Post-effective Amendment to an Automatic Shelf Registration of Form S-3asr or Form F-3asr (posasr)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 13, 2017

Registration No. 333-201729

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 UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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WAFERGEN BIO-SYSTEMS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Nevada		90-0416683
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
34700 Campus Drive Fremont, CA		94555
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

5241 Spring Mountain Road

P.O. Box 98510

Las Vegas, Nevada 89193-8510

(Address of principal executive offices)

Frank Raab

Treasurer and Secretary

34700 Campus Drive

Fremont, CA 94555

[phone]

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

Copy to:

Michael O’Bryan

Morrison & Foerster LLP

425 Market Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

[phone]

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is being filed to deregister certain shares that were initially registered by WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (the “Company”) on a Registration Statement on Form S-3 initially filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on January 28, 2015 (Registration No. 333-201729) (the “Registration Statement”), pursuant to which the Company registered Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Debt Securities, Warrants and Units (the “Securities”) using a shelf registration process.

Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of May 12, 2016, by and among the Company, Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc., a Delaware limited liability company ( “Parent” ), Walrus Acquisition Corporation, a Nevada corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ( “Merger Sub” ), and Takara Bio USA, Inc., Merger Sub was merged with and into the Company (the “Merger” ), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

In connection with the Merger, the Company terminated all offers and sales of the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Pursuant to the undertaking contained in the Registration Statement, the Company hereby deregisters all securities remaining unsold under the Registration Statement.

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 on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Mountain View, State of California on March 13, 2017.

 

		WAFERGEN BIO-SYSTEMS, INC.
	By:	/s/ Carol Lou
	Name:	Carol Lou
	Title:	President

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