# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001602065
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-183058
**Filing Date:** 2025-8
**Character Count:** 6538
**Document Hash:** 6b52a38028b577f3847de8a2270f5e3a
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-183058.hdr.sgml**: 20250819

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-183058

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

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250819

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250819

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20250819

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** VNOM Sub, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001602065
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 01 Energy & Transportation
- **EIN:** 465001985
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8 POS
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-196971
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251229667

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 500 WEST TEXAS AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** MIDLAND
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 79701
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 432-221-7400

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 500 WEST TEXAS AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** MIDLAND
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 79701

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Viper Energy, Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20231109

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Viper Energy Partners LP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20140307

**As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 19, 2025** 

**Registration No. 333-196971** 

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549** 

**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO** 

**FORM S-8** 

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT** 

***UNDER***

***THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933***

**Registration Statement No. 333-196971** 

## VNOM Sub, Inc.
**(f/k/a Viper Energy, Inc.)** 

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

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| **Delaware** | **46-5001985** |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction of**<br> **Incorporation or Organization)** | **(I.R.S. Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |

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**500 West Texas Ave., Suite 100** 

**Midland, Texas 79701** 

**(432) 221-7400** 

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

**Viper Energy, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Long Term Incentive Plan** 

**Viper Energy, Inc. 2024 Amended and Restated Long Term Incentive Plan** 

**(Full title of the plans)** 

**Teresa L. Dick** 

**Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary** 

**500 West Texas Ave., Suite 100** 

**Midland, Texas 79701** 

**(432) 221-7400**

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

***Copies to:***

**Steven R. Green** 

**Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz** 

**51 West 52nd Street** 

**New York, New York 10019** 

**(212) 403-1000** 

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 No. 3 (this "Post-Effective Amendment") relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-196971) filed by VNOM Sub, Inc. (f/k/a Viper Energy, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 23, 2014, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed on November 13, 2023 and Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 filed on June 17, 2024 (the "Registration Statement"), registering 9,144,000 shares of the Company's Class A common stock, par value $0.000001 per share ("Class A Common Stock") for issuance under the Viper Energy, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Long Term Incentive Plan and the Viper Energy, Inc. 2024 Amended and Restated Long Term Incentive Plan.

On August 19, 2025 (the "Closing Date"), the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended from time to time, the "Merger Agreement"), dated June 2, 2025, by and among the Company, Sitio Royalties Operating Partnership, LP, Sitio Royalties Corp., Viper Energy Partners LLC, New Cobra Pubco, Inc. ("New Viper"), Cobra Merger Sub, Inc., and Scorpion Merger Sub, Inc. were consummated. On the Closing Date, the Company became a direct wholly owned subsidiary of New Viper, a new holding company that was subsequently renamed "Viper Energy, Inc."

The Company, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration any and all shares of Class A Common Stock registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in Part II of the Registration Statement 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.

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**SIGNATURES** 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Midland, Texas on the 19th day of August, 2025.

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| **VNOM SUB, INC.** | **VNOM SUB, INC.** | **VNOM SUB, INC.** |
| (formerly Viper Energy, Inc.) | (formerly Viper Energy, Inc.) | (formerly Viper Energy, Inc.) |
| By: | /s/ Teresa L. Dick | /s/ Teresa L. Dick |
|  | Name: | Teresa L. Dick |
|  | Title: | Executive Vice President, Chief Financial |
|  |  | Officer and Assistant Secretary |

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Note: Pursuant to Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement.