CUSIP No. 86933G 105
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Name of Reporting Person
Thomas Capasse
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SEC Use Only
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Source of Funds
OO
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Citizenship or Place of Organization
United States of America
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Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
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Reporting
Person With
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Sole Voting Power
260,028
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Shared Voting Power
13,751,455 shares of Common Stock (1)
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Sole Dispositive Power
260,028
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Shared Dispositive Power
13,751,455 shares of Common Stock (1)
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Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person
14,011,483 shares of Common Stock
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Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11)
42.6%
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Type of Reporting Person
IN
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(1) Consists of (a) 50,553 shares of Common Stock held by Waterfall Asset Management LLC, the Reporting Person, as a member of Waterfall Asset Management, LLC, may be deemed to have the shared power to vote and dispose of such shares; (b) 12,862,266 shares of Common Stock held by Sutherland REIT Holdings, LP, the Reporting Person, as a member of Waterfall Asset Management, LLC, the investment adviser to Sutherland REIT Holdings, LP and as a member of Waterfall Management, LLC, the general partner of Sutherland REIT Holdings, LP, may be deemed to have the shared power to vote and dispose of such shares; and (c) 838,636 OP units, which are exchangeable at the option of the Issuer into an equal number of shares of Common Stock, held in the aggregate by OP Holdings II, the Reporting Person, as a member of Waterfall Asset Management, LLC, the investment adviser to OP Holdings II, may be deemed to have the shared power to vote and dispose of such shares. OP Holdings II intends to distribute OP units, shares of Common Stock or cash from the sales of shares of Common Stock to its investors when its investors redeem their shares of OP Holdings II.
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CUSIP No. 86933G 105
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Name of Reporting Person
Jack Ross
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SEC Use Only
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Source of Funds
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Check Box if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Item 2(d) or 2(e)
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Citizenship or Place of Organization
United States of America
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Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With
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Sole Voting Power
266,668 (1)
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Shared Voting Power
13,751,455 shares of Common Stock (2)
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Sole Dispositive Power
266,668 (1)
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Shared Dispositive Power
13,751,455 shares of Common Stock (2)
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Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person
14,018,123 shares of Common Stock
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Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11)
42.6%
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Type of Reporting Person
IN
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(1) Includes 145,871 shares of Common Stock owned through the Robin J. Ross 2009 Trust (the Trust). The Reporting Person does not serve as the trustee for the trust and the Reporting Persons wife is the trustee and sole beneficiary of the trust. The trustee of the trust has sole voting and investment power with respect to the securities held by the Trust.
(2) Consists of (a) 50,553 shares of Common Stock held by Waterfall Asset Management LLC, the Reporting Person, as a member of Waterfall Asset Management, LLC, may be deemed to have the shared power to vote and dispose of such shares; (b) 12,862,266 shares of Common Stock held by Sutherland REIT Holdings, LP, the Reporting Person, as a member of Waterfall Asset Management, LLC, the investment adviser to Sutherland REIT Holdings, LP and as a member of Waterfall Management, LLC, the general partner of Sutherland REIT Holdings, LP, may be deemed to have the shared power to vote and dispose of such shares; and (c) 838,636 OP units, which are exchangeable at the option of the Issuer into an equal number of shares of Common Stock, held in the aggregate by OP Holdings II, the Reporting Person, as a member of Waterfall Asset Management, LLC, the investment adviser to OP Holdings II, may be deemed to have the shared power to vote and dispose of such shares. OP Holdings II intends to distribute OP units, shares of Common Stock or cash from the sales of shares of Common Stock to its investors when its investors redeem their shares of OP Holdings II.
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Responses to each item of this Schedule 13D are incorporated by reference into the responses to each other item, as applicable.
Item 1.
Security and Issuer.
This Amendment No. 2 supplements and amends the Schedule 13D filed on November 10, 2016 as amended by Amendment No. 1 filed on February 14, 2018 by the Reporting Persons (as defined below) (as so amended, the Schedule 13D) relating to the Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the Shares), of Sutherland Asset Management Corporation, a Maryland corporation (the Issuer). The address of the principal executive offices of the Issuer is 1140 Avenue of the Americas, 7
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Fl., New York, New York 10036. Each item below amends and supplements the information disclosed under the corresponding Item of the Schedule 13D. Unless otherwise indicated herein, capitalized terms used but not defined in this Amendment No. 2 shall have the same meanings herein as ascribed to such terms in the Schedule 13D.
Item 3.
Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration.
Item 3 of Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:
Except as described in the subsequent paragraphs to this Item 3, the Reporting Persons acquired the Shares reported on this Schedule 13D on October 31, 2016 in connection with a transaction in which Sutherland Asset Management Corporation (the Prior Entity) merged with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Issuer (formerly named ZAIS Financial Corp.) (the Merger). The Issuer thereafter changed its name to Sutherland Asset Management Corporation. The Merger was consummated pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 6, 2016, as amended May 9, 2016 and August 4, 2016. Upon the closing of the Merger, each share of common stock of the Prior Entity converted into approximately 0.8356 Shares of the Issuer.
From general funds available to them, Messrs. Capasse and Ross, the Chief Executive Officer and President of the Issuer, respectively, acquired 19,043 and 39,000 of the Shares reported as held by them on Amendment No. 1 to the Schedule 13D filed on February 14, 2018, respectively, through open market transactions (the Open Market Acquisitions) as disclosed on the Form 4s filed on December 2, 2016 and November 29, 2016. Messrs. Capasse and Ross acquired beneficial ownership of such Shares for investment purposes.
Sutherland REIT Holdings, LP (SRH) received requests for redemption (the SRH Redemptions and each a SRH Redemption) from certain of its limited partners of their limited partnership units in SRH (SRH Units), in respect of 729,328, 81,812, 53,826, 123,437 and 3,650 SRH Units. On January 31, 2017, February 28, 2017, May 31, 2017, June 30, 2017 and January 31, 2018, respectively, SRH satisfied each SRH Redemption by exchanging the SRH Units for an equal number of Shares. In the SRH Redemptions Thomas Capasse received 218,703 Shares and Jack Ross may be deemed to hold sole voting and dispositive power with respect to 213,742 Shares received by him and the Trust in aggregate. Messrs. Capasse and Ross acquired beneficial ownership of such Shares for investment purposes.
On June 30, 2017, the Issuer received a request for redemption (the OP Holdings I Redemption) from Sutherland OP Holding I, Ltd. (Holdings I), a Cayman corporation externally managed by Waterfall Asset Management, LLC, the Issuers external manager, in respect of 1,171,494 OP Units in the Issuers operating partnership subsidiary held by Holdings I. On the same date, the Issuer notified Holdings I of its decision to satisfy the OP Holdings I Redemption by exchanging 1,171,494 Shares for such OP units. Holdings I then contributed the 1,171,494 Shares to Sutherland REIT Holdings, LP (SRH) in exchange for an equal number of units of partnership interests in SRH.
On May 18, 2018 and August 14, 2018, SRH satisfied SRH Redemption requests from certain of its limited partners in respect of an aggregate of 171,946 and 879,188 SRH Units, respectively, by exchanging the SRH Units for an equal number of Shares.
Item 4.
Purpose of Transaction.
Item 4 of Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:
Each Reporting Person acquired the Shares held by it in connection with the Merger, the Open Market Acquisitions, the OP Holdings I Redemption or the SRH Redemptions, as applicable and defined and described in Item 3 above. The GP expects to cause the distribution of Shares to the beneficial owners of SRH upon their request in accordance with SRHs limited partnership agreement.
The Reporting Persons do not have any present plan or proposal which would relate to or result in any of the matters set forth in subparagraphs (a) - (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D except as otherwise set forth in this Schedule 13D or such as would occur upon or in connection with completion of, or following, any of the actions discussed in this Schedule 13D. The Reporting Persons may from time to time, depending on market conditions and
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