v3.26.1
Fees, Expenses, Agreements and Related Party Transactions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Fees, Expenses, Agreements and Related Party Transactions Fees, Expenses, Agreements and Related Party Transactions
Investment Advisory Agreement
On March 20, 2024, the Company entered into an Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement (the “Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement”) with the Adviser. The Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement amended and restated the Advisory Agreement dated as of November 10, 2022, by and between the Company and the Adviser, pursuant to which the Adviser manages the Company on a day-to-day basis. The Adviser is responsible for originating prospective investments, conducting research and due diligence investigations on potential investments, analyzing investment opportunities, negotiating and structuring the Company’s investments and monitoring its investments and portfolio companies on an ongoing basis.
The Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement is effective for an initial two-year term and will remain in effect from year-to-year thereafter if approved annually by a majority of the Board or by the holders of a majority of the Company’s outstanding voting securities and, in each case, a majority of the independent trustees. The Company may terminate the Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement, without payment of any penalty, upon 60 days’ written notice. The Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement will automatically terminate in the event of its assignment within the meaning of the 1940 Act and related SEC guidance and interpretations.
The Company pays the Adviser a fee for its services under the Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement consisting of two components: a management fee and an incentive fee. The cost of both the management fee and the incentive fee will ultimately be borne by the shareholders. Substantial additional fees and expenses may also be charged by OHA Private Credit Advisors LLC, in its capacity as the administrator to the Company (the “Administrator”).
Management Fee
The management fee will be payable monthly in arrears at an annual rate of 1.25% of the value of the Company's net assets as of the beginning of the first calendar day of the applicable month. For purposes of the Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement, net assets means the Company's total assets less the fair value of its liabilities, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP. For the first calendar month in which the Company has operations, net assets will be measured as the beginning net assets as of the date on which the Company breaks escrow.
For the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company incurred management fees of $5.0 million, of which none were waived. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company incurred management fees of $3.8 million, of
which none were waived. As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, $5.0 million and $4.8 million, respectively, remained payable related to the base management fee accrued in management fee payable on the Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities.
Incentive Fee
The incentive fee consists of two components that are independent of each other, with the result that one component may be payable even if the other is not. A portion of the incentive fee is based on a percentage of the Company's income and a portion is based on a percentage of the Company's capital gains, each as described below.
Incentive Fee Based on Income
The first part of the incentive fee will be based on income, whereby the Company pays the Adviser quarterly in arrears 12.5% of its Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns (as defined below) for the relevant calendar quarter subject to a 1.25% per quarter (5.0% annualized) hurdle rate (the “Hurdle Rate”). “Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns” means dividends, cash interest or other distributions or other cash income and any third-party fees received from portfolio companies (such as upfront fees, commitment fees, origination fee, amendment fees, ticking fees and break-up fees, as well as prepayments premiums, but excluding fees for providing managerial assistance and fees earned by the Adviser or an affiliate in its capacity as an administrative agent, syndication agent, collateral agent, loan servicer or other similar capacity) accrued during the month, minus operating expenses for the month (including the management fee, taxes, any expenses payable under the Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement and an amended and restated administration agreement with the Administrator (the “Amended and Restated Administration Agreement”), any expense of securitizations, and interest expense or other financing fees and any dividends paid on preferred shares, but excluding the incentive fee and shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees). Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns includes, in the case of investments with a deferred interest feature (such as original issue discount, debt instruments with PIK interest and zero-coupon securities), accrued income that the Company has not yet received in cash. Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns does not include any realized capital gains, realized capital losses or unrealized capital appreciation or depreciation.
The Company pays the Adviser an incentive fee with respect to the Company’s Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns as follows:
No incentive fee based on Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns in any calendar year in which the Company’s Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns does not exceed the Hurdle Rate;
100% of Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns with respect to that portion of such Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns, if any, that exceeds the Hurdle Rate but is less than a rate of return of 1.43% (5.72% annualized). This portion of the Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns (which exceeds the Hurdle Rate but is less than 1.43%) is referred to as the “catch-up.” The “catch-up” is meant to provide the Adviser with approximately 12.5% of the Company’s Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns as if a Hurdle Rate did not apply if Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns exceeds 5.72% in any calendar year; and
12.5% of the Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns, if any, that exceeds 1.43% in any calendar year, which reflects that once the Hurdle Rate is reached and the catch-up is achieved, 12.5% of all Pre-Incentive Fee Net Investment Income Returns is paid to the Adviser.
Incentive Fee Based on Capital Gains
The second component of the incentive fee, the capital gains incentive fee, is payable at the end of each calendar year in arrears. The amount payable equals:
12.5% of cumulative realized capital gains from inception through the end of such calendar year, computed net of all realized capital losses and unrealized capital depreciation on a cumulative basis, less the aggregate amount of any previously paid incentive fee on capital gains as calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
For the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company incurred income incentive fees of $5.0 million, of which none were waived. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company incurred income incentive fees of $4.1 million, of which none were waived. As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, $5.0 million and $5.4 million,
respectively, remained payable related to the income incentive fee accrued in income incentive fee payable on the Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities.
For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company incurred no capital gains incentive fees.

Expense Support and Conditional Reimbursement Agreement

On August 17, 2023, the Company entered into an expense support and conditional reimbursement agreement with the Adviser (the “Expense Support Agreement”). Pursuant to the Expense Support Agreement, on a monthly basis, the Adviser is obligated to advance all of the Company’s Other Operating Expenses (as defined hereafter) (each, a “Required Expense Payment”) to the extent that such expenses exceed 1.00% (on an annualized basis) of the Company’s NAV.
“Other Operating Expenses” means the Company’s total organization and offering expenses, professional fees, trustee fees, administration fees, and other general and administrative expenses (including the Company’s allocable portion of compensation (including salaries, bonuses and benefits), Overhead (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, rent or depreciation, utilities, capital equipment or other administrative items of the Administrator) and other expenses paid for and/or advanced by the Administrator on behalf of the Company in connection with the provision of its administrative obligations under the Amended and Restated Administration Agreement, excluding base management and incentive fees owed to the Adviser, shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees, interest expense, financing fees and costs, interest expense and extraordinary expenses).
Any Required Expense Payment must be paid by the Adviser to the Company in any combination of cash or other immediately available funds and/or offset against amounts due from the Company to the Adviser or its affiliates.
The Adviser may elect to pay certain additional expenses on behalf of the Company (each, a “Voluntary Expense Payment” and together with a Required Expense Payment, the “Expense Payments”), provided that no portion of the payment will be used to pay any interest expense or distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees of the Company. Any Expense Payment that the Adviser has committed to pay must be paid by the Adviser to the Company in any combination of cash or other immediately available funds no later than forty-five days after such commitment was made in writing, and/or offset against amounts due from the Company to the Adviser or its affiliates.
Following any calendar month in which Available Operating Funds (as defined below) exceed the cumulative distributions accrued to the Company’s shareholders based on distributions declared with respect to record dates occurring in such calendar month (the amount of such excess being hereinafter referred to as “Excess Operating Funds”), the Company shall pay such Excess Operating Funds, or a portion thereof, to the Adviser until such time as all Expense Payments made by the Adviser to the Company within three years prior to the last business day of such calendar month have been reimbursed. Any payments required to be made by the Company shall be referred to herein as a “Reimbursement Payment.”
“Available Operating Funds” means the sum of (i) the Company’s net investment company taxable income (including net short-term capital gains reduced by net long-term capital losses), (ii) the Company’s net capital gains (including the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital losses) and (iii) dividends and other distributions paid to the Company on account of investments in portfolio companies (to the extent such amounts listed in clause (iii) are not included under clauses (i) and (ii) above). The amount of the Reimbursement Payment for any calendar month will equal the lesser of (i) the Excess Operating Funds in such quarter and (ii) the aggregate amount of all Expense Payments made by the Adviser to the Company within three years prior to the last business day of such calendar month that have not been previously reimbursed by the Company to the Adviser; provided that the Adviser may waive its right to receive all or a portion of any Reimbursement Payment in any particular calendar month, in which case such waived amount will remain unreimbursed Expense Payments reimbursable in future months pursuant to the terms of the Advisory Agreement.
No Reimbursement Payment for any quarter will be made if: (1) the “Effective Rate of Distributions Per Share” (as defined below) declared by us at the time of such Reimbursement Payment is less than the Effective Rate of Distributions Per Share at the time the Expense Payment was made to which such Reimbursement Payment relates, (2) our “Operating Expense Ratio” (as defined below) at the time of such Reimbursement Payment is greater than the Operating Expense Ratio at the time the Expense Payment was made to which such Reimbursement Payment relates, or (3) the Company’s Other Operating Expenses at the time of such Reimbursement Payment exceeds 1.00% of the Company’s NAV. Pursuant to the Expense Support Agreement, “Effective Rate of Distributions Per Share” means the annualized rate (based on a 365-day year) of regular cash distributions per share exclusive of returns of capital, distribution rate reductions due to distribution and shareholder servicing fees, and declared special dividends or special distributions, if any. The “Operating
Expense Ratio” is calculated by dividing Operating Expenses, less organizational and offering expenses, base management and incentive fees owed to the Adviser, shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees, interest expense, financing fees and costs and extraordinary expenses by our net assets. “Operating Expenses” means all of the Company’s operating costs and expenses incurred, as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for investment companies.

The Company’s obligation to make a Reimbursement Payment shall automatically become a liability of the Company on the last business day of the applicable calendar month, except to the extent the Adviser has waived its right to receive such payment for the applicable month. The Reimbursement Payment for any calendar month shall be paid by the Company to the Adviser in any combination of cash or other immediately available funds as promptly as possible following such calendar month and in no event later than forty-five days after the end of such calendar month.

The following table presents a summary of expense support and the related recoupment of expense support for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025.

For the Three Months Ended
Expense Support from the Advisor
Payable to Advisor
Recoupment of Expense Support
Unreimbursed Expense Support
March 31, 2026
$
$
$
$
March 31, 2025
$
$
1,020
$
1,020
$
688

Administration Agreement

On March 20, 2024, the Company entered into the Amended and Restated Administration Agreement with the Administrator. The Amended and Restated Administration Agreement amended and restated the Administration Agreement dated as of November 10, 2022. Under the Amended and Restated Administration Agreement, the Administrator provides, or oversees the performance of, administrative and compliance services, including, but not limited to, maintaining financial records, overseeing the calculation of NAV, compliance monitoring (including diligence and oversight of the Company's other service providers), preparing reports to shareholders and reports filed with the SEC and other regulators, preparing materials and coordinating meetings of the Company's Board, managing the payment of expenses, the payment and receipt of funds for investments and the performance of administrative and professional services rendered by others and providing office space, equipment and office services. The Company will reimburse the Administrator for the reasonable fees, costs and expenses paid for and/or advanced by the Administrator on behalf of the Company in connection with the provision of its obligations under the Amended and Restated Administration Agreement. Such reimbursement will include the Company’s allocable portion of compensation, Overhead and other expenses paid for and/or advanced by the Administrator on behalf of the Company in connection with the provision of its administrative obligations under the Amended and Restated Administration Agreement, including but not limited to: (i) the Company’s chief compliance officer, chief financial officer and their respective staffs; (ii) investor relations, legal, operations and other non-investment professionals at the Administrator that perform duties for the Company; and (iii) any internal audit group personnel of OHA or any of its affiliates, subject to the limitations described in the Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement and Amended and Restated Administration Agreement. In addition, pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Administration Agreement, the Administrator may delegate its obligations under the Amended and Restated Administration Agreement to an affiliate or to a third party and the Company will reimburse the Administrator for any services performed for the Company by such affiliate or third party. The Administrator has hired a sub-administrator to assist in the provision of administrative services. The sub-administrator will receive compensation for its sub-administrative services under a sub-administration agreement.
The amount of the reimbursement payable to the Administrator will be the lesser of (1) the Administrator’s actual costs incurred in providing such services and (2) the amount that the Company estimates it would be required to pay alternative service providers for comparable services in the same geographic location. The Administrator will be required to allocate the cost of such services to the Company based on factors such as assets, revenues, time allocations and/or other reasonable metrics. The Company will not reimburse the Administrator for any services for which it receives a separate fee, or for rent, depreciation, utilities, capital equipment or other administrative items allocated to a controlling person of the Administrator.
The Company incurred expenses related to the Administrator of $0.6 million and $0.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, respectively, which is included in other general and administrative expenses on the Consolidated Statement of Operations. For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, there were $2.6 million and $1.1 million of expenses related to the Administrator that were payable are included in “accrued expenses and other liabilities” in the Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities, respectively.
The sub-administrator is compensated for performing its sub-administrative services under the sub-administration agreement. For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company incurred expenses related to the sub-administrator of $0.8 million and $0.5 million, respectively, which is included in administrative service expenses on the Consolidated Statement of Operations and the payable included in “accrued expenses and other liabilities” in the Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities, respectively.
Managing Dealer Agreement
On August 18, 2023, the Company entered into a managing dealer agreement (the “Managing Dealer Agreement”) with the Managing Dealer. Under the terms of the Managing Dealer Agreement, the Managing Dealer will serve as the managing dealer for the Offering. The Managing Dealer receives distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees monthly in arrears at an annual rate of 0.85% and 0.25% of the value of the Company’s net assets attributable to Class S shares and Class D shares as of the beginning of the first calendar day of the month, respectively. No distribution and/or shareholding servicing fees will be paid with respect to Class I shares. The distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees will be payable to the Managing Dealer, but the Managing Dealer anticipates that all or a portion of the shareholder servicing fees will be retained by, or reallowed (paid) to, participating broker-dealers. The Company or the Adviser may also pay directly, or reimburse the Managing Dealer if the Managing Dealer pays on the Company’s behalf, any organization and offering expenses (other than any upfront selling commissions and shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees), placement fees or brokerage commissions and certain other fees and expenses.
The Company will cease paying the distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees on the Class S shares and Class D shares on the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) a merger or consolidation with or into another entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets or (iii) the date following the completion of the primary portion of the Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with the Offering, including the distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees and other underwriting compensation, is equal to 10% of the gross proceeds from the Offering.
In addition, at the end of the month in which the Managing Dealer in conjunction with the transfer agent determines that total transaction or other fees, including upfront placement fees or brokerage commissions, and shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees paid with respect to any single share held in a shareholder’s account would exceed, in the aggregate, 10% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such share (or a lower limit as determined by the Managing Dealer or the applicable selling agent), the Company will cease paying the shareholder servicing and/or distribution fee on either (i) each such share that would exceed such limit or (ii) all Class S shares and Class D shares in such shareholder’s account. At the end of such month, the applicable Class S shares and Class D shares in such shareholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares), with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such Class S and Class D shares.
The Managing Dealer is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA.
The Managing Dealer Agreement may be terminated at any time, without the payment of any penalty, by vote of a majority of the Company’s trustees who are not “interested persons”, as defined in the 1940 Act, of the Company and who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the Company’s distribution plan or the Managing Dealer Agreement or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Company, on not more than 60 days’ written notice to the Managing Dealer or the Adviser. The Managing Dealer Agreement will automatically terminate in the event of its assignment, as defined in the 1940 Act.
Either party may terminate the Managing Dealer Agreement upon 60 days’ written notice to the other party or immediately upon notice to the other party in the event such other party failed to comply with a material provision of the Managing Dealer Agreement. The Company’s obligations under the Managing Dealer Agreement to pay the shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees with respect to the Class S and Class D shares distributed shall survive termination of the agreement until such shares are no longer outstanding (including such shares that have been converted into Class I shares, as described above).
Distribution and Servicing Plan
The Board approved a distribution and servicing plan (the “Distribution and Servicing Plan”) for the Company. The following table shows the shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees the Company pays the Managing Dealer with respect to the Class S, Class D and Class I shares, on an annualized basis as a percentage of the Company’s NAV for such class.
Shareholder Servicing and/or Distribution Fee as a % of NAV
Class S shares
0.85%
Class D shares
0.25%
Class I shares
—%

The shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees are paid monthly in arrears, calculated using the NAV of the applicable class as of the beginning of the first calendar day of the month and subject to FINRA and other limitations on underwriting compensation.
The Managing Dealer will reallow (pay) all or a portion of the shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees to participating brokers and servicing brokers for ongoing shareholder services performed by such brokers, and will waive shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees to the extent a broker is not eligible to receive it for failure to provide such services. Because the shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees with respect to Class S or Class D shares are calculated based on the aggregate net asset value for all of the outstanding shares of each such class, it reduces the net asset value with respect to all shares of each such class, including shares issued under the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan.
Eligibility to receive the shareholder servicing and/or distribution fee is conditioned on a broker providing the following ongoing services with respect to the Class S or Class D shares: assistance with recordkeeping, answering investor inquiries regarding the Company, including regarding distribution payments and reinvestments, helping investors understand their investments upon their request, and assistance with share repurchase requests. If the applicable broker is not eligible to receive the shareholder servicing and/or distribution fee due to failure to provide these services, the Managing Dealer will waive the shareholder servicing fee and/or distribution that broker would have otherwise been eligible to receive. The shareholder servicing and/or distribution fees are ongoing fees that are not paid at the time of purchase.
For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company accrued distribution and shareholder servicing fees for Class S shares of $0.3 million and $0.1 million, respectively. For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company accrued distribution and shareholder servicing fees for Class D shares of $0.1 million and $0.0 million, respectively.