---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001821268-24-000089"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GOF"
cik: "0001380936"
company_name: "GUGGENHEIM STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FUND"
filed_at: "2024-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T05:17:57.946399+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GOF ups ATM equity offering capacity to $850M under amended sales agreement

## Summary
- Fourth Amendment to Controlled Equity Offering Sales Agreement filed May 3, 2024.
- Maximum aggregate initial offering price raised from $330M to $850M.
- Fund may sell common shares through Cantor Fitzgerald as agent.
- Amendment updates reference registration statement to Form N-2 (333-279126).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001821268-24-000089
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GOF
- cik: 0001380936
- company_name: GUGGENHEIM STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FUND
- filed_at: 2024-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1380936/000182126824000089/0001821268-24-000089-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1380936/000182126824000089/gug87514-8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  GUGGENHEIM STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FUND amended Fourth Amendment to Controlled Equity Offering SM Sales Agreement with Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. valued at up to $850,000,000 (effective 2024-05-03).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: atm program
  - Counterparty: Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
  - Value: up to $850,000,000
  - Effective: 2024-05-03
  source text: Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund (NYSE: GOF) (the “Fund”) has entered into a Controlled Equity Offering SM Sales Agreement, dated July 1, 2019, as amended by First Amendment to Controlled Equity Offering SM Sales Agreement, dated February 1, 2021, Second Amendment to Controlled Equity Offering SM Sales Agreement, dated September 16, 2021, Third Amendment to Controlled Equity Offering SM Sales Agreement, dated March 27, 2023, and Fourth Amendment to Controlled Equity Offering SM Sales Agreement, dated May 3, 2024 (as amended, the “Sales Agreement”), by and among the Fund, Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC, and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (“Cantor Fitzgerald”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1380936/000182126824000089/0001821268-24-000089-index.htm

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