SEC Form S-8 POS filed by Exela Technologies Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 27, 2025

Registration No. 333-263909

Registration No. 333-262767

Registration No. 333-222743

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT No. 333-263909

FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT No. 333-262767

FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT No. 333-222743

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Exela Technologies, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

2701 E. Grauwyler Rd.

Irving, TX 75061

(844) 935-2832

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

Par Chadha

Executive Chairman

2701 E. Grauwyler Rd.

Irving, TX 75061

(844) 935-2832

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

Copies to:

Erik Mengwall

Loeb & Loeb LLP

345 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10154

212.407.4050

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION STATEMENTS

AND

DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

Exela Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) is filing these post-effective amendments (these “Post-Effective Amendments”) to the following Registration Statements on Forms S-3 and S-8 (the “Registration Statements”), which have been previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), to deregister any and all of the Company’s securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under each such Registration Statement as of the date hereof (note that the number of securities listed as being registered pursuant to each Registration Statement listed below does not take into account corporate actions, such as stock splits, taken in the interim):

The Company filed a  Form 25 with the SEC on January 17, 2025 to complete the delisting of the Company’s common stock and preferred stock. The Company intends to file a Form 15 with the SEC to notify the SEC of its suspended reporting obligation under Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on or about January 27, 2025.

As a result of the delisting and deregistration of the Company’s securities, the Company is terminating all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statements, if any, to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, effective upon filing of these Post-Effective Amendments, the Company hereby removes from registration all of such securities of the Company registered but unsold under the Registration Statements, if any, as of the date hereof. Effective upon filing of these Post-Effective Amendments, the Registration Statements are hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities and the Company hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements. 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized on January 27, 2025.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.