AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JUNE 9, 2000
Registration Statement No. 333-
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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STOCKERYALE, INC.
(EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
MASSACHUSETTS 04-2114473
(STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF (I.R.S. EMPLOYER
INCORPORATION OR ORGANIZATION) IDENTIFICATION NO.)
32 HAMPSHIRE ROAD
SALEM, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03079
(ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)
STOCKERYALE, INC. - 1996 STOCK OPTION AND INCENTIVE PLAN, AS
AMENDED AND RESTATED THROUGH MAY 20, 1999
(FULL TITLE OF THE PLAN)
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MARK W. BLODGETT
CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
StockerYale, Inc.
32 Hampshire Road
Salem, New Hampshire 03079
(603) 893-8778
(NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBERINCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)
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COPY TO:
STUART M. CABLE, P.C.
Goodwin, Procter & Hoar LLP
Exchange Place
Boston, Massachusetts 02109-2881
(617) 570-1000
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Securities to be Amount to be Proposed Maximum Proposed Maximum Amount of
Registered Registered (1) Offering Price Aggregate Offering Registration Fee
per Share (2) Price(2)(3)
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Common Stock, 300,000 $34.50 $10,350,000 $2,732.40
$0.001 par value
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(1) Plus such additional number of shares as may be required pursuant to the
option plan in the event of a stock dividend, reverse stock split,
split-up, recapitalization or other similar event.
(2) This estimate is made pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), solely for the purpose of
determining the amount of the registration fee and is based upon the market
value of outstanding shares of the Registrant's common stock on June 5,
2000, utilizing the average of the high and low sale prices reported on the
Nasdaq National Market on that date.
(3) This estimate is made pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) under the Securities Act
solely for the purpose of determining the amount of the registration fee
and is based upon the price at which outstanding stock options may be
exercised.
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This Registration Statement on Form S-8 relates to (i) 300,000 additional
shares of common stock, par value $.001 per share of StockerYale, Inc., a
Massachusetts corporation, which may be issued under the Plan. StockerYale, Inc.
hereby incorporates by reference the contents of its Registration Statement on
Form S-8, File No. 333-60717, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on August 5, 1998, covering an aggregate of 150,000 shares of common stock and
its Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-14757, filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on November 24, 1999, covering an aggregate
of 150,000 shares of common stock.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the information specified in the requirements
of Part I are not required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission as part of this Registration Statement on Form S-8.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
StockerYale, Inc. (the "Company") hereby incorporates by reference into
this Registration Statement (i) the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), (ii) the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the
fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2000, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act and (iii) the description of the
Company's Common Stock contained in the Registration Statement on Form 10-SB/A
dated December 29, 1995, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act and any amendments or reports filed
for the purpose of updating such description.
All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14
or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this Registration
Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates
that all securities offered have been sold or which 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 filing of 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 hereof to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any
other subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or 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.
ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
Not applicable.
ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
Not applicable.
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ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
INDEMNIFICATION. The Company is a Massachusetts corporation.
Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 156B, Section 67 provides that a corporation
may, subject to certain limitations, indemnify its directors, officers,
employees and other agents, and persons who serve at its request as directors,
officers, employees or other agents of another organization, or who serve at its
request in any capacity with respect to any employee benefit plan, to the extent
specified or authorized by the corporation's articles of organization, a by-law
adopted by the stockholders, or a vote adopted by the holders of a majority of
the shares of stock entitled to vote on the election of directors.
Section 67 also provides that a corporation may purchase and maintain
insurance against liability incurred by an officer, director, employee or other
agent of the corporation, or who serve at its request in any capacity with
respect to any employee benefit plan, in his capacity as or arising out of his
status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify
him against such liability.
The Company's By-laws provide that directors and officers of the Company
shall be indemnified by the Company against liabilities and expenses arising out
of service as a director or officer of the Company. The By-laws provide that
such indemnification shall not be provided if (i) it is determined that the
action giving rise to the liability was not taken in good faith and in the
reasonable belief that the action was in the best interests of the Company or
(ii) in a criminal matter, it is adjudicated or determined that the director or
officer had reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. No
indemnification shall be provided for any director or officer with respect to
any proceeding by or in the right of the Company or alleging that a director or
officer received an improper personal benefit if he is adjudged liable to the
Company in such proceeding. The By-laws provide that the indemnification
provision in the By-laws does not limit any other right to indemnification
existing independently of the By-laws. The By-laws also provide that the right
of directors and officers to indemnification is a contract right.
Under the By-laws, indemnification shall include payment by the Company
of expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action or proceeding in
advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding, upon receipt of
an undertaking by the person indemnified to repay such payment if he shall be
adjudicated or determined to be not entitled to such indemnification under the
By-laws, which undertaking may be accepted without reference to the financial
ability of such person to make repayment. Any such indemnification may be
provided even if the person to be indemnified is no longer an officer, director,
or employee of the Company.
The By-laws provide that the Company shall not indemnify a director or
officer in connection with any action, suit, proceeding or investigation
initiated by the director or officer unless such initiation was approved by the
Board of Directors of the Company.
The By-laws provide that the Company is authorized to purchase and
maintain liability insurance on behalf of any director, officer, employee or
agent of the Company, whether or not the Company would have power to indemnify
him against such liability or cost.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 156B,
Section 13 enables a corporation in its original articles of organization or an
amendment thereto to eliminate or limit the personal liability of a director for
monetary damages for violations of the director's fiduciary duty, except (i) for
any 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) pursuant to Sections
61 and 62 of Chapter 156B (providing for liability of directors for authorizing
illegal distributions and for making loans to directors, officers and certain
shareholders) or (iv) for any transaction from which a director derived an
improper personal benefit. [The Company's Amended and Restated Articles of
Organization and By-laws currently contain no limitation of liability
provisions.]
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The Company and its officers and directors do not currently carry
liability insurance.
ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
Not applicable.
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
The following is a complete list of exhibits filed or incorporated by
reference as part of this Registration Statement.
3.1 Amended and Restated Articles of Organization,
incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of StockerYale's
Form SB-2, Amendement No. 1, filed on October 11, 1996.
3.4 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of StockerYale's Form 10-SB,
as amended, filed on November 2, 1995.
5.1 Opinion of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar LLP*
23.1 Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP, Independent Accountants*
23.2 Consent of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar LLP (included in
Exhibit 5.1 hereto)
24.1 Powers of attorney (see signature page)*
99.1 The StockerYale, Inc. 1996 Stock Option and Incentive Plan,
as amended and restated through May 20, 1999*
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* Filed herewith
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS
(a) The undersigned Company 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 acts 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; notwithstanding the foregoing, any
increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total
dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the
estimated offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the
aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a
20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in
"Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective
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Registration Statement; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i)
and (a)(1)(ii) herein do not apply if the information required to be
included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained
in periodic reports filed by the undersigned Company pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated
by reference 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;
(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; 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 Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing
of the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee
benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act) 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 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or
otherwise, the Company 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 Company of expenses incurred or paid by
a director, officer or controlling person of the Company 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 Company 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.
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SIGNATURES
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 Boston, Massachusetts, on June 9, 2000.
STOCKERYALE, INC.
By: /s/ Mark W. Blodgett
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Mark W. Blodgett
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Mark
W. Blodgett and Gary B. Godin, and each of them, as her or his true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution, for her or him and
in her or his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any or
all amendments or post-effective amendments to this registration statement (or
any registration statement for the same offering that is to be effective upon
filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act) and to file the same,
with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and
agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or her or his substitute may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated.
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE
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/s/ Mark W. Blodgett Chairman of the Board of Directors June 9, 2000
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Mark W. Blodgett
/s/ Alain Beauregard President and Director June 9, 2000
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Alain Beauregard
/s/ Lawrence W. Blodgett Director June 9, 2000
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Lawrence W. Blodgett
/s/ Clifford L. Abbey Director June 9, 2000
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Clifford L. Abbey
/s/ John M. Nelson Director June 9, 2000
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John M. Nelson
/s/ Steven E. Karol Director June 9, 2000
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Steven E. Karol
/s/ Dr. Herbert Cordt Director June 9, 2000
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Dr. Herbert Cordt
/s/ Gary B. Godin Senior Vice President-Finance June 9, 2000
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Gary B. Godin
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EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION
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3.1 Amended and Restated Articles of Organization, incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 3.1 of StockerYale's Form SB-2, Amendement No. 1, filed on October 11,
1996.
3.4 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 3.2 of StockerYale's Form 10-SB, as amended, filed on November 2,
1995.
5.1 Opinion of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar LLP*
23.1 Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP, Independent Accountants*
23.2 Consent of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)
24.1 Powers of attorney (see signature page)*
99.1 The StockerYale, Inc. 1996 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, as amended and restated
through May 20, 1999*
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* Filed herewith