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Business Description
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Sep. 30, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Business Description

1. Business Description

Broadstone Net Lease, Inc. (the “Corporation”) is a Maryland corporation formed on October 18, 2007, that elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) commencing with the taxable year ended December 31, 2008. The Corporation focuses on investing in income-producing, net leased commercial properties, primarily in the United States. The Corporation leases industrial, healthcare, restaurant, retail, and office commercial properties under long-term lease agreements. At September 30, 2021, the Corporation owned a diversified portfolio of 696 individual commercial properties with 695 properties located in 42 U.S. states and one property located in British Columbia, Canada.

Broadstone Net Lease, LLC (the Corporation’s operating company, or the “OP”), is the entity through which the Corporation conducts its business and owns (either directly or through subsidiaries) all of the Corporation’s properties. The Corporation is the sole managing member of the OP. The remaining membership units in the OP (“OP Units”), which are referred to as non-controlling interests, are held by members who were issued OP Units pursuant to the Internalization (defined below) or in exchange for their interests in properties acquired by the OP. As the Corporation conducts substantially all of its operations through the OP, it is structured as what is referred to as an umbrella partnership real estate investment trust (“UPREIT”). The Corporation, the OP, and its consolidated subsidiaries are collectively referred to as the “Company.”

Prior to February 7, 2020, the Corporation was externally managed by Broadstone Real Estate, LLC (“BRE”) and Broadstone Asset Management, LLC (the “Asset Manager”) subject to the direction, oversight, and approval of the Company’s board of directors (the “Board of Directors”). The Asset Manager was a wholly owned subsidiary of BRE and all of the Corporation’s officers were employees of BRE. Accordingly, both BRE and the Asset Manager were related parties of the Company. Refer to Note 3 for further discussion concerning related parties and related party transactions.

On February 7, 2020, the Corporation, the OP, BRE, and certain of their respective subsidiaries and affiliates, completed through a series of mergers (the “Mergers”) the internalization of the external management functions previously performed for the Corporation and the OP by BRE and the Asset Manager (such transactions, collectively, the “Internalization”). Upon consummation of the Internalization, the Company’s management team and corporate staff, who were previously employed by BRE, became employees of an indirect subsidiary of the OP and the Company became internally managed. Upon Internalization, the prior Property Management Agreement and Asset Management Agreement were terminated. The Internalization was not considered a “Termination Event” under the terms of the agreements and therefore no fees were paid under them as a result of the Internalization.

On September 18, 2020, the Corporation effected a four-for-one stock split on its then outstanding 26,944 shares of common stock (“Common Stock”) that previously had a $0.001 par value. Concurrent with the stock split, the OP effected a four-for-one stock split of its outstanding OP Units. No fractional shares or OP Units were issued as a result of the stock split. All historic share and per share amounts in these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been adjusted to give retroactive effect to the stock split.

On September 21, 2020, the Corporation completed its initial public offering (“IPO”) and issued an aggregate of 37,000 shares of a new class of common stock, $0.00025 par value per share (“Class A Common Stock”) at $17.00 per share, which includes shares issued pursuant to the underwriters’ partial exercise of their over-allotment option on October 20, 2020, pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-11 (File No. 333-240381), as amended, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Shares of Class A Common Stock were listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “BNL.” On March 20, 2021, each share of Class A Common Stock automatically converted into one share of Common Stock, and effective March 22, 2021, all shares of Common Stock were listed and freely tradeable on the NYSE under the symbol “BNL.” See Note 14.

The following table summarizes the outstanding equity and economic ownership interest of the Corporation and the OP:

 

 

 

September 30, 2021

 

 

December 31, 2020

 

(in thousands)

 

Shares of
Common Stock

 

 

OP Units

 

 

Total Diluted
Shares

 

 

Shares of
Common Stock

 

 

OP Units

 

 

Total Diluted
Shares

 

Ownership interest

 

 

161,255

 

 

 

10,370

 

 

 

171,625

 

 

 

145,609

 

 

 

11,399

 

 

 

157,008

 

Percent ownership of OP

 

 

94.0

%

 

 

6.0

%

 

 

100.0

%

 

 

92.7

%

 

 

7.3

%

 

 

100.0

%

Refer to Note 16 for further discussion regarding the calculation of weighted average shares outstanding.