As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 3, 2012

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

 

TO

 

Form S-3

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

TH Merger Company, LLC

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

T. Richard Riney, Esq.

Ventas, Inc.

10350 Ormsby Park Place, Suite 300

Louisville, Kentucky 40223

(502) 357-9000

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

 

 

Copy to:

 

Steven A. Seidman, Esq.

A. Mark Getachew, Esq.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

787 Seventh Avenue

New York, NY  10019

Telephone: (212) 728-8000

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

 

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

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box:  o

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o

 

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  o

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

 

 

 

 

TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-163113) (the “Registration Statement”), originally filed on November 13, 2009 by TH Merger Company, LLC (as successor to Cogdell Spencer Inc.) (“Cogdell”), is being filed to remove from registration any and all (i) shares of Cogdell common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), (ii) shares of Cogdell preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Preferred Stock”), (iii) depositary shares representing entitlement to all rights and preferences of fractions of shares of Preferred Stock of a specified series and represented by depositary receipts, (iv) warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock, Preferred Stock or depositary shares and (v) rights to purchase Common Stock , in each case, that were registered under the Registration Statement and have not been, and will not be, issued or sold pursuant to the Registration Statement.

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is being filed in accordance with Cogdell’s undertaking set forth in Part II, Item 17 of the Registration Statement.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, 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 No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Louisville, Commonwealth of Kentucky, on April 3, 2012.

 

 

	TH MERGER COMPANY, LLC
	By:	/s/ T. Richard Riney
	Name:	T. Richard Riney
	Title:	Executive Vice President and Associate Secretary

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on this 3rd day of April, 2012 in the capacities indicated.

 

 

Signature		Title
/s/ Richard A. Schweinhart		President and Chief Financial Officer and
Richard A. Schweinhart		Manager (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Robert J. Brehl		Vice President and Chief Accounting
Robert J. Brehl		Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ T. Richard Riney		Manager
T. Richard Riney

 

[Signature Page to Post-Effective Amendment to Form S-3 (No. 333-163113)]

 

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