Blackstone Secured Lending Fund Prices Public Offering of Common Shares
August 09 2023 - 8:34PM
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Blackstone Secured Lending Fund (NYSE:BXSL) (the “Company” or
“BXSL”) announced today that it has priced a public offering of
6,500,000 shares of its common shares of beneficial interest
(“common shares”) for total gross proceeds of approximately $177.6
million. The price to the public was $27.33 per common share. In
connection with the offering, the Company has granted the
underwriters for the offering an option to purchase up to an
additional 975,000 shares of its common shares. The offering is
subject to customary closing conditions, and the common shares are
expected to be delivered on or about August 14, 2023.
The Company expects to use the net proceeds from this offering
for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other
things, investing in accordance with our investment objectives and
strategies described in the prospectus supplement and the
accompanying prospectus described below in greater detail and
repaying indebtedness (which will be subject to reborrowing).
Wells Fargo Securities, Morgan Stanley and BofA Securities are
acting as lead joint book running managers for this offering. RBC
Capital Markets, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, UBS Investment Bank,
J.P. Morgan, Raymond James, Barclays, Citigroup and Keefe, Bruyette
& Woods, a Stifel Company are acting as joint book running
managers for this offering. Compass Point and Janney Montgomery
Scott LLC are acting as co-managers for this offering.
Investors are advised to carefully consider the investment
objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Company before
investing. The preliminary prospectus supplement dated August 9,
2023 and the accompanying prospectus dated July 25, 2022, which
have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”), contain this and other information about the Company and
should be read carefully before investing.
The information in the preliminary prospectus supplement, the
accompanying prospectus and this press release is not complete and
may be changed. The preliminary prospectus supplement, the
accompanying prospectus and this press release are not offers to
sell any securities of the Company and are not soliciting an offer
to buy such securities in any state or jurisdiction where such
offer and sale is not permitted.
An effective shelf registration statement relating to these
securities is on file with the SEC. The offering may be made only
by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement and an accompanying
prospectus, copies of which may be obtained from the website of the
SEC at www.sec.gov or from Wells Fargo Securities,
LLC, 500 West 33rd Street, New York, New York, 10001 by calling
toll free 1-800-326-5897 or email a request to
cmclientsupport@wellsfargo.com; Morgan Stanley & Co.
LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd
Floor, New York, New York 10014, or by email at
prospectus@morganstanley.com; and/or BofA Securities,
Inc. Attention: Prospectus Department, 201 North Tryon, Charlotte
North Carolina 28255, Mail Code NC1-022-02-25 or by email at
dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com.
About Blackstone Secured Lending Fund Blackstone Secured Lending
Fund (NYSE:BXSL) is a specialty finance company that invests
primarily in the debt of private U.S. companies. As of June 30,
2023, BXSL’s fair value of investments was approximately $9.3
billion. BXSL has elected to be regulated as a business development
company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. BXSL
is externally managed by Blackstone Credit BDC Advisors LLC, an
SEC-registered investment adviser that is an affiliate of
Blackstone Inc. Blackstone Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is
the world’s largest alternative investment firm with $1 trillion of
assets under management as of June 30, 2023.
Forward-Looking Statements and Other Matters Certain
information contained in this communication constitutes
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the federal
securities laws and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use
of forward-looking terminology, such as “outlook,” “indicator,”
“believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “can,”
“will,” “should,” “seeks,” “approximately,” “predicts,” “intends,”
“plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates”, “confident,” “conviction,”
“identified” or the negative versions of these words or other
comparable words thereof. These may include BXSL’s financial
estimates and their underlying assumptions, statements about plans,
statements regarding pending transactions (including the offering),
objectives and expectations with respect to future operations,
statements regarding future performance, statements regarding
economic and market trends and statements regarding identified but
not yet closed investments. Such forward-looking statements are
inherently uncertain and there are or may be important factors that
could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from
those indicated in such statements. BXSL believes these factors
include but are not limited to those described under the section
entitled “Risk Factors” in its prospectus and annual report for the
most recent fiscal year, and any such updated factors included in
its periodic filings with the SEC, which are accessible on the
SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. These factors should not be construed
as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other
cautionary statements that are included in this document (or BXSL’s
prospectus and other filings). Except as otherwise required by
federal securities laws, BXSL undertakes no obligation to publicly
update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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Investors Stacy Wang, Head of Stakeholder Relations
Blackstoneshareholderrelations@blackstone.com +1 888-756-8443
Media Mariel Seidman-Gati
Mariel.seidmangati@blackstone.com +1 917-698-1674
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