-----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, BXtWhXuETahPdak3dzIHd8Ea2JW4vcSxrG4zd6YdAUq44QYsy3zOI0ynQnRAJCC1 480T9mjzJsKwqM6EljIUpw== 0000950109-97-007717.txt : 19971224 0000950109-97-007717.hdr.sgml : 19971224 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950109-97-007717 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: POS AM PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 19971223 SROS: NYSE FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: RHONE POULENC RORER INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000217028 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 231699163 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: POS AM SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-62052 FILM NUMBER: 97742893 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 ARCOLA RD STREET 2: P O BOX 1200 M/S 5B14 CITY: COLLEGEVILLE STATE: PA ZIP: 19426-0107 BUSINESS PHONE: 6104548000 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: RORER GROUP INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19900731 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: RORER AMCHEM INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19770604 POS AM 1 POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT #2 TO FORM S-3 Registration No. 33-62052 ================================================================================ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 ---------------------- POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 to FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT Under The Securities Act of 1933 ---------------------- Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc. (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) Pennsylvania 23-1699163 (State or Other Jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Incorporation or Organization) Identification No.) 500 Arcola Road, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426-0107 (610) 454-8000 (Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices) ---------------------- Richard B. Young Vice President and Deputy General Counsel RHONE-POULENC RORER INC. 500 Arcola Road, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426-0107 (610) 454-8000 (Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service) Copies to: Arbie R. Thalacker David J. Sorkin Shearman & Sterling Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 599 Lexington Avenue 425 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10022 New York, New York 10017 (212) 848-4000 (212) 455-2000 ================================================================================ 1 REDUCTION IN AMOUNT OF SECURITIES REGISTERED -------------------------------------------- This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed by the Registrant pursuant to the undertaking that appears in paragraph (a)(3) of Item 17 of Registration Statement File No. 33-62052. The Registration Statement related to $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount Preferred Shares, Depositary Shares and Debt Securities. The Registrant hereby amends the Registration Statement to remove from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, $325,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Preferred Shares, Depositary Shares, and Debt Securities registered thereunder, which amount of securities was not sold pursuant to offerings contemplated thereby. 2 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 No. 2 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Collegeville, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on December 16, 1997. RHONE-POULENC RORER INC. By: /s/ Michel de Rosen ---------------------------- Michel de Rosen Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on December 16, 1997.
Signature Title - --------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- /s/ Michel de Rosen Chairman, Chief Executive Officer - ------------------------------- and Director Michel de Rosen /s/ Guillaume Prache Senior Vice President and Chief Financial - ------------------------------- Officer Guillaume Prache /s/ Philippe Maitre Vice President-Corporate Controller - ------------------------------- (Chief Accounting Officer) Philippe Maitre /s/ Manfred E. Karobath, M.D. Director - ------------------------------- Manfred E. Karobath, M.D. /s/ Timothy G. Rothwell Director - ------------------------------- Timothy G. Rothwell /s/ Igor Landau * Director - ------------------------------- Igor Landau
* By his signature set forth below Richard B. Young, pursuant to duly authorized powers of attorney filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has signed this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement No. 33- 62052 on behalf of the persons whose signatures are printed above, in the capacities set forth opposite their respective names. * By /s/ Richard B. Young ------------------------- Richard B. Young Attorney-in-Fact -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----