Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc--Prospectus Supplement No. 1

Prospectus Supplement No. 1

dated February 4, 2009

(to Prospectus dated October 27, 2008)

   

Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(7)

Registration No. 333-154774

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7,117,438 Common Shares

 

 

This prospectus supplement supplements our prospectus dated October 27, 2008 relating to the resale by the selling shareholders identified therein of 7,117,438 shares of our common stock. This prospectus supplement is not complete without, and may not be delivered and should not be used except in connection with, the prospectus. This prospectus supplement is qualified by reference to the prospectus except to the extent that the information in this prospectus supplement supersedes the information contained in the prospectus.

Investing in our shares involves risks. Please read carefully the section of the prospectus entitled “Risk Factors” and the section entitled “Risk Factors” contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 27, 2008 and the other filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission that are incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement.

SELLING SHAREHOLDERS

The following table updates and amends the “Selling Shareholders” section of the prospectus to reflect a distribution by OE Holdings, Inc. (formerly named Orthodyne Electronics Corporation) of 382,490 shares of our common stock to one of its shareholders, Vartan Babayan, pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

NAME

    NUMBER
OF SHARES
OF COMMON
STOCK
OWNED
BEFORE THE
OFFERING		    NUMBER
OF SHARES
OF COMMON
STOCK
THAT MAY
BE SOLD		    NUMBER
OF SHARES
OF COMMON
STOCK OWNED
AFTER THE
OFFERING		    PERCENTAGE
OF COMMON
STOCK
OUTSTANDING
OWNED AFTER
THE OFFERING (1)(2)

Vartan Babayan

    382,490    382,490    0    *

 

* Less than 1%.

(1)

Calculated based on Rule 13d-3(d)(1)(i) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) using 60,881,343 shares of common stock outstanding as of February 2, 2009.

(2)

Assumes that each selling shareholder sells all shares registered under the registration statement. To our knowledge, there are no agreements, arrangements or understandings with respect to the sale of any of our common stock, and each selling shareholder may decide not to sell the shares that are registered under the registration statement.

We prepared this prospectus supplement based on the information supplied to us by the selling shareholders named in the table. The information provided in this prospectus supplement is current as of February 4, 2009.

The selling shareholders listed above and in the prospectus may have sold or transferred some or all of their common stock since the date on which they provided us with information regarding their common stock, and we have not made any independent inquires as to the foregoing. Information about selling shareholders may change over time. Any changed information will be set forth to the extent provided to us by the selling shareholders, in further supplements to the prospectus, if and when necessary.

Because the selling shareholders listed above and in the prospectus may offer all or some of their common stock from time to time, we cannot estimate the amount of common stock that will be held by the selling shareholders upon the termination of any particular offering. See “Plan of Distribution” in the prospectus.

 

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