January 21, 2022
VIA EDGAR AND EMAIL
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: | Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund |
Registration Statement on Form N-2, File Nos. 333-261457 and 811-22393
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund (the “Fund”), we are providing the following responses to comments received by telephone from the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on January 3, 2022, relating to the above-referenced registration statement of the Fund (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the Commission on December 2, 2021, pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), through the Commission’s electronic data gathering, analysis and retrieval system.
For convenience of reference, the Staff’s comments have been reproduced herein. Please note that all page numbers in our responses are references to the page numbers of the Registration Statement. All capitalized terms used but not defined in this letter have the meanings given to them in the Registration Statement.
General
| 1. | The Fund has not filed an N-2 initial registration statement for more than 3 years. Please explain how this is consistent with Rule 415(a)(5). |
The Fund is a listed closed-end fund and has not engaged in any recent public offering that would have required an effective registration statement.
Prospectus
| 2. | On the cover page of the Prospectus under “Investment Strategies”, please confirm that the 80% test is equivalent to net assets plus borrowing for investment purposes under Rule 35d-1. |
The Fund confirms that the 80% test is equivalent to net assets plus borrowing for investment purposes under Rule 35d-1.
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