SEC Form POS AM filed by Enviva Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 27, 2024

Registration No. 333-262240

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

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-262240

ON
FORM S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to this registration statement.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Enviva Inc. is filing this Post-Effective Amendment on Form S-1 to the Form S-3 Registration Statement specified herein under the EDGAR submission type “POS AM.”

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

Enviva Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this Post-Effective Amendment on Form S-1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-262240), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on January 19, 2022, pertaining to the registration of (i) shares of common stock and preferred stock of the Company and (ii) 29,701,188 shares of common stock of the Company that may be sold in one or more secondary offerings by the selling stockholders, as amended on March 29, 2022, August 13, 2022, September 2, 2022, and December 9, 2022 to increase the number of shares that may be sold by the selling stockholders to 30,484,754 (the “Registration Statement”), to deregister any and all securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued as of the date hereof.

On March 12, 2024, the Company and certain subsidiaries of the Company (collectively, the “Debtors”) filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (the “Bankruptcy Court”). The Company also filed motions with the Bankruptcy Court seeking joint administration of the Debtors’ cases under the caption In re Enviva Inc., et al., Case No. 24-10453 (the “Chapter 11 Cases”).

In connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, the Company has terminated all offerings pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with the undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that have been registered for issuance and remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all of such securities registered under the Registration Statement but which remain unsold or unissued as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment on Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Bethesda, State of Maryland, on August 27, 2024.