ABOUT MAIN STREET CAPITAL CORPORATION
Main Street (www.mainstcapital.com) is a principal investment firm that primarily provides
customized long-term debt and equity capital solutions to lower middle market companies and
debt capital to private companies owned by or in the process of being acquired by a private
equity fund. Main Street’s portfolio investments are typically made to support management
buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings, refinancings and acquisitions of companies that
operate in diverse industry sectors. Main Street seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business
owners and management teams and generally provides customized “one-stop” debt and equity
financing solutions within its lower middle market investment strategy. Main Street seeks to
partner with private equity fund sponsors and primarily invests in secured debt investments in its
private loan investment strategy. Main Street’s lower middle market portfolio companies
generally have annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million. Main Street’s private
loan portfolio companies generally have annual revenues between $25 million and $500 million.
Main Street, through its wholly-owned portfolio company MSC Adviser I, LLC (“MSC
Adviser”), also maintains an asset management business through which it manages investments
for external parties. MSC Adviser is registered as an investment adviser under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, as amended.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including but not limited to the
use of the proceeds of the offering. Any such statements other than statements of historical fact
are likely to be affected by other unknowable future events and conditions, including elements of
the future that are or are not under Main Street’s control, and that Main Street may or may not
have considered; accordingly, such statements cannot be guarantees or assurances of any aspect
of future performance. Actual performance, events and results could vary materially from these
estimates and projections of the future as a result of a number of factors, including those
described from time to time in Main Street’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. Such statements speak only as of the time when made and are based on information
available to Main Street as of the date hereof and are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary
statement. Main Street assumes no obligation to revise or update any such statement now or in
the future.