Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001736035-25-000008
Chunk: 218

Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 218
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 public offerings and secondary offerings. While many debt instruments in which we will invest have stated maturities of five to seven years, we expect the majority to be redeemed or sold prior to maturity. These instruments often have call protection that requires an issuer to pay a premium if it redeems in the early years of an investment. The Investment Team regularly reviews investments and related market conditions in order to determine if an opportunity exists to realize returns on a particular investment. We believe the ability to utilize the entire resources of Blackstone Credit & Insurance, including the public market traders and research analysts, allows the Adviser to gain access to current market information where the opportunity may exist to sell positions into the market at attractive prices.

Investment Process Overview

Our investment activities are managed by our Adviser. The Adviser is responsible for originating prospective investments, conducting research and due diligence investigations on potential investments, analyzing investment opportunities, negotiating and structuring our investments and monitoring our investments and portfolio companies on an ongoing basis.

The investment professionals employed by Blackstone Credit & Insurance have spent their careers developing the resources necessary to invest in private companies. Our transaction process is highlighted below.

Sourcing and Origination

The private credit investment team, comprised of 103 dedicated investment professionals as of December 31, 2024, is responsible for establishing regular dialogue with, and coverage of, the financial advisory, corporate issuer, financial sponsor, legal and restructuring communities. The team also has regular contact with Wall Street firms, business brokers, industry executives and others who help identify direct origination investment opportunities. Blackstone Credit & Insurance seeks to be a value-added partner to its counterparties in connection with their capital needs, and believes that these relationships have driven, and will continue to drive, substantial proprietary deal flow and insight into investment opportunities.

The Company seeks to generate investment opportunities primarily through direct origination channels. The global presence of Blackstone Credit & Insurance generates access 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-well capitalized 

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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-add through the Value Creation Program by not only helping