---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950103-25-011541"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GECC"
cik: "0001675033"
company_name: "Great Elm Capital Corp."
filed_at: "2025-09-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:53:17.077646+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Great Elm Capital Corp. issues $50M of 7.75% Notes due 2030

## Summary
- Issued $50M aggregate principal of 7.75% Notes due 2030; underwriters have option for additional $7.5M until Oct 4, 2025.
- Net proceeds from offering ~$48.1M (~$55.4M if overallotment exercised).
- Proceeds to redeem all outstanding 8.75% Notes due 2028; may also redeem/repurchase other notes or repay borrowings.
- Notes mature Dec 31, 2030; bear interest at 7.75% payable quarterly starting Dec 31, 2025.
- Notes are direct unsecured obligations of Great Elm Capital Corp.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950103-25-011541
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GECC
- cik: 0001675033
- company_name: Great Elm Capital Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-09-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1675033/000095010325011541/0000950103-25-011541-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1675033/000095010325011541/dp234250_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-25-011541
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-25-011541.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-25-011541.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Great Elm Capital Corp. incurred senior notes of $50,000,000 million aggregate principal amount with Equiniti Trust Company, LLC at 7.75% per year maturing December 31, 2030.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $50,000,000 million aggregate principal amount
  - Counterparty: Equiniti Trust Company, LLC
  - Rate: 7.75% per year
  - Maturity: December 31, 2030
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On September 11, 2025, Great Elm Capital Corp. (the “Company”) and Equiniti Trust Company, LLC (f/k/a American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC), as trustee (the “Trustee”), entered into an eighth supplemental indenture (the “Eighth Supplemental Indenture”) to the indenture, dated September 18, 2017, between the Company and the Trustee (as supplemented by the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Eighth Supplemental Indenture relates to the Company’s issuance of $50,000,000 million aggregate principal amount of 7.75% notes due 2030 (the “Notes”) on the date hereof, plus up to an additional $7,500,000 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes that may be issued in the future pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise of an over-allotment option (the “Offering”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1675033/000095010325011541/0000950103-25-011541-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.