CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): February 10, 2023
Prospect Capital Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Maryland
814-00659
43-2048643
(State or other jurisdiction
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer
of incorporation)
Identification No.)
10 East 40th Street, 42nd Floor, New York, New York10016
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
(212)448-0702
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading symbol
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.001 par value
PSEC
NASDAQ Global Select Market
5.35% Series A Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, par value $0.001
PSEC PRA
New York Stock Exchange
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
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Item 1.01.Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On February 10, 2023, Prospect Capital Corporation (the “Company”) entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Amended and Restated Dealer Manager Agreement, dated February 25, 2021, with Preferred Capital Securities, LLC (the “Dealer Manager”) (the “Dealer Manager Agreement”), pursuant to which the Dealer Manager has agreed to serve as the Company’s agent and dealer manager for the Company’s offering of up to 72,000,000 shares of any combination of its 5.50% Series A1 Preferred Stock, 5.50% Series M1 Preferred Stock, 5.50% Series M2 Preferred Stock, 6.50% Series A3 Preferred Stock, and 6.50% Series M3 Preferred Stock, each par value $0.001 per share, and each with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per share (together, the Preferred Stock”). Pursuant to the terms of the Dealer Manager Agreement, as amended by the Amendment, the size of the offering was increased from $1,500,000,000 in aggregate liquidation preference of Preferred Stock to $1,800,000,000 in aggregate liquidation preference of Preferred Stock. The Company may offer any future series of Preferred Stock, provided that the aggregate number of shares issued across all series of Preferred Stock offered pursuant to the Dealer Manager Agreement shall not exceed 72,000,000 shares.
The Preferred Stock is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to an automatic shelf registration statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-269714) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Registration Statement”), and will be offered and sold pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated February 10, 2023, and a base prospectus dated February 10, 2023, relating to the Registration Statement (collectively, the “Prospectus”).
The foregoing description of the Amendment is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
Venable LLP, special Maryland counsel to the Company, has issued a legal opinion relating to the validity of the shares of Preferred Stock, a copy of which is attached to this Form 8-K as Exhibit 5.1.
Item 3.03. Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.
On February 10, 2023, in connection with the Amendment, the Company filed Articles Supplementary (the “Articles Supplementary”) with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland (“SDAT”), reclassifying and designating 60,000,000 shares of the Company’s authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock into shares of Preferred Stock The reclassification decreased the number of shares classified as Common Stock from 1,612,100,000 shares immediately prior to the reclassification to 1,552,100,000 shares immediately after the reclassification. The description of the Preferred Stock contained in the section of the Prospectus entitled “Description of the Preferred Stock” is incorporated herein by reference.
The foregoing description of the Preferred Stock is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Articles Supplementary, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
Item 3.03 above with respect to the Articles Supplementary is incorporated in this Item 5.03 in its entirety.
Item 8.01. Other Events.
Preferred Stock Dividend Reinvestment Plan
Effective as of February 10, 2023, the Company amended and restated its Preferred Stock Distribution Reinvestment Plan (the “DRIP”). Under the DRIP, holders of the Preferred Stock (“preferred stockholders”) series will have dividends on their Preferred Stock series automatically reinvested in additional shares of such Preferred Stock series at a price per share of $25.00 if they so elect. Once enrolled in the DRIP, preferred stockholders may elect to reinvest all, but not less than all, of their dividends in additional shares of the Preferred Stock series, until they
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terminate their participation in the DRIP. The Company will pay all fees or other charges on shares of the Preferred Stock series purchased through the DRIP.
Shares of the Preferred Stock series purchased under the DRIP will come from the Company’s authorized but unissued shares of the Preferred Stock series. Shares of the Preferred Stock series received through the DRIP will be of the same series and have the same original issue date for purposes of calculating the fee associated with a preferred stockholder’s election to convert shares of the Preferred Stock series held by the preferred stockholder prior to the listing of the Preferred Stock series on a national securities exchange and for other terms of the Preferred Stock series based on issuance date as the Preferred Stock series for which the dividend was declared. The Company may terminate the DRIP at any time in its sole discretion. The description of the DRIP contained in the section of the Prospectus entitled “Preferred Stock Dividend Reinvestment Plan” is incorporated herein by reference.
The foregoing description of the DRIP is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the DRIP, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
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Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
1.1 Amendment No. 3 to Amended and Restated Dealer Manager Agreement, dated February 10, 2023,
between the Company, Preferred Capital Securities, LLC.
3.1 Articles Supplementary to the Articles of Amendment and Restatement of Prospect Capital Corporation.
5.1 Opinion of Venable LLP
99.1 Amended and Restated Preferred Stock Dividend Reinvestment Plan
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Current Report on Form 8-K to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
