Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001736035-25-000008
Chunk: 343

Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 343
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 data.” The Firm can be expected to be better able to anticipate macroeconomic and other trends, and otherwise develop investment themes or identify specific investment, trading or business opportunities, as a result of its access to (and rights regarding, including use, ownership, distribution and derived works rights over) this data and information from the Company, Other Clients, portfolio companies of the Company and Other Clients, investors in the Company and limited partners in Other Clients, related parties and service providers. The Firm has entered and will continue to enter into information sharing and use, measurement and other arrangements, which will give the Firm access to (and rights regarding, including ownership, use, distribution and derived works rights over) data that it would not otherwise obtain in the ordinary course, with the Company, Other Clients, portfolio companies of the Company and Other Clients, investors in the Company and in Other Clients, as well as with related parties and service providers. Further, this alternative data is expected to be aggregated across the Company, Other Clients and their respective portfolio companies. Although the Firm believes that these activities improve the Firm’s investment management activities on behalf of the Company and Other Clients, information obtained from the Company and its portfolio companies, and investors in the Company and in Other Clients also provides material benefits to Blackstone or Other Clients without compensation or other benefit accruing to the Company or its shareholders. For example, information from a portfolio company in which the Company holds an interest can be expected to enable the Firm to better understand a particular industry, enhance the Firm’s ability to provide advice or direction to a portfolio company’s management team on strategy or operations and enable the Firm to execute trading and investment strategies in reliance on that understanding for Blackstone and Other Clients that do not own an interest in the portfolio company, typically without compensation or benefit to the Company or its portfolio companies. Blackstone would serve as the repository for data described in this paragraph, including with ownership and use rights therein. The Firm is also permitted to share data from a portfolio company (on an anonymized basis) with a portfolio company of an Other Client, which has the potential to increase a competitive disadvantage for, and indirectly harm, such portfolio company (although the opposite may be true as well, in which case a portfolio company of the Company may receive data from a portfolio company of an Other Client). In addition, the Firm could have an incentive to pursue an investment in a particular company based on the data and information expected to be received or generated in connection with such investment.Furthermore, except for contractual obligations to third