Exhibit 10.1
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
This Investment Management Agreement, dated and effective as of October 20, 2023 (this “Agreement”), is made by and among Comvest Credit Partners BDC Fund, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership,” and any successor entity of the Partnership, the “Fund”) and Comvest Credit Managers, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Management Company”).
WHEREAS, the Partnership is a Delaware limited partnership that intends to convert to a closed-end management investment company and elect to be treated as a business development company (“BDC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) (such election, together with any accompanying restructuring of the Partnership, the “BDC Conversion”);
WHEREAS, the Fund desires to retain the Management Company to furnish investment advisory services to the Fund on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, and the Management Company wishes to be retained to provide such services.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other good and valuable consideration, the parties hereby agree as follows:
1. Appointment of Management Company. The Management Company hereby undertakes and agrees, upon the terms and conditions herein set forth, to provide overall investment advisory services for the Fund and in connection therewith to, in accordance with the Fund’s investment objective, policies and restrictions as in effect from time to time:
(a) determining the composition of the Fund’s portfolio, the nature and timing of the changes to the Fund’s portfolio and the manner of implementing such changes in accordance with the Fund’s investment objective, policies and restrictions;
(b) identifying investment opportunities and making investment decisions for the Fund, including negotiating the terms of investments in, and dispositions of, portfolio securities and other instruments on the Fund’s behalf;
(c) monitoring the Fund’s investments;
(d) performing due diligence on prospective portfolio companies;
(e) exercising voting rights in respect of portfolio securities and other investments for the Fund;
(f) serving on, and exercising observer rights for, boards of directors and similar committees of the Fund’s portfolio companies;
(g) negotiating, obtaining and managing financing facilities and other forms of leverage; and
(h) providing the Fund with such other investment advisory and related services as the Fund may, from time to time, reasonably require for the investment of capital, which may include, without limitation:
(i) making, in consultation with the Fund’s board of directors (post-BDC Conversion board of trustees) (the “Board”), investment strategy decisions for the Fund;
(ii) serving as the Fund’s valuation designee pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under 1940 Act and reasonably assisting the Fund’s other service providers with the valuation of the Fund’s assets;
(iii) providing managerial assistance to portfolio companies of the Fund as requested by the portfolio companies, from time to time;
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