GHL Greenhill and Company Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 1, 2023

Registration No. 333-115411

Registration No. 333-232983

Registration No. 333-266503

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION NO. 333-115411

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION NO. 333-232983

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION NO. 333-266503

 

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

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GREENHILL & CO., INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Greenhill & Co., Inc. Equity Incentive Plan

Greenhill & Co., Inc. 2019 Equity Incentive Plan

Greenhill & Co., Inc. Amended 2019 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plans)

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Gitanjali Pinto Faleiro

General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Greenhill & Co., Inc.

1271 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10020

 (Name and address of agent for service)

(212) 389-1500

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

These Post-Effective Amendments (these “Post-Effective Amendments”) by Greenhill & Co., Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), relate to the following Registration Statements on Form S-8 (each, a “Registration Statement,” and collectively, the “Registration Statements”):

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Registration Statement No. 333-115411, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by the Registrant on May 12, 2004, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement No. 333-115411, filed with the SEC by the Registrant on August 2, 2019, pertaining to the registration of 20,000,000 shares of the common stock of the Registrant, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), reserved for issuance under the Greenhill & Co., Inc. Equity Incentive Plan.

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Registration Statement No. 333-266503, filed with the SEC by the Registrant on August 3, 2022 pertaining to the registration of 8,158,887 shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the Greenhill & Co., Inc. Amended 2019 Equity Incentive Plan.

On November 30, 2023, pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 22, 2023 (the “Merger Agreement”), among the Registrant, Mizuho Americas LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Purchaser”) and Blanc Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Purchaser (“Sub”), Sub merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Purchaser (the “Merger”).

 

As a result of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statements that remain unissued at the termination of the offerings, by filing these Post-Effective Amendments, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all securities registered but unsold under such Registration Statements, if any, as of the date hereof, and the Registration Statements are 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 Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused these Post-Effective Amendments to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York on December 1, 2023.

Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statements in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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