As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 17, 2003 Reg. No.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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FAMOUS FIXINS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
New York 13-3865655
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) identification No.)
1325 Howard Ave. #422
Burlingame, California 94010
(650) 340-1074
(Address of principal executive offices)
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CONSULTING AND LEGAL SERVICES PLAN
(Full title of plan)
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Michael Rudolph
President and Director
1325 Howard Ave. #422
Burlingame, California 94010
(Name and address of agent for service)
(650) 340-1074
(Telephone number, including area code of agent for service)
Copy to:
Naccarato & Associates
19600 Fairchild, Suite 260
Irvine, CA 92612
(949) 851-9261
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Proposed maximum Proposed maximum
Title of securities Amount to be offering price Aggregate offering Amount of
to be registered Registered per share (1) Price Registration fee
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Common Stock 20,625,000 .015 $309,375 $25.03
($.001 par value)
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(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the amount of registration
fee and pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) of the General Rules and Regulations
under the Securities Act of 1993, based upon the upon the average of the bid and
asked prices per share of the registrant's common stock reported by the OTC
NASDAQ Stock Market on April 16, 2003.
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THIS SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1. Plan Information. *
Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information. *
*Information required by Part 1 to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus
is omitted from the registration statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the
Securities Act of 1933 and the Note to Part I of Form S-8.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The following documents filed by Famous Fixins, Inc. (the "Company")
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated
by reference herein:
(a) the Company's annual report on Form 10-KSB filed April 10, 2003 for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002 filed pursuant to Section 13 of the
Exchange Act, file number 000-27219;
(b) all other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a) or
Section 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
Act"), since December 31, 2002 through the date hereof;
(c) the description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the
Company's Registration Statement on Form 10-SB dated September 1, 1999, filed
pursuant to Section 12(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, including any amendment
or report filed for the purpose of updating the description.
(d) any document filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date
hereof, but prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this
Registration Statement which Indicates that all shares of Common Stock
registered hereunder have been sold or that deregisters all such shares of
common Stock then remaining unsold, such documents being 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
1. The financial statements incorporated in this registration statement by
reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended
December 31, 2002 have been incorporated in reliance on the report of Pohl,
McNabola, Berg & Company LLP., on the authority of that firm as experts in
auditing and accounting. The auditor named in this prospectus as having prepared
or certified any part of it was not employed on a contingency basis, or had, or
is to receive, in connection with the offering, an interest in the Company or
any of its parents or subsidiaries. Nor were they connected with the Company or
any of its parents or subsidiaries as a promoter, managing or principal
underwriter, voting trustee, director, officer, or employee.
2. The legality of the shares of Common Stock offered hereby has been passed
upon for the Company by Naccarato & Associates. A portion of the shares (625,000
shares) being registered herein is being issued to the Registrant's attorney in
such law firm for services provided to the Registrant.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
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Our Certificate of Incorporation provides: the corporation shall, to
the fullest extent permitted by Article 7 of the Business Corporation Law, as
the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all persons whom it
shall have power to indemnify under said Article from and against any and all of
the expenses, liabilities, or other matters referred to in or covered by said
Article, and the indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed
exclusive of any other rights to which any person may be entitled under any
By-Law, resolution of shareholders, resolution of directors, agreement, or
otherwise, as permitted by said Article, as to action in any capacity in which
he served at the request of the corporation.
Article 7 of the New York Business Corporation Law provides the following:
Section 721. Nonexclusive of statutory provisions for
indemnification of directors and officers. The indemnification and advancement
of expenses granted pursuant to, or provided by, this article shall not be
deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a director or officer seeking
indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled, whether contained in
the certificate of incorporation or the by-laws or, when authorized by such
certificate of incorporation or by-laws, (i) a resolution of shareholders, (ii)
a resolution of directors, or (iii) an agreement providing for such
indemnification, provided that no indemnification may be made to or on behalf of
any director or officer if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the
director or officer establishes that his acts were committed in bad faith or
were the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and were material to the
cause of action so adjudicated, or that he personally gained in fact a financial
profit or other advantage to which he was not legally entitled. Nothing
contained in this article shall affect any rights to indemnification to which
corporate personnel other than directors and officers may be entitled by
contract or otherwise under law.
Section 722. Authorization for indemnification of directors and
officers.
(a) A corporation may indemnify any person made, or threatened to
be made, a party to an action or proceeding (other than one by or in the right
of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor), whether civil or
criminal, including an action by or in the right of any other corporation of any
type or kind, domestic or foreign, or any partnership, joint venture, trust,
employee benefit plan or other enterprise, which any director or officer of the
corporation served in any capacity at the request of the corporation, by reason
of the fact that he, his testator or intestate, was a director or officer of the
corporation, or served such other corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise in any capacity, against
judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and reasonable expenses, including
attorneys' fees actually and necessarily incurred as a result of such action or
proceeding, or any appeal therein, if such director or officer acted, in good
faith, for a purpose which he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of
service for any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust,
employee benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interests of
the corporation and, in criminal actions or proceedings, in addition, had no
reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
(b) The termination of any such civil or criminal action or
proceeding by judgment, settlement, conviction or upon a plea of nolo
contenders, or its equivalent, shall not in itself create a presumption that any
such director or officer did not act, in good faith, for a purpose which he
reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for any other
corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or
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other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interest of the corporation or that
he had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
(c) A corporation may indemnify any person made, or threatened to
be made, a party to an action by or in the right of the corporation to procure a
judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate,
is or was a director or officer of the corporation, or is or was serving at the
request of the corporation as a director or officer of any other corporation of
any type or kind, domestic or foreign, of any partnership, joint venture, trust,
employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against amounts paid in settlement
and reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees, actually and necessarily
incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action, or
in connection with an appeal therein, if such director or officer acted, in good
faith, for a purpose which he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of
service for any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust,
employee benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interests of
the corporation, except that no indemnification under this paragraph shall be
made in respect of (1) a threatened action, or a pending action which is settled
or otherwise disposed of, or (2) any claim, issue or matter as to which such
person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation, unless and only
to the extent that the court in which the action was brought, or, if no action
was brought, any court of competent jurisdiction, determines upon application
that, in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and
reasonably entitled to indemnity for such portion of the settlement amount and
expenses as the court deems proper.
(d) For the purpose of this section, a corporation shall be
deemed to have requested a person to serve an employee benefit plan where the
performance by such person of his duties to the corporation also imposes duties
on, or otherwise involves services by, such person to the plan or participants
or beneficiaries of the plan; excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to
an employee benefit plan pursuant to applicable law shall be considered fines;
and action taken or omitted by a person with respect to an employee benefit plan
in the performance of such person's duties for a purpose reasonably believed, by
such person to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the
plan shall be deemed to be for a purpose, which is not opposed to the best
interests of the corporation.
Section 723. Payment of indemnification other than by court award.
(a) A person who has been successful, on the merits or otherwise,
in the defense of a civil or criminal action or proceeding of the character
described in section 722 shall be entitled to indemnification as authorized in
such section.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (a), any indemnification
under section 722 or otherwise permitted by section 721, unless ordered by a
court under section 724 (Indemnification of directors and officers by a court),
shall be made by the corporation, only if authorized in the specific case:
(1) By the board acting by a quorum consisting of directors
who are not parties to such action or proceeding upon a finding that the
director or officer has met the standard of conduct set forth in section 722 or
established pursuant to section 721, as the case may be, or,
(2) If a quorum under subparagraph (1) is not obtainable or,
even if obtainable, a quorum of disinterested directors so directs;
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(A) By the board upon the opinion in writing of independent
legal counsel that indemnification is proper in the circumstances because the
applicable standard of conduct set forth in such sections has been met by such
director or officer, or
(B) By the shareholders upon a finding that the director or
officer has met the applicable standard of conduct
set forth in such sections.
(C) Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal
action or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in
advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding upon receipt of an
undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount as,
and to the extent, required by paragraph (a) of section 725.
Section 724. Indemnification of directors and officers by a court.
(a) Notwithstanding the failure of a corporation to provide
indemnification, and despite and contrary resolution of the board or of the
shareholders in the specific case under section 723 (Payment of indemnification
other than by court award), indemnification shall be awarded by a court to the
extent authorized under section for indemnification of directors and officers),
722 (Authorization for indemnification of directors and officers) and paragraph
(a) of section 723. Application therefore may be made, in every case, either:
(1) In the civil action or proceeding in which the expenses
were incurred or other amounts were paid, or
(2) To the supreme court in a separate proceeding, in which
case the application shall set forth the disposition of any previous application
made to any court for the same or similar relief and also reasonable cause for
the failure to make application for such relief in the action or proceeding in
which the expenses were incurred or other amounts were paid.
(b) The application shall be made in such manner and form as may
be required by the applicable rules of court or, in the absence thereof, by
direction of a court to which it is made. Such application shall be upon notice
to the corporation. The court may also direct that notice be given at the
expense of the corporation to the shareholders and such other persons as it may
designate in such manner as it may require.
(c) Where indemnification is sought by judicial action, the court
may allow a person such reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees, during
the pendency of the litigation as are necessary in connection with his defense
therein, if the court shall find that the defendant has by his pleadings or
during the course of the litigation raised genuine issues of fact or law.
Section 725. Other provisions affecting indemnification of directors
and officers.
(a) All expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action
or proceeding which are advanced by the corporation under paragraph (c) of
section 723 (Payment of indemnification other than by court award) or allowed by
a court under paragraph (c) of section 724 (Indemnification of directors and
officers by a court) shall be repaid in case the person receiving such
advancement or allowance is ultimately found, under the procedure set forth in
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this article, not to be entitled to indemnification or, where indemnification is
granted, to the extent the expenses so advanced by the corporation or allowed by
the court exceed the indemnification to which he is entitled.
(b) No indemnification, advancement or allowance shall be made
under this article in any circumstance where it appears:
(1) That the indemnification would be inconsistent with the
law of the jurisdiction of incorporation of a foreign corporation, which
prohibits or otherwise limits such indemnification;
(2) That the indemnification would be inconsistent with a
provision of the certificate of incorporation, a by-law, a resolution of the
board or of the shareholders, an agreement or other proper corporate action, in
effect at the time of the accrual of the alleged cause of action asserted in the
threatened or pending action or proceeding in which the expenses were incurred
or other amounts were paid, which prohibits or otherwise limits indemnification;
or
(3) If there has been a settlement approved by the court, that
the indemnification would be inconsistent with any condition with respect to
indemnification expressly imposed by the court in approving the settlement.
(c) If any expenses or other amounts are paid by way of
indemnification, otherwise than by court order or action by the shareholders,
the corporation shall, not later than the next annual meeting of shareholders
unless such meeting is held within three months from the date of such payment,
and, in any event, within fifteen months from the date of such payment, mail to
its shareholders of record at the time entitled to vote for the election of
directors a statement specifying the persons paid, the amounts paid, and the
nature and status at the time of such payment of the litigation or threatened
litigation.
(d) If any action with respect to indemnification of directors
and officers is taken by way of amendment of the by-laws, resolution of
directors, or by agreement, then the corporation shall, not later than the next
annual meeting of shareholders, unless such meeting is held within three months
from the date of such action, and, in any event, within fifteen months from the
date of such action, mail to its shareholders of record at the time entitled to
vote for the election of directors a statement specifying the action taken.
(e) Any notification required to be made pursuant to the
foregoing paragraph (c) or (d) of this section by any domestic mutual insurer
shall be satisfied by compliance with the corresponding provisions of section
one thousand two hundred sixteen of the insurance law.
(f) The provisions of this article relating to indemnification of
directors and officers and insurance therefore shall apply to domestic
corporations and foreign corporations doing business in this state, except as
provided in section 1320 (Exemption from certain provisions).
Section 726. Insurance for indemnification of directors and
officers.
(a) Subject to paragraph (b), a corporation shall have power to
purchase and maintain insurance:
(1) To indemnify the corporation for any obligation which it
incurs as a result of the indemnification of directors and officers under the
provisions of this article, and
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(2) To indemnify directors and officers in instances in which
they may be indemnified by the corporation under the provisions of this article,
and
(3) To indemnify directors and officers in instances in which
they may not otherwise be indemnified by the corporation under the provisions of
this article provided the contract of insurance covering such directors and
officers provides, in a manner acceptable to the superintendent of insurance,
for a retention amount and for co-insurance.
(b) No insurance under paragraph (a) may provide for any payment,
other than cost of defense, to or on behalf of any director or officer:
(1) If a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the
insured director or officer establishes that his acts of active and deliberate
dishonesty were material to the cause of action so adjudicated, or that he
personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he was
not legally entitled, or
(2) In relation to any risk the insurance of which is
prohibited under the insurance law of this state.
(c) Insurance under any or all subparagraphs of paragraph (a) may
be included in a single contract or supplement thereto. Retrospective rated
contracts are prohibited.
(d) The corporation shall, within the time and to the persons
provided in paragraph (c) of section 725 (Other provisions affecting
indemnification of directors or officers), mail a statement in respect of any
insurance it has purchased or renewed under this section, specifying the
insurance carrier, date of the contract, cost of the insurance, corporate
positions insured, and a statement explaining all sums, not previously reported
in a statement to shareholders, paid under any indemnification insurance
contract.
(e) This section is the public policy of this state to spread the
risk of corporate management, notwithstanding any other general or special law
of this state or of any other jurisdiction including the federal government.
Our Certificate of Incorporation further provides: personal
liability of the directors of the corporation is eliminated to the fullest
extent permitted by the provisions of paragraph (b) of Section 402 of the
Business Corporation Law, as the same may be amended and supplemented.
Section 402(b) of the New York Business Corporation Law provides: the
certificate of incorporation may set forth a provision eliminating or limiting
the personal liability of directors to the corporation or its shareholders for
damages for any breach of duty in such capacity, provided that no such provision
shall eliminate or limit: (1) the liability of any director if a judgment or
other final adjudication adverse to him establishes that his acts or omissions
were in bad faith or involved intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of
law or that he personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage
to which he was not legally entitled or that his acts violated Section 719, or
(2) the liability of any director for any act or omissions prior to the adoption
of a provision authorized by this paragraph.
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Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of Famous
Fixins pursuant to the foregoing provisions or otherwise, we are aware that in
the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may
be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the small
business issuer pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the small
business issuer has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange 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 us
of expenses incurred or paid by any of our directors, officers or controlling
persons 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, we will, unless in the opinion of our counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by us is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by
the final adjudication of such issue.
Section 102 of the Delaware General Corporation Law allows a corporation to
eliminate the personal liability of directors of a corporation to the
corporation or to any of its stockholders for monetary damage for a breach of
his fiduciary duty as a director, except in the case where the director breached
his or her duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional
misconduct
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
The Exhibits to this registration statement are listed in the index to
Exhibits on page 12.
Item 9. Undertakings
(a) 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 1933:
(ii) To 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:
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or
any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;
provided, however, that paragraph (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do not apply if the
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information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraph is contained in periodic reports filed by the Company pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15 (d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement.
(2) That for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendments 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 mean of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered hereunder that remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.
(b) The undersigned Company hereby undertakes that for purposes of determining
any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the company's
annual report pursuant to Section 13 (a) or Section 15 (d) of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan's annual report pursuant to 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 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) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
Company pursuant to the above-described provisions or otherwise, the Company has
been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is,
therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses incurred or
paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company 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 Company 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 of 1933 and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.
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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 a 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 Los Angeles, State of California on April 17, 2003.
Famous Fixins, Inc.
By /s/ S. Michael Rudolph
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S. Michael Rudolph, President and Chief
Executive Officer
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit Sequentially
NO. Description Numbered Pages
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5.1 Opinion of Naccarato & Associates
10.01 Consulting and Legal Services Plan
23.1 Consent of Pohl, McNabola, Berg & Company LLP, Independent Auditors
23.2 Consent of Naccarato & Associates
(filed as part of Exhibit 5.1)
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