As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 3, 1997 File No. 333- ================================================================================ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 EQUITY RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES TRUST (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) Maryland 13-3675988 (State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Incorporation of Organization) Identification No.) Two North Riverside Plaza, Suite 450, Chicago, Illinois 60606 (312) 474-1300 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) EQUITY RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES TRUST THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED 1993 SHARE OPTION AND SHARE AWARD PLAN (Full Title of the Plan) Douglas Crocker II President and Chief Executive Officer Two North Riverside Plaza, Suite 450 Chicago, Illinois 60606 (Name and Address of Agent for Service) (312) 474-1300 (Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service) Copies to: Sheli Z. Rosenberg, Esq. Ruth Pinkham Haring, Esq. Rosenberg & Liebentritt, P.C. Two North Riverside Plaza, Suite 1515 Chicago, Illinois 60606 CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE ================================================================================================================= Proposed Proposed Maximum Maximum Amount of Amount to be Aggregate Price Aggregate Registration Fee Title of Securities to be Registered Registered Per Share (1) Offering Price (1) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common Shares of Beneficial Interest, $.01 par value....................... 5,600,000(2) $51.6875 $103,375,000(2) $ 31,326(2) ================================================================================================================= (1) Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the amount of the registration fee based upon the average high and low prices reported for such shares on the New York Stock Exchange on September 26, 1997, pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1). (2) 3,600,000 Common Shares of Beneficial Interest of the Registrant (the "Common Shares") have previously been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to an effective Registration Statement on Form S-8. The amount of the registration fee, therefore, relates to only those additional 2,000,000 Common Shares being registered pursuant hereto. PART II REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES On June 26, 1996, Equity Residential Properties Trust (the "Company") filed a Registration Statement (File No. 333-06867) on Form S-8 (the "Previous Registration Statement") covering 3,600,000 of the Company's common shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value per share (the "Common Shares"), issuable upon the award of share grants and the exercise of share options granted under the Company's Second Amended and Restated 1993 Share Option and Share Award Plan (the "Plan"), the contents of which Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference. On February 24, 1997, the Company's Board of Trustees approved a resolution amending the Plan (together with other amendments thereto constituting the Company's Third Amended and Restated 1993 Share Option and Share Award Plan, the "Amended Plan") to increase the number of Common Shares issuable thereunder by 2,000,000 Common Shares to an aggregate of 5,600,000 Common Shares. On July 22, 1997, the Company's shareholders approved the Amended Plan. The total number of Common Shares currently registered for issuance pursuant to the Plan is 5,600,000 and this registration statement covers the additional 2,000,000 Common Shares to be registered hereunder. Item 8. Exhibits. See Exhibit Index which is incorporated herein by reference. II-1 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 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 Chicago, State of Illinois, on October 3, 1997. EQUITY RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES TRUST By: /s/ Douglas Crocker II ---------------------- Douglas Crocker II, President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below, hereby constitutes and appoints Douglas Crocker II and Sheli Z. Rosenberg, or either of them, his attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments or post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith or in connection with the registration of the Securities under the Exchange Act, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary in connection with such matters as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of such attorneys-in- fact and agents or his substitute or substitutes 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 by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated: Name Title Date - ---- ----- ---- /s/ Samuel Zell Chairman of the Board of Trustees October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Samuel Zell /s/ Douglas Crocker II President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Douglas Crocker II /s/ David J. Neithercut Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- David J. Neithercut /s/ Michael J. McHugh Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Treasurer Michael J. McHugh /s/ Gerald A. Spector Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Gerald A. Spector /s/ Sheli Z. Rosenberg Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Sheli Z. Rosenberg /s/ James D. Harper, Jr. Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- James D. Harper, Jr. /s/ Errol R. Halperin Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Errol R. Halperin /s/ John Alexander Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- John Alexander /s/ Barry S. Sternlicht Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Barry S. Sternlicht /s/ B. Joseph White Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- B. Joseph White /s/ Henry H. Goldberg Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Henry H. Goldberg /s/ Jeffrey H. Lynford Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Jeffrey H. Lynford /s/ Edward Lowenthal Trustee October 3, 1997 - --------------------------- Edward Lowenthal II-2 EXHIBIT INDEX ------------- Sequentially Exhibit Exhibit Numbered Number Description Page ------ ----------- ------------ 4.1 * Second Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, as amended 4.2 ** Second Amended and Restated Bylaws 4.3 Form of Equity Residential Properties Trust Third Amended and Restated 1993 Share Option and Share Award Plan 5 Opinion of Rosenberg & Liebentritt, P.C. 23.1 Consent of Grant Thornton LLP 23.2 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP 23.3 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP 23.4 Consent of Rosenberg & Liebentritt, P.C. (included in Exhibit 5) 24 Power of Attorney (filed as part of the signature page to the Registration Statement) - ------------------- * Included as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 30, 1997 and incorporated herein by reference. ** Included as Exhibit 99.2 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S- 4, File No. 333-24653, and incorporated herein by reference. II-3