UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):

~~February~~March 253, 2026

Partners Group Lending Fund, LLC
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

000-56792

88-3153051

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(Commission
file number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

1114 Avenue of the Americas, 37^th Floor,
New York, NY

10036

(Address of principal executive officers)

(Zip Code)

(877) 748-7209
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Securities Registered pursuant to section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
N/A	N/A	N/A

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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Item 35.02 ~~Unregistered~~Departure ~~Sales~~of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of ~~Unregistered~~Directors; ~~Securities.~~Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

AsAppointment of ~~February~~New 1, 2026, Partners Group Lending Fund, LLC (the “Fund”) sold approximately 6,849 Class M units (the “Units”) for an aggregate price of $52.5 thousand4. The number of Units to be issued was finalized on February 25, 2026. The offer and sale of the Units was made pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), Regulation D promulgated thereunder and other available exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to investors who are “accredited investors” within the meaning of Regulation D under the Securities Act.Director

~~Item~~On 8March 3, 2026, Ruth E.01 ~~Other~~Goodstein ~~Events~~was appointed to serve as an independent member of the board of directors (the “Board”) of Partners Group Lending Fund, LLC (the “Fund”). Ms. Goodstein will join the audit committee and nominating committee of the Board.

~~Net~~Ms. Goodstein is the founding partner of Lower Loop Partners, LLC, a consulting firm launched in 2025. She currently serves as an Independent Director of VistaOne and CVC-PEF. Previously, Ms. Goodstein served as Chief Operating Officer of Macquarie Asset ~~Value~~Management Wealth Solutions between 2022 and 2025. Ms. Goodstein joined Macquarie Asset Management as part of Macquarie’s 2022 acquisition of Central Park Group, where she was Chief Operating Officer for over 15 years. Ms. Goodstein has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Central Park Group in 2006, Ms. Goodstein served as Chief Operating Officer of Robeco-Sage Capital, an institutional hedge fund-of-funds firm. Before that, she was a Senior Vice President in the UBS Financial Services Alternative Investment Group, where she was responsible for overseeing product development, product management, and marketing. Prior to this, Ms. Goodstein held legal and compliance roles at J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Bankers Trust Company and Oppenheimer & Co. Ms. Goodstein graduated from Cornell University and earned her juris doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School. Ms. Goodstein has served on NASD District 10 and has been a speaker at industry conferences.

~~The~~As ~~net~~an ~~asset~~independent ~~value~~member ~~("NAV")~~of ~~per~~the ~~Unit~~Board, asMs. ofGoodstein ~~January~~will ~~31,~~be ~~20264,~~entitled asto ~~determined~~compensation in accordance with ~~the~~our ~~valuation~~director ~~policies~~compensation ~~and~~programs ~~procedures~~described ~~approved~~in byItem ~~the~~6 ~~Fund’s~~of ~~board~~our ofRegistration ~~managers,~~Statement ~~was~~on asForm ~~follows:~~10 filed with the SEC on December 19, 2025.

	NAV as of
Unit Class	January 31, 2026
Class I Units	$	7.6654
Class M Units	$	7.6654

There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Goodstein and any other person pursuant to which she was selected as directors. There are no transactions involving any of the individuals listed above that would be required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K of the Securities Act.

As of January 31, 2026, the Fund’s aggregate NAV was approximately $278.6 million including approximately $226.0 million debt outstanding.

Unit Split

On February 26, 2026, the Fund’s Board of Directors approved a 5:1 forward split of all of its issued and outstanding common units. Unitholders of record as of February 26, 2026, received four additional units of each class of common unit for each unit held. The forward split was effective on February 27, 2026. As of February 27, 2026, the Fund had approximately 181,682,064 issued and outstanding Class I Units and approximately 48,421 issued and outstanding Class M Units.

Portfolio and Business Commentary

Portfolio Statistics

As of January 31, 2026, the Fund had investments in 55 portfolio companies1. The geographic allocation of the Fund’s portfolio companies, represented as a percentage of fair value, were as follows: 97% in North America, 0% in Europe, and 3% in Asia and Rest of World1.

Portfolio Summary as of January 31, 2026

Total Portfolio Size	$474.1 million
Borrowers1	55
Weighted Average Credit Spread2	5.1%
Median LTM EBITDA (at entry)3	$94.4 million
Weighted Average First Lien Net Leverage Ratio (at entry)3	5.8x
Weighted Average Total Net Leverage Ratio (at entry)3	6.0x
Weighted Average loan to value ("LTV") (at entry)3	40.5%

1 Calculation excludes CLO tranches

2 Calculation includes all instruments with floating rate spreads

3 Calculation excludes CLO tranches, opportunistic credit, and recurring revenue loans

4 Per unit data does not reflect the unit split that was effective on February 27, 2026

Asset Allocations

As of January 31, 2026, based on fair value, the Fund’s portfolio investments consisted of the following:

Portfolio Investments
First lien / Unitranche Loans	94.6%
Opportunistic Credit	1.5%
Broadly Syndicated Loans	0.0%
CLO tranches	3.9%
Total	100.0%

As of January 31, 2026, the ten largest industries in which the Fund was invested, represented as a percentage of fair value1, were as follows:

Industry2
Software		25.5%
Health Care Providers & Services		11.3%
IT Services		9.3%
Professional Services		9.2%
Capital Markets		6.5%
Trading Companies & Distributors		5.7%
Diversified Consumer Services		5.2%
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components		4.3%
Commercial Services & Supplies		3.4%
Electrical Equipment		3.1%

As of January 31, 2026, the ten largest portfolio company investments in which the Fund was committed, based on par value or, in the case of equity investments, cost, were as follows:

Issuer	Par or Cost ($ in millions)	% of Total
Diligent Corporation	22.3	3.9%
PT Intermediate Holdings III, LLC	22.1	3.9%
PMA Parent Holdings, LLC	20.7	3.6%
DigiCert, Inc.	19.6	3.4%
Ascend Partner Services LLC	18.5	3.2%
Optimizely North America Inc.	18.2	3.2%
Ruby Buyer, LLC	16.0	2.8%
MRI Software LLC	15.1	2.6%
CSAFE Acquisition Company, Inc.	14.9	2.6%
GovCIO Buyer Company	14.5	2.5%

As of January 31, 2026, based on fair value, investments by vintage year were as follows1:

Investments Split by Year
2023		14.7%
2024		44.6%
2025		39.5%
2026		1.2%

1 Calculation excludes CLO tranches

2 Reflects minor adjustments to the categorization of certain investments between industries

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

		Partners Group Lending Fund, LLC
		By:	/s/ Brian Igoe
Dated:	March 39, 2026		Brian Igoe
			Chief Financial Officer

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