Company: CGABL
Filing Date: 2025-09-17
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-206326
Chunk: 29

Company: Carlyle Group Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-17
Form: 424B5
Chunk 29
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 date of the public notice of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control until the end of the 60-day periodfollowing public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control (which period shall be extended until the ratings are announced if during such 60-day periodthe rating of the notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by either of the Rating Agencies); provided that a Below Investment Grade Rating Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus shall not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Repurchase Event hereunder) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not announce or publicly confirm or inform the Issuer in writing at its request that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Rating Event). The Issuer will request the Rating Agencies to make such confirmation in connection with any Change of Control and shall promptly deliver an officers’ certificate to the Trustee certifying as to whether or not such confirmation has been received or denied. The Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring, or charged with knowledge of, the ratings of the notes. “Change of Control” means the occurrence of the following:

| • |     | the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or                                                                                                                                  
 consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Credit Group to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act or any successor 
 provision), other than to a Continuing Carlyle Entity; or                                                                                                                                                                               |

| • |     | the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision), other than a Continuing Carlyle Entity, becomes (A) the beneficial owner (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act or any successor provision) of (i) a majority of the shares of common stock of the Iss