UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
- ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024
- TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Commission File Number: 814-01363 | |||||||
Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc. | |||||||
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) | |||||||
Delaware | 83-0531326 | ||||||
(State or Other Jurisdiction of | (I.R.S. Employer | ||||||
Incorporation or Organization) | Identification No.) | ||||||
717 Texas Avenue, Suite 2200, Houston, TX | 77002 | ||||||
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) | ||||||
(713) 493-2020 | |||||||
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code) | |||||||
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: | |||||||
Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered | |||||
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share | KBDC | NYSE |
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ☐ No ☒
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the past 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☐ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer", "accelerated filer", "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer | ☒ | Accelerated filer | ☐ |
Non-accelerated filer | ☐ | Smaller reporting company | ☐ |
Emerging growth company | ☐ |
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒
As of February 21, 2025, the registrant had 71,059,689 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, issued and outstanding and there was no public market for the registrant's shares.
Documents Incorporated by Reference
Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc. will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, not later than 120 days after the close of its fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, a definitive proxy statement containing the information required to be disclosed under Part III of Form 10-K.
TABLE OF CONTENTS | |||
Page | |||
PART I | 1 | ||
Item 1. | Business | 2 | |
Item 1A. | Risk Factors | 24 | |
Item 1B. | Unresolved Staff Comments | 56 | |
Item 1C. | Cybersecurity | 56 | |
Item 2. | Properties | 57 | |
Item 3. | Legal Proceedings | 57 | |
Item 4. | Mine Safety Disclosures | 57 | |
PART II | 58 | ||
Item 5. | Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities | 58 | |
Item 6. | [Reserved] | 65 | |
Item 7. | Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 65 | |
Item 7A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 76 | |
Item 8. | Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data | F-1 | |
Item 9. | Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure | 77 | |
Item 9A. | Controls and Procedures | 77 | |
Item 9B. | Other Information | 77 | |
Item 9C. | Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections | 77 | |
PART III | 78 | ||
Item 10. | Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance | 78 | |
Item 11. | Executive Compensation | 78 | |
Item 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters | 78 | |
Item 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence | 78 | |
Item 14. | Principal Accounting Fees and Services | 78 | |
PART IV | 79 | ||
Item 15. | Exhibits, Consolidated Financial Statements, and Schedules | 79 | |
Item 16. | Form 10-K Summary | 81 | |
SIGNATURES | 82 |
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PART I
The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and related notes and other financial information appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Except as otherwise specified, references to "we," "us," "our," or the "Company" refer to Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc., a Delaware corporation. We refer to KA Credit Advisors, LLC, our investment adviser, as our "Advisor." The Advisor also serves as our administrator (the "Administrator"). We refer generally to Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., an affiliate of the Advisor, as "Kayne Anderson."
Forward Looking Statements
This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. Undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts, but rather are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the company, current and prospective portfolio investments, the industry, beliefs and assumptions. Words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "will," "may," "continue," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "would," "could," "should," "targets," "projects," and variations of these words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond control of the Company and difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements, including:
- future operating results;
- business prospects and the prospects of portfolio companies in which we invest;
- the ability of our portfolio companies to achieve their objectives;
- changes in political, economic or industry conditions, the interest rate environment or conditions affecting the financial and capital markets;
- the ability of our Advisor to locate suitable investments and to monitor and administer investments;
- the ability of the Advisor and its affiliates to attract and retain highly talented professionals;
- risk associated with possible disruptions in operations or the economy generally;
- the adequacy of our cash resources, financing sources and working capital;
- the timing of cash flows, interest, distributions and dividends, if any, from the operations of the companies in which the Company invests;
- the ability to maintain qualification as a business development company ("BDC") and as a regulated investment company ("RIC") under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code");
- the use of borrowings under our credit facilities and issuances of senior unsecured notes to finance a portion of the Company's investments;
- the adequacy, availability and pricing of financing sources and working capital for the Company;
- actual or potential conflicts of interest with the Advisor and its affiliates;
- contractual arrangements and relationships with third parties;
- the risk associated with an economic downturn, increased inflation, political instability, interest rate volatility, loss of key personnel, and the illiquid nature of investments of the Company; and
- the risks, uncertainties and other factors the Company identifies under "Part I - Item 1A. Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
We have based the forward-looking statements included in this report on information available to us on the date of this report. We assume no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Although we undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements, you are advised to consult any additional disclosures that we may make directly to you or through reports that we have filed or in the future may file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including annual reports on Form 10-K, registration statements on Form N-2, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K.
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Item 1. Business
Overview
Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc. is a Delaware corporation formed to make investments in middle-market companies and commenced operations on February 5, 2021. We are an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a BDC under the 1940 Act. In addition, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, we intend to qualify, annually, as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code.
We are a business development company ("BDC") that invests primarily in first lien senior secured loans, with a secondary focus on unitranche and split-lien loans to private middle market companies. We are managed by our investment advisor KA Credit Advisors, LLC (the "Advisor"), an indirect controlled subsidiary of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. ("Kayne Anderson"), a prominent alternative investment management firm. Our Advisor operates within Kayne Anderson's middle market private credit platform ("KAPC" or "Kayne Anderson Private Credit"). Our Advisor is registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the "Advisers Act").
On May 24, 2024, we completed our initial public offering ("IPO"), issuing 6,000,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $16.63 per share. Net of underwriting fees and offering expenses, we received net cash proceeds of $92.4 million. The Company's common stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") under the ticker symbol "KBDC" on May 22, 2024.
We generally intend to distribute, out of assets legally available for distribution, 90% to 100% of our available earnings, on a quarterly or annual basis, as determined by our Board of Directors (the "Board") in its sole discretion. The distributions we pay to our stockholders in a year may exceed our taxable income for that year and, accordingly, a portion of such distributions equal to such excess of distributions over taxable income may constitute a return of invested capital for federal income tax purposes. Such a return of capital (i.e., a distribution that represents a return of an investor's original investment) would be nontaxable to the stockholder and would reduce its basis in its shares. As a result, income tax related to the portion of such distributions treated as return of capital would be deferred until any subsequent sale of shares of common stock. The specific tax characteristics of our distributions will be reported to stockholders after the end of the calendar year.
Investment Objective, Principal Strategy and Investment Structures
Our investment objective is to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation. We intend to have nearly all of our debt investments in private middle market companies. We use "private" to refer to companies that are not traded on a securities exchange and define "middle market companies" as companies that, in general, generate between $10 million and $150 million of annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA. Further, we refer to companies that generate between $10 million and $50 million of annual EBITDA as "core middle market companies" and companies that generate between $50 million and $150 million of annual EBITDA as "upper middle market companies." We typically adjust EBITDA for non- recurring and/or normalizing items to assess the financial performance of our borrowers over time.
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We intend to achieve our investment objective by investing primarily in first lien senior secured loans, with a secondary focus on unitranche and split-lien loans to middle market companies. Under normal market conditions, we expect at least 90% of our portfolio (including investments purchased with proceeds from borrowings under credit facilities and issuances of senior unsecured notes) to be invested in first lien senior secured, unitranche and split-lien loans. Our investment decisions are made on a case-by-case basis. We expect the remainder of our portfolio to be invested in second-lien loans, subordinated debt or equity securities (including those purchased in conjunction with other cred investments). We expect that a majority of these debt investments will be made in core middle market companies and will generally have stated maturities of three to six years. We expect that the loans in which we principally invest will be to companies that are located in the United States. We determine the location of a company as being in the United States by (i) such company being organized under the laws of one of the states in the United States; or (ii) during its most recent fiscal year, such company derived at least 50% of its revenues or profits from goods produced or sold, investments made, or services performed in the United States or has at least 50% of its assets in the United States.
The Advisor executes on our investment objective by (1) accessing the established loan sourcing channels developed by KAPC, which includes an extensive network of private equity firms, other middle market lenders, financial advisors, intermediaries and management teams, (2) selecting investments within our middle market company focus, (3) implementing KAPC's underwriting process and (4) drawing upon its experience and resources and the broader Kayne Anderson network. KAPC was established in 2011 and manages (directly and through affiliates) assets under management ("AUM") of approximately $7.1 billion related to middle market private credit as of December 31, 2024. See "Risk Factors-RisksRelating to Our Business and Structure-Wedepend upon our Advisor and Administrator for our success and upon their access to the investment professionals and partners of Kayne Anderson and its affiliates. Any inability of the Advisor or the Administrator to maintain or develop these relationships, or the failure of these relationships to generate investment opportunities, could adversely affect our business," and "- Risks Relating to Our Investments - Limitations of investment due diligence expose us to investment risk."
We intend to principally invest in the following types of debt securities:
- First lien debt: Typically senior on a lien basis to the other liabilities in the issuer's capital structure with a first priority lien against substantially all assets of the borrower and often including a pledge of the capital stock of the business. The security interest ranks above the security interest of second lien lenders on those assets. These securities are typically floating rate investments priced with a spread to the reference rate (typically SOFR);
- Split-liendebt: Typically includes (i) a first lien on fixed and intangible assets of the borrower and often including a pledge of the capital stock of the business and (ii) a second lien on working capital assets. Used in conjunction with an asset based lender who has a first lien on the borrower's working capital assets. These securities are typically floating rate investments priced with a spread to the reference rate (typically SOFR).
- Unitranche debt: Combines features of first lien, second lien and subordinated debt, generally in a first lien position. These securities can generally be thought of as first lien investments beyond what may otherwise be considered "typical" first lien leverage levels, effectively representing a greater portion of the overall capitalization of the underlying business. These securities are typically structured as floating rate investments priced with a spread to the reference rate (typically SOFR).
Senior secured debt often has restrictive covenants for the purpose of pursuing principal protection and repayment before junior creditors as covenants provide opportunities for lenders to take action following a covenant breach. The loans in which we principally invest have financial maintenance covenants, which require borrowers to maintain certain financial performance criteria and financial ratios on a monthly or quarterly basis. We do not expect to principally invest in "covenant-lite" loans; we use the term "covenant lite" to refer generally to loans that do not have a customary set of financial maintenance covenants.
Subject to our Advisor's discretion, based on its belief about the pace and amount of investment activity in middle market companies, a portion of our portfolio may be comprised of liquid credit investments (i.e., broadly syndicated loans). The percentage of our portfolio allocated to the liquid investment strategy will be at the discretion of our Advisor. See "Risk Factors-RisksRelating to Our Investments-Weare subject to risks associated with our investment and trading of liquid credit (i.e., broadly syndicated loans)."
We invest in debt that is typically not rated by any rating agency, but we believe that if such investments were rated, they would be below investment grade, which are sometimes referred to as "high yield bonds" or "junk bonds." See "Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Our Investments - We invest in highly leveraged companies, which could cause us to lose all or a part of our investment in those companies," In addition, we have a maturity policy between three to six years for our debt investments. See "Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Our Investments - Our portfolio companies may be unable to repay or refinance outstanding principal on their loans at or prior to maturity."
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Investment Portfolio
Our portfolio is currently comprised of a broad mix of loans, with diversity among investment size and industry focus. The Advisor's team of professionals conducts due diligence on prospective investments during the underwriting process and is involved in structuring the credit terms of our private middle market investments. Once an investment has been made, our Advisor closely monitors each portfolio investment and takes a proactive approach to identify and address sector or company specific risks. The Advisor seeks to maintain a regular dialogue with portfolio company management teams (as well as their owners, the majority of whom are private equity firms, where applicable), reviews detailed operating and financial results on a regular basis (typically monthly or quarterly) and monitors current and projected liquidity needs, in addition to other portfolio management activities. There are no assurances that we will achieve our investment objectives.
Listed below are our top ten portfolio companies and industries represented as a percentage of total long-term investments as of December 31, 2024:
Percentage of | |||||||||
Fair Value | long-term | ||||||||
Portfolio Company | Industry | ($ in millions) | investments | ||||||
1 | Silk Holdings III Corp. (Suave) | Personal care products | $ | 41.0 | 2.0% | ||||
2 | Dusk Acquisition II Corporation (Motors & Armatures, Inc. - | Trading companies & distributors | |||||||
MARS) | $ | 39.9 | 2.0% | ||||||
3 | BR PJK Produce, LLC (Keany) | Food products | $ | 39.5 | 2.0% | ||||
4 | M2S Group Intermediate Holdings, Inc. | Containers & packaging | $ | 37.7 | 1.9% | ||||
5 | American Equipment Holdings LLC | Commercial services & supplies | $ | 37.3 | 1.9% | ||||
6 | Vitesse Systems Parent, LLC | Aerospace & defense | $ | 35.5 | 1.8% | ||||
7 | IF&P Foods, LLC (FreshEdge) | Food products | $ | 35.1 | 1.7% | ||||
8 | AIDC Intermediate Co 2, LLC (Peak Technologies) | Trading companies & distributors | $ | 34.1 | 1.7% | ||||
9 | Genuine Cable Group, LLC | Trading companies & distributors | $ | 34.1 | 1.7% | ||||
10 | Improving Acquisition LLC | IT services | $ | 33.6 | 1.7% | ||||
% | |||||||||
$ | 367.8 | 18.4 | |||||||
As a BDC, at least 70% of our assets must be the type of "qualifying" assets listed in Section 55(a) of the 1940 Act, as described herein, which are generally privately-offered securities issued by U.S. private or thinly-traded companies. We may also invest up to 30% of our portfolio opportunistically in "non- qualifying" portfolio investments. As of December 31, 2024, 9.0% of the Company's total assets were in non-qualifying investments.
Market Opportunity
We believe that our investments represent attractive opportunities as these investments (i) generate what we believe are attractive yields (based on our Advisor's assessment of the relative risk profile of these investments), (ii) make interest payments to us and (iii) typically rank ahead of other debt instruments in the borrower's capital structure (98.0% of our portfolio consisted of first lien senior secured loans as of December 31, 2024), as described above in "- Investment Objective, Principal Strategy and Investment Structures".
Long-Term Demand Drivers in the U.S. Middle Market
We expect that a number of factors will continue to drive strong demand for middle market senior credit, both by private equity owned and non-private equity owned companies, for the foreseeable future, including: (i) the sheer scale of the U.S. middle market and (ii) a significant amount of un-invested middle market private equity capital.
The universe of U.S. middle market companies (as defined by the National Center for the Middle Market and including all businesses with revenues from $10.0 million to $1.0 billion) consists of nearly 200,000 potential borrowers, a substantial portion of which we believe will continue to require access to debt capital to refinance existing debt, support growth and finance acquisitions. Together, these businesses represent approximately one-third of the U.S. private sector gross domestic product ("GDP") making them equivalent to the size of the third largest economy in the world on a standalone basis. (Source: National Center for The Middle Market's Mid-Year2024 Middle Market Indicator).
Private equity firms investing in these businesses held more than $1.5 trillion in un-invested capital ("dry powder") as of February 2025. We expect these private equity firms will continue to pursue acquisitions and will seek to fund a portion of these transactions with debt. (Source: Preqin).
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Long-Term Shift to Private, Non-Bank Financings in the U.S. Middle Market
We believe that the supply of capital to middle market borrowers and private equity firms acquiring these businesses has shifted substantially to private, non- bank lenders such as ourselves due to (i) a long-term regulatory trend that has significantly reduced bank participation in leveraged finance due to stricter federal leveraged lending guidelines, (ii) consolidation of commercial banks over the last two decades and (iii) direct lending increasing share relative to broadly syndicated financings. We believe that some of this shift away from banks and broadly syndicated financings can be attributed to borrowers valuing specific qualities of non-bank lenders including: (i) a focus on ongoing partnership as opposed to transactional arrangements, (ii) more sophisticated underwriting and originations teams and (iii) a lack of reliability exhibited by banks and more liquid market segments during periods of distress.
In sum, we believe there is (a) a substantial demand for loans, and (b) a substantial marketplace shift towards private, non-bank lenders. We anticipate that these trends should benefit direct lenders such as ourselves.
Middle Market Attractiveness
We intend to have nearly all of our debt investments in private middle market companies. We believe that lending to middle market companies (particularly in senior-focused portions of the capital structure) presents a compelling investment opportunity.
First, senior debt investments are made at the top of the capital structure and are repaid before unsecured creditors and equity investors. Additionally, the types of investments in which we participate will typically include anywhere from one to five lenders in a given debt financing thereby potentially limiting consensus risk, which is important for swift action and potential recovery to lenders in distressed scenarios.
Second, we believe that these markets are underserved by traditional banking sources. We believe that this lack of financing sources leads middle market companies to offer attractive (i) economic terms such as pricing, fees and prepayment premiums and (ii) structural terms such as stricter covenants and more fulsome collateral packages than debt investments in public or much larger private companies.
Competitive Strengths
Our Advisor utilizes KAPC's direct lending platform to pursue investment opportunities. The leadership team of KAPC has invested this market across multiple platforms (e.g., not only as part of KAPC) and economic cycles, working directly together as a team for the better part of three decades. This experience over multiple decades allows KAPC to focus on transactions in markets where it has substantial experience and where it can bring its expertise in negotiating and structuring investments. Other specific competitive strengths of KAPC which inure to the benefit of KBDC include:
Leading U.S. Core Middle Market Debt Platform. We have benefited and expect to continue to benefit from our relationship with KAPC's large direct lending platform through our Advisor. Since its inception through December 31, 2024, KAPC has deployed nearly $12.7 billion of capital across 426 investments in 207 portfolio companies. Our Advisor (or an affiliate thereof) has been lead agent or co-agent in approximately 76% of investments since the inception of KAPC.
Experienced Credit Investors with Long Track Record. Core middle market direct lending is led by Ken Leonard (Co-CEO of the Company), Doug Goodwillie (Co-CEO of the Company) and Andy Marek (Managing Partner of KAPC), who have a combined 90+ years of lending experience, having collectively completed transactions representing over $17.2 billion in underwritten middle market loan commitments across multiple credit cycles since 2000. These three individuals are primarily responsible for the day-to-day operations of KAPC and have worked together directly since 2002 while Ken Leonard and Andy Marek have worked together since the late 1980's. Ken Leonard and Doug Goodwillie are primarily responsible for the day-to-day operations of KBDC.
The Advisor's investment committee consists of four members (Terry Quinn, Paul Blank, Doug Goodwillie and Ken Leonard) with average experience in credit investing in excess of 30 years. The Advisor's investment committee has overall responsibility for evaluating and unanimously approving the Company's investments and portfolio allocations, subject to the oversight of our Board.
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Sourcing Advantage and Well-EstablishedDirect Relationship Model. We believe that KAPC's relationship-based sourcing model provides strong access to proprietary transaction flow, allowing us to be highly selective in the transactions that we pursue. For the period 2021 through December 31, 2024 (and excluding investments in broadly syndicated loans), approximately 63% of opportunities sourced by our Advisor and 88% of opportunities executed by our Advisor were done so without the presence of a financial intermediary, a fact pattern placing specific emphasis on long-term relationships, reputation and certainty of execution with transaction counterparties. Importantly, we believe (based on KAPC's experience) that our existing portfolio will continue to be an engine of new investment opportunities and will support investment flows even when broader M&A markets may have slowed.
We believe that our direct sourcing model creates repeat business and sticky relationships. Under this model, since inception (and excluding investments in broadly syndicated loans), (i) greater than 90% of KAPC's investments are in companies sponsored by private equity firms (approximately 99% of the Company's investments as of December 31, 2024), (ii) approximately 58% of KAPC's investments were made with repeat private equity sponsors and (iii) over 110 private equity sponsors have partnered with KAPC to provide debt financing to their portfolio companies.
Focus on Investing in Core Middle Market. With extensive market knowledge and experience, we believe we are well positioned to capitalize on the current market conditions in which many middle market companies and private equity sponsors need trusted sources of financing.
Value-LendingPhilosophy. We intend to avoid high-growth markets as, in our management's experience, that growth profile attracts substantial capital formation and, in turn, new competition, leading to the potential for longer-term uncertainty and industry upheaval.
Disciplined Diligence Processes, Regimented Portfolio Monitoring and Active Management. Our Advisor completes substantial hands-ondiligence throughout its investment process, which is centered around addressing a potential portfolio company's industry trends, competitive dynamics, customer base, economic drivers, historical financial performance, financial projections, other factors such as legal and environmental assessments as well as the strengths and weaknesses of management and / or the private equity sponsor or ownership. We target a lead or co-leadagent role in a majority of our investments (KAPC has been lead or co-leadagent in approximately 76% of investments since inception), typically enabling us to lead the diligence, documentation and workout processes. Since inception, KAPC has reported realized loss rates of approximately 0.2% of average outstanding investments on an annualized basis.
Competition
We compete with a number of BDCs and investment funds (both public and private), commercial and investment banks, commercial financing companies and, to the extent they provide an alternative form of financing, private equity and hedge funds. Many of our competitors are substantially larger and have considerably greater financial and marketing resources than we do. We believe we are able to compete with these entities primarily on the basis of the experience and contacts of our management team, our responsive and efficient investment analysis and decision-making processes, the investment terms we offer, and our model of investing in companies participating in industries which we know well.
We believe that some of our competitors may make loans with interest rates that will be lower than the rates that we offer. We do not seek to compete solely on the interest rates that we offer to potential portfolio companies. For additional information concerning competitive risks, see "Item 1A - Risk Factors."
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Corporate Structure
We are a Delaware corporation and commenced operations on February 5, 2021. The following chart depicts our ownership structure:
(1) From time to time we may form wholly-owned subsidiaries to facilitate our normal course of business investing activities.
Private Offering
Between February 2021 and December 2023, we executed subscription agreements with investors on sixteen occasions as part of one continuous private placement offering obligating those investors to purchase shares of common stock representing total aggregate capital commitments of $1.047 billion. The execution of the subscription agreements were effected as part of one continuous private placement offering exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereunder. Pursuant to the private placement offering that began on February 5, 2021, we called capital under the terms of those subscription agreements, and we issued shares of common stock to investors on thirteen funding occasions between February 2021 and April 2024 in an aggregate amount of $1.047 billion.
On March 22, 2024, we delivered the final capital drawdown notice to our stockholders relating to the sale of shares of common stock in the private placement. Following this capital call, we did not have any remaining undrawn capital commitments and the investors' obligations to purchase additional shares of common stock were exhausted. This final capital drawdown notice completed our pre-initial public offering capital raise private placement offering exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereunder.
Initial Public Offering
On May 24, 2024, we completed our initial public offering ("IPO"), issuing 6,000,000 shares of our common stock at a public offering price of $16.63 per share. Net of underwriting fees and offering expenses, we received net cash proceeds, before offering expenses, of $92.4 million. The Company's common stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") under the ticker symbol "KBDC" on May 22, 2024.
Stock Repurchase Plan
On May 21, 2024, the Company entered into a share repurchase plan, or the Company 10b5-1 Plan, to acquire up to $100 million in the aggregate of the Company's Common Stock at prices below the Company's net asset value per share over a specified period, in accordance with the guidelines specified in Rule 10b5-1 and Rule 10b-18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). The Company 10b5-1 Plan was approved by the Board of Directors on March 6, 2024. Our 10b5-1 Plan requires Morgan Stanley Corporation as the Company's agent, to repurchase Common Stock on its behalf when the market price per share is below the most recently reported net asset value per share (including any updates, corrections or adjustments publicly announced by the Company to any previously announced net asset value per share, including any distributions declared). Under the Company 10b5-1 Plan, the volume of purchases would be expected to increase as the price of the Company's Common Stock declines, subject to volume restrictions. The timing and amount of any share repurchases will depend on the terms and conditions of the Company 10b5-1 Plan, the market price of the Company's Common Stock and trading volumes, and no assurance can be given that Common Stock be repurchased in any particular amount or at all. The repurchase of shares pursuant to the Company 10b5-1 Plan is intended to satisfy the conditions of Rule 10b5-1 and Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act, and will otherwise be subject to applicable law, including Regulation M, which may prohibit repurchases under certain circumstances. The Company 10b5-1 Plan commenced beginning 60 calendar days following the end of the "restricted period" under Regulation M and will terminate upon the earliest to occur of (i) the close of business on May 24, 2025, (ii) the end of the trading day on which the aggregate purchase price for all shares purchased under the Company 10b5-1 Plan equals $100 million and (iii) the occurrence of certain other events described in the Company 10b5-1 Plan.

