AWWC Access Worldwide Communications Inc (GM)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 5, 2008

Registration Statement No. 333-77429

 

 

UNITED STATES

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

 

 

ACCESS WORLDWIDE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		52-1309227
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. employer identification no.)

1820 North Fort Myer Drive

Arlington, VA 22209

(Address, including zip code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Access Worldwide Communications, Inc.

1997 Stock Option Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

 

Mark Wright, Esq.

General Counsel

301 Yamato Road

Boca Raton, FL 33431

(703) 292-5210

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

 

 

Copies to:

Scot Patrick O’Brien, Esq.

Akerman Senterfitt

801 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Suite 600

Washington, DC 20004

Phone: (202) 393-6222

 

 

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. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer   ¨		Accelerated filer   ¨		Non-accelerated filer   ¨ (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)		Smaller Reporting Company   þ

 

 

 

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

On April 26, 1999, Access Worldwide Communications, Inc. (the “Company”) filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-77429) (the “Registration Statement”). The Registration Statement registered a total of 1,300,000 shares of Company common stock, par value, $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), issuable to the holders of options to purchase shares of the common stock.

The offerings have been completed or terminated and the Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to its Registration Statement to terminate the Registration Statement and deregister all of the shares of Common Stock that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 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 Boca Raton, state of Florida, on this 5 ^th day of September, 2008.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons on September 5, 2008 in the capacities indicated.

 

Signature		Title		Date
/s/ Shawkat Raslan		Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer)		September 5, 2008
Shawkat Raslan
/s/ Richard A. Lyew		Executive Vice President and Chief		September 5, 2008
Richard A. Lyew		Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)
/s/ Michael Curcio		Director		September 5, 2008
Michael Curcio
/s/ Michael Dornemann		Director		September 5, 2008
Michael Dornemann
/s/ Gregory Framke		Director		September 5, 2008
Gregory Framke
/s/ Frederick Thorne		Director		September 5, 2008
Frederick Thorne
/s/ Carl H. Tiedemann		Director		September 5, 2008
Carl H. Tiedemann
/s/ Charles Henri Weil		Director		September 5, 2008
Charles Henri Weil
/s/ Alfonso Yuchengco, III		Director		September 5, 2008
Alfonso Yuchengco, III