Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-07-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-154956
Chunk: 8

Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-07-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 is a “broker non-vote”on that matter. Broker non-voteswill be counted in determining whether there is a quorum for the Meeting and will have the same effect as votes against a “non-routine”matter.

How do I authorize a proxy to vote my shares? Follow the instructions on the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials and in this proxy statement to authorize a proxy to vote your shares electronically via the Internet or by telephone. To authorize a proxy to vote electronically via the Internet, visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/BXSL2025 and enter the 16-digitcontrol number included in your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, on the proxy card you received, or in the instructions that accompanied your proxy materials for the Company. If you hold shares through a broker, bank, trustee or nominee and want to participate in the Meeting, you must follow the instructions you receive from your broker, bank, trustee or nominee. Online check-inwill begin at 9:45 a.m., Eastern Time on September 25, 2025. Please allow time for online check-inprocedures. If you requested a paper copy of our proxy materials, follow the instructions printed on the paper proxy card to authorize a proxy to vote via the Internet, by telephone or by completing and returning the paper proxy card. The individuals named and designated as proxies will vote your shares in accordance with your instructions. You may cast one vote for each share of common shares of beneficial interest of the Company that you owned as of the Record Date for each matter submitted for a vote at the Meeting. Each share of the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest has equal voting rights with all other shares of the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest, which is the only class of voting securities outstanding of the Company. As of the close of business on the Record Date, the Company had 229,680,609 common shares of beneficial interest outstanding. The close of business on June 27, 2025 has been fixed as the “Record Date” for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Meeting and all adjournments or postponements thereof. This proxy statement and the accompanying materials were made available to shareholders on or about July 2, 2025. What if other matters come up at the Meeting? At the date this proxy statement went to press, we did not know of any matters to be properly presented at the Meeting other than those referred to in this proxy statement. If other matters are properly presented at the Meeting for