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AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JUNE 12, 1996.
REGISTRATION NO. 333-_________
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
NELLCOR PURITAN BENNETT INCORPORATED
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
DELAWARE 94-2789249
(State or Other Jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
of Incorporation or Organization)
4280 HACIENDA DRIVE, PLEASANTON, CA 94588
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
NELLCOR PURITAN BENNETT INCORPORATED 1995 EMPLOYEE STOCK
PARTICIPATION PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)
LAUREEN DeBUONO, ESQ.
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN RESOURCES,
GENERAL COUNSEL AND SECRETARY
NELLCOR PURITAN BENNETT INCORPORATED
4280 HACIENDA DRIVE, PLEASANTON, CA 94588
(Name and Address of Agent For Service)
510-463-4000
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code,
of Agent For Service)
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Calculation of Registration Fee
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Proposed Maximum Proposed Maximum Amount of
Title of Securities Amount to be Offering Price Aggregate Offering Registration
to be Registered Registered Per Share Price Fee
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Common Stock 500,000 $54.625 $27,312,500 $9,418
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* Estimate based on the average of the high and low sales prices of
Nellcor Puritan Bennett Common Stock on June 11, 1996, as reported
by the Nasdaq National Market.
** Calculated pursuant to paragraphs (h)(1) and (c) of SEC Rule 457.
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INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
The following documents are incorporated by reference herein:
(a) The Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended July 2, 1995, filed pursuant to Section 13(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act").
(b) All other reports filed by the Company since July 2, 1995 with
the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13(a)
or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
(c) The description of Nellcor Common Stock contained in the
registration statement filed on Form 8-A with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the Exchange Act on September 15, 1986,
including any amendments and reports filed for the purpose of
updating such description.
(d) All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to
the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the
date of filing of such documents.
ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
Not applicable.
ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
Edward Lopez, Esq., who has rendered an opinion as to the validity of
the shares offered hereby, is Corporate Counsel and Assistant Secretary of the
Company. As of May 23, 1996, Mr. Lopez had options to purchase 11,300 shares of
the Company's common stock.
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
The Company, a Delaware corporation, is empowered by Section 145 of the
Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL"), subject to the procedures and
limitations stated therein, to indemnify any person against expenses (including
attorney's fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and
reasonably incurred by such person in the defense of any
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threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding in which such person
is made a party by reason of his or her being or having been a director or
officer of the Company. The statute provides that indemnification pursuant to
its provisions is not exclusive of other rights of indemnification to which a
person may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or
disinterested directors, or otherwise.
The Company's Bylaws provide that the Company shall indemnify its
directors, and may indemnify its officers, to the full extent permitted by law.
The Company has entered into agreements with each of its directors and executive
officers, and with certain other employees, providing that the Company will
indemnify those persons to the full extent permitted by law against claims
arising out of their actions as agents of the Company and will advance expenses
of defending against such claims. The Company believes that indemnification
under its Bylaws or under such contracts covers at least negligence and gross
negligence by such directors, executive officers and other employees, and
requires the Company to advance litigation expenses in the case of stockholder
derivative or other actions against an undertaking by the indemnitee to repay
such advances if it is ultimately determined that the indemnitee is not entitled
to indemnification. The Company may enter into similar indemnification
agreements with other officers, employees or directors in the future.
The Company is also empowered by Section 102(b) of the DGCL to include
a provision in its certificate of incorporation to limit a director's liability
to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breaches of
fiduciary duty as a director. Article Tenth of the Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of the Company provides that the personal liability of the
directors of the Company is eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the
DGCL.
The Company presently maintains directors and officers liability
insurance coverage.
ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
Not applicable.
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
Exhibit Index
Exh. No. Description
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4.1 Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 7,
1991).
4.2 Certificate of Amendment to Restated Certificate of
Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
4.2 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (File No. 33-62465) filed on September 8,
1995).
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4.3 Certificate of Determination of Preferences of Series
A Junior Participating Preferred Stock (incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 7,
1991).
4.4 Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to
the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended July 3, 1994).
4.5 Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of
March 8, 1996, by and between the Registrant and The
First National Bank of Boston, as Rights Agent
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 of
Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on
March 13, 1996).
4.6 Nellcor Puritan Bennett Incorporated 1995 Employee
Stock Participation Plan.
5.1 Opinion of Edward Lopez, Corporate Counsel and
Assistant Secretary of the Company.
23.1 Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP.
23.2 Consent of Edward Lopez (included in Exhibit 5).
24.1 Manually executed Powers of Attorney (located on
signature pages hereof).
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.
The Company hereby undertakes:
(a) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this registration statement 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;
(b) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), each post-effective amendment referred to in
undertaking (a) above 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) 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;
(d) That, for purposes of determining any liability under the Act, each
filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 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
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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;
(e) That, insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Act 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 liability (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.
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 the City of Pleasanton, State of California on June 5, 1996.
NELLCOR PURITAN BENNETT
INCORPORATED
By: /s/ C. Raymond Larkin, Jr.
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C. Raymond Larkin, Jr.
President and Chief
Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND ADDITIONAL SIGNATURES
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned
persons hereby constitutes and appoints C. Raymond Larkin, Jr., Michael P.
Downey and Laureen DeBuono, and each of them, whether acting individually or
jointly, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this
Registration Statement (including post-effective amendments) and to file the
same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents 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 as to all
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intents and purposes he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitutes, may
lawfully do and 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.
Signature Title Date
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/s/ C. Raymond Larkin, Jr.
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C. Raymond Larkin, Jr. President, Chief Executive June 11, 1996
Officer and Director
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Michael P. Downey Executive Vice President and June 11, 1996
Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial and
accounting officer)
/s/ Burton A. Dole, Jr.
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Burton A. Dole, Jr. Chairman and Director June 11, 1996
/s/ Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
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Robert J. Glaser, M.D. Director June 11, 1996
/s/ Frederick M. Grafton
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Frederick M. Grafton Director June 11, 1996
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Donald M. Hammond Director June 11, 1996
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/s/ Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D.
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Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D. Director June 11, 1996
/s/ Thomas A. McDonnell
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Thomas A. McDonnell Director June 11, 1996
/s/ Walter J. McNerney
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Walter J. McNerney Director June 11, 1996
/s/ Edwin E. van Bronkhorst
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Edwin E. van Bronkhorst Director June 11, 1996
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