Company: CRLBF
Filing Date: 2025-08-20
Form Type: SC TO-C
Source: 0001832928-25-000020
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Company: Cresco Labs Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-20
Form: SC TO-C
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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

### SCHEDULE TO
<div align='center'>TENDER OFFER STATEMENT UNDER SECTION 14(d)(1) OR 13(e)(1) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</div>

#### Cresco Labs Inc.
<div align='center'>(Name of Filing Persons (Identifying status as offeror, issuer, or other person))

Options to purchase subordinate voting shares, no par value per share

(Title of Class of Securities)</div>

#### CA22587M1068 for the subordinate voting shares
<div align='center'>(CUSIP Number of Class of Securities)</div>

#### John Schetz

#### Cresco Labs Inc.

#### 600 West Fulton Street, Suite 800

#### Chicago, IL 60661
<div align='center'>(312) 929-0993

(Name, address and telephone number of person authorized to receive notices and communications on behalf of the filing person)

Copy to:</div>

#### Heidi Steele

#### McDermott Will & Emery LLP

#### 444 West Lake Street, Suite 4000

#### Chicago, IL 60606
<div align='center'>(312) 372-2000</div>

☒ Check the box if the filing relates solely to preliminary communications made before the commencement of a tender offer.

Check the appropriate boxes below to designate any transactions to which the statement relates:

☐ third-party tender offer subject to Rule 14d-1.

☒ issuer tender offer subject to Rule 13e-4.

☐ going-private transaction subject to Rule 13e-3.

☐ amendment to Schedule 13D under Rule 13d-2.

Check the following box if the filing is a final amendment reporting the results of the tender offer: ☐

If applicable, check the appropriate box(es) below to designate the appropriate rule provision(s) relied upon:

☐ Rule 13e-4(i) (Cross-Border Issuer Tender Offer)

☐ Rule 14d-1(d) (Cross-Border Third Party Tender Offer)

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This filing relates solely to preliminary communications made before the commencement of a planned exchange offer (the “

#### Exchange Offer
”) by Cresco Labs Inc. (the “

#### Company
”). Under the Exchange Offer, certain employees of the Company in senior leadership roles (“

#### Eligible Participants
”)