FIDUS INVESTMENT CORPORATION (a Maryland Corporation) $60,000,000 6.00% Notes due 2024 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • February 8th, 2019 • FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp • New York
Fidus Investment Corporation, a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), and Fidus Investment Advisors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Advisor”) registered as an investment advisor under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “Advisers Act”), confirm their agreement with the underwriters listed on Schedule A hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), for whom Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (“KBW”) is acting as representative (in such capacity, the “Representative”), with respect to the issue and sale by the Company and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly (the “Offering”), of $60,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.00% Notes due 2024 (the “Firm Notes”), in the respective principal amounts set forth in Schedule A hereto, and with respect to the grant by the Company to the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the option described in Section 3(b) hereof to purchase all or a
