HighPoint Resources (HPR) POSASRAutomatic shelf registration (post-effective amendment)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 1, 2021

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-225273

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-225274

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

HighPoint Resources Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

410 17th Street, Suite 1400

Denver, Colorado 80202

(720) 440-6100
(Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

(Name, Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

HighPoint Resources Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“HighPoint” or the “Company”) is filing these post-effective amendments (these “Post-Effective Amendments”) to the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statements”), which were filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on the dates set forth below, to deregister any and all Company securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under each such Registration Statement as of the date hereof:

On April 1, 2021, pursuant to HighPoint’s prepackaged plan of reorganization, which implements the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 9, 2020, by and among Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Bonanza Creek”), HighPoint and Boron Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bonanza Creek (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub was merged with and into HighPoint (the “Merger”), with HighPoint continuing its existence as the surviving corporation following the Merger.

As a result of the completion of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with the undertakings made by HighPoint in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of such offerings, the Company hereby removes from registration by means of these Post-Effective Amendments all such securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statements as of the date hereof. The Registration Statements are hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities and the Company hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements.

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 these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Denver, State of Colorado, on April 1 2021.

Note: No other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments to Form S-3 Registration Statements in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.