UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 8, 2023
FS Specialty Lending Fund
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware (State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation) | 814-00841 (Commission
File Number) | 27-6822130 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.) |
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201 Rouse Boulevard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Address of principal executive offices) | | 19112 (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (215) 495-1150
None
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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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 December 8, 2023. As of October 13, 2023, the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting, 455,506,234 common shares of beneficial interest were eligible to be voted, and 153,545,001 of those shares were voted in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting. Shareholders were asked to consider and act upon the following proposals, each of which was described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19, 2023:
| ● | Proposal No. 1 – to elect the seven members of the board of trustees named in the Company's proxy statement to serve as trustees of the Company until the 2024 annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified; and |
| ● | Proposal No. 2 – to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023. |
All trustee nominees listed in the Company’s 2023 proxy statement were elected by the Company’s shareholders at the Annual Meeting. The votes for, votes withheld and broker non-votes for each trustee nominee are set forth below:
| Trustee Nominee | Votes For | Votes Withheld | Broker Non-Votes |
| Sidley R. Brown | 59,844,921 | 4,987,979 | 88,712,101 |
| Gregory P. Chandler | 59,796,156 | 5,036,744 | 88,712,101 |
| Michael C. Forman | 59,729,026 | 5,103,874 | 88,712,101 |
| Richard I. Goldstein | 59,770,609 | 5,062,291 | 88,712,101 |
| Charles P. Pizzi | 59,643,370 | 5,189,530 | 88,712,101 |
| Pedro A. Ramos | 59,646,357 | 5,186,543 | 88,712,101 |
| R. Blair Thomas | 59,737,892 | 5,095,008 | 88,712,101 |
The proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023 was also approved by the Company’s shareholders at the Annual Meeting. The votes for, votes against, abstentions and broker non-votes are set forth below:
| Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | Broker Non-Votes |
| 150,966,044 | 1,255,271 | 1,323,686 | 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 |
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| Date: December 13, 2023 | By: | /s/ Stephen S. Sypherd |
| | | Stephen S. Sypherd |
| | | General Counsel |
