1 AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JUNE 24, 1998 REGISTRATION NO. 333-56231 ================================================================================ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 --------------------- AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 --------------------- OPTEL, INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) --------------------- DELAWARE 4841 95-4495524 (State or other jurisdiction (Primary Standard Industrial (I.R.S. Employer of incorporation or organization) Classification Code Number) Identification No.) 1111 W. MOCKINGBIRD LANE DALLAS, TEXAS 75247 (214) 634-3800 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices) --------------------- LOUIS BRUNEL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OPTEL, INC. 1111 W. MOCKINGBIRD LANE DALLAS, TEXAS 75247 (214) 634-3800 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) --------------------- Copies to: ERIC SIMONSON, ESQ. MICHAEL E. KATZENSTEIN, ESQ. JONATHAN A. SCHAFFZIN, ESQ. KRONISH, LIEB, WEINER & HELLMAN LLP OPTEL, INC. CAHILL GORDON & REINDEL 1114 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS 1111 W. MOCKINGBIRD LANE 80 PINE STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036-7798 DALLAS, TEXAS 75247 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10005 (212) 479-6000 (214) 634-3800 (212) 701-3000 --------------------- APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO PUBLIC: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement. If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), check the following box. 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[ ] --------------------- CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE ================================================================================ PROPOSED MAXIMUM PROPOSED MAXIMUM TITLE OF SECURITIES NUMBER OF SHARES OFFERING PRICE AGGREGATE OFFERING AMOUNT OF TO BE REGISTERED TO BE REGISTERED PER SHARE PRICE(1) REGISTRATION FEE - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Class A Common Stock, par value $.01 per share.... $100,000,000 $29,500(2) ========================================================================================================================== (1) Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457 under the Securities Act. (2) Previously paid. --------------------- THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(a) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR UNTIL THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(a), MAY DETERMINE. ================================================================================ 2 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company has duly caused this Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on this 24th day of June, 1998. OPTEL, INC. By: /s/ LOUIS BRUNEL ---------------------------------- Louis Brunel President and Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below. SIGNATURE TITLE DATE --------- ----- ---- Principal Executive Officer: /s/ LOUIS BRUNEL President and Chief Executive June 24, 1998 - ----------------------------------------------------- Officer Louis Brunel Principal Financial and Accounting Officers: * Chief Financial Officer June 24, 1998 - ----------------------------------------------------- Bertrand Blanchette * Controller June 24, 1998 - ----------------------------------------------------- Craig Milacek Other Directors: * Chairman of the Board June 24, 1998 - ----------------------------------------------------- Claude Chagnon * Vice Chairman of the Board June 24, 1998 - ----------------------------------------------------- Alain Michel /s/ LOUIS BRUNEL Director June 24, 1998 - ----------------------------------------------------- Louis Brunel * Director June 24, 1998 - ----------------------------------------------------- Christian Chagnon * Director June 24, 1998 - ----------------------------------------------------- William O. Hunt * Director June 24, 1998 - ----------------------------------------------------- Lynn McDonald *By: /s/ LOUIS BRUNEL ------------------------------- Louis Brunel as attorney in fact II-7 3 EXHIBIT INDEX EXHIBIT NUMBER DESCRIPTION ------- ----------- 1.1 -- Proposed Form of Underwriting Agreement.* 2.1 -- Purchase Agreement (the "ICS Purchase Agreement") among OpTel, ICS and ICS Licenses, Inc. dated as of March 4, 1998.(4) 2.2 -- Amendment Number One to the ICS Purchase Agreement dated as of March 4, 1998.(4) 2.3 -- Purchase Agreement (the "Phonoscope Purchase Agreement") dated as of August 13, 1997 among OpTel, Phonoscope, Ltd., Phonoscope Management L.C., Lee Cook, Alton Cook and Lee Cook Family Trust.(2) 2.4 -- Amendment Number One to the Phonoscope Purchase Agreement dated as of August 13, 1997.(4) 2.5 -- Amendment Number Two to the Phonoscope Purchase Agreement dated as of August 13, 1997.(4) 3.1 -- Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of OpTel, together with all amendments thereto.* 3.2 -- Amended and Restated Bylaws of OpTel.* 4.1 -- See the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the amendments thereto filed as Exhibit 3.1 and the Amended and Restated Bylaws filed as Exhibit 3.2. 4.2 -- Certificate of Designation of Voting Power, Designations, Preferences, Limitations, Restrictions and Relative Rights of the Series A Preferred.(4) 4.3 -- Certificate of Designation of Voting Power, Designations, Preferences, Limitations, Restrictions and Relative Rights of the Series B Preferred.(4) 4.4 -- Registration Agreement, dated as of February 14, 1997, between OpTel and Salomon Brothers Inc and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated.(1) 4.5 -- Common Stock Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of February 14, 1997, among OpTel, VPC, GVL and Salomon Brothers Inc and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and U.S. Trust Company of Texas, N.A.(1) 4.6 -- Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of August 15, 1997, between OpTel and CDPQ.(2) 4.7 -- Registration Rights Agreement dated as of April 9, 1998 between OpTel, ICS, Nomura and MCI.(4) 4.8 -- Warrant Agreement dated as of September 1, 1996 between OpTel and James A. Kofalt.(1) 4.9 -- Warrant Agreement, dated as of July 11, 1997, between OpTel and Rory O. Cole.(2) 4.10 -- Indenture, dated as of February 14, 1997, between OpTel and U.S. Trust Company of Texas, N.A., as Trustee.(1) 4.11 -- Form of Senior Note (included in Exhibit 4.10).(1) 4.12 -- Escrow Agreement, dated as of February 14, 1997, between OpTel and U.S. Trust Company of Texas, N.A., as Trustee and as Escrow Agent.(1) 5.1 -- Opinion of Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman LLP.* 8.1 -- Opinion of Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman LLP re: Tax matters (included in Exhibit 5.1) 10.1 -- Stockholders' Agreement, dated as of December 22, 1994, between VPC, Vanguard, Vanguard Communications, Inc. ("General Partner") and OpTel.(1) 4 EXHIBIT NUMBER DESCRIPTION ------- ----------- 10.2 -- Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 22, 1994, between OpTel and Vanguard.(1) 10.3 -- Settlement Agreement, dated as of August 1, 1996, between Vanguard, General Partner, Pacific Capital Group, Inc. ("Pacific"), VPC, OpTel and GVL.(1) 10.4 -- Amendment, dated as of February 17, 1997, between Vanguard, General Partner, Pacific, VPC, OpTel and GVL.(1) 10.5 -- Form of Convertible Note (included as Exhibit B to the Amendment referenced as Exhibit 10.4 hereto) and a list of the issue dates and principal amounts of all outstanding Convertible Notes (included as Schedule 1 to the Amendment referenced as Exhibit 10.4 hereto).(1) 10.6 -- Stockholders' Agreement dated as of August 15, 1997 by and among VPC, CDPQ and OpTel.(3) 10.7 -- Stockholders' Agreement dated as of April 9, 1998 among OpTel, Nomura, MCI, GVL and ICS.(4) 10.8 -- Lease Agreement dated July 25, 1995 between Space Center Dallas, Inc. and OpTel.(1) 10.9 -- First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated August 8, 1996 between Space Center Dallas, Inc. and OpTel.(1) 10.10 -- Restated Incentive Stock Plan of OpTel.* 10.11 -- Annual Bonus Plan of OpTel.(1) 10.12 -- 1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan of OpTel.* 10.13 -- Employment Agreement between Louis Brunel and OpTel dated November 15, 1996.(1) 10.14 -- Employment Agreement between Rory Cole and OpTel dated January 3, 1997.(1) 10.15 -- Employment Agreement between Michael Katzenstein and OpTel dated September 18, 1995.(1) 10.16 -- Separation and Consulting Agreement, dated as of September 1, 1996, between OpTel and James A. Kofalt.(1) 10.17 -- Separation Agreement dated as of July 11, 1997, between OpTel and Rory O. Cole.(4) 10.18 -- Assignment Agreement, dated as of February 14, 1997, among TVMAX, Sunshine Television Entertainment, Inc., Richey Pacific Cablevision, Inc., IRPC Arizona, Inc. and THI.(1) 10.19 -- Equipment License and Services Agreement, dated as of February 14, 1997, between TVMAX and THI.(1) 10.20 -- Form of Shareholders Option Agreement, dated as of February 14, 1997, between TVMAX and each of the shareholders of THI, together with a list of the shareholders of THI.(1) 10.21 -- Option Agreement, dated as of February 14, 1997, between TVMAX and THI.(1) 10.22 -- City of Houston, Texas, Ordinance No. 89-338 dated March 29, 1989 granting to PrimeTime Cable Partners I, Ltd. the right to operate for 15 years a Community Antenna Television System, and subsequent ordinances consenting to assignment of rights to EagleVision and to TVMAX Communications (Texas), Inc.(1) 10.23 -- City of Houston, Texas, Ordinance No. 97-285 dated March 19, 1997, granting TVMAX Communications (Texas), Inc. a temporary permit to operate a Telecommunications Network.(1) 5 EXHIBIT NUMBER DESCRIPTION ------- ----------- 10.24 -- City of Houston, Texas, Ordinance No. 97-1088 dated September 3, 1997, extending to TVMAX Communications (Texas), Inc. a temporary permit to operate a Telecommunications Network (originally granted pursuant to the permit referenced in Exhibit 10.23 hereto).(2) 10.25 -- City of Houston, Texas, Ordinance No. 97-1567 dated December 23, 1997, granting to TVMAX Communications (Texas), Inc. a franchise to operate a Telecommunications Network (superseding and replacing the temporary permits referenced in Exhibits 10.23 and 10.24 hereto).(4) 10.26 -- Amendment Number 001 to the Videotron/Lucent Agreement, dated August 28, 1997, among Videotron Telecom Ltee and Lucent Technologies Canada Inc. and TVMAX and Lucent Technologies Inc.(2) 10.27 -- Credit Agreement dated as of December 19, 1997 (the "Credit Agreement") among TVMAX, OpTel, Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P., as arranger and syndication agent, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, individually and as administrative agent, General Electric Capital Corporation, individually and as documentation agent, and the lenders party thereto from time to time (collectively, the "Lenders").(4) 10.28 -- First Amendment to the Credit Agreement dated as of April 29, 1998.(4) 10.29 -- Guaranty dated as of December 19, 1997 between OpTel and the Lenders.* 10.30 -- Pledge Agreement dated as of December 19, 1997 between OpTel and the Lenders.* 10.31 -- Security Agreement dated as of December 19, 1997 between OpTel and the Lenders.* 10.32 -- Subordination Agreement dated as of December 19, 1997 among OpTel, GVL and the Lenders.* 10.33 -- Interconnection Agreement under Sections 251 and 252 of the Telecom Act by and between Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and OpTel (Texas) Telecom, Inc.(2) 10.34 -- Residential Reseller Agreement dated as of May 29, 1998 by and between Teleport Communications Group Inc. and TVMAX. 10.35 -- Strategic Alliance Agreement dated as of March 10, 1998 between I(3)S, Inc. and TVMAX. 21.1 -- List of Subsidiaries of the Company.(3) 23.1 -- Consent of Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman LLP included in Exhibit 5.1. 23.2 -- Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.(4) 24.1 -- Power of Attorney is set forth on the signature page of this Registration Statement. - --------------- (1) Filed as an exhibit to the Company's registration statement on Form S-4 filed with the Commission on April 10, 1997. (2) Filed as an exhibit to the Company's 10-K filed with the Commission for fiscal year ended August 31, 1997. (3) Filed as an exhibit to the Company's 10-K/A filed with the Commission for fiscal year ended August 31, 1997. (4) Filed as exhibit to the Company's registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on June 5, 1998. * To be filed by Amendment to this Registration Statement.