# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001838126
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-235357
**Filing Date:** 2025-10
**Character Count:** 6105
**Document Hash:** 13d91479e2bdf8f4de5c924df2113c89
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-235357.hdr.sgml**: 20251009

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-235357

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251009

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251009

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251009

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** HPS Corporate Lending Fund
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001838126

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 876391045
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** NY
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 814-01431
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251383801

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 40 WEST 57TH STREET, 33RD FLOOR
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10019
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 212.287.6767

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 40 WEST 57TH STREET, 33RD FLOOR
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10019

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### 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)

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| **DELAWARE** | **814-01431** | **87-6391045** |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction**<br> **of Incorporation)** | **(Commission**<br> **File Number)** | **(IRS Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |

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

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#### 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

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading<br>Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange**<br> **on which registered** |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |

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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:

☐ 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 communications 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))

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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. ☐

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| **Item 5.02.** | **Departure of Certain Officers; Appointment of Certain Officers.**  |

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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.

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#### 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.

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|  |  | **HPS CORPORATE LENDING FUND** |
| Date: October 9, 2025 | By: | /s/ Robert Busch |
|  | Name: | Robert Busch |
|  | Title: | Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer |

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