8-K

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): February 24, 2025

LPL Financial Holdings Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

001-34963

20-3717839

(State or other jurisdictions

of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification. No)


4707 Executive Drive, San Diego, California				92121
(Address of principal executive offices)				(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (800) 877-7210

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading

Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common Stock - par value $0.001 per share

LPLA

The Nasdaq Global Select Market

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. ☐

Item 8.01

Other Events.

On February 24, 2025, LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) and its wholly owned subsidiary LPL Holdings, Inc. (“LPL Holdings”) entered into an underwriting agreement with the representatives of the underwriters named therein (the “Underwriting Agreement”), pursuant to which LPL Holdings has agreed to issue and sell $750,000,000 million in aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2030 bearing interest at a rate of 5.200% per year at an issue price of 99.856% of their aggregate principal amount (the “2030 Notes”), and $500,000,000 million in aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2035 bearing interest at a rate of 5.650% per year at an issue price of 99.783% of their aggregate principal amount (the “2035 Notes” and, together with the 2030 Notes, the “Notes”) in a registered public offering (the “Offering”) pursuant to the Company’s and LPL Holdings’ registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration File Nos. 333-274631 and 333-274631-02) (the “Registration Statement”). The Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior and unsecured basis by the Company. The consummation of the Offering is subject to customary closing conditions.

LPL Holdings intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering to repay outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility and for general corporate purposes.

The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Underwriting Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 1.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits


1.1		Underwriting Agreement, dated February 24, 2025, among LPL Holdings, the Company, Truist Securities, Inc., U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., Citizens JMP Securities, LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule 1 thereto

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SIGNATURE

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


LPL FINANCIAL HOLDINGS INC.

By:		/s/ Althea Brown
Name:		Althea Brown
Title:		Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

Dated: February 25, 2025

SEC Form 8-K filed by LPL Financial Holdings Inc.