"It's time for new management at BPRE. Read about the dumpster🔥 of their own making at fireBLUEROCK.com," Saba Founder Boaz Weinstein wrote on X.
The equity commitments were raised across an evergreen fund, a closed-end venture debt fund, and a rated note offering.
The acquisition brings three interval funds, a BDC, and a $41 billion CLO and alternative credit business to the combined platform.
The recently registered interval fund will invest in DLP Capital vehicles targeting debt and equity opportunities across US attainable rental housing.
Boaz Weinstein's firm plans to solicit shareholder proxies as it seeks to terminate the closed-end fund's manager and pursue board changes.
The vote follows the board's termination of Octagon and clears the condition for the fund's previously announced liquidity plan.
"Octagon's proposals do not amount to a real plan forward," XAI president Kimberly Flynn exclusively told EvergreenLink.
Shareholders in the closed-end traded fund have until August 6 to approve the King Street sub-advisory agreement, as former sub-advisor Octagon denounced the decision arguing insufficient support.
The $580 million fund's former sub-adviser Octagon called the proposed tender offers "vote bait," while Egan-Jones maintained its recommendation against the proposed appointment.
The contested proxy campaign in the $580 million CLO fund was sparked by the board's decision to terminate Octagon as sub-adviser and propose Rockford Tower as its replacement.
