FORM
6-K
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Report
of Foreign Issuer
Pursuant
to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the
month of March 2009
Commission
File Number: 1-33659
COSAN
LIMITED
(Translation
of registrant’s name into English)
Av.
Juscelino Kubitschek, 1726 – 6th
floor
São
Paulo, SP 04543-000 Brazil
(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:
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40-F
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by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted
by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):
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by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):
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Registrant is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant
to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:
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X
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is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in
connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): N/A
COSAN
LIMITED
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Item
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1.
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Material Fact, dated March 23, 2009, of the
registrant and the registrant’s subsidiary, Cosan S.A.
Indústria e
Comércio
(collectively the “Companies”), regarding the resignation of
Mr. Paulo Sérgio de
Oliveira Diniz and the appointment of Mr. Marcelo Eduardo
Martins as a member of the
Companies’ respective board of directors,
Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations
Officer
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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, thereunto
duly authorized.
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COSAN
LIMITED
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| Date: March 24, 2009 |
By:
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/s/
Marcelo Eduardo Martins
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Name:
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Marcelo
Eduardo Martins
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Title:
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Chief
Financial Officer and Investors Relations
Officer
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COSAN
S.A. INDÚSTRIA E COMÉRCIO CNPJ/MF No. 50.746.577/0001-15
NIRE
35.300.177.045
Publicly-Held
Company
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COSAN
LIMITED
CVM
No. 80071
CNPJ/MF
No. 08.887.330/0001-52
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NOTICE
TO THE MARKET
COSAN
S.A. INDÚSTRIA E COMÉRCIO (Bovespa: CSAN3) (“Cosan S.A.”) and
COSAN LIMITED (Bovespa and NYSE: CZZ) (“Cosan Ltd.”, and together with Cosan
S.A., the “Companies”), pursuant to CVM Instruction 358/02, hereby announces
that, having been nominated by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Companies, in accordance with the sole paragraph of article 18 of Cosan S.A.’s
Bylaws and article 23.3 of Cosan Ltd ’s Byelaws, MARCELO EDUARDO MARTINS,
Brazilian, married, business administrator, bearer of ID Card (RG)
15.465.270-SSP/SP, inscribed in the individual roll of taxpayers (CPF/MF) under
No. 084.530.118-77, with offices at Avenida Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek,
1.726, 6º andar, CEP 04543-000, in the city and state of São Paulo (telephone
011 3897.9797 and email marcelo.martins@cosan.com)
has, as of the date hereof, been elected to the Board of Directors of both Cosan
S.A. and Cosan Ltd. where he will remain until the next Annual Shareholders’
Meeting to be called in accordance with applicable law. At the same time, the
Board of Directors of the Companies have accepted the resignation of Paulo
Sérgio de Oliveira Diniz as director from the Board of Directors of the
Companies and from his position as Chief Financial Officer and Investor
Relations Officer.
In
addition, the Board of Directors of the Companies have appointed Marcelo Eduardo
Martins as the new Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer of both Cosan
S.A. and Cosan Ltd. Mr. Martins will also retain his current position
as Mergers & Acquisitions Officer.
Prior to
joining the Cosan Group in July 2007 as an executive of our parent company,
Aguassanta Participações S.A., Mr. Martins was Chief Financial and Business
Development Officer of Votorantim Cimentos between July 2003 and July 2007 and,
prior to that, head of Latin American Fixed Income at Salomon Smith Barney
(Citigroup) in New York. He has significant experience in capital markets,
having worked at Citibank (where he began his career as a trainee in 1989),
Unibanco, UBS and FleetBoston. He has a degree in Business Administration from
the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, majoring in Finance.
Cosan
would like to take this opportunity to thank Paulo Diniz for his exemplary
service to the Cosan Group over the years and to reaffirm its commitment to
implementing and integrating the recently acquired assets in order to
consolidate its leadership in Brazil’s sugar and ethanol market.
São
Paulo, March 23, 2009
Cosan
S.A. Indústria e Comércio
Cosan
Limited
Rubens
Ometto Silveira Mello
Chairman
of the Board of Directors