Good morning, and welcome to today's call to discuss the proposed transaction announced between BCP Investment Corporation, a business development company externally managed by Sierra Crest Investment Management LLC, an affiliate of BC Partners, and Investcorp Credit Management BDC, Inc., a business development company externally managed by CM Investment Partners LLC, an affiliate of Investcorp. We are joined today by Ted Goldthorpe, Chief Executive Officer of BCP Investment Corporation, and Suhail Shaikh, President and Chief Executive Officer of Investcorp Credit Management BDC, along with Brandon Satoren, Chief Financial Officer of BCP Investment Corporation, Patrick Schafer, Chief Investment Officer of BCP Investment Corporation, and certain other members of the BCIC and ICMB management teams. Before we begin, I would like to note that this call is being recorded, and replay information is included in the November 11, 2026, joint press release.
Throughout today's call, we will reference an investor presentation that has been posted to the investor relations section of both the BCP Investment Corporation and Investcorp Credit Management BDC websites. While we will not directly reference each slide, the remarks will generally follow the structure of the presentation. If you have not done so already, we encourage you to download the presentation for review during the call. Please note that this call is property of BCP Investment Corporation, BC Partners, Investcorp Credit Management BDC, and CM Investment Partners, and any unauthorized rebroadcast of this call in any form is strictly prohibited.
Today's conference call includes forward-looking statements and projections, including statements regarding the proposed transaction, the expected timing of closing, the anticipated benefits of the transaction, and the combined company's plans with respect to capital deployment, share repurchases, and debt reduction. We ask that you refer to the November 11, 2026, joint press release and to each company's most recent filings with the SEC for important risk factors that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those projections. BCIC and ICMB do not undertake to update their forward-looking statements unless required by law. This call does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval.
In connection with the proposed transaction, BCIC intends to file with the SEC a registration statement on Form N-14 that will include a proxy statement of ICMB and a prospectus of BCIC. Stockholders are urged to read the proxy statement or prospectus and other relevant documents when they become available, because they will contain important information about the transaction. I will now turn the call over to Ted Goldthorpe, Chief Executive Officer of BCP Investment Corporation. Please go ahead, Ted.
Thank you, and thank you all for joining us. I am joined on today's call by Suhail Shaikh, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICMB, Brandon Satoren, our Chief Financial Officer, Patrick Schafer, our Chief Investment Officer, and Andrew Muns, Chief Financial Officer of ICMB. As we announced yesterday afternoon, BCP Investment Corporation has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Investcorp Credit Management BDC, under which ICMB will be merged with and into BCIC, with BCIC continuing as the surviving company. We also released our third quarter results, which Patrick and Brandon will cover later in the call. As many of you know, this will be the fifth merger transaction we have entered into since BC Partners assumed management of BCIC in April of 2019.
The first was OHA Investment Corporation, which closed in December of 2019, followed by Garrison Capital in October 2020, Harvest Capital Credit in June 2021, and Logan Ridge Finance Corporation in July 2025. Each of those transactions was completed on the terms and timeline we laid out at the announcement. We believe this transaction further validates our position as a consolidator of choice in a BDC sector that remains highly fragmented at the smaller end of the market. I want to start by outlining the details of the proposed transaction and then walk through the strategic rationale and benefits for both BCIC and ICMB stockholders. I will also spend time on how we intend to allocate capital in the combined company, because it is an important part of how we think about creating value in the current market environment.
Suhail will also share ICMB's perspective and the process that led the board and special committee to partner with us. For those of you who are following along in the investor presentation, on slide three, we outline details of the transaction. This transaction has been unanimously approved by the board of directors of both BCIC and ICMB, in the case of ICMB, upon the unanimous recommendations of the special committee of independent directors. Under terms of the merger agreement, ICMB stockholders will receive an aggregate consideration equal to 90% of ICMB's net asset value, determined shortly before closing. That consideration will be paid in newly issued shares of BCIC common stock, valued at 100% of BCIC's net asset value per share at time of closing.
To the extent the number of BCIC shares required would exceed 19.99% of BCIC's issued and outstanding common stock immediately prior to closing, the excess will be paid to ICMB stockholders in cash. I want to pause on two aspects of that structure. First, BCIC is issuing its shares at net asset value, not at market price. Second, because we are acquiring ICMB's net assets at a discount to their closing net asset value, we expect the transaction to be accretive to BCIC's net asset value per share at closing, in addition to being accretive to net investment income over time. The final exchange ratio will be determined by the net asset values of both companies as of the determination date, which will be within 48 hours prior to closing.
Both net asset values will be calculated on a consistent basis, net of transaction expenses, with each company bearing their own transaction costs. Based on September 30th, 2026, net asset values of both companies, and including current estimates for transaction expenses, ICMB stockholders would receive approximately 0.172 shares of BCIC common stock and approximately $0.26 in cash for each share of ICMB common stock, representing total consideration of $2.49 per ICMB share at BCIC's net asset value. Based on BCIC's closing stock price of $6.57 on November 9th, 2026, the transaction values ICMB at approximately $1.38 per share, which represents a 127% premium to ICMB's closing price of $0.61 on the date.
Importantly, Investcorp and other ICMB stockholders, including Stifel and ICMB's directors and officers, who together hold approximately 41% of ICMB's outstanding shares, have entered into agreements to vote their shares in favor of the transaction. We view that support as a strong endorsement of the transaction by the stockholders who know ICMB best, as well as meaningfully increasing the certainty of closing. Following the closing, the combined company will continue to be managed by Sierra Crest under BCIC's existing investment advisor agreement, and will continue to trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker BCIC, and will be led by BCIC's current management team and board of directors. I would now like to turn the call over to Suhail to discuss the transaction from ICMB's perspective.
Thanks, Ted. I am happy to join you today on behalf of ICMB, our board of directors, and its special committee to discuss this transaction with BCP Investment Corporation. As our stockholders know, over the past several quarters, ICMB has faced a challenging set of circumstances. Our size has made it increasingly difficult to absorb the fixed costs of operating as a standalone public company. Our net asset value has declined, and earlier this year, our board made the decision to suspend our quarterly distribution. Throughout that period, our focus has been on preserving value for stockholders, managing our portfolio, maintaining liquidity, and reducing costs, including through fee waivers by our advisors. Against that backdrop, our board formed a special committee of independent directors to review strategic alternatives, and in April, the special committee engaged Houlihan Lokey as its financial advisor. That review was comprehensive.
The special committee and its advisors contacted a broad range of potential counterparties and evaluated a wide range of alternatives. At the conclusion of that process, the special committee determined that the transaction with BCIC offers the most compelling outcome for ICMB stockholders for several reasons. First, value and certainty. The consideration is based on our net asset value at closing. The BCIC shares our stockholders will receive are valued at BCIC's net asset value, and our due diligence gives us confidence in the quality of that net asset value. Second, our stockholders will become owners of a larger, more diversified, and more liquid company with a meaningfully lower expense ratio and one that is currently paying a regular monthly distribution. Third, the BC Partners platform.
Over the course of this process, the BC Partners credit team demonstrated detailed understanding of our portfolio, a track record of completing four prior BDC mergers on the terms announced, and the ability to deliver certainty of execution. We believe our portfolio companies and our stockholders will be well served under their management. Investcorp BDC Holdings Limited, as ICMB's largest stockholder, has agreed to vote its shares in favor of the transaction, and I and the other directors and officers of ICMB have done the same. With that, I will hand it back to Ted.
Thank you, Suhail. I would now like to provide an overview of the strategic rationale for the proposed transaction, which is laid out on slide four. First and foremost, we expect this transaction to be accretive to both net asset value per share and net investment income per share. The net asset value accretion is a direct result of the purchase price. The earnings accretion is driven by the elimination of duplicative public company and operating costs, and by a lower cost of financing on the acquired assets over time. Second, this transaction adds scale in the way that we think scale matters most for a company of our size. We are not pursuing size for its own sake.
Larger equity base allows us to spread a relatively fixed set of public company costs across more assets, increase the float and trading liquidity of our stock, and broadens our stockholder base. We believe each of those factors has the potential over time to support a higher price for all of our stockholders. Third, ICMB's portfolio is one we know well. It is concentrated in first lien senior secured loans to middle market companies, with approximately 82% of the portfolio at fair value in first lien investments across approximately 28 portfolio companies as of September 30th, 2026. As we've done every prior transaction, we tend to rotate the acquired portfolio over time.
Following closing, we expect to monetize ICMB's more liquid positions, work through a smaller number of legacy and restructured positions with the benefit of our team's special situations and workout expertise, and retain those investments that fit BCIC's strategies. We have clear precedent for this. Following mergers with OHA Investment Corporation and Garrison Capital, we monetized a significant portion of each acquired portfolio at or above fair market value within weeks of closing, and we've continued to reposition the Logan Ridge portfolio since that transaction closed last year. Fourth, ICMB stockholders will benefit from the fully integrated BC Partners platform, which gives access to deal industry diligence, sourcing relationships, and expertise built over 40 years of private market investing.
We believe our differentiated middle market lending strategy, including our ability to capitalize on attractively priced sponsor and non-sponsor opportunities, will lead to better long-term performance and a more stable NAV. Finally, I want to touch on liabilities. BCIC's liability structure is flexible. We have a revolving credit facility with KeyBank that we upsized to $150 million of committed capacity and extended to 2031 earlier this year, together with a ladder of unsecured notes. At or shortly following closing, we expect to repay ICMB's revolving credit facility and to redeem ICMB's 2029 notes, which we expect will reduce the cost of financing on the acquired portfolio. Our objective is to right-size liabilities of the combined company to the size of the balance sheet and its investment strategy going forward. We are, in short, using the benefits of scale on both sides of the balance sheet.
Before reviewing our Q3 results, I want to speak directly about how we intend to allocate capital between now and closing as a combined company. This is outlined on slide five. Our stock trades at a significant discount to NAV. We've said on prior calls that we do not believe the discount reflects our underlying value of our portfolio, and we've acted on that view through maintaining a consistent open market repurchase program for the last several years, and through the tender offer that we completed in December of last year. We're also mindful that, in the current environment, the returns available on new investments need to be measured against the returns available from buying our own portfolio at a discount and from reducing our borrowings. With that in mind, we intend to take a deliberately measured approach to new capital deployment.
In the near term, we expect to slow the pace of new investments and to be highly selective in new investments we do make, prioritizing support for our existing portfolio companies and only those new opportunities that offer compelling risk-adjusted returns relative to our other uses of capital. Instead, we intend to direct the proceeds we receive from loan repayments, payoffs, and sales towards two priorities. First is repurchasing our shares in the open market. When our stock trades at a meaningful discount to NAV, every share we repurchase is immediately accretive to NAV per share for our continuing stockholders. In our view, there are few investments available today to us that offer comparable return with comparable certainty.
The board has previously authorized a share repurchase program of up to $10 million through March 31st, 2027, and we intend to be active under that program as well as future programs, subject to market conditions, applicable legal and regulatory environment requirements, including restrictions that apply in connection with the transaction and customary blackout periods. Second is paying down debt. We ended the third quarter with an asset coverage ratio of 157%. We intend to use the repayment proceeds to reduce outstanding borrowings. Lower leverage reduces our interest expense, increases our cushion against market volatility, and gives us more flexibility in how we finance the combined company in and after closing. This approach applies equally for the ICMB portfolio. As we monetize and rotate the acquired assets following closing, we expect to apply those proceeds in the same disciplined way.
First, to reducing the combined company's leverage to within our target range of 1.25x-1.4 x, and to share repurchases, and only then to new investments that clear the bar I just described. I want to be clear about what this is and what it is not. This is not a change in our investment strategy. This is not a reflection of the opportunity set in front of BC Partners' credit platform, which remains attractive. This is a judgment that, with our stock where it is today, the best risk-adjusted use of each incremental dollar of our stockholders' capital is to buy back stock at a discount and delever the balance sheet. We will continue to evaluate that judgment each quarter, and as the discount narrows, we would expect that balance to shift more towards new originations.
Put simply, we believe the combination of an accretive acquisition, a lower cost structure, a smaller and less levered balance sheet relative to our equity, and a reduced share count is the most direct path to growing net asset value per share and earnings per share, and ultimately to closing the gap between our stock price and the value of our portfolio. The ultimate goal is to deliver strong and more sustainable risk-adjusted returns to shareholders, and we believe this transaction, together with capital allocation priorities I just described, is the best path to achieve it. I will now turn the call over to Patrick Schafer, our Chief Investment Officer, for a review of our investment activity for the third quarter, and then to Brandon Satoren, our Chief Financial Officer, who will review financial results.
Thanks, Ted. Turning to the third quarter of 2026, activity in our core market remained relatively subdued during the quarter. We are starting to see transaction volumes improve. Sponsors look to monetize aging investments, although the pickup has not yet translated meaningfully into the lower middle market. At the same time, we think the environment has become somewhat more attractive for lenders, particularly where we focus, which is companies with $15 million-$50 million of EBITDA and a focus on non-sponsored and non-traditional sponsored situations. Spreads stabilized after widening earlier in the year and remain modestly wider than at year-end, while higher base rates continue to support attractive all-in yields. Competition remains strong for high-quality credits, particularly when factoring in the muted overall market activity, but we continue to find compelling opportunities where we can differentiate ourselves through certainty of execution and flexible capital solutions.
On credit, the broader market remained relatively stable during the quarter, and on average, an increasing number of companies in our market are reporting revenue and EBITDA growth. Having said that, we continue to see dispersion across borrowers, sectors, and vintages, with stress more concentrated in certain 2021 and 2022 vintages and select software credits. While we believe the credit environment in our core market remains stable, benchmark rates increasing have slowed M&A activity, and we continue to monitor certain vintages of loans as either potential investment opportunities or those within our portfolio for active management and rotation. As a result of the lower activity level during the third quarter, our investment activity remained measured and selective. We completed three follow-on investments during the period and no investments to new borrowers.
Originations for the quarter were $3.1 million, and repayments and sales were $8.9 million, resulting in net repayments and sales of approximately $5.8 million. Turning to slide 10, the overall yield on par value of new debt investments during the quarter was 11.4%. This compares to a 12.1% weighted average annualized yield, excluding income from non-accruals and collateralized loan obligations, as of September 30th, 2026, and a weighted average annualized yield of 12.0% as of June 30th, 2026. Turning to slide 11, our non-accrual profile continued to improve on a fair value basis during the quarter. At the end of the quarter, we had 10 investments on non-accrual status attributable to seven portfolio companies, representing 2.8% and 6.0% of the portfolio at fair value and amortized cost, respectively.
This compares to 11 investments attributable to seven portfolio companies on non-accrual status as of June 30th, 2026, representing 3.1% and 5.7% of the portfolio at fair value and cost, respectively. While we continue to work through these positions, the reduction in both the number of non-accrual investments and the fair value exposure represents continued progress. On slide 12, excluding our non-accrual investments, we had an aggregate debt investment portfolio of $323.4 million at fair value, representing a blended price of 87.9% of par value, and 80% of that portfolio was comprised of first-lien loans at par value.
Assuming par recovery and our September 30th, 2026 fair values imply approximately $44.3 million of incremental NAV value, or a 27.3% increase to NAV. Applying an illustrative 10% default rate and 70% recovery rate, the debt portfolio would imply approximately $2.69 per share of incremental NAV, or a 20.5% increase as it rotates. I will now turn the call over to Brandon to further discuss our financial results for the period.
Thanks, Patrick. For the quarter ended September 30th, 2026, the company generated $13.9 million in investment income, compared with $15.2 million in the prior quarter. The decrease primarily reflects a smaller income-producing portfolio following net repayments and sales during the quarter. For the same period, total expenses were approximately $9.3 million, compared with $9.6 million in the prior quarter. The decline in expenses was primarily driven by lower financing costs, including the benefits of the refinanced KeyBank credit facility, as well as lower management fees during the period. Accordingly, our net investment income for the third quarter of 2026 was approximately $4.6 million, or $0.37 per share, compared with $5.5 million, or $0.45 per share, in the prior quarter.
Core net investment income, which excludes merger-related purchase discount accretion for the third quarter, was $2.9 million, or $0.24 per share, compared to $3.3 million, or $0.27 per share, for the second quarter of 2026. As of September 30th, 2026, net asset value totaled $162.7 million, compared with $179.5 million at June 30th, 2026. NAV per share declined to $13.13 per share from $14.49 per share. The decline in NAV during the quarter was primarily driven by unrealized mark-to-market declines on the portfolio. At quarter end, outstanding borrowings totaled $282.4 million in principal, compared with $286.1 million as of the prior quarter, with an asset coverage ratio of 157% compared to 162% as of June 30th. The weighted average interest rate on debt outstanding was approximately 7%.
Additionally, as previously disclosed, during the quarter, we amended the KeyBank credit facility to increase the commitment to $150 million from $75 million, reduce the applicable spread by 30 basis points during the revolving period to SOFR + 2.5%, and extended the revolving period to August 2029 and maturity to August 2031. The incremental borrowing capacity under the new KeyBank credit facility was then used to repay and terminate the Great Lakes revolving credit facility. Accordingly, as of September 30th, $100.4 million was outstanding under the KeyBank facility, leaving approximately $49.6 million of undrawn commitments subject to borrowing base availability and other restrictions. Finally, subsequent to quarter- end, on October 3rd, 2026, we repaid the remaining $10 million of 2026 notes at par, eliminating all 2026 maturities. With that, I will turn the call back over to Ted.
Thank you, Brandon, and thank you, Suhail. I also want to thank the ICMB board, its special committee, and the Investcorp team for their partnership throughout this process. I want to reiterate that our excitement around this transaction and the benefits we believe both ICMB and BCIC stockholders will derive from it. In conclusion, we believe the combined company will benefit from accretion in net asset value closing, reduction in public company costs spread across a larger base, lower financing costs in the acquired portfolio, and increased float and trading in our stock.
We intend to pair those benefits with disciplined approach to capital, a slower pace of new deployment, and the use of repayment proceeds to repurchase our shares in the open market and pay down debt. We believe this transaction further solidifies BCIC as an acquirer of choice in the BDC market. We look forward to updating you on our progress in the coming months. Thank you for attending our call, and as always, please feel free to reach out with any questions, which we are happy to discuss. We look forward to speaking to you again in the new year when we announce our fourth quarter and year-end results. Thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's call. Thank you for joining. You may now disconnect.