-----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, PrRgSoehTntcW6bWab1di1PMFrWXrfnIq6vkm6kB2sJ8y7atgylxwwCvRmn6DZHX bgb/Pt5pI3aQenIOR4SCMw== 0000950103-02-000275.txt : 20020415 0000950103-02-000275.hdr.sgml : 20020415 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950103-02-000275 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 424B3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20020313 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AES CORPORATION CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000874761 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COGENERATION SERVICES & SMALL POWER PRODUCERS [4991] IRS NUMBER: 541163725 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-40870 FILM NUMBER: 02573982 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1001 N 19TH ST STREET 2: STE 2000 CITY: ARLINGTON STATE: VA ZIP: 22209 BUSINESS PHONE: 7035221315 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AES TRUST VII CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001117084 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-40870-01 FILM NUMBER: 02573983 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1001 NORTH 19TH ST CITY: ARLINGTON STATE: VA ZIP: 22209 BUSINESS PHONE: 7035221315 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1001 NORTH 19TH ST CITY: ARLINGTON STATE: VA ZIP: 22209 424B3 1 mar1302_424b3.htm mar1302_424b3

PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(TO PROSPECTUS DATED AUGUST 24, 2000)

9,200,000 Securities

AES TRUST VII

$3.00 Trust Convertible Preferred Securities (“Preferred Securities”)

(Liquidation amount $50 per security) fully and unconditionally guaranteed by and convertible into Common Stock of

THE AES CORPORATION

     AES Trust VII, a statutory business trust created under the laws of the state of Delaware, issued and sold 9,200,000 $3.00 Trust Convertible Preferred Securities (“Preferred Securities”), liquidation preference $50 per security in transactions exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. We filed a registration statement (Registration No. 333-40870) on August 24, 2000 (“Registration Statement”), in order to permit the holders of the Preferred Securities to resell their Preferred Securities in offerings registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. On pages 57 through 59 of the Registration Statement, there is a table that lists:

(i)
  		 each person selling Preferred Securities in connection with the prospectus (the “Selling Holders”); and
(ii)
  		 the number of Preferred Securities beneficially owned by each such Selling Holder.

This prospectus supplement, which provides supplemental information to that Registration Statement, amends certain information relating to the list of Selling Holders:

     1) The number of Preferred Securities to be sold by Lipper Offshore Convertibles, L.P. listed on the prospectus supplement dated March 13, 2002 is amended to 71,600.

     None of such Selling Holders has a material relationship with AES Trust VII or The AES Corporation except as we have described in the accompanying prospectus.

THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT IS MARCH 13, 2002

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