Post-effective Amendment to an S-8 Filing (s-8 Pos)

 

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 14, 2019

Registration No. 333-208321

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

 

TO

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-208321

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

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TIER REIT, INC.

(Murphy Subsidiary Holdings Corporation, as successor by merger to TIER REIT, Inc.)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

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Maryland		68-0509956
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

c/o Murphy Subsidiary Holdings Corporation
3344 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 1800
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
[phone]
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area
Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

TIER REIT, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)

 

Pamela F. Roper
Executive Vice President & Corporate Secretary
Murphy Subsidiary Holdings Corporation
as successor by merger to
TIER REIT, Inc.
3344 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 1800
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
[phone]
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)

 

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Copies to:

 

Edward D. Herlihy, Esq. David E. Shapiro, Esq. Jenna E. Levine, Esq. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 51 West 52nd Street New York, New York 10019 [phone]

John T. Haggerty, Esq. Scott Chase, Esq. Goodwin Procter LLP 100 Northern Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02210 [phone]

 

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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 Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer	x		Accelerated filer	o
Non-accelerated filer	o		Smaller reporting company	o
			Emerging growth company	o

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. o

 

 

 

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

 

This Post-Effective Amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) filed by TIER REIT, Inc. (the “Registrant”) deregisters all shares of the Registrant’s common stock, par value $.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), remaining unissued under the following Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”):

 

·                   Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-208321), which was filed with the Commission on December 3, 2015, pertaining to the registration of 2,500,000 shares of Common Stock issuable under the TIER REIT, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan.

 

On June 14, 2019, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 25, 2019 (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Registrant, Cousins Properties Incorporated (“Cousins”) and Murphy Subsidiary Holdings Corporation, a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Cousins (“Merger Sub”), the Registrant and Cousins completed the previously announced merger (the “Merger”) whereby the Registrant merged with and into Merger Sub, with Merger Sub continuing as the surviving corporation of the Merger.

 

In connection with the completion of the Merger, the offerings pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in Part II of 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 offerings, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all shares of Common Stock registered under the Registration Statement but not sold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Murphy Subsidiary Holdings Corporation, as successor by merger to the Registrant, 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 this Post-Effective Amendment to the above-referenced Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on this 14th day of June, 2019.

 

	Murphy Subsidiary Holdings Corporation,
	as successor by merger to TIER REIT, Inc.
	By:	/s/ Pamela F. Roper
		Name:	Pamela F. Roper
		Title:	Executive Vice President & Corporate Secretary

 

Note: Pursuant to Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement.

 

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