485BPOS 1 scharfexhibitonly.htm 485BPOS Scharf Exhibit Only

SEC Filing Number: 333-260977




U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM N-14

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

/ / Pre-Effective Amendment No.         / X / Post-Effective Amendment No. 1


ADVISORS SERIES TRUST
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
 
615 East Michigan Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code) (626) 914-7363
 
Jeffrey T. Rauman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Advisors Series Trust
c/o U.S. Bank Global Fund Services
777 East Wisconsin Avenue, 5th Floor
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
(Name and Address of Agent for Service) 
Copies to:

Domenick Pugliese, Esq.
Sullivan & Worcester LLP
1633 Broadway, 32nd Floor
New York, New York 10019

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Title of the securities being registered: Shares of beneficial interest, with no par value, of Scharf Multi-Asset Opportunity Fund.

The Registrant hereby amends the Registration Statement to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment that specifically states that the Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act, or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to Section 8(a), may determine.

No filing fee is due because the Registrant is relying on Section 24(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.





PART C
Other Information
Item 15. Indemnification

Reference is made to Article VII of the Registrant’s Agreement and Declaration of Trust, Article VI of Registrant’s Amended and Restated By-Laws and Paragraph 7 of the Distribution Agreement.

    Pursuant to Rule 484 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Registrant furnishes the following undertaking: “Insofar as indemnification for liability arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to trustees, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that, in the opinion of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a trustee, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such trustee, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.”

Item 16. Exhibits
Exhibit No.Exhibit
(1)
Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated October 18, 2018, was previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 866 to the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A on January 23, 2019, and is incorporated herein by reference.
(2)
(3)Voting Agreements - Not Applicable.
(4)Form of Agreement and Plan of Reorganization - filed as Appendix A to this Combined Proxy Statement and Prospectus
(5)
Instruments Defining Rights of Security Holders are incorporated by reference into the Trust’s Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust and Amended and Restated By-Laws.
(6)
(6)(a)
(7)
(7)(a)
(7)(b)
(7)(c)



(7)(d)
(7)(e)
(8)Bonus or Profit Sharing Contracts - Not Applicable.
(9)
(9)(a)
(9)(b)
(9)(c)
(10)
(10)(a)
(10)(b)
(10)(c)
(11)
(12)
(13)(a)
(13)(a)(i)
(13)(a)(ii)
(13)(a)(iii)
(13)(a)(iv)



(13)(b)
(13)(b)(i)
(13)(b)(ii)
(13)(b)(iii)
(13)(c)
(13)(c)(i)
(13)(c)(ii)
(13)(c)(iii)
(13)(c)(iv)
(13)(d)
(13)(e)
(13)(e)(i)
(13)(e)(ii)
(14)Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Tait, Weller & Baker LLP – Not Applicable.
(15)Financial statements omitted - Not Applicable.
(16)
(17)(a)
(17)(b)
(17)(c)




Item 17. Undertakings                                            
(1)    The undersigned Registrant agrees that prior to any public reoffering of the securities registered through use of a prospectus which is part of this Registration Statement by any person or party who is deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of Rule 145(c) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the reoffering prospectus will contain the information called for by the applicable registration form for re-offerings by persons who may be deemed underwriters, in addition to the information called for by other items of the applicable form.

(2)    The undersigned Registrant agrees that every prospectus that is filed under paragraph (1) above will be filed as part of an amendment to the Registration Statement and will not be used until the amendment is effective, and that, in determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement for the securities offered therein, and the offering of securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering of them.










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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that has duly caused this Registration Statement on Form N-14 to be signed below on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, on the 25th day of January, 2022.

Advisors Series Trust

By: /s/ Jeffrey T. Rauman
Jeffrey T. Rauman
President, Chief Executive Officer and Principal Executive Officer


As required by the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below on January 25, 2022 by the following persons in the capacities indicated:
SignatureTitleDate
David G. Mertens*Trustee
January 25, 2022
David G. Mertens
Raymond B. Woolson*Trustee
January 25, 2022
Raymond B. Woolson
Joe D. Redwine*Trustee
January 25, 2022
Joe D. Redwine
/s/ Cheryl L. KingTreasurer, Vice President and
January 25, 2022
Cheryl L. KingPrincipal Financial Officer
/s/ Jeffrey T. RaumanPresident, Chief Executive Officer
January 25, 2022
Jeffrey T. Raumanand Principal Executive Officer
*By: /s/ Jeffrey T. Rauman
January 25, 2022
Jeffrey T. Rauman
Attorney-In Fact pursuant to
Power of Attorney