Sec Form 13D Filing - Sachem Head Capital Management LP filing for US FOODS HLDG CORP (USFD) - 2021-12-08

CUSIP No. 912008109

This Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13D (this “Amendment No. 2”) amends and supplements the Schedule 13D filed on October 7, 2021 (the “Initial 13D” and as amended and supplemented through the date of this Amendment No. 2, the “Schedule 13D”) by the Reporting Persons, relating to the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of US Foods Holding Corp. (the “Issuer”). Capitalized terms not defined in this Amendment No. 2 shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Schedule 13D.

The information set forth in response to each separate Item below shall be deemed to be a response to all Items where such information is relevant. The Initial 13D is hereby amended as follows:

Item 3 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated to read in full as follows:

The responses to Item 4, 5 and 6 of this Schedule 13D are incorporated herein by reference.

The net investment costs (including commissions, if any) of the Common Stock, the call options on Common Stock and the Cash Settled Swaps referenced in Items 5 and 6 directly owned by the Sachem Head Funds is approximately $674,344,932. The source of funding for such transactions was derived from the respective capital of the Sachem Head Funds.

Items 5(a) – (c) of the Schedule 13D are hereby amended and restated to read in full as follows:

(a), (b) Sachem Head, SH Management and Scott D. Ferguson may be deemed to beneficially own 16,840,982 shares of Common Stock (the “Subject Shares”), including 250,000 shares of Common Stock underlying American-style call options exercisable within the next sixty days. The Subject Shares collectively represent approximately 7.6% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock based on 222,790,642 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of November 3, 2021 as reported in the Issuer’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 8, 2021.

Sachem Head, as the investment adviser to the Sachem Head Funds, may be deemed to have the shared power to vote or direct the vote of (and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of) the Subject Shares. As the general partner of Sachem Head, SH Management may be deemed to have the shared power to vote or direct the vote of (and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of) the Subject Shares. As the general partner of SH and SHM, Sachem Head GP may be deemed to have the shared power to vote or to direct the vote of (and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of) 10,033,700 of the Subject Shares, consisting of (i) 9,920,000 shares of Common Stock and (ii) 113,700 shares of Common Stock underlying American-style call options exercisable within the next sixty days, and constituting approximately 4.5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock. By virtue of Scott D. Ferguson’s position as the managing partner of Sachem Head and the managing member of SH Management and Sachem Head GP, Scott D. Ferguson may be deemed to have the shared power to vote or direct the vote of (and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of) the Subject Shares.

(c)        Except as set forth in Exhibit 99.3 and Exhibit 99.4, which are incorporated herein by reference, there were no transactions in the Common Stock that were effected during the past sixty days by the Reporting Persons for the benefit of the Sachem Head Funds.

Item 6 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following information:

The Sachem Head Funds remain parties to Cash Settled Swaps referencing 3,618,870 shares of Common Stock in the aggregate.

* Previously filed.

SIGNATURE

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of each of the undersigned’s knowledge and belief, each of the undersigned certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: December 8, 2021

SCHEDULE 13D

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

* Previously filed.