As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2024
Registration No. 333-253110
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE
AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-4
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Rover Group, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 85-3147201 | ||||
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) | ||||
| 7200 | |||||
| (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) | |||||
720 Olive Way, 19th Floor
Seattle, WA 98101
(888) 453-7889
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Aaron Easterly
Chief Executive Officer
720 Olive Way, 19th Floor
Seattle , WA 98101
(888) 453-7889
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Michael Nordtvedt John Brust Craig Sherman Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5100 Seattle, WA 98104-7036 (206) 883-2500 | Melissa Weiland General Counsel Rover Group, Inc. 720 Olive Way, 19th Floor Seattle, WA 98101 (888) 453-7889 | ||||
Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statement.
(Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale of the securities to the public)
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This post-effective amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) filed by Rover Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), withdraws and deregisters all unsold securities registered under the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-253110), as amended, originally filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 16, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”).
On February 27, 2024, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 29, 2023, by and among the Company, Biscuit Parent, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), and Biscuit Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.
As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated any and all offerings and sales of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities of the Company registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration all of the securities that remain unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof, if any.
The Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment to withdraw and remove from registration all securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities. After giving effect to this Post-Effective Amendment, there will be no remaining securities registered by the Company pursuant to the Registration Statement.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant 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 Seattle, State of Washington, on February 27, 2024.*
| ROVER GROUP, INC. | |||||
| By: | /s/ Charlie Wickers | ||||
| Charlie Wickers | |||||
| Chief Financial Officer | |||||
*Pursuant to Rule 478 under the Securities Act no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment.