BlackRock Announces Closing of Reorganizations of Four Municipal Closed-End Funds

BlackRock Advisors, LLC today announced that the reorganizations of each of The BlackRock Strategic Municipal Trust (“BSD”, CUSIP: 09248T109), BlackRock MuniYield Investment Quality Fund (“MFT”, CUSIP: 09254T100), BlackRock Municipal Income Investment Trust (“BBF”, CUSIP: 09248H105) with and into BlackRock Municipal Income Trust II (“BLE”, CUSIP: 09249N101 and together with BSD, MFT and BBF, the “Funds”) (the “Reorganizations”) is effective as of the opening for business of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 12, 2021.

In the Reorganizations, common shareholders of BSD, MFT and BBF received an amount of BLE common shares equal to the aggregate net asset value of their holdings of BSD, MFT and BBF common shares as determined at the close of business on April 9, 2021. Fractional shares of BLE common shares were not issued in the Reorganizations and consequently cash will be distributed for any such fractional shares.

Relevant details pertaining to the Reorganizations are as follows:

In addition, BSD, MFT and BBF preferred shareholders received on a one-for-one basis BLE preferred shares in an amount equal to the aggregate preferred share liquidation preference held by BSD, MFT and BBF preferred shareholders immediately prior to the Reorganizations.

This communication is not intended to, and shall not, constitute an offer to purchase or sell shares of any of the BlackRock funds, including BLE, the surviving fund in the Reorganization. Investors should consider BLE’s investment objective, risks, charges and expenses carefully and consider in its entirety the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus relating to the Reorganizations, which contains important information regarding the investment objectives and policies, risks, charges, expenses and other important information about BLE.

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With respect to the Funds, the following factors, among others, could cause actual events to differ materially from forward-looking statements or historical performance: (1) changes and volatility in political, economic or industry conditions, the interest rate environment, foreign exchange rates or financial and capital markets, which could result in changes in demand for the Funds or in the Funds’ net asset value; (2) the relative and absolute investment performance of the Funds and its investments; (3) the impact of increased competition; (4) the unfavorable resolution of any legal proceedings; (5) the extent and timing of any distributions or share repurchases; (6) the impact, extent and timing of technological changes; (7) the impact of legislative and regulatory actions and reforms, including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and regulatory, supervisory or enforcement actions of government agencies relating to the Funds or BlackRock, as applicable; (8) terrorist activities, international hostilities, health epidemics and/or pandemics and natural disasters, which may adversely affect the general economy, domestic and local financial and capital markets, specific industries or BlackRock; (9) BlackRock’s ability to attract and retain highly talented professionals; (10) the impact of BlackRock electing to provide support to its products from time to time; and (11) the impact of problems at other financial institutions or the failure or negative performance of products at other financial institutions.

Annual and Semi-Annual Reports and other regulatory filings of the Funds with the SEC are accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and on BlackRock’s website at www.blackrock.com, and may discuss these or other factors that affect the Funds. The information contained on BlackRock’s website is not a part of this press release.

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