Studio b. LMM Bridge Fund I · LP entry

The non-bank lender for the global lower middle market.

Studio b. LMM Bridge Fund I is purpose-built for the deepest structural gap in LMM credit — where borrower credit is good but banks cannot move quickly enough, structure flexibly enough, or stay long enough. The fund underwrites against the same data we publish quarterly as Studio b. LMMI. Fund I opens to qualified purchasers and accredited investors at first close.

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LMMI · Q1 2025 · US LMM Spread 625 bps · UK LMM Recovery 78% Studio b. LMMI →
Spread — asset-weighted yield over 3M SOFR, current quarter, eligible LMM BDC universe.    Recovery — vintage anchor: Companies House LMM workouts initiated 2018–2022 with realized outcome.

Why invest

The structural gap, the proprietary edge, the institutional structure.

01 — The gap

Their credit is good. The bank can't move.

Lower middle market businesses hit moments that require speed, structural flexibility, or longer patience than a conventional bank can deliver. This is not a credit-quality gap — it is a capability gap. That gap is our market.

02 — Our edge

Proprietary deal flow. Open benchmarks.

Capital sits inside a broader operating practice that puts us in rooms with operators, advisors, and capital providers across US and UK LMM. The same data that informs our underwriting is published quarterly as Studio b. LMMI — the open Lower Middle Market Direct Lending Index.

03 — Structure

Fund I. BVI master + Delaware feeder. 7-year closed-end.

4-year reinvestment, 3-year harvest. Quarterly distributions. ILPA-aligned reporting from inception. Non-U.S. LPs access the fund without entanglement in the U.S. tax perimeter. Qualified purchasers and institutional LPs only.

Rule 506(c) · Accredited self-attestation · Backtester access

Run the backtest. Sharpen the thesis.

We don't send a deck. We share access to the LMMI backtest model — apply your own assumptions to thirty years of cross-jurisdictional default and recovery data, and see how the strategy would have performed against your scenarios. Your model runs sharpen our thesis. Fund I is offered under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D — public solicitation of accredited investors is permitted, and subscription requires third-party verification of accredited status prior to investment. Backtester access is shared after self-attestation and a brief introduction.

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Disclosure

Fund I is offered under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D, which permits general solicitation of accredited investors. Any subscription will require third-party verification of accredited status as defined in Rule 501(a). This page is informational only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. Any offering will be made solely to verified accredited investors via final fund documentation (PPM, LPA, subscription documents). Past performance is not indicative of future results. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties — actual results may differ materially.