Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 28, 2007

Registration No. 333-134017

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


EMBARQ CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   20-2923630

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

5454 W. 110th Street

Overland Park, Kansas

  66211
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Embarq Corporation 2006 Equity Incentive Plan

Embarq Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full title of the plans)

 


Claudia S. Toussaint, Esq.

General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Embarq Corporation

5454 W. 110th Street

Overland Park, Kansas 66211

(Name and address of agent for service)

(913) 323-4637

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 


 


DEREGISTRATION OF PLAN INTERESTS

Embarq Corporation, a Delaware Corporation (the “Company”) is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) in order to deregister all Plan interests under the Embarq Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Plan”) that were originally registered pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 11, 2006 (Registration No. 333-134017)(the “Registration Statement”). Effective October 1, 2007, the Company amended the Plan to provide that interests in the Plan are no longer being offered or sold to participants. Unissued shares of the Company’s common stock issuable pursuant to the Plan and registered pursuant to the Registration Statement are unaffected by this Post-Effective Amendment.

 

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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 of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Overland Park, State of Kansas, on December 28, 2007.

 

EMBARQ CORPORATION

By:

  /s/ Thomas A. Gerke
 

Name:

Title:

 

Thomas A. Gerke

Interim President and

Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Thomas A. Gerke

Thomas A. Gerke

  

Interim President and Chief Executive Officer

    (Principal Executive Officer)

  December 28, 2007

*

Gene M. Betts

  

Chief Financial Officer

    (Principal Financial Officer)

  December 28, 2007

/s/ Richard B. Green

Richard B. Green

  

Controller

    (Principal Accounting Officer)

  December 28, 2007

*

Peter C. Brown

   Director   December 28, 2007

*

Steven A. Davis

   Director   December 28, 2007

 

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Richard M. Gephardt

   Director                           , 2007

*

John P. Mullen

   Director   December 28, 2007

*

William A. Owens

   Director   December 28, 2007

*

Dinesh C. Paliwal

   Director   December 28, 2007

*

Stephanie M. Shern

   Director   December 28, 2007

*

Laurie A. Siegel

   Director   December 28, 2007

*By:

 

/s/ Thomas A. Gerke

Thomas A. Gerke, as Attorney-in-Fact

 

 

 

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Overland Park, State of Kansas, on December 28, 2007.

 

EMBARQ CORPORATION

EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE

PLAN

By:

  /s/ Pamela L. Winterman
 

Name:

Title:

 

Pamela L. Winterman

Plan Administrator

 

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