Prospect Capital Provides Additional $11.8 Million of First Lien Senior Secured Floating Rate Debt to System One


NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Jul 14, 2015) - Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: PSEC) ("Prospect") announced today that Prospect provided System One Holdings, LLC ("System One"), a portfolio company of MidOcean Partners ("MidOcean"), with an incremental $11.8 million of first lien senior secured floating rate debt to support the acquisition of AECOM's quality programs business ("Quality Programs"). System One utilized a delayed draw term loan to which Prospect previously committed. Prospect now provides approximately $80 million of financing to System One as the sole term lender.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, System One is a top 35 staffing firm in the United States and is a leader in specialized workforce solutions. System One provides professional staffing and targeted services primarily to the energy, engineering, commercial, scientific, clinical, information technology, and legal sectors. System One has over 700 employees in 48 North American offices and averages approximately 5,000 revenue-producing consultants.

Quality Programs employs over 300 quality inspection personnel who provide destructive and nondestructive testing, quality assurance, and quality control primarily to nuclear, government, and petrochemical customers.

"In our November 2014 financing, we provided MidOcean with a delayed draw term loan available for performance-based shareholder distributions and accretive acquisitions," said Jason Wilson, a Managing Director of Prospect Capital Management L.P. "We are pleased to support MidOcean's decision to use our facility to continue to enhance System One's scale and scope through an acquisition that creates a highly competitive player in the nondestructive testing and quality services markets."

Prospect closed approximately $2.0 billion of new originations in the twelve months ended June 30, 2015.

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Prospect has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"). Prospect is required to comply with a series of regulatory requirements under the 1940 Act as well as applicable NASDAQ, federal and state rules and regulations. Prospect has elected to be treated as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Failure to comply with any of the laws and regulations that apply to Prospect could have an adverse effect on Prospect and its shareholders.

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