As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 9,1997.
Registration No. 333-27861
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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FIRST COMMERCE CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Louisiana 201 St. Charles Avenue 72-0701203
(State or other New Orleans, Louisiana 70170 (I.R.S. Employer
jurisdiciton of (504) 623-1371 Identification No.)
incorporation or (Address,iincluding zip code, and
organization) telephone number, including area
code, of registrant's principal executive offices)
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Michael A. Flick
Executive Vice President, Secretary and
Chief Administrative Officer
First Commerce Corporation
201 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70170
(504) 623-1371
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
Margaret F. Murphy
Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P.
201 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70170-5100
(504) 582-8000
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:
As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes
effective.
If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered
pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the
following box. X
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, other than securities offered only in connection
with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, 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, please 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(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.
If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule
434, please check the following box.
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 be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New Orleans, State of
Louisiana, on June 5, 1997.
FIRST COMMERCE CORPORATION
By: /s/ Michael A. Flick
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Michael A. Flick
Executive Vice President,
Secretary and Chief Administrative
Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date
* Director, President and Chief Executive June 5, 1997
- ----------------------- Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
Ian Arnof
* Director and Chairman of the Board June 5, 1997
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Hermann Moyse, Jr.
/s/ Michael A. Flick Executive Vice President, Secretary June 5, 1997
- ----------------------- and Chief Administrative Officer
Michael A. Flick (Principal Financial Officer)
* Executive Vice President, Controller June 5, 1997
- ----------------------- Principal Accounting Officer
Thomas L. Callucutt, Jr.
* Director June 5, 1997
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James J. Bailey III
* Director June 5, 1997
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John W. Barton
* Director June 5, 1997
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Sydney J. Besthoff III
* Director June 5, 1997
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Robert H. Bolton
* Director June 5, 1997
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Robert C. Cudd III
* Director June 5, 1997
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Frances B. Davis
* Director June 5, 1997
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Laurance Eustis, Jr.
* Director June 5, 1997
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William P. Fuller
* Director June 5, 1997
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Arthur Hollins III
* Director June 5, 1997
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F. Ben James, Jr.
* Director June 5, 1997
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Erik F. Johnsen
* Director June 5, 1997
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Joseph Merrick Jones, Jr.
Director
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Edwin Lupberger
* Director June 5, 1997
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Mary Chavanne Martin
* Director June 5, 1997
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Hugh G. McDonald, Jr.
* Director June 5, 1997
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Saul A. Mintz
* Director June 5, 1997
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O. Miles Pollard, Jr.
* Director June 5, 1997
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G. Frank Purvis, Jr.
* Director June 5, 1997
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Thomas H. Scott
Director
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Edward M. Simmons
* Director June 5, 1997
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H. Leighton Steward
* Director June 5, 1997
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Robert A. Weigle
*By: /s/ Michael A. Flick
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Michael A. Flick
Attorney-in-Fact
