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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2024

Registration No. 333-271740

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-271740

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

FG Group Holdings Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Nevada

47-0587703

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

5960 Fairview Road, Suite 275

Charlotte, North Carolina 28210

(704) 994-8279

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

Mark Roberson

Chief Executive Officer

FG Group Holdings Inc.

5960 Fairview Road, Suite 275

Charlotte, North Carolina 28210

(704) 994-8279

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

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE – DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

FG Group Holdings Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relating to Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-271740) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 8, 2023 (the “Registration Statement”).

On February 29, 2024, pursuant to the terms of a Plan of Merger, dated as of January 3, 2024 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Registrant, FG Financial Group, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“FGF”), and FG Group LLC, a Nevada limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of FGF (“Merger Sub”), the Registrant merged with and into Merger Sub, with Merger Sub surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of FGF (the “Merger”), at which time the Registrant’s equity securities ceased to be publicly traded.

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.

Accordingly, the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in 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, removes from registration any and all securities of the Registrant that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold under the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement is hereby amended to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

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 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Charlotte, State of North Carolina, on March 1, 2024.

	FG Group Holdings Inc.

	By:	/s/ Mark D. Roberson
		Mark D. Roberson
		Chief Executive Officer

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 of the Securities Act.

SEC Form POS AM filed by FG Group Holdings Inc.