Post-effective Amendment to Registration Statement (pos Am)

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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 22, 2016

Registration No. 333-139001

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

Form S-3

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

FEI COMPANY

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Oregon

93-0621989

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

5350 NE Dawson Creek Drive

Hillsboro, Oregon 97124

(503) 726-7500

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

SETH H. HOOGASIAN

PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY

FEI COMPANY

5350 NE Dawson Creek Drive

Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-5830

(503) 726-7500

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

FEI Company, an Oregon corporation (the “ Registrant ”), is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the registration statement on Form S-3, Registration No. 333-139001, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 29, 2006, as amended on December 5, 2006 (the “ Registration Statement ”), registering the sale of 8,406,007 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, no par value (the “ Securities ”).

On May 26, 2016, the Registrant entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement ”) with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Thermo Fisher ”), and Polpis Merger Sub Co., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Thermo Fisher (“ Merger Sub ”), pursuant to which, on September 19, 2016, Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant continuing as the surviving company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Thermo Fisher (the “ Merger ”).

In connection with the Merger, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to its existing registration statements, including the Registration Statement. Accordingly, pursuant to the undertakings contained in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the Securities registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant is filing this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement to deregister, and does hereby remove from registration, all Securities that had been registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof, if any.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Waltham, State of Massachusetts, on September 22, 2016.