Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Feb 25, 2026.
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FY2025 · Filed Feb 25, 2026
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Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
The following table presents the aggregate fees billed by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:
| For the Year Ended December 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| Audit Fees | $1,260,000 | $1,215,100 |
| Audit-Related Fees | 267,500 | 355,000 |
| Tax Fees | 53,000 | — |
| All Other Fees | 27,000 | — |
| $1,607,500 | $1,570,100 | |
Audit fees are for professional services provided by Deloitte for the audit of the Company’s annual financial statements or services that are normally provided in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements.
Audit-related fees are for any services rendered by Deloitte to the Company that are reasonably related to the performance of the audits or reviews of the Company’s consolidated financial statements (but not reported as audit fees above). These services include attestation services that are not required by statute or regulation and consultations concerning financial accounting and reporting standards.
Tax fees are for all services performed by professional staff in Deloitte’s tax division except those services related to the audits. This category includes fees for services provided in connection with the preparation and review of tax returns, tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning.
All other fees are for products and services provided to the Company by Deloitte other than those services reported in “Audit Fees,” “Audit-Related Fees” and “Tax Fees.”
No audit-related, tax or other fees were billed by Deloitte to the Advisers or the Prior Adviser, as applicable, or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Advisers or the Prior Adviser, as applicable, that provides ongoing services to the Company for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
This includes any non-audit services required to be pre-approved or non-audit services that did not require pre-approval since they did not directly relate to the Company’s operations or financial reporting.
Pre-Approval of Audit and Non-Audit Services Provided to the Company
As part of this responsibility, the Audit Committee is required to pre-approve all audit and non-audit services performed by our independent auditor in order to assure that the performance of these services does not impair the auditor’s independence from the Company. Accordingly, the Audit Committee has adopted a Pre-Approval of Independent Auditor Services Policy (the “Policy”), which sets forth the conditions and procedures governing the pre-approval of services that the Independent Auditor proposes to provide.
The Policy describes the audit, audit-related, tax and other services for the Company that have the pre-approval of the Audit Committee. The term of any pre-approval is 12 months from the date of pre-approval or until the next annual Independent Auditor services engagement is pre-approved, whichever is later. The Audit Committee will periodically revise the list of pre-approved services based on subsequent determinations. For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company did not pay any fees for services pursuant to the exceptions to the pre-approval requirements set forth in 17 CFR 210.2-01(c)(7)(i)(C).
Annual Approval
On an annual basis, at the time of the appointment of our independent auditor and such other times as determined by the Audit Committee, the Audit Committee will consider and approve the services (including audit, audit-related, tax and all other services) that the Independent Auditor may initiate. The term of any pre-approval is 12 months from the date of the pre-approval or until the next annual Independent Auditor services engagement is pre-approved, whichever is later, unless the Audit Committee specifically provides for a different period. Summary descriptions of the types of services the Audit Committee believes are appropriate for annual approval are provided under the Policy. In addition, in connection with the annual pre- approval of services, the Audit Committee will supplementally review and approve a detailed presentation that sets forth the types of audit, audit-related, tax and other services proposed to be provided by the Independent Auditor, which shall include estimates of the fees for such services. The Audit Committee may periodically revise the list of pre-approved services based on subsequent determinations.
Specific Pre-Approval
Specific pre-approval is required for the provision of certain audit services as described in the Policy. In addition, if a service proposed to be performed by the Independent Auditor does not fall within an existing pre-approval, either because it is a new type of service or because provision of the service would cause the Independent Auditor to exceed the maximum dollar amount approved for a particular type of service, the proposed service will require specific pre-approval by the Audit Committee.
De Minimis Exception
In the event that the Independent Auditor is inadvertently engaged other than by the Audit Committee for a non-audit service, such engagement will not be a violation of the Policy if: (i) any and all such services do not aggregate to more than 5% of total revenues paid by the Company to the Independent Auditor in the fiscal year when services are provided; (ii) the services were not recognized as non-audit services at the time of the engagement; (iii) the services are promptly brought to the attention of the Committee and approved prior to the completion of the audit by the Committee or one or more designated representatives; and (iv) separate disclosure of the services retroactively approved under this exception is made in accordance with the proxy disclosure rules.
The Audit Committee has considered these fees and the nature of the services rendered, and has concluded that they are compatible with maintaining the independence of Deloitte. The Audit Committee did not approve any of the audit-related, tax or other non-audit fees described above pursuant to the “de minimis exceptions” set forth in Rule 2-01(c)(7)(i)(C) and Rule 2-01(c)(7)(ii) of Regulation S-X. Deloitte did not provide any audit-related services, tax services or other non-audit services to the Adviser or any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Adviser that provides ongoing services to the Company that the Audit Committee was required to approve pursuant to Rule 2-01(c)(7)(ii) of Regulation S-X. The Audit Committee considered whether any provision of non-audit services rendered to the Adviser and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Adviser that provides ongoing services to the Company that were not pre-approved by the Audit Committee because the engagement did not relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Company is compatible with maintaining Deloitte’s independence.
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