As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 1, 2018
Registration No. 333-213092
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
Form S-3
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
NorthStar Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.
(Colony NorthStar Credit Real Estate, Inc., as successor by merger to NorthStar Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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| Maryland | | 26-4141646 |
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation) | | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
c/o Colony NorthStar Credit Real Estate, Inc.
515 S. Flower Street, 44th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(310) 282-8820
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of the registrant’s principal executive offices)
David A. Palamé
General Counsel and Secretary
Colony NorthStar Credit Real Estate, Inc.
590 Madison Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, New York 10022
(212) 230-3300
(Name, address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
With a copy to:
David W. Bonser
Stacey P. McEvoy
Hogan Lovells US LLP
555 13th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004-1109
(202) 637-5600
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) deregisters all shares of NorthStar Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.’s (the “Company”) common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), and any other securities remaining unissued under the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-213092) originally filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 11, 2016 (the “Registration Statement”) pertaining to the registration of a maximum of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock to be offered and sold by the Company pursuant to the Company’s amended and restated distribution reinvestment plan (the “DRP”).
On January 31, 2018, the Company completed the transaction contemplated by the Master Combination Agreement (the “Combination Agreement”), dated as of August 25, 2017, as amended and restated on November 20, 2017, by and among (i) Colony Capital Operating Company, LLC, (ii) NRF RED REIT Corp., (iii) the Company, (iv) NorthStar Real Estate Income Trust Operating Partnership, LP, (v) NorthStar Real Estate Income II, Inc., (vi) NorthStar Real Estate Income Operating Partnership II, LP, (vii) Colony NorthStar Credit Real Estate, Inc. (“CLNC”) and (viii) Credit RE Operating Company, LLC. Pursuant to the Combination Agreement, the Company merged with and into CLNC (the “Merger”), with CLNC surviving the Merger. At the effective time of the Merger, each outstanding share of Common Stock was converted into the right to receive 0.3532 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of CLNC.
As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated the DRP and any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, CLNC, as successor in interest by merger to the Company, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, 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, removes from registration, by means of this Post-Effective Amendment, any and all securities of the Company registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.
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 Los Angeles, State of California, on this 1st day of February, 2018.
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| COLONY NORTHSTAR CREDIT REAL ESTATE, INC., as successor by merger to NorthStar Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. |
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| By: | | /s/ David A. Palamé |
| Name: | | David A. Palamé |
| Title: | | General Counsel and Secretary |
Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
