NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 07/09/13 — Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: PSEC) (“Prospect”) announced today that Prospect served as sole agent and provider of $18.0 million of incremental floating-rate second lien secured debt to New Star Metals (“NSM”), a portfolio company of investment funds managed by Insight Equity Holdings LLC (“Insight Equity”), to support the acquisition of Canfield Metal Coating Corporation (“CMC”) and a partial recapitalization of NSM.
Based in the Chicago area, NSM provides steel processing, building products, and supply chain management services across a diverse array of end markets. NSM operates through its four divisions, including Electric Coating Technologies, Premier Resource Group, World Class Corrugating, and Canfield Coating.
“Prospect played a critical role in the transaction by providing additional debt capital to New Star as an already existing lender to the company,” said Jack Waterstreet, a Principal of Insight Equity. “Once again, Prospect was responsive to the company–s financing needs with a customized and value-added financing solution.”
“Prospect is pleased to provide acquisition financing to the company to enable Insight Equity and the company to execute on their strategic initiatives,” said David Moszer, a Managing Director of Prospect Capital Management LLC. “Prospect regularly provides follow-on financing solutions to facilitate tuck-in acquisition financing for our private equity owned portfolio companies.”
Prospect has closed more than $1.5 billion of originations to date in the current 2013 calendar year, including nearly $800 million in originations in the June 2013 quarter. Prospect closed more than $3.0 billion of originations in the twelve months ended June 30, 2013.
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