Amendment No. 3 to Form S-3

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 9, 2010

Registration No. 333-164891

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

AMENDMENT NO. 3

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

ALPHATEC HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   20-2463898

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

5818 El Camino Real

Carlsbad, California 92008

(760) 431-9286

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Dirk Kuyper

President and Chief Executive Officer

Alphatec Holdings, Inc.

5818 El Camino Real

Carlsbad, California 92008

(760) 431-9286

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

 

 

with copies to:

 

Michael L. Fantozzi, Esq.

Scott A. Samuels, Esq.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

One Financial Center

Boston, Massachusetts 02111

(617) 542-6000

 

Ebun S. Garner, Esq.

Alphatec Holdings, Inc.

5818 El Camino Real

Carlsbad, California 92008

(760) 431-9286

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  ¨

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.  x

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 this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨

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 definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer   ¨    Accelerated filer   x
Non-accelerated filer   ¨  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company   ¨

 

 

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 


Explanatory Note

This Amendment No. 3 is being filed solely for the purpose of filing exhibit 23.1 to the Registration Statement (Registration No. 333-164891) and no changes or additions are being made hereby to the preliminary prospectus which forms part of the Registration Statement or to Items 13, 14, 15 or 17 of Part II of the Registration Statement.


PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 16. Exhibits.

 

Exhibit

No.

       

Description

  1.1   *    Form of Underwriting Agreement
  4.1      Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-131609), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 20, 2006).
  4.2      Restated By-laws (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.4 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-131609), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 26, 2006).
  4.3      Form of Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-131609), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 26, 2006).
  4.4      Stockholders’ Agreement by and among the Registrant, HealthpointCapital Partners, L.P. and the stockholders of the Registrant, dated as of March 17, 2005 (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-131609), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2006).
  4.5     

Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 26, 2010, by and among the Registrant, HealthpointCapital Partners, L.P., HealthpointCapital Partners II, L.P. and the other signatories thereto (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 000-52024) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2010).

  4.6   #    Form of Senior Indenture
  4.7   *    Form of Senior Note
  4.8   #    Form of Subordinated Indenture
  4.9   *    Form of Subordinated Note
  4.10   *    Form of Preferred Stock Certificate
  4.11   *    Form of Certificate of Designation of Preferred Stock
  4.12   *    Form of Warrant Agreement
  4.13   *    Form of Unit Agreement
  5.1   #    Opinion of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
12.1   #    Calculation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges
23.1      Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.2      Consent of Deloitte & Associes (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 23.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 000-52024) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2010)
23.3   #    Consent of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1   #    Powers of Attorney
25.1   *    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Senior Indenture Trustee
25.2   *    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Subordinated Indenture Trustee

 

* To be filed by amendment or by a Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
# Previously filed.

 

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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 Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Carlsbad, California, on April 9, 2010.

 

ALPHATEC HOLDINGS, INC.
By:   /S/    DIRK KUYPER        
Name:   Dirk Kuyper
Title   President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

    

Title

 

Date

By:  

/S/    DIRK KUYPER        

Dirk Kuyper

    

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

  April 9, 2010
By:  

/S/    PETER C. WULFF        

Peter C. Wulff

    

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and

Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and

Principal Accounting Officer)

  April 9, 2010
By:  

*

Mortimer Berkowitz III

    

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  April 9, 2010
By:  

 

Rohit M. Desai

    

Director

 
By:  

*

John H. Foster

    

Director

  April 9, 2010
By:  

*

James R. Glynn

    

Director

  April 9, 2010
By:  

*

Stephen H. Hochschuler, M.D.

    

Director

  April 9, 2010

 

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By:  

*

Siri S. Marshall

    

Director

  April 9, 2010
By:  

*

R. Ian Molson

    

Director

 

April 9, 2010

By:  

*

Stephen E. O’Neil

    

Director

 

April 9, 2010

 

* By executing his name hereto, Peter C. Wulff is signing this document on behalf of the persons indicated above pursuant to the powers of attorney duly executed by such person and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

By:  

/S/    PETER C. WULFF        

Peter C. Wulff

(Attorney-in-fact)

    

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit

No.

       

Description

  1.1   *    Form of Underwriting Agreement
  4.1      Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-131609), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 20, 2006).
  4.2      Restated By-laws (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.4 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-131609), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 26, 2006).
  4.3      Form of Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-131609), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 26, 2006).
  4.4      Stockholders’ Agreement by and among the Registrant, HealthpointCapital Partners, L.P. and the stockholders of the Registrant, dated as of March 17, 2005 (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-131609), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2006).
  4.5     

Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 26, 2010, by and among the Registrant, HealthpointCapital Partners, L.P., HealthpointCapital Partners II, L.P. and the other signatories thereto (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 000-52024) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2010).

  4.6   #    Form of Senior Indenture
  4.7   *    Form of Senior Note
  4.8   #    Form of Subordinated Indenture
  4.9   *    Form of Subordinated Note
  4.10   *    Form of Preferred Stock Certificate
  4.11   *    Form of Certificate of Designation of Preferred Stock
  4.12   *    Form of Warrant Agreement
  4.13   *    Form of Unit Agreement
  5.1   #    Opinion of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
12.1   #    Calculation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges
23.1      Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.2       Consent of Deloitte & Associes (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 23.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 000-52024) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2010)
23.3   #    Consent of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1    #    Powers of Attorney
25.1   *    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Senior Indenture Trustee
25.2   *    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Subordinated Indenture Trustee

 

* To be filed by amendment or by a Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
# Previously filed.