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2025 Year in Review

$60bn+

In AUM1 Across:

  • private equity
  • strategic equity
  • credit
  • net lease

Continued growth and investment in the team

~300 Investment professionals and staff across the firm

50

New Hires

23

Transaction Team Members

7

Operating Executives

9

Business Development & Wealth Solutions professionals

11

Non-Investment Professionals

60

Promotions & Title Changes2

5

Senior Title Changes

5

Managing Directors

9

Directors

7

Vice Presidents

11

Associates & Senior Associates

23

Non-investment team professionals

Private Equity

A control-oriented strategy focused on business building and value creation for middle-market companies in defensive growth industries

Capital Deployed

~$3.7bn3 invested in NMP VII portfolio companies

A fleet maintenance provider focused on preventative maintenance, DOT inspections, and repairs for blue-chip commercial vehicle fleets

Comprised of Access Healthcare and Union Healthcare Insight which combine best-in-class services delivery and a strategic consulting & insights platform

Leading independent commercial MGA platform in the U.S., with a 30+ year track-record of strong performance across ~15 specialty insurance programs in the areas of specialty transportation, healthcare, reinsurance, real estate, social services, and other niche B2B end-markets

Leading healthcare technology company that provides comprehensive clearinghouse, claims, and practice management orchestration software for electronic claims processing to providers, payers, and partners across the US healthcare ecosystem

Project “C” is a confidential transaction that NMC signed and closed as of Q4 2025; additional details are forthcoming

Realization Events

Leading US-based provider of tax, accounting, and consulting services for small and midsize businesses and high net worth individuals across a variety of end markets

Producer of a wide range of high-efficacy maintenance and cleaning solutions for commercial, industrial, institutional, and consumer end-markets

A leading U.S. pure-play employee benefits broker with a combination of strategic advisory services, proprietary technology, advanced analytics, compliance support, technical innovations and HR capital management tools

A leading technology-enabled platform providing outsourced field and engineering services for distributed electromechanical infrastructure assets

A leading provider of commercialization solutions to bio-pharma and healthcare companies that combines the precision of AI with marketing and communications expertise to improve healthcare experiences and engagement

Strategic Equity

A “value-added” non-control capital strategy with structural security and attractive valuations

  • Utilizes the same unified team, investment process, “defensive growth” sector focus, and value-add approach as Private Equity
  • Partnering with founders, existing management teams, and current financial sponsors to support companies in various ways, such as:

Growth Capital

Recapitalization

Strategic M&A

Strategic Equity Fund II – Closed December 2025

  • Held the final closing for Strategic Equity Fund II (“SEF II”) in December with $1.2 bn of committed capital, exceeding the “hard cap”
  • Over $150 mm GP commitment from approximately 115 internal team members

Capital Deployed

A national advisory and accounting firm serving middle-market organizations, offering a full range of audit, tax and consulting solutions across industries and geographies.

Credit

Direct lending and CLO strategies leveraging New Mountain’s defensive growth sector expertise

Strategy Headlines

$14bn10 in AUM across private credit and broadly syndicated loan strategies

Defensive Growth Focus

Sponsor-backed Direct Lending

Flexible Mandate

Strong Research / Underwriting Model

Credit Since Inception

~$33bn Invested across
credit strategy11

17-year Track record since inception

450 Unique borrowers12

2025 Highlights

Guardian IV Complex Fully Invested

Continued Emphasis on Establishing Customized Mandates with Institutional Partners

2 New CLO Issuances

Expanding Efforts Focused on High-Net-Worth Channel

Representative Direct Lending Transactions13

Anaplan is a leading provider of cloud-based connected planning software, primarily serving enterprise clients across functional workflows such as finance, sales, supply chain, and personnel management

Lyons Magnus, Inc. is an industry leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of fruit and flavor solutions for the Foodservice, Healthcare and Industrial Dairy channels.

RESA Power is a leading provider of onsite services and solutions for substations and other electrical equipment

Net Lease

A leading investment platform in the industrial net lease space that is tightly integrated with the underwriting engine of New Mountain Capital’s PE and Credit platforms

NMC Network of sponsor relationships bolsters transaction identification, sourcing, and execution with a focus on:

Tenant Credit

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Asset Criticality to Business

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Real Estate Fundamentals

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Net Lease Strategy Highlights

~$4bn

AUM14

$4bn

Invested since inception15

37 mm

square feet16

378

Properties

79

Tenants17

48

States /
Provinces18

100%

Occupancy19

Net Lease Portfolio Footprint

[1] Includes asset valuations and remaining commitments (if applicable) as of September 30, 2025.

[2] Includes promotions and title changes made in August 2025 and January 2026.

[3] Inclusive of LP co-investment closed. Note that Amerit was signed in December 2024 and closed in February 2025. Project C signed and closed in Q4 2025.

[4] Inclusive of add-ons funded by balance sheet capital, debt, and fund equity.

[5] As of 12/31/2024.

[6] Includes jobs through organic growth and acquisitions under New Mountain’s ownership.

[7] NMC median is the weighted average of the median compensation at each New Mountain portfolio company. U.S. median and average are from the Census Bureau survey based on 2023 data (the latest data available as of our report date).

[8] Enterprise value gains is calculated based on change in enterprise value and is adjusted for acquisitions where additional fund equity was used and other transformative transactions; as of 12/31/2024.

[9] New Mountain estimates that it has created over $1.4 billion of value for employees at portfolio companies sold since 2018 (not including value for board of directors and C-suite executives of those companies). The total value would be significantly larger if we included companies sold by New Mountain prior to 2018 (before the statistic was tracked) and companies that we still hold.

[10] Includes asset valuations and remaining commitments (if applicable) for NMFC, the SLPs, Guardian II, NEWCRED, Guardian IV, Guardian IV Income, H-1 Credit Fund, SLF I, I-1, and the CLOs as of September 30, 2025.

[11] $ invested across New Mountain’s credit platform from inception in October 2008 to September 30, 2025.

[12] Represents unique assets across the New Mountain Direct Lending Platform as of September 30, 2025.

[13] The select investments presented on this page represent the largest investments (by dollars invested) in 2025 made across New Mountain’s Direct Lending Strategy.

[14] Includes asset valuations and remaining commitments (if applicable) for all vehicle across the New Mountain Net Lease platform held as of December 31, 2025, pro forma deals under contract.

[15] Based on asset purchase price from inception to December 31, 2025. Pro Forma deals under contract.

[16] Square feet managed, pro forma deals under contract, from inception to December 31, 2025.

[17] Pro forma deals under contract.

[18] Includes asset located in North America, this does not include facilities owned in Europe. Pro forma deals under contract.

[19] “Occupancy” represents the quotient of (1) the total square footage of our properties minus the square footage of our properties that are vacant and from which we are not receiving any rental payment, and (2) the total square footage of our properties as of December 31, 2025.