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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-097314"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRBP"
cik: "0001825248"
company_name: "Franklin BSP Capital Corp"
filed_at: "2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T09:59:58.171859+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FBCC stockholders approve amended advisory agreement; 12.4M for, 289K against

## Summary
- Special meeting held December 19, 2023, to vote on amended and restated investment advisory agreement.
- Approved agreement with Franklin BSP Capital Adviser L.L.C. related to merger with Franklin BSP Lending Corporation.
- Votes: 12,380,098 for, 288,781 against, 317,036 abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-097314
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRBP
- cik: 0001825248
- company_name: Franklin BSP Capital Corp
- filed_at: 2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1825248/000121390023097314/0001213900-23-097314-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1825248/000121390023097314/ea190373-8k_franklin.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-23-097314.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Franklin BSP Capital Corp shareholders approved Approval of amended and restated investment advisory agreement in connection with merger at the 2023-12-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-12-19
  source text: Stockholders approved an amended and restated investment advisory agreement (the “Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement”) between FBCC and Franklin BSP Capital Adviser L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company and the external investment adviser to FBCC (“FBCA”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 2, 2023 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among FBCC, Franklin BSP Lending Corporation, a Maryland corporation (“FBLC”), Franklin BSP Merger Sub, Inc., a Maryland corporation and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of FBCC, and, solely for the limited purposes set forth therein, FBCA, based on the following votes: Votes For Votes Against Abstain 12,380,098 288,781 317,036
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1825248/000121390023097314/0001213900-23-097314-index.htm

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