New Mountain Finance Corporation Completes Initial Public Offering

NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE )--New Mountain Finance Corporation (the "Company") (NYSE: NMFC) announced today the closing of its initial offering of 7,272,727 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $13.75 per share for total gross proceeds of approximately $100 million. The Company has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 1,090,909 shares of its common stock. Concurrently with the closing of this offering and at the public offering price of $13.75 per share, the Company sold an additional 2,172,000 shares of its common stock to certain executives and employees of, and other individuals affiliated with, New Mountain Capital, L.L.C. (an affiliate of the Company) in a separate private placement.

The Company will use all of the proceeds from this offering as well as the proceeds from the concurrent private placement to acquire common membership units from New Mountain Finance Holdings, L.L.C. New Mountain Finance Holdings, L.L.C., in turn, intends to use the net proceeds for new investments in portfolio companies in accordance with its investment objective and strategies, the temporary repayment of indebtedness (which will be subject to reborrowing), to pay the Company’s and its operating expenses and distributions to its members and for general corporate purposes.

The joint-lead bookrunners for the initial public offering were Goldman, Sachs & Co., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated. The co-lead managers for the initial public offering were Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and RBC Capital Markets, LLC. The co-managers were Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, BB&T Capital Markets, a division of Scott & Stringfellow, LLC, and Janney Montgomery Scott LLC.

Investors are advised to carefully consider the investment objective, risks and charges and expenses of the Company before investing. The prospectus dated May 19, 2011, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, contains this and other information about New Mountain Finance Corporation and should be read carefully before investing.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the shares of common stock referenced herein, and none of these shares may be sold in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.