Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-10-08
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001213900-25-097397
Chunk: 46

Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-10-08
Form: 424B2
Chunk 46
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 Notes is not effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business in the United States; •you do not actually or constructively own 10% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of our voting stock within the meaning of the Code and applicable United States Treasury regulations; S-31 •you are not a controlled foreign corporation that is actually or constructively related to us through stock ownership; •you are not a bank whose receipt of interest on the Notes is described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code; and •either (1) you provide your name and address on an applicable IRS Form W -8, and certify, under penalties of perjury, that you are not a United States person as defined under the Code or (2) you hold your Notes through certain foreign intermediaries and satisfy the certification requirements of applicable United States Treasury regulations. Special certification rules apply to non -U.S. holders that are pass -throughentities rather than corporations or individuals. If you cannot satisfy the requirements described above, payments of interest made to you will be subject to a 30% United States federal withholding tax, unless you provide the applicable withholding agent with a properly executed: •IRS Form W -8BENor Form W -8BEN-E(or other applicable form) certifying an exemption from or reduction in withholding under the benefit of an applicable income tax treaty; or •IRS Form W -8ECI(or other applicable form) certifying that interest paid on the Notes is not subject to withholding tax because it is effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business in the United States (as discussed below under “— United States Federal Income Tax”). The 30% United States federal withholding tax generally will not apply to any payment of principal or gain that you realize on the sale, exchange, retirement, redemption or other taxable disposition of a Note. United States Federal Income Tax.If you are engaged in a trade or business in the United States and interest on the Notes is effectively connected with the conduct of that trade or business (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, is attributable to a United States permanent establishment), then you will be subject to United States federal income tax on that interest on a net income basis in generally the same manner as if you were a United States person as defined under the Code (although you will be exempt from the 30% withholding tax described above, provided the certification requirements discussed above in “— United States Federal Withholding Tax” are satisfied). In addition, if