SEC Form POS AM filed by Red Lion Hotels Corporation

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2021

Registration No. 333-234802

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-234802

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

RED LION HOTELS CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Washington		91-1032187
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

1550 Market St. #425

Denver, Colorado 80202

(509) 459-6100

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

Jennifer B. Clark

Secretary

Red Lion Hotels Corporation

c/o Sonesta International Hotels Corporation

Two Newton Place

255 Washington Street

Newton, Massachusetts 02458

(617) 315-9200

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

 

 

With copy to:

Steven M. Haas

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Riverfront Plaza, East Tower

951 East Byrd Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219-4074

(804) 788-8200

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after this registration statement becomes effective.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This post-effective amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-234802) (the “Registration Statement”) filed by Red Lion Hotels Corporation (“Red Lion” or the “Registrant”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 20, 2019, registering an indeterminate number of (a) shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Red Lion (“Common Stock”), (b) shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Red Lion (“Preferred Stock”), (c) debt securities, (d) warrants to purchase Common Stock, Preferred Stock, debt securities, or any combination thereof, (e) rights to purchase Common Stock, Preferred Stock, debt securities, or any combination thereof, and (f) units, consisting of Common Stock or Preferred Stock, debt securities, warrants, rights, or any combination thereof, with an aggregate maximum offering price of all securities sold pursuant to such Registration Statement not to exceed $80,000,000.

On March 17, 2021, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated December 30, 2020, by and among Red Lion, Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (“Sonesta”), and Roar Merger Sub Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sonesta (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into Red Lion (the “Merger”), with Red Lion surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Sonesta. As a result of the Merger, Red Lion has terminated all offerings of Red Lion’s securities pursuant to existing registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the Registration Statement. In accordance with the undertakings made by Red Lion in the Registration Statement 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 the offering, Red Lion hereby removes from registration all of such securities of Red Lion registered but not sold or otherwise issued under the Registration Statement, if any, as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

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 this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Newton, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on March 18, 2021.

 

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.