Post-effective Amendment to an S-3d Filing (s-3dpos)
06 Abril 2020 - 7:59AM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
As filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on April 6, 2020
Registration No. 333-26641
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Post-Effective Amendment No. 2
to
FORM S-3D REGISTRATION STATEMENT (No. 333-26641)
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified
in its charter)
Georgia
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58-1392259
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(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
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(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
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201 First Street, S.E.
Moultrie, Georgia 31768
(229) 985-1120
(Address, including zip code, and telephone
number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Donna T. (Dee Dee) Lowery
Chief Financial Officer
6480 U.S. Hwy. 98 West
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39402
(601) 268-8998
(Name, address, including zip code, and
telephone number, including area code of agent for service)
Copy to:
Mark C. Kanaly
William W. Hooper
Alston & Bird LLP
One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
(404) 881-7000
Approximate date of commencement of
proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. The registrant is filing this post-effective amendment to remove from registration
any securities registered hereunder that remain unsold.
If
the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please
check the following box. x
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.
Large accelerated filer
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Accelerated filer
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Non-accelerated filer
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x
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Smaller reporting company
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x
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Emerging growth company
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If
an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected 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. ¨
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective
Amendment relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3D (the “Registration Statement”) of Southwest Georgia
Financial Corporation, a Georgia corporation (the “Registrant”), previously filed by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”):
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Registration
Statement No. 333-26641, originally filed with the Commission on May 7, 1997, as amended
by Amendment No. 1, filed with the Commission on September 30, 1998.
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On April 3, 2020,
pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of December 18, 2019 (the “Merger Agreement”), between
the Registrant and The First Bancshares, Inc., a Mississippi corporation (“First Bancshares”), the Registrant merged
with and into First Bancshares (the “Merger”).
In connection with
the consummation of the Merger, the Registrant terminates the Registration Statement and deregisters the remaining securities registered
but unsold under the Registration Statement, if any, in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration
Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for
issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to
reflect the deregistration of such securities.
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-3D and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 6, 2020.
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THE FIRST BANCSHARES, INC.
As successor by merger to Southwest Georgia Financial Corporation
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By:
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/s/ Donna T. (Dee Dee) Lowery
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Name:
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Donna T. (Dee Dee) Lowery
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Title:
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Chief Financial Officer
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No other person is required to sign this
Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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