UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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FORM 8-K

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CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FS Investment Corporation III

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

None

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On November 5, 2014, the board of directors (the “Board”) of FS Investment Corporation III (the “Company”) declared regular weekly cash distributions for January 2015 through March 2015. The regular weekly cash distributions, each in the amount of $0.013461 per share, will be payable monthly to stockholders of record as of the weekly record dates set forth below.

Certain Information About Distributions

The determination of the tax attributes of the Company’s distributions will be made annually as of the end of the Company’s fiscal year based upon its taxable income and distributions paid, in each case, for the full year. Therefore, a determination as to the tax attributes of the distributions made on a quarterly basis may not be representative of the actual tax attributes for a full year. The Company intends to update stockholders quarterly with an estimated percentage of its distributions that resulted from taxable ordinary income. The actual tax characteristics of distributions to stockholders will be reported to stockholders annually on Form 1099-DIV. The payment of future distributions on the Company’s shares of common stock is subject to the discretion of the Board and applicable legal restrictions and, therefore, there can be no assurance as to the amount or timing of any such future distributions.

The Company may fund its cash distributions to stockholders from any sources of funds legally available to it, including expense reimbursements from Franklin Square Holdings, L.P., as well as offering proceeds, borrowings, net investment income from operations, capital gains proceeds from the sale of assets, non-capital gains proceeds from the sale of assets and dividends or other distributions paid to it on account of preferred and common equity investments in portfolio companies. The Company has not established limits on the amount of funds it may use from available sources to make distributions. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to pay distributions at a specific rate or at all.

Item 5.05. Amendments to the Registrant’s Code of Ethics, or Waiver of a Provision of the Code of Ethics.

On November 5, 2014, the Board adopted an amended and restated Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (as amended and restated, the “Code”) that amended, restated and replaced the prior Code of Business Conduct, Ethics and Statement on the Prohibition of Insider Trading applicable to the Company. The Code (i) clarifies the applicability of certain provisions of the Code to persons associated with the Company’s investment adviser to the extent such persons are not covered by a separate code of ethics and (ii) removes the Company’s insider trading policy from the Code to a separate document administered by the Company.

The amendments reflected in the Code did not relate to or result in any waiver, explicit or implicit, of any provision of the previous Code of Business Conduct, Ethics and Statement on the Prohibition of Insider Trading.

The foregoing description of the amendments reflected in the Code is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Code, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 14.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.05. A copy of the Code is also publicly available in the corporate governance section of the Company’s website at: www.franklinsquare.com.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K may contain certain forward-looking statements, including statements with regard to the future performance and operation of the Company. Words such as “believes,” “expects,” “projects” and “future” or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. Certain factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements, and some of these factors are enumerated in the filings the Company makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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.

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