485BXT 1 d452600d485bxt.htm FORM 485BXT Form 485BXT

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 2, 2023

File Nos. 333-92935 and 811-09729

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

  
Post-Effective Amendment No. 2,623   
and/or   

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

  
Amendment No. 2,623   

(Check appropriate box or boxes)

 

 

iShares Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

c/o BlackRock Fund Advisors

400 Howard Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

(Address of Principal Executive Office)(Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (415) 670-2000

The Corporation Trust Company

1209 Orange Street

Wilmington, DE 19801

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

 

With Copies to:

MARGERY K. NEALE, ESQ.

BENJAMIN J. HASKIN, ESQ.

ANNE C. CHOE, ESQ.

WILLKIE FARR &
GALLAGHER LLP

787 SEVENTH AVENUE

NEW YORK, NY 10019-6099

 

MARISA ROLLAND, ESQ.

BLACKROCK FUND

ADVISORS

400 HOWARD STREET

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105

 

 

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

 

 

Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

 

 

On March 31, 2023, pursuant to paragraph (b)

 

 

60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

 

 

On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

 

 

75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)

 

 

On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)

If appropriate, check the following box:

 

 

The post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

 

 

 


Explanatory Note

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 2,623 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A is being filed pursuant to paragraph (b)(1)(iii) of Rule 485 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), solely for the purpose of delaying, until March 31, 2023, the effectiveness of the registration statement for the iShares ESG Aware ICE-HIP Muni Bond ETF (the “Fund”), filed in Post-Effective Amendment No.  2,590 on September 30, 2022, pursuant to paragraph (a) of Rule 485 of the 1933 Act.

The effectiveness of the Registration Statement of the Fund was previously delayed pursuant to paragraph (b)(1)(iii) of Rule 485 of the 1933 Act as follows:

 

PEA No.

  

Date Filed

  

Automatic Effective Date

2,604

2,611

2,617

  

December 13, 2022

January 11, 2023

February 9, 2023

  

January 12, 2023

February 10, 2023

March 3, 2023

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 2,623 incorporates by reference the information contained in Parts A, B and C of Post-Effective Amendment No. 2,590.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all the requirements for the effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2,623 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of San Francisco and the State of California on the 2nd day of March, 2023.

iSHARES TRUST 

 

By:

   
 

Armando Senra*

 

President

 

Date: March 2, 2023

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2,623 to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

By:

   
 

Salim Ramji*

 

Trustee

 

Date: March 2, 2023

   
 

John E. Martinez*

 

Trustee

 

Date: March 2, 2023

   
 

Cecilia H. Herbert*

 

Trustee

 

Date: March 2, 2023

   
 

John E. Kerrigan*

 

Trustee

 

Date: March 2, 2023

   
 

Robert S. Kapito*

 

Trustee

 

Date: March 2, 2023


   
 

Madhav V. Rajan*

 

Trustee

 

Date: March 2, 2023

   
 

Jane D. Carlin*

 

Trustee

 

Date: March 2, 2023

   
 

Drew E. Lawton*

 

Trustee

 

Date: March 2, 2023

   
 

Richard L. Fagnani*

 

Trustee

 

Date: March 2, 2023

 

/s/ Trent W. Walker

 

Trent W. Walker*

 

Treasurer and Chief

Financial Officer

 

Date: March 2, 2023

*By:

 

/s/ Trent W. Walker

 

Trent W. Walker

 

Attorney-in-fact

 

Date: March 2, 2023

 

*

Powers of Attorney, each dated June 15, 2022, for Armando Senra, Salim Ramji, Jane D. Carlin, Cecilia H. Herbert, John E. Kerrigan, John E. Martinez, Madhav V. Rajan, Robert S. Kapito, Drew E. Lawton, Richard L. Fagnani and Trent W. Walker are incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 2,556, filed June 27, 2022.