MidCap Financial Investment Corporation is a private debt-focused business development company and a closed-end, externally managed, non-diversified management investment company. It has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and specializes in private equity investments in leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, growth capital, refinancing, and private middle market companies. The fund provides direct equity capital, mezzanine, first lien secured loans, stretch senior loans, unitranche loans, second lien secured loans, senior secured loans, unsecured debt, and subordinated debt and loans. It also seeks to invest in PIPES transactions and may invest in securities of public companies that are thinly traded, as well as in the secondary market and structured products. The fund prefers to invest in preferred equity, common equity or interests, and warrants, and makes equity co-investments. It may invest in cash equivalents, U.S. government securities, high-quality debt investments maturing in one year or less, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, non-U.S. investments, or securities of public companies that are not thinly traded. It also focuses on other investments such as collateralized loan obligations and credit-linked notes. The fund typically invests in construction and building materials, business services, plastics and rubber, advertising, capital equipment, education, cable television, chemicals, consumer products (durable and non-durable) and customer services, direct marketing, and energy (oil and gas, electricity, and utilities). It also invests in aerospace and defense, wholesale, telecommunications, financial services, hotels, gaming, leisure, restaurants, environmental industries, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, high tech industries, beverages, food and tobacco, manufacturing, media (diversified and production), printing and publishing, retail, automation, aviation, and consumer transport.