8-K

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 3, 2023

SLR Investment Corp.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Maryland

814-00754

26-1381340

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

500 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10022

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 993-1670

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading
Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common stock, par value $0.01 per share

SLRC

The NASDAQ Global Select Market

Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Effective on April 3, 2023, Richard L. Peteka resigned from his position as the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of SLR Investment Corp. (the “Company”). The resignation was not the result of any disagreement between Mr. Peteka and the Company.

On April 3, 2023, the Company’s board of directors appointed Shiraz Y. Kajee, age 43, as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary effective immediately. From December 2015 through March 2023, Mr. Kajee served as a Managing Director at New Mountain Capital, L.L.C., which included serving as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the following business development companies: New Mountain Finance Corporation since 2015, NMF SLF I, Inc. since 2019, New Mountain Guardian III BDC, L.L.C. since 2019 and New Mountain Guardian IV BDC, L.L.C. since 2022. Mr. Kajee received both his Master of Science in Accounting and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Baruch College - City University of New York. He is a New York State Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.

Mr. Kajee: (i) was not appointed as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary pursuant to any arrangement or understanding with any other person; (ii) does not have a family relationship with any of the Company’s directors or other executive officers; (iii) has not engaged, since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, nor proposes to engage, in any transaction in which the Company was or is a participant; and (iv) has not entered into, nor expects to enter into, any material plan, contract, arrangement, grant or award in connection with his appointment as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary.

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.


Date: April 3, 2023	SLR Investment Corp.

	By:	/s/ Michael S. Gross
		Michael S. Gross
		Co-Chief Executive Officer

	By:	/s/ Bruce Spohler
		Bruce Spohler
		Co-Chief Executive Officer

SLR Investment Corp. filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update