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Issuer:     BlackRock Direct Lending Corp. (—)
CIK:        0001834543
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-09-04T12:00:52+00:00
Accession:  0001140361-26-035675
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 8.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

BlackRock Direct Lending names Jason Mehring CEO as Philip Tseng resigns
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- Philip Tseng resigned as Director, Board Chair, CEO, and Co-CIO effective Aug 31, 2026, to pursue other opportunities; not due to disagreement.
- Jason Mehring appointed Director, Board Chair, and CEO effective Sept 2, 2026; previously President since Nov 2024.
- Dan Worrell appointed President effective Sept 2, 2026, from Co-CIO; also for BDEBT and TCPC.
- Tseng remains BlackRock employee until Oct 1, 2026 for transition; removed from Investment Committee voting membership.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834543/000114036126035675/0001140361-26-035675-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834543/000114036126035675/ef20081603_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-26-035675

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