Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001736035-25-000008
Chunk: 393

Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 393
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 and implements energy efficiency programs, calculates return on investment and tracks performance post-completion.Legence (f.k.a. Therma Holdings) (“Legence”). Legence is a portfolio company held by certain Other Clients that provides carbon reduction and energy management services.Revantage. Revantage is a portfolio entity of certain Blackstone Clients that provides corporate support services, including, without limitation, accounting, legal, tax, treasury, information technology and human resources and operational services and management services.There may be instances where current and former employees of Other Clients’ portfolio companies are seconded to or temporarily hired by the Company’s portfolio companies or, at times, the Company’s investments directly. Such secondments or temporary hiring of current and former employees of Other Clients’ portfolio companies by the Company’s portfolio companies (or its investments) may result in a potential conflict of interest between the Company’s portfolio companies and those of such Other Clients. The costs of such employees are expected to be borne by the Company or its relevant portfolio companies, as applicable, and the fees paid by the Company or such portfolio companies to, other portfolio company service providers or vendors do not offset or reduce the management fee.The Company and its portfolio companies will compensate one or more of these service providers and vendors owned by the Company or Other Clients, including through incentive based compensation payable to their management teams and other related parties. Some of these service providers and vendors owned or controlled by the Company or Other Clients may charge the Company and its portfolio companies for goods and services at rates generally consistent with those available in the market for similar goods and services. The discussion regarding the determination of market rates under “—Firm Affiliated Service Providers” herein applies equally in respect of the fees and expenses of the portfolio company service providers, if charged at rates generally consistent with those available in the market. Other service providers and vendors owned and/or controlled by the Company or Other Clients pass through expenses on a cost reimbursement, no-profit or break-even basis, in which case the service provider allocates costs and expenses directly associated with work performed for the benefit of the Company and its portfolio companies to them, along with any related tax costs and an allocation of the service provider’s overhead, including any of the following: salaries, wages, benefits and travel expenses; marketing and advertising fees and expenses; legal, accounting and other professional fees and disbursements; office space and equipment; insurance premiums; technology expenditures, including hardware and software costs; costs to engage recruitment firms to hire employees; diligence expenses; one-time costs, including costs related to