# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001359057
**File Stem:** 0000894189-25-016706
**Filing Date:** 2025-12
**Character Count:** 5868
**Document Hash:** 5a986126fc993608d40922bf64da8313
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000894189-25-016706.hdr.sgml**: 20251209

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000894189-25-016706

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-A12B

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251209

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251209

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Manager Directed Portfolios
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001359057

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 571138125
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0630

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-A12B
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-38881
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251558812

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O U.S. BANCORP FUND SERVICES, LLC
- **STREET 2:** 615 E. MICHIGAN STREET
- **CITY:** MILWAUKEE
- **STATE:** WI
- **ZIP:** 53202
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 9522306140

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O U.S. BANCORP FUND SERVICES, LLC
- **STREET 2:** 615 E. MICHIGAN STREET
- **CITY:** MILWAUKEE
- **STATE:** WI
- **ZIP:** 53202

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Roxbury Funds
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20060411

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 9, 2025

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-A**

**FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**Manager Directed Portfolios**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

**Delaware**

(State of incorporation or organization)

**See List Below**

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

615 East Michigan Street

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

(Address of registrant's principal executive offices)

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| <u>Title of each class of securities <br>to be registered</u> | <u>Name of each exchange on which each class is to be registered</u> | <u>Name of each exchange on which each class is to be registered</u> |
| Deepwater Beachfront Small Cap ETF | Nasdaq Stock Market LLC | Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
| If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c), check the following box. | If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c), check the following box. | ü |
| If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d), check the following box. | If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d), check the following box. |  |
| Securities Act Registration file number to which this form relates: 333-133691 | Securities Act Registration file number to which this form relates: 333-133691 |  |
| Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Not applicable. | Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Not applicable. |  |

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**Item 1. Description of Registrant's Securities to be Registered.**

Reference is made to Post-Effective Amendment No. 182 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (File Nos. 333-133691 and 811-21897), as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") via EDGAR (Accession No. 0000894189-25-016638) on December 8, 2025, which is incorporated herein by reference.

The Trust currently consists of 15 separate series. The series to which this filing relates and their IRS Employer Identification Numbers are as follows:

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| <u>Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered</u> | <u>IRS Employer ID Number</u> |
| Deepwater Beachfront Small Cap ETF | 39-4454779 |

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**Item 2. Exhibits**

A. <u>[Registrant's Certificate of Trust is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit (a)(1) of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed on May 1, 2006 (File Nos. 333-133691 and 811-21897) (Accession Number: 0001206774-06-000986).](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359057/000120677406000986/d19183-ex99_a1.txt)</u>

B. <u>[Registrant's Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Trust was previously filed with Registrant's Post-Effective Amendment No. 24 to its Registration Statement on Form N-1A with the SEC on October 28, 2016 (File Nos. 333-133691 and 811-21897) (Accession Number: 0000894189-16-012633).](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359057/000089418916012633/cot.htm)</u>

C. <u>[Registrant's Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit (a)(2) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 135 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A, as filed with the SEC on July 28, 2023 (File Nos. 333-133691 and 811-21897) (Accession No. 0000894189-23-005134).](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359057/000089418923005134/mdpamendedandrestateddecla.htm)</u>

D. <u>[Registrant's Amended and Restated By-laws are incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit (b) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A, as filed with the SEC on July 7, 2017 (File Nos. 333-133691 and 811-21897) (Accession No. 0000894189-17-003386).](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359057/000089418917003386/by-laws.htm)</u>

**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

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| **Manager Directed Portfolios** |
| December 9, 2025 |
| /s/ Ryan S. Frank |
| Ryan S. Frank<br>President |

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