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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 9, 2010
Registration No. 333-148137
 
 
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
 
ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Minnesota
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  41-0743912
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
13625 Technology Drive
Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344
(952) 938-8080

(Address, including zip code, and telephone
number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
     
Harold G. Barksdale   Copy to:
Vice President and Secretary
ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
13625 Technology Drive
Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344
(952) 938-8080

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone
number, including area code, of agent for service)
  Amy L. Schneider, Esq.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1500
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
(612) 340-2600
 
     Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not Applicable.
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
          This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-148137) (the “Registration Statement”) of ADC Telecommunications, Inc. (the “Company”), which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2007. The Registration Statement registered $225,000,000 Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2015 and $225,000,000 Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2017 (collectively, the “Notes”), and an indeterminate number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.20 per share, issuable upon conversion of the Notes (the “Common Stock” and together with the Notes, the “Securities”).
          On December 9, 2010, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 12, 2010 and amended as of July 24, 2010, among Tyco Electronics Ltd. (“Parent”), Parent’s wholly owned subsidiary, Tyco Electronics Minnesota, Inc. (“Purchaser”), and the Company, Purchaser was merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”) with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. As a result of the Merger, the Company’s Common Stock, is being delisted from The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC and deregistered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
          In accordance with the undertaking in Part II of the Registration Statement (pursuant to Item 512(a)(3) of Regulation S-K), the Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to remove from registration the Securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

 


 

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 the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Eden Prairie, State of Minnesota, on December 9, 2010.
         
  ADC TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Steven G. Nemitz    
    Steven G. Nemitz   
    Vice President and Controller   
 
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the indicated capacities on December 9, 2010.
     
Signature   Title
 
   
*
  President
 
Alan Clarke
  (principal executive officer)
 
   
*
  Vice President, Assistant Treasurer and Director
 
Mario Calastri
  (principal financial officer)
 
   
/s/ Steven G. Nemitz
  Vice President and Controller
 
Steven G. Nemitz
  (principal accounting officer)
 
   
*
  Director
 
Harold G. Barksdale
   
 
   
*
  Director
 
Richard J. Suminski
   
         
     
*By:  /s/ Steven G. Nemitz      
  Steven G. Nemitz     
  Attorney-in-Fact     
 

 


 

EXHIBIT INDEX
     
Exhibit    
Number   Description
 
   
24.1
  Power of Attorney