UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 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) January 2, 2019

PIMCO Municipal Income Fund III

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Massachusetts

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

811-21187		55-6145593
(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)
1633 Broadway, New York, NY		10019
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

(844) 337-4626

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 7.01

Regulation FD Disclosure.

Annual Shareholder Meeting Results:

PIMCO Municipal Income Fund III (the “Fund”) held its annual meeting of shareholders on December 19, 2018, during which shareholders voted on the election and re-election of certain of the Fund’s Trustees. The results of the elections were certified on January 2, 2019. Common/Preferred shareholders voted as indicated below:

Election of Trustees by Common and Preferred Shareholders of the Fund, voting together as a single class:

 

		Affirmative     (#)		Affirmative     (as a % of common     and preferred share     votes cast)		Withheld     Authority     (#)		Withheld Authority     (as a percentage of     common and preferred     share votes cast)
Election of Hans W. Kertess Class I to serve until 2021		29,986,797		96.69%		1,027,581		3.31%
Election of John C. Maney† Class I to serve until 2021		30,104,996		97.07%		909,382		2.93%
Election of Trustees by Preferred Shareholders of the Fund, voting as a separate class:
		Affirmative     (#)		Affirmative     (as a % of preferred     share votes cast)		Withheld     Authority     (#)		Withheld Authority     (as a percentage of     preferred share votes     cast)
Election of Alan Rappaport *, **		138		2.36%		5,139		87.83%
Election of T. Matthew Buffington*  Class I to serve until 2021		574		9.81%		0		0.00%

The other members of the Board of Trustees at the time of the meeting, namely, Ms. DeCotis, and Messrs. Craig A. Dawson†, Bradford K. Gallagher, James A. Jacobson* and William B. Ogden, IV, continue to serve as Trustees.

 

*	Preferred Shares Trustee

**	Trustee was not elected by shareholders at the annual meeting.

†	Interested Trustee

Changes to Board of Trustees:

At the Fund’s annual shareholder meeting held on December 19, 2018, incumbent Trustee Alan Rappaport was replaced on the Board by T. Matthew Buffington in a contested election for a Trustee position elected by preferred shareholders of the Fund, voting as a separate class. Mr. Buffington received the affirmative vote of 9.81% of the preferred share votes cast at the meeting. Mr. Buffington was nominated by Dryden Capital Fund, LP, Dryden Capital, LLC, and certain affiliates thereof (collectively, “Dryden”). Dryden is a holder of Auction Rate Preferred Shares of the Fund.

Effective December 20, 2018, the Board of Trustees appointed Alan Rappaport to the Board as a Class II Trustee to be elected by common and preferred shareholders of the Fund, voting together.

 

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SIGNATURE

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: January 2, 2019

 

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