Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-11-10
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001736035-25-000021
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Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-11-10
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 that the Company later secures) to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness, and rank structurally junior to all existing and future indebtedness (including trade payables) incurred by the Company’s subsidiaries, financing vehicles or similar facilities.In connection with the January 2031 Notes, the Company entered into an interest rate swap to more closely align the interest rates of the Company’s liabilities with the investment portfolio, which consists of predominately floating rate loans. The Company designated this interest rate swap and the January 2031 Notes in a qualifying hedge accounting relationship.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

The information contained in this section should be read in conjunction with “Item 1. Financial Statements” hereto and “Part II, Item 8— Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as updated from time to time by the Company’s periodic filings with the SEC. This discussion contains forward-looking statements and involves numerous risks, uncertainties, and other factors outside of the Company’s control including, but not limited to, those set forth in “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as updated from time to time by the Company’s periodic filings with the SEC.

Overview and Investment Framework

We are a Delaware statutory trust structured as a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a BDC under the 1940 Act. In addition, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, we elected to be treated as a RIC under the Code. We are managed by our Advisers. The Administrators will provide the administrative services necessary for us to operate.

Our investment objectives are to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, long-term capital appreciation.Under normal market conditions, we generally invest at least 80% of our total assets (net assets plus borrowings for investment purposes) in secured debt investments and our portfolio is composed primarily of first lien senior secured and unitranche loans. To a lesser extent, we have and may continue to also invest in second lien, third lien, unsecured or subordinated loans and other debt and equity securities. In limited instances, we may retain the “last out” portion of a first-lien loan. In such cases, the