Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. (NYSE:TSLX) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call May 9, 2023 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Cami VanHorn - Head, Investor Relations

Joshua Easterly - Chief Executive Officer

Bo Stanley - President

Ian Simmonds - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Kevin Fultz - JMP Securities

Mark Hughes - Truist Securities

Jordan Wathen - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Erik Zwick - from Hovde Group

Robert Dodd - Raymond James

Ryan Lynch - KBW

Melissa Wedel - JPMorgan

Operator

Good morning and welcome to the Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.’s First Quarter ended March 31, 2023 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. I will now turn the call over to Ms. Cami VanHorn, Head of Investor Relations.

Cami VanHorn

Thank you. Before we begin today’s call, I would like to remind our listeners that remarks made during the call may contain forward-looking statements. Statements other than statements of historical facts made during this call may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time-to-time in Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Yesterday, after the market closed, we issued our earnings press release for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023 and posted a presentation to the Investor Resources section of our website www.sixthstreetspecialtylending.com. The presentation should be reviewed in conjunction with our Form 10-Q filed yesterday with the SEC.

Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.’s earnings release is also available on our website under the Investor Resources section. Unless noted otherwise, all performance figures mentioned in today’s prepared remarks are as of and for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023. As a reminder, this call is being recorded for replay purposes.

I will now turn the call over to Joshua Easterly, Chief Executive Officer of Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.

Joshua Easterly

Thank you, Cami. Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us. With us today is my partner and our President, Bo Stanley; and our CFO, Ian Simmonds. For our call today, I will provide highlights for this quarter’s results and then pass it over to Bo to discuss activity levels in the portfolio. Ian will review our quarterly financial results in detail and I will conclude with final remarks before opening the call to Q&A.