SEC Comment Letter for Lincoln Bain Capital Total Credit Fund (CIK 0002054992) — Apr 14, 2025
Lincoln Bain Capital Total Credit Fund (CIK 0002054992)
Date: April 14, 2025 · CIK: 0002054992 · Accession: 0000000000-25-003936
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April 14, 2025 Samuel K. Goldstein, Esq. Lincoln Financial Group Lincoln National Corporation 150 N. Radnor Chester Road Radnor, PA 19087-5221 Email: Sam.Goldstein@lfg.com Re: Lincoln Bain Cap ital Total Credit Fund, LP, File Nos. 333-285896, 811-24066 Dear Mr. Goldstein: We have reviewed the registration statement for the Lincoln Bain Capital Total Credit Fund filed on Form N-2 with the Securitie s and Exchange Commi ssion on March 19, 2025, and have the comments below. Where a comment is made in one location, it is applicable to all similar disclosure appearing elsewhere in the registration statement. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meaning gi ven to them in the registration statement. Prospectus General 1. The filing is materially incomplete at this time. Please provide the staff with all missing information and disclosure for review as s oon as practicable including, without limitation, the completed fee table, hypothetical expense ex amples, effects of leverage disclosure, references to the auditor, auditor consent, and financial statements. 2. Please confirm how the Fund intends to comp ly with the seed capital requirements of Section 14(a) of the Inve stment Company Act of 1940. 3. The staff’s comments for the Lincoln Royaltie s Income Fund, LP prospectus apply to the Lincoln Bain Capital Total Credit Fund prospectus, as applicable. Cover Page 4. Disclosure on the cover page states: “Under normal circumstances, credit investments will represent at least 80% of the Fund’s net a ssets.” Please include “plus borrowings for investment purposes” after “net assets.” This cl arification should also be made on p. 1 of the prospectus under the subheading “Investment Op portunities and Strategies” in the “Summary of Terms” section and el sewhere, as appropriate. Samuel Goldstein Lincoln Bain Capital Total Credit Fund, LP April 14, 2025 Page 2 5. Disclosure on the cover page states, “The Fund will provide liquidity th rough quarterly offers to repurchase a limited amount of the Fund’s Shares (at least 5%).” Please clarify here that the Fund will provide only “limited liquidity” through the quarterly repurchase offers. 6. Disclosure on the cover page states, “There is no assurance that quarterly distributions paid by the Fund will be maintained at the targeted leve l or that distributions will be paid at all.” Please clarify what is meant by “targeted level” or delete the reference. The prospectus does not appear to include any disclosure regardi ng a specific “targeted le vel” of distributions. Summary of Terms 7. The prospectus states on p. 1 and pp. 47-48, that the fund's sub-adviser, BCSF Advisors, LP has entered into a Resource Sharing Agreement with an affiliate, Bain Capital Credit, LP under which Bain Capital Credit provides the sub-adviser with investment professionals, including portfolio managers, a nd access to other resources. Please supplementally describe to the staff the following: (1) the specific services Bain Capital Credit and its employees will provide on the sub- adviser's behalf and why those services do not amount to investment advisory services provided to the Fund; (2) the extent to which the sub-adviser will de pend on Bain Capital Credit's personnel in providing investment advisory services; (3) whether personnel of Bain Cap ital Credit who provide investment advice with respect to the Fund will be supervised persons of the sub-adviser under Section 202(a)(25) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; (4) whether and what fees are paid to Bain Cap ital Credit for the described services under the resource sharing agreement or otherwise; (5) whether Bain Capital Credit is considered to be a fiduciary with respect to the Fund in connection with providing th e described services; and (6) how Bain Capital Credit is affiliated with the s ub-adviser and the Fund ( i.e., controlled subsidiary, wholly or majority owned subsidiary), the regist ration status of Bain Capital Credit, and where it is domiciled. Summary of Fees and Expenses 8. Please clarify any assumptions in relation to the treatment of the incentive fee in the expense example on p. 13. Samuel Goldstein Lincoln Bain Capital Total Credit Fund, LP April 14, 2025 Page 3 Investment Objective, O pportunities and Strategies 9. Please confirm supplementally to the staff whether the Fund intends to “warehouse” any investments prior to launch. If so, the staff may have additional comments. Types of Investment s and Related Risks 10. Under the sub-heading “Risks Related to Inve stment Strategies, Fund Investments, and the Fund’s Investment Program”, the Fund has incl uded a risk entitled “Risks of Certain Non- U.S. Investments” on pp. 39-40. This risk does not address the risks of investing in emerging markets, even though the strategies section not es on p. 18 that the “Fund expects to make investments in non-U.S. entities, including issuers in emerging markets.” If this is part of the fund's principal investment strategy, please in clude risk disclosure regarding emerging markets, or add a separate emerging markets risk. Management of the Fund 11. In the section entitled “Portfolio Managers” on p. 59, Form N-2 requires the Fund to disclose, among other things, each portfolio manager’s bus iness experience during the past 5 years. Please revise the disclosure to clarify the ro les and titles each Portfolio Manager has held at Bain Capital within the past 5 years. If they've held their current positions for more than 5 years, please add the year they acquired their current titles. See Item 9.1.c of Form N-2. Investment Management Fee and Incentive Fee 12. Under the sub-heading “Incentive Fee” on p. 63, please include examples and/or graphical representations showing how the incentive fee works, including the hurdle rate and catch-up components. Closing We note that portions of the filings are incomplete. We may have additional comments on such portions when you complete them in a pr e-effective amendment, on disclosures made in response to this letter, on information supplied supplementally, or on exhi bits added in any pre- effective amendment. If you intend to omit certain information from the form of the prospectus included with the registration statement that is declared effective in reliance on Rule 430A under the Securities Act of 1933, please identify the omitted informati on to us supplementally, preferably before filing the final pre-effective amendment. Samuel Goldstein Lincoln Bain Capital Total Credit Fund, LP April 14, 2025 Page 4 Please advise us of any exemptive app lications or no-acti on requests you have submitted or expect to submit in connecti on with your registration statement. Response to this letter should be in the form of a pre-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 472 under the Securities Act. Wh ere no change will be made in the filing in response to a comment, please indi cate this fact in a supplementa l letter and briefly state the basis for your position. We remind you that the company and its mana gement are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithsta nding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Should you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact me at (202) 551-6405. Sincerely, /s/ Samantha A. Brutlag Samantha A. Brutlag Senior Counsel Disclosure Review Office cc: Michael J. Spratt, Assistant Director Michael Kosoff, Seni or Special Counsel