05/05/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/05/2026 13:05
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 2026
Securities Act File No. 333-290450
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM N-14
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
| THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 | ||||
| Pre-Effective Amendment No. | ☐ | |||
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 | ☒ |
COLUMBIA ETF TRUST I
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
290 Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (800) 345-6611
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Michael G. Clarke c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC 290 Congress Street Boston, Massachusetts 02210 |
Ryan C. Larrenaga, Esq. c/o Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC 290 Congress Street Boston, Massachusetts 02210 |
(Name and Address of Agents for Service)
It is proposed that this filing will become effective immediately, pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
No filing fee is due because the Registrant is relying on Section 24(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 ("Amendment") to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-14 (File No. 333-290450) (the "Registration Statement") relates solely to Columbia Research Enhanced Value ETF, a series of the Registrant. Information contained in the Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The purpose of this Amendment is to file as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, the opinion of Ropes & Gray LLP supporting the tax matters and consequences to shareholders in connection with the reorganization of Columbia Integrated Large Cap Value Fund, a series of Columbia Funds Series Trust II, with and into Columbia Research Enhanced Value ETF, a series of the Registrant, as required by Item 16(12) of Form N-14. Accordingly, this Amendment consists only of a facing page, this explanatory note, and Part C of the Registration Statement setting forth the exhibits to the Registration Statement. The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference the Combined Information Statement/Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information filed as Parts A and B, respectively, to the Registrant's Form N-14 filed on September 22, 2025 (File No. 333-290450) and subsequently filed in definitive form pursuant to Rule 497 on October 24, 2025 (SEC Accession No. 0001193125-25-211485).
COLUMBIA ETF TRUST I
PART C
OTHER INFORMATION
PART C. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 15. - Indemnification
Article Five of the Bylaws of Registrant provides that Registrant shall indemnify each of its trustees and officers (including persons who serve at Registrant's request as directors, officers or trustees of another organization in which Registrant has any interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise) who are not employees or officers of any investment adviser to Registrant or any affiliated person thereof and its chief compliance officer, regardless of whether such person is an employee or officer of any investment adviser to Registrant or any affiliated person thereof, and each of its other trustees and officers (including persons who serve at Registrant's request as directors, officers or trustees of another organization in which Registrant has any interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise) (i.e., those who are employees or officers of any investment adviser to Registrant or any affiliated person thereof) (Covered Persons) to the fullest extent authorized by applicable law against all liabilities and expenses in connection with the defense or disposition of any proceeding in which such Covered Person may be or may have been involved or with which such Covered Person may be or may have been threatened, while in office or thereafter, by reason of any alleged act or omission as a trustee or officer or by reason of his or her being or having been such a Covered Person, all as more fully set forth in the Registrant's Bylaws, which have been filed as an exhibit to this registration statement.
Section 17(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) provides that no instrument pursuant to which Registrant is organized or administered shall contain any provision which protects or purports to protect any trustee or officer of Registrant against any liability to Registrant or its shareholders to which he or she would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence, or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office.
The Registrant's Declaration of Trust provides that nothing in the Declaration of Trust shall protect any trustee or officer against any liabilities to the Registrant or its shareholders to which he or she would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office or position with or on behalf of the Registrant and the Registrant's Bylaws provides that no indemnification will be made in violation of the provisions of the 1940 Act.
The Registrant may be party to other contracts that include indemnification provisions for the benefit of the Registrant's trustees and officers.
The trustees and officers of the Registrant and the personnel of the Registrant's investment adviser are insured under an errors and omissions liability insurance policy. Registrant's investment adviser, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, maintains investment advisory professional liability insurance to insure it, for the benefit of Registrant and its non-interested trustees, against loss arising out of any error, omission, or breach of any duty owed to Registrant or any series of Registrant by Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to trustees, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant by the Registrant pursuant to the Registrant's organizational instruments or otherwise, the Registrant is aware that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and, therefore, is unenforceable.
Item 17. Undertakings
(1) The undersigned registrant agrees that prior to any public reoffering of the securities registered through the use of a prospectus which is a 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, the reoffering prospectus will contain the information called for by the applicable registration form for reofferings by persons who may be deemed underwriters, in addition to the information called for by the 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 a 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, each post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement for the securities offered therein, and the offering of the securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering of them.
EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit No. |
Description |
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| (12) | Opinion and consent of Ropes & Gray LLP supporting the tax matters discussed in the Combined Information Statement/Prospectus. | |
SIGNATURES
As required by the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed on behalf of the Registrant, COLUMBIA ETF TRUST I, by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 4th day of May, 2026.
| COLUMBIA ETF TRUST I | ||
| By: |
/s/ Michael G. Clarke |
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| Name: | Michael G. Clarke | |
| Title: | President | |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the 4th day of May, 2026.
| Signature | Capacity | Signature | Capacity | |||
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/s/ Michael G. Clarke |
President (Principal Executive Officer) |
/s/ Douglas A. Hacker * |
Trustee | |||
| Michael G. Clarke | Douglas A. Hacker | |||||
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/s/ Charles Chiesa |
Chief Financial Officer and Principal Financial Officer |
Trustee | ||||
| Charles Chiesa | Amrit Kanwal | |||||
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/s/ Marybeth Pilat |
Treasurer, Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) |
/s/ Ryan C. Larrenaga |
Trustee | |||
| Marybeth Pilat | Ryan C. Larrenaga | |||||
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/s/ Pamela G. Carlton* |
Chair of the Board |
/s/ Nancy T. Lukitsh* |
Trustee | |||
| Pamela G. Carlton | Nancy T. Lukitsh | |||||
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/s/ George S. Batejan* |
Trustee |
/s/ Jeninne C. McGee* |
Trustee | |||
| George S. Batejan | Jeninne C. McGee | |||||
|
/s/ Kathleen A. Blatz* |
Trustee |
/s/ David M. Moffett* |
Trustee | |||
| Kathleen A. Blatz | David M. Moffett | |||||
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/s/ Janet Langford Carrig* |
Trustee |
/s/ Catherine James Paglia* |
Trustee | |||
| Janet Langford Carrig | Catherine James Paglia | |||||
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/s/ J. Kevin Connaughton* |
Trustee |
/s/ Natalie A. Trunow* |
Trustee | |||
| J. Kevin Connaughton | Natalie A. Trunow | |||||
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/s/ Olive M. Darragh* |
Trustee |
/s/ Sandra L. Yeager* |
Trustee | |||
| Olive M. Darragh | Sandra L. Yeager | |||||
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/s/ Brian J. Gallagher * |
Trustee | |||||
| Brian J. Gallagher | ||||||
| * | By: |
/s/ Ryan C. Larrenaga |
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| Name: | Ryan C. Larrenaga** | |||
| Attorney-in-fact |
| ** |
Executed by Ryan C. Larrenaga on behalf of each applicable Trustee pursuant to a Power of Attorney filed with the Registration Statement of the Registrant on Form N-14 on September 22, 2025. |
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