WCG WellCare Health Plans Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 23, 2020

Registration No. 333-228180

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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c/o Centene Corporation

7700 Forsyth Boulevard

 St. Louis, Missouri 63105

Telephone Number: (314) 725-4477

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

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Keith Williamson

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Centene Corporation

7700 Forsyth Boulevard

 St. Louis, Missouri 63105

Telephone Number: (314) 725-4477

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

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable

 

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

 

This Post-Effective Amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) deregisters all shares of WellCare Health Plans, Inc.’s  (the “Registrant”), common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), and any other securities remaining unissued, under the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-228180), which was filed by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 5, 2018, registering an indeterminate amount of shares of Common Stock, Preferred Stock, depositary shares, warrants, securities purchase contracts, units and debt securities (the “Registration Statement”).

 

Pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 26, 2019 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Registrant, Centene Corporation (“Centene”), Wellington Merger Sub I, Inc., a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Centene, and Wellington Merger Sub II, Inc., a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Centene, the Registrant became a wholly owned subsidiary of Centene effective January 23, 2020.

 

As a result of the completion of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, removes from registration any and all securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

 

SIGNATURE

 

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 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on this 23rd day of January, 2020.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

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