STELLUS CAPITAL INVESTMENT CORPORATION (a Maryland Corporation) 2,750,000 Shares of Common Stock Par Value $0.001 per Share UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT March 15, 2019Underwriting Agreement • March 18th, 2019 • Stellus Capital Investment Corp • New York
Each of Stellus Capital Investment Corporation, a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), and Stellus Capital Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Advisor”) registered as an investment advisor under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “Advisers Act”), confirms its agreement with the underwriters listed on Schedule A hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), for whom Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (“Raymond James”) and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (“KBW”) (together with Raymond James, the “Representatives”) are acting as representatives, with respect to the issue and sale by the Company, and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly (the “Offering”), of the respective number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Shares”), set forth in Schedule A hereto, and with respect to the grant by the Company to the Underwriters, acting severally an
