As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 31, 1996
Registration No. 333-______
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
VSE CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 54-069263
(State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S Employer
of incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
2550 Huntington Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia 22303
(703) 960-4600
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)
VSE CORPORATION
1996 STOCK
OPTION PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)
C. S. Weber
VSE Corporation
2550 Huntington Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia 22303
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
(703) 329-4770
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)
Copy to:
Jeffrey E. Jordan, Esq.
Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn
1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036-5339
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Proposed Proposed
Maximum Maximum
Offering Aggregate
Amount Price Per Offering Amount of
Title of Securities to be Share (1) or Price (1) Registration
to be Registered Registered Interest (2) (2) Fee
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Common Stock,
$.05 par value 218,966 $17.25 $3,777,163.50 $1,302.47
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(1) Pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1), based on the average of the high and low prices
reported in the NASDAQ National Market within five business days prior to
the date of filing.
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1. Plan Information*
Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information*
* Information required by Part I to be contained in a Section 10(a)
prospectus is omitted from the Registration Statement in accordance
with Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act")
and the Note to Part I of Form S-8.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The following documents previously filed by the Registrant with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated by reference in
this Registration Statement:
1. The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 1995.
2. The Registrant's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended
March 31, 1996.
3. The Registrant's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended
June 30, 1996.
4. All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") since the end of the fiscal year
ended December 31, 1995.
5. Registrant's Form 8-A Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 12
of the Exchange Act, containing a description of the Registrant's common
stock ("Shares"), including any amendment or report filed for the purpose
of updating such description.
In addition, all documents subsequently filed 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 have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to
be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
Not Applicable.
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Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
David M. Osnos, a director of the Registrant, is a partner in the law
firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended, provides
that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason
of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation or is or was serving at its request in such capacity in another
corporation or business association, against expenses (including attorneys'
fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted
in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to
the best interests of the corporation, and with respect to any criminal action
or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended,
permits a corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a
director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation
or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a
director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of
loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not
in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of
law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv)
for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal
benefit.
Article Eleven of the Registrant's Restated Certificate of Incorporation
provides for the elimination of personal liability of a director for breach of
fiduciary duty as permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General
Corporation Law, and Article VII, Section 7 of the Registrant's Bylaws provides
that the Registrant shall indemnify its directors, officers, employees and
agents to the extent permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law.
The Registrant has in effect a directors and officers liability
insurance policy under which the directors and officers of the Registrant are
insured against loss arising from claims made against them due to wrongful acts
while acting in their individual and collective capacities as directors and
officers, subject to certain exclusions.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
See Exhibit Index on page 8.
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Item 9. Undertakings
(a) The Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made of the securities registered hereby, a post-effective amendment to this
Registrant 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
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 the undertakings set forth in paragraphs (1)(i) and
(1)(ii) above 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 this 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.
(b) The Registrant hereby further 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 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 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 indemnifica-
tion 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, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, will 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.
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SIGNATURES
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 County of Fairfax, State of Virginia, on the thirty-first
day of October, 1996.
VSE CORPORATION
By: /s/ C. S. Weber
C. S. Weber
Senior Vice President,
Secretary and Treasurer
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Donald M. Ervine and Craig S. Weber, and each of
them his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with 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)
to this Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the
Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done to comply with the provisions of the
Securities Act and all requirements of the Commission, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or any of them, or their or his or
her 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 below by the following persons in the capacities and
on the date indicated:
Signatures Title Date
/s/ D. M. Ervine Chairman of the Board, October 31, 1996
D. M. Ervine Chief Executive Officer
and Director
/s/ R. B. McFarland President, Chief October 31, 1996
R. B. McFarland Operating Officer
and Director
/s/ C. S. Weber Senior Vice President October 31, 1996
C. S. Weber Chief Financial Officer
Secretary and Treasurer
/s/ Sarah Clements Director October 31, 1996
Sarah Clements
/s/ R. J. Kelly Director October 31, 1996
R. J. Kelly
/s/ C. S. Koonce Director October 31, 1996
C. S. Koonce
/s/ J. M. Marchello Director October 31, 1996
J. M. Marchello
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Director
D. M. Osnos
Director
J. D. Ross
/s/ B. K. Wachtel Director October 31, 1996
B. K. Wachtel
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Page
4. Instruments defining the rights of security
holders
(a) The VSE Corporation Stock Option Plan. Incorporated by
reference from Exhibit A to the Proxy Statement with respect to the
Registrant's 1996 Annual Meeting filed with the Commission on
April 6, 1996.
5. Opinion of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn
re: validity of securities registered 9
23. Consents of experts and counsel
(a) Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP 10
(b) Consent of Arent Fox Kintner
Plotkin & Kahn (counsel): included in exhibit 5
24. Power of Attorney: included on signature page.
Exhibit 5
October 31, 1996
The Board of Directors
VSE Corporation
2550 Huntington Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia 22303
Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to VSE Corporation (the "Company")
with respect to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed by
the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with
the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of 218,966
shares of Common Stock, par value $.05 per share (the "Shares").
As counsel to the Company, we have examined the Company's
Certificate of Incorporation and such records, certificates and other documents
of the Company, as well as relevant statutes, regulations, published rulings
and such questions of law, as we considered necessary or appropriate for the
purpose of this opinion.
We assume that, prior to the sale of any Shares to which the
Registration Statement relates, appropriate action will be taken to register
and qualify such Shares for sale, to the extent necessary, under any applicable
state securities laws.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the 218,966
Shares subject to the Plan when issued or delivered and paid for in accordance
with the terms of the Plan, will be validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to
the Registration Statement and to all references to our firm in the Registration
Statement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we come
within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the General Rules and Regulations
thereunder.
Very truly yours,
ARENT FOX KINTNER PLOTKIN & KAHN
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Exhibit 23a
Consent of Independent Public Accountants
As independent public accountants, we hereby consent to the incorporation by
reference in this registration statement of our report dated March 1, 1996
included in VSE Corporation's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1995,
and to all references to our Firm included in this registration statement.
/s/ Arthur Andersen LLP
Washington, D.C.,
October 31, 1996
