As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on June 28, 1999
Registration No. 333-67443
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 3
TO
FORM S-4
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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UNITED STATES FILTER CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 3589 33-0266015
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(State or other (Primary Standard (I.R.S. Employer
jurisdiction Industrial Identification
of incorporation Classification No.)
or organization) Code Number)
40-004 COOK STREET
PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA 92211
(760) 340-0098
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of registrant's principal executive offices)
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STEPHEN P. STANCZAK
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT,
GENERAL COUNSEL AND CORPORATE SECRETARY
UNITED STATES FILTER CORPORATION
40-004 COOK STREET
PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA 92211
(760) 340-0098
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area
code, of agent for service)
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Copy to:
JANICE C. HARTMAN
KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART LLP
1500 OLIVER BUILDING
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15222
(412) 355-6500
If the securities being registered on this Form are being offered in connection
with the formation of a holding company and there is compliance with General
Instruction G, check the following box. / /
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant
to Rule 462(b) 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. / /
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) 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. / /
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Pursuant to a Registration Statement to Form S-4 (Registration No.
333-67443) (the "Registration Statement"), United States Filter Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the "Registrant"), offered for sale 10,019,045 shares of
its common stock, par value $.01 per share ("Common Stock"). The Registrant
hereby amends the Registration Statement by filing this Post-Effective Amendment
No. 3.
On April 29, 1999, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as
of March 22, 1999, EAU Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and a
subsidiary of Vivendi, a societe anonyme organized under the laws of France (the
"Parent"), merged (the "Merger") with and into the Registrant, with the
Registrant surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Parent.
Pursuant to Rule 429 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the
Prospectus contained in the Registration Statement also relates to the
Registration Statement No. 333-52487, previously filed by the Registrant on Form
S-4 on May 12, 1998.
As a result of the Merger, the offering described in the Registration
Statement has been terminated. This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed
solely to remove from registration 4,546,547 shares of Common Stock offered
under the Registration Statement which remained unsold at the termination of the
offering.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
EXHIBIT
NUMBER EXHIBIT DESCRIPTION
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24.1 Power of Attorney (filed herewith)
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Reg. No. 333-67443
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 the Registrant
has duly caused this post-effective amendment to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Palm Desert, State of
California, on June 24, 1999.
UNITED STATES FILTER CORPORATION
By: /s/ Richard J. Heckmann
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Richard J. Heckmann
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
post-effective amendment has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated.
SIGNATURE CAPACITY DATE
Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive June 24, 1999
/s/ Richard J. Heckmann Officer (Principal
- ----------------------- Executive Officer) and a
Richard J. Heckmann Director
Executive Vice President
/s/ Kevin L. Spence and Chief Financial June 24, 1999
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Kevin L. Spence Financial Officer)
Vice President,
/s/ James W. Dierker Controller and Treasurer June 24, 1999
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James W. Dierker Officer)
Director
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Daniel Caille
Director
* June 24, 1999
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Arthur B. Laffer
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Reg. No. 333-39711
Director
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Eric Licoys
Director
* June 24, 1999
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Jean Marie Messier
Director
* June 24, 1999
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Alfred E. Osborne, Jr.
Director
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Henri Proglio
* By: /s/ Kevin L. Spence June 24, 1999
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Kevin L. Spence
Attorney in Fact
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EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT
NUMBER EXHIBIT DESCRIPTION
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24.1 Power of Attorney (filed herewith)
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Exhibit 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all persons by these presents, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints Richard J. Heckmann, Kevin L. Spence and Stephen P.
Stanczak, and each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact
and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in
his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
amendments to the following Registration Statement, including post-effective
amendments, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other
documentation in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission:
o Registration Statement on Form S-4 (No. 333-67443)
The undersigned hereby grants unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in or about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitute or substitutes, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
This Power of Attorney may be revoked by the undersigned in a signed
writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of this 23rd day of June, 1999.
/s/ Jean-Marie Messier
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Jean-Marie Messier
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