EXHIBIT A
COVER LETTER TO OFFER TO PURCHASE AND LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SELL YOUR SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST AT THIS TIME,
PLEASE DISREGARD THIS NOTICE. THIS IS SOLELY NOTIFICATION OF THE FUND’S
TENDER OFFER.
January 30, 2025
Dear Variant Alternative Lending Fund Shareholder:
We are writing to inform you of important dates relating to a tender offer by Variant Alternative Lending Fund (the “Fund”). If you are not interested in having the Fund repurchase some or all of your shares of beneficial interest (including fractions thereof) (“Shares”) valued as of February 28, 2025, please disregard this notice and take no action.
The tender offer period will begin on January 30, 2025 and will end at 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on February 28, 2025, at which point the tender offer will expire. The purpose of the tender offer is to provide liquidity to Shareholders of the Fund that hold Shares. Shares may be presented to the Fund for purchase only by tendering them during one of the Fund’s announced tender offers.
Should you wish to tender all or some of your Shares for purchase by the Fund during this tender offer period, please complete and return the enclosed Letter of Transmittal so that it is received by UMB Fund Services, Inc. (“UMBFS”) no later than February 28, 2025. If you do not wish to have all or some of your Shares repurchased, simply disregard this notice. NO ACTION IS REQUIRED IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE ANY OF YOUR SHARES REPURCHASED.
If you would like to tender your Shares, you should complete, sign and either (i) mail or otherwise deliver the Letter of Transmittal to Variant Alternative Lending Fund, c/o UMB Fund Services, Inc. at 235 W. Galena Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212, Attention: Tender Offer Administrator; or (ii) fax it to UMBFS at (816) 860-3137, or email address ipp.fundfax.fax@umb.com, Attention: Tender Offer Administrator (if by fax, please deliver an original, executed copy promptly thereafter), so that it is received before 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on February 28, 2025.
If you have any questions, please refer to the enclosed Offer to Purchase document, which contains additional important information about the tender offer, or call the Tender Offer Administrator at UMBFS at (877) 770-7717.
Sincerely,
Variant Alternative Lending Fund
