-management assessment, results of third-party consulting work, background checks (where applicable) and structuring proposals. Our investment committee requires a majority vote to approve any investment.

In addition to the data provided by our borrowers, we may also utilize various third parties to provide checks and balances throughout the credit management process. Independent valuation firms may be engaged to provide appraisals of asset and collateral values or external forensic accounting groups may be engaged to verify portfolio company financial reporting or perform cash reconciliation. We believe this hands-on approach to credit management is a key contributor to our investment performance.

Our Structure

Medley LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that is controlled and operated by a holding company, Medley Management Inc. Medley Management Inc. operates and controls all the business and affairs of Medley LLC and its subsidiaries. For all periods presented, the income before income taxes of Medley LLC is the same as that of Medley Management Inc.

Our Funds and Separately Managed Accounts

We provide our credit-focused investment strategies through various funds and products that meet the needs of a wide range of retail and institutional investors.

Our permanent capital vehicles, MCC and SIC offer investors compelling risk-adjusted yield opportunities. Given their permanent capital nature and focus on senior credit, they provide us with a high degree of management fee income visibility. Additionally, we have a strong institutional investor base for our long-dated private funds and SMAs, which have been an important source of diversified capital for our business. Our long-dated private funds and SMAs have a return of capital phase, requiring us to continually raise capital to maintain or grow AUM. Historically, we have consistently grown our AUM, demonstrating our capability to raise capital from institutional investors. While our investment strategy across our capital base is substantially the same, we classify our AUM to differentiate the permanent nature of capital commitments within our permanent capital vehicles from the potential variability of commitments from our long-dated private funds and SMAs.

Medley Capital Corporation

We launched MCC (NYSE: MCC), our first permanent capital vehicle, in 2011 as a BDC. MCC has grown to become a BDC with approximately $1.3 billion in AUM as of March 31, 2016. MCC has demonstrated a 44% compounded annual growth rate of AUM from inception through March 31, 2016.

Sierra Income Corporation

We launched SIC, our first public non-traded permanent capital vehicle, in 2012 as a BDC. SIC is now offered on a continuous basis to investors through over 170 broker dealers representing over 17,900 RIAs as of March 31, 2016. Since inception, SIC has demonstrated rapid growth. During the year ended December 31, 2015, SIC increased AUM by $360 million to $1.2 billion, a 45% increase year over year.

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Long-Dated Private Funds

We launched MOF I, our first long-dated private fund, in 2006, MOF II, our second long-dated private fund, in 2010 and MOF III, our third long-dated private fund, in 2014. Our long-dated private funds are managed through partnership structures, in which limited partnerships organized by us accept commitments or funds for investment from institutional investors and high net worth individuals, and a general partner makes all policy and investment decisions, including selection of investment advisers. Affiliates of Medley serve as investment advisers to our long-dated private funds. The limited partners of our long-dated private funds take no part in the conduct or control of the business of such funds, have no right or authority to act for or bind such funds and have no influence or the voting or disposition of the securities or assets held by such funds, although limited partners often have the right to remove the general partner or cause an early liquidation by super-majority vote. As our long-dated private funds are closed-ended, once an investor makes an investment, the investor is generally not able to withdraw or redeem its interest, except in very limited circumstances.

Separately Managed Accounts

We launched our first SMA in 2010 and currently manage seven SMAs. In the majority of our SMAs, the investor, rather than us, dictates the risk tolerances and target returns of the account. We act as an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act for these accounts. The accounts offer customized solutions for liability driven investors such as insurance companies and typically offer attractive returns on risk based capital.

Except as otherwise described herein with respect to our business development companies, our investment funds themselves do not register as investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), in reliance on Section 3(c)(1), Section 3(c)(7) or Section 7(d) thereof. Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act exempts from the Investment Company Act’s registration requirements investment funds privately placed in the United States whose securities are owned exclusively by persons who, at the time of acquisition of such securities, are “qualified purchasers” as defined under the Investment Company Act. Section 3(c)(1) of the Investment Company Act exempts from the Investment Company Act’s registration requirements privately placed investment funds whose securities are beneficially owned by not more than 100 persons. In addition, under certain current interpretations of the SEC, Section 7(d) of the Investment Company Act exempts from registration any non-U.S. investment fund all of whose outstanding securities are beneficially owned either by non-U.S. residents or by U.S. residents that are qualified purchasers and purchase their interests in a private placement. Certain subsidiaries of Medley typically serve as an investment adviser for our funds and are registered under the Advisors Act. Our funds’ investment advisers or one of their affiliates are entitled to management fees, performance fees and/or incentive fees from each investment fund to which they serve as investment advisers. For a discussion of the fees to which our funds’ investment advisers are entitled across our various types of funds, please see “Our Fee Structure,” below.

Our Fee Structure

We earn management fees at an annual rate of 0.75% to 1.75% and may earn performance fees, which may be in the form of an incentive fee or carried interest, in the event that specified investment returns are achieved by the fund or SMA. Management fees are generally based on a defined percentage of (1) average or total gross assets, including assets acquired with leverage, (2) total commitments, (3) net invested capital, (4) NAV, or (5) lower of cost or market value of a fund’s portfolio investments. Management fees are calculated quarterly and are paid in cash in advance or in arrears depending on each specific fund or SMA. We earn incentive fees pursuant to our investment management agreement between our BDCs and their adviser, as described below. In addition, we may earn additional carried interest performance fees on our long-dated private funds and some of our SMAs that are typically 15% to 20% of the total return over a 6% to 8% annualized preferred return.

Medley Capital Corporation

Pursuant to the investment management agreement between MCC and our affiliate, MCC Advisors LLC, MCC Advisors LLC receives a base management fee and a two-part incentive fee. Effective January 1, 2016, pursuant to a fee waiver agreement executed by MCC Advisors LLC on December 3, 2015, the MCC base management fee is calculated at an annual rate of 1.75% on MCC’s gross assets up to $1.0 billion and 1.50%

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on MCC’s gross assets over $1.0 billion, and payable quarterly in arrears. The base management fee is calculated based on the average value of MCC’s gross assets at the end of the two most recently completed calendar quarters and is appropriately pro-rated for any partial quarter. Prior to January 1, 2016, the MCC base management fee was calculated at an annual rate of 1.75% of MCC’s gross assets, and was payable quarterly in arrears. The base management fee was also calculated based on the average value of MCC’s gross assets at the end of the two most recently completed calendar quarters.

The two components of the MCC incentive fee are as follows:

Effective January 1, 2016, the first, the Part I incentive fee is 17.5% of MCC’s pre-incentive fee net investment income over a fixed hurdle rate of 1.5% per quarter. Moreover, the incentive fee based on net investment income is determined and paid quarterly in arrears at the end of each calendar quarter by reference to our aggregate net investment income, as adjusted, as described below (the “Incentive Fee on Net Investment Income”), from the calendar quarter then ending and the eleven preceding calendar quarters (or if shorter, the number of quarters that have occurred since January 1, 2016). We refer to such period as the “Trailing Twelve Quarters.” The hurdle amount for the Incentive Fee on Net Investment Income is determined on a quarterly basis, and is equal to 1.5% multiplied by MCC’s net assets at the beginning of each applicable calendar quarter comprising the relevant Trailing Twelve Quarters. The hurdle amount is calculated after making appropriate adjustments to the MCC’s net assets, as determined as of the beginning of each applicable calendar quarter, in order to account for any capital raising or other capital actions as a result of any issuances by MCC of its common stock (including issuances pursuant to MCC’s dividend reinvestment plan), any repurchase by MCC of its own common stock, and any dividends paid by MCC, each as may have occurred during the relevant quarter. Any Incentive Fee on Net Investment Income is paid to MCC Advisors LLC on a quarterly basis, and is based on the amount by which (A) aggregate net investment income (“Ordinary Income”) in respect of the relevant Trailing Twelve Quarters exceeds (B) the hurdle amount for such Trailing Twelve Quarters. The amount of the excess of (A) over (B) described in this paragraph for such Trailing Twelve Quarters is referred to as the “Excess Income Amount.” For the avoidance of doubt, Ordinary Income is net of all fees and expenses, including base management fees but excluding any incentive fee on pre-incentive fee net investment income or on MCC’s capital gains.

The Incentive Fee on Net Investment Income for each quarter is determined as follows:

The amount of the Incentive Fee on Net Investment Income that is paid to MCC Advisors LLC for a particular quarter is equal to the excess of the incentive fee so calculated minus the aggregate incentive fees based on income that were paid in respect of the first eleven calendar quarters (or the portion thereof) included in the relevant Trailing Twelve Quarters but not in excess of the Incentive Fee Cap (as described below).

The Incentive Fee on Net Investment Income that is paid to MCC Advisors for a particular quarter is subject to a cap (the “Incentive Fee Cap”). The Incentive Fee Cap for any quarter is an amount equal to (a) 17.5% of the Cumulative Net Return (as defined below) during the relevant Trailing Twelve Quarters minus (b) the

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aggregate incentive fees based on net investment income that was paid in respect of the first eleven calendar quarters (or a portion thereof) included in the relevant Trailing Twelve Quarters.

“Cumulative Net Return” means (X) the Ordinary Income in respect of the relevant Trailing Twelve Quarters minus (Y) any Net Capital Loss (as defined below), if any, in respect of the relevant Trailing Twelve Quarters. If, in any quarter, the Incentive Fee Cap is zero or a negative value, MCC will pay no incentive fee based on net investment income to MCC Advisors for such quarter. If, in any quarter, the Incentive Fee Cap for such quarter is a positive value but is less than the Reduced Incentive Fee based on Net Investment Income that is payable to MCC Advisors for such quarter (before giving effect to the Incentive Fee Cap) calculated as described above, MCC will pay a Reduced Incentive Fee on Net Investment Income to MCC Advisors equal to the Incentive Fee Cap for such quarter. If, in any quarter, the Incentive Fee Cap for such quarter is equal to or greater than the Reduced Incentive Fee on Net Investment Income that is payable to MCC Advisors for such quarter (before giving effect to the Incentive Fee Cap) calculated as described above, the Company will pay an Incentive Fee on Net Investment Income to MCC Advisors, calculated as described above, for such quarter without regard to the Incentive Fee Cap.

“Net Capital Loss” in respect of a particular period means the difference, if positive, between (i) aggregate capital losses, whether realized or unrealized, and dilution to MCC’s net assets due to capital raising or capital actions, in such period and (ii) aggregate capital gains, whether realized or unrealized and accretion to MCC’s net assets due to capital raising or capital action, in such period.

Dilution to MCC’s net assets due to capital raising is calculated, in the case of issuances of common stock, as the amount by which the net asset value per share was adjusted over the transaction price per share, multiplied by the number of shares issued. Accretion to MCC’s net assets due to capital raising is calculated, in the case of issuances of common stock (including issuances pursuant to our dividend reinvestment plan), as the excess of the transaction price per share over the amount by which the net asset value per share was adjusted, multiplied by the number of shares issued. Accretion to MCC’s net assets due to other capital action is calculated, in the case of repurchases by MCC of its own common stock, as the excess of the amount by which the net asset value per share was adjusted over the transaction price per share multiplied by the number of shares repurchased by MCC.

For the avoidance of doubt, the purpose of the new fee structure is to permanently reduce aggregate fees payable to MCC Advisors by MCC. In order to ensure that MCC pays MCC Advisors aggregate fees on a cumulative basis under the new fee structure that are less than the aggregate fees otherwise due under the Management Agreement, MCC Advisors calculates, at the end of each quarter, aggregate base management fees and incentive fees on net investment income under both the new fee structure and the fee structure under the Management Agreement, and if, at any time after January 1, 2016, the aggregate fees on a cumulative basis under the new fee structure would be greater than the aggregate fees on a cumulative basis under the fee structure under the Management Agreement, MCC Advisors shall only be entitled to the lesser of those two amounts.

Prior to January 1, 2016, the Part I incentive fee was 20.0% of MCC’s pre-incentive fee net investment income for the immediately preceding calendar quarter subject to a 2.0% hurdle rate and a “catch-up” provision measured as of the end of each calendar quarter. Under the hurdle rate and catch-up provisions, in any calendar quarter, we receive no incentive fee until MCC’s net investment income equals the hurdle rate of 2.0%, but then receive, as a “catch-up”, 100% of MCC’s pre-incentive fee net investment income with respect to that portion of such pre-incentive fee net investment income, if any, that exceeds the hurdle rate but is less than 2.5%. The effect of this provision is that, if pre-incentive fee net investment income exceeds 2.5% in any calendar quarter, MCC Advisors LLC will receive 20.0% of MCC’s pre-incentive fee net investment income as if the hurdle rate did not apply. For this purpose, pre-incentive fee net investment income means interest income, dividend income and any other income including any other fees (other than fees for providing managerial assistance), such as commitment, origination, structuring, due diligence and consulting fees or other fees that MCC receives from portfolio companies accrued during the calendar quarter, minus MCC’s operating expenses for the quarter including the base management fee, expenses payable to MCC Advisors LLC, and any interest expense and any dividends paid on any issued and outstanding preferred stock, but excluding the incentive fee. Pre-incentive fee net investment income includes, in the case of investments with

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a deferred interest feature (such as original issue discount, debt instruments with payment-in-kind interest and zero coupon securities), accrued income that we have not yet received in cash. Since the hurdle rate is fixed, as interest rates rise, it will be easier for us to surpass the hurdle rate and receive an incentive fee based on net investment income.

The second, the Part II incentive fee, is determined and payable in arrears as of the end of each calendar year (or upon termination of the investment management agreement as of the termination date), and equals 20.0% of MCC’s cumulative aggregate realized capital gains less cumulative realized capital losses, unrealized capital depreciation (unrealized depreciation on a gross investment-by-investment basis at the end of each calendar year) and all capital gains upon which prior performance-based capital gains incentive fee payments were previously made to MCC Advisors LLC.

Sierra Income Corporation

Pursuant to the investment management agreement between SIC and our affiliate, SIC Advisors LLC, SIC Advisors LLC receives a base management fee and a two-part incentive fee. The SIC base management fee is calculated at an annual rate of 1.75% of SIC’s gross assets at the end of each completed calendar quarter and is payable quarterly in arrears. The base management fee is calculated based on the average value of SIC’s gross assets at the end of completed calendar quarter.

The two components of the SIC incentive fee are as follows.

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and incentive fees payable by SIC to SIC Advisors LLC, net of certain expenses, as well as 20% of the returns of the investments held at SIC Advisors LLC.

Long-Dated Private Funds and Separately Managed Accounts

The investment adviser of our long-dated private funds and SMAs receives an annual management fee and may earn incentive fees. In general, management fees are calculated at an annual rate of 0.75% to 1.50% calculated on the value of the capital accounts or the value of the investments held by each limited partner, fund or account. The management fee may be offset by an amount ranging from 50% to 100% of certain transaction and advisory fees we receive in connection with services we provide to any entity in which the fund or account has invested. In addition, the investment adviser of our long-dated private funds and some of our SMAs generally receives incentive fees in an amount equal to 15.0% to 20.0% of the realized cash derived from an investment, subject to a cumulative annualized preferred return to the investor of 6.0% to 8.0%, which is in turn subject to a 50% to 100% catch-up allocation to the investment adviser.

In order to better align the interests of our senior professionals and the other individuals who manage our long-dated private funds with our own interests and with those of the investors in such funds, such individuals may be allocated directly a portion of the performance fees in such funds. These interests entitle the holders to share the performance fees earned from MOF II. We may make similar arrangements with respect to allocation of performance fees with respect to MOF III or other long-dated private funds that we may advise in the future.

Investor Relations

Our fundraising efforts historically have been spread across distribution channels and have not been dependent on the success of any single channel. We distribute our investment products through two primary channels: (1) permanent capital vehicles and (2) long-dated private funds and SMAs. We believe that each of these channels offers unique advantages to investors and allows us to continue to raise and deploy capital opportunistically in varying market environments.

Permanent Capital Vehicles

We distribute our permanent capital vehicles through two sub-channels:

Long-Dated Private Funds and SMAs

We distribute our long-dated private funds and SMAs through two sub-channels:

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our existing business and will assist us with the development of additional strategies and products, thereby increasing our fee earning AUM in the future. We have dedicated in-house capital markets, investor relations and marketing specialists. We have frequent discussions with our investors and are committed to providing them with the highest quality service. We believe our service levels, as well as our emphasis on transparency, inspire loyalty and support our efforts to continue to attract investors across our investment platform.

Investment Process

Direct Origination .  We focus on lending directly to companies that are underserved by the traditional banking system and generally seek to avoid broadly marketed investment opportunities. We source investment opportunities through direct relationships with companies, financial sponsors, financial intermediaries such as national, regional and local bankers, accountants, lawyers and consultants. Our national origination platform allows us to seek geographic diversity in our investments. As a leading provider of private debt, we are often sought out as a preferred financing partner. Historically, the majority of our annual origination volume has been derived from direct loan origination, and at December 31, 2015, approximately 72% of our total commitments were directly originated.

Our investment team, comprised of over 40 professionals as of December 31, 2015, has a broad network of industry relationships and extensive experience sourcing, underwriting and managing private debt investments. Our experience and reputation has allowed us to generate a substantial flow of attractive investment opportunities. We focus on lending directly to companies that are underserved by the traditional banking system and generally seek to avoid broadly marketed investment opportunities. We source investment opportunities through a variety of channels including direct relationships with companies, financial intermediaries such as national, regional and local bankers, accountants, lawyers and consultants, as well as through financial sponsors. Historically, as much as half of our annual origination volume has been derived from either repeat or referred borrowers or repeat sponsors. The other half of our annual origination volume has been sourced through a variety of channels including direct relationships with companies, financial intermediaries such as national, regional and local bankers, accountants, lawyers and consultants, as well as through other financial sponsors. Medley investments are well diversified across 35 industries. As of March 31, 2016, our only industry exposure over 10% was 11.4% in business services. In 2015, we sourced 1,085 investment opportunities, which resulted in 86 investments across 26 borrowers and approximately $887 million of invested capital. ¹ At December 31, 2015, our funds had 307 investments across 145 borrowers. Medley has a highly selective, three step underwriting process that is governed by an Investment Committee. This comprehensive process narrows down the investment opportunities from generally over 1,000 a year to approximately 2% to 4% originated borrowers in a year.

Disciplined Underwriting .  We perform thorough due diligence and focus on several key criteria in our underwriting process, including strong underlying business fundamentals, a meaningful equity cushion, experienced management, conservative valuation and the ability to deleverage through cash flows. We are often the agent for the loans we originate and accordingly control the loan documentation and negotiation of covenants, which allows us to maintain consistent underwriting standards. We invest across a broad range of industries and our disciplined underwriting process also involves engagement of industry experts and third-party consultants. This disciplined underwriting process is essential as our funds have historically invested primarily in privately held companies, for which public financial information is generally unavailable. Since our inception, we have provided in excess of $6 billion of capital and have experienced annualized realized losses for 0.3% of that capital through March 31, 2016. We believe our disciplined underwriting culture is a key factor to our success and our ability to expand our product offerings.

Prior to making an investment, the investment team subjects each potential borrower to an extensive credit review process, which typically begins with an analysis of the market opportunity, business fundamentals, company operating metrics and historical and projected financial analysis. We also compare liquidity, operating margin trends, leverage, free cash flow and fixed charge coverage ratios for each potential

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investment to industry metrics. Areas of additional underwriting focus include management or sponsor (typically a private equity firm) experience, management compensation, competitive landscape, regulatory environment, pricing power, defensibility of market share and tangible asset values. Background checks are conducted and tax compliance information may also be requested on management teams and key employees. In addition, the investment team contacts customers, suppliers and competitors and performs on-site visits as part of a routine business due diligence process.

Our disciplined underwriting process also involves the engagement of industry experts and third-party consultants. The investment team routinely uses third-party consultants and market studies to corroborate valuation and industry specific due diligence, as well as provide quality of earnings analysis. Experienced legal counsel is engaged to evaluate and mitigate regulatory, insurance, tax or other company-specific risks.

After the investment team completes its final due diligence, each proposed investment is presented to our investment committee and subjected to extensive discussion and follow-up analysis, if necessary. A formal memorandum for each investment opportunity typically includes the results of business due diligence, multi-scenario financial analysis, risk-management assessment, results of third-party consulting work, background checks (where applicable) and structuring proposals. Our investment committee requires a majority vote to approve any investment.

Active Credit Management .  We employ active credit management. Our process includes frequent interaction with management, monthly or quarterly review of financial information and attendance at board of directors’ meetings as observers. Investment professionals with deep restructuring and workout experience support our credit management effort. The investment team also evaluates financial reporting packages provided by portfolio companies that detail operational and financial performance. Data is entered in Black Mountain, an investment management software program. Black Mountain creates a centralized, dynamic electronic repository for all of our portfolio company data and generates comprehensive, standardized reports and dashboards which aggregate operational updates, portfolio company financial performance, asset valuations, macro trends, management call notes and account history.

Trends in the Asset Management Industry

We are well positioned to capitalize on the following trends in the asset management industry:

De-Leveraging of the Global Banking System .  After an extended period of increasing leverage, commercial and investment banks have been de-leveraging since 2008. Bank consolidation, more prudent balance sheet discipline, changing regulatory capital requirements and the increasing cost and complexity of regulatory compliance have led banks to meaningfully withdraw from markets such as non-investment grade middle market and commercial real estate lending. This has created a significant opportunity for non-bank direct lenders like Medley.

Increasing Demand for Yield-Oriented Investments by Retail Investors .  A key demographic trend driving demand for yield is the aging population in the United States. Retirees generally have shorter investment horizons, with a sharper focus on stable, income-generating portfolios. This dynamic, amplified by the shortage of yield-oriented opportunities in the current low interest rate environment, has resulted in strong demand for yield-oriented investments by an aging population. Through our permanent capital vehicles, MCC and SIC, we believe we are well-positioned to capitalize on this growing retail investor demand.

Shifting Asset Allocation Policies of Institutional Investors .  The low interest environment is leading institutional investors to increasingly rotate away from core fixed income products, such as liquid debt securities, toward less liquid credit and absolute return-oriented products. Casey Quirk, an industry research firm, estimates that from 2013 to 2017, U.S. fixed income investors will reallocate $1 trillion of assets from traditional fixed income strategies to next generation fixed income products, with these next generation fixed income products representing nearly 80% of the annual revenue created by fixed income mandates from U.S. investors. In addition, we believe that the pension liability gap in the United States will continue to drive defined benefit pension plans toward more stable and higher return investment strategies. Similar to pension funds, insurance companies are increasingly turning to credit investments to offset their longer-term liabilities.

Unfunded Private Equity Commitments Drive Demand for Debt Capital .  According to Preqin Private Debt Q3 2015 Quarterly Update, as of March 31, 2015, private equity firms had in excess of $1.3 trillion in

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available capital for investment, up to $400 billion from 2013 levels. Lending to private companies acquired by financial sponsors requires lenders to move quickly, perform in-depth due diligence and have significant credit and structuring experience. In order to successfully serve this market, lenders need to commit to hold all, or the significant majority of, the debt needed to finance such transactions. We believe that banks, due to the regulatory environment, will continue to reduce their exposure to middle market private loans. We believe this creates a significant supply/demand imbalance for middle market credit, and we are well positioned to bridge the gap.

Competitive Strengths

We have enjoyed rapid growth in our business. Since the launch of our first permanent capital vehicle in January 2011, permanent capital has grown to represent 50% of our AUM as of March 31, 2016. For the three months ended March 31, 2016, 89% of our revenues were generated from management fees and performance fees derived primarily from net interest income on senior secured loans. We believe that the following attributes have contributed to our rapid growth and position Medley to capitalize on favorable industry trends going forward.

Strong Investment Performance .  Our investment products have achieved strong performance. For example, MCC’s annualized net total return as of March 31, 2016 for MCC’s SBIC was 14.5%, for MOF II was 12.0% and for our SMA’s the average return was 10.6% from each of their respective inception dates. We believe the strong historical performance of our investment products will support our ongoing fundraising efforts and enable Medley to be a growing source of capital for the middle market.

Stable Capital Base .  A significant portion of our AUM consists of permanent capital. As of March 31, 2016 approximately 50% of our AUM was in permanent capital vehicles, which generally do not have redemption provisions or a requirement to return capital to investors. Our stable capital base makes us a reliable financing source.

Strong Cash Flow Generation .  For all periods presented, over 45% of our total revenue was derived from base management fees, a reliable and predictable revenue stream. The remainder of our management fees is composed of Part I incentive fees, although less predictable, these fees are paid quarterly in cash and contribute to our cash flow. Total management fees represents a strong source of cash and enables us to continue to invest in our business, seed new products and provide investors with an attractive dividend. See “Description of Business — Our Fee Structure.”

Direct Origination, Disciplined Underwriting and Active Credit Management .  We believe that the combination of our direct origination platform, disciplined underwriting and active credit management is an important competitive advantage and helps us preserve capital and generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our investors. Our ability to directly originate, structure and lead deals enables us to be more opportunistic and less reliant on traditional sources of origination. It also enables us to control the loan documentation process, including negotiation of covenants, which provides consistent underwriting standards. In addition, we employ active credit management and interact frequently with our borrowers.

Growing an Increasingly Diverse Investor Base .  Our fundraising efforts are diversified across distribution channels and investment products. Our ability to raise capital across institutional channels, public markets, and non-traded RIA channels has enabled us to consistently increase AUM. We have dedicated in-house capital markets, investor relations and marketing professionals who are in frequent dialogue with investors. Our emphasis on transparency and communication has been an important part of the growth of our investor base.

Experienced Team .  Our senior management team has on average over 20 years of experience in credit, including origination, underwriting, principal investing and loan structuring. As of March 31, 2016, we had over 80 employees, including over 40 investment, origination and credit management professionals, and over 40 operations, accounting, legal, compliance and marketing professionals, each with extensive experience in their respective disciplines. We employ an integrated and collaborative investment process that leverages the skills and knowledge of our investment and credit management professionals. We believe that this is an important competitive advantage and has allowed us to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to our investors over time.

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Experience Managing Permanent Capital Vehicles .  We have significant experience raising and managing permanent capital vehicles. In particular, we have demonstrated an ability to grow our permanent capital vehicles in an accretive manner for investors, and to prudently manage our liabilities. As of March 31, 2016, MCC has issued an aggregate of $754 million of new common equity net of underwriting costs as well as $695 million aggregate principal amount of debt financing, exclusive of SBIC and JV facilities. As of March 31, 2016, SIC has raised approximately $807 million of new common equity net of underwriting costs as well as $770 million aggregate principal amount of debt financing capacity, exclusive of JV facilities. SIC has raised, on average, $10.5 million of net equity capital per month during the three months ended March 31, 2016. Consistent access to the capital markets has allowed MCC to achieve compounded annual AUM growth rates since inception of 44%. SIC, through its fund raising channels, has added approximately $290 million of assets on average, every year since inception. Furthermore, we have created a robust infrastructure to manage our permanent capital vehicles, including financial reporting, accounting, valuations, investor relations, legal and compliance functions.

Our Growth Strategy

We believe that Medley’s strong growth is attributable to our investment philosophy and results, our emphasis on client communication and service, and our ability to attract, develop and retain high caliber professionals. As we continue to expand the business, we intend to:

Organically Grow our Core Business .  We expect to grow AUM in our existing permanent capital vehicles, and may launch additional permanent capital vehicles or similar long-dated investment products in the future. We also intend to increase AUM in our long-dated funds and managed accounts both by expanding existing investor relationships and through attracting new investors. We have made significant investments in corporate infrastructure to support our growth.

Expand our Credit-Focused Product Offerings .  We intend to grow our investment platform to include additional investment products that are complementary to our core credit offerings. As we expand our product offerings, we expect to leverage our existing retail and institutional investor base, and to attract new investors. Finally, we expect to leverage our direct origination platform, underwriting process and active credit management capabilities to grow related investment product offerings.

Pursue Additional Strategic Relationships .  We have established valuable relationships with industry participants and large institutional investors who, among other things, provide market insights, product advice and access to other key relationships. We also have important relationships with large fund investors, leading commercial and investment banks, global professional services firms, key distribution agents and other market participants that we believe are of significant value. As we expand our product offerings and market presence, we intend to pursue opportunities through additional strategic relationships.

Investment Operations and Information Technology

In addition to our investment team, we have a finance, accounting and operations team that supports our public and private vehicles team by providing infrastructure and administrative support in the areas of accounting/finance, valuation, capital markets and treasury functions, operations/information technology, strategy and business development and legal/compliance.

Regulatory and Compliance Matters

Our business, as well as the financial services industry generally, are subject to extensive regulation in the United States and elsewhere. The SEC and other regulators around the globe have in recent years significantly increased their regulatory activities with respect to alternative asset management firms. Certain of our business are subject to compliance with laws and regulations of United States federal and state governments, their respective agencies and/or various self-regulatory organizations or exchanges, and any failure to comply with these regulations could expose us to liability and/or reputational damage. Our business has operated for a number of years within a legal framework that requires our being able to monitor and comply with a broad range of legal and regulatory developments that affect our activities. However, additional legislation, changes in rules promulgated by regulators or changes in the interpretation or enforcement of existing laws and rules, either in the United States or elsewhere, may directly affect our mode of operation and profitability.

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Certain of our subsidiaries are registered as investment advisers with the SEC. Registered investment advisers are subject to the requirements and regulations of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Advisers Act”). Such requirements relate to, among other things, fiduciary duties to advisory clients, maintaining an effective compliance program, solicitation agreements, conflicts of interest, recordkeeping and reporting requirements, disclosure requirements, limitations on agency cross and principal transactions between an advisor and advisory clients and general anti-fraud prohibitions. The SEC requires investment advisers registered or required to register with the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act that advise one or more private funds and have at least $150.0 million in private fund assets under management to periodically file reports on Form PF. We have filed, and will continue to file, quarterly reports on Form PF, which has resulted in increased administrative costs and requires a significant amount of attention and time to be spent by our personnel. In addition, our investment advisers are subject to routine periodic examinations by the staff of the SEC. Our investment advisers also have not been subject to any regulatory or disciplinary actions by the SEC.

MCC and SIC are BDCs. A BDC is a special category of investment company under the Investment Company Act that was added by Congress to facilitate the flow of capital to private companies and small public companies based in the United States that do not have efficient or cost-effective access to public capital markets or other conventional forms of corporate financing. BDCs make investments in private or thinly traded public companies in the form of long-term debt and/or equity capital, with the goal of generating current income or capital growth.

BDCs are closed-end funds that elect to be regulated as BDCs under the Investment Company Act. As such, BDCs are subject to only certain provisions of the Investment Company Act, as well as the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. BDCs are provided greater flexibility under the Investment Company Act than are other investment companies that are registered under the Investment Company Act in dealing with their portfolio companies, issuing securities, and compensating their managers. BDCs can be internally or externally managed and may qualify to elect to be taxed as a regulated investment company (“RIC”) under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and the regulations thereunder, for federal tax purposes. The Investment Company Act contains prohibitions and restrictions relating to transactions between BDCs and their affiliates, principal underwriters, and affiliates of those affiliates or underwriters. The Investment Company Act requires that a majority of a BDC’s directors be persons other than “interested persons,” as that term is defined in the Investment Company Act. In addition, the Investment Company Act provides that a BDC may not change the nature of its business so as to cease to be, or withdraw its election to be regulated as a BDC unless approved by a majority of its outstanding voting securities. The Investment Company Act defines “a majority of the outstanding voting securities” as the lesser of: (1) 67% or more of the voting securities present at a meeting if the holders of more than 50% of its outstanding voting securities are present or represented by proxy or (2) more than 50% of its voting securities.

Generally, BDCs are prohibited under the Investment Company Act from knowingly participating in certain transactions with their affiliates without the prior approval of their board of directors who are not interested persons and, in some cases, prior approval by the SEC. The SEC has interpreted the prohibition on transactions with affiliates to prohibit “joint transactions” among entities that share a common investment adviser.

On November 25, 2013, we received an amended order from the SEC that expanded our ability to negotiate the terms of co-investment transactions among our BDCs and other funds managed by us (the “Exemptive Order”), subject to the conditions included therein. In situations where co-investment with other funds managed by us is not permitted or appropriate, such as when there is an opportunity to invest in different securities of the same issuer or where the different investments could be expected to result in a conflict between our interests and those of our other clients, we will need to decide which client will proceed with the investment. We will make these determinations based on our policies and procedures, which generally require that such opportunities be offered to eligible accounts on an alternating basis that will be fair and equitable over time. Moreover, except in certain circumstances, our BDCs will be unable to invest in any issuer in which another of our funds holds an existing investment. Similar restrictions limit our BDCs’ ability to transact business with our officers or directors or their affiliates.

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Under the terms of the Exemptive Order, a “required majority” (as defined in Section 57(o) of the Investment Company Act) of the independent directors of our BDCs must make certain conclusions in connection with a co-investment transaction, including that (1) the terms of the proposed transaction are reasonable and fair to the applicable BDC and such BDC’s stockholders and do not involve overreaching of such BDC or its stockholders on the part of any person concerned and (2) the transaction is consistent with the interests of the BDC’s stockholders and is consistent with its investment strategies and policies.

Our BDCs have elected to be treated as RICs under Subchapter M of the Code. As RICs, the BDCs generally do not have to pay corporate-level federal income taxes on any income that is distributed to its stockholders from its tax earnings and profits. To maintain qualification as an RIC, our BDCs must, among other things, meet certain source-of-income and asset diversification requirements (as described below). In addition, in order to obtain and maintain RIC tax treatment, the BDCs must distribute to their stockholders, for each taxable year, at least 90% of their “investment company taxable income,” which is generally its net ordinary income plus the excess, if any, of realized net short-term capital gains over realized net long-term capital losses.

In July 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act, among other things, imposes significant new regulations on nearly every aspect of the U.S. financial services industry, including oversight and regulation of systemic market risk (including the power to liquidate certain institutions); authorizing the Federal Reserve to regulate nonbank institutions that are deemed systemically important; generally prohibiting insured banks or thrifts, any bank holding company or savings and loan holding company, any non-U.S. bank with a U.S. branch, agency or commercial lending company and any subsidiaries and affiliates of any of these types of entities, regardless of geographic location, from conducting proprietary trading or investing in or sponsoring a “covered fund,” which includes private equity funds and hedge funds (i.e., the Volcker Rule); and imposing new registration, recordkeeping and reporting requirements on private fund investment advisers. Importantly, while several key aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act have been defined through final rules, many aspects will be implemented by various regulatory bodies over the next several years.

The Dodd-Frank Act requires the CFTC, the SEC and other regulatory authorities to promulgate certain rules relating to the regulation of the derivatives market. Such rules require or will require the registration of certain market participants, the clearing of certain derivatives contracts through central counterparties, the execution of certain derivatives contracts on electronic platforms, as well as reporting and recordkeeping of derivatives transactions. Certain of our funds may from time to time, directly or indirectly, invest in instruments that meet the definition of a “swap” under the Commodity Exchange Act and the CFTC’s rules promulgated thereunder. As a result, such funds may qualify as commodity pools, and the operators of such funds may need to register as commodity pool operators (“CPOs”) unless an exemption applies. Additionally, pursuant to a rule finalized by the CFTC in December 2012, certain classes of interest rate swaps and certain classes of index credit default swaps are now subject to mandatory clearing, unless an exemption applies. As of February 2014, many of these interest rate swaps and index credit default swaps are also now subject to mandatory trading on designated contract markets or swap execution facilities. The Dodd-Frank Act also provides expanded enforcement authority to the CFTC and SEC. While certain rules have been promulgated and are already in effect, the rulemaking and implementation process is still ongoing. In particular, the CFTC has finalized most of its rules under the Dodd-Frank Act, and the SEC has proposed several rules regarding security-based swaps but has only finalized a small number of these rules.

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We face competition in our lending and other investment activities primarily from other credit-focused funds, specialized funds, BDCs, real estate funds, hedge fund sponsors, other financial institutions and other parties. Many of these competitors in some of our business are substantially larger and have considerably greater financial, technical and marketing resources than are available to us. Many of these competitors have similar investment objectives to us, which may create additional competition for investment opportunities. Some of these competitors may also have a lower cost of capital and access to funding sources that are not available to us, which may create competitive disadvantages for us with respect to investment opportunities. In addition, some of these competitors may have higher risk tolerances, different risk assessments or lower return thresholds, which could allow them to consider a wider variety of investments and to bid more aggressively than us for investments that we want to make. Lastly, institutional and individual investors are allocating increasing amounts of capital to alternative investment strategies. Several large institutional investors have announced a desire to consolidate their investments in a more limited number of managers. We expect that this will cause competition in our industry to intensify and could lead to a reduction in the size and duration of pricing inefficiencies.

Competition is also intense for the attraction and retention of qualified employees. Our ability to continue to compete effectively in our business will depend upon our ability to attract new employees and retain and motivate our existing employees.

For additional information concerning the competitive risks that we face, see “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business and Industry — The investment management business is competitive.”

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MVF Holdings on a secured loan with an outstanding balance at the time in excess of $65 million. The lawsuit sought damages in excess of $100 million. Deloitte and Avila have settled the claims against them in exchange for payment of $1.5 million. On June 6, 2016, the court granted defendants’ demurrers on several counts and dismissed Mr. Barkat’s claims except with respect to his claim for intentional interference with contract. MCC and the other defendants continue to dispute the remaining allegations and are vigorously defending the lawsuit while pursuing affirmative counterclaims against Mr. Barkat and MVF Holdings.

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Our primary expenses are compensation to our employees, performance fee compensation and general, administrative and other expenses. Compensation includes salaries, discretionary bonuses, stock-based compensation expenses and benefits paid and payable to our employees. Performance fee compensation is related to performance fees, generally consisting of incentive allocations in our long-dated private funds that we grant to certain of our professionals. General and administrative expenses include costs primarily related to professional services, office rent and related expenses, expense support agreement expenses related to SIC, depreciation and amortization, travel and related expenses, information technology, communication and information services, placement fees and third-party marketing expenses and other general operating items.

Trends Affecting Our Business

We believe that our disciplined investment philosophy contributes to the stability of our firm’s performance. However, our results of operations, including the fair value of our AUM, may be affected by a variety of factors, including conditions in the global financial markets as well as economic and political environments, particularly in the United States.

During fiscal year 2015, concerns over declines in commodity markets, increasing interest rates, particularly short-term rates, slow economic expansion in non U.S. economies, all highlight the fact that economic conditions were unpredictable and volatile for the year. The ongoing weakness in commodity prices, especially of crude oil, and the uncertainty regarding the stability of the oil and gas markets resulted in a tightening of credit across multiple sectors. Mark to market losses on commodity related debt caused pricing volatility on credit returns and increased financing costs for business across most sectors.

In general, these market and economic conditions continued into the first fiscal quarter of 2016. This continued market uncertainty combined with our ability to lend across the capital structure and at varying interest rates should provide our firm access to a larger borrower subset; especially as traditional lending sources including banks and the public markets are pulling away from non-investment grade borrowers.

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Note Regarding Deconsolidation

During fiscal year 2015, we adopted new consolidation guidance that resulted in the deconsolidation of our Consolidated Funds, effective January 1, 2015. Prior to 2015, we consolidated certain funds in our consolidated financial statements, which resulted in us reporting significantly greater amounts of assets, liabilities, total equity and cash flows, but had no effect on the amount of reported net income attributable to Medley LLC for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013. For further information, see “Critical Accounting Policies — Principles of Consolidation” and Note 2, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” to our audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 included in this prospectus.

Components of Our Results of Operations

Management Fees.   Management fees include both base management fees as well as Part I incentive fees. In our consolidated results, our base management fees attributable to our Consolidated Funds were eliminated in our consolidated results of operations.

In addition, we also receive non asset-based management fees that may include special fees such as origination fees, transaction fees and similar fees paid to us in connection with portfolio investments of our funds. These fees are specific to particular transactions and the contractual terms of the portfolio investments, and are recognized when earned.

Beginning January 1, 2016, MCC Advisors LLC’s base management fee is calculated at an annual rate of 1.75% on MCC’s gross assets up to $1.0 billion and 1.50% on MCC’s gross assets above $1.0 billion. In addition, MCC Advisors LLC’s Part I incentive fees are equal to 17.5% on pre-incentive fee net investment income, subject to a fixed hurdle rate of 6% per year with a catch-up. Moreover, the incentive fee includes a netting mechanism and is subject to a rolling three-year look back from January 1, 2016 forward. For details

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of the new MCC fee structure, please see “Description of Business — Our Fee Structure.” Under no circumstances will the new fee structure result in higher fees to MCC Advisors LLC.

Prior to January 1, 2016, MCC Part I incentive fees were equal to 20.0% of net investment income (before MCC Part I incentive fees and MCC Part II incentive fees), subject to a fixed hurdle rate of 2.0% per quarter, calculated on the prior quarter NAV. No fee was earned until MCC’s net investment income exceeded the 2.0% hurdle rate. There was a catch-up provision that allocated to us all investment income above the hurdle rate but below a 2.5% return on the prior quarter NAV. Thereafter, we received 20.0% of MCC’s net investment income above a 2.5% return on the prior quarter NAV. MCC Part I incentive fees were not subject to repayment (or clawback), and were paid quarterly in cash.

SIC Part I incentive fees are equal to 20.0% of its net investment income (before SIC Part I incentive fees and SIC Part II incentive fees), subject to a fixed hurdle rate of 1.75% per quarter, calculated on the prior quarter NAV. No fee is earned until SIC’s net investment income exceeds the 1.75% hurdle rate. There is a catch-up provision that allocates to us all investment income above the hurdle rate but below a 2.1875% return on the prior quarter NAV. Thereafter, we receive 20.0% of SIC’s net investment income above a 2.1875% return on the prior quarter net assets value. SIC Part I incentive fees are not subject to repayment (or clawback) and are paid quarterly in cash.

Performance Fees.   Our long-dated private funds and some of our SMAs have industry standard carried interest performance fee structures and are typically 15% to 20% of the total return over a 6.0% to 8.0% annualized preferred return. We record these fees on an accrual basis, to the extent such amounts are contractually due but not paid, and we present this revenue as a separate line item on our consolidated statements of operations. These fees are subject to clawbacks, and netted against unrealized and realized losses.

The timing and amount of performance fees generated by our funds is uncertain. If we were to have a realization event in a particular quarter or year, it may have a significant impact on our results for that particular quarter or year that may not be replicated in subsequent periods.

Generally, if at the termination of a fund (and sometimes at interim points in the life of a fund), the fund has not achieved investment returns that (in most cases) exceed the preferred return threshold or (in all cases) the general partner receives net profits over the life of the fund in excess of its allocable share under the applicable partnership agreement, we will be obligated to repay an amount equal to the extent to which carried interest that was previously distributed to us exceeds the amounts to which we are ultimately entitled. Medley had not received any distributions of performance fees through March 31, 2016, other than tax distributions, a portion of which is subject to clawback. As of March 31, 2016, we accrued $7.1 million for clawback obligations that would need to be paid if the funds were liquidated at fair value as of the end of the reporting period. The Company’s actual obligation, however, would not become payable or realized until the end of a fund’s life.

For any given period, performance fee revenue on our consolidated statements of operations may include reversals of previously recognized performance fees due to a decrease in the value of a particular fund that results in a decrease of cumulative performance fees earned to date. Since fund return hurdles are cumulative, previously recognized fees also may be reversed in a period of appreciation that is lower than the particular fund’s hurdle rate. For the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015, the Company reversed $0.7 million and $0.1 million, respectively, of previously recognized performance fees. As of March 31, 2016, the Company recognized cumulative performance fees of $4.0 million. For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, the Company reversed $24.0 million and $2.3 million, respectively, of previously recognized performance fees. The Company did not reverse any previously recognized performance fees during the year ended December 31, 2013. Cumulative performance fees recognized through March 31, 2016 were $4.0 million.

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Other Revenues and Fees.   We provide administrative services to certain of our affiliated funds that are reported as other revenues and fees. Such fees are recognized as revenue in the period that administrative services are rendered. These fees are generally based on expense reimbursements for the portion of overhead and other expenses incurred by certain professionals directly attributable to each respective fund. In certain cases, the entities that receive management and incentive fees from our funds are owned by Medley together with other persons.

Expenses

Compensation and Benefits .  Compensation and benefits generally includes salaries, discretionary bonuses and benefits paid and payable to our employees. Compensation also includes stock based compensation associated with the grants of equity based awards to our employees. Compensation expenses relating to restricted stock units are measured at fair value as of the grant date, taking into consideration expected forfeitures, and are expensed over the vesting period on a straight line basis. Bonuses are accrued over the service period to which they relate.

Guaranteed payments made to our senior professionals who are members of Medley LLC are recognized as compensation expense. The payments to our Co-Chief Executive Officers are performance based and periodically set subject to maximums based on our total AUM. Such maximums aggregated to $1.3 million for each of the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 and $5.0 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014. Commencing with the fourth quarter of 2014, for the year ended December 31, 2015 and for the three months ended March 31, 2016, neither of the Company’s Co-Chief Executive Officers received any guaranteed payments.

Performance Fee Compensation.   Performance fee compensation includes compensation related to performance fees, which generally consists of profit interests that we grant to our employees. Depending on the nature of each fund, the performance fee participation is generally structured as a fixed percentage or as an annual award. The liability is recorded subject to the vesting of the profits interest granted and is calculated based upon the net present value of the projected performance fees. Payments to profit interest holders are payable when the performance fees are paid to Medley by the respective fund. It is possible that we may record performance fee compensation during a period in which we do not record any performance fee revenue or we have a reversal of previously recognized performance fee revenue. We have an obligation to pay our employees a portion of the performance fees earned from certain funds, including revenue from Consolidated Funds that is eliminated in consolidation.

Consolidated Funds Expenses.   Consolidated Funds expenses consist primarily of costs incurred by our Consolidated Funds, including professional fees, research expenses, trustee fees and other costs associated with administering these funds. These expenses are generally attributable to the related funds’ limited partners and are allocated to non-controlling interests. As such, these expenses have no material impact on the net income attributable to Medley LLC and its consolidated subsidiaries.

General, Administrative and Other Expenses.   General and administrative expenses include costs primarily related to professional services, office rent, depreciation and amortization, general insurance, recruiting, travel and related expenses, information technology, communication and information services, placement fees, SIC expenses under an investment advisory and expense support and reimbursement agreements and other general operating items.

Other Income/Expense

Dividend Income .  Dividend income consists of dividends associated with our equity method investment in SIC. Dividends are recognized on an accrual basis to the extent that such amounts are declared and expected to be collected.

Interest Expense.   Interest expense consists primarily of interest expense relating to debt incurred by us.

Other Expenses, Net.   Other expenses, net consists primarily of expenses associated with our revenue share payable, equity income (loss) and unrealized gains (losses) associated with our equity method investments.

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income are recognized on an accrual basis to the extent such amounts are expected to be collected. These sources of revenue are generally attributable to the related funds’ limited partners and are allocated to non-controlling interests. As such, these sources of revenue have no direct material impact on the net income attributable to Medley LLC.

Interest Expense of Consolidated Funds.   Interest expense of Consolidated Funds relates to interest and dividend income generated from the underlying investments securities attributable to the counterparty to the loan participations. Interest expense on secured borrowings of our Consolidated Funds is recognized on the same basis as the underlying interest and other income. As such, this interest expense has no direct material impact on the net income attributable to Medley LLC.

Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investments of Consolidated Funds.   Net realized gain (loss) on investments of Consolidated Funds consists of realized gains and losses arising from dispositions of investments held by our Consolidated Funds. Substantially all of the net investment gains (losses) of our Consolidated Funds are generally attributable to the related funds’ limited partners and allocated to non-controlling interests.

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Investments of Consolidated Funds.   Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments of Consolidated Funds reflects both unrealized gains and losses on investments from periodic changes in fair value of investments held by our Consolidated Funds and the reversal upon disposition of investments of unrealized gains and losses previously recognized for those investments. The net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments of Consolidated Funds is generally attributable to the related funds’ limited partners and allocated to non-controlling interests.

Net Change in Unrealized Depreciation (Appreciation) on Secured Borrowings of Consolidated Funds.   Net change in unrealized depreciation (appreciation) on secured borrowings of Consolidated Funds reflects both unrealized gains and losses from periodic changes in the fair value of these secured borrowings attributable to loan participations of our Consolidated Funds and the reversal upon repayments of these secured borrowings of unrealized gains and losses previously recognized for these secured borrowings. The net change in unrealized depreciation (appreciation) on secured borrowings of Consolidated Funds is attributable to the counterparty to the loan participations. As such, these unrealized gains and losses have no material impact on the net income attributable to Medley LLC.

Provision for Income Taxes.   We are treated as a partnership for income tax purposes and are therefore not subject to U.S. federal, state and local corporate income taxes. The Company is subject to New York City unincorporated business tax attributable to taxable income allocable to New York City.

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statements carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. To the extent it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will not be recognized, a valuation allowance is provided to offset their benefit.

We recognize the benefit of an income tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained upon tax examination, based solely on the technical merits of the tax position. Otherwise, no benefit is recognized. The tax benefits recognized are measured based on the largest benefit that has a greater than 50% percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement. Interest expense and penalties related to income tax matters are recognized as a component of the provision for income taxes.

Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Non-Controlling Interests in Consolidated Funds.   Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests in Consolidated Funds represents the ownership interests that third parties hold in Consolidated Funds that are consolidated in our financial statements.

Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Non-Controlling Interests in Consolidated Subsidiaries.   Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests in consolidated subsidiaries represents the ownership interests that third parties hold in consolidated subsidiaries.

Our private funds are closed-end funds, and accordingly do not permit investors to redeem their interests other than in limited circumstances that are beyond our control, such as instances in which retaining the limited

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partnership interest could cause the limited partner to violate a law, regulation or rule. In addition, SMAs for a single investor may allow such investor to terminate the investment management agreement at the discretion of the investor pursuant to the terms of the applicable documents. We manage assets for MCC and SIC, both of which are BDCs. The capital managed by MCC and SIC is permanently committed to these funds and cannot be redeemed by investors.

Managing Business Performance

Non-GAAP Financial Information

In addition to analyzing our results on a GAAP basis, management also makes operating decisions and assesses business performance based on the financial and operating metrics and data that are presented without the consolidation of any funds. Core Net Income, Core EBITDA and Core Net Income Margin are non-GAAP financial measures that are used by management to assess the performance of our business. There are limitations associated with the use of non-GAAP financial measures as compared to the use of the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure and these measures supplement and should be considered in addition to and not in lieu of the results of operations discussed further under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations — Results of Operations,” which are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Furthermore, such measures may be inconsistent with measures presented by other companies. For a reconciliation of these measures to the most comparable measure in accordance with U.S. GAAP, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations — Reconciliation of Certain Non-GAAP Performance Measures to Consolidated U.S. GAAP Financial Measures.”

Core Net Income.   Core Net Income is an income measure that is used by management to assess the performance of our business through the removal of non-core items, as well as non-recurring expenses associated with the IPO of Medley Management Inc. It is calculated by adjusting net income attributable to Medley LLC to exclude reimbursable expenses associated with the launch of funds, certain one-time severance costs to former employees, amortization of stock-based compensation expense associated with grants of restricted stock units at the time of the IPO of Medley Management Inc. and, for periods prior to January 1, 2015, adjustments to reverse the effect of the consolidation of Consolidated Funds.

Core Earnings Before Interest, Income Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (Core EBITDA).   Core EBITDA is an income measure also used by management to assess the performance of our business. Core EBITDA is calculated as Core Net Income before interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Core Net Income Margin.   Core Net Income Margin equals Core Net Income divided by total revenue and, for periods prior to 2015, total standalone revenue.

Prior to January 1, 2015, under U.S. GAAP, we were required to consolidate entities in which we hold a majority voting interest or have majority ownership and control over the operational, financial and investing decisions of that entity, including affiliated funds, for which we are the general partner and are presumed to have control, and entities that we conclude are VIEs, for which we are deemed the primary beneficiary. See “Critical Accounting Policies — Principles of Consolidation” and Note 2, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” to our audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 included in this prospectus. For the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, revenues from management fees, performance fees and investment income on a standalone basis were greater than those presented on a consolidated basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP because certain revenues recognized from Consolidated Funds were eliminated in consolidation. Furthermore, for those years, expenses on a standalone basis were lower than related amounts presented on a consolidated basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP due to the exclusion of the expenses of the Consolidated Funds.

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Key Performance Indicators

When we review our performance we focus on the indicators described below:

		Three Months Ended March 31, (unaudited)								Years Ended December 31,
		2016				2015				2015				2014				2013
		(Amounts in thousands, except AUM)
Consolidated Financial Data:
Net income attributable to Medley LLC		$	850				9,899			$	23,140			$	38,424			$	23,637
Net Income Margin (1)			4.8	%			38.9	%			34.3	%			46.6	%			39.6	%
Balance Sheet Data (at period end):
Total assets			110,681								118,147				906,858				550,292
Total liabilities			136,230								136,917				285,134				104,331
Members’ deficit			(35,961	)							(18,311	)			(5,350	)			(18,554	)
Total equity (deficit)			(38,013	)							(18,770	)			621,724				445,961
Non-GAAP Data: (2)
Core Net Income (3)			6,547				12,854				32,158				41,598				23,206
Core EBITDA			9,067				15,462				41,721				47,957				25,662
Core Net Income Margin			37.3	%			50.4	%			47.7	%			50.4	%			38.9	%
Other Data (at period end, in millions):
AUM		$	5,012				3,924			$	4,779			$	3,682			$	2,283
Fee Earning AUM		$	3,169				3,165			$	3,302			$	3,058			$	2,006

AUM

AUM refers to the assets of our funds. We view AUM as a metric to measure our investment and fundraising performance as it reflects assets generally at fair value plus available uncalled capital. For our funds, our AUM equals the sum of the following:

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The table below provides the roll forward of AUM.

		Permanent Capital Vehicles				Long-dated Private Funds and SMAs				Total				% of AUM
														Permanent Capital Vehicles				Long-dated Private Funds and SMAs
		(Amounts in millions)
Ending balance, December 31, 2012		$	701			$	1,064			$	1,765				40	%			60	%
Commitments (1)			576				129				705
Capital reduction (2)			—				—				—
Distributions (3)			(55	)			(61	)			(116	)
Change in fund value (4)			57				(128	)			(71	)
Ending balance, December 31, 2013		$	1,279			$	1,004			$	2,283				56	%			44	%
Commitments (1)			1,037				704				1,741
Capital reduction (2)			—				(185	)			(185	)
Distributions (3)			(109	)			(33	)			(142	)
Change in fund value (4)			46				(61	)			(15	)
Ending balance, December 31, 2014		$	2,253			$	1,429			$	3,682				61	%			39	%
Commitments (1)			485				874				1,359
Capital reduction (2)			(23	)			(17	)			(40	)
Distributions (3)			(137	)			(75	)			(212	)
Change in fund value (4)			(32	)			22				(10	)
Ending balance, December 31, 2015		$	2,546			$	2,233			$	4,779				53	%			47	%
Commitments (1)			9				362				371
Capital reduction (2)			(10	)			—				(10	)
Distributions (3)			(33	)			(99	)			(132	)
Change in fund value (4)			6				(2	)			4
Ending balance, March 31, 2016		$	2,518			$	2,494			$	5,012				50	%			50	%

Our long-dated private funds and SMAs are limited life vehicles and our AUM and Fee Earning AUM may decrease over time as capital is returned to investors. However if in the future we are not able to raise new commitments for a prolonged period of time, our AUM, Fee Earning AUM and fee income may decline.

AUM increased by $233.0 million, or 5%, to $5.0 billion as of March 31, 2016 compared to AUM as of December 31, 2015. Our permanent capital vehicles decreased AUM by $28.4 million, primarily associated with lower leverage capacity at MCC and share repurchases at MCC, partly offset by new equity issuances at SIC during the period. Our long-dated private funds and SMAs increased AUM by $261.5 million, or 12%, primarily associated with new capital commitments from our SMAs.

AUM increased by $1.1 billion, or 30%, to $4.8 billion as of December 31, 2015 compared to AUM as of December 31, 2014. Our permanent capital vehicles increased AUM by $293.0 million, or 13%, primarily associated with new equity issuances at SIC and increased leverage capacity at both MCC and SIC during the period. Our long-dated private funds and SMAs increased AUM by $804.3 million, or 56%, primarily associated with new capital commitments from our SMAs.

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AUM increased by $1.4 billion, or 61%, to $3.7 billion as of December 31, 2014 compared to AUM as of December 31, 2013. Our permanent capital vehicles increased AUM by $974.9 million, or 76%, primarily associated with new equity issuances and increased leverage capacity at both MCC and SIC during the period. Our long-dated private funds and SMAs increased AUM by $424.4 million, or 42%, primarily associated with new capital commitments from our SMAs.

Fee Earning AUM

Fee earning AUM refers to the AUM on which we directly earn base management fees. We view fee earning AUM as a metric to measure changes in the assets from which we earn management fees. Our fee earning AUM is the sum of all the individual fee earning assets of our funds that contribute directly to our management fees and generally equals the sum of:

Our calculations of fee earning AUM and AUM may differ from the calculations of other asset managers and, as a result, this measure may not be comparable to similar measures presented by others. In addition, our calculations of fee earning AUM and AUM may not be based on any definition of fee earning AUM or AUM that is set forth in the agreements governing the investment funds that we advise.

Components of Fee Earning AUM

		As of March 31, 2016				As of December 31,
						2015				2014				2013
		(Amounts in millions)
Fee earning AUM based on gross asset value		$	2,159			$	2,238			$	2,047			$	1,.072
Fee earning AUM based on capital commitments			113				113				88				581
Fee earning AUM based on invested capital or NAV			897				951				923				353
Total fee earning AUM		$	3,169			$	3,302			$	3,058			$	2,006