Stellus Capital Management, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, growth capital, rescue financing, distressed, turnaround situations, middle market, bridge loans, direct loans in the form of first lien, second lien, unitranche, mezzanine, and convertible debt financing. The firm targets investing in business services, energy, general industrial, government, healthcare, software, midstream infrastructure and services, specialty finance, oil and gas, and defense sectors. It prefers to invest in small and medium size companies based in US Canada. The firm seeks to invest between $10 million and $50 million in small cap companies with an EBITDA of at least $8 million. It originates loans directly to companies with an EBITDA between $5 million and $50 million. Private credit investments are either in the form of an equity co-investment or warrants and the firm seeks to exit its investments between three years and five years. Stellus Capital Management, LLC was founded in January 2012 and is based in Houston, Texas with additional offices in New York, New York; and Bethesda, Maryland.