# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001417398
**File Stem:** 0001193125-26-044675
**Filing Date:** 2026-2
**Character Count:** 7153
**Document Hash:** 4e9543f76ba2133d963125ef07691d89
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-26-044675.hdr.sgml**: 20260210

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-26-044675

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

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260210

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260210

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260210

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Hillenbrand, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001417398
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES [3990]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 04 Manufacturing
- **EIN:** 261342272
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** IN
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0930

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8 POS
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-167508
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26615967

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ONE BATESVILLE BOULEVARD
- **CITY:** BATESVILLE
- **STATE:** IN
- **ZIP:** 47006
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (812) 931-5000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ONE BATESVILLE BOULEVARD
- **CITY:** BATESVILLE
- **STATE:** IN
- **ZIP:** 47006

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Batesville Holdings, Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20071102

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 10, 2026** 

**Registration Nos. 333-149893,** 

**333-167508, 333-194367 and 333-252998** 

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, DC 20549** 

**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO** 

**FORM S-8** 

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT** 

***UNDER***

***THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933***

## HILLENBRAND, INC.
**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)** 

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|:---|:---|
| **Indiana** | **26-1342272** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction of**<br> **incorporation or organization)** | **(I.R.S. Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |
| **One Batesville Boulevard<br>Batesville, Indiana** | **47006** |
| **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**Hillenbrand, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan** 

**Hillenbrand, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan (As of February 24, 2010)** 

**Amended and Restated Hillenbrand, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan** 

**Hillenbrand, Inc. Board of Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan** 

**Hillenbrand, Inc. Executive Deferred Compensation Program** 

**(Full title of the plan)** 

**Nicholas R. Farrell** 

**Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary** 

**Hillenbrand, Inc.** 

**One Batesville Boulevard** 

**Batesville, Indiana 47006** 

**(Name and address of agent for service)** 

**(812) 934-7500** 

**(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)** 

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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**EXPLANATORY NOTE** 

**DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES** 

This post-effective amendment relates to the following registration statements filed by Hillenbrand, Inc., an Indiana corporation (the "Company"), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on Form S-8 (each, as amended, a "Registration Statement" and, collectively, the "Registration Statements"):

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-149893), filed with the Commission on March 25, 2008, relating to the registration of the securities described in such Registration Statement for issuance under the Hillenbrand, Inc. Stock
Incentive Plan; the Hillenbrand, Inc. Board of Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan and the Hillenbrand, Inc. Executive Deferred Compensation Program;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-167508), filed with the Commission on June 15, 2010, relating to the registration of the securities described in such Registration Statement for issuance under the Hillenbrand, Inc. Stock
Incentive Plan (As of February 24, 2010);

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-194367), filed with the Commission on March 6, 2014, relating to the registration of the securities described in such Registration Statement for issuance under the Hillenbrand, Inc. Stock
Incentive Plan; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-252998), filed with the Commission on February 11, 2021, relating to the registration of the securities described in such Registration Statement for issuance under the Amended and Restated
Hillenbrand, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan.

On February 10, 2026, pursuant to the to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 14, 2025 (the "Merger Agreement"), among the Company, LSF12 Helix Parent, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Parent"), and LSF12 Helix Merger Sub, Inc., an Indiana corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Sub"), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the "Merger"), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

As a result of the Merger, any and all offerings of securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statements have been terminated. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in each Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration any and all securities that remain unsold under each Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

The foregoing description of the Merger, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to the Company's current report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 16, 2025.

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**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-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Batesville, State of Indiana, on February 10, 2026.

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| **HILLENBRAND, INC.** | **HILLENBRAND, INC.** |
| By: | /s/ Nicholas Farrell |
|  | Nicholas Farrell<br> Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary |

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