As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 30, 2024.
Registration No. 333-203205
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO:
FORM F-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-203205
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
ARDMORE SHIPPING CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Republic of the Marshall Islands | 66-0804797 | |
State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
Ardmore Shipping Corporation
Belvedere Building
69 Pitts Bay Road, Ground Floor
Pembroke, HM08 Bermuda
+1 441 405 7800
(Address and telephone number of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
Seward & Kissel LLP
Attention: Keith J. Billotti, Esq.
One Battery Park Plaza
New York, New York 10004
(212) 574-1274
(Name, address, and telephone number of agent for service)
Copies to:
David S. Matheson
Joseph F. Bailey
Perkins Coie LLP
1120 N.W. Couch Street, Tenth Floor
Portland, OR 97209-4128
(503) 727-2008
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statement.
If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ☒
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, please check the following box. ☐
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐
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. ☐
If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.C. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☐
If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.C. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.
Emerging growth company ☐
If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the Registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards† provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
| † | The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012. |
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
The Registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form F-3D (Registration No. 333-203205) (the “Registration Statement”), for the sale of common shares pursuant to a dividend reinvestment plan (the “Securities”). This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement is being filed to deregister all of the Securities formerly issuable and registered under the Registration Statement and not otherwise sold by the Registrant as of the date that this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is filed.
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 F-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in City of Cork, Ireland, on August 30, 2024.
| ARDMORE SHIPPING CORPORATION | ||
| By: | /s/ Bart Kelleher | |
| Name: | Bart Kelleher | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer, Secretary | |
No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statements in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
