As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 24, 2016

Registration No. 333-188933

 

 

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

 

 

EMC CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Massachusetts		04-2680009
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. employer identification no.)
176 South Street		Paul T. Dacier, Esq.
Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748		Executive Vice President and General Counsel
(508) 435-1000		EMC Corporation
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)		176 South Street Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748
		(508) 435-1000
		(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies of all communications, including all communications sent to the agent for service, should be sent to:

Margaret A. Brown, Esq.

Gregg A. Noel, Esq.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

500 Boylston Street, 23^rd Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Telephone: (617) 573-4800

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable

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.  x

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

 

 

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”), filed by EMC Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation (the “Company”), removes from registration all of the unsold securities registered under the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Number 333-188933) filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 30, 2013 (the “Registration Statement”), pertaining to the registration of an indeterminate aggregate amount of debt securities.

The Company is terminating all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. The Company, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration any and all securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with an undertaking in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that were registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

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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-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 Hopkinton, State of Massachusetts, on February 24, 2016.

 

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