As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 18, 2014
Registration No. 333-185636
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
TAYLOR CAPITAL GROUP, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware |
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(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or |
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9550 West Higgins Road
Rosemont, Illinois 60018
(847) 653-7978
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Jill E. York
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
MB Financial, Inc.
800 West Madison Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607
(888) 422-6562
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copy of communications to:
Craig M. Scheer, P.C.
Silver, Freedman, Taff & Tiernan LLP
3299 K Street, N.W., Suite 100
Washington, D.C. 20007
(202) 295-4500
(202) 337-5502 (fax)
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) of Taylor Capital Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”):
File No. 333-185636, pertaining to the registration of an indeterminate principal amount and number of each of the identified securities (common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants, depositary shares, subscription rights, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase units and units), up to a maximum aggregate offering price of $225,000,000, for the purpose of offering the securities from time to time in unspecified numbers at unspecified prices.
On July 14, 2013, the Registrant entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended by the amendment thereto entered into on June 30, 2014, the “Merger Agreement”) with MB Financial, Inc., a Maryland corporation (“MB Financial”). Effective August 18, 2014, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the Registrant merged with and into MB Financial (the “Merger”), with MB Financial as the surviving corporation and as the successor in interest to the Registrant following the Merger.
In connection with the consummation of the Merger, the offering pursuant to the Registration Statement has been terminated. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration the securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.
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-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, on the 18th day of August, 2014. No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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| MB FINANCIAL, INC., AS SUCCESSOR TO |
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| TAYLOR CAPITAL GROUP, INC. |
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| By: | /s/ Jill E. York |
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| Jill E. York |
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| Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |