Organization and Business Purpose

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2025

Note 1. Organization and Business Purpose

New Mountain Net Lease Trust (“we,” “our,” “us,” the “Company” or “NEWLEASE”) is a Maryland statutory trust formed in August 2024 to acquire, own, finance and lease a diversified portfolio of operationally critical, single-tenant, industrial net lease real estate assets primarily located in the United States. The Company is externally managed by our investment adviser, New Mountain Finance Advisers, L.L.C. (the “Adviser”), a Delaware limited liability company and an affiliate of our sponsor, New Mountain Capital, L.L.C. (the “Sponsor”).

We are structured as a non-listed, perpetual-life real estate investment trust (“REIT”), and therefore our securities are not listed on a national securities exchange and, as of the date of this report, there is no plan to list our securities on a national securities exchange. As a perpetual-life REIT, our common shares are intended to be sold monthly on a continuous basis at a price generally equal to our prior month’s net asset value (“NAV”) per share. We have elected and intend to qualify to be taxed as a REIT under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), for U.S. federal income tax purposes and generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income taxes on our taxable income to the extent we annually distribute all of our REIT taxable income to shareholders and maintain our qualification as a REIT.

Our structure as a perpetual-life REIT allows us to originate, acquire, finance and manage our investment portfolio in an active and flexible manner. We believe the structure is advantageous to shareholders, as we are not limited by a pre-determined operational period and the need to liquidate assets, potentially in an unfavorable market, to satisfy a liquidity event at the end of a pre-specified period.

The Company is conducting a continuous, blind pool private offering of its common shares in reliance on an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), to investors that are accredited investors (as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act). The initial closing of our private offering occurred on January 2, 2025. The Company is authorized to issue four classes of its common shares (Class A shares, Class F shares, Class I shares, and Class E shares), each with a par value of $0.01 per common share. The share classes have different management fees and performance participation allocation. Subscriptions to purchase our common shares may be made on an ongoing basis as of the first business day of each month. Common shares will generally be sold at the then-current transaction price, which will generally be the prior month’s NAV per share of the class of share being purchased. NAV is not a measure used under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) and the valuations of and certain adjustments made to our assets and liabilities used in the determination of NAV will differ from GAAP.

On January 2, 2025, NEWLEASE completed a recapitalization transaction, which included the following transactions (collectively referred to as, the “Formation Transactions”):

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The Adviser determined the NAV of the New Mountain Net Lease Partners Corporation, a Maryland Corporation (the “Predecessor”), as of September 30, 2024 (the “Seed Portfolio Fair Value”), and our Board of Trustees engaged CBRE Capital Advisors, Inc. (“CBRE”) to provide a fairness opinion with respect to such valuation. CBRE’s fairness opinion was obtained on October 30, 2024, and delivered to our Board of Trustees.

●	New Mountain Net Lease Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“NM Fund I”), contributed 100% of the common stock of the Predecessor in exchange for 27,307,734 of the Company’s common shares based on the Seed Portfolio Fair Value, divided by $20.00 (the “REIT Contribution”).

●	Substantially concurrently with the REIT Contribution, the Predecessor filed articles of conversion to convert to a Delaware limited partnership (the “OP Conversion”);

●	In connection with the OP Conversion, the Predecessor changed its name to NEWLEASE Operating Partnership, L.P. (after such conversion and name change, referred to as, the “Operating Partnership”).

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NM Fund I then distributed in kind the 27,307,734 common shares that it received in connection with the REIT Contribution to its existing partners in proportion to their ownership in NM Fund I immediately prior to the completion of the Formation Transactions, who had the opportunity to elect to have their common shares repurchased by us.

As used throughout this document, the terms the “Company”, “we”, “our”, “us” and “NEWLEASE” mean:

●	The Predecessor for periods on or prior to the closing of the Formation Transactions on January 2, 2025; and

●	The combined operations of the Company and the Predecessor beginning January 2, 2025, following the completion of the Formation Transactions.

As of December 31, 2025, the Company owned 170 properties leased to 35 tenants.

New Mountain Net Lease Trust 10-K