(d)
| None of the Fund, the Adviser or the Board or any person controlling the Fund, the Adviser or the Board has determined at this time to borrow funds to purchase Shares tendered in connection with the Offer. Depending on the dollar amount of Shares tendered and prevailing general economic and market conditions, the Fund, in its sole discretion, may decide to seek to borrow money to fund all or a portion of the purchase amount for Shares, subject to compliance with applicable law. The Fund expects that the repayment of any amounts borrowed will be financed from additional funds contributed to the Fund by existing or new Shareholders. |
Item 8.
| Interest in Securities of the Issuer. |
(a)
| Based on the number of Shares outstanding as of March 31, 2026, the following persons own the number of Shares indicated in the below table. |
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BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. | | | 5,998,843 | | | 8.515% |
Eric J. Draut | | | 1,077 | | | 0.002% |
John Perlowski | | | 0 | | | 0% |
Andrea Petro | | | 0 | | | 0% |
Maureen Usifer | | | 0 | | | 0% |
Philip Tseng | | | 1,009 | | | 0.001% |
Charles C. S. Park | | | 0 | | | 0% |
Jason Mehring | | | 682 | | | 0.001% |
Erik L. Cuellar | | | 0 | | | 0% |
Patrick Wolfe | | | 0 | | | 0% |
Dan Worrell | | | 4,036 | | | 0.006% |
Diana Huffman | | | 0 | | | 0% |
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None of the persons listed above intends to tender any of his or her Shares in the Offer.
Addresses for each of the persons listed above are provided in Item 3.
(b)
| Reference is made to Section 8 “Certain Information About the Fund” of the Offer to Purchase, which is incorporated herein by reference. |
During the past sixty (60) days, the Fund issued an aggregate of approximately 3,353,915 Shares, including Shares issued pursuant to the DRIP, for net proceeds of approximately $78,916,138.16.
In connection with the completion of the Fund’s tender offer that commenced on January 30, 2026, the Fund repurchased on or about February 27, 2026, 2,957,174 of its outstanding shares of beneficial interest (including Class I common shares of beneficial interest, Class S common shares of beneficial interest, and Class D common shares of beneficial interest), at a purchase price of $23.52 per share, the net asset value per share as of March 31, 2026, pursuant to the terms of such tender offer, as set forth in the Schedule TO-I filed by the Fund with the SEC on January 30, 2026. The payment of the purchase price of the Shares tendered was made in the form of non-interest bearing, non-transferable promissory notes issued to the Shareholders whose tenders were accepted for purchase by the Fund in accordance with the terms of the Offer. The promissory notes were held by the Fund’s transfer agent on behalf of each tendering shareholder. Pursuant to the promissory notes, on or before April 30, 2026, the Fund paid to the tendering Shareholders a total of $69,530,706.73, an amount equal to the aggregate net asset value of the Shares as of the Valuation Date, less the early repurchase deduction, as applicable.
There have been no other transactions in Shares effected during the past sixty (60) days by the Fund, and the Adviser, BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., or any Trustee or executive officer of the Fund, or any person controlling the Fund or the Adviser.
Item 9.
| Persons/Assets Retained, Employed, Compensated or Used. |
(a)
| No persons have been employed, retained, or are to be compensated by the Fund to make solicitations or recommendations in connection with the Offer to Purchase. |