As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 17, 2015
Registration No. 333-192669
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORMS-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
ORBITZ WORLDWIDE, INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 20-5337455 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
| 500 W. Madison Street, Suite 1000, Chicago, Illinois | 60661 | |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) |
James F. Rogers Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. 500 W. Madison Street Suite 1000 Chicago, Illinois 60661 (312) 894-5000 (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service) | Copy to: Mark D. Gerstein, Esq. Latham & Watkins LLP 330 N. Wabash Ave. Suite 2800 Chicago, Illinois 60611 (312) 876-7700 |
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:
Not applicable. This post-effective amendment deregisters all of the securities that were unsold under the registration statement as of the date hereof.
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TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION
Pursuant to Registration Statement No. 333-192669 on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (“Orbitz”) registered shares of its common stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
On September 17, 2015, Orbitz completed its previously announced merger (the “Merger”) with Xeta, Inc. (“Merger Sub”), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Expedia, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Expedia”), pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 12, 2015 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Expedia, Merger Sub and Orbitz. Orbitz was the surviving corporation in the Merger, and, as a result, is now an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Expedia. In connection therewith, each share of Common Stock, other than shares of Common Stock held by Orbitz as treasury stock or owned by any wholly owned subsidiary of Orbitz or by Expedia, Merger Sub or any of their wholly owned subsidiaries, was cancelled and converted into the right to receive $12.00 in cash.
As a result of the Merger, Orbitz terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to its existing registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking that Orbitz made in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any shares of Common Stock that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, Orbitz hereby removes from registration all shares of the Common Stock registered under the Registration Statement that remained unsold as of the effective time of the Merger on September 17, 2015.
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 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Chicago, Illinois, on this 17th day of September, 2015.
ORBITZ WORLDWIDE, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ James F. Rogers | |
James F. Rogers Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | ||
No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.