-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, PZFnjT5wueKJ+f62+zIDvu91bcgRluiD33BZpJ2rLKr+RT5WvaEw7j9M2tRv/kX/ sBlsDtCgZfDQaoOdo5YAVA== 0001193125-07-154991.txt : 20070713 0001193125-07-154991.hdr.sgml : 20070713 20070713170246 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-07-154991 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: POS EX PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070713 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070713 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20070713 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT CAPITAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001259429 IRS NUMBER: 200118736 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: POS EX SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-142154 FILM NUMBER: 07979150 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 8 SOUND SHORE DR STREET 2: SUITE 255 CITY: GREENWICH STATE: CT ZIP: 06830 BUSINESS PHONE: 2039835275 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 8 SOUND SHORE DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE 255 CITY: GREENWICH STATE: CT ZIP: 06830 POS EX 1 dposex.htm POS EX POS EX

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13, 2007

Securities Act File No. 333-142154

 


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 


FORM N-2

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933    x

(Check appropriate box or boxes)

 


Pre-Effective Amendment No.                ¨

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1            x

TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT CAPITAL CORP.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in charter)

 


8 Sound Shore Drive, Suite 255

Greenwich, CT 06830

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (203) 983-5275

Jonathan H. Cohen

Chief Executive Officer

Technology Investment Capital Corp.

8 Sound Shore Drive, Suite 255

Greenwich, CT 06830

(Name and address of agent for service)

 


COPIES TO:

Steven B. Boehm

Cynthia M. Krus

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20004

APPROXIMATE DATE OF PROPOSED PUBLIC OFFERING:

From time to time after the effective date of the Registration Statement.

 


If any securities being registered on this form will be offered on a delayed or continuous basis in reliance on Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered in connection with a dividend reinvestment plan, check the following box.    x


 


EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-142154) is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), solely for the purpose of adding additional exhibits to such Registration Statement. Accordingly, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 consists only of a facing page, this explanatory note, and Part C of the Registration Statement on Form N-2. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 does not change the preliminary prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 497 under the Securities Act on July 9, 2007 or the final prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 497 under the Securities Act on July 10, 2007. As permitted by Rule 462(d), this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 shall become effective upon filing with the SEC.


PART C—OTHER INFORMATION

 

Item 25. Financial Statements and Exhibits

1. Financial Statements:

The following financial statements of Technology Investment Capital Corp. are included in Part A “Information Required in a Prospectus” of the Registration Statement:

TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT CAPITAL CORP.

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

   F-2

Statements of Assets and Liabilities as of December 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005

   F-4

Schedule of Investments as of December 31, 2006

   F-5

Schedule of Investments as of December 31, 2005

   F-8

Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2006, December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004

  

F-10

Statements of Changes in Net Assets for the years ended December 31, 2006, December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004

  

F-11

Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2006, December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004

  

F-12

Notes to Financial Statements

   F-13
Statements of Assets and Liabilities as of March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006    F-22
Schedule of Investments as of March 31, 2007    F-23
Schedule of Investments as of December 31, 2006    F-26
Statements of Operations for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006    F-29

Statements of Changes in Net Assets for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and for the year ended December 31, 2006

  

F-30

Statements of Cash Flows for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006    F-31
Notes to Financial Statements    F-32

 

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2. Exhibits

 

Exhibit
Number
 

Description

a.   Articles of Incorporation (Incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-109055) filed on September 23, 2003).
b.   Amended and Restated Bylaws (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-109055) filed on November 19, 2003).
d.   Form of Share Certificate (Incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-109055) filed on September 23, 2003).
e.   Dividend Reinvestment Plan (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-109055) filed on November 6, 2003).
g.   Form of Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement between Registrant and Technology Investment Management, LLC (Incorporated by reference to Appendix B to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Materials on Schedule 14A (File No. 000-50398) filed on May 18, 2004).
h.*   Form of Underwriting Agreement.
j.   Custodian Agreement between Registrant and State Street Bank and Trust Company (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-109055) filed on November 19, 2003).
k.1   Administration Agreement between Registrant and BDC Partners, LLC (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-109055) filed on November 19, 2003).
k.2   Amended and Restated Credit Agreement between Registrant and Royal Bank of Canada (Incorporated by reference to Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 814-00638) filed on April 14, 2006).
k.3   First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement between Registrant and Royal Bank of Canada (Incorporated by reference to Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 814-00638) filed May 9, 2007).
k.4   Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement between Registrant and Royal Bank of Canada (Incorporated by reference to Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 814-00638) filed June 28, 2007).
l.1*   Opinion of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP.
l.2**   Opinion of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP.
n.1*   Consent of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP (Incorporated by reference to exhibit l.1 hereto).
n.2**   Consent of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP (Incorporated by reference to exhibit l.2 hereto).
n.3*   Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
n.4*   Opinion of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, regarding “Senior Securities” table contained herein.
r.   Code of Ethics (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-109055) filed on November 6, 2003.

* Previously filed with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to this Registration Statement on June 29, 2007.

 

** Filed herewith.

 

Item 26. Marketing Arrangements

The information contained under the heading “Plan of Distribution” in the prospectus is incorporated herein by this reference, and any information concerning underwriters will be contained in the accompanying prospectus supplement, if any.

 

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Item 27. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

 

SEC registration fee

   $ 3,006

NASD filing fee

     10,292

Nasdaq Global Select Market listing fee

     15,000

Printing and postage

     100,000

Legal fees and expenses

     350,000

Accounting fees and expenses

     100,000

Miscellaneous

     121,702
      

Total

   $ 700,000
      

Note: All listed amounts are estimates.

 

Item 28. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control

We may be deemed to control certain portfolio companies. See “Portfolio Companies” in the prospectus.

 

Item 29. Number of Holders of Securities

The following table sets forth the approximate number of record holders of TICC’s capital stock as of June 27, 2007:

 

Title of Class

   Number of
Record Holders

Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share

   168

 

Item 30. Indemnification

Reference is made to Section 2-418 of the Maryland General Corporation Law, Article VIII of the Registrant’s Articles of Incorporation, Article XI of the Registrant’s Bylaws, the Investment Advisory Agreement and Administration Agreement.

Maryland law permits a Maryland corporation to include in its charter a provision limiting the liability of its directors and officers to the corporation and its stockholders for money damages except for liability resulting from (a) actual receipt of an improper benefit or profit in money, property or services or (b) active and deliberate dishonesty established by a final judgment and which is material to the cause of action. Our charter contains such a provision which eliminates directors’ and officers’ liability to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law, subject to the requirements of the 1940 Act.

Our charter authorizes us, to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law and subject to the requirements of the 1940 Act, to indemnify any present or former director or officer or any individual who, while a director and at our request, serves or has served another corporation, real estate investment trust, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise as a director, officer, partner or trustee, from and against any claim or liability to which that person may become subject or which that person may incur by reason of his or her status as a present or former director or officer and to pay or reimburse their reasonable expenses in advance of final disposition of a proceeding. Our bylaws obligate us, to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law and subject to the requirements of the 1940 Act, to indemnify any present or former director or officer or any individual who, while a director and at our request, serves or has served another corporation, real estate investment trust, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise as a director, officer, partner or trustee and who is made a party to the proceeding by reason of his service in that capacity from and against any claim or liability to which that person may become subject or which that person may incur by

 

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reason of his or her status as a present or former director or officer and to pay or reimburse their reasonable expenses in advance of final disposition of a proceeding. The charter and bylaws also permit us to indemnify and advance expenses to any person who served a predecessor of us in any of the capacities described above and any of our employees or agents or any employees or agents of our predecessor. In accordance with the 1940 Act, we will not indemnify any person for any liability to which such person would be subject by reason of such person’s willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his office.

Maryland law requires a corporation (unless its charter provides otherwise, which our charter does not) to indemnify a director or officer who has been successful in the defense of any proceeding to which he or she is made a party by reason of his or her service in that capacity. Maryland law permits a corporation to indemnify its present and former directors and officers, among others, against judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable expenses actually incurred by them in connection with any proceeding to which they may be made a party by reason of their service in those or other capacities unless it is established that (a) the act or omission of the director or officer was material to the matter giving rise to the proceeding and (1) was committed in bad faith or (2) was the result of active and deliberate dishonesty, (b) the director or officer actually received an improper personal benefit in money, property or services or (c) in the case of any criminal proceeding, the director or officer had reasonable cause to believe that the act or omission was unlawful. However, under Maryland law, a Maryland corporation may not indemnify for an adverse judgment in a suit by or in the right of the corporation or for a judgment of liability on the basis that a personal benefit was improperly received, unless in either case a court orders indemnification, and then only for expenses. In addition, Maryland law permits a corporation to advance reasonable expenses to a director or officer upon the corporation’s receipt of (a) a written affirmation by the director or officer of his or her good faith belief that he or she has met the standard of conduct necessary for indemnification by the corporation and (b) a written undertaking by him or her or on his or her behalf to repay the amount paid or reimbursed by the corporation if it is ultimately determined that the standard of conduct was not met. The Investment Advisory Agreement provides that, absent willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties or by reason of the reckless disregard of its duties and obligations, Technology Investment Management, LLC (the “Adviser”) and its officers, managers, agents, employees, controlling persons, members and any other person or entity affiliated with it are entitled to indemnification from the Registrant for any damages, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and amounts reasonably paid in settlement) arising from the rendering of the Adviser’s services under the Investment Advisory Agreement or otherwise as an investment adviser of the Registrant.

The Administration Agreement provides that, absent willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties or by reason of the reckless disregard of its duties and obligations, BDC Partners, LLC and its officers, manager, agents, employees, controlling persons, members and any other person or entity affiliated with it are entitled to indemnification from the Registrant for any damages, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and amounts reasonably paid in settlement) arising from the rendering of BDC Partners, LLC’s services under the Administration Agreement or otherwise as administrator for the Registrant.

The law also provides for comparable indemnification for corporate officers and agents. Insofar as indemnification for liability arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

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Item 31. Business and Other Connections of Investment Adviser

A description of any other business, profession, vocation, or employment of a substantial nature in which the Adviser, and each managing director, director or executive officer of the Adviser, is or has been during the past two fiscal years, engaged in for his or her own account or in the capacity of director, officer, employee, partner or trustee, is set forth in Part A of this Registration Statement in the sections entitled “Management—Independent Directors,” “—Interested Directors,” “—Information about Executive Officers who are not Directors” and “Portfolio Management—Investment Personnel.” Additional information regarding the Adviser and its officers and directors is set forth in its Form ADV, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC File No. 801-62278), and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 32. Location of Accounts and Records

All accounts, books, and other documents required to be maintained by Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the rules thereunder are maintained at the offices of:

 

  (1) the Registrant, Technology Investment Capital Corp., 8 Sound Shore Drive, Suite 255, Greenwich, CT 06830;

 

  (2) the Transfer Agent, Computershare Trust Company, N.A., 250 Royall Street, Canton, MA 02021;

 

  (3) the Custodian, State Street Bank and Trust Company, 225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110; and

 

  (4) the Adviser, Technology Investment Management, LLC, 8 Sound Shore Drive, Suite 255, Greenwich, CT 06830.

 

Item 33. Management Services

Not applicable.

 

Item 34. Undertakings

(1) Registrant undertakes to suspend the offering of the shares of common stock covered hereby until it amends its prospectus contained herein if (a) subsequent to the effective date of this Registration Statement, its net asset value per share of common stock declines more than 10% from its net asset value per share of common stock declines more than 10% from its net asset value per share of common stock as of the effective date of this Registration Statement, or (b) its net asset value per share of common stock increases to an amount greater than its net proceeds as stated in the prospectus contained herein.

(2) Not applicable.

(3) Registrant undertakes in the event that the securities being registered are to be offered to existing stockholders pursuant to warrants or rights, and any securities not taken by shareholders are to be reoffered to the public, to supplement the prospectus, after the expiration of the subscription period, to set forth the results of the subscription offer, the transactions by the underwriters during the subscription period, the amount of unsubscribed securities to be purchased by underwriters, and the terms of any subsequent underwriting thereof. Registrant further undertakes that if any public offering by the underwriters of the securities being registered is to be made on terms differing from those set forth on the cover page of the prospectus, the Registrant shall file a post-effective amendment to set forth the terms of such offering.

(4) (a) to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 

  (i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

 

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  (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement; and

 

  (iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.

(b) that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of those securities at the time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and

(c) to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(d) that, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser, if the Registrant is subject to Rule 430C [17 CFR 230.430C]: Each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 497(b), (c), (d) or (e) under the Securities Act of 1933 [17 CFR 230.497(b), (c), (d) or (e)] as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A under the Securities Act of 1933 [17 CFR 230.430A], shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

(e) that for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of securities: The undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to the purchaser:

 

  (i) any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 497 under the Securities Act of 1933 [17 CFR 230.497];

 

  (ii) the portion of any advertisement pursuant to Rule 482 under the Securities Act of 1933 [17 CFR 230.482] relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and

 

  (iii) any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

(5) Not applicable.

(6) Not applicable.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Township of Greenwich, in the State of Connecticut, on this 13th day of July 2007.

 

    TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT CAPITAL CORP.
BY:  

/s/    JONATHAN H. COHEN        

 

  Jonathan H. Cohen
  Chief Executive Officer and Director

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. This document may be executed by the signatories hereto on any number of counterparts, all of which shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    JONATHAN H. COHEN        

 

Jonathan H. Cohen

   Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)   July 13, 2007

*

 

Steven P. Novak

   Director   July 13, 2007

*

 

G. Peter O’Brien

   Director   July 13, 2007

*

 

Tonia L. Pankopf

   Director   July 13, 2007

*

 

Charles M. Royce

   Chairman of the Board and Director   July 13, 2007

/s/    PATRICK F. CONROY        

 

Patrick F. Conroy

   Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary (Principal Financial Officer)   July 13, 2007

 

* Signed by Jonathan H. Cohen pursuant to a power of attorney signed by each individual and filed with this Registration Statement on April 16, 2007.
EX-99.L.2 2 dex99l2.htm EXHIBIT L.2 Exhibit l.2

Exhibit l.2

[Letterhead of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP]

July 13, 2007

Technology Investment Capital Corp.

8 Sound Shore Drive, Suite 255

Greenwich, Connecticut 06830

 

Re: Technology Investment Capital Corp.
     Registration Statement on Form N-2
     File No. 333-142154

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to Technology Investment Capital Corp., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-142154) (as amended from time to time, the “Registration Statement”) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), which Registration Statement was declared effective by the Commission as of June 29, 2006 and which relates to the offering from time to time, pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, by the Company of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”). The Registration Statement provides that the Common Stock may be offered from time to time in amounts, at prices, and on terms to be set forth in one or more supplements to the final prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time it becomes effective (the “Prospectus”).

This opinion letter is rendered in connection with the public offering of 1,437,500 shares of Common Stock (the “Shares”), including 187,500 Shares issuable by the Company to cover over-allotments, as described in the prospectus supplement, dated as of July 10, 2007, filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 497 under the Securities Act (the “Prospectus Supplement”). The Shares are to be sold by the Company pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated July 10, 2007, by and among the Company, Technology Investment Management, LLC, BDC Partners, LLC and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC (the “Underwriting Agreement”).

As counsel to the Company, we have participated in the preparation of the Registration Statement and have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction by public officials or officers of the Company as authentic copies of originals, of (i) the Company’s charter (the “Charter”) and its bylaws (the “Bylaws”), (ii) resolutions of the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) relating to the authorization and approval of the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement and the authorization, issuance, offer and sale of the Common Stock pursuant to the Registration Statement, and (iii) such other documents or matters of law as in our judgment were necessary to enable us to render the opinions expressed below.

With respect to such examination and our opinion expressed herein, we have assumed, without any independent investigation or verification (i) the genuineness of all signatures (other than those of the Company) on all documents submitted to us for examination, (ii) the legal capacity of all natural persons, (iii) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, (iv) the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as conformed or reproduced copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copied documents, and (v) that all certificates issued by public officials have been properly issued. We also have assumed without independent investigation or verification the accuracy and completeness of all corporate records made available to us by the Company.

We have relied with your approval upon certificates of appropriate state officials, upon certificates and/or representations of current executive officers and responsible employees of the Company, upon such other certificates as we deemed appropriate, upon the representations, warranties and covenants of the Company, and upon such other data as we have deemed to be appropriate under the circumstances. We have undertaken no independent investigation or verification of factual matters.


Technology Investment Capital Corp.

July 13, 2007

Page 2

 

This opinion is limited to the General Corporation Law of the State of Maryland, as in effect on the date hereof, and we express no opinion with respect to any other laws of the State of Maryland or the laws of any other jurisdiction. We express no opinion as to any state securities or broker-dealer laws or regulations thereunder relating to the offer, issuance and sale of the Securities.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized for issuance and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Underwriting Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

This opinion is limited to the matters expressly set forth herein, and no opinion may be implied or inferred beyond those expressly stated. Our opinions and other statements expressed herein are as of the date hereof, and we have no obligation to update this letter or to advise you of any changes in applicable law or any other matters that may come to our attention after the date hereof.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm in the “Legal Matters” section of the Prospectus included in the Registration Statement. We do not admit by giving this consent that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN LLP

SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN LLP

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