As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 21, 2012

 

Registration No. 333- 132881

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Post-Effective

Amendment No. 3 to

 

FORM S-1

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

 

 

Copies To:

Ackneil M. Muldrow, III

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

One Bryant Park

New York, NY 10036

Telephone: (212) 872-1000

 

 

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

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box:  x

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering: o

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering: o

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering: o

 

If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, please check the following box: o

 

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

 

 

 

Deregistration of Securities; Termination of Registration Statement

 

Pursuant to Item 512(a)(3) of Regulation S-K, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 (the “Amendment”) to Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-132881) filed on March 31, 2006, as amended (the “Registration Statement”), is filed to deregister the securities remaining unsold under the Registration Statement as described below.

 

A total of 20,881,025 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) were registered by the Registration Statement  for sale by the selling stockholders named in the Registration Statement (the “Selling Stockholders”), which Selling Stockholders acquired such shares of Common Stock in private equity placements. The Company registered the offer and sale of the shares of Common Stock held by the Selling Stockholders to satisfy registration rights the Company granted to the Selling Stockholders.

 

On April 7, 2009, the Company and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Debtors”) filed voluntary petitions for reorganization relief under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 101 et. seq., as amended, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”).  As previously disclosed, on February 24, 2010, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order confirming the Debtors’ Joint Plan of Reorganization (the “Bankruptcy Plan”).  As contemplated by the Bankruptcy Plan, all then existing shares of Common Stock, including the shares of Common Stock held by the Selling Stockholders, were cancelled as of the effective date of the Bankruptcy Plan.  In addition, no sales of Common Stock have been made under the Registration Statement after 2007.  Therefore, this Amendment is being filed to terminate the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and to deregister, as of the effective date of this Amendment, all securities registered but not sold under the Registration Statement as of the filing of this Amendment.

 

 

 

S I G N A T U R E S

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on the 21 day of September, 2012.

 

	AVENTINE RENEWABLE ENERY HOLDINGS, INC.
	By:	/s/ Calvin Stewart
		Calvin Stewart, Chief Financial Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment has been signed by the following persons and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature		Title		Date
		Chief Executive Officer and
/s/ John W. Castle		Director		September 21, 2012
John W. Castle		(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Calvin Stewart		Chief Financial Officer		September 21, 2012
Calvin Stewart		(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Eugene I. Davis		Chairman of the Board of		September 21, 2012
Eugene I. Davis		Directors
/s/ Timothy J. Bernlohr		Director and Chairman of the		September 21, 2012
Timothy J. Bernlohr		Compensation Committee
/s/ Kurt M. Cellar		Director and Chairman of the		September 21, 2012
Kurt M. Cellar		Audit Committee
/s/ Douglas Silverman		Director		September 21, 2012
Douglas Silverman
/s/ Carney Hawks		Director		September 21, 2012
Carney Hawks

 

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