As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2019

Registration No. 333-212200

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO:

FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-212200

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Nexeo Solutions, Inc.

(n/k/a Pilates Merger Sub II LLC)

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		46-5188282
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

3075 Highland Parkway, Suite 200 Downers Grove, Illinois		60515
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

 

 

Jeffrey W. Carr, Esq.

Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

3075 Highland Parkway, Suite 200

Downers Grove, Illinois 60515

(331) 777-6000

(Name, Address, and Telephone Number,

Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

 

 

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  ☐

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This post-effective amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) filed by Pilates Merger Sub II LLC (“Merger Sub II”), the surviving company of the merger described below with Nexeo Solutions, Inc. (the “Registrant”), deregisters the shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Nexeo Common Stock”), which were registered on the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-212200) (the “Registration Statement”), initially filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on June 23, 2016 and amended by pre-effective Amendment No. 1 filed with the SEC on August 30, 2016, and that remain unsold as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment.

On February 28, 2019, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 17, 2018 (the “Merger Agreement”), among the Registrant, Univar Inc. (“Univar”), Pilates Merger Sub I Corp (“Merger Sub I”) and Merger Sub II, the Registrant and Univar completed the previously announced mergers (the “Mergers”) whereby Merger Sub I merged with and into the Registrant and the Registrant subsequently merged with and into Merger Sub II, with Merger Sub II surviving the Mergers as a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Univar.

In connection with the completion of the Mergers, the offerings pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of this Post-Effective Amendment, any of the securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all Shares registered under the Registration Statement but not sold under the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Downers Grove, State of Illinois, on March 1, 2019.

 

* Pursuant to Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements.