On February 23, 2023, Monroe Capital LLC, a premier boutique middle market asset manager, announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC, the investment adviser to Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN), a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries. Horizon Technology Finance Corporation’s board of directors unanimously approved a new investment advisory agreement with the investment adviser, subject to stockholder approval and the closing of the transaction.

Horizon Technology Finance Corporation is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company, or BDC, under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

The team representing Monroe Capital was led by Jon Talcott, Joel Hughey, Lorie Mason, and Mike Bradshaw, with special assistance from Amanda Downing and Jim Rollins, and support from Justin Blair, Timothy Wagner, Carter Rummel, Chip Gray, Wells Hall, Matthew Zischke, Zahra Asadi, Brian Galison, Nichole Hayden, Peter Strand, Fady Ghaly, Kaylen Loflin, Amy Cheng, Caambridge Horton, Michelle Johnson, Colleen Kline, Gary Brown, Daniel Lumm, Rebekah McCorvey, and Kelsie Willett.