As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2024

Registration No. 333-265403

 

 

 

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

 

 

JOANN Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		46-1095540
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

5555 Darrow Road

Hudson, Ohio 44236

(330) 656-2600

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Ann Aber Esq.

Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary

JOANN Inc.

5555 Darrow Road

Hudson, Ohio 44236

(330) 656-2600

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

With copies to:

Drew Capurro

Latham & Watkins LLP

650 Town Center Drive, 20th Floor

Costa Mesa, CA 92626

(714) 540-1235

 

 

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

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment filed by JOANN Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), deregisters all securities remaining unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-265403) (the “Registration Statement”), which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 3, 2022.

As previously disclosed, on March 18, 2024, the Registrant and certain of its subsidiaries commenced voluntary proceedings under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. In connection with the foregoing, the offering pursuant to the Registration Statement is being terminated.

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 of the securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all securities that were registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this post-effective amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hudson, State of Ohio, on this 15th day of April, 2024.

 

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