As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 3, 1997 Registration No. 333- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D. C. 20549 ------------------- FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT Under THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ------------------- BORG-WARNER SECURITY CORPORATION (Exact name of registrant as specified in the charter) Delaware 13-3408028 (State of incorporation) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 200 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60604 (Address of principal executive offices) --------------------------------- BORG-WARNER SECURITY CORPORATION 1993 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN BORG-WARNER SECURITY CORPORATION PERFORMANCE SHARE PLAN BORG-WARNER SECURITY CORPORATION EXECUTIVE OFFICER INCENTIVE PLAN (Full title of the plans) JEFFREY P. BILAS, ESQ. Borg-Warner Security Corporation 200 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60604 (312) 322-8500 (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service) Approximate date of commencement of sale under the Plans; From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement. CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposed Proposed maximum maximum Amount offering aggregate Amount of Title of securities to be price offering registration to be registered registered (1) per share (2) price fee - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common Stock ($.01 par value) 2,450,000 shares $17.09 $41,870,500 $12,688.03 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) 1,900,000 shares are issuable pursuant to the terms of the 1993 Stock Incentive Plan, 400,000 shares are issuable pursuant to the terms of the Performance Share Plan and 150,000 shares are issuable pursuant to the terms of the Executive Officer Incentive Plan. (2) Computed pursuant to Rule 457(c) solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee and not as a representation as to any actual proposed price. This amount is based on the average of the high and low prices of such Common Stock on August 27, 1997 on the consolidated reporting system. PART II ------- INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT -------------------------------------------------- Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference. ---------------------------------------- The following documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference: (a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1996. (b) The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 1997 and June 30, 1997. (c) The description of the Company's common stock, par value $.01 per share, contained in its Registration Statement on Form S-2 (No. 33-53480) filed with the Commission. All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 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 in this Registration Statement and to be a part of this Registration Statement 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 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. --------------------------------------- The legality of the shares of common stock that may be issued under the Borg-Warner Security Corporation 1993 Stock Incentive Plan, the Performance Share Plan and the Executive Officer Incentive Plan has been passed upon for the Company -2- by Robert E.T. Lackey, Vice President and General Counsel of the Company. Mr. Lackey does not own or have the right to acquire within the next 60 days any 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 ("DGCL") provides that a corporation has the power to indemnify its officers and directors against the expenses, including attorney's fees, judgments, fines or settlement amounts actually and reasonably incurred by them in connection with the defense of any action by reason of being or having been directors or officers, if such person shall have acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except that if such action shall be in the right of the corporation, no such indemnification shall be provided as to any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been judged to have been liable to the corporation unless and to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or another court in which the suit was brought, shall determine upon application that, in view of all of the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity. As permitted by Section 102 of the DGCL, the Company's Certificate of Incorporation provides that no director shall be liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director other than (i) for breaches of the director's duty of loyalty to the Company and its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) for the unlawful payment of dividends or unlawful stock purchases or redemptions under Section 174 of the DGCL and (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. The Company's Certificate of Incorporation provides for indemnification of its directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, and allows the Company to advance or reimburse litigation expenses upon submission by the director, officer or employee of an undertaking to repay such advances or reimbursements if it is ultimately determined that indemnification is not available to such director or officer. Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed. ------------------------------------ Not Applicable. Item 8. Exhibits -------- (5) Opinion of Robert E.T. Lackey, Esq., Vice President of the -3- Company. (23) Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP. (24) Power of Attorney. 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, represents 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 -4- 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit 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 theoffering 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. -5- 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 Chicago, Illinois on August 27, 1997. BORG-WARNER SECURITY CORPORATION By: /s/ J. Joe Adorjan ---------------------------------------------- J. Joe Adorjan Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities on August 27, 1997. Signature Title --------- ----- /s/ J. Joe Adorjan Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive - -------------------------------- Officer and President and Director J. Joe Adorjan (Principal Executive Officer) /s/ Timothy M. Wood Vice President, Finance - -------------------------------- (Principal Accounting and Financial Officer) Timothy M. Wood /s/ James J. Burke, Jr. Director - -------------------------------- James J. Burke, Jr. /s/ Albert J. Fitzgibbons III Director - -------------------------------- Albert J. Fitzgibbons III Director - -------------------------------- Arthur F. Golden /s/ Dale W. Lang Director - -------------------------------- Dale W. Lang /s/ Robert A. McCabe Director - -------------------------------- Robert A. McCabe Director - -------------------------------- Andrew McNally IV /s/ Alexis P. Michas Director - -------------------------------- Alexis P. Michas /s/ H. Norman Schwarzkopf Director - -------------------------------- H. Norman Schwarzkopf /s/ Donald C. Trauscht Director - -------------------------------- Donald C. Trauscht