Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-10-08
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001213900-25-097397
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Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-10-08
Form: 424B2
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 from these companies. Further, we believe that many investment firms lack the breadth and scale necessary to identify investment opportunities, particularly in regards to directly originated investments in private companies, and thus attractive investment opportunities are often overlooked. 4 Blackstone Credit & Insurance Strengths Blackstone Credit & Insurance is the world’s largest third -partyprivate credit manager and a key player in the direct lending space. Blackstone Credit & Insurance has experience scaling funds across its platform that invest in all parts of the capital structure. Blackstone Credit & Insurance focuses on transactions where it can differentiate itself from other providers of capital, targeting sponsor -backedtransactions and those where Blackstone Credit & Insurance can bring its expertise and experience in negotiating and structuring. We believe that Blackstone Credit & Insurance has the scale and platform to effectively manage a North American private credit investment strategy, offering investors the following potential strengths: Ability to Provide Scaled, Differentiated Capital Solutions.We believe that the breadth and scale of Blackstone Credit & Insurance’s platform, with $389 billion of AUM as of March 31, 2025, and affiliation with Blackstone provide a distinct advantage in sourcing and deploying capital toward proprietary investment opportunities and provide a differentiated capability to invest in large, complex opportunities. Scale allows for more resources to source, diligence and monitor investments, and may enable us to move up market where there is often less competition and may allow us to negotiate more favorable terms for investments. As of March 31, 2025, Blackstone Credit & Insurance is invested in over 4,900 corporate issuers 1across portfolios globally and has over 400 sponsor and advisor relationships, which we believe provides invaluable insight and access to a broad and diverse set of investment opportunities. Blackstone Credit & Insurance’s focus on larger transactions and larger issuers is often associated with more established management teams and higher quality assets, which, in our experience, tend to better maintain their value through cycles and can serve to reduce investment risk. Blackstone Credit & Insurance offers its clients and borrowers a comprehensive solution across corporate and asset based, as well as investment grade and non -investmentgrade credit. Blackstone Credit & Insurance expects that in the current environment, where borrowers increasingly value the benefits of private credit, the ability to provide flexible, well -structuredcapital commitments in appropriate sizes will enable Blackstone Credit & Insurance to command more favorable terms for its investments. Established Origination Platform with Strong Credit Expertise.The global presence of Blackstone Credit & Insurance generates access to a substantial amount of directly originated transactions with what Black