As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19, 2011
Registration No. 333-159051
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Global Crossing Limited
(n/k/a Level 3 GC Limited)
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Bermuda | | 98-0407042 |
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) | | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
Wessex House, 1st Floor 45 Reid Street, Hamilton, Bermuda (441) 296-8600 | | HM 12 |
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) | | (Zip Code) |
John M. Ryan, Esq.
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
1025 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, Colorado 80021
(720) 888-1000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
David K. Boston, Esq.
Laura L. Delanoy, Esq.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
787 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public: Not applicable.
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-159051) (the “Registration Statement”) of Global Crossing Limited (n/k/a Level 3 GC Limited), a Bermuda exempted limited liability company (Global Crossing Limited, “Global Crossing”, and Level 3 GC Limited, the “Company”), filed on May 7, 2009, pertaining to an aggregate amount of $500,000,000 of debt securities, common shares or warrants of the Company.
On October 4, 2011, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Amalgamation (the “Amalgamation Agreement”), dated as of April 10, 2011, by and among Level 3 Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Level 3”), Apollo Amalgamation Sub, Ltd., a Bermuda exempted limited liability company (“Amalgamation Sub”), and Global Crossing, Amalgamation Sub and Global Crossing amalgamated in accordance with Bermuda law (the “Amalgamation”) and continued as the Company, a Bermuda exempted limited liability company.
As a result of the Amalgamation, the Company has terminated, or is terminating simultaneously with this Post-Effective Amendment, all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, pursuant to an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all of such securities of the Company registered but unsold as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment and terminates the effectiveness of this Registration Statement.
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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-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 the City of Broomfield, State of Colorado, on October 19, 2011.
| LEVEL 3 GC LIMITED (as successor to Global Crossing Limited) |
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| By: | /s/ Neil J. Eckstein |
| | Name: Neil J. Eckstein |
| | Title: Senior Vice President |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature | | Title | | Date |
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/s/ James Q. Crowe | | Director | | October 19, 2011 |
James Q. Crowe | | | | |
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| | Director | | October 19, 2011 |
Jeff K. Storey | | | | |
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/s/ John M. Ryan | | Director and President | | October 19, 2011 |
John M. Ryan | | (Principal Executive Officer) | | |
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/s/ Sunit S. Patel | | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | | October 19, 2011 |
Sunit S. Patel | | (Principal Financial Officer) | | |
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/s/ Eric J. Mortensen | | Senior Vice President and Controller | | |
Eric J. Mortensen | | (Controller) | | |
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Authorized Representative in the United States: | | | | |
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/s/ Neil J. Eckstein | | Senior Vice President | | October 19, 2011 |
Neil J. Eckstein | | | | |
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