Item 2.02. | Results of Operations and Financial Condition. |
On September 18, 2023, Investcorp Credit Management BDC, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing its preliminary financial results for the quarter and year ended June 30, 2023. The press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
The information in Item 2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1 furnished herewith, is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for any purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of such Section. The information in this Current Report on Form 8-K shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Item 5.02. | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On September 14, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company increased the size of the Board from four to five members and appointed Suhail A. Shaikh as an interested director to fill the vacancy created by such increase.
The initial term of Mr. Shaikh will expire at the 2024 annual meeting of stockholders of the Company. As an interested director, Mr. Shaikh will not receive any compensation from the Company.
Mr. Shaikh, 55, has served the President of the Company and Co-Chief Investment Officer of CM Investment Partners LLC, the Company’s investment adviser, since February 2023. Mr. Shaikh has also served as President of Investcorp US Institutional Private Credit Fund since February 2023. Prior to joining Investcorp, Mr. Shaikh served as the Head of U.S. Private Credit for Alcentra Group. Mr. Shaikh also served as Vice Chair of the Global Private Credit Investment Committee and was a Board member of Alcentra NY, LLC, external manager to funds managed by Alcentra Group. Mr. Shaikh also served as member of Alcentra’s management committee. Mr. Shaikh was the Chief Executive Officer of Alcentra Capital Corporation since March 2019, a publicly listed business development company managed by Alcentra NY, LLC, and served on its Board of Directors. Prior to joining Alcentra, Mr. Shaikh was a partner and senior investment professional with Solar Capital Partners LLC. Prior to being a private credit investor, Mr. Shaikh was in investment banking for over fifteen years as a leveraged finance specialist and financial sponsor banker, most recently as a Managing Director in the Financial Sponsors Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He previously worked in CIBC World Market’s Financial Sponsor Group and in the Leveraged Finance and Telecom Groups at JPMorgan & Co. in New York and London. He began his career as an investment analyst in the Investment Management Group at Bankers Trust. Mr. Shaikh earned an M.B.A. from The Wharton School with a concentration in Finance and graduated Cum Laude with an A.B. in Computer Science and Economics from Middlebury College.
Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits.