Blackstone Secured Lending Fund

Blackstone Secured Lending Fund (together with its consolidated subsidiaries, the Company, we, us, or our ), is a Delaware statutory trust formed on March 26, 2018, and structured as an externally managed, non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. On October 26, 2018, the Company elected to be regulated as a business development company ( BDC ) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the 1940 Act ). In addition, the Company has elected to be treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and intends to qualify annually, as a regulated investment company (a RIC ) under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the Code ). We are externally managed by Blackstone Private Credit Strategies LLC (the Adviser ) and Blackstone Credit BDC Advisors LLC (the Sub-Adviser and, together with the Adviser, the Advisers ). The Advisers are affiliates of Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP (the Sub-Administrator and, collectively with its affiliates in the credit, asset based finance and insurance asset management business unit of Blackstone Inc. ( Blackstone ), Blackstone Credit & Insurance or BXCI ).