Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund is a business development and finance company, which engages in lending to middle-market companies. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York. The company went IPO on 2024-01-24. The firm is a non-diversified, externally managed specialty finance company focused on lending to middle-market companies. The Company’s investment objective is to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns via current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation by investing primarily in directly originated senior secured term loans issued by United States middle-market companies backed by private equity sponsors. The firm invests primarily in directly originated senior secured term loans including first lien senior secured term loans and second lien senior secured term loans. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiaries include DLF CA SPV LLC (CA SPV), DLF SPV LLC (DLF SPV), DLF Financing SPV LLC (Financing SPV) and DLF Equity Holdings LLC. The Company’s investment adviser is MS Capital Partners Adviser Inc.