SVB Financial (SIVBQ) 8-KAgreement for the Sale of SVB Capital

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 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): May 2, 2024

SVB Financial Group

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

3003 Tasman Drive

Santa Clara, California 95054-1191

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(408) 654-7400

(Company’s telephone number, including area code)

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As previously reported, on March 17, 2023, SVB Financial Group (the “Company”) filed a voluntary petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Bankruptcy Court”) for relief under the provisions of Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”). The Company’s case is administered under the caption In re SVB Financial Group, Case No: 23-10367 (the “Chapter 11 Case”). On May 2, 2024, the Company entered into a definitive purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with a newly created entity affiliated with Pinegrove Capital Partners and backed by permanent capital from Brookfield Asset Management and Sequoia Heritage, for the sale of SVB Capital, its investment platform business.

Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the bidder will acquire the SVB Capital business for a combination of cash and other economic consideration. The Purchase Agreement is subject to final approval of the Bankruptcy Court and regulatory approval, as well as other customary closing conditions.

On May 2, 2024, SVB Financial Group filed a motion seeking the Court’s authorization to approve bidder protections for the Pinegrove affiliate and consummate a sale of the SVB Capital business. The Company intends to seek approval of the buyer protections at a hearing on May 16, 2024, and has requested that the Bankruptcy Court schedule a hearing to approve the sale of SVB Capital on June 5, 2024.

The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

The Purchase Agreement has been filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K to provide investors and security holders with information regarding the terms of the Purchase Agreement. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about Buyer. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreement were made only for purposes of the Purchase Agreement and as of the specific date therein, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement and may be subject to important limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties. The representations and warranties may have been made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Purchase Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors are not third-party beneficiaries under the Purchase Agreement and should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company or its subsidiaries. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of such representations, warranties and covenants may change after the date of the Purchase Agreement containing them, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the Company’s public disclosures.

On May 2, 2024, the Company issued a press release announcing its entry into the Purchase Agreement for the sale of SVB Capital. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference.

The information contained in this Item 7.01 is being “furnished” and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any of the Company’s filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date hereof and regardless of any general incorporation language in such filings, except to the extent expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

Forward-Looking Statements

Various statements in this Form 8-K or documents referred to herein, including those that express a belief, expectation, target or intention, as well as those that are not statements of historical fact, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act and/or the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as applicable. All statements, other than statements of

historical facts, included in this filing that address activities, events or developments that the Company expects, believes, targets or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which may be beyond the Company’s control. The Company’s actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks and other factors, which include the following: the failure to obtain approval of the Purchase Agreement by the Bankruptcy Court, or, if the Purchase Agreement is approved by the Bankruptcy Court, to consummate the transaction, risks and uncertainties relating to the Chapter 11 Case, including but not limited to, the effects of the Chapter 11 Case on the Company and on the interests of various constituents, Bankruptcy Court rulings in the Chapter 11 Case and the outcome of the Chapter 11 Case in general, the duration of the Chapter 11 Case, the Company’s ability to successfully implement a restructuring plan, risks associated with third-party motions in the Chapter 11 Case, risks related to the trading of the Company’s securities on the OTC Pink Market, the risk that the Chapter 11 Case may be converted to a case under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, the potential adverse effects of the Chapter 11 Case on the Company’s liquidity or results of operations and increased legal and other professional costs necessary to execute the Company’s restructuring, as well as other risk factors. The Company therefore cautions readers against relying on these forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on the Company’s behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. All such statements speak only as of the date made, and, except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

(d) Exhibits

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.