As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 30, 2010
Registration No. 333-81732
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Interactive Data Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 13-3668779 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
32 Crosby Drive,
Bedford, Massachusetts 01730
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
INTERACTIVE DATA CORPORATION 2001 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
INTERACTIVE DATA CORPORATION UK SAVINGS RELATED SHARE OPTION PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
Andrea H. Loew
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
32 Crosby Drive
Bedford, Massachusetts 01730
Telephone: (781) 687-8800
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies of all communications, including all communications sent to the agent for service, should be sent to:
Copy to:
Chad A. Skinner
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
2550 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Fax: (650) 251-5002
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 definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer”, and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
| Large accelerated filer | x | Accelerated filer | ¨ | |||
| Non-accelerated filer | ¨ (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) | Smaller reporting company | ¨ | |||
EXPLANATORY NOTE
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement of Interactive Data Corporation (the “Company”) on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-81732), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 30, 2002 (the “Registration Statement”), which registered the offering of 2,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.01 par value (“Common Stock”), pursuant to the terms of the Interactive Data Corporation 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and the Interactive Data Corporation UK Savings Related Share Option Plan.
On July 29, 2010, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 3, 2010, among Interactive Data Corporation (the “Company”), Hg Investors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), and Igloo Merger Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company being the surviving entity and becoming an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent. As a result, the Company has terminated all offerings of its Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”), pursuant to its existing registration statements, including pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in its Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any shares of the Common Stock which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all shares of its Common Stock under the Registration Statement which remained unsold as of the effective time of the Merger.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, Interactive Data Corporation, certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Bedford, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on this 30th day of August 2010.
| INTERACTIVE DATA CORPORATION | ||
| By: | /S/ RAYMOND D’ARCY | |
| Raymond D’Arcy | ||
| Chief Executive Officer | ||
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed below as of August 30, 2010 by the following persons in the respective capacities indicated below.
Signature | Title | |
/S/ RAYMOND D’ARCY Raymond D’Arcy | Director, President and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) | |
/S/ CHRISTINE SAMPSON Christine Sampson | Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer) | |
/S/ MICHAEL BINGLE Michael Bingle | Director | |
/S/ CARY DAVIS Cary Davis | Director | |
/S/ JAMES NEARY James Neary | Director | |
/S/ JOE OSNOSS Joe Osnoss | Director | |
