PZN Pzena Investment Management Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 31, 2022

Registration No. 333-172257

Registration No. 333-194885

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-172257

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-194885

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Pzena Investment Management, Inc.

320 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10022

(212) 355-1600

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

Jessica R. Doran

Chief Financial Officer

Pzena Investment Management, Inc.

320 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10022

(212) 355-1600

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

Copies to:

Scott Golenbock, Esq.

Brett Nadritch, Esq.

Milbank LLP

55 Hudson Yards

New York, New York 10001

(212) 530-5000

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

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

These post-effective amendments (the “Post-Effective Amendments”) relate to the following registration statements on Form S-3 (together, the “Registration Statements”) filed by Pzena Investment Management, Inc. (the “Company”):

The Company is no longer issuing securities under the Registration Statements. These Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements are being filed in order to deregister all securities that were registered under the Registration Statements and remain unissued thereunder.

On October 31, 2022, the Company merged with and into Panda Merger Sub, LLC pursuant to Section 264 of the Delaware General Corporation Law and Section 18-209 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the “Merger”), with Panda Merger Sub, LLC emerging as the surviving company (the “Transaction”).

In connection with the Transaction, the Company has terminated all offerings of the Company’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. Accordingly, pursuant to the undertaking contained in the Registration Statements 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 is filing these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements to deregister all such securities of the Company registered under the Registration Statements that remain unsold as of the effective time of the Transaction, if any.

The foregoing description of the Transaction contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the Merger Agreement, which is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Form 8-K filed with the SEC by Pzena Investment Management, Inc. on October 31, 2022.

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 these Post-Effective Amendments to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, New York, on October 31, 2022. The following person is signing these Post-Effective Amendments on behalf of the registrant in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act.