---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-236523"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BXSL"
cik: "0001736035"
company_name: "Blackstone Secured Lending Fund"
filed_at: "2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T15:00:06.902569+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blackstone Secured Lending Fund annual meeting elects trustees, ratifies auditor

## Summary
- Quorum of 64.05% (105.96M of 165.42M shares) present at Sept 15, 2023 meeting.
- Trustees Robert Bass and Michelle Greene elected with 18.3M and 22.3M votes for, respectively.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for FY2023 passed: 104.0M for, 1.65M against, 0.29M abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-236523
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BXSL
- cik: 0001736035
- company_name: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
- filed_at: 2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736035/000119312523236523/0001193125-23-236523-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736035/000119312523236523/d550365d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Blackstone Secured Lending Fund shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-09-15 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-09-15
  source text: Proposal 2 – Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2023 The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 was ratified. Votes For Votes Against Votes Abstained 104,019,207 1,654,421 290,297
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736035/000119312523236523/0001193125-23-236523-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Blackstone Secured Lending Fund shareholders approved Election of Trustees at the 2023-09-15 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-09-15
  source text: Proposal 1 – Election of Trustees The following two individuals were elected to the Company’s Board of Trustees to serve as trustees until the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or if later, until their successors have been duly elected and qualified. Votes For Votes Withheld Robert Bass 18,318,432 16,961,952 Michelle Greene 22,258,803 13,021,581
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736035/000119312523236523/0001193125-23-236523-index.htm

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