---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-24-001804"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TCPC"
cik: "0001370755"
company_name: "BlackRock TCP Capital Corp."
filed_at: "2024-01-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T00:29:56.139397+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# TCPC and BCIC amend merger agreement; boards approve restated terms

## Summary
- Amended and restated merger agreement dated Jan 10, 2024 replaces the original Sept 6, 2023 agreement.
- Boards of both TCPC and BCIC, on recommendation of special committees, unanimously approved the restated agreement.
- Merger of BCIC into TCPC subsidiary (Merger Sub) intended as tax-free reorganization under Section 368(a) of the Code.
- The restated agreement contains no disclosed changes to merger consideration or exchange ratio; stockholder votes still required.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-24-001804
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TCPC
- cik: 0001370755
- company_name: BlackRock TCP Capital Corp.
- filed_at: 2024-01-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370755/000114036124001804/0001140361-24-001804-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370755/000114036124001804/ny20011915x9_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-001804
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-001804.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. amended Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger with BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation, Project Spurs Merger Sub, LLC, BlackRock Capital Investment Advisors, LLC, Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC (effective 2024-01-10).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation, Project Spurs Merger Sub, LLC, BlackRock Capital Investment Advisors, LLC, Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC
  - Effective: 2024-01-10
  source text: On January 10, 2024, TCPC, BCIC, Merger Sub, BCIA, and TCP entered into an Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Restated Merger Agreement”) pursuant to which the Original Merger Agreement was amended and restated in its entirety.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370755/000114036124001804/0001140361-24-001804-index.htm

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