---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001544206-23-000057"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CGBD"
cik: "0001544206"
company_name: "Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T23:01:18.491614+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Carlyle Secured Lending shareholders approve below-NAV share issuance for 12 months

## Summary
- Proposal passed with 21.9M votes for, 4.3M against, 3.7M abstain; no broker non-votes.
- Authorization allows sale of common stock at price below net asset value per share until July 2024.
- Record date: April 5, 2023; 50.8M common and 2.0M preferred shares outstanding.
- The special meeting was held on July 26, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001544206-23-000057
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CGBD
- cik: 0001544206
- company_name: Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544206/000154420623000057/0001544206-23-000057-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544206/000154420623000057/csl-20230726.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544206-23-000057
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544206-23-000057.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544206-23-000057.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. shareholders approved Authorize sale or issuance of common stock below net asset value per share at the 2023-07-26 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-07-26
  source text: The authorization of the Company, with the approval of the Company’s Board of Directors, to sell or otherwise issue shares of the Company’s common stock, during the next 12 months following stockholder approval, at a price below the then-current net asset value per share, subject to certain limitations described in the proxy statement: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 21,887,087 4,316,457 3,728,658 —
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544206/000154420623000057/0001544206-23-000057-index.htm

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