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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 10, 2001
Registration No. 333-___
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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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NAVIGANT CONSULTING, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 36-4094854
(State or Other Jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
Incorporation or Organization)
615 North Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
NAVIGANT CONSULTING, INC. EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
(Full Title of the Plans)
Philip Steptoe
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
615 North Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
(312) 573-5600
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of securities Amount to be registered Proposed maximum offering Proposed maximum aggregate Amount of registration fee
to be registered (1) price per unit (2) offering price (2) (2)
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Common stock, par value 300,000 shares $3.875 $1,162,500 $291
$0.01 per share.
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(1) This Registration Statement covers, in addition to the number of shares of
Common Stock stated above and pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), an indeterminate number of
shares and interests in the Navigant Consulting, Inc. Employee Stock
Purchase Plan (the "Plan") which by reason of certain events specified in
the Plan may become subject to the Plan.
(2) Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the maximum offering price, per share of Common
Stock and in the aggregate, and the registration fee were calculated based
upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on January
8, 2001, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange and published in The
Wall Street Journal.
The Exhibit Index included in this Registration Statement is at page 6.
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form
S-8 (plan information and registrant information) will be sent or given to
employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act. Such documents
need not be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission either as part of
this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements
pursuant to Rule 424. These documents, taken together, constitute a prospectus
that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents previously filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") by Navigant Consulting, Inc. (formerly
the Metzler Group, Inc.) (the "Registrant") pursuant to the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), are incorporated by reference
herein:
(1) The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 1999, as amended on Forms 10-K/A on May 1,
2000, May 5, 2000 and June 20, 2000;
(2) The Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Forms 10-Q for the quarterly
periods ended March 31, 2000, June 30, 2000 and September 30,
2000;
(3) The Registrant's Current Reports on Forms 8-K dated May 23, 2000,
August 28, 2000, October 12, 2000 and December 5, 2000; and
(4) The description of the Registrant's common stock, $0.01 par value
("Common Stock"), contained in the Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 0-23876) filed on September 16,
1994, including any amendment thereto or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description.
All documents subsequently filed with the Commission by the Registrant
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, 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 the prospectus and
to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement
contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is 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.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
The legal matters addressed in the Opinion of Company Counsel
(attached hereto as Exhibit 5) have been passed on for the Registrant by Philip
Steptoe, the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Registrant.
Mr. Steptoe is compensated as an employee of the Registrant, is the owner of
shares of Common Stock, is the holder of options to acquire shares of Common
Stock and is eligible to participate in the Plan.
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Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
As permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law ("DGCL"), the
Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides that directors of the
Registrant shall not be personally liable to the Registrant or its Stockholders
for monetary damages for breaches of their fiduciary duty as directors, except
for liability for breach of their duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its
stockholders, for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, liability for authorizing
illegal dividends or redemptions, or liability for a transaction from which the
director derived an improper personal benefit. This provision would have no
effect on the availability of equitable remedies or nonmonetary relief, such as
an injunction or rescission for breach of the duty of care. In addition, the
provision applies only to claims against a director arising out of his or her
role as a director and not in any other capacity (such as an officer or employee
of the Registrant). Further, liability of a director for violations of the
federal securities laws will not be limited by this provision.
The DGCL empowers a Delaware corporation to indemnify any persons who are,
or are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed
legal action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation), by
reason of the fact that the person was an officer or director of the
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a
director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The
indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and
amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with
the action, suit or proceeding, if the officer or director acted in good faith
and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the
corporation's best interests, and, for criminal proceedings, had no reasonable
cause to believe his or her conduct was illegal. A Delaware corporation may
indemnify officers and directors in an action by or in the right of the
corporation under the same conditions, except that no indemnification is
permitted without judicial approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be
liable to the corporation in the performance of his or her duty. Where an
officer or director is successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of
any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify the officer or
director against the expenses which the officer or director actually and
reasonably incurred.
The Registrant's certificate or incorporation provides that it will
indemnify its directors and officers (and any other employee or agent designated
for indemnification by resolution of the board of directors) to the fullest
extent permitted by the DGCL as described above. The certificate of
incorporation also provides that the right to indemnification is a contract
right and is not exclusive of any other right under any bylaw, agreement, vote
of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise. The certificate of
incorporation also permits the Registrant to secure insurance on behalf of any
officer, director, employee or agent for any liability arising out of his or her
status as such, regardless of whether the certificate of incorporation permits
indemnification.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not Applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
See the attached Exhibit Index at page 6.
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;
(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; 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 paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(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 the Registrant pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 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.
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(b) 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.
(c) 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 provisions described in Item 6 above, 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
The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act,
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 Chicago, the State of Illinois, on December 31,
2000.
NAVIGANT CONSULTING, INC.
By: /s/ William M. Goodyear
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Name: William M. Goodyear
Title: Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints William M. Goodyear and Benjamin W.
Perks, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true
and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, to do any and all acts and things and execute, in the name of
the undersigned, any and all instruments which said attorneys-in-fact and agents
may deem necessary or advisable in order to enable Navigant Consulting, Inc. to
comply with the Securities Act and any requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the filing with the
Securities and Exchange Commission of the registration statement on Form S-8
under the Securities Act, including specifically, but without limitation, power
and authority to sign the name of the undersigned to such registration
statement, and any amendments to such registration statement (including post-
effective amendments), and to file the same with all exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
to sign any and all applications, registration statements, notices or other
documents necessary or advisable to comply with applicable state securities
laws, and to file the same, together with other documents in connection
therewith with the appropriate state securities authorities, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and to perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully and to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and any of them, or their substitutes,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
date indicated.
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Signature Title Date
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/s/ William M. Goodyear Chairman of the Board, Chief December 31, 2000
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William M. Goodyear Executive Officer) and
Director
/s/ Benjamin W. Perks Executive Vice President and December 31, 2000
--------------------- Chief Financial Officer
Benjamin W. Perks (Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
/s/ Thomas A. Gildehaus Director December 31, 2000
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Thomas A. Gildehaus
/s/ Peter B. Pond Director December 31, 2000
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Peter B. Pond
/s/ Samuel S. Skinner Director December 29, 2000
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Samuel S. Skinner
/s/ Carl S. Spetzler Director December 31, 2000
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Carl S. Spetzler
/s/ James R. Thompson Director January 5, 2001
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James R. Thompson
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit No. Description
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4. Navigant Consulting, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
5. Opinion of Company Counsel.
23.1 Consent of KPMG LLP (consent of independent accountants).
23.2 Consent of Company Counsel (included in Exhibit 5).
24.1 Powers of attorney (included in this Registration Statement under
"Signatures").
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