Post Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 29, 2014

Registration No. 333-109505

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

OPEN TEXT CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Ontario, Canada   98-0154400

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

275 Frank Tompa Drive

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 0A1

(Address of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

Centrinity Stock Option Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

 

Open Text Inc.

The Pyramid Center

600 Montgomery Street, Suite 1800

San Francisco, CA 94111

(Name and address of Agent for Service)

(415) 500-9600

(Telephone number, including area code, of Agent for Service)

 

 

Copies to:

Mary E. Alcock, Esq.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

One Liberty Plaza

New York, NY 10006

 

 

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   þ    Accelerated filer   ¨
Non-accelerated filer   ¨    Smaller reporting company   ¨

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-109505) (the “Registration Statement”) relating to the Open Text Corporation (the “Company”) Centrinity Stock Option Plan, as amended (the “Plan”). The Company is no longer issuing securities under the Plan. This Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement is being filed in order to deregister all shares that were registered under the Registration Statement and remain unissued under the Plan.

The Company hereby removes from registration, by means of this post-effective amendment, 107,000 common shares of the Company registered but unsold under this Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

 

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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-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, on this 29th day of July 2014.

 

OPEN TEXT CORPORATION
By:   /s/ MARK BARRENECHEA
 

Mark Barrenechea

President and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on July 29, 2014.

 

Signature

  

Title

/S/ MARK J. BARRENECHEA

Mark J. Barrenechea

  

President and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

/S/ PAUL MCFEETERS

Paul McFeeters

  

Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer

(Principal Financial Officer)

/S/ SUJEET KINI

Sujeet Kini

  

Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)

/S/ P. THOMAS JENKINS

P. Thomas Jenkins

  

Chairman

*

Randy Fowlie

  

Director

     

Gail E. Hamilton

  

Director

*

Brian J. Jackman

  

Director

*

Stephen J. Sadler

  

Director

*

Michael Slaunwhite

  

Director

     

Katharine B. Stevenson

  

Director

     

Deborah Weinstein

  

Director

/S/ MUHI MAJZOUB

Muhi Majzoub

  

Authorized Representative in the United States

 

*By   /S/ P. THOMAS JENKINS
 

P. Thomas Jenkins

Attorney-in-fact


INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description of Exhibit

*24.1    Power of Attorney of P. Thomas Jenkins and Alan Hoverd

 

* Previously filed on the signature page to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-109505) filed on October 6, 2003.