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): May 22, 2017

 

 

Triton Pacific Investment Corporation, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

     
Maryland 333-174873 45-2460782

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

Commission File Number

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

6701 Center Drive West, Suite 1450

Los Angeles, CA 90045

(Address of principal executive offices)

(310) 943-4990

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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Item 8.01. Other Events

 

Effective May 22, 2017, the Board of Directors of Triton Pacific Investment Corporation, Inc. (the “Company”) declared a monthly cash distribution for the month of May 2017 of $0.04 per share payable on June 2, 2017 to shareholders of record as of May 25, 2017.

 

Certain Information About Distributions

The determination of the tax attributes of the Company’s distributions is made annually as of the end of the Company’s fiscal year based upon its taxable income and distributions paid, in each case, for the full year. Therefore, a determination as to the tax attributes of the distributions made on a quarterly or monthly basis may not be representative of the actual tax attributes for a full year. The Company intends to update shareholders quarterly with an estimated percentage of its distributions that resulted from taxable ordinary income. The actual tax characteristics of distributions to shareholders will be reported to shareholders annually on a Form 1099-DIV. The payment of future distributions on the Company’s common stock is subject to the discretion of the Board and applicable legal restrictions, and therefore, there can be no assurance as to the amount or timing of any such future distributions.

 

The Company may fund its cash distributions to shareholders from any sources of funds available to it, including offering proceeds, borrowings, net investment income from operations, capital gains proceeds from the sale of assets, non-capital gains proceeds from the sale of assets, dividends or other distributions paid to it on account of preferred and common equity investments in portfolio companies and expense reimbursements from Triton Pacific Adviser, LLC (“TPA”), which are subject to recoupment. To date, distributions have not been paid from offering proceeds or borrowings.  To date, if expense reimbursements from TPA were not supported, some or all of the distributions may have been a return of capital for tax purposes; however, distributions have not included a return of capital for tax purposes as of the date hereof.  TPA has not established limits on the amount of funds it may use from available sources to make distributions. A substantial portion of the Company’s distributions have resulted, and future distributions may result, from expense reimbursements from TPA, which are subject to repayment by the Company within three years. The purpose of this arrangement is to avoid such distributions being characterized as returns of capital for tax purposes. Shareholders should understand that any such distributions are not based on the Company’s investment performance, and can only be sustained if the Company achieves positive investment performance in future periods and/or TPA continues to make such expense reimbursements. Shareholders should also understand that the Company’s future repayments will reduce the distributions that they would otherwise receive. There can be no assurance that the Company will achieve such performance in order to sustain these distributions, or be able to pay distributions at all.  TPA has no obligation to provide expense reimbursements to the Company in future periods.

 

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 thereunto duly authorized.

 

             
Dated: May 23, 2017       Triton Pacific Investment Corporation, Inc.
       
        By   /s/ Craig J. Faggen
           

Craig J. Faggen

Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)