As Filed With the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 6, 2005

 

Registration No. 333-108701

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 9

to

FORM S-3

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


 

PROTEIN DESIGN LABS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Delaware

 

94-3023969

(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)

 

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 

34801 Campus Drive
Fremont, California 94555
(510) 574-1400

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of
registrant’s principal executive offices)

 


Mark McDade
Chief Executive Officer
PROTEIN DESIGN LABS, INC.

34801 Campus Drive
Fremont, California 94555
(510) 574-1400

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

 

Copies to:

J. HOWARD CLOWES, ESQ.
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP
153 Townsend Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94107-1922
(415) 836-2500

 


Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

 

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. o

 

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, as amended (the Securities Act) other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. o

 

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. o

 

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. o

 

If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, please check the following box. o

 

The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with section 8(a) of the securities act of 1933 or until this registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said section 8(a), may determine.

 

 



 

DEREGISTRATION OF SHARES

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 9 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended (No. 333-108701), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 2003, is being filed to deregister unsold shares of common stock and 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 of the registrant, Protein Design Labs, Inc.  The registrant’s obligation to keep the Registration Statement effective has expired.  Therefore, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 9 to the Registration Statement is being filed to deregister, as of the effectiveness of this post-effective amendment, all shares of common stock and 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023, the sale of which was registered under the Registration Statement, that were not sold under the Registration Statement.  As of November 29, 2005, $20,030,000 of 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 remained unsold under the Registration Statement.

 

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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 No. 9 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Fremont, State of California, on the 6th day of December, 2005.

 

 

PROTEIN DESIGN LABS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

   /s/ MARK MCDADE

 

 

 

Mark McDade

 

 

Chief Executive Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Post Effective Amendment No. 9 to the Registration Statement has been signed on December 6, 2005 by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

  /s/ MARK MCDADE

 

Chief Executive Officer and

 

December 6, 2005

(Mark McDade)

 

Director (Principal Executive

 

 

 

 

Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  /s/ GEORGE JUE

 

Vice President, Finance and Chief

 

December 6, 2005

(George Jue)

 

Accounting Officer (Principal

 

 

 

 

Accounting Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  /s/ LAURENCE JAY KORN*

 

Director

 

December 6, 2005

(Laurence Jay Korn)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  /s/ JON S. SAXE*

 

Director

 

December 6, 2005

(Jon S. Saxe)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  /s/ CARY L. QUEEN*

 

Director

 

December 6, 2005

(Cary L. Queen)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Samuel Broder)

 

Director

 

December  , 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  /s/ MAX LINK*

 

Chairman of the Board of Directors

 

December 6, 2005

(Max Link)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  /s/ KAREN DAWES*

 

Director

 

December 6, 2005

(Karen Dawes)

 

 

 

 

 

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  /s/ L. PATRICK GAGE*

 

Director

 

December 6, 2005

(L. Patrick Gage)

 

 

 

 

 

 

*By:

/s/ MARK MCDADE

 

 

 

(Mark McDade)

 

 

(Attorney-in-fact)

 

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