Company: PRIF-PJ
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: N-2
Source: 0001554625-25-000027
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Company: Priority Income Fund, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: N-2
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 United States) as defined in Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (each, a “UK Affected Investor”).

Failure to comply with the EU Securitization Regulation or the UK Securitization Regulation may subject EU Affected Investors or UK Affected Investors, as applicable, to a range of regulatory penalties including, for those investors who are subject to regulatory capital requirements, a punitive capital charge against their investment, or in the case of AIFMs or UCITS, a requirement to take corrective action as is in the best interest of their own investors.

The EU Securitization Regulation and the UK Securitization Regulation restrict each EU Affected Investor and each UK Affected Investor (as applicable) from investing in securitizations unless, broadly speaking and among other things: (a)(i) the originator, sponsor or original lender with respect to the relevant securitization will retain, on an on-going basis, a net economic interest of not less than 5% with respect to certain specified credit risk tranches or securitized exposures and (ii) the risk retention is disclosed to the investor in accordance with the EU Securitization Regulation or the UK Securitization Regulation (as applicable); and (b) such investor is able to demonstrate that it has undertaken certain due diligence with respect to various matters, including the risk characteristics of its investment position and the underlying assets, and that procedures are established for such activities to be monitored on an on-going basis. There are material differences between the EU Securitization Regulation and the UK Securitization Regulation on one hand and the prior EU risk retention requirements on the other, particularly with respect to transaction transparency, reporting and diligence requirements and the imposition of a direct compliance obligation on the “sponsor”, “originator” or “original lender” of a securitization where such entity is established in the EU/UK. The new EU and UK regimes are also beginning to diverge as the EU Securitization Regulation has recently been

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amended by Regulation (EU) 2021/557 while the UK Securitization Regulation remains in the form enacted. Such divergence is expected to continue.

CLOs issued in Europe are generally structured in compliance with both the EU Securitization Regulation and the UK Securitization Regulation so that prospective investors subject to such laws can invest in compliance with