Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001736035-25-000018
Chunk: 182

Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 182
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in thousands, except share amounts, per share data, percentages and as otherwise noted)

Recent Accounting PronouncementsIn December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09 “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures,” (“ASU 2023-09”). ASU 2023-09 requires additional disaggregated disclosures on the entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation and additional details on income taxes paid. ASU 2023-09 is effective on a prospective basis, with the option for retrospective application, for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024 and early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect the adoption of ASU 2023-09 to have a material impact on its condensed consolidated financial statements.

Note 3. Agreements and Related Party Transactions

Advisory AgreementsOn October 1, 2018, the Company entered into the original investment advisory agreement with the Prior Adviser (the “Original Investment Advisory Agreement”), pursuant to which the Prior Adviser was responsible for originating prospective investments, conducting research and due diligence investigations on potential investments, analyzing investment opportunities, negotiating and structuring the Company’s investments and monitoring its investments and portfolio companies on an ongoing basis.On October 18, 2021, the Company and the Prior Adviser entered into an amended and restated investment advisory agreement (the “Original A&R Investment Advisory Agreement”). The Original A&R Investment Advisory Agreement was substantially the same as the Original Investment Advisory Agreement except, following the IPO, the incentive fee on income became subject to a twelve-quarter lookback quarterly hurdle rate of 1.50% as opposed to a single quarter measurement and became subject to an Incentive Fee Cap (as defined below) based on the Company’s Cumulative Net Return (as defined below). The amendment to the Original Investment Advisory Agreement did not result in higher fees (on a cumulative basis) payable to the Prior Adviser than the fees that would have otherwise been payable to the Prior Adviser under the Original Investment Advisory Agreement.On November 7, 2024, the Board approved the Prior Adviser’s assignment of the Original A&R Investment Advisory Agreement to the Adviser pursuant to Rule 2a-6 under the 1940 Act, effective January 1, 2025. The Board, including a majority of the trustees who are not “interested persons” (as such term is defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act) (the “Independent Trustees”),