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As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 15, 1999
Registration No. 333-_________
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
LAUNCH MEDIA, INC.
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 95-4463753
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(State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. employer identification no.)
of incorporation or organization)
2700 Pennsylvania Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
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(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
LAUNCH MEDIA, INC.
1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN,
1998 STOCK OPTION PLAN,
1999 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN AND
AN INDIVIDUAL STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
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(Full title of the plan)
Robert D. Roback
President
Launch Media, Inc.
2700 Pennsylvania Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
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(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (310) 526-4300.
This registration statement shall hereafter become effective in accordance with
Rule 462 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Proposed Proposed
Title of maximum maximum
Securities to be Amount to be offering price aggregate offering Amount of
registered(1) registered(2) per share(3) price(3) registration fee
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1994 Stock Option Plan
Common Stock 52,976 $1.25 $66,220.00
Par Value $0.001
1998 Stock Option Plan
Common Stock 766,686 $9.315 $7,141,680.00
Par Value $0.001 1,196,085 $11.25 $13,455,956.25
1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Common Stock 300,000 $9.5625 $2,868,750.00
Par Value $0.001
Individual Stock Option Agreement
Common Stock 9,400 $1.25 $11,750.00
Par Value $0.001
TOTALS 2,325,147 $23,544,356.25 $6,545.33
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(1) The securities to be registered include options and rights to acquire Common
Stock.
(2) Pursuant to Rule 416(a), this registration statement also covers any
additional securities that may be offered or issued in connection with any stock
split, stock dividend or similar transaction.
(3) Estimated pursuant to Rule 457 solely for purposes of calculating the
registration fee. As to shares subject to outstanding but unexercised options
under the 1994 Stock Option Plan and 1998 Stock Option Plan, the price is
computed on the basis of the weighted average exercise price. As to the
remaining shares under the 1998 Stock Option Plan, the price is based upon the
average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on October 11, 1999, as
reported on the Nasdaq National Market. The 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
establishes a purchase price equal to 85% of the fair market value of the
Company's Common Stock, and, therefore, the price for shares under this plan is
based upon 85% of the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on
October 11, 1999, as reported on the Nasdaq National Market. The price for the
individual stock option agreement is based upon the exercise price of the 9,400
shares subject to the option.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Launch Media, Inc. (the "Company") hereby incorporates by
reference in this registration statement the following documents:
(a) The Company's latest prospectus filed pursuant to Rule
424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act")
containing audited financial statements for the Company's latest fiscal year
ended December 31, 1998. The prospectus is included in the Company's
Registration Statement on Form SB-2/A (No. 333-72433, effective April 22, 1999).
(b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") since
the end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant document referred to in (a)
above.
(c) The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in
the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on April 7, 1999 under
the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of
updating such description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of
a post-effective amendment to this registration statement which indicates that
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities
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
The class of securities to be offered is registered under
Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Inapplicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Section 102(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law
authorizes a corporation to provide in its Certificate of Incorporation that a
director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to corporation or its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of the director's
"duty of care." While this statute does not change directors' duty of care, it
enables corporations to limit available relief to equitable remedies such as
injunction or rescission. The statute has no effect on a director's duty of
loyalty or liability for acts or omissions not in good faith or involving
intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law,
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illegal payment of dividends or stock redemptions or repurchases, or for any
transaction from which the director derives an improper personal benefit. As
permitted by the statute, the Company has adopted provisions in its Certificate
of Incorporation which eliminate to the fullest extent permissible under
Delaware law the personal liability of its directors to the Company and its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of their duty of
care.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware provides for the indemnification of officers, directors, employees and
agents of a corporation. The Bylaws of the Company provide for indemnification
of its directors, officers, employees and agents to the full extent permitted by
under Delaware law, including those circumstances in which indemnification would
otherwise be discretionary under Delaware law. The Company's Bylaws also empower
it to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors and officers and
to purchase insurance on behalf of any person whom it is required or permitted
to indemnify. The Company has entered into agreements with its directors and
certain of its executive officers that require the Company to indemnify such
persons to the fullest extent permitted under Delaware law against expenses,
judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred
(including expenses of a derivative action) in connection with any proceeding,
whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made a party by
reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or an executive officer
of the Company or any of its affiliated enterprises. The indemnification
agreements also set forth certain procedures that will apply in the event of a
claim for indemnification thereunder.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware provides for indemnification in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify
such individuals, under certain circumstances, for liabilities (including
reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act.
Item 7. Exemption From Registration Claimed
Inapplicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
See Exhibit Index.
Item 9. Undertakings
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;
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(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 (1)(i) and (l)(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.
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.
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 Securities and Exchange
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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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
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 Santa Monica, State of California, on
October 14, 1999.
LAUNCH MEDIA, INC.
By: /s/ Robert D. Roback
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Robert D. Roback
President
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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
The officers and directors of Launch Media, Inc. whose signatures
appear below, hereby constitute and appoint David B. Goldberg and Robert D.
Roback, and each of them, their true and lawful attorneys and agents, with full
power of substitution, each with power to act alone, to sign and execute on
behalf of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this registration
statement on Form S-8, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and
confirm all that each of said attorney and agent, or their or his substitutes,
shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
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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/s/ David B. Goldberg Chairman of the Board and Chief
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David B. Goldberg (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Robert D. Roback
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Robert D. Roback
/s/ Jeffrey M. Mickeal Chief Financial Officer and
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Jeffrey M. Mickeal (Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
/s/ Thomas C. Hoegh
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Thomas C. Hoegh
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Richard D. Snyder
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Sergio S. Zyman
/s/ Warren Littlefield
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Warren Littlefield
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EXHIBIT INDEX
4.1 Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Registration Statement on
Form SB-2 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March
31, 1999 (No. 333-72433)
4.2 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company are incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Registration Statement on
Form SB-2 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March
31, 1999 (No. 333-72433)
5 Opinion re legality
23.1 Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5)
23.2 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Accountants
24 Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this registration
statement)
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EXHIBIT 5
[LETTERHEAD OF GRAY CARY WARE & FREIDENRICH LLP]
400 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301-1825
Phone: 650-833-2000 Fax: 650-327-3699 www.graycary.com
October 15, 1999
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Ladies and Gentlemen:
As legal counsel for Launch Media, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
we are rendering this opinion in connection with the registration under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of up to 2,325,147 shares of the Common
Stock, $0.001 par value, of the Company which may be issued pursuant to the
exercise of options and purchase rights granted under the Launch Media, Inc.
1994 Stock Option Plan, 1998 Stock Option Plan and 1999 Employee Stock Purchase
Plan (collectively, the "Plans") and an individual stock option agreement
granted to James L. Jonassen (the "Agreement").
We have examined all instruments, documents and records which we deemed relevant
and necessary for the basis of our opinion hereinafter expressed. In such
examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures and the
authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to
the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. We are admitted to
practice only in the State of California and we express no opinion concerning
any law other than the law of the State of California, the corporation laws of
the State of Delaware and the federal law of the United States. As to matters of
Delaware corporation law, we have based our opinion solely upon our examination
of such laws and the rules and regulations of the authorities administering such
laws, all as reported in standard, unofficial compilations. We have not obtained
opinions of counsel licensed to practice in jurisdictions other than the State
of California.
Based on such examination, we are of the opinion that the 2,325,147 shares of
Common Stock which may be issued under the Plans and the Agreement are duly
authorized shares of the Company's Common Stock, and, when issued against
receipt of the consideration therefor in accordance with the provisions of the
Plans and the Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement referred to above and the use of our name wherever it
appears in said Registration Statement.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ GRAY CARY WARE & FREIDENRICH LLP
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EXHIBIT 23.2
Consent of Independent Accountants
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration
Statement on Form S-8 of Launch Media, Inc., of our report dated February 5,
1999 (except for Note 14 as to which the date is March 24, 1999) relating to the
financial statements as of December 31, 1998 and 1997 and for each of the years
in the three year period ended December 31, 1998, which appears in the Company's
Registration Statement on Form SB-2/A (No. 333-72433).
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Woodland Hills, California
October 15, 1999
