Company: SWKH
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-237226
Chunk: 10

Company: SWK Holdings Corp
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: 425
Chunk 10
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 documents may be obtained free of charge from the sources indicated above. No Offer or Solicitation This document is not, and under no circumstances is it to be construed as, a prospectus or an advertisement and the communication of this document is not, and under no circumstances is it to be construed as, an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities in RWAY or SWK or in any fund or other investment vehicle managed by BC Partners Advisors L.P. or any of its affiliates. Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

| Exhibit Number 
 2.1            
 2.2            |     | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among Runway Growth Finance Corp., RWAY Portfolio Holding Corp., RWAY Portfolio Corp., Runway Growth Capital LLC and SWK Holdings Corporation, dated as of October 9, 2025. 
 Key Stockholder Agreement by and among Runway Growth Finance Corp., Black Diamond Offshore Ltd. and Double Black Diamond Offshore Ltd., dated as of October 9, 2025.                                            |
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SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

| Date: | October 10, 2025 | By: | Runway Growth Finance Corp.                                                
 /s/ Thomas B. Raterman                                                     |
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|       |                  |     | Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary |