Company: CGABL
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001527166-25-000032
Chunk: 103

Company: Carlyle Group Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 103
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| How will my shares bevoted if I do not givespecific votinginstructions? | Shareholders of Record. If you indicate that you wish to vote as recommended by ourBoard or if you sign, date, and return a proxy card but do not give specific votinginstructions, then the proxy holders will vote your shares in the manner recommended byour Board on all matters presented in this Proxy Statement, and the proxy holders maydetermine in their discretion regarding any other matters properly presented for a vote atour Annual Meeting. Although our Board does not anticipate that any of the directornominees will be unable to stand for election as a director nominee at our AnnualMeeting, if this occurs, proxies will be voted in favor of such other person or persons asmay be recommended by our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee anddesignated by our Board.Beneficial Owners of Shares Held in Street Name. If your bank, brokerage firm, broker-dealer, or other similar organization does not receive specific voting instructions from you,how your shares may be voted will depend on the type of proposal.•Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as our Independent Registered Public AccountingFirm for 2025 (Item 2). NYSE rules allow your bank, brokerage firm, broker-dealer, orother similar organization to vote your shares only on routine matters. Proposal 2, theratification of Ernst & Young as our independent registered public accounting firm for2025, is the only matter for consideration at the meeting that NYSE rules deem to beroutine.•All Other Matters (Items 1 and 3). All other proposals are non-routine matters underNasdaq rules, which means your bank, brokerage firm, broker-dealer, or other similarorganization may not vote your shares without voting instructions from you. Therefore,you must give your broker instructions in order for your vote to be counted. |

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| Frequently Asked Questions |

| What is a BrokerNon-Vote?                                                  
 What is the quorumrequirement for ourAnnual Meeting?                       | A “broker non-vote” occurs when your broker submits a proxy for the meeting with respectto the ratification of the appointment of independent registered public accounting firm butdoes not vote on non-discretionary matters because you did not provide votinginstructions on these matters.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 A quorum is required to transact business at our Annual Meeting