New FS Specialty Lending Fund

proxy statement/prospectus included in an effective registration statement on Form N-14 (File No. 333-286859). The definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus has been mailed to shareholders of the Fund. This document is not a substitute for the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus or registration statement or any other document that the Fund or the Successor Fund may file with the SEC. Investors are urged to read the proxy statement/prospectus and any other relevant documents filed or to be filed with the SEC carefully because they contain and will contain important information about the Reorganization, the Declaration of Trust amendment proposals, the Fund and the Successor Fund. Free copies of the joint proxy statement/prospectus and other documents are available, and any other documents filed by the Fund and the Successor Fund in connection with the Reorganization and the Declaration of Trust amendment proposals will be available, on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov or at www.fsproxy.com. IMPORTANT INFORMATION The Fund, its trustees and certain of its officers may be considered to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from shareholders in connection with the matters described herein. Information regarding the identity of potential participants, and their direct or indirect interests in the Fund, by security holdings or otherwise, are set forth in the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus. and the proxy statement and any other materials filed with the SEC in connection with the Fund’s 2024