POSASR 1 dp222980_posasr.htm FORM POSASR

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 3, 2025

Registration No. 333-272553

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-272553

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

INDEPENDENT BANK GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Texas

13-4219346

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

7777 Henneman Way

McKinney, TX 75070-1711

(972) 562-9004

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Mr. David R. Brooks

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

7777 Henneman Way

McKinney, Texas 75070

(972) 562-9004

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: N/A. The registrant is filing this post-effective amendment to remove from registration any securities registered hereunder that remain unsold.

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment, which relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by Independent Bank Group, Inc. (the “Registrant”):

Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-272553), an automatic shelf registration statement filed with the SEC on June 9, 2023, pertaining to the registration of an indeterminate amount of senior debt securities of one or more series, subordinated debt securities of one or more series, shares of the Registrant’s common stock, shares of one more series of the Registrant’s preferred stock and units of a combination of one or more of the foregoing types of securities.

Effective January 1, 2025, pursuant to and in accordance with the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 17, 2024, by and among the Registrant and SouthState Corporation (“SouthState”), the Registrant merged with and into SouthState, with SouthState as the surviving corporation (the “Merger”).

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to its existing registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the Registration Statement. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all such securities of the Registrant 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, and the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, 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 on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Winter Haven, Florida, on January 2, 2025.

	SOUTHSTATE CORPORATION, as successor by merger to Independent Bank Group, Inc.

Dated: January 2, 2025	By:	/s/ John C. Corbett
	Name:	John C. Corbett
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer

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

Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

Smaller reporting company

Emerging growth company

SEC Form POSASR filed by Independent Bank Group Inc