Edgar Filing: GLADSTONE CAPITAL CORP

GLADSTONE CAPITAL CORPORATION

(Registrant)

/s/ Melissa Morrison

Melissa Morrison

February 17, 2016

Chief Financial Officer

8-K

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) February 17, 2016 (February 11, 2016)

Gladstone Capital Corporation

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Maryland

814-00237

54-2040781

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

1521 Westbranch Drive, Suite 100

McLean, Virginia

22102

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (703) 287-5800

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the Registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

On February 11, 2016, Gladstone Capital Corporation (the “Company”) held its 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”). There were present at the Annual Meeting in person or by proxy, stockholders holding an aggregate of 12,119,188 shares of the Company’s common stock and 961,926 shares of the Company’s preferred stock. The following matters were submitted to the stockholders for consideration:

To elect three directors, Messrs. Paul W. Adelgren, David Gladstone and John H. Outland, to be elected by the holders of common stock and preferred stock, voting together as a single class, with such directors to serve until the 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their successors are elected and qualified; and

To approve a proposal to authorize the Company, with the approval of its Board of Directors, to issue and sell shares of its common stock (during the 12 months following the Annual Meeting) at a price below its then current net asset value per share, subject to certain limitations (including, without limitation, that the number of shares issued and sold pursuant to such authority does not exceed 25% of the Company’s then outstanding common stock immediately prior to each such sale).

The voting results, as tabulated by and received from the inspector of election for the Annual Meeting, relating to the matters voted upon indicate that:

Paul W. Adelgren, David Gladstone and John H. Outland were elected to serve as directors until the 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, or until their successors are elected and qualified; and

Proposal 2 was also approved by the Company’s stockholders.

The full voting results are as follows:

1. Election of three director nominees to hold office until the 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders:

Such matter was voted upon by the Company’s stockholders holding common stock and preferred stock, voting together as a single class.


	For		Against		Abstain		Broker Non-Vote
Paul W. Adelgren		11,884,144		726,500		470,469		0
David Gladstone		11,897,490		629,751		553,873		0
John H. Outland		11,883,884		740,098		457,131		0

Continuing directors of the Company whose terms did not expire at the Annual Meeting were as follows: Michela A. English and Anthony W. Parker (each serving until the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders), and Terry L. Brubaker, Caren D. Merrick and Walter H. Wilkinson, Jr. (each serving until the 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders).

2. Ratification of proposal to authorize the Company, with the approval of its Board of Directors, to issue and sell shares of the Company’s common stock (during the 12 months following the Annual Meeting) at a price below its then current net asset value per share, subject to certain limitations (including, without limitation, that the number of shares issued and sold pursuant to such authority does not exceed 25% of the Company’s then outstanding common stock immediately prior to each such sale).


For	Against		Abstain		Broker Non-Vote
10,169,343		2,302,777		608,994		0

Such matter was voted upon by the Company’s stockholders holding common stock and preferred stock, voting together as a single class. As required by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, this proposal was approved by more than 67% of all voting securities of the Company present at the Annual Meeting and more than 67% of the unaffiliated voting securities of the Company present at the Annual Meeting.

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.