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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
W. R. GRACE & CO.
(FORMERLY NAMED GRACE SPECIALTY CHEMICALS, INC.)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 65-0773649
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
ONE TOWN CENTER ROAD
BOCA RATON, FLORIDA 33486-1010
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
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W. R. GRACE & CO. 1981 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full title of the Plan)
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ROBERT B. LAMM
W. R. GRACE & CO.
ONE TOWN CENTER ROAD
BOCA RATON, FLORIDA 33486-1010
561/362-1645
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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PROPOSED MAXIMUM PROPOSED MAXIMUM
TITLE OF SECURITIES TO BE AMOUNT TO OFFERING PRICE AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF
REGISTERED BE REGISTERED PER SHARE* OFFERING PRICE* REGISTRATION FEE
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Common Stock, par value
$0.01 per share 19,708 Shares $19.46875 $383,690.13 $113.19
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* Estimated for the sole purpose of computing the registration fee. Pursuant to
Rule 457(c), the stated price represents the average of the high and low
prices of the registrant's Common Stock in composite when-issued trading on
April 1, 1998.
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS
Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") and the
regulations thereunder, the document or documents containing the information
specified in Part I of Form S-8 are not required to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") as part of this Form S-8
Registration Statement and, therefore, are not set forth herein.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
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The following documents filed with the SEC by W. R. Grace & Co.,
formerly named Grace Specialty Chemicals, Inc. ("Company"), are hereby
incorporated herein by reference:
1. The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the latest
fiscal year for which such a report has been filed.
2. All other reports filed by the Company with the SEC pursuant
to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 ("Exchange Act") since the end of the latest fiscal year
for which an Annual Report on Form 10-K has been filed.
3. The description of the Company's Common Stock included under
the caption "Description of New Grace Capital Stock" in the
Company's Information Statement, dated February 13, 1998,
included in a Registration Statement on Form 10 filed March
13, 1998.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to such time as the Company files a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that
all securities offered hereby have been sold, or which deregisters all such
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.
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ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
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Not applicable.
ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
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EXPERTS. The audited financial statements incorporated in this
Registration Statement by reference have been so incorporated in reliance upon
the reports of Price Waterhouse LLP, independent certified public accountants,
given on the authority of such firm as experts in auditing and accounting.
COUNSEL. The validity of the Common Stock offered hereby will be
passed upon by Robert H. Beber, Esq. Mr. Beber is an Executive Vice President
and General Counsel of the Company, owns shares of the Company's Common Stock,
and holds options to purchase shares of the Company's Common Stock under one or
more of the Company's stock incentive plans.
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
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BY-LAWS; STATE LAW. Under its By-laws, the Company is empowered, to
the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, to indemnify its directors and
officers. The By-laws provide that the Company will indemnify its directors and
officers against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees,
judgments, fines, excise taxes or penalties, and amounts paid in settlement)
resulting from various types of legal actions or proceedings if the actions of
the party being indemnified meet the standards of conduct specified under
Delaware law. Determinations concerning whether or not the applicable standards
have been met can be made by (a) a disinterested majority of the Board of
Directors, (b) independent legal counsel or (c) an affirmative vote of a
majority of the voting power held by stockholders entitled to vote thereon.
INSURANCE. The directors and officers of the Company are insured
against losses arising from any claim against them as such for wrongful acts or
omissions, subject to certain limitations.
ITEM 7. EXEMPTIONS FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
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Not applicable.
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ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
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The following exhibits have been filed with this Registration
Statement:
Exhibit No. Exhibit
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5 Opinion of Robert H. Beber, Esq.
23.1 Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP
23.2 Consent of Robert H. Beber, Esq.
(contained in Exhibit 5)
24 Powers of Attorney
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.
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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; 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)(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 by the Company 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
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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.
(d) 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.
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 SEC 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 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 Boca Raton, State of Florida.
W. R. GRACE & CO.
By L. Ellberger*
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Date: April 6, 1998 (Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer)
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities indicated on April 6, 1998.
Signature Title
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A.J. Costello* Director; Chairman, President
and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
J.F. Akers* T.A. Holmes* }
H.A. Eckmann* J.J. Murphy* } Directors
M.A. Fox* T.A. Vanderslice* }
J.W. Frick*
L. Ellberger* Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
K.A. Browne* Vice President and Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
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* By signing his name hereto, Robert B. Lamm is signing this document on behalf
of each of the persons indicated above pursuant to powers of attorney duly
executed by such persons and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
By /s/ROBERT B. LAMM
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Robert B. Lamm
(Attorney-in-Fact)
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No. Exhibit
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5 Opinion of Robert H. Beber, Esq.
23.1 Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP
23.2 Consent of Robert H. Beber, Esq.
(contained in Exhibit 5)
24 Powers of Attorney
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Exhibit 5
April 6, 1998
W. R. Grace & Co.
One Town Center Road
Boca Raton, Florida 33486-1010
Ladies and Gentlemen:
You have asked me, as General Counsel of W. R. Grace & Co., a Delaware
corporation ("Company"), to render my opinion regarding certain matters in
connection with a Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Registration Statement")
to be filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission under
the Securities Act of 1933 covering 19,708 shares ("Shares") of the Common
Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company issuable pursuant to the
Company's 1981 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended ("Plan").
I have examined, or caused to be examined, the Certificate of
Incorporation and By-laws of the Company, as amended to date, the records of
its corporate proceedings, the Plan, the Registration Statement and such other
documents as I have deemed necessary in connection with the opinion hereinafter
expressed.
Based on the foregoing, I am of the opinion that the Shares, when
issued in accordance with the terms of the Plan, will be validly issued and
outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable shares of the Company's Common Stock.
I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement.
Very truly yours,
/s/ROBERT H. BEBER
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Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration
Statement on Form S-8 of our report dated February 3, 1998, except for
"Packaging Business Transaction," as discussed in Notes 1 and 3, as to which
the date is March 23, 1998, appearing on page F-3 of Exhibit 99 to the Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997 of W. R. Grace & Co.
(formerly named Grace Specialty Chemicals, Inc.). We also consent to the
incorporation by reference of our report on the Financial Statement Schedule,
which appears on page F-2 of such Exhibit to such Annual Report on Form 10-K.
We also consent to the reference to us under Item 5 of such Registration
Statement.
PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP
/s/PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP
PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
April 6, 1998
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Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
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The undersigned hereby appoints ROBERT H. BEBER, LARRY ELLBERGER and
ROBERT B. LAMM as his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact for the purpose of
signing all registration statements on Form S-8, and all amendments thereto, to
be filed by GRACE SPECIALTY CHEMICALS, INC., a Delaware corporation to be
renamed W. R. Grace & Co. ("Company"), with the Securities and Exchange
Commission with respect to the following plans adopted or assumed by the
Company: 1981 Stock Incentive Plan, 1986 Stock Incentive Plan, 1989 Stock
Incentive Plan, 1994 Stock Incentive Plan, 1996 Stock Incentive Plan, 1998
Stock Incentive Plan, 1997 Stock Plan for Nonemployee Directors, 1998 Stock
Plan for Nonemployee Directors, Hourly Employees Savings and Investment Plan,
and Salaried Employees Savings and Investment Plan. Each of such
attorneys-in-fact is appointed with full power to act without the other.
/s/J.F. Akers /s/J.W. Frick
/s/K.A. Browne /s/T.A. Holmes
/s/A.J. Costello /s/J.J. Murphy
/s/H.A. Eckmann /s/T.A. Vanderslice
/s/M.A. Fox
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
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The undersigned hereby appoints ROBERT H. BEBER and ROBERT B. LAMM as
his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact for the purpose of signing all
registration statements on Form S-8, and all amendments thereto, to be filed by
GRACE SPECIALTY CHEMICALS, INC., a Delaware corporation to be renamed W. R.
Grace & Co. ("Company"), with the Securities and Exchange Commission with
respect to the following plans adopted or assumed by the Company: 1981 Stock
Incentive Plan, 1986 Stock Incentive Plan, 1989 Stock Incentive Plan, 1994
Stock Incentive Plan, 1996 Stock Incentive Plan, 1998 Stock Incentive Plan,
1997 Stock Plan for Nonemployee Directors, 1998 Stock Plan for Nonemployee
Directors, Hourly Employees Savings and Investment Plan, and Salaried Employees
Savings and Investment Plan. Each of such attorneys-in-fact is appointed with
full power to act without the other.
/s/ L. Ellberger
