Special Opportunities Fund, Inc. Announces Results of Tender Offer
April 04, 2022 at 08:50 am EDT
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Special Opportunities Fund, Inc. (NYSE: SPE) (the “Fund”) today announced that its offer to purchase up to 1.25 million common shares of the Fund at 97% of the net asset value (“NAV”) per common share as determined at the close of the regular trading session of the New York Stock Exchange on April 1, 2022 expired at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time on April 1, 2022. Based on information provided by American Stock Transfer & Trust Co., the depository for the Offer, a total of 7,549,920 common shares or approximately 59.39% of the Fund’s outstanding common shares were validly tendered. As the total number of common shares tendered exceeds 1.25 million common shares, approximately 16.56% of the shares tendered by each tendering shareholder were accepted for payment at a price of $15.69 per share (97% of the NAV per common share of $16.18).
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Special Opportunities Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is total return. The Fund invests primarily in securities, which have the opportunity for appreciation. The Fund may employ strategies designed to capture price movements generated by anticipated corporate events, such as investing in companies involved in special situations, including, but not limited to, mergers, acquisitions, asset sales, spin-offs, balance sheet restructuring, bankruptcy, liquidations, and tender offers. The Fund may, from time to time, engage in short sales of securities for investment or for hedging purposes. The Fund invests in closed-end funds, business development companies, preferred stocks, other common stocks, special purpose acquisition vehicles, corporate obligations, money market funds, warrants and rights, among others. Bulldog Investors, LLP is the investment adviser of the Fund.