File Nos. 333-187583
811-22818
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on May 2, 2016
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 | | ☑ |
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Pre-Effective Amendment No. __ | | ☐ |
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Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 | | ☑ |
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 | | ☑ |
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Amendment No. 8 | | ☑ |
WESTCHESTER CAPITAL FUNDS
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
100 Summit Lake Drive
Valhalla, New York 10595
(Address of principal executive offices)
(914) 741-5600
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Bruce Rubin
Vice President
Westchester Capital Funds
100 Summit Lake Drive
Valhalla, New York 10595
(Name and address of agent for Service)
with copies to:
Jeremy Smith, Esq. |
Ropes & Gray LLP |
1211 Avenue of the Americas |
New York, New York 10036 |
This post-effective amendment will become effective immediately pursuant to Rule 462(d).
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A (File No. 333-187583) of WCM Alternatives: Event-Driven Fund, a series of the Trust (the “Registration Statement”) is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), solely for the purpose of filing an exhibit to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 consists only of a facing page, this explanatory note and Part C of the Registration Statement on Form N-1A setting forth the exhibits to the Registration Statement. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 does not modify any other part of the Registration Statement. Pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 shall become effective immediately upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The contents of Part A and Part B of the Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference.
WESTCHESTER CAPITAL FUNDS
PART C
OTHER INFORMATION
Item 28. Exhibits
(a) | Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust. (Previously filed as Exhibit (a) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement.) |
(b) | Bylaws of Registrant. (Previously filed as Exhibit (b) to the Registration Statement.) |
(d) | (i) Form of Investment Advisory Agreement – (Previously filed as Exhibit (d) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.) |
(ii) Expense Waiver and Reimbursement Agreement – (Previously filed as Exhibit (d)(ii) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.)
(e) | Distribution Agreement between Registrant and Quasar Distributors, LLC, dated as of July 30, 2013 – (Previously filed as Exhibit (e) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.) |
(g) | Custody Agreement between Registrant and U.S. Bank National Association dated, as of July 30, 2013 – (Previously filed as Exhibit (g) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.) |
(h) | Other Material Contracts |
1. Form of Transfer Agent Servicing Agreement – (Previously filed as Exhibit (h)(1) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.)
2. Form of Fund Accounting Servicing Agreement – (Previously filed as Exhibit (h)(2) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.)
3. Form of Fund Administration Servicing Agreement – (Previously filed as Exhibit (h)(3) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.)
4. Powers of Attorney. (Previously filed as Exhibit (h)(5) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement.)
(i) | Opinion and Consent of Counsel – (Previously filed as Exhibit (i) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.) |
(j) | Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm – filed herewith. |
(l) | Form of Subscription Agreement – (Previously filed as Exhibit (l) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.) |
(m) | Registrant’s Investor Class Shares Distribution Plan – (Previously filed as Exhibit (m) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.) |
(n) | Registrant’s Multi Class Plan – (Previously filed as Exhibit (n) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.) |
(p) | Joint Code of Ethics of Westchester Capital Management, LLC, Westchester Capital Partners, LLC, The Fund VL, The Merger Fund VL, and Westchester Capital Funds – (Previously filed as Exhibit (p) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement.) |
Item 29. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with Registrant.
Inapplicable.
Item 30. Indemnification.
Reference is made to Article VIII, Sections 1 through 4, of the Registrant’s Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust (“Declaration of Trust”), which was previously filed as Exhibit (a) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), may be permitted to trustees, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant by the Registrant pursuant to the Trust’s Declaration of Trust, its Bylaws or otherwise, the Registrant is aware that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and, therefore, is unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by trustees, officers or controlling persons of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such trustees, officers or controlling persons in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
Item 31. Business and Other Connections of Investment Adviser.
Westchester Capital Management, LLC, the Registrant’s investment adviser, also manages merger-arbitrage accounts for high-net-worth individuals and other institutional investors. The information required by this Item 31 with respect to each member, officer or partner of Westchester Capital Management, LLC is incorporated by reference to Schedules A and D of Form ADV filed by Westchester Capital Management, LLC pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (SEC File No. 801-72002).
Item 32. Principal Underwriters.
(a) Quasar Distributors, LLC, the Registrant’s principal underwriter as of December 31, 2015, acts as principal underwriter for the following investment companies:
1919 Funds | LKCM Funds |
AC One China Fund | LoCorr Investment Trust |
Academy Fund Trust | Loeb King Funds |
Advantus Mutual Funds | Logan Capital Funds |
Aegis Funds | MainGate MLP Funds |
Akre Funds | Matrix Asset Advisors, Inc. |
Allied Asset Advisors Funds | Maydenbauer Dividend Growth Fund |
Alpha Funds | McKinley Funds |
AlphaClone ETF Fund | MD Sass |
Alpha Architect Funds | Monetta Fund, Inc. |
Alpine Equity Trust | Monetta Trust |
Alpine Income Trust | Morgan Dempsey Funds |
Alpine Series Trust | Muhlenkamp (Wexford Trust) |
American Trust | Muzinich Funds |
Angel Oak Funds | New Path Funds |
Appleton Group | Nicholas Funds |
Appleton Partners Inc | Nuance Funds |
Balter Liquid Alternatives Funds | Oaktree Funds |
Barrett Growth Fund | Orinda Funds |
Barrett Opportunity Fund | O'Shaughnessy Funds |
Becker Value Equity Fund | Osterweis Funds |
Boston Common Funds | Otter Creek Funds |
Brandes Investment Trust | Pension Partners Funds |
Bridge Builder Trust | Permanent Portfolio Funds |
Bridges Investment Fund, Inc. | Perritt Funds, Inc. |
Bright Rock Funds | PIA Funds |
Brookfield Investment Funds | Poplar Forest Funds |
Brown Advisory Funds | Port Street Funds |
Buffalo Funds | Portfolio 21 |
Bushido Funds | Primecap Odyssey Funds |
CAN SLIM Select Growth Fund | Prospector Funds |
Capital Advisors Funds | Provident Mutual Funds, Inc. |
Capital Guardian Funds Trust | Purisima Funds |
Chase Funds | Pzena Funds |
Coho Partners | Rainier Funds |
Collins Capital Funds | RBC Funds Trust |
Compass EMP | Reinhart Funds |
Congress Funds | Rockefeller Funds |
Consilium Funds | Rothschild Funds |
Contravisory Funds | Samson Funds |
Convergence Funds | Scharf Funds |
Cove Street Capital Funds | Schooner Investment Group |
Davidson Funds | SCS Financial Funds |
Dearborn Funds | Semper Funds |
DoubleLine Funds | Shenkman Funds |
DSM Capital Funds | Smith Group Funds |
Edgar Lomax Value Fund | Snow Capital Family of Funds |
Evermore Global Investors Trust | Sound Point Funds |
FactorShares Trust | Strategic Income Funds |
Falah Capital | Stone Ridge Funds |
First American Funds, Inc. | Stone Ridge Trust II |
Fort Pitt Capital Group, Inc. | Stone Ridge Funds |
Fund X Funds | Thomas Crown Funds |
Geneva Advisors Funds | Thomas White Funds |
Glenmede Fund, Inc. | Thompson IM Funds, Inc. |
Glenmede Portfolios | Tiedemann Funds |
GoodHaven Funds | TorrayResolute Funds |
Great Lakes Funds | Tortoise Funds |
Greenspring Fund | Trust and Fiduciary Management Services ETF |
Guinness Atkinson Funds | Tygh Capital Management |
Harding Loevner Funds | USA Mutuals Funds |
Hennessy Funds Trust | Validea Funds |
Hodges Funds | Vident Funds |
Hotchkis & Wiley Funds | Villere & Co. |
Huber Funds | Visium Funds |
Infinity Q Funds | Wall Street Fund, Inc. |
Intrepid Capital Management | Wasmer Schroeder Funds |
IronBridge Funds | WBI Funds |
Jacob Funds, Inc. | Westchester Capital Funds |
Jensen Funds | Windowpane Advisors, LLC |
Kellner Funds | Wisconsin Capital Funds, Inc. |
Kirr Marbach Partners Funds, Inc | YCG Funds |
Lawson Kroeker Funds | Ziegler Strategic Income Fund |
(b) To the best of Registrant’s knowledge, the directors and executive officers of Quasar Distributors, LLC are as follows:
Name and Principal Business Address | Position and Offices with Underwriter | Positions and Offices with Fund |
James R. Schoenike(1) | President, Board Member | None |
Andrew M. Strnad(2) | Vice President, Secretary | None |
Susan LaFond(1) | Vice President, Treasurer | None |
Teresa Cowan(1) | Senior Vice President, Assistant Secretary | None |
John Kinsella(3) | Assistant Treasurer | None |
Brett Scribner(3) | Assistant Treasurer | None |
Joseph Bree(1) | Chief Financial Officer | None |
Joe Redwine(1) | Board Member | None |
Robert Kern(4) | Board Member | None |
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(1) This individual is located at 615 East Michigan Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202.
(2) This individual is located at 10 West Market Street, Suite 1150, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204.
(3) This individual is located at 800 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402.
(4) This individual is located at 777 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202.
(c) None
Item 33. Location of Accounts and Records.
All accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Section 31(a) of the 1940 Act and the rules promulgated thereunder are maintained at the Registrant, c/o Westchester Capital Management, LLC, 100 Summit Lake Drive, Valhalla, New York 10595, the Registrant’s transfer agent, c/o U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, 615 East Michigan Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, or the Registrant’s custodian, c/o U.S. Bank, N.A., 1555 N. RiverCenter Drive, Suite 302, Milwaukee, WI 53102.
Item 34. Management Services.
Not applicable.
Item 35. Undertakings.
Not applicable.
NOTICE
A copy of the Declaration of Trust of Westchester Capital Funds is on file with the Secretary of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and notice is hereby given that this instrument is executed on behalf of the Trust by an officer or Trustee of the Trust in his or her capacity as an officer or Trustee of the Trust and not individually and that the obligations of or arising out of this instrument are not binding upon any of the Trustees or officers of the Trust or shareholders of any series of the Trust individually but are binding only upon the assets and property of the Trust or the respective series.