# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001544206
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-225251
**Filing Date:** 2025-9
**Character Count:** 8673
**Document Hash:** dfe133f14e23b5733bf90bf35f10a71e
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-225251.hdr.sgml**: 20250930

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-225251

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497AD

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250930

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250930

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001544206

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 454727439
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MD
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497AD
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-278993
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251361456

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ONE VANDERBILT AVENUE, SUITE 3400
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10017
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (212) 813-4900

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ONE VANDERBILT AVENUE, SUITE 3400
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10017

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** TCG BDC, INC.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20170315

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Carlyle GMS Finance, Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20120308

**Filed Pursuant to Rule 497(a)** 

**Registration No. 333-278993** 

**Rule 482ad** 

**Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. Prices Public Company Offering of $300 Million** 

**5.750% Unsecured Notes Due 2031** 

**New York, New York – September 30, 2025 –** Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. (Nasdaq: CGBD) (the "Company") today announced that it has priced an underwritten public offering of $300 million in aggregate principal amount of 5.750% unsecured notes due 2031 (the "Notes"). The Notes will mature on February 15, 2031 and may be redeemed in whole or in part at the Company's option at the applicable redemption price. The offering is expected to close on October 7, 2025, subject to customary closing conditions.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to repay outstanding debt including the Company's revolving credit facility (which the Company intends to use to repay its subsidiary's revolving credit facility), to fund new investment opportunities, and for other general corporate purposes, which may include opportunistic repurchases of outstanding debt.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., and R. Seelaus & Co., LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for this offering. ICBC Standard Bank Plc, B. Riley Securities, Inc., Citizens JMP Securities, LLC, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., Lucid Capital Markets, LLC, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. are acting as co-managers for this offering.

**Investors are advised to carefully consider the investment objectives, risks and charges and expenses of the Company before investing. The pricing term sheet dated September 30, 2025, preliminary prospectus supplement, dated September 30, 2025, and the accompanying prospectus, dated April 29, 2024, each of which has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), contain a description of these matters and other information about the Company and should be read carefully before investing.** 

The Company's shelf registration statement is on file with the SEC and is effective. The offering is being made solely by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement and an accompanying prospectus, which may be obtained for free by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or by contacting J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383

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Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attn: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk, facsimile: 212-834-6081 or by calling at 1-212-834-4533; Barclays Capital Inc., 745 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Syndicate Registration, facsimile: 646-834-8133 or by calling at 1-888-603-5847; BofA Securities, Inc., NC1-022-02-25, 201 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, email: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, Telephone: (800) 831-9146, email: prospectus@citi.com; Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., 1 Columbus Circle, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Debt Capital Markets Syndicate, email: dbcapmarkets.gcnotices@list.db.com or by calling at 1-800-503-4611; or Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 1585 Broadway, 29th Floor, New York, New York 10036, Attn: Investment Banking Division, facsimile: 203-719-0495 or by calling toll-free at 1-866-718-1649.

**The information in the pricing term sheet, the preliminary prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and this press release is not complete and may change.** The pricing term sheet, the preliminary prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus, and this press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, the Notes in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.

**About Carlyle Secured Lending:** Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. is a closed-end, non-diversified and externally managed investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Our objective is to generate current income and capital appreciation by sourcing and providing senior secured debt investments to U.S. companies in the middle market that are generally backed by private equity sponsors. The Company is managed by Carlyle Global Credit Investment Management L.L.C., an SEC-registered investment adviser and a wholly owned subsidiary of Carlyle. We derive significant benefit from our ability access and leverage Carlyle's significant scale, vast resources and world-class talent.

**About Carlyle:** Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Carlyle AlpInvest. With $465 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2025, Carlyle's purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies and the communities in which we live and invest. Carlyle employs more than 2,300 people in 27 offices across four continents.

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**Forward-Looking Statements** 

Statements included herein contain certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements with regard to the Company's Notes offering and the anticipated use of the net proceeds of the offering. You can identify these statements by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipates," "believes," "expects," "intends," "will," "should," "may," "plans," "continue," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "would," "could," "targets," "projects," "outlook," "potential," "predicts" and variations of these words and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements include these words. You should read statements that contain these words carefully because they discuss our plans, strategies, prospects and expectations concerning our business, operating results, financial condition and other similar matters. We believe that it is important to communicate our future expectations to our investors. There may be events in the future, however, that we are not able to predict accurately or control. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which we make it. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ, possibly materially from our expectations, include, but are not limited to, the risks, uncertainties and other factors we identify in the sections entitled "Risk Factors," "Supplementary Risk Factors" and "Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in filings we make with the SEC, and it is not possible for us to predict or identify all of them. We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

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| **Contacts:** |  |
| **Investors:** | **Media:** |
| Nishil Mehta | Kristen Ashton |
| +1 (212) 813-4918<br> publicinvestor@carlylesecuredlending.com | +1 (212) 813-4763<br> kristen.ashton@carlyle.com |

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**SOURCE:** Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc.