Equity Inns Inc - Post-Effective Amendment to Registration Statement (POS AM)

Registration No. 333-25013

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

EQUITY INNS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Tennessee		62-1550848
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

7700 Wolf River Boulevard
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 754-7774
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

EQUITY INNS, INC.

1994 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

(Full title of the plan)

J. Mitchell Collins
Chief Financial Officer
Equity Inns, Inc.
7700 Wolf River Boulevard
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 754-7774
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies of all communications, including communications sent to agent for service, should be sent to:

Howard A. Silver
Chief Executive Officer
7700 Wolf River Boulevard
Germantown, Tennessee 38138
(901) 754-7774

EXPLANATORY NOTE

On April 11, 1997, Equity Inns, Inc. (the “Company”) filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (Reg. No. 333-25013) (the “Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) registering the offer and sale of 2,300,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.01 par value (the “Shares”). This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is an amendment to the Registration Statement. On October 25, 2007 (the “Effective Time”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 20, 2007, among Grace I, LLC, Grace Acquisition I, Inc. (“Merger Subsidiary”), Grace II, L.P., Equity Inns Partnership, L.P. and the Company, the Company will merge with and into Merger Subsidiary with Merger Subsidiary being the surviving corporation. All offerings under the Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with the undertakings made by the Company to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the Shares registered under the Registration Statement which remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Company hereby removes from registration all Shares registered under the Registration Statement which remain unsold.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that is 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 No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Memphis, State of Tennessee on the 25th day of October, 2007.


EQUITY INNS, INC.
By:	/s/ J. Mitchell Collins
	Name:	J. Mitchell Collins
	Title:	Chief Financial Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the 25th day of October 2007.


Signature		Capacity
/s/ Howard A. Silver Howard A. Silver		Chief Executive Officer, President and Director (principal executive officer)
/s/ J. Mitchell Collins J. Mitchell Collins		Chief Financial Officer (principal accounting officer)
* Phillip H. McNeill, Sr.		Chairman of the Board, Director
/s/ Harry S. Hays Harry S. Hays		Director
/s/ Joseph W. McLeary Joseph W. McLeary		Director
/s/ Raymond E. Schultz Raymond E. Schultz		Director
/s/ Robert P. Bowen Robert P. Bowen		Director