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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 10, 2000
Registration No. 333-________
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
ENTRUST TECHNOLOGIES INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
MARYLAND 62-1670648
(State or Other Jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
Incorporation or Organization) Identification Number)
ONE PRESTON PARK SOUTH
4975 PRESTON PARK BOULEVARD, SUITE 400, PLANO, TEXAS 75093
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
ENCOMMERCE, INC. 1997 STOCK OPTION PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)
JOHN A. RYAN
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
ENTRUST TECHNOLOGIES INC.
ONE PRESTON PARK SOUTH
4975 PRESTON PARK BOULEVARD, SUITE 400
PLANO, TEXAS 75093
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
(972) 943-7300
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Proposed Maximum
Securities Amount Offering Proposed Maximum Amount of
to be to be Price Aggregate Offering Registration
Registered Registered Per Share Price Fee
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Common Stock, $.01 1,701,823
par value shares $26.69(1) $45,421,656(1) $11,991
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(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, and
based on the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on the
Nasdaq National Market on August 9, 2000 in accordance with Rules 457(c)
and 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933.
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PART I. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The information required by Part I is included in documents sent or given
to participants in the enCommerce, Inc. 1997 Stock Option Plan (the "Plan")
pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act").
PART II. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The Registrant is subject to the informational and reporting
requirements of Sections 13(a), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and in accordance therewith files
reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission"). The following documents, which are on file with
the Commission, are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference:
(1) The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant to Section
13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or the latest prospectus filed pursuant
to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act that contains audited financial
statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year for which such
statements have been filed.
(2) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the document
referred to in (1) above.
(3) The description of the common stock of the Registrant, $.01 par
value per share (the "Common Stock"), contained in the Registration
Statement on Form 8-A filed by the Registrant with the Commission on August
3, 1998, including 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 Exchange Act, prior to the filing of
a post-effective amendment which indicates that all shares of Common Stock
offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all shares of Common Stock
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
and to be part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents. Any
statement contained 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
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
Not applicable.
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Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Section 2-418 of the General Corporation Law of Maryland (the
"Maryland Law") provides that, unless a corporation's charter includes a
provision which restricts or limits the corporation's right to indemnify its
officers and directors, the corporation may indemnify a director or officer with
respect to proceedings instituted against such director or officer by reason of
his or her service in that capacity, unless the act or omission in question was
material and was committed in bad faith or was the result of active and
deliberate dishonesty, unless the director or officer received an improper
personal benefit or unless the director or officer had reasonable cause to
believe that the act or omission was unlawful. The Registrant's Articles of
Incorporation and Bylaws provide that the Registrant shall indemnify and advance
expenses to its currently acting and its former directors to the fullest extent
permitted by the Maryland Law and that the Registrant shall indemnify and
advance expenses to its officers to the same extent as its directors and to such
further extent as is consistent with law. However, nothing in the Articles of
Incorporation or Bylaws of the Registrant protects or indemnifies a director,
officer, employee or agent against any liability to which he would otherwise be
subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or
reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his office. To the
extent that a director has been successful in defense of a proceeding, unless
limited by charter, the Maryland Law provides that he shall be indemnified
against reasonable expenses incurred in connection therewith.
Certain of the directors of the Registrant are also officers of Nortel
Networks Corporation ("NNC"), a shareholder of the Registrant, and are serving
on the Registrant's Board of Directors at the request of NNC. Pursuant, to
NNC's Bylaws, NNC will indemnify its officers when they are acting at NNC's
request as directors of a corporation of which NNC is a shareholder, provided
that such officers acted honestly, in good faith and had reasonable grounds to
believe their conduct was lawful.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is incorporated
herein by reference.
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.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or
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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 Rule 424(b) if, in
the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more
than 20% 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 paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if
the Registration Statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3, 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 15(d) of 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 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.
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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 Plano, Texas on August 10, 2000.
ENTRUST TECHNOLOGIES INC.
By: /s/ John A. Ryan
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John A. Ryan
President and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
We, the undersigned officers and directors of Entrust Technologies Inc.
hereby severally constitute John A. Ryan, David L. Thompson and James D. Kendry,
and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them,
and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities
indicated below, the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any
and all subsequent amendments to said Registration Statement, and generally to
do all such things in our names and behalf in our capacities as officers and
directors to enable Entrust Technologies Inc. to comply with all requirements of
the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our
signatures as they may be signed by said attorneys, or any of them, to said
Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated.
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SIGNATURE TITLE DATE
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President, Chief Executive
/s/ John A. Ryan Officer and Director (Principal
----------------------------------- Executive Officer) August 10, 2000
John A. Ryan
Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer (Principal
/s/ David L. Thompson Financial and Accounting
----------------------------------- Officer) August 10, 2000
David L. Thompson
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/s/ F. William Conner Director August 8, 2000
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F. William Conner
/s/ Butler C. Derrick, Jr. Director August 10, 2000
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Butler C. Derrick, Jr.
/s/ Jawaid Ekram Director August 8, 2000
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Jawaid Ekram
/s/ Christopher M. Stone Director August 8, 2000
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Christopher M. Stone
/s/ James A. Thomson Director August 10, 2000
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James A. Thomson
/s/ J. Alberto Yepez Director August 9, 2000
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J. Alberto Yepez
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number Description
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4 Specimen Certificate of Common Stock, $.01 par value per share, of the
Registrant is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-57275)
5 Opinion of Hale and Dorr LLP
23.1 Consent of Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5)
23.2 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.3 Consent of KPMG LLP
24 Power of Attorney (included in the signature page of this Registration
Statement)
