Small Business Investment: The bill expands the SBA's
Small Business Investment Company Program by increasing the maximum amount of leverage available in most cases from $ 75 million to $ 150 million ($ 175 million for funds that invest in poor areas).
Similarly, the SBA beefed up its Small
Business Investment Company program, where the agency works with venture capital and private equity firms to provide capital to high - growth companies.
«Labour is planning for a British investment bank to help SMEs and we are also looking seriously at proposals for a UK version of the US small
business investment company scheme.
The Small
Business Investment Company in the US has used government - backed guarantees to provide critical, early stage finance to some phenomenal business success stories, like Apple and Intel.
Yet by shuttering the program as the market hit bottom and forgoing the possibility of future profits, the government, as Lee Mercer, president of the National Association of
Small Business Investment Companies, puts it, «has decided to lock in its losses.»
In 2004 the SBA stopped licensing so - called «participating security» Small
Business Investment Companies, venture funds that use SBA - backed leverage to make equity investments typically up to $ 5 million each.
One great example of this is the U.S. Small Business Administration's Small
Business Investment Company (SBIC) program, a public - private partnership with no cost to taxpayers.
One solution, the Small
Business Investment Companies (SBIC) is a partnership by which the federal government provides matching funds to experienced private investment companies across the country.
Working capital loans and access to specialized financing to certified minority businesses which have supplier / vendor relationships with NMSDC national and regional corporate members, through the Business Consortium Fund, as well as longer - term financing through Triad Capital Corporation, the BCF's Specialized Small
Business Investment Company (SSBIC); and professional consulting services through BCF Business and Financial Advisory Services, Inc..
Another measure included in theSUCCESS Act is the Expanding Access to Capital for Entrepreneurial Leaders (EXCEL) Act, which would modify the Small
Business Investment Company (SBIC) program to raise the amount of SBIC debt the Small Business Administration (SBA) can guarantee from $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion.
For more than 20 years, Foley Hoag's Fund Formation attorneys have helped clients form all types of private investment funds, including hedge funds, venture capital funds, private equity funds, small
business investment companies (SBICs), timber funds, funds of funds and other alternative investment funds.
We focus on developments in the industry affecting internally and externally managed business development companies (BDCs), including traded, non-traded and private BDCs, small
business investment companies (SBICs), and other structured vehicles including special purpose acquisition vehicles.
Previously he was a co-founder, partner and managing director of Contemporary Healthcare Capital, LLC where he was responsible for the day - to - day management and oversight of all activities, including the formation and management of seven health care funds and three licensed small
business investment companies.