Form POSASR - Post-effective Amendment to an automatic shelf registration statement

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 4, 2024

Registration No. 333-256939

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO:

Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-256939

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

LIVENT CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware	82-4699376
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

1818 Market Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103

215-299-5900

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

Sara Ponessa

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Livent Corporation

1818 Market Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103

215-299-5900

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

Copies of all communications, including communications sent to agent for service, should be sent to:

Michael Kaplan

William H. Aaronson

Cheryl Chan

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10017

(212) 450-4000

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

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to Registration Statement No. 333-256939 (the “Registration Statement”), filed by Livent Corporation (the “Registrant”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on June 9, 2021, and is being filed to deregister any and all securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement.

On January 4, 2024, the transactions (collectively, the “transaction”) contemplated by the Transaction Agreement dated as of May 10, 2023, as amended by the Amendment to Transaction Agreement, dated as of August 2, 2023, the Second Amendment to Transaction Agreement, dated as of November 5, 2023 and the Third Amendment to Transaction Agreement, dated as of December 20, 2023 (as amended, the “Transaction Agreement”), by and among the Registrant, Allkem Limited, an Australian public company limited by shares (“Allkem”), Arcadium Lithium plc, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey (“Arcadium”), Lightning-A Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”) and Arcadium Lithium Intermediate IRL Limited, a private company limited by shares and incorporated and registered in Ireland (“Irish IntermediateCo”) were completed and the Registrant became an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Arcadium.

In connection with the transaction, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any and all securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold or unissued at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes and withdraws from registration any and all such securities of the Registrant registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold or unissued as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), 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 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on January 4, 2024. No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act.