LOCKE LORD

Our experience working with SBICs, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Small Business Investor Alliance (SBIA) and our skills at offering innovative business solutions help to ensure that Locke Lord's representation of SBIC funds will be managed in an efficient and cost-effective manner... Transactions Members of the Locke Lord SBIC practice group frequently work with SBICs to structure, negotiate and document all types of transactions to execute a fund's investment strategies and deploy its capital, including control acquisitions, minority equity investments, senior debt financings, mezzanine debt financings and "debtquity" investments. A key element of Locke Lord's work with SBICs is structuring and documenting the transaction in a manner so as to meet all of the requirements of SBIC regulations and compliance obligations. Locke Lord assists SBIC funds with other types of transactions as well, including (1) representing funds with secondary sales of its portfolio..

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