0000919574-12-004446.txt : 20120801 0000919574-12-004446.hdr.sgml : 20120801 20120801164252 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000919574-12-004446 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SC 13D/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120801 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120801 SUBJECT COMPANY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PIMCO Income Strategy Fund II CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001296250 IRS NUMBER: 201619298 FISCAL YEAR END: 0731 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC 13D/A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 005-84418 FILM NUMBER: 121000580 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1633 BROADWAY CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10019 BUSINESS PHONE: 212 739-3000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1633 BROADWAY CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10019 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: PIMCO Floating Rate Strategy Fund DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20040701 FILED BY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Brigade Leveraged Capital Structures Fund Ltd. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001421307 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: E9 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC 13D/A BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O OGIER FIDUCIARY SERVICES (CAY) LTD. STREET 2: 89 NEXUS WAY, CAMANA BAY CITY: GRAND CAYMAN STATE: E9 ZIP: KY1-9007 BUSINESS PHONE: (345) 949-9876 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O OGIER FIDUCIARY SERVICES (CAY) LTD. STREET 2: 89 NEXUS WAY, CAMANA BAY CITY: GRAND CAYMAN STATE: E9 ZIP: KY1-9007 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Brigade Leveraged Capital Structures Offshore Ltd. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20091215 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BRIGADE LEVERAGED CAPITAL STRUCTURES FUND LTD. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20071214 SC 13D/A 1 d1309859_13d-a.htm d1309859_13d-a.htm

 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
 
SCHEDULE 13D
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
(Amendment No. 12)*
 
PIMCO Income Strategy Fund II
(Name of Issuer)
 
Auction–Rate Preferred Shares
(Title of Class of Securities)
 
72201J203
72201J302
72201J401
72201J500
72201J609
(CUSIP Number)
 
Brigade Leveraged Capital Structures Fund Ltd.
c/o Ogier Fiduciary Services (Cayman) Limited
89 Nexus Way
Camana Bay
Grand Cayman KY1-9007
Attention:  Donald E. Morgan, III
 
Copies to:
 
Raymond Gietz, Esq.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10153
(212) 310-8000
 
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive
Notices and Communications)
 
July 31, 2012
(Date of Event Which Requires Filing of this Statement)
 
If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is
the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of ss.240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f)
or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box [_].
_________
The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person’s initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.
*No additional purchases or sales have been made since the date of the reporting persons’ last filing.


 
 
 

CUSIP No.
72201J203
72201J302
72201J401
72201J500
72201J609
  
 
   
1.
NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS
I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY)
   
 
Brigade Leveraged Capital Structures Fund Ltd.
     
2.
CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP
(a)  [_]
(b) [X]
   
3.
SEC USE ONLY
   
   
   
4.
SOURCE OF FUNDS
   
 
WC
   
5.
CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2(d) OR 2(e)
[_]
   
6.
CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
   
 
Cayman Islands
   
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
   
7.
SOLE VOTING POWER
   
 
0
   
8.
SHARED VOTING POWER
   
 
1,619*
   
9.
SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
   
 
0
   
10.
SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
   
 
1,619*
   
11.
AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING
PERSON
   
 
1,619*
   
12.
CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES
[_]
   
13
PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)
   
 
25.1%**
   
14.
TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON
   
 
CO
   
* Consistent with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Auction Rate Securities Global Exemptive Relief no action letter issued on September 22, 2008, these amounts reflect Brigade Leveraged Capital Structures Fund Ltd.’s combined holdings in the separate series of auction rate preferred shares of the issuer identified by the CUSIP numbers set forth on the cover page of this Schedule 13D Amendment, which are treated herein as one class of securities.
 
** Percentage calculation is based on the number of Issuer’s Auction-Rate Preferred Shares outstanding as of January 31, 2012, as reported in the Issuer’s Form N-CSR/A filed on March 29, 2012.

 
 
 
 
CUSIP No.
72201J203
72201J302
72201J401
72201J500
72201J609
  
 
1.
NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS
I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY)
   
 
Brigade Capital Management, LLC
   
2.
CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP
(a)  [_]
(b) [X]
   
3.
SEC USE ONLY
   
   
   
4.
SOURCE OF FUNDS
   
 
AF
   
5.
CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2(d) OR 2(e)
[_]
   
6.
CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
   
 
Delaware
   
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
   
7.
SOLE VOTING POWER
   
 
0
   
8.
SHARED VOTING POWER
   
 
1,669*
   
9.
SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
   
 
0
   
10.
SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
   
 
1,669*
   
11.
AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
   
 
1,669*
   
12.
CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES
[_]
   
13
PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)
   
 
25.9%**
   
14.
TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON
   
 
IA
   
* Consistent with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Auction Rate Securities Global Exemptive Relief no action letter issued on September 22, 2008, these amounts reflect Brigade Capital Management, LLC’s combined holdings in the separate series of auction rate preferred shares of the issuer identified by the CUSIP numbers set forth on the cover page of this Schedule 13D Amendment, which are treated herein as one class of securities.
 
** Percentage calculation is based on the number of Issuer’s Auction-Rate Preferred Shares outstanding as of January 31, 2012, as reported in the Issuer’s Form N-CSR/A filed on March 29, 2012.

 
 
 

CUSIP No.
72201J203
72201J302
72201J401
72201J500
72201J609
  
 
1.
NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS
I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY)
   
 
Donald E. Morgan, III
   
2.
CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP
(a)  [_]
(b) [X]
   
3.
SEC USE ONLY
   
   
   
4.
SOURCE OF FUNDS
   
 
AF
   
5.
CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2(d) OR 2(e)
[_]
   
6.
CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
   
 
U.S.A.
   
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
   
7.
SOLE VOTING POWER
   
 
0
   
8.
SHARED VOTING POWER
   
 
1,669*
   
9.
SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
   
 
0
   
10.
SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
   
 
1,669*
   
11.
AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
   
 
1,669*
   
12.
CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES
[_]
   
13
PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)
   
 
25.9%**
   
14.
TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON
   
 
IN
   
* Consistent with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Auction Rate Securities Global Exemptive Relief no action letter issued on September 22, 2008, these amounts reflect Donald E. Morgan, III’s combined holdings in the separate series of auction rate preferred shares of the issuer identified by the CUSIP numbers set forth on the cover page of this Schedule 13D Amendment, which are treated herein as one class of securities.
 
** Percentage calculation is based on the number of Issuer’s Auction-Rate Preferred Shares outstanding as of January 31, 2012, as reported in the Issuer’s Form N-CSR/A filed on March 29, 2012.
 
 
 
 

 
This Amendment No. 12 (“Amendment No. 12”) amends the Schedule 13D first filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 28, 2011, as amended on March 10, 2011, April 29, 2011, July 15, 2011, September 9, 2011, September 21, 2011, October 24, 2011, November 14, 2011, December 1, 2011, February 29, 2012, May 10, 2012 and June 6, 2012 (the “Schedule 13D”), and is being filed by Brigade Leveraged Capital Structures Fund Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Brigade LCSF”), Brigade Capital Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Brigade CM”) and Donald E. Morgan, III (each a “Reporting Person” and collectively the “Reporting Persons”), with respect to the Auction-Rate Preferred Shares, par value $.00001 per share (“Shares”), of PIMCO Income Strategy Fund II, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Issuer”).  Unless otherwise indicated herein, all capitalized terms used and not defined herein have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Schedule 13D.
     
     
Item 4.
Purpose of Transaction.
   
 
Item 4 is supplemented by the following:
 
At the Issuer’s annual meeting of shareholders on July, 31, 2012, Neal P. Goldman, a partner at Brigade CM, was elected to serve as a Class I preferred shares trustee by the affirmative vote of a plurality of the votes of the Issuer’s preferred shareholders.
   
   
Item 6.
Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer.
   
 
Item 6 is supplemented by the following:
 
The Reporting Persons have entered into a Joint Filing Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
   
Item 7.
Material to be Filed as Exhibits.
   
 
Exhibit A: Joint Filing Agreement
     
 
 
 
 

 
SIGNATURE
 
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.
 
 
August 1, 2012
 
(Date)
   
 
Brigade Leveraged Capital Structures Fund Ltd.
   
 
/s/ Donald E. Morgan, III
 
(Signature)
   
 
Director
 
(Name/Title)
   
   
 
Brigade Capital Management, LLC*
   
 
By: /s/ Donald E. Morgan, III
 
(Signature)
   
 
Managing Member
 
(Name/Title)
   
 
/s/ Donald E. Morgan, III*
 
(Signature)

 
Attention: Intentional misstatements or omissions of fact constitute Federal criminal violations (see 18 U.S.C. 1001).
 
* The Reporting Persons disclaim beneficial ownership in the Shares reported herein except to the extent of their pecuniary interest therein.
 

 
 
 
 

Exhibit A
Joint Filing Agreement
 
Pursuant to Rule 13d-1(k)(1) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, each of the undersigned hereby agrees that only one statement containing the information required by Schedule 13D need be filed with respect to the ownership by each of the undersigned of PIMCO Income Strategy Fund II.
 
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original.
 
 
August 1, 2012
 
(Date)
   
   
 
Brigade Leveraged Capital Structures Fund Ltd.
   
 
/s/ Donald E. Morgan, III
 
(Signature)
 
 
Director
 
(Name/Title)
 
   
 
Brigade Capital Management, LLC
   
 
By: /s/ Donald E. Morgan, III
 
(Signature)
   
 
Managing Member
 
(Name/Title)
   
 
/s/ Donald E. Morgan, III
 
(Signature)