NGHC National General Holdings Corporation

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 4, 2021

Registration No. 333-224717

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective

Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT (No. 333-224717)

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

59 Maiden Lane, 38th Floor

New York, New York 10038

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Jeffrey Weissmann

National General Holdings Corp.

59 Maiden Lane, 38th Floor

New York, New York 10038

(212) 380-9500

With a copy to:

Daniel G. Gordon

Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, and Assistant Secretary

The Allstate Corporation

2775 Sanders Road, Suite A2W, Northbrook, Illinois 60062-6127

(847) 402-5000

(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.

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by National General Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”):

Pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 7, 2020 (the “Merger Agreement”), among The Allstate Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Bluebird Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and the Company, on January 4, 2021, Merger Sub was merged with and into the Company, with the Company surviving as an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”). As a result of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company has terminated all offerings of its securities, including pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking 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 which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes and withdraws from registration all securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the effective time of the Merger. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities, and the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is hereby terminated.

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 New York, New York, on this 4^th day of January, 2021.

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 the Registration Statement.