As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 16, 2015
Registration No. 333-74965
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-4
REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-74965
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
UIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Connecticut | 06-1541045 | |
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
157 Church Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06510
(203) 499-2000
(Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)
Linda L. Randell
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
UIL Holdings Corporation
157 Church Street
New Haven, CT 06510
203-499-2000
(Name, Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
Copy to:
Leonard Rodriguez
Managing Counsel
UIL Holdings Corporation
157 Church Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not Applicable
If the securities being registered on this form are being offered in connection with the formation of a holding company and there is compliance with General Instruction G, please check the following box. ¨
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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed to deregister unsold securities of UIL Holdings Corporation, a Connecticut corporation (the “Registrant”) that were registered on the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (No. 333-74965) (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 24, 1999, as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 1999, as further amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 4, 1999, as further amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 10, 1999, as further amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 4, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 14, 2000, pertaining to the registration of an aggregate of 15,001,292 shares of common stock, without par value, of the Registrant.
The Registrant entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of February 25, 2015, by and among the Registrant, Iberdrola USA, Inc., a New York corporation (“IUSA”), and UIL Holdings Corporation (formerly known as Green Merger Sub, Inc.), a Connecticut corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of IUSA (“Merger Sub”), pursuant to which the Registrant merged with and into Merger Sub (the “Merger”), with Merger Sub surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of IUSA, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement. The Merger became effective on December 16, 2015.
In connection with the Merger, the offerings of the securities pursuant to the Registration Statements have been terminated. Accordingly, Merger Sub, as successor to the Registrant by virtue of the Merger, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with the undertakings contained in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that had been registered but remained unsold at the termination of the offering, removes from registration any and all securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-4 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement described above to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New Haven, State of Connecticut, on December 16, 2015.
UIL Holdings Corporation | ||||||
By: | /s/ Richard J. Nicholas | |||||
Name: | Richard J. Nicholas | |||||
Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 of the Securities Act.