As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2017.

Registration Statement No. 333-203760

Registration Statement No. 333-203760-01

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-203760

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-203760-01

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		11-2534306
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

 

HARMAN FINANCE INTERNATIONAL, S.C.A.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Luxembourg		Not Applicable
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

 

400 Atlantic Street, Suite 1500

Stamford, CT 06901

(203) 328-3500

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Todd A. Suko

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Harman International Industries, Incorporated

400 Atlantic Street, Suite 1500

Stamford, CT 06901

(203) 328-3500

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

Daniel Sae-Chin Kim, Esq.

Carl R. Sanchez, Esq.

Paul Hastings LLP

4747 Executive Drive, 12th Floor

San Diego, CA 92121

(858) 458-3000

 

 

From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

(Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public)

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  ☐

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ☒

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ☐

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,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

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

 

 

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the Registration Statements on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-203760 and 333-203760-01) (the “Registration Statements”) registering an indeterminable amount of debt securities of Harman International Industries, Incorporated (the “Company”) and Harman Finance International, S.C.A. (“Harman Finance”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2015.

On March 10, 2017, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 14, 2016, by and among the Company, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a Korean corporation (“Parent”), Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a New York corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Samsung USA”), and Silk Delaware, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung USA (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung USA.

In connection with the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of the Company’s securities pursuant to existing registration statements, including the Registration Statements. Accordingly, pursuant to the undertakings contained in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company is filing this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statements to deregister, and does hereby remove from registration, all securities that had been registered under the Registration Statements that remain unsold as of the date hereof, if any.

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SIGNATURES

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 this Post-Effective Amendment to Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Stamford, State of Connecticut, on March 30, 2017.

 

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

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SIGNATURES

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 this Post-Effective Amendment to Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Stamford, State of Connecticut, on March 30, 2017.

 

 

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