SEC Form POSASR filed by Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 28, 2025

Registration No. 333-283843

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

Form S-3

Registration Statement No. 333-283843

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware

(State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

47-1758322

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

108 Wilmot Road

Deerfield, Illinois 60015

Telephone: (847) 315-3700

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

Lanesha Minnix

Executive Vice President,

Global Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

108 Wilmot Road

Deerfield, Illinois 60015

Telephone: (847) 315-3700

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

With a copy to:

Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

Katherine Shaia

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10022

(212) 446-4800

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not Applicable

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement (the “Registration Statement”) on Form S-3 (No. 333-283843) filed by Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 16, 2024, relating to the registration of the Company’s debt securities.

On August 28, 2025, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 6, 2025 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Blazing Star Parent, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), Blazing Star Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and the other affiliates of Parent named therein, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company with the Company surviving such merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

As a result of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company has terminated all of the offerings and sales of the Company’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with the undertakings 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 such Registration Statement which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration, by means of this Post-Effective Amendment, all of the securities of the Company registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment, if any. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities, and the Company 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 Village of Deerfield, State of Illinois, on August 28, 2025.

 

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.