- CEO
- Aren C. LeeKong
- Full Time Employees
- 2,200
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Investment - Banking & Investment Services
- Address
- New York City United States of America
- IPO Date
- Nov 22, 2023
- Business
- Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified specialty finance company and business development company regulated under the Investment Company Act of 1940 that provides flexible financing solutions to middle-market companies primarily in the United States backed by private equity sponsors across industries including healthcare, aerospace and defense, high technology, business services, software, beverage, food and tobacco, hotel gaming and leisure, banking finance insurance, and real estate; its core investment products consist of first lien senior secured loans including stand-alone first lien loans, first lien/last out loans, and unitranche loans; second lien senior secured loans; unsecured debt; mezzanine debt; and equity and structured products investments targeting companies with EBITDA between $25 million and $100 million. The company, founded in 2012 and headquartered at One Vanderbilt Avenue, Suite 3400 in New York, New York, leverages the extensive resources and deal sourcing capabilities of its external manager, Carlyle Global Credit Investment Management L.L.C., part of The Carlyle Group's global credit platform with approximately $199 billion in assets. Recent developments include the completion of its merger with Carlyle Secured Lending III in March 2025, which involved the exchange of Carlyle's preferred shares for common stock at net asset value; amendments to its credit facilities in the first quarter of 2025; the issuance of $300 million in 5.750% senior notes due 2031 in October 2025 to refinance debt, fund investments, and support general corporate purposes; and the announced redemption of all its 8.20% Notes due 2028 on October 31, 2025. As of March 31, 2025, its portfolio comprises 83.4% first-lien investments, 5.8% second-lien investments, 5.4% equity, and 5.4% in a joint-venture first-lien fund, with funding sourced from $1.3 billion in principal debt including institutional senior unsecured notes, collateralized loan obligations, and credit facilities maturing mostly in 2030 or later.