0001247524-15-000087.txt : 20150219 0001247524-15-000087.hdr.sgml : 20150219 20150219181915 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001247524-15-000087 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20150218 FILED AS OF DATE: 20150219 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20150219 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Walter Energy, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000837173 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BITUMINOUS COAL & LIGNITE MINING [1220] IRS NUMBER: 133429953 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3000 RIVERCHASE GALLERIA STREET 2: SUITE 1700 CITY: BIRMINGHAM STATE: AL ZIP: 35244 BUSINESS PHONE: 205-745-2000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3000 RIVERCHASE GALLERIA STREET 2: SUITE 1700 CITY: BIRMINGHAM STATE: AL ZIP: 35244 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: WALTER INDUSTRIES INC /NEW/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19950207 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: HILLSBOROUGH HOLDINGS CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19910814 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: LYNCH THOMAS J CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001260616 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-13711 FILM NUMBER: 15633042 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 79 TW ALEXANDER DRIVE STREET 2: 4101 RESEARCH COMMONS CITY: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK STATE: NC ZIP: 27709 4 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0306 4 2015-02-18 0000837173 Walter Energy, Inc. WLT 0001260616 LYNCH THOMAS J 3000 RIVERCHASE GALLERIA, SUITE #1700 BIRMINGHAM AL 35244 0 1 0 0 SVP - Human Resources Common Stock 2015-02-18 4 F 0 1003 1.02 D 12105.16 D Payment of tax liability by delivering or withholding securities incident to the vesting of securities issued in accordance with Rule 16b-3. Includes 1,164.43 additional shares acquired under the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan since the date of the reporting person's last ownership report. /s/ Earl Doppelt, by power of attorney 2015-02-19 EX-24 2 attach_1.htm

POWER OF ATTORNEY

       Know all men by these presents that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Earl Doppelt and Jeanne Barlow his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact with full powers of substitution and revocation, for and in his name to do the following in respect of Walter Energy, Inc.:

(1) execute and deliver Forms 3, 4 and 5 (and amendments thereto) in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete execution of any such Form 3, 4 or 5 (and amendments thereto) and the timely filing of any such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the national securities exchanges, and any other authority; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his discretion.

       The undersigned hereby grants to each attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as such attorney-in-fact might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  Except for the matters set forth above, the undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.



       This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 4 or 5 with respect to Walter Energy, Inc. unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.





 /s/ Thomas J. Lynch

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 Thomas J. Lynch

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 July 6, 2012

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