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| Item 5.07. | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. |
FS Specialty Lending Fund (the “Company”) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on August 3, 2026. As of June 8, 2026, the record date (the “Record Date”) for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting, 75,917,731 shares of the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”) were eligible to be voted in person or by proxy. Of the eligible Shares to be voted, 53,890,877 were voted in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting.
Shareholders were asked to consider and act upon the following proposal, which was described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 9, 2026:
| · | Proposal No. 1 – elect the following individuals as Class I Trustees, each of whom has been nominated for election for a three-year term expiring at the 2029 annual meeting of shareholders: (a) Charles P. Pizzi and (b) Pedro A. Ramos (the “Trustee Election Proposal”). |
All trustee nominees listed in the Trustee Election Proposal were elected by the Company’s shareholders at the Annual Meeting. The votes for, votes against, votes withheld and broker non-votes for each trustee nominee are set forth below:
| Trustee Nominee | Votes For | Votes Against | Votes Withheld | Broker Non-Votes | ||||||||||||
| Charles P. Pizzi | 42,836,728 | 10,748,997 | 305,152 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Pedro A. Ramos | 45,239,269 | 8,348,291 | 303,317 | 0 | ||||||||||||
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| FS Specialty Lending Fund | ||
| Date: August 6, 2026 | By: | /s/ Stephen Sypherd |
| Stephen Sypherd | ||
| General Counsel | ||