posam
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 4, 2009
Registration No. 333-65629
 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
BOK FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Oklahoma
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  73-1373454
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
Bank of Oklahoma Tower
P.O. Box 2300
Tulsa, Oklahoma
74192
(918) 588-6000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Tamara R. Wagman
Frederic Dorwart, Lawyers
Old City Hall
124 East Fourth Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-5010
(918) 583-9922
(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: BOK Financial Corporation is amending this registration statement to deregister $250,000,000 of debt securities.
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Smaller reporting company o
 
 

 


 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
     This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 amends the registration statement on Form S-3, Registration No. 333-65629 (the “Registration Statement”), filed by BOK Financial Corporation, an Oklahoma corporation (the “Company”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 14, 1998. Pursuant to the Registration Statement, the Company registered $250,000,000 of Debt Securities.
     The offering pursuant to the Registration Statement has been terminated. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration $250,000,000 of debt securities registered, but unsold, under the Registration Statement.

 


 

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-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 Tulsa, State of Oklahoma, on June 3, 2009.
         
 

BOK Financial Corporation
 
 
  By:   /s/ George B. Kaiser    
    Name:   George B. Kaiser   
    Title:   Chairman of the Board of Directors   

 


 

         
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
         
Signature   Title   Date
 
       
/s/ George B. Kaiser
 
George B. Kaiser
  Chairman of the Board    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ Stanley A. Lybarger
 
  President, Chief Executive Officer    June 3, 2009
Stanley A. Lybarger
  and Director    
 
       
/s/ Steven E. Nell
 
  Executive Vice President and    June 3, 2009
Steven E. Nell
  Chief Financial Officer    
 
       
/s/ John C. Morrow
 
  Senior Vice President and Chief    June 3, 2009
John C. Morrow
  Accounting Officer    
 
       
/s/ Gregory S. Allen
 
Gregory S. Allen
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ C. Fred Ball, Jr.
 
C. Fred Ball, Jr.
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ Sharon J. Bell
 
Sharon J. Bell
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ Peter C. Boylan, III
 
Peter C. Boylan, III
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ Chester Cadiuex, III
 
Cadiuex, III
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ Joseph W. Craft, III
 
Joseph W. Craft, III
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ William E. Durrett
 
William E. Durrett
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ John W. Gibson
 
John W. Gibson
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ David F. Griffin
 
David F. Griffin
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ V. Burns Hargis
 
V. Burns Hargis
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ E. Carey Joullian, IV
 
E. Carey Joullian, IV
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ Robert J. LaFortune
 
Robert J. LaFortune
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ Steven J. Malcolm
 
Steven J. Malcolm
  Director    June 3, 2009
 
       
/s/ E.C. Richards
 
E.C. Richards
  Director    June 3, 2009