# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001501729
**File Stem:** 0001104659-25-103249
**Filing Date:** 2025-10
**Character Count:** 5622
**Document Hash:** 6cb794689236d7081d52e4ca1db9d75c
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-25-103249.hdr.sgml**: 20251028

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-25-103249

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: N-54C

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251028

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 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:** N-54C
- **SEC ACT:** 1940 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 814-00841
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251425710

**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** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**FORM N-54C** 

**NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL OF ELECTION TO BE SUBJECT TO** 

**SECTIONS 55 THROUGH 65 OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940** 

**FILED PURSUANT TO SECTION 54(c) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940** 

The undersigned business development company hereby notifies the Securities and Exchange Commission that it withdraws its election to be subject to sections 55 through 65 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act"), pursuant to the provisions of section 54(c) of the Act, and in connection with such notice of withdrawal of election submits the following information:

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| Name: | **FS Specialty Lending Fund** |
| Address of Principal Business Office: | **201 Rouse Blvd.**<br> **Philadelphia, PA 19112**<br>|
| Telephone Number (including area code): | **(215) 495-1150** |
| File Number under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934: | **814-00841** |

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In addition to completing the cover page, a company withdrawing its election under section 54(a) of the Act must state one of the following bases for filing the notification of withdrawal:

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| ◻ | A. | The company has never made a public offering of its securities; does not have more than 100 security holders for purposes of section 3(c)(1) of the Act and the rules thereunder; and does not propose to make a public offering. |
| ◻ | B. | The company (1) has distributed substantially all of its assets to its security holders and has effected, or is in the process of effecting, a winding-up of its affairs, and (2) is not liquidating as part of a merger. |
| ⌧ | C. | The company has (1) sold substantially all of its assets to another company; or (2) merged into or consolidated with another company. Give the name of the other company and state whether the other company is a registered investment company, a company excluded from the definition of an investment company by section 3(c)(1) of the Act, a business development company, or none of the above. |
| ◻ | D. | The company has changed the nature of its business so as to cease to be a business development company, and such change was authorized by the vote of a majority of its outstanding voting securities or partnership interests. Describe the company's new business. Give the date of the shareholders' or partners' meeting and the number of votes in favor of and opposed to the change. |
| ◻ | E. | The company has filed a notice of registration under section 8 of the Act. State the filing date of the company's notice of registration (Form N-8A) under the Act. |
| ◻ | F. | Other. Explain the circumstances surrounding the withdrawal of election. |

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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 "Adviser"), 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 Act.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Successor Fund has caused this notification to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned duly authorized person.

**SIGNATURES** 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the undersigned company has caused this notification of withdrawal of election to be subject to sections 55 through 65 of the Act to be duly signed on its behalf in the City of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the 28th day of October, 2025.

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| **FS Specialty Lending Fund (formerly, New FS Specialty Lending Fund), as successor by merger to FS Specialty Lending Fund** | **FS Specialty Lending Fund (formerly, New FS Specialty Lending Fund), as successor by merger to FS Specialty Lending Fund** |
| By: | /s/ Stephen S. Sypherd |
| Name: | Stephen S. Sypherd |
| Title: | General Counsel |
| Attest: | /s/ Edward T. Gallivan, Jr. |
| Name: | Edward T. Gallivan, Jr. |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer |

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