AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JANUARY 30, 1998 REGISTRATION NO. 333-42229 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 ------------------------ AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO FORM S-4 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ------------------------ KOLLMORGEN CORPORATION (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) NEW YORK 3621 042151861 (State or Other Jurisdiction of (Primary Standard Industrial (I.R.S. Employer Incorporation or Organization) Classification Code Number) Identification Number) ------------------------ RESERVOIR PLACE 1601 TRAPELO ROAD WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS 02154 (781) 890-5655 (Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices) ------------------------------ JAMES A. EDER, ESQ. VICE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY AND GENERAL COUNSEL KOLLMORGEN CORPORATION 968 FARMINGTON AVENUE, ROOM 208 WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 06107 (860) 232-3121 (Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service) ------------------------------ COPIES TO: CREIGHTON O'M. CONDON, ESQ. LINDA C. QUINN, ESQ. SHEARMAN & STERLING 599 LEXINGTON AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10022 (212) 848-4000 ------------------------ Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND THE SATISFACTION OR WAIVER OF THE CONDITIONS TO THE CONSUMMATION OF THE PROPOSED MERGER DESCRIBED HEREIN. If the securities being registered on this form are being offered in connection with the formation of a holding company and there is compliance with General Instruction G, check the following box. / / ------------------------ 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 OF 1933 OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(A), MAY DETERMINE. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMENDMENT TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT The Registrant hereby amends the Registration Statement to incorporate the exhibits filed herewith and to add the following items to Item 21. See "Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference" in the Proxy Statement contained in the Registration Statement. EXHIBIT NO. - --------- 23.1 Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. 99.13 Supplemental Proxy Materials of Kollmorgen Corporation dated January 30, 1998. 99.14 Form of Proxy to be mailed to Pacific Scientific Shareholders. 99.15 Kollmorgen Letter to Pacific Scientific Shareholders dated January 30, 1998. 99.16 Form of Press Release dated January 30, 1998. SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of West Hartford, State of Connecticut, on January 30, 1998. KOLLMORGEN CORPORATION BY: /S/ JAMES A. EDER ----------------------------------------- Name: James A. Eder Title: Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel II-2 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement has been signed below on the 30th day of January, 1998, by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities indicated: SIGNATURE TITLE - ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------- Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Gideon Argov Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer) * ------------------------------------------- Senior Vice President, Treasurer, Chief Financial Robert J. Cobuzzi Officer and Director (Principal Financial Officer) * ------------------------------------------- Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Keith A. Jones Accounting Officer) * ------------------------------------------- Director Jerald G. Fishman * ------------------------------------------- Director Herbert L. Henkel * ------------------------------------------- Director James H. Kasschau * ------------------------------------------- Director J. Douglas Maxwell, Jr. * ------------------------------------------- Director Robert N. Parker * ------------------------------------------- Director Geoffrey S. Rehnert * ------------------------------------------- Director George P. Stephan *By: /s/ James A. Eder James A. Eder Attorney-in-fact II-3 EXHIBIT INDEX 23.1 Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. 99.13 Supplemental Proxy Materials of Kollmorgen Corporation dated January 30, 1998. 99.14 Form of Proxy to be mailed to Pacific Scientific Shareholders. 99.15 Kollmorgen Letter to Pacific Scientific Shareholders dated January 30, 1998. 99.16 Form of Press Release dated January 30, 1998.