As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2015
Registration No. 333-192697
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
MICROSEMI COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware (State of other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | | 77-0138960 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
4721 Calle Carga
Camarillo, California 93012
(805) 388-3700
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Steven G. Litchfield
President and Chief Executive Officer
Microsemi Communications, Inc.
4721 Calle Carga
Camarillo, California 93012
(805) 388-3700
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code of agent for service)
Copy to:
Warren T. Lazarow, Esq.
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
2765 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025-7019
(650) 473-2600
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: This post-effective amendment withdraws from registration all securities of Microsemi Communications, Inc. (formerly known as Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation) that remain unsold under Registration Statement No. 333-192697.
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Explanatory Note
Microsemi Communications, Inc. (formerly known as Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation) (the “Registrant”) hereby amends the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-192697) to withdraw from registration any and all securities of the Registrant registered thereunder (the “Securities”) which have not been sold pursuant to such Registration Statement.
On April 28, 2015, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 17, 2015, by and among the Registrant, Microsemi Corporation (“Microsemi”), and LLIU100 Acquisition Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsemi (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant continuing as the surviving corporation and as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsemi.
As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated any offering of the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any Securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all unsold Securities under the Registration Statement.
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