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

Registration No. 333-201729

 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

______________________

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
(510) 651-4450
(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
(415) 268-7000




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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.  





 



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