HMN Financial Inc.

10/04/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/04/2024 11:35

Post Effective Amendment to Registration Statement Form POS AM

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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 4, 2024

Registration No. 333-156883

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

HMN Financial, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

41-1777397

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

1016 Civic Center Drive Northwest

Rochester, Minnesota 55901

Telephone: (507) 535-1200

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including

area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)

Jon Eberle

Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

1016 Civic Center Drive Northwest

Rochester, Minnesota 55901

Telephone: (507) 535-1200

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including

area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

April Hamlin, Esq.

Ballard Spahr LLP

2000 IDS Center

80 South Eighth Street

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

(612) 371-3211

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not Applicable.

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TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, File No. 333-156883 (the "Registration Statement") filed by HMN Financial, Inc. (the "Company") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The Registration Statement was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 27, 2009. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is being filed to deregister any and all securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued as of the date hereof under the Registration Statement :

Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger between the Company and Alerus Financial Corporation ("Alerus") dated May 14, 2024 (the "Merger Agreement"), the Company will merge into Alerus, with Alerus as the surviving corporation. As a result of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement and, in accordance with undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, hereby removes and withdraws from registration all securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of these 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-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Rochester, State of Minnesota on October 4, 2024.

HMN FINANCIAL, INC.

By: /s/ Jon Eberle

Jon Eberle

Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

and Treasurer

Pursuant to the Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement.