BancorpSouth, Inc.
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 8, 2008
Registration No. 333-72712
 
 
UNITED STATES
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
 
     
    BANCORPSOUTH CAPITAL TRUST I
    BANCORPSOUTH CAPITAL TRUST II
    BANCORPSOUTH CAPITAL TRUST III
BANCORPSOUTH, INC.   BANCORPSOUTH CAPITAL TRUST IV
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)   (Exact name of registrants as specified in their charter)
Mississippi   Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of   (States or other jurisdictions of
incorporation or organization)   incorporation or organization)
    62-6398188
    N/A
    N/A
64-0659571   N/A
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification Nos.)
One Mississippi Plaza   One Mississippi Plaza
Tupelo, Mississippi 38801   Tupelo, Mississippi 38801
(662) 680-2000   (662) 680-2000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including   (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)   area code, of registrants’ principal executive offices)
 
     
    With copies to:
Aubrey B. Patterson   E. Marlee Mitchell, Esq.
BancorpSouth, Inc.   Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP
One Mississippi Plaza   511 Union Street, Suite 2700
Tupelo, Mississippi 38801   Nashville, Tennessee 37219
(662) 680-2000   (615) 244-6380
(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: This post-effective amendment deregisters those securities that remain unsold hereunder as of the date hereof.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
SIGNATURES


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EXPLANATORY NOTE
     On November 2, 2001, each of the Registrants filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a Registration Statement on Form S-3, Registration Statement No. 333-72712 (as subsequently amended by a Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement filed with the Commission on November 14, 2001 and a Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-3 Registration Statement filed with the Commission on December 5, 2002, the “Registration Statement”), registering an aggregate amount of up to $500,000,000 of the Registrant’s common stock, junior subordinated debt securities, debt securities and/or trust preferred securities and guarantees with respect to the trust preferred securities. In January 2002, BancorpSouth Capital Trust I and BancorpSouth, Inc. offered and sold $125,000,000 in aggregate amount of trust preferred securities and guarantees related to the trust preferred securities, respectively, pursuant to the Registration Statement.
     In accordance with the undertaking made by the Registrants in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that remained unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrants are filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 and hereby remove from registration $375,000,000 aggregate principal amount of common stock, junior subordinated debt securities, debt securities, trust preferred securities and guarantees with respect to the trust preferred securities that remain unsold under the Registration Statement. As a result of this deregistration, no securities remain registered for sale pursuant to the Registration Statement.

 


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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, BancorpSouth, Inc. 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 Tupelo, state of Mississippi, on February 8, 2008.
         
  BANCORPSOUTH, INC.
(Registrant)
 
 
  By:   /s/ L. Nash Allen, Jr.    
    L. Nash Allen, Jr.,   
    Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer   
 
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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
*
 
Aubrey B. Patterson
  Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Director   February 8, 2008
/s/ L. Nash Allen, Jr.
 
L. Nash Allen, Jr.
  Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   February 8, 2008
*
 
Hassell H. Franklin
  Director   February 8, 2008
*
 
W.G. Holliman, Jr.
  Director   February 8, 2008
*
 
James V. Kelley
  President, Chief Operating Officer and Director   February 8, 2008
 
 
Larry G. Kirk
  Director    
*
 
Turner O. Lashlee
  Director   February 8, 2008
 
 
Guy W. Mitchell, III
  Director    
*
 
R. Madison Murphy
  Director   February 8, 2008

 


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SIGNATURE   TITLE   DATE
*
 
Robert C. Nolan
  Director   February 8, 2008
 
 
W. Cal Partee, Jr.
  Director    
*
 
Alan W. Perry
  Director   February 8, 2008
*
 
Travis E. Staub
  Director   February 8, 2008
 
*   L. Nash Allen, Jr. hereby signs this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on the 8th day of February, 2008 on behalf of each of the indicated persons for whom he is attorney-in-fact pursuant to a power of attorney previously filed.
         
     
  By:   /s/ L. Nash Allen, Jr.    
    L. Nash Allen, Jr., Attorney-in-Fact   
       
 
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, BancorpSouth Capital Trust I 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 Tupelo, state of Mississippi, on February 8, 2008.
         
  BancorpSouth Capital Trust I
 
 
  By:   BancorpSouth, Inc., as Depositor    
         
     
  By:   /s/ L. Nash Allen, Jr.    
    L. Nash Allen, Jr.   
       
 
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, BancorpSouth Capital Trust II 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 Tupelo, state of Mississippi, on February 8, 2008.
         
  BancorpSouth Capital Trust II
 
 
  By:   BancorpSouth, Inc., as Depositor    
         
     
  By:   /s/ L. Nash Allen, Jr.    
    L. Nash Allen, Jr.   
       
 

 


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     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, BancorpSouth Capital Trust III 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 Tupelo, state of Mississippi, on February 8, 2008.
         
  BancorpSouth Capital Trust III
 
 
  By:   BancorpSouth, Inc., as Depositor    
         
     
  By:   /s/ L. Nash Allen, Jr.    
    L. Nash Allen, Jr.   
       
 
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, BancorpSouth Capital Trust IV 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 Tupelo, state of Mississippi, on February 8, 2008.
         
  BancorpSouth Capital Trust IV
 
 
  By:   BancorpSouth, Inc., as Depositor    
         
     
  By:   /s/ L. Nash Allen, Jr.    
    L. Nash Allen, Jr.