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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19, 2011

Registration No. 333-121079

 

 

 

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO 1 TO FORM S-8 (NO. 333-157705)

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO 1 TO FORM S-8 (NO. 333-133520)

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO 1 TO FORM S-8 (NO. 333-125281)

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO 1 TO FORM S-8 (NO. 333-121079)

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

GLOBAL CROSSING LIMITED

(n/k/a Level 3 GC Limited)

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Bermuda

 

98-0407042

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or
Organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

 

 

Wessex House, 1st Floor

45 Reid Street

Hamilton, Bermuda

 

HM 12

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

2003 Global Crossing Limited Stock Incentive Plan

STT Communications Ltd Share Option Plan 2004

(Full title of the plans)

 

John M. Ryan, Esq.

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary

1025 Eldorado Blvd.

Broomfield, Colorado   80021

(720) 888-1000

(Name, Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of agent for service)

 

Copies to:

David K. Boston

Laura L. Delanoy

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

787 Seventh Avenue

New York, New York 10019

(212) 728-8000

 


 

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 the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer

 

o

 

Accelerated filer

 

x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-accelerated filer

 

o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

 

Smaller reporting company

 

o

 

 

 



 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

 

On October 4, 2011, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Amalgamation, dated April 10, 2011, among Level 3 Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Level 3”), Apollo Amalgamation Sub, Ltd., a Bermuda exempted limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of Level 3 (“Amalgamation Sub”) and Global Crossing Limited (n/k/a Level 3 GC Limited), a Bermuda exempted limited liability company (Global Crossing Limited, “Global Crossing”, and Level 3 GC Limited, the “Company”), Amalgamation Sub and Global Crossing amalgamated in accordance with Bermuda law (the “Amalgamation”) and continued as the Company, a Bermuda exempted limited liability company.

 

As a result of the Amalgamation, the offerings under the Registration Statements on Form S-8 (Nos. 333-157705, 333-133520, 333-125281 and 333-121079) (collectively, the “Registration Statements”), which registered the sale of an aggregate of 20,178,261 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (“Shares”), have been terminated.  In accordance with the undertakings made by the Company to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statements which remain unissued at the termination of the offerings, the Company hereby removes from registration all securities registered under the Registration Statements which remained unissued as of the effective time of the Amalgamation.  In connection with the offerings, the Company issued a total of 18,684,157 Shares.  Therefore, the Company is, by post-effective amendment, removing from registration the remaining 1,494,104 Shares that were registered but not issued.  The respective Registration Statements are hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

 

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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-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Broomfield, State of Colorado, on the 19th day of October 2011.

 

 

 

LEVEL 3 GC LIMITED (as successor to Global Crossing Limited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Neil J. Eckstein

 

Name:

Neil J. Eckstein

 

Title:

Senior Vice President

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ James Q. Crowe

 

Director

 

October 19, 2011

James Q. Crowe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Director

 

October 19, 2011

Jeff K. Storey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ John M. Ryan

 

Director and President

 

October 19, 2011

John M. Ryan

 

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Sunit S. Patel

 

Executive Vice President and Chief

 

October 19, 2011

Sunit S. Patel

 

Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

(Principal Financial Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Eric J. Mortensen

 

Senior Vice President and Controller

 

October 19, 2011

Eric J. Mortensen

 

(Controller)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authorized Representative in the United States:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Neil J. Eckstein

 

Senior Vice President

 

October 19, 2011

Neil J. Eckstein

 

 

 

 

 

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