---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-123615"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GBDC"
cik: "0001476765"
company_name: "GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T17:56:10.201979+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Golub Capital BDC issues $450M of 7.050% Notes due 2028 to repay credit facility

## Summary
- Issued $450.0M aggregate principal of 7.050% Notes due December 5, 2028.
- Interest payable semi-annually on June 5 and December 5, starting June 5, 2024.
- Proceeds used to repay outstanding borrowings under JPM Credit Facility.
- Underwriters include SMBC Nikko, J.P. Morgan, and Wells Fargo Securities.
- Notes are unsecured, rank equally with other unsecured indebtedness.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-123615
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GBDC
- cik: 0001476765
- company_name: GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476765/000110465923123615/0001104659-23-123615-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476765/000110465923123615/tm2332161d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-123615.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc. incurred senior notes of $450.0 million aggregate principal amount at 7.050% per year maturing December 5, 2028.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $450.0 million aggregate principal amount
  - Rate: 7.050% per year
  - Maturity: December 5, 2028
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: in connection with the issuance and sale of $450.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 7.050% Notes due 2028
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476765/000110465923123615/0001104659-23-123615-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc. entered into Underwriting Agreement and Fourth Supplemental Indenture with SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC; U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association valued at $450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.050% Notes due 2028 (effective 2023-11-30).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC; U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association
  - Value: $450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.050% Notes due 2028
  - Effective: 2023-11-30
  source text: On November 30, 2023, Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) by and among the Company, GC Advisors LLC, Golub Capital LLC, and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named in Exhibit A thereto, in connection with the issuance and sale of $450.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 7.050% Notes due 2028 (the “Notes” and the issuance and sale of the Notes, the “Offering”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476765/000110465923123615/0001104659-23-123615-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc. entered into Fourth Supplemental Indenture with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association valued at Supplement to Base Indenture dated October 2, 2020 for issuance of $450,000,000 7.050% Notes due 202 (effective 2023-12-05).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association
  - Value: Supplement to Base Indenture dated October 2, 2020 for issuance of $450,000,000 7.050% Notes due 202
  - Effective: 2023-12-05
  source text: On December 5, 2023, the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association) as trustee (the “Trustee”), entered into the Fourth Supplemental Indenture (the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture”) to the Base Indenture, dated October 2, 2020, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Base Indenture” and together with the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476765/000110465923123615/0001104659-23-123615-index.htm

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