Simpson Thacher represented Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. (NYSE: TSLX) (the “Fund”) in connection with a primary follow-on offering of 4,000,000 shares of common stock, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $81.6 million, which could increase to approximately $93.9 million assuming full exercise of the option to purchase additional shares. The Fund intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to pay down a portion of the Fund’s outstanding indebtedness.
The Fund is an externally managed, non-diversified, closed-end management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Fund had approximately $3.3 billion of investments at fair value as of December 31, 2023. The Fund’s primary investment objective is to generate current income by targeting investments with favorable risk-adjusted returns.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending Advisers, LLC, an affiliate of Sixth Street Partners, is the Fund’s investment adviser.
The Simpson Thacher team included Rajib Chanda, Steven Grigoriou, Jonathan Pacheco, Matthew Mai, Andrew Jones and Earl Quermorllue (Registered Funds); Katharine Thompson (Capital Markets); and Russell Light, Caroline Phillips and Jiha Min (Tax).