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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 3, 2025

Registration No. 333-267100

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-267100

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

MANITEX INTERNATIONAL, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Michigan

42-1628978

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

9725 Industrial Drive

Bridgeview, Illinois 60455

(708) 430-7500

(Address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

J. Michael Coffey

Chief Executive Officer

Manitex International, Inc.

9725 Industrial Drive

Bridgeview, Illinois 60455

708-430-7500

(Address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Todd M. Kaye, Esq.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

211 North Broadway, Suite 3600

St. Louis, MO 63102

(314) 259-2000

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

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

Manitex International, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) this post-effective amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) to deregister all securities of the Registrant, previously registered under the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”):

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Registration Statement No. 333-267100, filed with the SEC on August 26, 2022, registering up to a total dollar amount of $75,000,000 of the Registrant’s common stock, no par value per share; preferred stock, no par value per share; debt securities; warrants; units; or purchase rights in one or more offerings.

On January 2, 2025, pursuant to the terms and conditions of that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of September 12, 2024, by and among the Registrant, Tadano Ltd., a Japanese corporation (“Tadano”) and Lift SPC Inc., a Michigan corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Tadano (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant continuing as the surviving corporation. As a result of the Merger, the Registrant became a wholly owned subsidiary of Tadano.

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated 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 unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Registrant hereby removes from registration the securities registered but remaining unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

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 a Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement described above to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Bridgeview, State of Illinois, on January 3, 2025.


MANITEX INTERNATIONAL, INC.

By:		/s/ J. Michael Coffey
		J. Michael Coffey
		Chief Executive Officer

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

SEC Form POS AM filed by Manitex International Inc.