HPS European Corporate Lending Fund

HPS European Corporate Lending Fund (HLEND-E) seeks to deliver a stable, monthly income stream by investing in a diversified, high-quality portfolio of predominantly senior secured, floating-rate loans to middle and upper-middle market European companies.

Seeking to Generate Attractive Risk-Adjusted Returns for Investors

HLEND-E is an open-ended, private credit investment vehicle designed for income-focused investors that features targeted monthly dividends and targeted quarterly liquidity1.

Through HLEND-E, investors can access the premium yields offered by private credit relative to other fixed income and yield-oriented equity alternatives. Investments in senior secured private credit have consistently generated high single-digit gross returns in recent years, with lower volatility levels and more favorable loss rates than other high yielding fixed income alternatives.2

Managed by a Market Leader in Private Credit

HLEND-E benefits from the sourcing breadth, scale, and investment discipline of HPS Investment Partners, LLC (HPS), one of the largest global credit-focused alternatives investment managers and a leading adviser to some of the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors. HPS is part of the Private Financing Solutions platform within BlackRock, which manages more than $375 billion in credit assets, including more than $210 billion of private credit assets. 3 

HPS is a highly experienced and  scaled player in the direct lending markets, having invested more than $200 billion globally in private credit transactions across more than 1000 companies since its founding  in 2007 4.

HPS has been an active investor in Europe for more than 18 years. HPS has provided over €34B  in private financing solutions to European borrowers across 25 sectors and 18 countries across Europe 5.

Meet the Team Behind HLEND-E

Footnotes

  1. Redemptions will generally be limited to 5% of the aggregate NAV of HLEND-E per calendar quarter. In exceptional circumstances and not on a systematic basis, HLEND-E may make exceptions to, modify or suspend, in whole or in part, the redemption program and the redemption limitation if, in the Board of Directors’ or its delegate’s reasonable judgment, it deems such action to be in HLEND-E’s best interest and the best interest of HLEND-E’s investors as a whole.
  2. Source: Lincoln European Senior Debt Index as of December 31, 2024.
  3. As of September 30, 2025, Represents combined AUM of HPS funds and BlackRock funds that form PFS. AUM of heritage HPS private credit funds, related managed accounts and certain other closed-ended liquid credit funds represent capital commitments during such funds’ investment periods and, post such funds’ investment periods, the cost of investment or latest available net asset value (including fund-level leverage but in all cases capped at capital commitments). AUM of liquid credit open-ended funds and related managed accounts other than CLOs represent the latest available net asset value. AUM of CLOs and warehouses represent the par value of collateral assets and cash in the portfolio. AUM of business development companies represents net asset value plus leverage (inclusive of drawn and undrawn amounts) as of the prior month-end. AUM strategy is assigned at the fund level based on target strategy allocations. AUM for heritage BlackRock funds is calculated as follows: (i) for evergreen funds, commingled funds and mandates in their investment period: as the sum of fee-paying and non-fee-paying client commitments, if any; and (ii) for commingled funds and mandates in runoff: as the aggregate of each fund's net asset value and any unfunded commitments. In all cases, AUM is inclusive of internal BlackRock allocations. In most cases the maximum permissible leverage is used, the exceptions being BDEBT and CREDX, for which effective leverage is used.
  4. As of September 30, 2025, based on all the investments made since inception by funds and accounts across HPS’s Direct Lending Platform. HPS Direct Lending includes all funds and accounts following the Specialty Direct Lending strategy, Core Senior Lending strategy, and any additional private credit investments made by one or more business development companies, private credit CLOs, separately managed funds or accounts, or private credit-focused joint ventures, excluding investments that are solely part of the Strategic Investment Partners, Special Situations Opportunities (private special situations investments), High Grade Corporate-Focused, High Grade Asset-Based, Real Estate, Asset Value, or Sustainability & Energy Transition strategies.
  5. As of September 30, 2025. Based on the total face value committed to European private credit investments that are part of the Specialty Direct Lending strategy, Core Senior Lending strategy, Strategic Investment Partners strategy, and any additional private credit investments made by one or more business development companies, private credit CLOs, separately managed funds or accounts, or private credit-focused joint ventures, excluding investments that are solely part of the Special Situations Opportunities (private special situations investments), High Grade Corporate-Focused, High Grade Asset-Based, Real Estate, Asset Value, or Sustainability & Energy Transition strategies.