Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form Type: N-2ASR
Source: 0001213900-25-063269
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Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form: N-2ASR
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 to a substantial amount of directly originated transactions with what it believes to be attractive investment characteristics. Blackstone Credit & Insurance’s team has over 400 sponsor and advisor relationships with a primary focus on what it believes are the largest, highest quality, and most -wellcapitalized sponsors and advisors, leading to substantial repeat counterparties and making Blackstone Credit & Insurance a partner of choice to these sponsors. In addition to the depth and breadth of Blackstone Credit & Insurance’s relationships, sponsor and advisor partners also seek to transact with Blackstone Credit & Insurance due to its value -addthrough the Value Creation Program by not only helping companies with operational support, but also potentially enhancing revenue generation and cost savings opportunities for Blackstone Credit & Insurance’s portfolio companies, all of which further contribute to our origination efforts. With respect to syndicate and club deals, Blackstone Credit & Insurance has built a network of relationships with commercial and investment banks, finance companies and other investment funds as a result of the long track record of its investment professionals in the leveraged finance marketplace. Blackstone Credit & Insurance also has a $111 billion Liquid Corporate Credit platform, which, we believe, allows us access to the secondary market for investment opportunities. Blackstone Credit & Insurance is invested in over 4,900 corporate issuers across its $389 billion platform which we believe offers us deep insight across all sectors and industries in our market. Blackstone Credit & Insurance aims to leverage the broader Blackstone network to generate additional deal flow. Blackstone’s Private Equity platform has been built over the past 35 years and invests globally across industries in both established and growth -orientedstructures. Blackstone’s Real Estate group is the world’s largest owner of commercial real estate. Blackstone’s General Partnership Stakes group seeks to serve as a strategic partner to talented managers at all stages of their life cycles and help them build enduring franchises. Through such other business units of Blackstone, Blackstone Credit & Insurance aims to increase its connectivity and deepen sponsor relationships. We believe that Blackstone Credit & Insurance’s strong reputation and longstanding relationships with its broad network will help drive substantial proprietary deal flow and provide a significant pipeline of investment opportunities for us. 10 Evaluation and Due Diligence The hallmark of Blackstone Credit & Insurance’s approach to investing will continue to be defined by a rigorous due diligence process focused on downside protection and capital preservation. This process includes a thorough business review of the industry, competitive landscape, products, customers, returns on capital, strength of management team and consultation with outside advisors and industry