As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 21, 2015

Registration No. 333-177768

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

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UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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Justin C. Dearborn
President
350 North Orleans Street, 1st Floor

Chicago, Illinois 60654

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

(312) 565-6868

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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

 

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TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-177768) of Merge Healthcare Incorporated (the “Company”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 4, 2011 (the “Registration Statement”).  The Registration Statement registered $213,105,000 in common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, depositary shares, warrants and units (“Securities”), to be offered and sold by the Company (the “Offering”).

On October 13, 2015, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 6, 2015, by and among the Company, International Business Machines Corporation (“Parent”), and Datong Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent.

In connection with the Merger, the Company has terminated the Offering and no additional Securities will be issued thereunder.  In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any shares of its Securities which remain unsold at the termination of the Offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all shares of its Securities under the Registration Statement that remained unsold as of the effective time of the Merger.

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Merge Healthcare Incorporated 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 (Registration No. 333-177768) to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, on the 21st day of October, 2015.

	MERGE HEALTHCARE INCORPORATED
	By:	/s/  Justin Dearborn
		Name:  Justin Dearborn
		Title:    President