# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001018399
**File Stem:** 0001018399-25-000088
**Filing Date:** 2025-7
**Character Count:** 8040
**Document Hash:** ecc538041a9172555781323334da23b2
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001018399-25-000088.hdr.sgml**: 20250701

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001018399-25-000088

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: S-8 POS

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250701

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250701

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20250701

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** ENTERPRISE BANCORP INC /MA/
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001018399
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MA
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8 POS
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-256003
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251095355

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 222 MERRIMACK ST
- **CITY:** LOWELL
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 01852
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 9784599000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 222 MERRIMACK ST
- **CITY:** LOWELL
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 01852

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1, 2025**

**Registration No. 333-256003**

**Registration No. 333-213799**

**Registration No. 333-184089**

**Registration No. 333-159006**

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1**

**TO**

**FORM S-8**

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-256003**

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-213799**

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-184089**

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-159006**

**UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933**

**ENTERPRISE BANCORP, INC.**

(**Independent Bank Corp., as successor by merger to Enterprise Bancorp, Inc.**)

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Massachusetts** | **04-3308902** |
| (State or other jurisdiction<br>of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |

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**c/o Independent Bank Corp.**

**Office Address: 2036 Washington Street, Hanover, Massachusetts 02339**

**Mailing Address: 288 Union Street, Rockland, Massachusetts 02370**

(Address and Zip Code of Principal Executive Office)

**Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. 2016 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended** 

**Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. 2009 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended** 

(Full titles of the plans)

**Patricia M. Natale, Esq.**

**Executive Vice President and General Counsel**

**Independent Bank Corp.**

**2036 Washington Street, Hanover, Massachusetts 02339**

**(781) 878-6100**

(Name, address, and telephone number,<br>including area code, of agent for service)

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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.

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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 the Securities Act. ☐

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**DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES**

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the "Post-Effective Amendment") filed by Enterprise Bancorp, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the "Company" or "Enterprise") to the following Registration Statements on Form S-8 (each a "Registration Statement," and collectively, the "Registration Statements") filed by Enterprise with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") deregisters any and all shares of common stock of Enterprise, par value $0.01 per share (the "Common Shares") that were registered for issuance under the Registration Statements and that remain unsold under the Registration Statements (note that the Common Share numbers listed below do not take into account any applicable corporate actions, such as stock splits, that may have been taken in the interim):

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-256003), which was filed with the Commission on May 11, 2021, pertaining to the registration of 400,000 Common Shares issuable under the Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. 2016 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-213799), which was filed with the Commission on September 26, 2016, pertaining to the registration of 350,000 Common Shares issuable under the Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. 2016 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-184089), which was filed with the Commission on September 25, 2012, pertaining to the registration of 475,000 Common Shares issuable under the Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. 2009 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-159006), which was filed with the Commission on May 11, 2021, pertaining to the registration of 400,000 Common Shares issuable under the Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. 2009 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended.

Effective on July 1, 2025, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated December 8, 2024 (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among Independent Bank Corp. ("Independent"), Rockland Trust Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Independent, Enterprise and Enterprise Bank and Trust Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enterprise, Enterprise merged with and into Independent, with Independent as the surviving entity (the "Merger").

In connection with the Merger, Enterprise is terminating any and all offerings and sales of its securities registered pursuant to its existing registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended including the Registration Statements. Accordingly, pursuant to the undertakings made by Enterprise in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, Independent, as the successor to the Company, hereby removes from registration any and all securities registered but unsold under each of the Registration Statements as of the date hereof. Each of the Registration Statements is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

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**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 478 thereunder, the Company 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 No. 1 to the above-referenced Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Rockland, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on this 1st day of July, 2025.

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| **INDEPENDENT BANK CORP., as successor by merger to Enterprise Bancorp, Inc.** | **INDEPENDENT BANK CORP., as successor by merger to Enterprise Bancorp, Inc.** |
| By: | <u>/s/ Patricia M. Natale</u> |
|  | Name: Patricia M. Natale |
|  | Title: Executive Vice President and General Counsel |

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\*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to Rule 478 under 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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