0001193125-17-295960.txt : 20170927 0001193125-17-295960.hdr.sgml : 20170927 20170927161249 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-17-295960 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-8 POS PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20170927 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20170927 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20170927 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SEVCON, INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000825411 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIAL APPARATUS [3620] IRS NUMBER: 042985631 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-8 POS SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-61229 FILM NUMBER: 171104399 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 155 NORTHBORO ROAD CITY: SOUTHBOROUGH STATE: MA ZIP: 01772 BUSINESS PHONE: 5082815510 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 155 NORTHBORO ROAD CITY: SOUTHBOROUGH STATE: MA ZIP: 01772 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: TECH OPS SEVCON INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 S-8 POS 1 d460385ds8pos.htm S-8 POS S-8 POS

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 27, 2017

Registration No. 333-02113

Registration No. 333-61229

Registration No. 333-104785

Registration No. 333-164534

Registration No. 333-193761

Registration No. 333-211138

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

SEVCON, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   04-2985631
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)		  

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

155 Northboro Road, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

1996 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the Plan)

Paul N. Farquhar

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Sevcon, Inc.

155 Northboro Road, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772

(Name and address of agent for service)

Phone: (508) 281-5510

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copy to:

Matthew C. Dallett

Locke Lord LLP

111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7613

Tel: (617) 239-0100

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer   ☐    Accelerated filer   ☐
Non accelerated filer   ☐  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company   ☒
     Emerging growth company   ☐

 

 

 

DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 relates to the Registration Statements on Form S-8 (333-02113, 333-61229 (as amended by a Post-Effective Amendment on Form S-8 filed on May 19, 2004), 333-104785, 333-164534, 333-193761 and 333-211138), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 1, 1996, August 12 1998, April 28, 2003, January 27, 2010, February 5, 2014 and May 5, 2016, respectively (the “Registration Statements”) by Sevcon, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). The Registration Statements registered the offering of securities under the 1996 Equity Incentive Plan.

On September 27, 2017, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 14, 2017, by and among Sevcon, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), BorgWarner Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and Slade Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), among other things, Parent acquired all the outstanding shares of the Registrant’s common stock via a merger of the Registrant with Merger Sub (the “Merger”), with the Registrant surviving the Merger.

As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all securities registered under the Registration Statements that remain unsold as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 and terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements.

SIGNATURE

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-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Boston, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on September 27, 2017.

 

SEVCON, INC.
By:   /s/ Matthew Boyle
  Name: Matthew Boyle
  Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933.