UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
20549
FORM
15
CERTIFICATION AND NOTICE OF
TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION UNDER SECTION 12(g) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 OR SUSPENSION OF DUTY TO FILE
REPORTS UNDER SECTIONS 13 AND 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934.
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Commission File Number
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001-13709
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ANWORTH MORTGAGE ASSET
CORPORATION*
(Exact name of
registrant as specified in its charter)
1299
Ocean Avenue, 2nd Floor
Santa
Monica, California 90401
Telephone: (310)
255-4493
(Address, including zip
code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s
principal executive offices)
Common
Stock, $0.01 Par Value
Series
A Cumulative Preferred Stock, $0.01 Par Value
Series
B Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, $0.01 Par
Value
Series
C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, $0.01 Par
Value
(Title of each class of
securities covered by this Form)
None
(Titles of all other
classes of securities for which a duty to file reports under
section 13(a) or 15(d) remains)
Please place an X
in the box(es) to designate the appropriate rule provision(s)
relied upon to terminate or suspend the duty to file
reports:
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Rule
12g-4(a)(1)
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x
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Rule
12g-4(a)(2)
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o
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Rule
12h-3(b)(1)(i)
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x
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Rule
12h-3(b)(1)(ii)
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o
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Rule 15d-6
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o
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Rule
15d-22(b)
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o
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Approximate number
of holders of record as of the certification or notice date:
None*
* On March 19,
2021, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of
December 6, 2020, by and among Ready Capital Corporation, a
Maryland corporation (“Parent”), RC Merger Subsidiary, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of
Parent (“Merger Sub”), and Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation, a
Maryland corporation (the “Registrant”), the Registrant merged with
and into Merger Sub, at which time the separate corporate existence
of the Registrant ended. Pursuant to this Form 15, Merger
Sub, as the successor entity to the Registrant, is terminating the
registration of the (i) Common Stock, $0.01 par value, (ii) Series
A Cumulative Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value, (iii) Series B
Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value, and (iv)
Series C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value, of
the Registrant.
Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation has caused this
certification/notice to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
duly authorized person.
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Dated: April 1,
2021
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RC Merger Subsidiary,
LLC
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as successor by merger
to Anworth Asset Mortgage Corporation
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By:
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/s/ Thomas E.
Capasse
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Name:
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Thomas E.
Capasse
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Title:
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Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer of Ready Capital Corporation
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