EXPLANATORY NOTE
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the following Registration Statement filed by Ultratech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Registrant), on Form S-8 (the Registration Statement):
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Registration Statement No. 33-70790, originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) on October 25, 1993, which registered the offer and sale of 1,492,333 options to purchase shares of the Registrants common stock and 1,492,333 shares of the Registrants common stock issuable pursuant to the Ultratech Stepper, Inc. 1993 Stock Option/Stock Issuance Plan.
The Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to withdraw and remove any unissued and unsold securities issuable by the Registrant pursuant to the above-referenced Registration Statement.
On May 26, 2017, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 2, 2017 (the Agreement), by and between the Registrant, Veeco Instruments Inc., a Delaware corporation (Parent), and Ulysses Acquisition Subsidiary Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (Merger Subsidiary), Merger Subsidiary merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.
As a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Agreement, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the above-referenced Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes and withdraws from registration all such securities of the Registrant registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment.
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