---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000017313-25-000032"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CSWC"
cik: "0000017313"
company_name: "CAPITAL SOUTHWEST CORP"
filed_at: "2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T10:25:30.728049+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Capital Southwest receives second SBIC license from SBA, adding $175M debenture capacity

## Summary
- Wholly owned subsidiary Capital Southwest SBIC II, LP granted SBIC license by U.S. Small Business Administration.
- SBIC II can issue up to $175M in SBA-guaranteed debentures; total program capacity now $350M.
- SBA debentures have ten-year maturity, fixed interest rate linked to 10-year Treasury yield.
- This is the second SBIC license; first received April 2021. SEC exemptive relief excludes these debentures from senior securities test.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000017313-25-000032
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CSWC
- cik: 0000017313
- company_name: CAPITAL SOUTHWEST CORP
- filed_at: 2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/17313/000001731325000032/0000017313-25-000032-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/17313/000001731325000032/cswc-20250421.htm

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