WSC & Company, LLC (“WSC”, the “Firm” or “Adviser”), a North Carolina limited liability company formed in
April 2017 and headquartered in Charlotte, NC, provides investment advisory services to private investment
funds focused primarily on “search funds.” Search Funds are single purpose vehicles through which a company
is sourced for acquisition and then operated by the private investment fund (each, a “Search Fund,” and
collectively, “Search Funds”). WSC became an Exempt Reporting Adviser in 2020 and, as of June 2023, applied
for registration with the SEC as a registered investment adviser.
The principal owners of WSC are Howard Badger Stone II and Macon Thomas Carroll (collectively, the
“Managers”).
WSC’s only advisory clients are private investment funds, investment vehicles that generally co-invest with such
entities and any future investment vehicles that WSC may organize, including any successor fund or other
future funds to which WSC and/or its affiliates provide investment advisory services (each, a “Fund,” and
collectively, the “Funds”). Each Fund is exempt from registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), and the securities of each Fund are not registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
The Managers serve as members of the board of managers (or equivalent governing body) of the general
partner or managers (as the case may be) of each Fund (collectively, the “General Partners”). While each
General Partner retains management authority over the business and affairs, including investment decisions,
of its respective Fund, WSC has been engaged by certain of the Funds to serve as the investment manager of
the Funds with the responsibilities ascribed in a Management Agreement entered into between each such Fund
and
WSC (each, a “Management Agreement”).
WSC and their supervised persons are subject to the requirements of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the
“Advisers Act”) and the rules promulgated thereunder, and to WSC’s compliance policies and procedures.
Members of General Partners who are supervised persons of WSC are deemed “persons associated with” WSC
(as that term is defined in section 202(a)(17) of the Advisers Act).
Each Fund is governed by a limited partnership agreement or a limited liability company operating agreement
(collectively, the “Governing Documents”) that specify the investment strategy, guidelines and investment
restrictions applicable to the Fund. WSC provides investment management and administrative services to the
Funds in accordance with each Fund’s Governing Documents and the applicable Management Agreement.
The investors in the Funds (“Investors”) are primarily “qualified clients” (as defined in the Advisers Act) and
“accredited investors” (as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act). WSC generally has broad and
flexible investment authority with respect to the Funds.
Generally, the Investors in each Fund are not able to negotiate the terms of each Fund’s Governing Documents
in connection with their investments in such Fund. WSC and the General Partners have, and may in the future,
enter into side letters or similar agreements with certain Investors to waive or modify certain terms of
investment for certain Investors, including, but not limited to, rights related to co-investment opportunities,
increased Fund and portfolio transparency and more frequent or varied formats of Fund reporting.
WSC does not participate in wrap fee programs.
As of December 31, 2023, WSC managed $203,796,302 of client assets on a discretionary basis. WSC does not
currently manage any client assets on a non-discretionary basis.