As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 16, 2012

 

Registration No. 333-154774

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

 

KULICKE AND SOFFA INDUSTRIES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Pennsylvania (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

24-1498399 (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

6 Serangoon North Avenue 5, #03-16 Singapore 554910 (215) 245-9100 (Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Joseph Elgindy Investor Relations Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. 1005 Virginia Drive Fort Washington, Pennsylvania 19034 (215) 245-9100 (Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

 

 

 

Copy to:

 

F. Douglas Raymond, III, Esq.

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

One Logan Square

Philadelphia, PA 19103-6996

(215) 988-2548

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement deregisters those securities that remain unsold hereunder as of the effective date hereof.

 

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

 

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) initially filed a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (file no. 333-154774) with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2008 (the “Registration Statement), pursuant to which the Company registered 7,117,438 shares of common stock, no par value (the “Shares”).

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement is being filed to deregister all of the Shares that were registered pursuant to the Registration Statement and that remain unsold thereunder as of the date hereof.

 

The Company’s contractual obligation to maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has expired. Accordingly, pursuant to the undertaking of the Company as required by Item 512(a)(3) of Regulation S-K, the Company hereby amends the Registration Statement by deregistering all of the Shares that were registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

 

 

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 the requirements for filing on Form S-3 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 Singapore, on November 16, 2012.

 

 

	KULICKE AND SOFFA INDUSTRIES, INC.
	By: /s/ Lester Wong
	Lester Wong
	Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel