As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 30, 2020
Registration No. 333-221612
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-221612
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Advanced Disposal Services, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 90-0875845 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
90 Fort Wade Road
Ponte Vedra, Florida 32081
(904) 737-7900
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Michael K. Slattery, Esq.
General Counsel
Advanced Disposal Services, Inc.
90 Fort Wade Road
Ponte Vedra, Florida 32081
(904) 737-7900
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.
This post-effective amendment deregisters those securities that remain unsold hereunder as of the date hereof.
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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-221612) (the “Registration Statement”) of Advanced Disposal Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 16, 2017, hereby amends the Registration Statement to deregister any and all securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement as of the date of this post-effective amendment.
On October 30, 2020, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 14, 2019, as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto, dated as of June 24, 2020, by and among Registrant, Waste Management, Inc. (“Waste Management”) and Everglades Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Waste Management (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant continuing as the surviving company of the Merger and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management.
As a result of the Merger, all offerings pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. In connection with the closing of the Merger, the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any and all of the securities that had been registered but which remain unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement at the termination of the offering, hereby removes from registration any and all securities registered but not sold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.
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 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Houston, State of Texas, on October 30, 2020.
| Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ Courtney A. Tippy | |
| Name: Courtney A. Tippy | ||
| Title:Vice President and Secretary | ||
No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
