As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 1, 2021
Registration No. 333-185114
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CORTLAND BANCORP INC
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Ohio | 34-1451118 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
194 West Main Street, Cortland, Ohio 44410
330-673-8040
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Kevin J. Helmick
c/o Farmers National Banc Corp.
as successor by merger to Cortland Bancorp Inc
20 South Broad Street, Canfield, Ohio 44406
(330) 533-3341
(Name and address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
With copies to:
J. Bret Treier, Esq.
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
106 South Main Street
Suite 1100
Akron, Ohio 44308
Phone: (330) 208-1015
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. This post-effective amendment deregisters those common shares that remain unsold hereunder as of the effective date hereof.
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) is being filed by Cortland Bancorp Inc. (the “Company”) to terminate all offerings under the Registration Statement and to deregister any and all shares of the Company’s common stock, no par value (the “Shares”), registered but unsold or otherwise unissued as of the date hereof thereunder (the Share numbers listed below do not take into account any applicable corporate actions, such as stock splits, that may have been taken in the interim):
1. | Registration Statement on Form S-3, File No. 333-185114, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 21, 2012, registering 2,000,000 Shares issuable pursuant to the Cortland Bancorp Amended and Restated Dividend Reinvestment Plan. |
On November 1, 2021, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 22, 2021, as amended October 12, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Farmers National Banc Corp., an Ohio corporation (“Farmers”), FMNB Merger Subsidiary IV, LLC, an Ohio limited liability company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Farmers (“Merger Sub”) and the Company, the Company merged with and into Merger Sub (the “Merger”), with Merger sub surviving the Merger.
As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of the Company’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, pursuant to 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 that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 hereby removes from registration all of such securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.
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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 No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Canfield, State of Ohio, on November 1, 2021.
Farmers National Banc Corp. | ||
(as successor by merger to Cortland Bancorp Inc.) | ||
By: | /s/ Kevin J. Helmick | |
Kevin J. Helmick | ||
President and Chief Executive Officer |
No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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