SWCH Switch Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 6, 2022

Registration No. 333-220908

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

Form S-8

Registration No. 333-220908

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Switch, Inc. 2017 Incentive Award Plan

(Full title of the plans)

Thomas Morton

President and Chief Legal Officer

Switch, Inc.

7135 S. Decatur Boulevard

Las Vegas, NV 89118

(Name and address of agent for service)

(702) 444-4111

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

If an emerging growth company, 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.  ☐

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by Switch, Inc. (the “Registrant”):

The Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to deregister all securities that remain unsold under the above-referenced Registration Statement.

On December 6, 2022, pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 11, 2022, by and among Switch, Ltd., a Nevada limited liability company (“Company Ltd.”), Sunshine Merger Sub, Ltd., a Nevada limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Registrant (“Company Merger Sub”), Sunshine Bidco Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Sunshine Parent Merger Sub Inc., a Nevada corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Parent Merger Sub”), and the Registrant, Parent Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”) and Company Merger Sub merged with and into Company Ltd., with Company Ltd. continuing as the surviving entity (the “LLC Merger” and, together with the Merger, the “Mergers”).

As a result of the Mergers, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unissued at the termination of the offerings, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all securities registered but unsold under such Registration Statement, if any, as of the date hereof.