# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001637655
**File Stem:** 0001193125-23-028100
**Filing Date:** 2023-2
**Character Count:** 7109
**Document Hash:** b800e4ffe931a2471e8e8b6a6f72a189
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-23-028100.hdr.sgml**: 20230208

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-23-028100

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: POS AM

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230208

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230208

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Horizon Global Corp
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001637655
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS & ACCESSORIES [3714]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 473574483
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** POS AM
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-264862
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23598384

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 47912 HALYARD DRIVE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** PLYMOUTH
- **STATE:** MI
- **ZIP:** 48170
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 7346563000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 47912 HALYARD DRIVE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** PLYMOUTH
- **STATE:** MI
- **ZIP:** 48170

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 8, 2023** 

**Registration No. 333-264862** 

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**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

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**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1** 

**TO** 

**FORM S-3** 

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-264862** 

***UNDER***

***THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933***

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## HORIZON GLOBAL CORPORATION
**(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)** 

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| **Delaware** | **47-3574483** |
| **(State or other Jurisdiction**<br> **of Incorporation or Organization)** | **(IRS Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |

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**c/o First Brands Group, LLC** 

**127 Public Square, Suite 5300** 

**Cleveland, Ohio 44114** 

**(216) 302-2590** 

**(Address, including ZIP Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices)** 

**Stephen Graham** 

**Michael Baker** 

**127 Public Square, Suite 5300** 

**Cleveland, Ohio 44114** 

**(216) 302-2590** 

**(Name, Address, including ZIP Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent for Service)** 

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**Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:** Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced 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, 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 Statement filed by Horizon Global Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "***Registrant***"), on Form S-3 (the "***Registration Statement***"):

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Registration Statement No. 333-264862, originally filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on May 11, 2022.

On February 8, 2023, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 30, 2022 (the "***Agreement***"), by and among the Registrant, First Brands Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("***First Brands Group***"), and PHX Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of First Brands Group ("***Merger Sub***"), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of First Brands Group.

As a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Agreement, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the above-referenced Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant 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 that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes and withdraws from registration all such securities of the Registrant registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date this Post-Effective Amendment.

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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-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 Cleveland, State of Ohio, on February 8, 2023. 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.

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| **HORIZON GLOBAL CORPORATION** | **HORIZON GLOBAL CORPORATION** |
| By: | /s/ Michael Baker |
| Name: | Michael Baker |
| Title: | Chief Corporate Strategy Officer |

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