Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-07-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-154956
Chunk: 29

Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-07-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 29
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 to determine that management has maintained appropriate accounting and financial reporting principles and policies, or internal controls and procedures designed to assure compliance with accounting standards and applicable laws and regulations. Furthermore, the Audit Committee’s considerations and discussions referred to above do not provide assurance that the audit of the Company’s financial statements has been carried out in accordance with generally accepted accounting standards or that the financial statements are presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Based on its consideration of the audited financial statements and the discussions referred to above with management and the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, and subject to the limitations on the responsibilities and role of the Audit Committee set forth in the Charter and those discussed above, the Audit Committee recommends to the Board of Trustees that the Company’s audited financial statements be included in the Annual Report.

SUBMITTED BY THE AUDIT COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Robert Bass, Audit Committee Chairperson

James F. Clark

Tracy Collins

Vicki L. Fuller

Michelle Greene

The material in this report is not “soliciting material,” is not deemed “filed” with the SEC, and is not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date hereof and irrespective of any general incorporation language in any such filing.

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#### Required Vote
The affirmative vote of a majority of the common shares of beneficial interest present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on this proposal, provided a quorum is present, is required to ratify the appointment of Deloitte to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. Abstentions will have the same effect as a vote against the approval of the resolution in this proposal. Brokerage firms have the authority under the NYSE rules to cast votes on certain “routine” matters if they do not receive instructions. The ratification of the appointment of Deloitte as our independent registered public accounting firm is considered a “routine” matter for which brokerage firms may vote shares for which they did not receive instructions from beneficial owners. Because brokers will have discretionary authority to vote for the ratification of the appointment of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, in the event that they do not receive voting instructions from the beneficial owner of the shares, there will not be any broker non-votes with respect to this proposal.

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