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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 24, 2025

Registration No. 333-276336

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

MeridianLink, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	82-4844620
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

1 Venture, Suite 235

Irvine, CA 92618

(714) 708-6950

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

Laurence E. Katz

Chief Executive Officer and President

MeridianLink, Inc.

1 Venture, Suite 235

Irvine, CA 92618

(717) 462-1662

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

With copies to:

Sharon Freiman, P.C.

Katherine Shaia
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
601 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10022
(212) 446-4800

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Deregistration of Unsold Securities

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-276336) (the “Registration Statement”) originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by MeridianLink, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), on December 29, 2023, pertaining to the registration of (i) the offer and sale by the Company from time to time, in one or more offerings, of up to $500,000,000 in the aggregate of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), preferred stock, warrants, debt securities and/or units consisting of some or all of these securities, in any combination, together or separately, in one or more offerings, in amounts, at prices and on the terms determined at the time of the offering and (ii) the resale by the selling stockholders of up to 57,252,193 shares of Common Stock.

On October 24, 2025, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 11, 2025, by and among the Company, ML Holdco, Inc. (as successor to ML Holdco, LLC), a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and ML Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company surviving the merger as a private company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”).

As a result of the Merger, the Company is terminating all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement by filing this Post-Effective Amendment. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the Company’s securities registered under the Registration Statement which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration any securities registered under the Registration Statement which remain unsold as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment, and the Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities and the termination of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement. After giving effect to this Post-Effective Amendment, there will be no remaining securities registered by the Company pursuant to the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irvine, California, on the 24th day of October, 2025. No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

MERIDIANLINK, INC.

By:	/s/ Laurence E. Katz
	Laurence E. Katz
	Chief Executive Officer and President