0001104659-13-042849.txt : 20130517 0001104659-13-042849.hdr.sgml : 20130517 20130517161256 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-13-042849 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-8 POS PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20130517 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130517 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20130517 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FIRSTCITY FINANCIAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000828678 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SHORT-TERM BUSINESS CREDIT INSTITUTIONS [6153] IRS NUMBER: 760243729 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-8 POS SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-174911 FILM NUMBER: 13855243 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6400 IMPERIAL DRIVE CITY: WACO STATE: TX ZIP: 76712 BUSINESS PHONE: 2547511750 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6400 IMPERIAL DRIVE CITY: WACO STATE: TX ZIP: 76712 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FIRST CITY BANCORPORATION OF TEXAS INC/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FIRST CITY ACQUISITION CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19880523 S-8 POS 1 a13-12688_2s8pos.htm POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT TO A S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 17, 2013

File No. 333-174911

 

 

 

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

 

 

FirstCity Financial Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

76-0243729

(State or other jurisdiction

 

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

of incorporation or organization)

 

 

 

 

 

6400 Imperial Drive, Waco, TX

 

76712

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

FIRSTCITY FINANCIAL CORPORATION 2006 STOCK OPTION AND AWARD PLAN

FIRSTCITY FINANCIAL CORPORATION 2010 STOCK OPTION AND AWARD PLAN

(Full title of the plan)

 

Mark B. Horrell

President and Chief Executive Officer

6400 Imperial Drive

Waco, TX 76712

 (Name and address of agent for service)

 

(254) 761-2800

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

 

 

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” and “smaller reporting 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 x

 

 

 


 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8, Registration No. 333-174911 (the “Registration Statement”), which was filed by FirstCity Financial Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2011.  Pursuant to the Registration Statement, the Company registered 800,000 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) in accordance with the terms of the FirstCity Financial Corporation 2006 Stock Option and Award Plan and the FirstCity Financial Corporation 2010 Stock Option and Award Plan.

 

On May 17, 2013, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into on December 20, 2012, by and among the Company, Hotspurs Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Hotspurs Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Merger Subsidiary”), Merger Subsidiary merged with and into the Company with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation (the “Merger”).

 

In connection with the Merger, the Company has terminated the offering of the Company’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. Pursuant to the undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities of the Company which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration, by means of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1, all of the shares of Common Stock which were registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, FirstCity Financial Corporation 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 Waco, State of Texas, on May 17, 2013.

 

 

FIRSTCITY FINANCIAL CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Mark B. Horrell

 

 

Name: Mark B. Horrell

 

 

Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

 

Note:  Pursuant to Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement.

 

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