MSC Studio City International Holdings Limited

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2021

Registration No. 333-248804

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM F-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

STUDIO CITY INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Not Applicable

(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)

36th Floor, The Centrium

60 Wyndham Street

Central

Hong Kong

+852 25983600

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Cogency Global Inc.

122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor

New York, New York 10168

USA

+1 800 221-0102

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

Copies to:

David T. Zhang

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

c/o 26th Floor, Gloucester Tower, The Landmark

15 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

+852 3761-3300

Tim Cruickshank

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10022

(212) 446-4800

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed to deregister all of the unsold securities previously registered under the registration statement.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1, or this Post-Effective Amendment, is filed by Studio City International Holdings Limited, a Cayman Islands exempted company, or Studio City, and amends the registration statement initially filed on Form F-3 (File No. 333-248804) with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the Commission, on September 15, 2020, or, as amended on September 25, 2020, the Registration Statement, and declared effective by the Commission on September 29, 2020, which registered 32,215,239 American Depositary Shares, representing 128,860,956 Class A Ordinary Shares of Studio City, par value US$0.0001 per share, or the Shares, to be sold from time to time and at indeterminate prices by the selling shareholders named therein. Studio City has filed this Post-Effective Amendment to deregister any of the Shares that remain unsold under the Registration Statement.

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 Form F-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form F-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Hong Kong, China, on March 19, 2021.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated below on March 19, 2021.

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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE

Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of Studio City International Holdings Limited, has signed this registration statement or amendment thereto in the city of New York, New York, on March 19, 2021.