Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-10-06
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001213900-25-096307
Chunk: 135

Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-10-06
Form: 424B2
Chunk 135
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 be required by the By -Lawsand Declaration of Trust, but may be required in certain cases under the 1940 Act). The overall effect of these provisions is to render more difficult the accomplishment of a merger or the assumption of control by a third party. These provisions also provide, however, the advantage of potentially requiring persons seeking control of the Company to negotiate with its management regarding the price to be paid and facilitating the continuity of the Company’s investment objective and policies. The provisions of the Declaration of Trust described above could have the effect of discouraging a third party from seeking to obtain control of the Company in a tender offer or similar transaction. The Board has considered the foregoing anti -takeoverprovisions and concluded that they are in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders. Action by Shareholders The Shareholders will only have voting rights as required by the 1940 Act, and Exchange Listing or as otherwise provided for in the Declaration of Trust. Under the Declaration of Trust, the Company will hold annual meetings. A special meeting of the Shareholders may be called at any time by a majority of the Board or the Chief Executive Officer and will be called by any trustee for any proper purpose upon written request of Shareholders holding in the aggregate not less than thirty -threeand one -thirdpercent (33 1/ 3%) of the outstanding shares of the Company, such request specifying the purpose or purposes for which such meeting is to be called, provided that in the case of a meeting called by any trustee at the request of Shareholders for the purpose of electing trustees or removing the Advisers, written request of Shareholders holding in the aggregate not less than fifty -onepercent (51%) of the outstanding Shares of the Company or class or series of Shares having voting rights on the matter will be required. For a special Shareholder meeting to be called for a proper purpose (as used in the preceding sentence), it is not a requirement that such purpose relate to a matter on which Shareholders are entitled to vote, provided that if such meeting is called for a purpose for which Shareholders are not entitled to vote, no vote will be taken at such meeting. Any shareholder meeting, including a special meeting, will be held within or without the State of Delaware on such day and at such time as the Board will designate, and may be held virtually. Amendment of the Declaration of Trust; No Approval by Shareholders The Board may, without Shareholder vote, amend or otherwise supplement the Declaration of Trust by making an amendment, a Declaration