Blackstone Secured Lending Fund

Blackstone Secured Lending Fund is a business development company and a Delaware statutory trust formed on March 26, 2018. It is structured as an externally managed, non-diversified closed-end investment fund. On October 26, 2018, the fund elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and to be treated as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The fund's investment objectives are to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, long-term capital appreciation, primarily through originated loans, equity and other securities of private U.S. small and middle market companies, typically in the form of first lien senior secured and unitranche loans, and to a lesser extent, second lien, third lien, unsecured and subordinated loans and other debt and equity securities.