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Blackstone Targets $10 Billion for Direct-Lending Comeback
- Credit unit GSO is said to eye capital for hot middle market
- Firm’s reentry follows split from FS Investment partnership
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Blackstone Group LP wants to crash the direct-lending party.
In the seven months since dissolving a partnership with FS Investment Corp., Blackstone’s GSO Capital Partners unit has rebuilt its business making nonbank loans to small and mid-size companies. GSO has extended some credit already and plans to amass $10 billion of equity and debt capital for the effort in the next several months and into 2019, according to people familiar with the matter.