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<P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNITED STATES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
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STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CURRENT
REPORT </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January&nbsp;31, 2019 </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>TPG Specialty Lending, Inc. </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">001-36364</FONT></B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">27-3380000</FONT></B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(State or Other Jurisdiction</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>of Incorporation)</B></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(I.R.S. Employer</B></P>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Registrant&#146;s telephone number, including area code:
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">(817)&nbsp;871-4000</FONT> </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Check the appropriate box below
if the Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2 below): </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act&nbsp;(17 CFR 230.425)
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Act&nbsp;(17 CFR <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">240.14a-12)</FONT> </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Pre-commencement</FONT> communications pursuant to Rule <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">14d-2(b)</FONT> under the Exchange Act&nbsp;(17 CFR <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">240.14d-2(b))</FONT> </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (&#167;230.405 of this
chapter) or Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">12b-2</FONT> of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">(&#167;240.12b-2</FONT> of this chapter). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Emerging growth company&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an emerging
growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a) of the Exchange
Act.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P> <P STYLE="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="line-height:1.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P>
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Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Election of Hurley Doddy and Jennifer Gordon to the Board of Directors of the Company
</I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On January&nbsp;31, 2019, the Board of Directors (the &#147;Board&#148;) of TPG Specialty Lending, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;)
increased the size of the Board from five (5)&nbsp;to seven (7)&nbsp;directors, and elected each of Mr.&nbsp;Hurley Doddy and Ms.&nbsp;Jennifer Gordon as a director to fill the vacancies. Mr.&nbsp;Doddy and Ms.&nbsp;Gordon&#146;s election brings the
total number of directors to seven, four of whom are not &#147;interested persons&#148; of the Company as defined in </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2(a)(19) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Mr.&nbsp;Doddy will serve on the Company&#146;s Board as a Class&nbsp;III director who is not an &#147;interested person&#148; from January&nbsp;31, 2019 until the date of the Company&#146;s 2020 Annual
Meeting of Stockholders or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Ms.&nbsp;Gordon will serve on the Company&#146;s Board as a Class&nbsp;II interested director from January&nbsp;31, 2019 until the Company&#146;s 2019 Annual Meeting of
Stockholders or until her successor is duly elected and qualified. Also on January&nbsp;31, 2019, Mr.&nbsp;Doddy was elected as a member of the Company&#146;s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mr.&nbsp;Doddy, 55, is a Managing Director, Founding Partner and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Co-Chief</FONT> Executive Officer of
Emerging Capital Partners, a private equity fund manager focused on Africa. Prior to founding Emerging Capital Partners in 1999, Mr.&nbsp;Doddy was an Executive Director at Sumitomo Finance International in London. Mr.&nbsp;Doddy&#146;s career in
finance began at Salomon Brothers in 1984, lasting over 14 years with assignments in New York, Tokyo, and Sao Paulo. Mr.&nbsp;Doddy holds an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Ms.&nbsp;Gordon, 43, is a Partner, Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy Chief Operating Officer of TPG Sixth Street Partners
(&#147;TSSP&#148;) and a Vice President of the Company. Until Ms.&nbsp;Gordon&#146;s election to the Company&#146;s Board, she also served as the Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary of the Company since 2015. Prior to joining TSSP in 2014,
Ms.&nbsp;Gordon spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co., where most recently she was a Managing Director and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Co-Head</FONT> of Securities Division Compliance in the Americas. Ms.&nbsp;Gordon was previously an
associate at the law firm of White&nbsp;&amp; Case LLP. Ms.&nbsp;Gordon holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Michigan. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mr.&nbsp;Doddy has not been elected to serve as a director pursuant to any agreement or understanding with the Company or any other person and
there are no transactions in which Mr.&nbsp;Doddy has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Regulation&nbsp;S-K.</FONT> Mr.&nbsp;Doddy will receive the standard compensation paid by the Company to its
directors that are not &#147;interested persons.&#148; In addition, Mr.&nbsp;Doddy has executed the Company&#146;s form of indemnification agreement, the form of which has been filed as Exhibit 10.3 to Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to the Company&#146;s
Registration Statement on Form 10 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March&nbsp;14, 2011. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Ms.&nbsp;Gordon has not been
elected to serve as a director pursuant to any agreement or understanding with the Company or any other person and there are no transactions in which Ms.&nbsp;Gordon has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Regulation&nbsp;S-K.</FONT> Ms.&nbsp;Gordon is compensated by TSL Advisers, LLC, the Company&#146;s investment adviser, and/or its affiliates. Ms.&nbsp;Gordon will not receive any compensation from the Company for her
service as a director. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Appointment of Kenneth Burke as Chief Compliance Officer, Secretary and Vice President of the Company </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Also on January&nbsp;31, 2019, in connection with her election to the Board, Ms.&nbsp;Gordon stepped down from her position as the
Company&#146;s Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary. Ms.&nbsp;Gordon will continue to serve as Vice President of the Company. On January&nbsp;31, 2019, the Company appointed Mr.&nbsp;Kenneth Burke as Chief Compliance Officer, Secretary and Vice
President. Mr.&nbsp;Burke will serve as the Company&#146;s Chief Compliance Officer, Secretary and Vice President until his resignation or earlier termination. </P>
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Compliance Officer of TSSP BD, LLC, TSSP&#146;s affiliate broker-dealer. Prior to joining TSSP in 2015, Mr.&nbsp;Burke was the Chief Compliance Officer at Marble Arch Investments, LP. Prior to that role, Mr.&nbsp;Burke worked as an Associate
Attorney at Gibson, Dunn&nbsp;&amp; Crutcher LLP counseling private fund clients on a variety of regulatory and compliance issues. Mr.&nbsp;Burke began his career at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in New York, where he spent more than
seven years working in the SEC&#146;s investment adviser examination program. Mr.&nbsp;Burke holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and a B.S. in Finance from the State University of New York at New Paltz. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mr.&nbsp;Burke has no family relationships with any director or executive officer of the Company and there are no transactions in which
Mr.&nbsp;Burke has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Regulation&nbsp;S-K.</FONT> Mr.&nbsp;Burke is compensated by TSL Advisers, LLC, the Company&#146;s investment adviser, and/or its affiliates.
The Company reimburses TSL Advisers, LLC and/or its affiliates for an allocable portion of the compensation paid by it to the Company&#146;s Chief Compliance Officer. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(Registrant)</P></TD></TR>
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Form 8-K
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 31, 2019
TPG Specialty Lending, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
Delaware
001-36364
27-3380000
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
(Commission
File Number)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
301 Commerce Street, Suite 3300
Fort Worth, TX
76102
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(zip code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code:
(817) 871-4000
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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain
Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Election of Hurley Doddy and Jennifer Gordon to the Board of Directors of the Company
On January 31, 2019, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of TPG Specialty Lending, Inc. (the "Company")
increased the size of the Board from five (5) to seven (7) directors, and elected each of Mr. Hurley Doddy and Ms. Jennifer Gordon as a director to fill the vacancies. Mr. Doddy and Ms. Gordon's election brings the
total number of directors to seven, four of whom are not "interested persons" of the Company as defined in
Section 2(a)(19) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Mr. Doddy will serve on the Company's Board as a Class III director who is not an "interested person" from January 31, 2019 until the date of the Company's 2020 Annual
Meeting of Stockholders or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Ms. Gordon will serve on the Company's Board as a Class II interested director from January 31, 2019 until the Company's 2019 Annual Meeting of
Stockholders or until her successor is duly elected and qualified. Also on January 31, 2019, Mr. Doddy was elected as a member of the Company's Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.
Mr. Doddy, 55, is a Managing Director, Founding Partner and
Co-Chief
Executive Officer of
Emerging Capital Partners, a private equity fund manager focused on Africa. Prior to founding Emerging Capital Partners in 1999, Mr. Doddy was an Executive Director at Sumitomo Finance International in London. Mr. Doddy's career in
finance began at Salomon Brothers in 1984, lasting over 14 years with assignments in New York, Tokyo, and Sao Paulo. Mr. Doddy holds an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Ms. Gordon, 43, is a Partner, Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy Chief Operating Officer of TPG Sixth Street Partners
("TSSP") and a Vice President of the Company. Until Ms. Gordon's election to the Company's Board, she also served as the Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary of the Company since 2015. Prior to joining TSSP in 2014,
Ms. Gordon spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs & Co., where most recently she was a Managing Director and
Co-Head
of Securities Division Compliance in the Americas. Ms. Gordon was previously an
associate at the law firm of White & Case LLP. Ms. Gordon holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Michigan.
Mr. Doddy has not been elected to serve as a director pursuant to any agreement or understanding with the Company or any other person and
there are no transactions in which Mr. Doddy has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of
Regulation S-K.
Mr. Doddy will receive the standard compensation paid by the Company to its
directors that are not "interested persons." In addition, Mr. Doddy has executed the Company's form of indemnification agreement, the form of which has been filed as Exhibit 10.3 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company's
Registration Statement on Form 10 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 2011.
Ms. Gordon has not been
elected to serve as a director pursuant to any agreement or understanding with the Company or any other person and there are no transactions in which Ms. Gordon has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of
Regulation S-K.
Ms. Gordon is compensated by TSL Advisers, LLC, the Company's investment adviser, and/or its affiliates. Ms. Gordon will not receive any compensation from the Company for her
service as a director.
Appointment of Kenneth Burke as Chief Compliance Officer, Secretary and Vice President of the Company
Also on January 31, 2019, in connection with her election to the Board, Ms. Gordon stepped down from her position as the
Company's Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary. Ms. Gordon will continue to serve as Vice President of the Company. On January 31, 2019, the Company appointed Mr. Kenneth Burke as Chief Compliance Officer, Secretary and Vice
President. Mr. Burke will serve as the Company's Chief Compliance Officer, Secretary and Vice President until his resignation or earlier termination.
Mr. Burke, 36, is the Deputy Chief Compliance Officer of TSSP and also serves as Chief
Compliance Officer of TSSP BD, LLC, TSSP's affiliate broker-dealer. Prior to joining TSSP in 2015, Mr. Burke was the Chief Compliance Officer at Marble Arch Investments, LP. Prior to that role, Mr. Burke worked as an Associate
Attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP counseling private fund clients on a variety of regulatory and compliance issues. Mr. Burke began his career at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in New York, where he spent more than
seven years working in the SEC's investment adviser examination program. Mr. Burke holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and a B.S. in Finance from the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Mr. Burke has no family relationships with any director or executive officer of the Company and there are no transactions in which
Mr. Burke has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of
Regulation S-K.
Mr. Burke is compensated by TSL Advisers, LLC, the Company's investment adviser, and/or its affiliates.
The Company reimburses TSL Advisers, LLC and/or its affiliates for an allocable portion of the compensation paid by it to the Company's Chief Compliance Officer.
Item 9.01 – Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits:
Exhibit
Number
Description
99.1
Press Release, dated February 1, 2019
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
hereunto duly authorized.
TPG SPECIALTY LENDING, INC.
(Registrant)
Date: February 1, 2019
By:
/s/ Ian Simmonds
Ian Simmonds
Chief Financial Officer