Registration No. 333- Filed December 20, 1999 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 _____________ FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ______________ PBOC Holdings, Inc. _____________________________________________________________________________ (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Articles of Incorporation) Delaware 33-0220233 ________________________ ___________________________________ (State of Incorporation) (I.R.S.Employer Identification No.) 5900 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90036 _____________________________________________________________________________ (Address of Principal Executive Offices) 1999 Stock Option Plan People's Bank of California Savings Plus Plan _____________________________________________________________________________ (Full Title of the Plans) Copies to: J. Michael Holmes Norman B. Antin, Esq. Executive Vice President Elias, Matz, Tiernan and Chief Financial Officer & Herrick L.L.P. PBOC Holdings, Inc. 734 15th Street, N.W. 5900 Wilshire Boulevard Washington, D.C. 20005 Los Angeles, California 90036 (202) 347-0300 _______________________________________ (Name and Address of Agent For Service) (323) 938-6300 _______________________________________ (Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service) Index to Exhibits is Located on Page 5 CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE _____________________________________________________________________________ Title of Proposed Proposed Securities Amount Maximum Maximum Amount of to be to be Offering Price Aggregate Registration Registered Registered(1) Per Share Offering Price Fee _____________________________________________________________________________ Common Stock, par value $0.01 234,890(2) $ 8.75(3) $ 2,055,288(3) $ 542.60 Common Stock, par value $0.01 985,500(4) $13.75(5) 13,550,625(5) 3,577.40 ---------- ------------- --------- Total 1,220,390 $15,605,913 $ 4,120.00 ========= ========== ======== _____________________________________________________________________________ (1) Together with an indeterminate number of additional shares which may be necessary to adjust the number of shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the PBOC Holding, Inc. (the "Company" or the "Registrant") 1999 Stock Option Plan (the "Stock Option Plan") and the People's Bank of California Savings Plus Plan ("401(k) Plan") (collectively, the "Plans") as a result of a stock split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of the outstanding common stock, $0.01 par value per share ("Common Stock"), of the Company. (2) Represents 200,000 shares, an estimate of such presently undeterminable number of shares as may be purchased with employee contributions to the 401(k) Plan, and 34,890 shares currently reserved for issuance pursuant to the Stock Option Plan for which options have not been granted. In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Securities Act"), this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the 401(k)Plan. (3) Estimated solely for the purposes of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(c) promulgated under the Securities Act. The Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share for the 200,000 shares to be issued pursuant to the 401(k) Plan and 34,890 shares for which stock options have not been granted under the Stock Option Plan is equal to the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock of the Company on December 13, 1999 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. (4) Represents shares currently reserved for issuance pursuant to outstanding options granted under the Stock Option Plan. (5) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, which has been calculated pursuant to Rule 457(h) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Securities Act"). The Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share is equal to the weighted average exercise price for the options to purchase 985,500 shares of Common Stock which are outstanding under the Stock Option Plan as of the date hereof. _______________________ This Registration Statement shall become effective automatically upon the date of filing in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act and 17 C.F.R. Section 230.462. 2 PART II INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE. The following documents filed or to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement: (a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1998 filed with the Commission on March 22, 1999; (b) All reports filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), since the end of the fiscal year covered by the financial statements in the Annual Report referred to in clause (a) above; (c) The description of the Common Stock of the Company contained in "Description of Capital Stock" in the Prospectus included in PBOC Holdings, Inc.'s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-48397); (d) All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold. Any statement contained in this Registration Statement, or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein, or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement. ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES. Not applicable because the Company's Common Stock is registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act. ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL. Not applicable. 3 ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law sets forth circumstances under which directors, officers, employees and agents may be insured or indemnified against liability which they may incur in their capacity as such. The Certificate of Incorporation of the Company provides that the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Company shall be indemnified to the full extent permitted by law. Such indemnity shall extend to expenses, including attorney's fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in the settlement, prosecution or defense of the foregoing actions. Article IX of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides as follows: A. INDEMNIFICATION. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or any predecessor of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation or any predecessor of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines, and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding to the fullest extent authorized by Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, provided that the Corporation shall not be liable for any amounts which may be due to any person in connection with a settlement of any action, suit or proceeding effected without its prior written consent or any action, suit or proceeding initiated by any person seeking indemnification hereunder without its prior written consent. B. ADVANCEMENT OF EXPENSES. Reasonable expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by a director, officer or employee of the Corporation in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding described hereunder shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding as authorized by the Board of Directors only upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation. C. OTHER RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article IX shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to actions in their official capacity and as to actions in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer or employee and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such person. 4 D. INSURANCE. Upon resolution passed by the Board of Directors, the Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against him or incurred by him in any such capacity or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or this Article IX. E. MODIFICATION. The duties of the Corporation to indemnify and to advance expenses to a director, officer, employee or agent provided in this Article IX shall be in the nature of a contract between the Corporation and each such person, and no amendment or repeal of any provision of this Article IX shall alter, to the detriment of such person, the right of such person to the advance of expenses or indemnification related to a claim based on an act or failure to act which took place prior to such amendment or repeal. F. COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW. Any payments made pursuant to paragraphs A and B of this Article IX shall be subject to compliance under 12 U.S.C. Section 1828(k) and any regulations promulgated thereunder. ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED. Not applicable since no restricted securities will be reoffered or resold pursuant to this Registration Statement. ITEM 8. EXHIBITS. The following exhibits are filed with this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (numbering corresponds to Exhibit Table in Item 601 of Regulation S-K): No. Exhibit Page ___ _______ ____ 4 Form of Common Stock Certificate* ---- 5 Opinion of Elias, Matz, Tiernan E-1 & Herrick L.L.P. as to the legality of the securities 23.1 Consent of Elias, Matz, Tiernan & ---- Herrick L.L.P. (contained in the opinion included as Exhibit 5) 23.2 Consent of Independent Auditors E-3 5 24 Power of attorney for any subsequent ---- amendments (located in the signature pages of this Registration Statement) 99.1 1999 Stock Option Plan** ---- 99.2 Peoples Bank of California Savings E-4 Plus Plan * Incorporated by reference from the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 as filed on April 24, 1998 (File No. 333-48397). ** Incorporated by reference from the Company's Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A as filed on March 22, 1999 (File No. 000-24215). ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: 1. To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement: (i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act; (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the 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 the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement; and (iii) 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; provided, however, that clauses (i) and (ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those clauses is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement. 2. That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment 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. 3. 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. 6 4. That, for the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and each filing of the Plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement 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. 5. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities 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 Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities 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 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 Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. 7 SIGNATURES THE REGISTRANT. 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 Los Angeles, State of California, on this 20th day of December 1999. PBOC HOLDINGS, INC. By:/s/ Rudolf P. Guenzel ------------------------------------- Rudolf P. Guenzel President and Chief Executive Officer 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. Each person whose signature appears below hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Rudolf P. Guenzel his or her true and lawful attorney, with full power to sign for such person and in such person's name and capacity indicated below, and with full power of substitution any and all amendments to this Registration Statement, hereby ratifying and confirming such person's signature as it may be signed by said attorney to any and all amendments. Name Title Date - --------------- --------------------- -------------------- /s/ Rudolf P. Guenzel President and Chief December 20, 1999 - --------------------- Executive Officer and Rudolf P. Guenzel Director (principal executive officer) /s/ J. Michael Holmes Executive Vice President December 20, 1999 - --------------------- and Chief Financial J. Michael Holmes Officer and Director (principal financial and accounting office) /s/ Murray Kalis Director December 20, 1999 - --------------------- Murray Kalis 8 Name Title Date - --------------- --------------------- -------------------- /s/ Randall O. Chang Director December 20, 1999 - --------------------- Randall O. Chang /s/ Robert W. MacDonald Director December 20, 1999 - ----------------------- Robert W. MacDonald /s/ John F. Davis Director December 20, 1999 - ----------------- John F. Davis 9