As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2021

Registration No. 333-241707

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT No. 1,

ON FORM S-8, TO FORM S-4

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CLEVER LEAVES HOLDINGS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

CLEVER LEAVES INTERNATIONAL INC. (F/K/A NORTHERN SWAN HOLDINGS, INC.) 2018 OMNIBUS INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN, AS AMENDED

(Full title of the plan)

Kyle Detwiler

489 Fifth Avenue, 27^th Floor

New York, New York 10017

(646) 880-4382

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

Copies to:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

On December 18, 2020 (the “Closing”), Clever Leaves International Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of British Columbia, Canada (“Clever Leaves”), and Schultze Special Purpose Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“SAMA”), consummated the business combination (the “Business Combination”) contemplated by the Amended and Restated Business Combination Agreement, dated as of November 9, 2020 (the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among SAMA, Clever Leaves, the Registrant and Novel Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Pursuant to the terms of the Business Combination Agreement, at the Closing, each outstanding Clever Leaves option, whether vested or unvested, that was outstanding immediately prior to the Closing was, as of the Closing, converted (as converted, a “Converted Option Award”), in accordance with the calculation methodology set forth in the Business Combination Agreement, into an option award (x) exercisable for the aggregate number of Shares of the Registrant equal to the product (rounded down to the nearest whole number) of (i) the number of Clever Leaves common shares exercisable under the Clever Leaves option immediately prior to the Closing and (ii) 0.3288 (the “Exchange Ratio”) and (y) with a per share exercise price equal to the quotient (rounded up to the nearest cent) obtained by dividing (i) the per share exercise price under the Clever Leaves option immediately prior to the Closing by (ii) the Exchange Ratio. Each Converted Option Award is otherwise subject to the same terms and conditions (including any vesting requirements) set forth under the applicable award agreement in effect immediately prior to the Closing.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

* Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Post-Effective Amendment in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the “Note” to Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing the information specified in this Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to the participants (“participants”) in the Plan covered by this Post-Effective Amendment, as specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. Such documents are not required to be and are not filed with the Commission either as part of this Post-Effective Amendment or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Post-Effective Amendment pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission are incorporated as of their respective dates in this Post-Effective Amendment by reference:

All other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (except for any portions of the Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K furnished pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 thereof and any corresponding exhibits thereto not filed with the Commission, and other documents or information deemed furnished but not filed under the rules of the Commission), prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Post-Effective Amendment that indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Post-Effective Amendment and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document all or a portion of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Post-Effective Amendment to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Post-Effective Amendment.

Not required.

None.

Under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) (“BCA”), a company may indemnify a director or officer, a former director or officer, or a person who acts or acted at the company’s request as a director or officer, or an individual acting in a similar capacity, of another entity, which we refer to as an eligible party, against all costs, charges and expenses, including an amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment, reasonably incurred by him or her in respect of any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other proceeding in which he or she is involved because of that association with the company or other entity, if: (1) the individual acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of such company or the other entity, as the case may be; and (2) in the case of a proceeding other than a civil proceeding, the individual had reasonable grounds for believing that the individual’s conduct was lawful. A company cannot indemnify an eligible party if it is prohibited from doing so under its articles, even if it had agreed to do so by an indemnification agreement (provided that the articles prohibited indemnification when the indemnification agreement was made). A company may advance the expenses of an eligible party as they are incurred in an eligible proceeding only if the eligible party has provided an undertaking that, if it is ultimately determined that the payment of expenses was prohibited, the eligible party will repay any amounts advanced. On application from an eligible party, a court may make any order the court considers appropriate in respect of an eligible proceeding, including the indemnification of penalties imposed or expenses incurred in any such proceedings and the enforcement of an indemnification agreement.

The Registrant’s amended and restated articles (the “Articles”) require the Registrant to indemnify an eligible party and his or her heirs and legal personal representatives against all eligible penalties to which such person is or may be liable, and the Registrant must after final disposition of an eligible proceeding, pay the expenses actually and reasonably incurred by such person in respect of that proceeding. Each eligible party is deemed to have contracted with the Registrant on the terms of the indemnity contained in the Articles. Subject to the BCA, the Registrant may also indemnify any other person. In addition, the Articles specify that failure of an eligible party to comply with the provisions of the BCA or the Articles, or if applicable, any former legislation or articles, will not invalidate any indemnity to which he or she is entitled. The Articles also allow for the Registrant to purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of specified eligible parties.

The Registrant entered into indemnity agreements with the Registrant’s directors and certain officers (the “Nominees”). Subject to certain limited exceptions, the indemnity agreements provide indemnification for all liabilities or obligations imposed upon or incurred by each Nominee and his or her heirs, executors, administrators and personal representatives (each, an “indemnitee” and, collectively, the “indemnitees”) at law, in equity or under any statute or regulation and all expenses in relation to any claim, action, proceeding, investigation, or order whether civil, criminal or administrative and whether made or commenced by any person by reason of: (i) the Nominee being or having been a director, alternate director, officer or a person in an equivalent position of the Registrant or any associated corporation (as defined in the BCA), or (ii) any act or omission, whether or not negligent, of the Nominee acting as a director, alternate director, officer or a person in an equivalent position of the Registrant or any associated corporation, including without limitation, legal fees and disbursements and all costs of investigation and defense incurred by the indemnitees as permitted by applicable law and pursuant to the indemnity agreement.

The Registrant may purchase insurance policies relating to certain liabilities that our directors and officers may incur in such capacity.

Not applicable.

The exhibits listed on the exhibit index at the end of this Post-Effective Amendment are included in this Post-Effective Amendment.

(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Post-Effective Amendment.

(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in this Post-Effective Amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission 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 director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, 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.

EXHIBITS

* Filed herewith

SIGNATURES

The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in New York, New York on the 26^th day of February, 2021.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints each of Kyle Detwiler, Henry R. Hague, III and David M. Kastin as such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to the Post-Effective Amendment, including post-effective amendments, and registration statements filed pursuant to Rule 462 under the Securities Act, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, and does hereby grant unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each said attorney-in-fact and agent, or any substitute therefor, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the 26^th day of February, 2021:

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