As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 27, 2009

Registration No. 333-160016

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-160016
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Virgin Mobile USA, Inc.

Delaware (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)		20-8826316 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

With copies to:
Adam M. Freiman
King & Spalding LLP
1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036-4003
(212) 556-2100

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

     This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the “Amendment”) relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-8 (note that the share number listed does not take into account corporate actions, such as stock splits, taken in the interim): Registration Statement 333-160016 (the “Registration Statement”), registering 5,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. (the “Company”) for the Company’s 2007 Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan.

     On November 24, 2009, the Company completed its merger (the “Merger”) with Sprint Mozart, Inc. (“Merger Sub”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprint Nextel Corporation (“Sprint Nextel”), whereby Merger Sub merged with and into the Company with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation in the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprint Nextel. The Merger was effected pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 27, 2009, among the Company, Sprint Nextel and Merger Sub.

     As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated any offering of the Company’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all of such securities of the Company registered but remaining unsold under the Registration Statement, if any.

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-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Warren, State of New Jersey, on November 27, 2009.

     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
/s/ Daniel H. Schulman   Daniel H. Schulman		President (Principal Executive Officer)		November 27, 2009
/s/ John D. Feehan, Jr.   John D. Feehan, Jr.		Vice President (Principal Financial Officer)		November 27, 2009
/s/ John D. Feehan, Jr.   John D. Feehan, Jr.		Vice President (Principal Accounting Officer)		November 27, 2009
/s/ Scott W. Andreasen   Scott W. Andreasen		Director		November 27, 2009
/s/ Timothy P. O’Grady   Timothy P. O’Grady		Director		November 27, 2009
Charles R. Wunsch		Director