HZN Horizon Global Corporation

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

Registration No. 333-264862

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-264862

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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)

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.

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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”):

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.

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.