SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
October 30, 2000 (October 30, 2000)
American Tower Corporation
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
Delaware 001-14195 65-0723837
(State or Other Jurisdiction (Commission (IRS Employer
of Incorporation) File Number) Identification No.)
116 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (617) 375-7500
Item 7. Financial Statements, Pro Forma Financial Information and Exhibits
(c) Exhibits.
Exhibit No. Item
99.1 Summary of contents of presentation materials.
Item 9. Regulation FD Disclosure
American Tower Corporation (the "Company") is furnishing under Item 9 of this
Current Report on Form 8-K the information included as Exhibit 99.1 to this
report. Exhibit 99.1 includes information that the Company will include in
presentations to current and prospective stockholders and other persons and
institutions who may be interested in the Company and its business, finances or
securities in various forums, including presentations at industry conferences
and one-on-one or group meetings with investors or other interested parties.
Exhibit 99.1 contains "forward-looking statements" that involve a number of
risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include those regarding the
Company's goals, beliefs, strategies, objectives, scenarios, plans or current
expectations and matters that are not historical facts. For example, when the
Company uses the words believe, expect, estimate, anticipate, could or similar
expressions, it is making forward-looking statements. You should be aware that
certain factors may affect the Company in the future and could cause actual
results to differ materially from those expressed in the Company's
forward-looking statements. Among these factors are (i) the Company's
substantial capital requirements and leverage, principally as a consequence of
its ongoing acquisitions and construction, (ii) the Company's dependence on the
following: wireless communications demand, use of satellites for internet data
transmission and implementation of digital television, (iii) the success of the
Company's tower construction program, (iv) the Company's ability to locate
attractive acquisition targets, acquire them on terms it feels are reasonable
and to successfully integrate acquisitions and (v) the governmental,
expropriation, currency and fund repatriation risks of the Company's growing
foreign operations. Additional factors include the risk factors set forth in the
prospectus relating to the Company's June 2000 public equity offering. Exhibit
99.1 is dated as of the date hereof and reflects management's views as of those
dates. The Company undertakes no obligation to update the information contained
in Exhibit 99.1, including forward-looking statements, to reflect subsequently
occurring events or circumstances.
Note: the information in this report (including Exhibit 99.1 is furnished
pursuant to Item 9 and shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purposes of
Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise
subject to the liabilities of that section. This report will not be deemed an
admission as to the materiality of any information in the report that is
required to be disclosed solely by Regulation FD.
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 hereunto duly authorized.
AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION
(Registrant)
Date: October 30, 2000 By: /s/ Justin D. Benincasa
Name: Justin D. Benincasa
Title: Senior Vice President and
Corporate Controller