# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001501729
**File Stem:** 0001104659-25-103250
**Filing Date:** 2025-10
**Character Count:** 3915
**Document Hash:** d563495752340bf813208c0e23e2678b
**Contains OCR:** False
**Source Format:** 

## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-25-103250.hdr.sgml**: 20251028

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-25-103250

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 15-12G

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251028

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251028

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20251028

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** FS Specialty Lending Fund
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001501729

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 15-12G
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 000-54399
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251425729

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 201 ROUSE BOULEVARD
- **CITY:** PHILADELPHIA
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 19112
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 215-495-1150

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 201 ROUSE BOULEVARD
- **CITY:** PHILADELPHIA
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 19112

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** FS Energy & Power Fund
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20100920

**UNITED STATES<br> SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<br> Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 15**

**CERTIFICATION AND NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION<br> UNDER SECTION 12(g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934<br> OR SUSPENSION OF DUTY TO FILE REPORTS UNDER SECTIONS 13 AND 15(d)<br> OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.**

**Commission File Number 814-00841**

**FS SPECIALTY LENDING FUND**

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)**

**201 Rouse Boulevard<br> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19112<br> (215) 495-1150<br> (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)**

**Common shares of beneficial interest, par value $0.001 per share**

**(Title of each class of securities covered by this Form)**

**None**

**(Titles of all other classes of securities for which a duty to file reports under section 13(a) or 15(d) remains)**

Please place an X in the box(es) to designate the rule provision relied upon to strike the class of securities from listing and registration:

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| Rule 12g-4(a)(1) | ⌧ |
| Rule 12g-4(a)(2) | ◻ |
| Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(i) | ⌧ |
| Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(ii) | ◻ |
| Rule 15d-6 | ◻ |
| Rule 15d-22(b) | ◻ |

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Approximate number of holders of record as of the certification or notice date: None\*

\* On October 28, 2025, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated as of April 22, 2025, by and among FS Specialty Lending Fund, a Delaware statutory trust (the "Fund"), New FS Specialty Lending Fund, a Delaware statutory trust (the "Successor Fund"), and solely for the limited purposes set forth therein, FS/EIG Advisor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and investment adviser to the Fund, the Fund merged with and into the Successor Fund, with the Successor Fund continuing as the surviving company (the "Reorganization"). Shareholders of the Fund received common shares of beneficial interest of the Successor Fund in consideration for their shares of the Fund as a result of the Reorganization and became shareholders of the Successor Fund. The Successor Fund is a closed-end management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, FS Specialty Lending Fund (formerly, New FS Specialty Lending Fund) has caused this certification/notice to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned duly authorized person.

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| Date: October 28, 2025 | **FS SPECIALTY LENDING FUND (formerly, NEW FS SPECIALTY LENDING FUND),<br> as successor by merger to FS SPECIALTY LENDING FUND** | **FS SPECIALTY LENDING FUND (formerly, NEW FS SPECIALTY LENDING FUND),<br> as successor by merger to FS SPECIALTY LENDING FUND** |
|  | By: | /s/ Stephen S. Sypherd |
|  | Name: | Stephen S. Sypherd |
|  | Title: | General Counsel |

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