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| Item 8.01. | Other Events. |
On May 22, 2024, BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) by and among the Company, Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC, Series H of SVOF/MM, LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, as representative of the underwriters named in Schedule A thereto, in connection with the issuance and sale of $325,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.95% Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”). The Notes are expected to be issued on or about May 30, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions.
The Notes will be the senior unsecured obligations of the Company. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering of the Notes to repay the Company’s outstanding 3.900% Notes due 2024 at or before maturity and for the temporary repayment of the Company’s other indebtedness. The Company may also invest the net proceeds of the offering of the Notes in accordance with its investment objective and for other general corporate purposes, including the payment of operating expenses.
The offering of the Notes was made pursuant to the Company’s effective shelf registration statement on Form N-2 (Registration No. 333-267593) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 23, 2022, as supplemented by a preliminary prospectus supplement dated May 22, 2024 and a final prospectus supplement dated May 22, 2024.
The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Underwriting Agreement filed with this report as Exhibit 1.1 and which is incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
| 1.1 | Underwriting Agreement, dated May 22, 2024, by and among BlackRock TCP Capital Corp., Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC, Series H of SVOF/MM, LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC , as representative of the underwriters named in Schedule A thereto. |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: May 23, 2024
| BLACKROCK TCP CAPITAL CORP. | |||
| By: | /s/ Erik L. Cuellar | ||
| Name: | Erik L. Cuellar | ||
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | ||