As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 2, 2006.

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2
to
FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

MICHAELS STORES, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

8000 Bent Branch Drive
Irving, Texas 75063
(Address, Including Zip Code, of Principal Executive Offices)

MICHAELS STORES, INC.
1997 EMPLOYEES STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
(Full Title of Plan)

Jeffrey N. Boyer
President and Chief Financial Officer
Michaels Stores, Inc.
8000 Bent Branch Drive
Irving, Texas 75063
(972) 409-1300
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

With copies to:

 

 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

On June 17, 1997, Michaels Stores, Inc. (the “Company”) filed a registration statement on Form S-8, Registration Number 333-29429 (this “Registration Statement”), with respect to 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $.10 per share (the “Common Stock”), relating to the Company’s 1997 Employees Stock Purchase Plan.

On June 30, 2006, Bain Paste Mergerco, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Blackstone Paste Mergerco, Inc., a Delaware corporation (together with Bain Paste Mergerco, Inc., the “Mergercos”), Bain Paste Finco, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Blackstone Paste Finco, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (together with Bain Paste Finco, LLC, the “Fincos”) (the Mergercos and the Fincos, collectively, the “Sponsor Entities”), all entities formed by private equity funds sponsored by Bain Capital Partners, LLC and The Blackstone Group, entered into an agreement and plan of merger with the Company, pursuant to which the Mergercos will merge with and into the Company (the “Merger”).  On October 31, 2006, the effective date of the Merger, each share of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Merger (other than shares held in treasury, shares held by the Sponsor Entities, shares as to which a stockholder has properly exercised appraisal rights, and shares related to rollover equity) will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive $44.00 in cash.

In connection with the closing of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of Common Stock pursuant to its existing registration statements, including this Registration Statement.  In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in this Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities of the Company which remain unsold at the termination of the offering subject to this Registration Statement, the Company hereby removes from registration all shares of the Common Stock registered under this Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-8 is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Item 8.  Exhibits.

The following document is filed as an exhibit to this Registration Statement:

Exhibit Number		Description of Exhibit
24.1		Powers of Attorney

 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irving, State of Texas, on this 30th day of October, 2006.

	MICHAELS STORES, INC.
	By:	/s/ Jeffrey N. Boyer
		Jeffrey N. Boyer President and Chief Financial Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-8 has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on October 30, 2006.

 

The undersigned, by signing his name hereto, does hereby sign and execute this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-8 on behalf of the above-named officers and directors of Michaels Stores, Inc. on this 30th day of October, 2006, pursuant to powers of attorney executed by such officers and directors, which powers of attorney are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-8.

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number		Description of Exhibit
24.1		Powers of Attorney

 

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