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| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On April 28, 2025, Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a new custody agreement (the “Custody Agreement”) with U.S. Bank Trust Company (“U.S. Bank”), the current custodian to the Company. The Custody Agreement reflects certain updates to the custody services U.S. Bank provides to the Company. Either party may terminate the Custody Agreement at any time upon 60 days’ prior written notice.
On April 28, 2025, the Company entered into a document custody agreement (the “Document Custody Agreement”) with U.S. Bank, pursuant to which U.S. Bank will serve as the document custodian and provide custody services with respect to certain Collateral (as defined in the Document Custody Agreement) held by the Company. Either party may terminate the Document Custody Agreement at any time upon 60 days’ prior written notice.
The above summaries of the Custody Agreement and the Document Custody Agreement are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by the full text of the Custody Agreement and the Document Custody Agreement, copies of which are filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
| 10.1(1)(2) | Custody Agreement, dated April 28, 2025, by and between Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc. and U.S. Bank Trust Company | |
| 10.2(1)(2) | Document Custody Agreement, dated April 28, 2025, by and between Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc. and U.S. Bank Trust Company | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
| (1) | Filed herewith. |
| (2) | Schedules to this Exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Item 601 of Regulation S-K. The registrant agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of all omitted schedules to the SEC upon its request. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc. | ||||||
| Date: May 2, 2025 | By: | /s/ Michael Ewald | ||||
| Name: | Michael Ewald | |||||
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |||||