SEC Form POSASR filed by Renewable Energy Group Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 13, 2022

Registration Statement No. 333-237201

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-237201

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

RENEWABLE ENERGY GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		26-4785427
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

416 South Bell Avenue

Ames, Iowa 50010

(515) 239-8000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

Mary A. Francis

Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer

c/o Chevron Corporation

6001 Bollinger Canyon Road

San Ramon, CA 94583

(925) 842-1000

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

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE/DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

Renewable Energy Group, Inc. a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), is filing this post-effective amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-237201), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 16, 2020 (the “Registration Statement”), to deregister any and all securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued as of the date hereof under the Registration Statement.

On June 13, 2022, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 27, 2022, among Chevron Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Cyclone Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Subsidiary”), and the Registrant, Merger Subsidiary merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed as a result of the Merger.

The Registrant, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration any and all securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

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 be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Ames, State of Iowa, on June 13, 2022.

 

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.