QTS QTS Realty Trust Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 31, 2021 

Registration No. 333-191674

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

12851 Foster Street, Overland Park, KS 66213 

(913) 814-9988 

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

QTS Realty Trust, Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan 

(Full Title of Plan)

Matt Thomson 

General Counsel 

QTS Realty Trust, LLC 

12851 Foster Street, Overland Park, KS 66213 

(913) 312-5503 

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

Copy to:

Brian M. Stadler 

Anthony F. Vernace 

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. 333-191674) (the “Registration Statement”) of QTS Realty Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 10, 2013.

On August 31, 2021, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 7, 2021, among the Company, Volt Upper Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Volt Lower Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Merger Sub I”), Volt Acquisition LP, a Delaware limited partnership, and QualityTech, LP, a Delaware 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 “QTS Realty Trust, 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.

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