As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2024
Registration No. 333-273841
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM F-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
GENIUS GROUP LIMITED
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Not Applicable
(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)
Singapore | 8200 | Not Applicable | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification number) |
8 Amoy Street, #01-01
Singapore 049950
Tel: +65 8940 1200
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
Puglisi & Associates
850 Library Avenue, Suite 204
Newark, DE 19711
Tel: (302) 738-6680
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies of all communications, including communications
sent to agent for service, should be sent to:
Jolie Kahn, Esq. 12 E. 49th Street, 11th floor New York, NY 10017 Tel: (516) 217-6379 Fax: (866) 705-3071 |
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP 525 W. Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60661-3693 Attn: Mark D. Wood Alyse Sagalchik Tel: (312) 902-5200 |
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.
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, 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 post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) 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. ☒ 333-273841
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.
Emerging growth company | ||
☒ |
If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not 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. ☐
† The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.
The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The Registration Statement on Form F-1 (No. 333-273841) of Genius Group Limited was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as of 5:00 PM Eastern Time on January 11, 2024. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to that Registration Statement is being filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(d) solely to file updated Exhibits 5.1 and 5.2 as part of the Registration Statement. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 does not modify any provision of Part I or Part II of the Registration statement other than supplementing Item 8 of Part II as set forth below and shall become effective upon filing with the Commission in accordance with Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Item 8. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.
a) | Exhibits |
The exhibits listed below are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Registration Statement on Form F-1.
Exhibit Number | Description of Document | |
5.1 | Opinion of Allen & Gledhill LLP regarding legality of offered shares | |
5.2 |
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 F-1 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Singapore, on January 16, 2024.
GENIUS GROUP LIMITED | ||
By: | /s/ Roger James Hamilton | |
Name: | Roger James Hamilton | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature | Title | Date | ||
/s/ Roger James Hamilton | Chief Executive Officer, Chairman | January 16, 2024 | ||
Roger James Hamilton | (principal executive officer) | |||
/s/ Suraj Naik | Chief Technology Officer, | January 16, 2024 | ||
Suraj Naik | Director | |||
/s/ Jeremy Harris | Chief Financial Officer | January 16, 2024 | ||
Jeremy Harris | (principal financial and accounting officer) | |||
/s/ Richard J. Berman | Director | January 16, 2024 | ||
Richard J. Berman | ||||
/s/ Salim Ismail | Director | January 16, 2024 | ||
Salim Ismail | ||||
/s/ Eric Pulier | Director | January 16, 2024 | ||
Eric Pulier |
Power of Attorney
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS that each individual whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Roger Hamilton, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, to this registration statement, and to sign any registration statement for the same offering covered by this registration statement that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 increasing the number of shares for which registration is sought, and all post-effective amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, making such changes in this registration statement as such attorney-in-fact and agent so acting deem appropriate, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done with respect to the offering of securities contemplated by this registration statement, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agent or any of them, or his, her or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done or by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature | Title | Date | ||
/s/ Roger James Hamilton | Chief Executive Officer, | January 16, 2024 | ||
Roger James Hamilton | Chairman (principal executive officer) | |||
/s/ Jeremy Harris | Chief Financial Officer | January 16, 2024 | ||
Jeremy Harris | (principal financial and accounting officer) | |||
/s/ Suraj Naik | Chief Technology Officer, Director | January 16, 2024 | ||
Suraj Naik | ||||
/s/ Richard J. Berman | Director | January 16, 2024 | ||
Richard J. Berman | ||||
/s/ Salim Ismail | Director | January 16, 2024 | ||
Salim Ismail | ||||
/s/ Eric Pulier | Director | January 16, 2024 | ||
Eric Pulier |
Signature of Authorized Representative in The United States
Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of Genius Group Limited, has signed this registration statement or amendment thereto in Newark, Delaware on January 16, 2024.
PUGLISI & ASSOCIATES | ||
By: | /s/ Mr. Donald J. Puglisi | |
Name: | Mr. Donald J. Puglisi | |
Title: | Managing Director |