As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 1999
Registration No. 333-____
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
THE GAP, INC.
(Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 94-1697231
(State or jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
One Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
The Gap, Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Lauri Shanahan, Esq.
The Gap, Inc.
One Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service:
(415) 427-2000
Copies to:
John E. Aguirre, Esq.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
650 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Calculation of Registration Fee
Title of Amount to Proposed Proposed Amount of
securities to be maximum maximum fee*
be registered registered offering aggregate
price per offering
share* price*
Common 15,000,000 $69.625 $1,044,375,000 $290,336.25
Stock shares
* Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
pursuant to Rule 457(c), on the basis of $69.625, the average of the high
and low prices of shares on the New York Stock Exchange on April 15, 1999.
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
The following documents are incorporated by reference in this registration
statement: (i) The Gap, Inc.'s (the "Company") latest annual report filed
pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(the "Exchange Act"); (ii) all other reports filed by the Company pursuant
to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal
year covered by the Company's latest annual report; and (iii) the description
of the Company's common stock set forth in the Company's Registration
Statement on Form 8-B relating thereto, including any amendment or report
filed for the purpose of updating such description. All documents filed by
the Company after the date of this registration statement pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment (that indicates all securities offered have been sold
or deregisters all securities then remaining unsold), shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this registration statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES
Inapplicable.
ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL
Inapplicable.
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
The Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as permitted in Section 102
of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "GCL"),
eliminates the personal liability of a director to the Company or its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director,
except for liability for (i) any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to
the Company or its stockholders, (ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or
which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii)
paying a dividend or approving a stock repurchase in violation of Delaware
law, or (iv) any transaction from which the director derived any improper
personal benefit.
Under the Bylaws of the Company, each director and officer of the Company is
entitled to indemnification, as a matter of contractual right, to the fullest
extent permitted by the GCL as the same exists or may hereafter be amended,
against all expenses, liability and loss incurred in connection with any
action, suit or proceeding in which he or she may be involved by reason of the
fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Company. Section
145 of the GCL empowers a corporation to indemnify any director or officer, or
former director or officer against expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid
in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any action,
suit or proceeding (other than a derivative action) by reason of the fact that
he or she is or was a director or officer or is or was serving at the request
of the corporation as an agent of another entity, if he or she acted in good
faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the
best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action, had
no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. In regard to a
derivative action, indemnification may not be made in respect of any matter as
to which an officer or director is adjudged to be liable unless the Delaware
Court of Chancery, or the court in which such action was brought, shall
determine such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity.
The Company carries insurance policies in standard form indemnifying its
directors and officers against liabilities arising from certain acts performed
by them in their respective capacities as such. The policies also provide for
reimbursement of the Company for any sums it may be required or permitted to
pay pursuant to applicable law to its directors and officers by way of
indemnification against liabilities incurred by them in their capacities as
such.
ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED
Inapplicable.
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS
4.1 The Gap, Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan (the "Plan").
4.2 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of The Gap, Inc.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 30, 1993, Commission File
No. 1-7562).
4.3 Certificate of Amendment of Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of The Gap, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (3)
to the registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
May 2, 1998, Commission File No. 1-7562).
4.4 By-Laws of The Gap, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit C to the
registrant's Proxy Statement for its May 24, 1988 annual meeting of
stockholders, Commission File No. 1-7562).
4.5 Amended Article IV of By-Laws of The Gap, Inc. (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 4.4 to the registrant's Registration Statement on
Form S-8, Commission File No. 333-00417).
4.6 Form of nonqualified stock option agreement under the Plan.
5.1 Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation.
23.1 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
23.2 Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation,
is contained in Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement.
24.1 Power of Attorney of Directors.
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:
(i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3)
of the Securities Act of 1933;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
registration statement;
(iii) To include any material information with respect to
the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
statement or any material change to such information in the registration
statement;
Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not
apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8 and the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant
to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, 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.
(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 of 1933 each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of the
Plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the 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 of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the 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 Act
and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
THE REGISTRANT
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, 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 San Francisco, State of California on the 16th day
of April, 1999.
THE GAP, INC.
(Registrant)
/s/ MILLARD S. DREXLER
Millard S. Drexler
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on
the dated indicated.
Signature Title Date
Principal Executive Officer:
/s/ MILLARD S. DREXLER
Millard S. Drexler President and Chief Executive April 16, 1999
Officer
Principal Financial and
Principal Accounting Officer:
/s/ WARREN R. HASHAGEN
Warren R. Hashagen Senior Vice President and April 16, 1999
Chief Financial Officer
Directors:
*
Adrian D. P. Bellamy Director April 16, 1999
*
Evan S. Dobelle Director April 16, 1999
*
Millard S. Drexler Director April 16, 1999
*
Donald G. Fisher Director April 16, 1999
*
Doris F. Fisher Director April 16, 1999
*
Robert J. Fisher Director April 16, 1999
*
Glenda A. Hatchett Director April 16, 1999
*
John M. Lillie Director April 16,1999
*
Charles R. Schwab Director April 16,1999
*
Brooks Walker, Jr. Director April 16,1999
*
Sergio S. Zyman Director April 16,1999
*By: /s/ ANNE B. GUST
Anne B. Gust
Attorney-in-Fact
A majority of the members of the Board of Directors.
EXHIBIT INDEX
4.1 The Gap, Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan (the "Plan").
4.2 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of The Gap, Inc.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 30, 1993, Commission File
No. 1-7562).
4.3 Certificate of Amendment of Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of The Gap, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (3)
to the registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
May 2, 1998, Commission File No. 1-7562).
4.4 By-Laws of The Gap, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit C to the
registrant's Proxy Statement for its May 24, 1988 annual meeting of
stockholders, Commission File No. 1-7562).
4.5 Amended Article IV of By-Laws of The Gap, Inc. (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 4.4 to the registrant's Registration Statement on
Form S-8, Commission File No. 333-00417).
4.6 Form of nonqualified stock option agreement under the Plan.
5.1 Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation.
23.1 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
23.2 Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation,
is contained in Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement.
24.1 Power of Attorney of Directors.