As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 5, 2012
Registration No. 333-136554
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
HARBOR BIOSCIENCES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 13-3697002 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
9191 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 409, San Diego, California 92122
(858) 587-9333
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrants principal executive offices)
Robert W. Weber
Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
Harbor BioSciences, Inc.
9191 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 409
San Diego, California 92122
(858) 587-9333
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Michael J. Brown, Esq.
Ryan C. Wilkins, Esq.
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
4365 Executive Drive, Suite 1500
San Diego, CA 92121
(858) 926-3000
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable, as this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 will deregister the registered but unsold securities under the registration statement.
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Large accelerated filer | ¨ | Accelerated Filer | ¨ | |||
Non-accelerated filer | ¨ | Smaller reporting company | x |
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-136554), of Harbor BioSciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Registrant), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 11, 2006 (the Registration Statement).
The Registrant deregistered its Common Stock under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, through the filing of a Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 15, 2011. In connection with the Form 15 filing and in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant is hereby deregistering the remaining securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, 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. 1 to Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Diego, State of California, on January 5, 2012.
HARBOR BIOSCIENCES, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Robert W. Weber | |
Robert W. Weber | ||
Chief Financial Officer and Secretary |
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.
Signature |
Title |
Date | ||
/s/ James M. Frincke James M. Frincke |
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer) |
January 5, 2012 | ||
/s/ Robert W. Weber Robert W. Weber |
Chief Financial Officer and Secretary (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) |
January 5, 2012 | ||
* Salvatore J. Zizza |
Chairman of the Board | January 5, 2012 | ||
* Richard A. Bartlett |
Director | January 5, 2012 | ||
* Jerome M. Hauer |
Director | January 5, 2012 | ||
* Marc R. Sarni |
Director | January 5, 2012 | ||
* Jerry M. Seslowe |
Director | January 5, 2012 | ||
* John C. Shaw |
Director | January 5, 2012 |
* By: |
/s/ Robert W. Weber Robert W. Weber Attorney-in-Fact (Pursuant to a Power of Attorney) |
January 5, 2012 |
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit |
Exhibit | |
24.1 | Power of Attorney. |
Exhibit 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Robert W. Weber as the undersigneds true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
(1) execute for and on behalf of each of the undersigned any and all of the following amendments to registration statements and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC):
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-56155; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-56157; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-69725; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-69727; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-72853; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-92179; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-96181; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-34180; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-51284; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-75860; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-83372; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-101221; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-103831 |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-103851; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-105378; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-106835; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-113644; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-126458; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-135095; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-136554; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-163936; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to Form S-4 Registration Statement No. 333-18725; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-92185; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-51286; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-65712; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-101219; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-106860; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-121216; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-130670; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-136555; |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-148088; and |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-156111; |
(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of each of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to enable Harbor BioSciences, Inc. to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the SEC in connection with any such documentation; 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, each of the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of each of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-facts discretion.
Each of the undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any 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 each of the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-facts 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.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the attorney-in-fact is no longer required to execute any such documentation and do and perform any such acts related thereto, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 23rd day of November, 2011.
/s/ Salvatore J. Zizza | /s/ Richard A. Bartlett | |||
Salvatore J. Zizza | Richard A. Bartlett | |||
/s/ Jerome M. Hauer | /s/ Marc R. Sarni | |||
Jerome M. Hauer | Marc R. Sarni | |||
/s/ Jerry M. Seslowe | /s/ John C. Shaw | |||
Jerry M. Seslowe | John C. Shaw |