ACC American Campus Communities Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 9, 2022

Registration No. 333-224656

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

12700 Hill Country Blvd., Suite T-200

Austin, Texas 78738

(512) 732-1000

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

American Campus Communities, Inc. 2018 Incentive Award Plan

(Full Title of Plan)

William C. Bayless, Jr.

Chief Executive Officer

American Campus Communities, Inc.

12700 Hill Country Blvd., Suite T-200

Austin, Texas 78738

(512) 732-1000

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

Copy to:

Brian M. Stadler

Matthew B. Rogers

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

425 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10017

(212) 455-2000

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or 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 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 Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-224656) (the “Registration Statement”) of American Campus Communities, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 3, 2018.

On August 9, 2022, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 18, 2022, among the Company, Abacus Parent LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Abacus Merger Sub I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Merger Sub I”), Abacus Merger Sub II LLC, a Maryland limited liability company, and American Campus Communities Operating Partnership LP, a Maryland limited partnership, the Company merged with and into Merger Sub I, with Merger Sub I continuing as the surviving company in the merger (the “Merger”), under the name “American Campus Communities LLC”.

As a result of the Merger, any and all offerings of securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. 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 registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, Merger Sub I, as successor to the Company, hereby removes from registration all securities registered under the Registration Statement but unsold as of the date hereof.