As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 28, 1999
Registration No. 33-97634
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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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LANDAMERICA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Virginia 54-1589611
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
incorporation or organization)
101 Gateway Centre Parkway
Gateway One
Richmond, Virginia 23235-5153
(804) 267-8000
(Address and telephone number of registrant's principal executive offices)
Russell W. Jordan, III, Esquire
LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc.
101 Gateway Centre Parkway
Gateway One
Richmond, Virginia 23235-5153
(804) 267-8000
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
Copies of Communications to:
Robert E. Spicer, Jr., Esquire
Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobbins, P.C.
1021 East Cary Street, 16th Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23219
(804) 643-1991
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EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
On October 2, 1995, LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. 1 (the "Company")
filed a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 33-97634), as
amended by Amendment No. 1, filed November 1, 1995 (the "Registration
Statement"), which registered 627,108 shares of the Common Stock, no par value,
of the Company.
Pursuant to Item 17 of the Registration Statement, the Company agreed
to remove from such registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of
the securities registered which remained unsold at the termination of the
offering. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement
hereby removes from registration the remaining unsold portion of those
registered securities, thereby terminating the Registration Statement as to such
unsold securities.
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1 Formerly Lawyers Title Corporation. The Company changed its name to
LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. effective February 27, 1998.
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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. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Richmond,
the Commonwealth of Virginia, on this 27th day of September, 1999.
LANDAMERICA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
/s/ Charles H. Foster, Jr.
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Charles H. Foster, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
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Signature Title Date
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/s/ Charles H. Foster, Jr. Chairman and Chief Executive September 27, 1999
- ---------------------------------------- Officer and Director
Charles H. Foster, Jr. (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Janet A. Alpert President and Director September 27, 1999
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Janet A. Alpert
* Executive Vice President and September 27, 1999
- ---------------------------------------- Chief Financial Officer
G. William Evans (Principal Financial Officer)
* Senior Vice President - September 27, 1999
- ---------------------------------------- Corporate Controller
John R. Blanchard (Principal Accounting Officer)
Director September 27, 1999
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Herbert Wender
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Signature Title Date
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* Director September 27, 1999
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Theodore L. Chandler, Jr.
Director September 27, 1999
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Michael Dinkins
* Director September 27, 1999
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James Ermer
/s/ John P. McCann Director September 27, 1999
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John P. McCann
* Director September 27, 1999
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J. Garnett Nelson
* Director September 27, 1999
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Robert F. Norfleet, Jr.
/s/ Eugene P. Trani Director September 27, 1999
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Eugene P. Trani
* Director September 27, 1999
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Marshall B. Wishnack
Director September 27, 1999
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Robert M. Steinberg
Director September 27, 1999
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Lowell C. Freiberg
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Signature Title Date
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Director September 27, 1999
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George E. Bello
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* Russell W. Jordan, III, by signing his name hereto, signs this
document on behalf of each of the persons indicated by an asterisk above
pursuant to powers of attorney duly executed by such persons and previously
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of the Registration
Statement.
/s/ R.W. Jordan, III
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Russell W. Jordan, III
Attorney-in-Fact
