As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2023
Registration No. 333-254000

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549  
        
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
    
AVALO THERAPEUTICS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
45-0705648
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

540 Gaither Road, Suite 400
Rockville, Maryland 20850
Telephone: (410) 522-8707
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
    
Christopher Sullivan
Chief Financial Officer
Avalo Therapeutics, Inc.
540 Gaither Road, Suite 400
Rockville, Maryland 20850
Telephone: (410) 522-8707
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:
Donald R. Reynolds
Andrew J. Gibbons
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300
Raleigh, North Carolina 27607
Telephone: (919) 781-4000
Fax: (919) 781-4865
        







Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. This post-effective amendment deregisters those securities that remain unsold hereunder as of the date hereof.
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This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statements on Form S-3 shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to Section 8(c) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, may determine.
    




DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment No. 1”) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-254000) (the “Registration Statement”) is being filed by Avalo Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Registrant”) to deregister all of the $79,030,775 of securities that remain unsold under the Registration Statement.

The Registration Statement was filed on March 8, 2021, and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 19, 2021. The Registration Statement registered the offer and sale of up to $150,000,000 of the Registrant’s common stock, (par value $0.001 per share), preferred stock (no par value per share), debt securities and/or warrants to purchase any of such securities.

The Registrant, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1, hereby removes from registration any and all securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II, Item 17 of the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

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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 S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Rockville, State of Maryland, on the 25th day of April, 2023.

AVALO THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Date: April 25, 2023By:/s/ Christopher Sullivan
Christopher Sullivan
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

Pursuant to Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-3.

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