SEC Form 4 · accession 0000899243-17-025489

ESTERLINE TECHNOLOGIES CORP · ESL

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

Table I — non-derivative securities

Table II — derivative securities

Explanation of responses

• F1The sale price for common stock of Esterline Technologies Corporation (the "Issuer") reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $95.00 to $95.625, inclusive. The reporting persons undertake 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 sold at each separate price within the ranges set forth in footnotes (1), (14), (15) and (16) to this Form 4.
• F10(Continued from Footnote 9) In addition, Messrs. Romick, Selmo and Landecker may be deemed to have an indirect pecuniary interest in a portion of the securities held directly by FPA Global Opportunity, FPA Select and FPA Hawkeye due to their respective ownership interests in such Private Investment Funds, Messrs. Romick and Selmo may be deemed to have an indirect pecuniary interest in a portion of the securities held directly by FPA Value Partners due to their respective ownership interests in such Private Investment Fund, and Mr. Romick may be deemed to have an indirect pecuniary interest in a portion of the securities held directly by FPA Hawkeye-7 due to his ownership interest in such Private Investment Fund.
• F11(Continued from Footnote 10) Each of FPA and Messrs. Atwood, Romick, Selmo and Landecker disclaims beneficial ownership of securities of the Issuer held directly by the Private Investment Funds except to the extent of their pecuniary interest therein, and this report shall not be deemed an admission that any of FPA or Messrs. Atwood, Romick, Selmo or Landecker is the beneficial owner of such securities for purposes of Section 16 or any other purpose.
• F12Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Crescent Fund, a series of FPA Funds Trust ("FPA Crescent Fund"). FPA is the investment adviser of FPA Crescent Fund and may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund. In addition, Mr. Atwood may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund as a Managing Partner of FPA.
• F13(Continued from Footnote 12) Mr. Romick may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund as a Portfolio Manager of FPA Crescent Fund and Managing Partner of FPA. Messrs. Selmo and Landecker may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund as Portfolio Managers of FPA Crescent Fund and Partners of FPA. FPA only receives an asset-based management fee for serving as investment adviser to FPA Crescent Fund and therefore does not have any pecuniary interest in the securities of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund.
• F14The sale price for common stock of the Issuer reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $95.6375 to $96.25, inclusive.
• F15The sale price for common stock of the Issuer reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $95.00 to $95.60, inclusive.
• F16The sale price for common stock of the Issuer reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $95.00 to $95.30, inclusive.
• F2Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Hawkeye Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC ("FPA Hawkeye"). First Pacific Advisors, LLC ("FPA") serves as manager of and investment adviser to FPA Hawkeye.
• F3Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Hawkeye-7 Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC ("FPA Hawkeye-7"). FPA serves as manager of and investment adviser to FPA Hawkeye-7.
• F4Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Select Fund, L.P. ("FPA Select"). FPA serves as general partner of and investment adviser to FPA Select.
• F5Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Select Drawdown Fund, L.P. ("FPA Select Drawdown"). FPA serves as the general partner of and investment adviser to FPA Select Drawdown.
• F6Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Global Opportunity Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC ("FPA Global Opportunity"). FPA serves as manager of and investment adviser to FPA Global Opportunity.
• F7Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Value Partners Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC ("FPA Value Partners", and together with FPA Global Opportunity, FPA Select Drawdown, FPA Select, FPA Hawkeye, and FPA Hawkeye-7, the "Private Investment Funds").
• F8FPA may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by each of the Private Investment Funds as the investment adviser to and manager or general partner, as applicable, of each of the Private Investment Funds. In addition, Mr. J. Richard Atwood may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by the Private Investment Funds as a Managing Partner of FPA. Mr. Steven T. Romick may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by FPA Hawkeye and FPA Hawkeye-7, as Portfolio Manager of such funds, and over the securities of the Issuer held by the Private Investment Funds as a Managing Partner of FPA.
• F9(Continued from Footnote 8) Mr. Brian A. Selmo may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by FPA Select Drawdown, FPA Select, and FPA Value Partners, as Portfolio Manager of such funds, and over the securities of the Issuer held by the Private Investment Funds as a Partner of FPA. Mr. Mark Landecker may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by FPA Global Opportunity, FPA Select Drawdown and FPA Select as Portfolio Manager of such funds, and over the securities of the Issuer held by the Private Investment Funds as a Partner of FPA. FPA and Messrs. Atwood, Romick, Selmo and Landecker may be deemed to have a pecuniary interest in a portion of the securities held directly by the Private Investment Funds due to FPA's right to receive performance-based allocations.

Remarks

Due to the limitation on the number of filing persons per Form 4, First Pacific Advisors, LLC ("FPA"), FPA Crescent Fund, a series of FPA Funds Trust, FPA Global Opportunity Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC, FPA Select Drawdown Fund, L.P., FPA Select Fund, L.P., FPA Value Partners Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC, FPA Hawkeye Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC, and FPA Hawkeye-7 Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC are filing a separate Form 4 to report the transactions reported herein. FPA may be deemed to exercise voting and/or investment power over securities of Esterline Technologies Corporation (the "Issuer") that are held directly by certain unaffiliated separately managed accounts (the "Managed Accounts") as FPA serves as investment adviser to such Managed Accounts. FPA only receives an asset-based management fee for serving as investment adviser to such Managed Accounts and therefore does not have any pecuniary interest in the securities of the Issuer held directly by such Managed Accounts. In addition, Messrs. J. Richard Atwood, Steven T. Romick, Brian A. Selmo and Mark Landecker do not have a pecuniary interest in the securities held by the Managed Accounts.