As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 12, 2003
Registration No. 333-
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 22-1467904
(State or other jurisdiction of (IRS Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
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One ADP Boulevard
Roseland, New Jersey 07068
(973) 974-5000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. Amended and
Restated Employees' Savings-Stock Purchase Plan
(Full title of the plan)
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James B. Benson, Esq.
Corporate Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
One ADP Boulevard
Roseland, New Jersey 07068
(Name and address of agent for service)
(973) 974-5000
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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Copy to:
Richard S. Borisoff, Esq.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019-6064
(212) 373-3000
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Amount to be Proposed Maximum Offering Proposed Maximum Amount of
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Securities to be Registered
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Common stock, par value $0.10
per share ................ 10,000,000 shares $36.79 $367,900,000 $29,763
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(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee in
accordance with Rule 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The Proposed Maximum Offering
Price was determined by averaging the high and low prices of the common
stock, par value $.10 per share ("Common Stock"), of Automatic Data
Processing, Inc. (the "Company" or "Registrant") as reported on the New
York Stock Exchange on November 5, 2003. Pursuant to Rule 416 under the
Securities Act, the Registration Statement shall be deemed to cover any
additional securities to be offered or issued from stock splits, stock
dividends or similar transactions.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock being registered
pursuant to this registration statement (the "Registration Statement") are
additional securities of the same class as other securities for which a
registration statement (No. 33-24987) on Form S-8 was filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on October 14, 1988. Pursuant to
General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of such earlier registration
statement are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement, except
that the provisions contained in Part II of such earlier registration statement
are modified as set forth in this Registration Statement.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the information specified in Part I
of Form S-8 are not required to be filed with the Commission either as part of
this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements
pursuant to the Note to Part I of Form S-8 and Rule 424 under the Securities
Act. The information required in the Section 10(a) prospectus is included in
documents being maintained and delivered by the Company as required by Part I of
Form S-8 and by Rule 428 under the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The following documents filed by the Company with the
Commission are incorporated herein by reference:
1. The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 2003.
2. The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended September 30, 2003.
3. The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in
its registration statement on Form 8-A under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), as filed with the Commission on January
21, 1992, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of amending
such description.
In addition, all reports and documents filed by the Company
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to
the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this
Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered hereby have
been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the
date of the filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to
be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed
document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
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Item 4. Description of Securities
Not Applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
The validity of the shares of Common Stock being registered
pursuant hereto has been passed upon by James B. Benson, Esq., Corporate Vice
President, Secretary and General Counsel of the Company. Mr. Benson, a
full-time employee of the Company, beneficially owns 208,355 shares of the
Company's Common Stock.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware authorizes a corporation to indemnify its directors, officers,
employees and agents against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments,
fines and amounts paid in settlement reasonably incurred, including liabilities
under the Securities Act, provided they act in good faith and in a manner
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation, and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable
cause to believe their conduct was unlawful, although in the case of proceedings
brought by or on behalf of the corporation, such indemnification is limited to
expenses and is not permitted if the individual is adjudged liable to the
corporation (unless the Delaware Court of Chancery or the court in which such
proceeding was brought determines otherwise in accordance with the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware). Section 102 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware authorizes a corporation to limit or
eliminate its directors' liability to the corporation or its stockholders for
monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duties, other than for (i) breaches
of the duty of loyalty, (ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve
intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law, (iii) unlawful payments of
dividends, stock purchases or redemptions, or (iv) transactions from which a
director derives an improper personal benefit. In addition, Section 145 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware authorizes a corporation to
purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation against any liability
asserted against and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising
out of such person's status as such.
Article Fifth, Sections 3 and 4 of the Company's Amended and
Restated Certificate of Incorporation provide as follows:
"The Corporation shall indemnify all directors and officers of
the Corporation to the full extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware (and in particular Paragraph 145 thereof), as from time to
time amended, and may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of such
directors and officers. In addition, the Corporation shall, in the manner and to
the extent as the Bylaws of the Corporation shall provide, indemnify to the full
extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (and in
particular Paragraph 145 thereof), as from time to time amended, such other
persons as the By-laws shall provide, and may purchase and maintain insurance on
behalf of such other persons."
"A director of the Corporation shall not be held personally
liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as a director; except for liability (i) for breach of the
director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director
derived an improper personal benefit. Any repeal or modification of this
paragraph by the stockholders of the Corporation
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shall not adversely affect any right or protection of any director of the
Corporation existing at the time of, or for or with respect to any acts or
omissions occurring prior to, such repeal or modification."
Article 6, Section 6.01 of the Company's Amended and Restated
By-Laws provides as follows:
"Nature of Indemnity: The Corporation shall indemnify any
person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any
threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he or she
is or was or has agreed to become a director or officer of the Corporation, or
is or was serving or has agreed to serve at the request of the Corporation as a
director or officer, of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust
or other enterprise, or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or
omitted in such capacity, and may indemnify any person who was or is a party or
is threatened to be made a party to such an action, suit or proceeding by reason
of the fact that he or she is or was or has agreed to become an employee or
agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving or has agreed to serve at the
request of the Corporation as an employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses
(including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement
actually and reasonably incurred by him or her or on his or her behalf in
connection with such action, suit or proceeding and any appeal therefrom, if he
or she (x) acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to
be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation and, in the case
of any such employee or agent, in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be
not in violation of any policies or directives of the Corporation, and (y) with
respect to any criminal action or proceeding had no reasonable cause to believe
his or her conduct was unlawful; except that in the case of an action or suit by
or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor (i) such
indemnification shall be limited to expenses (including attorneys' fees)
actually and reasonably incurred by such person in the defense or settlement of
such action or suit, and (ii) no indemnification shall be made in respect of any
claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be
liable to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Delaware Court
of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall
determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in
view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably
entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Delaware Court of Chancery or
such other court shall deem proper. The indemnification under this Section 6.01
shall apply to all directors and officers of the Corporation who sit on the
boards of directors of non-profit corporations in keeping with the Corporation's
philosophy."
"The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by
judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or
its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did
not act in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be
in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to
any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his
conduct was unlawful."
As permitted by Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware and the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation and Amended and Restated By-Laws, the Company also maintains a
directors and officers liability insurance policy which insures, subject to
certain exclusions, deductibles and maximum amounts, directors and officers of
the Company against damages, judgments, settlements and costs incurred by reason
of certain acts committed by such persons in their capacities as directors and
officers.
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Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
Not Applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
A list of exhibits included as part of this Registration
Statement is set forth in the Exhibit Index which immediately precedes such
exhibits and is incorporated by reference herein.
Item 9. Undertakings
(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: (1) to
file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this
Registration Statement; (2) that, for the purpose of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof; and (3) to remove from registration by means of a
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
unsold at the termination of the offering.
(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of
the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under
the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Registrant pursuant to the Registrant's Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation or Amended and Restated By-Laws, by contract, or
otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Roseland, State of New Jersey on November 12, 2003.
AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC.
(Registrant)
By: /s/ Arthur F. Weinbach
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Name: Arthur F. Weinbach
Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The officers and directors of Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
whose signatures appear below hereby constitute and appoint Arthur F. Weinbach
and James B. Benson, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), their true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full powers of
substitution and resubstitution, to sign and execute on behalf of the
undersigned any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, to this
Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, and each of the
undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact shall
do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this
Registration Statement has been signed below on November 12, 2003 by the
following persons in the capacities indicated.
Signature Title
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Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director
/s/ Arthur F. Weinbach (Principal Executive Officer)
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Arthur F. Weinbach
Chief Financial Officer
/s/ Karen E. Dykstra (Principal Financial Officer and
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Karen E. Dykstra
/s/ Gregory D. Brenneman Director
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Gregory D. Brenneman
/s/ Leslie A. Brun Director
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Leslie A. Brun
/s/ Gary C. Butler Director
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Gary C. Butler
/s/ Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Director
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Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
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/s/ Leon G. Cooperman Director
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Leon G. Cooperman
/s/ Ann Dibble Jordan Director
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Ann Dibble Jordan
/s/ Harvey M. Krueger Director
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Harvey M. Krueger
/s/ Frederic V. Malek Director
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Frederic V. Malek
/s/ Henry Taub Director
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Henry Taub
/s/ Josh S. Weston Director
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Josh S. Weston
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibits
4.1 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Company's
Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed with the Commission on
February 9, 1999)
4.2 Amended and Restated By-laws of the Company (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3.2 to Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002)
4.3 Form of the Company's Common Stock certificate (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 4.4 to Registrant's Registration Statement
on Form S-3 filed with the Commission on January 21, 1992)
5.1* Opinion of James B. Benson, Esq. as to the legality of the securities
being registered hereby
23.1* Consent of James B. Benson, Esq. (included in Exhibit 5.1)
23.2* Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
24.1* Power of Attorney (included on signature page)
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* Filed herewith.