Registration Statement


As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 12, 2009

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

TRIMBLE NAVIGATION LIMITED

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

 

California   94-2802192

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

935 Stewart Drive

Sunnyvale, California 94085

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)

 

 

Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated 2002 Stock Plan

Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full Title of the Plans)

 

 

 

 

 

James A. Kirkland

Vice President, General Counsel

Trimble Navigation Limited

935 Stewart Drive

Sunnyvale, California 94085

(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

 

(408) 481-8000

(Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

 

Copy to:

 

Thomas J. Ivey

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

525 University Avenue

Suite 1100

Palo Alto, California 94301

 

 

(650) 470-4500

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filers, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.

 

Large Accelerated Filer   x   Accelerated Filer   ¨
Non-accelerated Filer   ¨   Smaller Reporting Company   ¨

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of Each Class of Securities

to be Registered

 

Amount to

be

Registered

 

Proposed

Maximum

Offering Price

Per Share (2)

 

Proposed

Maximum

Aggregate Offering
Price (2)

 

Amount of

Registration

Fee

Common Stock, no par value, to be issued under the Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated 2002 Stock Plan (1)

  8,000,000   $24.25   $194,040,000   $10,827.43

Common Stock, no par value, to be issued under the Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan (1)

  4,000,000   $24.25   $97,020,000   $5,413.72
 
 
(1) In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock which may become issuable under the Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan and the Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated 2002 Stock Plan being registered pursuant to this Registration Statement by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the Registrant’s outstanding shares of Common Stock.
(2) Estimated solely for the purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act of 1933 on the basis of the average of the high and low sale prices for a share of the Registrant’s Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on August 7, 2009.

This Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing in accordance with Rule 462(a) under the Securities Act.

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the Registrant is filing this registration statement on Form S-8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to include an additional 4,000,000 shares under the Registrant’s Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan and an additional 8,000,000 shares under the Registrant’s Amended and Restated 2002 Stock Plan. Pursuant to such Instruction E, the contents of the Registrant’s Forms S-8, on Registration Statement No. 33-39647 filed with the Commission on April 2, 1991, Registration Statement No. 33-57522 filed with the Commission on January 28, 1993, Registration Statement No. 33-78502 filed with the Commission on May 3, 1994, Registration Statement No. 33-91858 filed with the Commission on May 3, 1995, Registration Statement No. 333-04670 filed with the Commission on May 3, 1996, Registration Statement No. 333-28429 filed with the Commission on June 3, 1997, Registration Statement No. 333-53703 filed with the Commission on May 27, 1998, Registration Statement No. 333-84949 filed with the Commission on August 11, 1999, Registration Statement No. 333-38264 filed with the Commission on May 31, 2000, Registration Statement No. 333-65758 filed with the Commission on July 24, 2001, Registration Statement No. 33-97979 filed with the Commission on August 13, 2002, Registration Statement No. 001-14845 filed with the Commission on August 13, 2004, and Registration Statement No. 333-138551 filed with the Commission on November 9, 2006 are hereby incorporated by reference.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

 

  (a) The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2009, filed on March 3, 2009;

 

  (b) The Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on January 6, 2009, April 30, 2009 and May 21, 2009;

 

  (c) The Registrant’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, filed on May 11, 2009 and August 10, 2009;

 

  (d) The Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Form DEF 14A, filed on April 6, 2009; and

 

  (e) The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission on June 15, 1990, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, after the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters the securities covered hereby then remaining unsold, shall also be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a 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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Palo Alto, California, will pass upon the validity of the shares of Common Stock offered hereby.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Section 317 of the California General Corporation Law authorizes a court to award, or a corporation’s board of directors to grant, indemnity to directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit indemnification, including reimbursement of expenses incurred, under certain circumstances for liabilities arising under the Securities Act. The Registrant’s bylaws provide that the Registrant will indemnify the Registrant’s directors and officers and may indemnify the Registrant’s employees and agents (other than officers and directors) against liabilities to the fullest extent permitted by California law. The Registrant is also empowered under its bylaws to enter into indemnification agreements with the Registrant’s directors and officers and to purchase insurance on behalf of any person whom the Registrant is required or permitted to indemnify. The Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with each of the Registrant’s current directors and executive officers which provide for indemnification of, and advancement of expenses to, such persons to the greatest extent permitted by California law, including by reason of action or inaction occurring in the past and circumstances in which indemnification and advancement of expenses are discretionary under California law. In addition, the Registrant maintains insurance on behalf of its directors and executive officers insuring them against any liability asserted against them in their capacities as directors or officers or arising out of this status.

Item 7. Exemption From Registration Claimed

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description of Exhibit

4.1   Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan. (1)
4.2   Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated 2002 Stock Plan. (2)
5.1   Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP regarding the legality of the securities being registered.
23.1   Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2   Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1   Power of Attorney (included on signature page).

 

(1) Incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 3, 2009.
(2) Incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 3, 2009.


Item 9. Undertakings

 

1. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

 

  (a) 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;

 

  (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 paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(ii) do not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and, the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

 

  (b) 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.

 

  (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.

 

2. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit 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.

 

3.

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.


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 Sunnyvale, State of California, on this 7th day of August 2009.

 

T RIMBLE N AVIGATION L IMITED
By:  

/s/    Steven W. Berglund

Name:   Steven W. Berglund
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Steven W. Berglund and Rajat Bahri, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and additions to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and hereby grants to such 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, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or 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

/s/    Steven W. Berglund

Steven W. Berglund

  

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

   August 7, 2009

/s/    Rajat Bahri

Rajat Bahri

  

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer)

   August 7, 2009

/s/    Julie A. Shepard

Julie A. Shepard

  

Vice President, Finance

(Principal Accounting Officer)

   August 11, 2009

/s/    John B. Goodrich

John B. Goodrich

   Director    August 5, 2009


/s/    William Hart

William Hart

   Director    August 10, 2009

/s/    Merit E. Janow

Merit E. Janow

   Director    August 6, 2009

 

Ulf Johansson

   Chairman of the Board, Director    August     , 2009

/s/    Bradford W. Parkinson

Bradford W. Parkinson

   Director    August 6th, 2009

/s/    Nickolas W. Vande Steeg

Nickolas W. Vande Steeg

   Vice Chairman of the Board, Director    August 8, 2009

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description of Exhibit

4.1   Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan. (1)
4.2   Trimble Navigation Limited Amended and Restated 2002 Stock Plan. (2)
5.1   Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP regarding the legality of the securities being registered.
23.1   Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2   Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1   Power of Attorney (included on signature page).

 

(1) Incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 3, 2009.
(2) Incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 3, 2009.

Exhibit 5.1

[Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Letterhead]

                                         August 12, 2009

Trimble Navigation Limited

935 Stewart Drive

Sunnyvale, California 94085

 

  RE: Trimble Navigation Limited
     Form S-8 Registration Statement

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to Trimble Navigation Limited, a California corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the registration of 8,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, no par value (the “Common Stock”), issuable pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated 2002 Stock Plan and 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock, issuable pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the 8,000,000 together with the 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock, “the Shares,” and the Amended and Restated 2002 Stock Plan together with the Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan, the “Plans”).

This opinion is being furnished in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”).

In connection with this opinion, we have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of (i) the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on August 12, 2009 under the Act relating to the sale of the Shares; (ii) a specimen certificate


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representing the Common Stock; (iii) the Articles of Incorporation of the Company, and all amendments thereto, as certified by James A. Kirkland, Vice President and General Counsel of the Company; (iv) the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, as certified by James A. Kirkland, Vice President and General Counsel of the Company; (v) the Plans; and (vi) certain resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company. We have also examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such records of the Company and such agreements, certificates of public officials, certificates of officers or other representatives of the Company and others, and such other documents, certificates and records as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinions set forth herein.

In our examination, we have assumed the legal capacity of all natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as facsimile, electronic, certified or photostatic copies, and the authenticity of the originals of such copies. In making our examination of documents executed or to be executed by parties other than the Company, we have assumed that such parties had or will have the power, corporate or other, to enter into and perform all obligations thereunder, and we have also assumed the due authorization by all requisite action, corporate or other, and execution and delivery by such parties of such documents and the validity and binding effect thereof. As to any facts material to the opinions expressed herein that we have not independently established or verified, we have relied upon statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Company and others.

We have also assumed that each award agreement setting forth the terms of each grant of options or other awards under the Plans is consistent with the Plans and has been duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the parties thereto.

We do not express any opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other than the corporate laws of the State of California, and we do not express any opinion as to the effect of any other laws on the opinion stated herein.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that when (i) the Registration Statement becomes effective under the Act, (ii) certificates representing the Shares to be issued under the Plans in the form of the specimen certificate examined by us have been manually signed by an authorized officer of the transfer agent and registrar for the Common Stock and registered by such transfer agent and registrar, and (iii) such certificates have been delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plans at a price per share not less than the per share par value of the Common Stock, the issuance and sale of such Shares will have been duly authorized, and such Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.


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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are included in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the Amended and Restated 2002 Stock Plan and the Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan of Trimble Navigation Limited of our reports dated February 27, 2009, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and schedule of Trimble Navigation Limited included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended January 2, 2009, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Trimble Navigation Limited filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

/s/    Ernst & Young, LLP
San Jose, California
August 10, 2009