SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
6-K
Report
of Foreign Issuer
Pursuant
to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Report
on Form 6-K dated for the month of
March, 2010
Copa
Holdings, S.A.
(Translation
of Registrant's Name Into English)
Boulevard
Costa del Este, Avenida Principal y Avenida de la Rotonda
Urbanización
Costa del Este
Parque
Lefevre
Panama
City, Panama
(Address
of principal executive offices)
(Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under
cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.)
Form
20-F x Form
40-F o
(Indicate
by check whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this
Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to
Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.)
Yes o No
x
(If “Yes”
is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in
connection with Rule 12g3-2(b);82- )
Enclosure: Press
Release: Copa Holdings Files Registration
Statement for Secondary
Public Offering of Class A Common Stock
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto
duly authorized.
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Copa Holdings,
S.A.
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(Registrant)
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Date:
03/18/2010
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By:
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/s/ Victor
Vial
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Name:
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Victor
Vial
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Title:
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CFO
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PRESS
RELEASE
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CONTACT:
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Joseph Putaturo –
Panamá
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Director-Investor
Relations
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(507)
304-2677
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Copa
Holdings Announces Proposed Secondary Public Offering of Class A Common
Stock
PANAMA CITY, March 18, 2010 —
Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA) announced today the proposed secondary public
offering of 1,600,000 of its Class A non-voting shares by selling shareholder
Corporación de Inversiones Aéreas, S.A. or CIASA. The underwriter has an
over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 240,000 shares from CIASA.
After completion of the proposed offering, CIASA will continue to hold all of
the outstanding Class B voting shares of Copa Holdings and approximately 0.7% of
the outstanding Class A shares if the underwriter does not exercise the
over-allotment option or no Class A shares if the underwriter exercises the
over-allotment option in full. Copa Holdings will not receive any
proceeds from the offering.
Morgan
Stanley & Co. Incorporated is acting as sole book-running manager and
underwriter for the offering.
The
offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement
(including a prospectus) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or
SEC. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in the registration
statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more
complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these
documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov.
Alternatively, the issuer and the underwriter participating in this offering
will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by emailing
prospectus@morganstanley.com or by contacting the prospectus department at
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, 180 Varick Street, Second Floor, New
York, NY 10014, Attention: Prospectus Department, telephone: toll free at
1-866-718-1649.
This
press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an
offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, these securities in any state or
jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior
to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or
jurisdiction.
Copa
Holdings, through its Copa Airlines and AeroRepublica operating subsidiaries, is
a leading Latin American provider of passenger and cargo service. Copa Airlines
currently offers approximately 152 daily scheduled flights among 45 destinations
in 24 countries in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean from its
Panama City hub. Copa provides passengers with access to flights to more than
120 other destinations through codeshare arrangements with
Continental Airlines, Inc. pursuant to which each airline places its name and
flight designation code on the other’s flights. Through its Panama City hub,
Copa is able to consolidate passenger traffic from multiple points to serve each
destination effectively.