As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 2, 2019
Registration No. 333-215151
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM F-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
SHAW COMMUNICATIONS INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Alberta, Canada | Not Applicable | |
(Province or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
SUITE 900 630-3RD AVENUE S.W.
CALGARY, ALBERTA
CANADA T2P 4L4
(403) 750-4500
(Address and telephone number of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
CT CORPORATION SYSTEM
111 EIGHTH AVENUE, 13TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10011
(212) 894-8940
(Address and telephone number of agent for service)
Copies to:
Trevor English Shaw Communications Inc. Suite 900 630 – 3rd Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 750-4500 | Jeffrey R. Kesselman, Esq. Sherman & Howard L.L.C. 633 Seventeenth Street Suite 3000 Denver, Colorado 80202 (303) 297-2900 |
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: This post-effective amendment deregisters the securities that remain unsold under the registration statement as of the date hereof.
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.
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If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards† provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act . ☐
† The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the Form F-3 Registration Statement, Registration No. 333-215151, filed on December 16, 2016 (the “Prior Registration Statement”), which registered an aggregate amount of 10,000,000 shares of Class B Non-Voting Participating Shares (“Class B Shares”) of Shaw Communications Inc. (the “Company”) relating to the Company’s amended and restated dividend reinvestment plan (the “Plan”).
The Company will no longer issue its Class B Shares to participants in the Plan. Instead, as permitted by the Plan, Class B Shares purchased by Plan participants with cash dividends declared on their shareholdings will be purchased on the Toronto Stock Exchange in open market purchases.
As of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment, the Company has issued 698,462 Class B Shares to Plan participants under the F-3 Registration Statement. Accordingly, the Company hereby removes from registration the remaining 9,301,538 Class B Shares of the Company previously registered but not sold or otherwise issued under the Plan as of the filing of this Post-Effective Amendment.
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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 F-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Prior Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Calgary, Province of Alberta, Canada, on December 2, 2019.
SHAW COMMUNICATIONS INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Trevor English | |
Name: Trevor English | ||
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Corporate Development Officer |
No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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