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): April 27, 2018

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (212) 520-2300

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On April 27, 2017, Handy & Harman Group Ltd., SPH Group Holdings LLC, Steel Excel Inc., API Americas Inc. and Cedar 2015 Limited (collectively, the “Borrowers”), each a direct or indirect subsidiary of Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (the “Company”), entered into an amendment (the “First Amendment”) to their credit agreement, dated as of November 14, 2017, with PNC Bank, National Association, in its capacity as administrative agent, the lenders party thereto, and certain of the Borrowers’ affiliates in their capacities as guarantors, to, among other things, (i) facilitate the Company’s exercise of its subscription rights in the Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. rights offering, including its backstop commitment, (ii) increase the revolving loan commitments by $100,000,000 to an aggregate of $700,000,000, and (iii) increase the maximum leverage ratio financial covenant from 4.00 to 1.00 to 4.25 to 1.00 and the maximum net leverage ratio financial covenant from 3.75 to 1.00 to 4.00 to 1.00 for the fiscal quarters ending June 30, 2018 through December 31, 2018.

The above description of the First Amendment does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the First Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

The information contained in Item 1.01 is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

(d) Exhibits

*The schedules to this Exhibit have been omitted. The Company agrees to furnish a copy of the omitted schedules to the Securities and Exchange Commission on a supplemental basis upon its request.

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.

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