Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC (TCP) is a leading multi-strategy alternative investment management firm focused primarily on credit opportunities. Since the firm's founding in 1999, TCP has invested $10 billion in approximately 200 portfolio companies through its credit opportunities strategy, in addition to investments by specialty funds focused on debtor-in-possession financing, and convertible and event-driven strategies. Today, the firm has capital under management of approximately $5 billion. TCP targets primarily U.S. middle-market credits where the firm can play a meaningful role in each situation, in investment positions of up to $250 million. The firm can be an active control investor or a supportive financial partner. TCP is the external advisor to publicly-traded business development company, TCP Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: TCPC). As of September 30, 2012, TCP Capital's investment portfolio consisted of debt and equity positions in 46 portfolio companies with a total fair value of approximately $490.1 million. Debt positions represented approximately 89% of the portfolio fair value, 95% of which were senior secured debt. Equity positions represented approximately 11% of the investment portfolio.