As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 12, 2009
| Registration No. 33-99180 |
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 3
TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
SILVERSTAR HOLDINGS LTD.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Bermuda | Not Applicable | ||
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Incorporation or organization) | Identification No.) |
Clarendon House, Church Street
Hamilton HM CX Bermuda
(441) 295-1422
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
Including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Clive Kabatznik
1900 Glades Road, Suite 435
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 479-0040
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
Including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
Henry I. Rothman, Esq.
Troutman Sanders LLP
The Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10174
(212) 704-6000
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable
If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. o
If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. o
If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o
If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o
If this Form this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. o
If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check One):
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| Smaller reporting company x |
DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES
On November 9, 1995, Silverstar Holdings, Ltd., a Bermuda corporation (the “Company”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 33-99180), as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed with the SEC on December 12, 1995, as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 filed with the SEC on January 16, 1996, as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3 filed with the SEC on January 24, 1996, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed with the SEC on November 12, 1996, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on April 9, 1998 (the “Registration Statement”), registering for resale 2,591,301 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, issuable upon exercise of the Class A and Class B Warrants issued in connection with the Company’s initial public offering. Each Class A Warrant entitled the holder to purchase one share of Common Stock and one Class B Warrant for $6.50 until January 24, 2001. Each Class B Warrant entitled the holder to purchase one share of Common Stock for $8.75 until January 24, 2001. The Registration Statement was declared effective by the SEC on April 23, 1998.
This Post Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement deregisters all of the shares of common stock of the Company which remain unsold under the Registration Statement, as provided in the Company’s undertakings given pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 512(a)(3). As a result of this deregistration, no securities remain registered for resale pursuant to this 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 of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Boca Raton, State of Florida, on May 12, 2009.
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| By: | /s/ Clive Kabatznik |
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Name: | Clive Kabatznik | ||
Title: | President | ||
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the date indicated.
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Michael Levy | Chairman of the Board of Directors | May 12, 2009 | ||
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/s/ Clive Kabatznik | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and Director |
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Clive Kabatznik | (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer) | May 12, 2009 | ||
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Cornelius J. Roodt | Director | May 12, 2009 | ||
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Edward L. Bernstein | Director |
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Edward Roffman | Director |
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By: | /s/ Clive Kabatznik |
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Name: | Clive Kabatznik |
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Title: | Attorney-in-fact |
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