-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, QebkigoQff+Zxe/kUYLAy5rf+GBUyXGmU6+YBX897uspjchjKsuwkcjrDsBsuNXl O3G7oZHvF3oGQpinkAx0kg== 0001104659-07-090798.txt : 20071226 0001104659-07-090798.hdr.sgml : 20071225 20071226114338 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-07-090798 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-A12B PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20071226 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20071226 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001378872 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-A12B SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-33532 FILM NUMBER: 071325544 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 301 West Roosevelt Road CITY: Wheaton STATE: IL ZIP: 60178 BUSINESS PHONE: 800-983-0903 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 301 West Roosevelt Road CITY: Wheaton STATE: IL ZIP: 60178 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: PowerShares Global Exchange-Traded Fund Trust DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20061023 8-A12B 1 a07-30931_48a12b.htm 8-A12B

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-A

 

FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES

PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR 12(g) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Massachusetts

 

(See Below)

(State of Incorporation or Organization)

 

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

 

301 West Roosevelt Road, Wheaton, Illinois

 

60187

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of Each Class

 

Name of Each Exchange on Which

to be so Registered:

 

Each Class is to be so Registered:

 

Shares of beneficial interest, par value $0.01 per share                                          NYSE Arca, Inc.

 

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c), please check the following box.  x

 

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d), please check the following box.  o

 

Securities Act registration statement file number to which this form relates:  333-138490; 811-21977.

 

Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

 

NONE

 

 


 

Item 1.  Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered.

 

A description of the shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value, of each of the following two portfolios, each a separate series of the PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II (the “Trust”), to be registered hereunder is set forth in Post-Effective Amendment No. 26 to the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (Commission File Nos. 333-138490; 811-21977) filed on December 26, 2007, which description is incorporated herein by reference as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Each of the Trust’s two investment portfolios to which this filing relates and their respective I.R.S. Employer Identification Numbers are as follows:

 

PowerShares DWA Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Portfolio

 

42-1747621

PowerShares DWA Developing Markets Technical Leaders Portfolio

 

42-1747624

 

Item 2.    Exhibits

 

1. The Trust’s Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust is included as Exhibit (a) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 7 to the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (File Nos. 333-138490; 811-21977), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 20, 2007.

 

2. The Trust’s By-Laws is included as Exhibit (b) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (File Nos. 333-138490; 811-21977), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 6, 2007.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized.

 

 

 

POWERSHARES EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST II

 

 

 

Date: December 26, 2007

By:

/s/ H. Bruce Bond

 

 

 

H. Bruce Bond

 

 

Chief Executive Officer

 

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