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    SEC Form 8-K filed by Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund

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    8-K
    false0001782524NY 0001782524 2025-06-16 2025-06-16 iso4217:USD
     
     
    UNITED STATES
    SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
    WASHINGTON, D.C. 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):
    June 16, 2025
     
     
    Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund
    (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
     
     
     
    Delaware
     
    814-01332
     
    84-2009506
    (State or other jurisdiction
    of incorporation)
     
    (Commission
    File Number)
     
    (I.R.S. Employer
    Identification No.)
    1585 Broadway, New York,
    NY
    10019
    (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
    Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212)
    761-4000
     
    (Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
     
     
    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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):
     
      ☐
    Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
     
      ☐
    Soliciting material pursuant to Rule
    14a-12
    under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
    240.14a-12)
     
      ☐
    Pre-commencement
    communions pursuant to Rule
    14d-2(b)
    under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
    240.14d-2(b))
     
      ☐
    Pre-commencement
    communications pursuant to Rule
    13e-4(c)
    under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
    240.13e-4(c))
    Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
     
    Title of each class
     
    Trading
    Symbol(s)
     
    Name of each exchange
    on which registered
    Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share   MSDL   The New York Stock Exchange
    Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 or Rule 12b–2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
    ☐  Emerging growth company
    If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
     
     
     

    Item 8.01
    Other Events.
    On June 16, 2025, Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund (the “Company”) redeemed $275,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the issued and outstanding 7.55% Series A Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”), pursuant to the Master Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 13, 2022, by and between the Company and the
    noteholders
    . The Notes were redeemed at 100% of their principal amount, plus the accrued and unpaid interest thereon, through, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

    SIGNATURE
    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
     
       
    MORGAN STANLEY DIRECT LENDING FUND
    Date: June 16, 2025     By:  
    /s/ David Pessah
          David Pessah
          Chief Financial Officer
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