SEC Form 4 · accession 0000899243-18-006373

Solar Senior Capital Ltd. · SUNS

Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗

Reporting owner

Bruce J Spohler

Officer — See Remarks · Director

Period of report

Mar 1, 2018

Accepted (ET)

Mar 5, 2018 · 5:22 pm EST

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0001508171

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I	Nature of ownership
Common Stock^F1,F4,F2,F3	Mar 1, 2018	M	20,369	—	D	498,281	I	See Footnotes
Common Stock^{F1,F4,F5,F2,F3}	Mar 1, 2018	A	20,369	—	A	518,650	I	See Footnotes
Common Stock^F6,F2,F3	Mar 2, 2018	P	11,254	$16.85	A	529,904	I	See Footnotes
Common Stock^F6,F2,F3	Mar 5, 2018	P	5,113	$16.74	A	535,017	I	See Footnotes
Common Stock	holding	—	—		—	4,000	D

Table II — derivative securities

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Restricted Stock Units^F7,F8,F1	—	Mar 1, 2018	M	20,369	D	—	—	Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share	—	11,106	I

Explanation of responses

F1Pursuant to the SEC staff no-action letters to Carlyle GMS Finance, Inc. (pub. Avail. Oct. 8, 2015) and to Babson Capital Management LLC (pub. Avail. Dec. 14, 2006), an employee benefit plan sponsored by an investment adviser (or an affiliated person of an investment adviser) to a closed-end investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company or to a closed-end investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, respectively, in either case that offers plan participants equity securities of such investment company is considered an "employee benefit plan sponsored by the issuer" for the purposes of Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
F2Includes 79,417 shares of Solar Senior Capital Ltd. (the "Issuer") held by Solar Capital Partners Employee Stock Plan, LLC (the "SCP Plan"), 36,735.8783 of which is reported as purchased on this Form 4. 16,367 shares acquired were purchased in the open market for the purpose of satisfying obligations related to its grants of restricted stock units ("RSUs"), and 20,368.8783 shares may be deemed to be sold and repurchased due to cash settlement of previously granted RSUs. The SCP Plan is controlled by Solar Capital Partners, LLC ("Solar Capital Partners"). Bruce J. Spohler and Michael S. Gross may be deemed to indirectly beneficially own a portion of the shares held by the SCP Plan by virtue of their collective ownership interest in Solar Capital Partners.
F3(Continued from Footnote (2)) In addition, the total includes 455,500 shares of the Issuer held by Solar Senior Capital Investors, LLC ("Solar Senior Investors") and 100 shares of the Issuer held by Solar Capital Management, LLC ("Solar Management"), a portion of both of which may be deemed to be indirectly beneficially owned by Messrs. Spohler and Gross by virtue of their collective ownership interest therein. Mr. Spohler disclaims beneficial ownership of any of the Issuer's securities directly held by the SCP Plan, Solar Senior Investors or Solar Management, except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein, and this report shall not be deemed an admission that Mr. Spohler is the beneficial owner of such securities for purposes of Section 16 or any other purpose.
F4Messrs. Spohler and Gross, as administrators of the SCP Plan, elected to settle 20,368.8783 RSUs previously granted to employees by paying their cash value as contemplated by the RSUs, which cash settlement may be deemed to be a purchase of the shares underlying the previously granted RSUs. The shares that may be deemed to have been acquired were previously reported as beneficially owned due to Mr. Spohler's partial pecuniary interest as described in footnotes 2 and 3. The settlement was approved in advance in accordance with Rule 16b-3.
F5These 518,650 shares of the Issuer are the same number of shares held prior to the settlement of RSUs in cash because this transaction may only be a deemed acquisition for purposes of Section 16. No new shares of the Issuer were actually acquired as a result of the settlement of the 20,368.8783 RSUs.
F6The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were purchased in multiple transactions. The reported price for the share purchases made on March 2, 2018 is based on prices ranging from a low of $16.70 per share to a high of $16.97 per share. The reported price for the share purchases made on March 5, 2018 is based on prices ranging from a low of $16.69 per share to a high of $16.84 per share. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the Issuer, any security holder of the Issuer or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares purchased at each separate price set forth above.
F7RSUs with respect to 20,368.8783 shares held by the SCP Plan granted to certain of Solar Capital Partners's employees, 9,263.1318 of which were granted on March 4, 2015 and 11,105.7465 of which were granted on March 2, 2016, settled on March 1, 2018. RSUs may be settled in shares of the Issuer's common stock or the cash value thereof on a one-for-one basis at the election of the SCP Plan administrators, Messrs. Spohler and Gross. The administrators elected to settle the vested portion in cash. Following the settlement described herein, 11,105.7463 RSUs of the grants above remain outstanding. Messrs. Spohler and Gross may be deemed to beneficially own the shares held by the SCP Plan by virtue of their collective ownership interest in Solar Capital Partners.
F8Each grant of RSUs constitutes a separate class. The number reported represents the amount remaining of only the classes of RSUs that are vesting as of the reporting date and excludes the 31,575.3754 RSUs that have not begun vesting.

Remarks

Chief Operating Officer and Director