SEC Form 4
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
First Pacific Advisors, LLC

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Nexeo Solutions, Inc. [ NXEO ]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
08/31/2017
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
Form filed by One Reporting Person
X Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Common Stock 08/31/2017 P 41,900 A $7 182,067 I See Footnotes(1)(7)(8)(9)
Common Stock 08/31/2017 P 6,937 A $7 101,639 I See Footnotes(2)(7)(8)(9)
Common Stock 08/31/2017 P 32,816 A $7 148,987 I See Footnotes(3)(7)(8)(9)
Common Stock 08/31/2017 P 148,026 A $7 1,775,556 I See Footnotes(4)(7)(8)(9)
Common Stock 08/31/2017 P 21,631 A $7 190,779 I See Footnotes(5)(7)(8)(9)
Common Stock 816,923 I See Footnotes(6)(7)(8)(9)
Common Stock 1,481,699 I See Footnotes(10)(11)(12)
Common Stock 20,123,426 I See Footnotes(13)(14)
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
First Pacific Advisors, LLC

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
FPA Select Maple Fund, L.P.

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
FPA Select Fund II, L.P.

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
FPA Select Fund, L.P.

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
FPA SELECT DRAWDOWN FUND, L.P.

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
FPA Value Partners Fund

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
ATWOOD J RICHARD

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
ROMICK STEVEN T

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Selmo Brian A.

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Landecker Mark

(Last) (First) (Middle)
11601 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 1200

(Street)
LOS ANGELES CA 90025

(City) (State) (Zip)

Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
Director X 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
Explanation of Responses:
1. Shares of common stock of the Nexeo Solutions, Inc. (the "Issuer") held directly by FPA Select Maple Fund, L.P. ("FPA Select Maple"). First Pacific Advisors, LLC ("FPA") serves as general partner of and investment adviser to FPA Select Maple.
2. Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Select Fund II, L.P. ("FPA Select II"). FPA serves as general partner of and investment adviser to FPA Select II.
3. Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Select Fund, L.P. ("FPA Select"). FPA serves as the general partner of and investment adviser to FPA Select. Of the 148,987 shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Select, 16,799 shares are designated Founder Shares and are subject to certain share price restrictions that were previously disclosed.
4. Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Select Drawdown Fund, L.P. ("FPA Select Drawdown"). FPA serves as the general partner of and investment adviser to FPA Select Drawdown. Of the 1,775,556 shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Select Drawdown, 251,058 shares are designated Founder Shares and are subject to certain share price restrictions that were previously disclosed.
5. Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Value Partners Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC ("FPA Value Partners"). FPA serves as manager of and investment adviser to FPA Value Partners. Of the 190,779 shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Value Partners, 25,796 shares are designated Founder Shares and are subject to certain share price restrictions that were previously disclosed.
6. Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Global Opportunity Fund, a series of FPA Hawkeye Fund, LLC ("FPA Global Opportunity" and together with FPA Select Maple, FPA Select II, FPA Select, FPA Select Drawdown and FPA Value Partners, the "Private Investment Funds"). FPA serves as manager of and investment adviser to FPA Global Opportunity. Of the 816,923 shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Global Opportunity, 138,224 shares are designated Founder Shares and are subject to certain share price restrictions that were previously disclosed.
7. FPA may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by each of the Private Investment Funds as the investment adviser to and manager or general partner, as applicable, of each of the Private Investment Funds. In addition, Mr. J. Richard Atwood may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by the Private Investment Funds as a Managing Partner of FPA. Mr. Steven T. Romick may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by the Private Investment Funds as a Managing Partner of FPA. Mr. Brian A. Selmo may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by FPA Select Drawdown, FPA Select, FPA Value Partners, FPA Select Maple and FPA Select II as Portfolio Manager of such funds, and over the securities of the Issuer held by the Private Investment Funds as a Partner of FPA.
8. (Continued from Footnote 7) Mr. Mark Landecker may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by FPA Global Opportunity, FPA Select Drawdown, FPA Select, FPA Select Maple and FPA Select II as Portfolio Manager of such funds, and over the securities of the Issuer held by the Private Investment Funds as a Partner of FPA. FPA and Messrs. Atwood, Romick, Selmo and Landecker may be deemed to have a pecuniary interest in a portion of the securities held directly by the Private Investment Funds due to FPA's right to receive performance-based allocations. In addition, Messrs. Romick, Selmo and Landecker may be deemed to have an indirect pecuniary interest in a portion of the securities held directly by FPA Global Opportunity and FPA Select due to their respective ownership interests in such Private Investment Funds and Messrs.
9. (Continued from Footnote 8) Romick and Selmo may be deemed to have an indirect pecuniary interest in a portion of the securities held directly by FPA Value Partners due to their respective ownership interests in such Private Investment Fund. Each of FPA and Messrs. Atwood, Romick, Selmo and Landecker disclaims beneficial ownership of securities of the Issuer held directly by the Private Investment Funds except to the extent of their pecuniary interest therein, and this report shall not be deemed an admission that any of FPA or Messrs. Atwood, Romick, Selmo or Landecker is the beneficial owner of such securities for purposes of Section 16 or any other purpose.
10. Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by WLRS Fund I LLC ("WLRS Fund"), a limited liability company controlled by a third party but in which investment advisory clients of FPA are members and own a 99.9% economic interest. FPA may be deemed to share investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by WLRS Fund because FPA is the investment adviser to members of WLRS Fund, including FPA Crescent Fund, a series of FPA Funds Trust ("FPA Crescent Fund"), and such members have an approval right with respect to transfers of the securities of the Issuer held by WLRS Fund pursuant to the limited liability company operating agreement of WLRS Fund (the "LLC Agreement").
11. (Continued from Footnote 10) As a member of WLRS Fund, FPA Crescent Fund may also be deemed to share investment power over the securities of the Issuer held by WLRS Fund due to such approval right. Of the 1,481,699 shares of common stock of the Issuer held by WLRS Fund, 1,256,166 are designated Founder Shares and are subject to certain share price restrictions that were previously disclosed. All shares of common stock of the Issuer held by WLRS Fund are subject to certain restrictions on transfer detailed in that Shareholders' and Registration Rights Agreement, dated March 21, 2016, among WL Ross Holding Corp., WL Ross Sponsor LLC and Nexeo Holdco, LLC (the "Stockholders' Agreement"). Pursuant to such restrictions, without the prior written consent of TPG Global, LLC and WL Ross Sponsor LLC (collectively, the "Sponsors"), the shares of common stock of the Issuer held by WLRS Fund cannot be transferred during the first six months following June 9, 2016 (the "Lock-Up Period"), and then,
12. (Continued from Footnote 11) subject to any permitted underwritten offerings pursuant to the Stockholders' Agreement and other permitted transfers, cannot be transferred through the earlier of 12 months following the expiration of the Lock-Up Period or such time as the Sponsors no longer hold 50% of their initial ownership of the Issuer's common stock. Pursuant to the LLC Agreement, at any time following the lapse of the transfer restrictions on the shares of common stock held by WLRS Fund, each member of WLRS Fund may elect by written notice to the Manager of WLRS Fund to receive a distribution of such unrestricted shares of common stock up to such member's pro rata portion of its respective membership percentage.
13. Shares of common stock of the Issuer held directly by FPA Crescent Fund. FPA is the investment advisor of FPA Crescent Fund and may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund. In addition, Mr. Atwood may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund as a Managing Partner of FPA. Mr. Romick may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund as a Portfolio Manager of FPA Crescent Fund and Managing Partner of FPA. Messrs. Selmo and Landecker may be deemed to share voting and/or investment power over shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund as Portfolio Managers of FPA Crescent Fund and Partners of FPA.
14. (Continued from Footnote 13) FPA only receives an asset-based management fee for serving as investment adviser to FPA Crescent Fund and therefore does not have any pecuniary interest in the securities of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund. Of the 20,123,426 shares of common stock of the Issuer held by FPA Crescent Fund, 2,431,709 shares are designated Founder Shares and are subject to certain share price restrictions that were previously disclosed.
Remarks:
First Pacific Advisors, LLC ("FPA") may be deemed to exercise voting and/or investment power over securities of Nexeo Solutions, Inc. (the "Issuer") that are held directly by certain unaffiliated separately managed accounts (the "Managed Accounts") as FPA serves as investment adviser to such Managed Accounts. FPA only receives an asset-based management fee for serving as investment adviser to such Managed Accounts and therefore does not have any pecuniary interest in the securities of the Issuer held directly by such Managed Accounts. In addition, Messrs. J. Richard Atwood, Steven T. Romick, Brian A. Selmo and Mark Landecker do not have a pecuniary interest in the securities held by the Managed Accounts.
FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LLC, Name: /s/ J. Richard Atwood, Title: Managing Partner 09/05/2017
FPA SELECT MAPLE FUND, L.P., By: First Pacific Advisors, LLC, its investment adviser, Name: /s/ J. Richard Atwood, Title: Managing Partner 09/05/2017
FPA SELECT FUND II, L.P., By: First Pacific Advisors, LLC, its investment adviser, Name: /s/ J. Richard Atwood, Title: Managing Partner 09/05/2017
FPA SELECT FUND, L.P., By: First Pacific Advisors, LLC, its investment adviser, Name: /s/ J. Richard Atwood, Title: Managing Partner 09/05/2017
FPA SELECT DRAWDOWN FUND, L.P., By: First Pacific Advisors, LLC, its investment adviser, Name: /s/ J. Richard Atwood, Title: Managing Partner 09/05/2017
FPA VALUE PARTNERS FUND, a series of FPA HAWKEYE FUND, LLC, By: First Pacific Advisors, LLC, its investment adviser, Name: /s/ J. Richard Atwood, Title: Managing Partner 09/05/2017
J. RICHARD ATWOOD, Name: /s/ J. Richard Atwood 09/05/2017
STEVEN T. ROMICK, Name: /s/ Steven T. Romick 09/05/2017
BRIAN A. SELMO, Name: /s/ Brian A. Selmo 09/05/2017
MARK LANDECKER, Name: /s/ Mark Landecker 09/05/2017
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