MBII Marrone Bio Innovations Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 3, 2022

 

Registration No. 333-237331 

 

UNITED STATES 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 333-237331 

UNDER 

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

PRO FARM GROUP, INC. 

(Formerly known as Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc.) 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

20-5137161 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

 

7780-420 Brier Creek Parkway 

Raleigh, North Carolina 27617 

(530) 750-2800 

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

 

 

Federico Trucco 

Chief Executive Officer 

7780-420 Brier Creek Parkway 

Raleigh, North Carolina 27617 

(530) 750-2800 

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

 

 

Copies to:

 

Matthew S. Poulter, Esq. Pierre-Emmanuel Perais, Esq. Linklaters LLP

1290 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10104

(212) 903-9000

 

 

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 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-237331), originally filed by Pro Farm Group, Inc. (formerly known as Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 20, 2020 and declared effective on March 30, 2020 (the “Registration Statement”), registering an aggregate of 152,641,473 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, previously issued and issuable upon exercise of warrants by the selling stockholders named therein. The Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to deregister any and all securities that remain unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

 

On July 13, 2022, pursuant to and in accordance with the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 16, 2022 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Registrant, Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. (“Parent”), and BCS Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent, Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant surviving the Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent.

 

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, the Registrant, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, removes from registration any and all securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

 

 

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-1 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 Raleigh, State of North Carolina, on August 3, 2022.

 

PRO FARM GROUP, INC. (Formerly known as Marrone Bio Innovations. Inc.)
By:	/s/ Federico Trucco
	Name:	Federico Trucco
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer

 

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.