N-Q 1 fp0048035_nq.htm

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM N-Q

 

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

 

Investment Company Act file number: 811-23328

 

FLAT ROCK OPPORTUNITY FUND

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

Robert K. Grunewald

Chief Executive Officer

1350 6th Avenue, 18th Floor

New York, NY 10019

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

 

(212) 596-3413

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

The Corporation Trust Company

Corporation Trust Center

1209 Orange Street

Wilmington, DE 19801

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

Copy to:

 

Owen J. Pinkerton, Esq.

Thompson Hine LLP

1919 M Street, N.W., Suite 700

Washington, DC 20036-3537

(202) 263-4144

 

Date of fiscal year end: December 31

 

Date of reporting period: September 30, 2019

 

 

 

Item 1. Schedule of Investments.

 

The unaudited schedule of investments, as of September 30, 2019, of Flat Rock Opportunity Fund, a Delaware statutory trust that is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company, is set forth below:

 

Flat Rock Opportunity Fund

SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

September 30, 2019 (Unaudited)

 

      Shares   Value 
COMMON STOCKS - 3.65%
Hercules Capital, Inc.         107,435   $1,436,406 
                 
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS
(Cost $1,342,335)             $1,436,406 
                 
   Rate  Maturity   Principal
Amount
    Value 
COLLATERALIZED LOAN OBLIGATIONS EQUITY(a)- 95.06%
Ares XLIX CLO, Ltd.(b)(c)  14.01%(d)  07/22/2030  $3,600,000   $2,829,985 
Blackrock Elbert CLO V, Warehouse LLC(b)(c)(e)  8.56%(d)  08/09/2027   3,000,000    3,000,000 
Dryden 33 Senior Loan Fund(b)(c)  14.53%(d)  04/15/2029   10,000,000    5,806,370 
Eaton Vance CLO 2018-1, Ltd.(b)(c)  12.26%(d)  10/15/2030   3,000,000    2,354,415 
ICG US CLO 2019-2, Ltd.(b)(c)(e)  14.75%(d)  11/21/2019   4,500,000    4,500,000 
MidOcean Credit CLO X Warehouse LLC(b)(c)(e)  17.40%(d)  11/20/2027   3,165,953    3,165,953 
Neuberger Berman CLO XXIII, Ltd.(b)(c)(f)  13.80%(d)  10/17/2027   2,936,000    1,815,332 
Neuberger Berman Loan Advisers CLO 29, Ltd., Class INC(b)(c)  14.58%(d)  10/19/2031   2,000,000    1,374,776 
Neuberger Berman Loan Advisers CLO 29, Ltd., Class SPRI(b)(c)  10.14%(d)  10/19/2031   89,130    92,685 
TCP Whitney CLO, Ltd.(b)(c)  17.33%(d)  08/20/2029   11,500,000    9,680,585 
THL Credit Wind River 2018-2 CLO, Ltd.(b)(c)  14.38%(d)  07/15/2030   531,000    446,119 
Voya CLO 2019-1, Ltd.(b)(c)(f)  15.70%(d)  04/15/2029   2,500,000    2,309,152 
                 
TOTAL COLLATERALIZED LOAN OBLIGATIONS EQUITY            
(Cost $37,707,685)             $37,375,372 

 

   Rate  Maturity  Shares/Principal
Amount
   Value 
SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS-48.50%
Money Market Fund - 0.18%
First American Government Obligations Fund   (7 Day Yield 1.86%)     68,253   $68,253 

 

 

 

   Rate  Maturity  Shares/Principal
Amount
   Value 
U.S. Treasury - 48.32%
United States Treasury Bill(g)  1.61%  10/03/2019  $19,000,000   $18,998,256 
                 
TOTAL SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS                
(Cost $19,066,554)              19,066,509 
                 
TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 147.21%
(Cost $58,116,574)              57,878,287 
LIABILITIES IN EXCESS OF OTHER ASSETS - (47.21)%          (18,562,568)
NET ASSETS - 100.00%             $39,315,719 

 

(a) Collateralized Loan Obligations (“CLO”) Equity positions are entitled to recurring distributions which are generally equal to the remaining cash flow of payments made by underlying securities less contractual payments to debt holders and fund expenses. The effective yield is estimated based upon the current projection of the amount and timing of these recurring distributions in addition to the estimated amount of terminal principal payment. Effective yields for the CLO equity positions are updated generally once a quarter or on a transaction such as an add-on purchase, refinancing or reset. The estimated yield and investment cost may ultimately not be realized.  Total fair value of the securities is $37,375,372, which represents approximately 95.06% of net assets as of September 30, 2019.
(b) Fair valued as determined in good faith in accordance with procedures established by the Board of Trustees.
(c) The level 3 assets were a result of unavailable quoted prices from an active market or the unavailability of other significant observable inputs.
(d) Estimated yield.
(e) Positions represent investments in a warehouse facility, which is a financing structure intended to aggregate loans that may be used to form the basis of a CLO position.
(f) Securities exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are not restricted and may normally be sold to qualified institutional buyers in transactions exempt from registration. Total fair value of Rule 144A securities amounts to $4,124,484, which represents approximately 10.49% of net assets as of September 30, 2019.
(g) Rate shown represents the bond equivalent yield to maturity at date of purchase.

 

See Notes to Quarterly Schedule of Investments.

 

 

Flat Rock Opportunity Fund

Notes to Quarterly Schedule of Investments

September 30, 2019 (Unaudited)

 

1. ORGANIZATION

 

Flat Rock Opportunity Fund (the “Fund”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (the “1940 Act”) as a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The shares of beneficial interest of the Fund (the "Shares") are continuously offered under Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The Fund operates as an interval fund pursuant to Rule 23c-3 under the 1940 Act, and has adopted a fundamental policy to conduct quarterly repurchase offers at net asset value (“NAV”).

 

The Fund’s investment objective is to generate current income and, as a secondary objective, long-term capital appreciation.

 

The Fund was incorporated as a Delaware statutory trust on February 12, 2018 pursuant to a Declaration of Trust governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware. The Fund had no operations from that date to July 2, 2018, other than those related to organizational matters and the registration of its shares under applicable securities laws.

 

2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Fund in preparation of its financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). The Fund is an investment company under U.S. GAAP and follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 946, Financial Services - Investment Companies.

 

Use of Estimates: The preparation of the financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

 

Security Valuation: The Fund determines the Net Asset Value (“NAV”) of its shares daily, on each day that the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open for business, as of the close of regular trading (normally, 4:00 p.m., Eastern time).

 

Equity securities for which market quotations are available are generally valued at the last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange on which they trade.

 

Short-term debt securities having a remaining maturity of 60 days or less when purchased are valued at cost adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts, which approximates fair value.

 

Collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”) are not traded on a national securities exchange and instead are valued utilizing a market approach. The market approach is a method of determining the valuation of a security based on the selling price of similar securities. The types of factors that may be taken into account in pricing CLOs include:

 

the yield of similar CLOs where pricing is available in the market;
the riskiness of the underlying pool of loans;
features of the CLO, including weighted average life test, liability pricing, management fees, covenant cushions, weighted average spread of underlying loans and net asset value.

 

The Fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) is responsible for fair value determinations and has established valuation policies and procedures, which includes the engagement of one or more third-party firms to assist the Board in determining the valuation of the Fund’s portfolio investments for which market quotations are not readily available.

 

The fair value of securities may be difficult to determine and thus judgment plays a greater role in the valuation process. The fair valuation methodology may include or consider the following guidelines, as appropriate: (1) evaluation of all relevant factors, including but not limited to, pricing history, current market level and supply and demand of the respective security; (2) comparison to the values and current pricing of securities that have comparable characteristics; (3) knowledge of historical market information with respect to the security; and (4) other factors relevant to the security which would include, but not be limited to, duration, yield, fundamental analytical data, the U.S. Treasury yield curve and credit quality.

 

 

 

The Fund has engaged one or more third-party valuation firms to provide assistance to the Board in valuing certain of the Fund’s investments. The Board may evaluate the impact of additional information and factor it into its consideration of fair value.

 

Securities Transactions and Investment Income: Investment security transactions are accounted for on a trade date basis. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Discounts and premiums on securities purchased are amortized or accreted using the effective interest method. Realized gains and losses from securities transactions and unrealized appreciation and depreciation of securities are determined using the identified cost basis method for financial reporting purposes. Interest income from investments in the “equity” class of collateralized loan obligation (“CLO”) funds will be recorded based upon an estimate of an effective yield to expected maturity utilizing assumed cash flows in accordance with FASB ASC 325-40, Beneficial Interests in Securitized Financial Assets.

 

3. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

 

The Fund utilizes various inputs to measure the fair value of its investments. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability that are developed based on market data obtained from sources independent of the reporting entity. Unobservable inputs reflect the reporting entity’s own assumptions about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability that are developed based on the best information available. These inputs are categorized in the following hierarchy under applicable financial accounting standards:

 

Level 1 - Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities that the Fund has the ability to access at the measurement date.

 

Level 2 - Significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for the identical instrument on an inactive market, quoted prices for similar instruments, interest rates, prepayment spreads, credit risk, yield curves, default rates and similar data).

 

Level 3 - Significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions in determining the fair value of the investments) to the extent relevant observable inputs are not available, for the asset or liability at the measurement date.

 

The availability of observable inputs can vary from security to security and is affected by a wide variety of factors, including, for example, the type of security, whether the security is new and not yet established in the marketplace, the liquidity of markets, and other characteristics particular to the security. To the extent that valuation is based on models or inputs that are less observable or unobservable in the market, the determination of fair value requires more judgment. Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is greatest for instruments categorized in Level 3.

 

The inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, for disclosure purposes, the level in the fair value hierarchy within which the fair value measurement falls is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. The inputs used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

 

The following table summarizes the inputs used to value the Fund's investments under the fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2019:

 

Investments in Securities at Value  Level 1 – Quoted Prices   Level 2 – Significant Observable Inputs   Level 3 – Significant Unobservable Inputs   Total 
Common Stocks  $1,436,406   $   $   $1,436,406 
Collateralized Loan Obligations Equity           37,375,372    37,375,372 
Money Market Fund   68,253            68,253 
U.S. Treasury       18,998,256        18,998,256 
Total  $1,504,659   $18,998,256   $37,375,372   $57,878,287 

 

For the period ended September 30, 2019, there were no transfers into or out of Level 3.

 

 

 

The following is a reconciliation of the fair value of investments for which the Fund has used Level 3 unobservable inputs in determining fair value as of September 30, 2019:

 

   Collateralized Loan Obligations Equity 
 Balance as of December 31, 2018  $14,075,211 
 Accrued discount/ premium   (828,711)
 Realized Gain/(Loss)    
 Change in Unrealized Appreciation/(Depreciation)   (85,796)
 Purchases   29,214,669 
 Sales Proceeds   (5,000,001)
 Transfer into Level 3    
 Transfer out of Level 3    
 Balance as of September 30, 2019  $37,375,372 
Net change in unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) attributable to Level 3 investments held at September 30, 2019  $(85,796)

 

The following table summarizes the valuation techniques and significant unobservable inputs used for the Fund's investments that are categorized in Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy as of September 30, 2019:

 

Asset Class  Fair Value   Valuation Technique(s)  Unobservable Input(s)  Input Value(s)
Collateralized Loan Obligations Equity  $26,709,419   Third-party vendor pricing service  Broker quotes  N/A
    10,665,953   Last transaction price  Transaction price  N/A

 

4. RISK FACTORS

 

In the normal course of business, the Fund invests in financial instruments and enters into financial transactions where risk of potential loss exists due to such things as changes in the market (market risk) or failure or inability of the other party to a transaction to perform (credit and counterparty risk). See below for a detailed description of select principal risks. The following list is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of all of the potential risks associated with the Fund. The Fund’s prospectus provides a detailed discussion of the Fund’s risks and considerations.

 

Credit Risk: The Fund places its cash with a banking institution, which is insured by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The FDIC limit is $250,000. At various times throughout the year, the amount on deposit may exceed the FDIC limit and subject the Fund to a credit risk. The Fund does not believe that such deposits are subject to any unusual risk associated with investment activities.

 

CLO Risk: In addition to the general risks associated with debt securities and structured products, CLOs carry additional risks, including, but not limited to (i) the possibility that distributions from collateral securities will not be adequate to make interest or other payments; (ii) the quality of the collateral may decline in value or default; (iii) the possibility that the investments in CLOs are subordinate to other classes or tranches thereof; and (iv) the complex structure of the security may not be fully understood at the time of investment and may produce disputes with the issuer or unexpected investment results. In addition, at the time of issuance, the CLO may not be fully invested. Until the CLO is fully invested, the debt service of the CLO may exceed the amount of interest earned from the CLO’s portfolio. Though not exclusively, the Fund will typically be in a first loss or subordinated position with respect to realized losses on the assets of the CLOs in which it is invested. The Fund may recognize phantom taxable income from its investments in the subordinated tranches of CLOs and structured notes.

 

Between the closing date and the effective date of a CLO, the CLO collateral manager will generally expect to purchase additional collateral obligations for the CLO. During this period, the price and availability of these collateral obligations may be adversely affected by a number of market factors, including price volatility and availability of investments suitable for the CLO, which could hamper the ability of the collateral manager to acquire a portfolio of collateral obligations that will satisfy specified concentration limitations and allow the CLO to reach the initial par amount of collateral prior to the effective date. An inability or delay in reaching the target initial par amount of collateral may adversely affect the timing and amount of interest or principal payments received by the holders of the CLO debt securities and distributions of the CLO on equity securities and could result in early redemptions which may cause CLO debt and equity investors to receive less than the face value of their investment.

 

 

 

The failure by a CLO in which the Fund invests to satisfy financial covenants, including with respect to adequate collateralization and/or interest coverage tests, could lead to a reduction in the CLO’s payments to the Fund. In the event that a CLO fails certain tests, holders of CLO senior debt may be entitled to additional payments that would, in turn, reduce the payments the Fund would otherwise be entitled to receive. Separately, the Fund may incur expenses to the extent necessary to seek recovery upon default or to negotiate new terms, which may include the waiver of certain financial covenants, with a defaulting CLO or any other investment the Fund may make. If any of these occur, it could adversely affect the Fund’s operating results and cash flows.

 

The Fund’s CLO investments are exposed to leveraged credit risk. If certain minimum collateral value ratios and/or interest coverage ratios are not met by a CLO, primarily due to senior secured loan defaults, then cash flow that otherwise would have been available to pay distributions to the Fund on its CLO investments may instead be used to redeem any senior notes or to purchase additional senior secured loans, until the ratios again exceed the minimum required levels or any senior notes are repaid in full. The Fund’s CLO investments and/or the underlying senior secured loans may prepay more quickly than expected, which could have an adverse impact on the Fund’s net assets.

 

BDC Risk: A BDC is a form of investment company that is required to invest at least 70% of its total assets in securities (typically debt) of private companies, thinly traded U.S. public companies, or short-term high quality debt securities. BDC securities are not redeemable at the option of the shareholder and they may trade in the market at a discount to their net asset value. The BDC securities that the Fund invests in may leverage their portfolios through borrowings or the issuance of preferred stock. While leverage often serves to increase the yield of a BDC, this leverage also subjects a BDC to increased risks, including the likelihood of increased volatility and the possibility that the BDC’s common share income will fall if the distribution rate of the preferred shares or the interest rate on any borrowings rises. A significant portion of a BDC’s investments are recorded at fair value as determined by its board of directors which may create uncertainty as to the value of the BDC’s investments. In addition, by investing in BDCs, the Fund may incur upfront and ongoing fees relating to its purchase of shares of BDCs, and fees payable by such BDCs to compensate their management teams through asset-based fees, including: (i) a base management fee in the range of 2.0% of such fund’s total assets; and (ii) an incentive fee in the range of 20% of such BDC’s net investment income, and in most cases in the range of 20% of such BDC’s capital gains. The Fund’s shareholders will indirectly bear a portion of such expenses.

 

Liquidity Risk: The securities issued by CLOs generally offer less liquidity than below investment grade or high-yield corporate debt, and are subject to certain transfer restrictions imposed on certain financial and other eligibility requirements on prospective transferees. Other investments the Fund may purchase through privately negotiated transactions may also be illiquid or subject to legal restrictions on their transfer. As a result of this illiquidity, the Fund’s ability to sell certain investments quickly, or at all, in response to changes in economic and other conditions and to receive a fair price when selling such investments may be limited, which could prevent the Fund from making sales to mitigate losses on such investments. In addition, CLOs are subject to the possibility of liquidation upon an event of default, which could result in full loss of value to the CLO equity and junior debt investors. CLO equity tranches are the most likely tranche to suffer a loss of all of their value in these circumstances.

 

LIBOR Risk: The CLOs in which the Fund invests typically obtain financing at a floating rate based on LIBOR. Regulators and law enforcement agencies from a number of governments, including entities in the United States, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom, have conducted or are conducting civil and criminal investigations into whether the banks that contributed to the British Bankers’ Association, or the “BBA,” in connection with the calculation of daily LIBOR may have been under-reporting or otherwise manipulating or attempting to manipulate LIBOR. Several financial institutions have reached settlements with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, or “FCA,” in connection with investigations by such authorities into submissions made by such financial institutions to the bodies that set LIBOR and other interbank offered rates. In such settlements, such financial institutions admitted to submitting rates to the BBA that were lower than the actual rates at which such financial institutions could borrow funds from other banks. Additional investigations remain ongoing with respect to other major banks. There can be no assurance that there will not be additional admissions or findings of rate-setting manipulation or that manipulations of LIBOR or other similar interbank offered rates will not be shown to have occurred. On July 9, 2013, it was announced that the NYSE Euronext Rate Administration Limited would take over the administration of LIBOR from the BBA, subject to authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority and following a period of transition. Accordingly, ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (formerly NYSE Euronext Rate Administration Limited) assumed this role on February 1, 2014. Any new administrator of LIBOR may make methodological changes to the way in which LIBOR is calculated or may alter, discontinue, or suspend calculation or dissemination of LIBOR. Any of such actions or other effects from the ongoing investigations could adversely affect the liquidity and value of the Fund’s investments. Further, additional admissions or findings of manipulation may decrease the confidence of the market in LIBOR and lead market participants to look for alternative, non-LIBOR based types of financing, such as fixed rate loans or bonds or floating rate loans based on non-LIBOR indices. An increase in alternative types of financing at the expense of LIBOR-based CLOs may impair the liquidity of the Fund’s investments. Additionally, it may make it more difficult for CLO issuers to satisfy certain conditions set forth in a CLO’s offering documents.

 

 

 

On July 27, 2017, the FCA announced that it will no longer persuade or compel banks to submit rates for the calculation of LIBOR rates after 2021 (the “FCA Announcement”). The FCA Announcement indicates that the continuation of LIBOR on the current basis (or at all) cannot and will not be guaranteed after 2021 and that planning a transition to alternative reference rates that are based firmly on transactions, such as reformed Sterling Over Night Index Average (“SONIA”) must begin. Furthermore, in the United States, efforts to identify a set of alternative U.S. dollar reference interest rates include proposals by the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (“ARRC”) of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. On June 22, 2017, the ARRC identified the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”), a broad U.S. treasuries repo financing rate to be published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the rate that, in the consensus view of the ARRC, represented best practice for use in certain new U.S. dollar derivatives and other financial contracts. The first publication of SOFR was released in April 2018. Although there have been a few issuances utilizing SONIA and SOFR, it remains in question whether or not these alternative reference rates will attain market acceptance as replacements for LIBOR.

 

At this time, it is not possible to predict the effect of the FCA Announcement other regulatory changes or announcements, the establishment of SOFR, SONIA or any other alternative reference rates or any other reforms to LIBOR that may be enacted in the United Kingdom, the United States or elsewhere. As such, the potential effect of any such event on the Fund’s net investment income cannot yet be determined.

 

As LIBOR is currently being reformed, investors should be aware that: (a) any changes to LIBOR could affect the level of the published rate, including to cause it to be lower and/or more volatile than it would otherwise be; (b) if the applicable rate of interest on any CLO security is calculated with reference to a tenor which is discontinued, such rate of interest will then be determined by the provisions of the affected CLO security, which may include determination by the relevant calculation agent in its discretion; (c) the administrator of LIBOR will not have any involvement in the CLOs or loans and may take any actions in respect of LIBOR without regard to the effect of such actions on the CLOs or loans; and (d) any uncertainty in the value of LIBOR or, the development of a widespread market view that LIBOR has been manipulated or any uncertainty in the prominence of LIBOR as a benchmark interest rate due to the recent regulatory reform may adversely affect the liquidity of the securities in the secondary market and their market value. Any of the above or any other significant change to the setting of LIBOR could have a material adverse effect on the value of, and the amount payable under, (i) any underlying asset of the CLO which pay interest linked to a LIBOR rate and (ii) the CLO securities in which the Fund invests.

 

If no replacement conventions develop, it is uncertain what effect broadly divergent interest rate calculation methodologies in the markets will have on the price and liquidity of CLO securities and the ability of the collateral manager to effectively mitigate interest rate risks. While the issuers and the trustee of a CLO may enter into a reference rate amendment or the collateral manager may designate a designated reference rate, in each case, subject to the conditions described in a CLO indenture, there can be no assurance that a change to any alternative benchmark rate (a) will be adopted, (b) will effectively mitigate interest rate risks or result in an equivalent methodology for determining the interest rates on the floating rate instrument, (c) will be adopted prior to any date on which the issuer suffers adverse consequences from the elimination or modification or potential elimination or modification of LIBOR or (d) will not have a material adverse effect on the holders of the CLO securities.

 

In addition, the effect of a phase out of LIBOR on U.S. senior secured loans, the underlying assets of the CLOs in which the Fund invests, is currently unclear. To the extent that any replacement rate utilized for senior secured loans differs from that utilized for a CLO that holds those loans, the CLO would experience an interest rate mismatch between its assets and liabilities which could have an adverse impact on the Company’s net investment income and portfolio returns.

 

 

Item 2. Controls and Procedures.

 

(a)The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have evaluated the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) as of a date within 90 days of this filing and have concluded that the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures were effective, as of that date, in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by the Fund in this Form N-Q was recorded, processed, summarized and reported timely.

 

(b)There was no change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) that occurred during the registrant's last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

 

Item 3. Exhibits.

 

Separate certifications for the registrant's principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, are attached as Ex99.CERT.

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

FLAT ROCK OPPORTUNITY FUND

 

By: /s/ Robert K. Grunewald  
  Robert K. Grunewald  
  President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)  
     
Date: November 27, 2019  

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

By: /s/ Robert K. Grunewald  
  Robert K. Grunewald  
  President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)  
     
Date: November 27, 2019  

 

By: /s/ Richard A. Petrocelli  
  Richard A. Petrocelli  
  Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)  
     
Date: November 27, 2019