# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001413837
**File Stem:** 0001104659-23-026118
**Filing Date:** 2023-2
**Character Count:** 6746
**Document Hash:** 92778928dbf1a045cbb73019650b6875
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
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**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-23-026118

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: POSASR

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230227

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230227

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20230227

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** First Foundation Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001413837
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** CA
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** POSASR
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-267845
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23676781

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 18101 VON KARMAN AVE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 700
- **CITY:** IRVINE
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 92612
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 949-222-2030

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 18101 VON KARMAN AVE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 700
- **CITY:** IRVINE
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 92612

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** KELLER FINANCIAL GROUP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20071001

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2023**

Registration No. 333 - 267845

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, DC 20549**

**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1**

**TO**

**FORM S-3**

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER<br> THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933**

**FIRST FOUNDATION INC.**

**(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)**

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|:---|:---|
| **Delaware** | **20-8639702** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)** | **(IRS Employer Identification Number)** |

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**200 Crescent Court, Suite 1400**

**Dallas, Texas 75201**

**(469) 638-9636**

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

**C. Kelly Rentzel**

**General Counsel**

**First Foundation Inc.**

**200 Crescent Court, Suite 1400**

**Dallas, Texas 75201**

**(469) 638-9636**

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

**Copy to:**

**Joshua A. Dean, Esq.**

**Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP**

**650 Town Center Drive, Tenth Floor**

**Costa Mesa, California 92626**

**(714) 424-8292**

**Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:**

Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the registration statement.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ◻

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, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. ◻

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. ◻

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. ◻

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ⌧

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ◻

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.

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| Large accelerated filer ⌧ | Accelerated filer ◻ |
| Non-accelerated filer ◻ | Smaller reporting company ◻ |
|  | Emerging growth company ◻ |

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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 Securities Act. ◻

**EXPLANATORY NOTE**

**TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND**

**DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES**

This Post-Effective Amendment (the "Post-Effective Amendment") relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-267845) of First Foundation Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Registrant"), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 12, 2022 (the "Registration Statement"), registering an indeterminate amount of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares, debt securities, purchase contracts, warrants, rights, and units of the Registrant.

The Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with the undertakings made by the Registrant to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, removes from registration any and all securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, Texas, on February 27, 2023.

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|:---|:---|
| **FIRST FOUNDATION INC.** | **FIRST FOUNDATION INC.** |
| By: | /s/ SCOTT F. KAVANAUGH |
|  | Scott F. Kavanaugh<br> Chief Executive Officer |

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No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statements in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.