Investment strategy

INVESTMENT STRATEGY

INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY

Combining deep market knowledge, local investment presence and proprietary deal sourcing with best-in-class institutional underwriting, structuring and portfolio management standards

INVESTMENT THESIS

Providing longer duration, non-dilutive, flexible credit alternatives with well-structured collateral and robust covenants to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns with downside protection

INVESTMENT
PARAMETERS

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    Geography
    Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia
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    Target Companies
    Sector-agnostic, mid-market companies with a strong management team, leading position in sector and a quantifiable and actionable growth plan
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    Target Investment Ticket
    Between US$10 million and US$50 million
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    Target Investment Tenor
    Up to 7 years
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    Credit Products
    Senior 1st lien, 2nd lien, mezzanine and secondary dislocated assets

Credit Solutions

Senior Debt

Senior 1st or 2nd lien loans made directly to operating companies for growth capital or debt refinancing purposes

Mezzanine

Sponsor-driven transactions for acquisition financing of target companies with conservative capital structure and equity cushion

Shareholder Loans

Structurally subordinated, share-backed lending for acquisition, growth capital and capital structure optimization

Special Situations

Dislocated private credit assets trading in the secondary market at deep discounts to fundamental value

ESG

TC Credit Partners is committed to implementing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) guidelines within our investment approach

Our Investment Strategy

TC Credit embeds ESG business principles as fundamental value drivers alongside financial, commercial, and strategic considerations

Our Commitment

We are committed to responsible investing in global emerging markets and will prioritize ESG topics which are of utmost importance to our investors and our business

Impact and ESG Embedded in Investment Process

Private Sector Development

Providing small and medium-sized companies with much-needed access to longer duration, flexible growth capital to fund expansionary capex and sustainable business models.

Partnership Capital

Our due diligence and loan structures enhance sophistication and transparency, preparing companies for future access to public markets. Our transactions often attract international coinvestors, introducing new, longterm funding sources.

Financial Sector Development

Our loans contribute to the deepening of local financial markets by working in partnership with local lenders and expanding the range of financing options available to companies.

Job Creation & Skills Development

Funding expansionary growth capex via longer duration financing leads to longer term planning, the creation of new jobs, improvement of skills and enhanced sophistication of labor.

Governance & Capacity Building

Our investment requirements and direct participation in governance structures help to improve corporate governance standards and set a strong foundation for operational and financial management.

Environmental & Social

We ensure that companies uphold best-in-class ESG practices, requiring them to adopt E&S Actions Plans implemented and monitored through loan CP’s and covenants.

Terms and Conditions

Legal:
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Contacting Us. If you have any questions about these Terms, you may contact us at info@3.219.187.9, or 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 34th Floor New York, NY 10020.

Last Update of these Terms: November 1, 2020.

Privacy:

This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) describes how TC CREDIT PARTNERS and its affiliates (collectively, “TC CREDIT”), collect, handle, use, and share information we collect through the websites owned or operated by or on behalf of companies within TC CREDIT, including https://tclatam.com (our “Site”). “You” refers to any person, company or legal entity that accesses and uses the Site, and any officers, directors, partners, personnel, employees, agents or contractors that use the site through that company or legal entity, whether or not such use is authorized. “Us” or “we” refers to TC CREDIT.

This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with any other applicable policies, terms, and conditions in place between you and TC CREDIT. Your use of the Site indicates your agreement with, and your consent to the use of your information in accordance with, the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please do not use the Site if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy.

Updates to this Policy. We reserve the right to change all or portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a material change to the Privacy Policy, we will post notice to that effect on our Site when we post the revised Policy. Your continued use of the Site after a change is made constitutes your agreement with the revised Privacy Policy.

Collection of Your Information. We collect information from you (“Your Information”) when you voluntarily provide it to us through the Site, as well as automatically through your visits to the Site. The information that is collected may include: first and last name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, login credentials, password, a response to a security question, whether you are a financial advisor or a broker/dealer, the name of your financial advisory firm (if applicable), your computer’s IP address, the Internet browser and operating system you are using, the length of time spent browsing pages of the Site, and the websites you accessed immediately before and after your visit to the Site.

You may voluntarily provide Your Information through the Site in a number of ways, including: (a) when you login to your account or make updates to your account information; (b) when you fill out a form on the Site; and (c) when you contact us to request information from us. As noted, the Site also automatically gathers Your Information related to your use of the Site. We may use “cookies”(small text files placed in the memory of your device) or similar technologies to retain information about you and your use of the Site, and we may engage third parties to assist us in the collection of Your Information. These technologies can automatically collect information relating to the hardware and software you use to visit the Site and what pages you have visited. We may tie Your Information that is automatically gathered by theSite to Your Information that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us. We may use Your Information that has been automatically gathered to help authenticate you, store and recognize your configuration and user attributes, facilitate navigation of the Site, and customize information made available on the Site to you. You are free to decline our cookies if your browser permits you to disable them, but if you do, some portions of the Site may not operate properly.

Use of Your Information. We may use Your Information to provide you with information and services, to send you notices (for example, in the form of email messages or mailings), and otherwise to respond to your requests. We may also use Your Information to enhance the operation of theSite and the services and information offered, to provide you with personalized features, in our marketing and promotional efforts on the Site and elsewhere, in statistical analysis of use of the Site (both on an individual basis and in the aggregate), to update and enhance our records, maintain and improve the Site, and for other purposes identified on the relevant portions of the Site where Your Information is collected. We may also use Your Information to contact you regarding us or the Site, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and enforce and investigate your compliance with our agreements with you, including our Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy. We may also use, compile, and analyze Your Information to learn about: your use of the Site, how many people are visiting the Site, what are the most visited portions of the Site, and trends in user behavior.

Sharing of Your Information. We may share Your Information with affiliated entities within TC CREDIT. We may also share Your Information with certain unaffiliated third parties in some circumstances, including the following:

  • Vendors and Suppliers. We may share Your Information with unaffiliated vendors, suppliers, authorized representatives, service providers, and agents so that they may help us to maintain the Site, store Your Information, fulfill your requests, or otherwise provide services or support TC CREDIT’s business.
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  • Corporate Transactions. If TC CREDIT sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of assets or is otherwise involved in a merger, business transfer, or other type of liquidity event, TC CREDIT may, in its sole discretion, transfer, sell, or assign Your Information to the acquiring entity as part of or in connection with that transaction. Upon such transfer, sale, assignment, or other liquidity event, the transferee, assignee, successor, or acquiring party may use Your Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise permitted by applicable law or regulation.

We may also share aggregated anonymous data concerning our users with third party analytic services, business partners, and others interested in how the Site is used. We do not share Your Information with unrelated third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

Security. We use reasonable efforts to maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and integrity of Your Information. However, no security system is foolproof and we cannot fully eliminate security risks with respect to Your Information. We recommend that you do not send us any of Your Information via non-secure methods of correspondence, including via public electronic communication channels, such as Internet email, which are generally not secure.

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Information you submit to those websites and service providers is subject to the privacy policies of those other websites and service providers, not this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these other websites and service providers before you submit any information to them.

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Updating or Deleting Your Information. You generally may update Your Information that is in your account with us by following the procedures described on those portions of the Site where you may log in to the account. In some cases, however, you may need to contact us by phone to update Your Information.

We will use our commercially reasonable efforts to fulfill your request in a timely manner. We may keep a record of all information that is deleted, and we may determine what may be deleted. For example, if we are required to keep certain information for regulatory purposes, we may be prevented from deleting that information. Further, even if we delete Your Information from our “live” database, it may still be stored on other databases (including those kept for archival purposes). We are not responsible for deleting information about you from the databases of any third parties.

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Privacy of Children. The Site is not directed at minors and we do not knowingly collect information from, or maintain any information regarding, persons under the age of 18.

Contacting Us. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at info@3.219.187.9, or 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 34th Floor New York, NY 10020.

Last Update of this Privacy Policy: November 1, 2020.