Company: BLE
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-198164
Chunk: 205

Company: BLACKROCK MUNICIPAL INCOME TRUST II
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 converting such securities to cash. If a Fund were converted to an open-end investment company, it is likely that new shares would be sold at NAV plus a sales load. Each Board believes, however, that its Fund’s closed-end structure is
desirable in light of its Fund’s investment objective and policies. Therefore, shareholders should assume that it is not likely that any Board would vote to convert its Fund to an open-end fund.

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VOTE REQUIRED AND MANNER OF VOTING PROXIES Record Date The Funds have fixed the close of business on August 18, 2025 as the Record Date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Special Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Shareholders on the Record Date will be entitled to one vote for each Share held, with no Shares having cumulative voting rights. A list of each Fund’s shareholders of record as of the Record Date will be available for inspection at the shareholder meeting. As of the Record Date, the Funds had the following number of common shares and preferred shares outstanding:

| Title of Class |     |        BLE |     |        BYM |     |        BFK |     |        MUE |     |  Acquiring 
       Fund 
      (MHD) |
| Common Shares  |     | 47,727,056 |     | 25,903,340 |     | 43,854,836 |     | 21,918,068 |     | 52,141,616 |
| VMTP Shares    |     |      1,741 |     |        976 |     |      1,541 |     |        780 |     |      2,140 |

Proxies Shareholders may vote by participating at the Special Meeting remotely, by returning the enclosed proxy card or by casting their vote via telephone or the Internet using the instructions provided on the enclosed proxy card (described in greater detail below). Shareholders of each Fund have the opportunity to submit their voting instructions via the Internet or by “touch-tone” telephone voting. The giving of such a proxy will not affect your right to vote should you decide to attend the Special Meeting remotely. To use the Internet, please access the Internet address found on your proxy card. To record your voting instructions by automated telephone, please call the toll-free number listed on your proxy card. The Internet and automated telephone voting instructions are designed to authenticate shareholder identities, to allow shareholders to give their voting instructions, and