SEC Form POS AM filed by Veritiv Corporation

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 30, 2023

File No. 333-207286

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

VERITIV CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1000 Abernathy Road NE
Building 400, Suite 1700
Atlanta, Georgia 30328

(Address, including zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)

Susan B. Salyer

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Veritiv Corporation

1000 Abernathy Road NE
Building 400, Suite 1700
Atlanta, Georgia 30328

(770) 391-8200

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

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

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 (“Post-Effective Amendment No. 4”), filed by Veritiv Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), relates to the registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-207286) (as amended, the “Registration Statement”) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), to register, among other securities, shares of the Company’s common stock for resale by the selling stockholder named therein. The Registration Statement was declared effective by the SEC on October 23, 2015. On May 16, 2016, the Company filed a Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 on Form S-1 (“Post-Effective Amendment No. 1”) to convert the Registration Statement on Form S-3 into a registration statement on Form S-1 and to update the prospectus contained in the Registration Statement. Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 was declared effective by the SEC on May 17, 2016. On November 15, 2016, the Company filed a Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-3 on Form S-1 (“Post-Effective Amendment No. 2”) to add certain exhibits not previously filed with the Registration Statement. Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 became effective on November 15, 2016. On February 3, 2017, the Company filed a Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to Form S-1 on Form S-3 (“Post-Effective Amendment No. 3”) to convert the Registration Statement on Form S-1 into a registration statement on Form S-3 and to update the prospectus contained in the Registration Statement. Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 became effective on February 15, 2017.

On August 6, 2023, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as it has been or may be amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified in accordance with its terms, the “Merger Agreement”) by and among the Company, Verde Purchaser, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”) that is affiliated with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC, and Verde Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Subsidiary”). Upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, Merger Subsidiary will be merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”) with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent.

As a result of the Merger, any and all offerings of securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all securities registered under the Registration Statement but unsold as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURE

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 No. 4 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on November 30, 2023.

Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.