AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JULY 31, 2015
Registration Statement File No. 333-136151
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-136151
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Bermuda |
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Montpelier House
94 Pitts Bay Road
Pembroke, Bermuda HM 08
(441) 296-5550
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of Registrants principal executive offices)
Jonathan B. Kim
General Counsel and Secretary
Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd.
Montpelier House
94 Pitts Bay Road
Pembroke, Bermuda HM 08
(441) 296-5550
(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:
Todd E. Freed
Richard J. Grossman
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Four Times Square
New York, New York 10036
(212) 735-3000
Not applicable.
(Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public)
If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. o
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. o
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the Registration Statement) of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda exempted company (the Company), filed by the Company with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC):
· Registration No. 333-136151, filed with the SEC on July 31, 2006.
On July 31, 2015, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 31, 2015, by and among Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda exempted company (Endurance), the Company and Millhill Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda exempted company and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Endurance (Merger Sub), the Company will merge with and into Merger Sub, with Merger Sub surviving such merger (the First Merger). Immediately following the effective time of the First Merger, Merger Sub will merge with and into Endurance, with Endurance surviving such second merger (together with the First Merger, the Mergers). Immediately following the effective time of the Mergers, Endurance will become the successor-in-interest to the Company.
As a result, the Company has terminated all offerings of the Companys securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration any and all of such securities of the Company registered but unsold under the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.
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 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 the City of Pembroke, Bermuda, on this 31st day of July, 2015.
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/s/ Jonathan B. Kim |
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Jonathan B. Kim |
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No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.