---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-009173"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BME"
cik: "0001314966"
company_name: "BlackRock Health Sciences Trust"
filed_at: "2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T21:57:17.915169+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BlackRock Health Sciences Trust signs standstill with Saba Capital through Aug 2027

## Summary
- Saba agrees to vote all BME shares per Board recommendations on all matters submitted to shareholders.
- Standstill effective until day after 2027 annual meeting or Aug 31, 2027, whichever is earlier.
- Saba restricted from proxy contests, trustee nominations, tender offers, and other activist actions.
- Both parties agree to refrain from ad hominem attacks or disparagement during the standstill period.
- Saba retains Mirror Voting rights for its registered investment companies and can participate in ongoing ECAT/MUI litigation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-009173
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BME
- cik: 0001314966
- company_name: BlackRock Health Sciences Trust
- filed_at: 2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1314966/000119312525009173/0001193125-25-009173-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1314966/000119312525009173/d901098d8k.htm

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