October 9, 2025 - 8-K: Current report | HPS Corporate Lending Fund ()

HPS CORPORATE LENDING FUND

Date: October 9, 2025

/s/ Robert Busch

Robert Busch

Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer

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): October 9, 2025

HPS CORPORATE LENDING FUND

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

DELAWARE

814-01431

87-6391045

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)


40 West 57th Street, 33rd Floor
New York, NY		10019
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 212-287-6767

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None


Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Indicate by check mark
N/A	N/A	N/A

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Item 5.02.

Departure of Certain Officers; Appointment of Certain Officers.

The Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of HPS Corporate Lending Fund (the “Company”) appointed Eric Smith as Chief Compliance Officer of the Company, effective as of October 9, 2025. Mr. Smith will serve until his successor is duly appointed and qualified or until his earlier resignation or removal. Mr. Smith, age 41, is a Senior Principal Consultant at ACA Group. Mr. Smith serves as outsourced chief compliance officer and consultant for various registered investment advisers, registered investment companies, business development companies and other entities. He has over 17 years of regulatory and financial services experience. Prior to ACA Group, most recently, Mr. Smith worked at Charles Schwab, where he was Compliance Director of Asset Management. Prior to this, Mr. Smith held various roles at Nuveen, where he served as a business-line compliance officer for the firm’s private placements division and played a central role in developing and running the compliance program for a business development company. Mr. Smith has also held various other industry roles, including as a Compliance Associate in TIAA’s asset management division and in client-facing and supervision roles within the wealth management industry. Mr. Smith graduated from the University of Colorado with a BA in Economics.

Mr. Smith’s appointment coincides with the resignation, effective as of October 9, 2025, of Gregory MacCordy as the Chief Compliance Officer of the Company. Mr. MacCordy’s decision to resign was not the result of any disagreement relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices.

Mr. Smith has no family relationships with any current director, executive officer, or person nominated to become a director or executive officer of the Company, and there is no arrangement or understanding under which Mr. Smith was appointed as the Company’s Chief Compliance Officer. There are no transactions or proposed transactions to which the Company is a party, or intended to be a party, in which Mr. Smith has, or will have, a material interest subject to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, HPS Corporate Lending Fund has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.