KAYNE ANDERSON MLP INVESTMENT COMPANY (a Maryland corporation) 5,000,000 Shares of Common Stock ($0.001 par value) UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • August 3rd, 2012 • Kayne Anderson MLP Investment CO • New York
The undersigned, Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company, a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), KA Fund Advisors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Adviser”), and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., a California limited partnership, parent of the Adviser (“KACALP”) (solely with respect to Section 2(b), Section 2(e), Section 7(j), Section 9 and Section 12 hereof), address you as underwriters and as the representatives (the “Representatives”) of each of the several underwriters named on Schedule I hereto (herein collectively called the “Underwriters”). The Company proposes to sell to the Underwriters 5,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) of the Company (said shares to be issued and sold by the Company being hereinafter called the “Underwritten Securities”). The Company also proposes to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to 750,000 additional shares of Common Stock to cover overallotments (the “Option Securities,” to
