FORM S-8 Registration Statement Under The Securities Act of 1933 TREASURY INTERNATIONAL, INC. ------------------------------------------------------ (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 98-0160284 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (State or other (IRS Employer jurisdiction of I.D. Number) incorporation) 7040 Tranmere Drive, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5S 1L9 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Address of Principal (Zip Code) Executive Offices) CONSULTING AND STOCK OPTION AGREEMENTS WITH PAUL A. CORNELL ----------------------------------------------------------- (Full Title of the plan) Mr. James Hal Treasury International, Inc. 7040 Tranmere Drive Mississauga, Ontario Canada, L5S 1L9 --------------------------------------- (Name and address of agent for service) (905) 673-1700 ----------------------------------------------------------- (Telephone number including area code of agent for service) Total Number of Pages: 9 Exhibit Index is on sequentially numbered page 5. CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposed Proposed Title of Maximum Maximum Securities offering Aggregate Amount of to be Amount to be Price Per offering Registration Registered Registered (1) Unit Price Fee - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common Stock 500,000 shares $.05 $25,000 $ 7.58 - ---------- (1) Pursuant to Rule 416, includes such additional shares as may be issued pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of the subject plan. 2 PART I INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS ITEM 1. Plan Information On November 13, 1996 Treasury International, Inc. ("Registrant") entered into a consulting agreement (the "Consulting Agreement") with Paul A. Cornell ("Consultant") pursuant to which the Consultant agreed, for a term of 12 months, to provide Registrant with cetain public relations services. As compensation for Consultant's services, the Registrant agreed to grant to Consultant a two-year option to purchase up to 500,000 shares of its Common Stock at a price of $.05 each. The Registrant and Consultant entered into a Stock Option Agreement, dated November 13, 1996, in which Registrant granted such option and agreed to file a Registration Statement on Form S-8 to register the optioned shares under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). ITEM 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information The Registrant shall provide the Consultant, without charge, upon his written or oral request, the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement. The Registrant shall also provide the Consultant, without charge, upon his oral of written request, with all other documents required to be delivered to Consultant pursuant to Rule 428(b). Any and all such requests shall be directed to the Registrant at 7040 Tranmere Drive, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5S 1L9. PART II INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE. The following documents filed by Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission are incorporated herein by reference: (a) Registrant's effective Registration Statement on Form 10-SB, as amended, File Number 0-28514 (the "Form 10"), which contains audited financial statements for Registrant's latest fiscal year; (b) All other reports filed by Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 since 3 the end of the fiscal year covered by the Registrant document referred to in (a) above; and (c) The description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in Part I, Item 8, of the Form 10. In addition, all documents subsequently filed by Registrant pursuant to Sections 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 hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents. ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES. Not Applicable ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL. Not applicable ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. Section 145 of the General Corporate Law ("GCL") of the State of Delaware empowers the Registrant, as a Delaware corporation, to indemnify its directors and officers under certain circumstances. Article Seventh of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation, and Article 7 of its By-Laws, each provides that the Registrant shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law each person that such law grants the Registrant the power to indemnify. Article Seventh of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation, and Article 7 of its By-Laws, each provides that the Company's directors shall not be liable to either the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duties unless the breach involves: (i) a director's duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders, (ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) liability for unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock purchase or redemption by the Registrant, or (iv) a transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. 4 ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED. Not Applicable ITEM 8. EXHIBITS. The following exhibits are filed as part of this Registration Statement: Page 5 Opinion of Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross, LLP 8 23.1 Consent of Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross, LLP, included in Exhibit 5 8 23.2 Consent of Bromberg & Associate, Independent Certified Public Accountants 9 ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS. (a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to: (1) File, during any period in which it offers or sells the securities registered hereby, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to: (i) Include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act; (ii) Reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this 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 this Registration Statement (or such amendment); and (iii) Include any additional or changed material information on the plan of distribution; provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) 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 Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. 5 (2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, treat each such post-effective amendment as a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. (3) File a post-effective amendment to remove from registration any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. (b) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors and officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the provisions described under Item 6 above, 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 said 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 a director, officer, or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant shall, 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 said Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. 6 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Mississauga, Providence of Canada, on the 20th day of December, 1996. TREASURY INTERNATIONAL, INC. By: /s/ James Hal -------------------------------- James Hal, President Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. Signature Title Date /s/ James Hal - --------------------- Principal Executive December 20, 1996 James Hal Officer and a Director /s/ Howard Halpern - --------------------- Principal Financial December 20, 1996 Howard Halpern Officer and Principal Accounting Officer /s/ Mark Halioua Director December 20, 1996 - --------------------- Mark Halioua /s/ Robert Abourmad - --------------------- Director December 20, 1996 Robert Abourmad 7