As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission December 18, 1996
Registration No. 333-15339
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
AMENDMENT NO. 1
to
FORM S-3/A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AEROFLEX INCORPORATED
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 11-1974412
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
incorporation or organization)
35 South Service Road Michael Gorin, President
Plainview, New York 11803 Aeroflex Incorporated
(516)694-6700 35 South Service Road
(Address, including zip code Plainview, New York 11803
and telephone number, including (516) 694-6700
area code, of registrant's (Name, address and telephone
principal executive offices) number, including area code,
of agent for service)
Copy to:
David H. Lieberman, Esq.
Blau, Kramer, Wactlar & Lieberman, P.C.
100 Jericho Quadrangle
Jericho, New York 11753
(516) 822-4820
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public: From time to
time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.
If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered
pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following
box .
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on
a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of
1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following box .
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box
and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier
effective registration statement for the same offering.
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same
offering.
If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434,
please check the following box
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The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates
as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file
a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement
shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the
Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become
effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a),
may determine.
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AEROFLEX INCORPORATED
Cross Reference Sheet
Showing location in Prospectus of Information Required by Items on Form S-3
Item No. Prospectus Caption
1. Forepart of the Registration Outside Front Cover
Statement and Outside Front Cover Page Page of Prospectus
of Prospectus
2. Inside Front and Outside Back Cover Inside Front and Outside
Pages of Prospectus Back Cover Pages of
Prospectus
3. Summary Information, Risk Factors and Selected Financial
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges Data
4. Use of Proceeds Use of Proceeds
5. Determination of Offering Price Outside Front Cover Page;
Selling Securityholders
6. Dilution *
7. Selling Security Holders Selling Securityholders
8. Plan of Distribution Outside Front Cover Page;
Plan of Distribution
9. Description of Securities to be *
Registered
10. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel Legal Opinion;
Experts
11. Material Changes *
12. Incorporation of Certain Information Incorporation of
by Reference Certain Documents
By Reference
13. Disclosure of Commission Position on *
Indemnification for Securities Act
Liabilities
*Omitted since answer to item is negative or inapplicable
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INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS SUBJECTED TO COMPLETION OR AMENDMENT. A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT RELATING TO THESE SECURITIES HAS BEEN FILED WITH THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. THESE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD NOR MAY
OFFERS TO BUY BE ACCEPTED PRIOR TO THE TIME THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT BECOMES
EFFECTIVE. THIS PROSPECTUS SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE
SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY NOR SHALL THERE BE ANY SALE OF THESE SECURITIES
IN ANY STATE IN WHICH SUCH OFFER, SOLICITATION OR SALE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL PRIOR
TO REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY SUCH STATE.
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SUBJECT TO COMPLETION
Dated December 18, 1996
AEROFLEX INCORPORATED
214,495 Shares of Common Stock
$.10 par value
The 214,495 shares of Common Stock par value $.10 per share (the "Shares")
underlying Common Stock Purchase Warrants of Aeroflex Incorporated (the
"Company") being covered by this Prospectus are being offered for sale from time
to time by or for the account of Value Investing Partners, Inc., certain
transferees thereof, and any pledgees, transferees, donees or other successors
in interest thereof (the "Selling Securityholders"). The Shares may be offered
by the Selling Securityholders from time to time in transactions on the New York
Stock Exchange, in privately negotiated transactions, or by a combination of
such methods of sale, at fixed prices that may be changed, at market prices
prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to such prevailing market
prices or at negotiated prices. The Selling Securityholders may effect such
transactions by selling the Shares to or through broker-dealers and such
broker-dealers may receive compensation in the form of discounts, concessions or
commissions from the Selling Securityholders or the purchaser of the Shares for
whom such broker-dealers may act as agent or to whom they sell as principal or
both (which compensation to a particular broker-dealer might be in excess of
customary commissions). See "Selling Securityholders" and "Plan of
Distribution."
None of the proceeds from the sale of the Shares by the Selling
Securityholders will be received by the Company. The Company will bear the
expenses in connection with the offering, including filing fees and the
Company's legal and accounting fees, estimated at $7,500.
The Company's Common Stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE
Symbol: ARX). On December 4, 1996, the last reported sale price of the Company's
Common Stock as reported by the New York Stock Exchange was $4.625 per share.
THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR HAS THE COMMISSION PASSED UPON THE ACCURACY
OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A
CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
The date of this Prospectus is December 18, 1996.
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AVAILABLE INFORMATION
The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission"), Washington, D.C., a Registration Statement under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), with respect to the Common Stock offered
hereby. This Prospectus does not contain all the information set forth in the
Registration Statement and the exhibits relating thereto. For further
information with respect to the Company and the shares of Common stock offered
by this Prospectus, reference is made to such Registration Statement and the
exhibits thereto. Statements contained in this Prospectus as to the contents of
any contract or other document are not necessarily complete and in each instance
reference is made to the copy of such contract or other document filed as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement for a full statement of the provisions
thereof; each such statement contained herein is qualified in its entirety by
such reference.
The Company is subject to the informational requirements 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
Commission. Such reports, proxy statements and other information can be
inspected and copied at the public reference facilities maintained at the office
of the Commission at Room 1024, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549
and at the Commission's Regional Offices at Northwestern Atrium Center, 500 West
Madison Street, Suite 1400, Chicago, Illinois 60661-2511 and 7 World Trade
Center, New York, New York 10048. Copies of such material can be obtained from
the Public Reference Section of the Commission, Washington, D.C. 20549, at
prescribed rates, and from the Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site at
the address http://www.sec.gov. In addition, the Company's Common Stock is
listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and copies of the foregoing materials and
other information concerning the Company can be inspected at the offices of the
New York Stock Exchange at 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005.
INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
The following documents have been filed by the Company with the Commission
(File No. 1-8037) pursuant to the Exchange Act, are incorporated by reference in
this Prospectus and shall be deemed to be a part hereof:
(1) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1996.
(2) The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
September 30, 1996.
(3) The description of the class of securities to be offered which is
contained in Registration Statements filed under Section 12 of
the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (File No.1-08037),
including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating
such descriptions.
All documents filed pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act after the date of this Prospectus and prior to the termination of
this offering of Common Stock shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in
this Prospectus and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
by reference in this Prospectus shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for
purposes of this Prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or
in any subsequently filed document that 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 Prospectus.
The Company will provide without charge to each person to whom a copy of
this Prospectus is delivered, upon the written or oral request of such person, a
copy of any or all of the documents incorporated by reference (except for
exhibits thereto unless specifically incorporated by reference therein).
Requests for such copies should be directed to the Secretary, Aeroflex
Incorporated, 35 South Service Road, Plainview, New York 11803, (516) 694-6700.
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THE COMPANY
Aeroflex Incorporated, through its subsidiaries (collectively, unless the
context requires otherwise, referred to as the "Company" or "Aeroflex") designs
and manufactures advanced electronic systems and components, including
microelectronic circuits and interconnect products, instrument products and
motion control systems, for both the commercial and defense markets. It also
designs and manufactures shock and vibration stabilizing systems used for
commercial, industrial and defense applications. Aeroflex also provides defense
consulting services involving systems analysis, design and engineering primarily
to government contractors and the U.S. Armed Forces. Operations are grouped into
two segments: electronics and isolator products.
As of June 30, 1996, the Company has accounted for certain segments, namely
commercial and custom envelopes (Huxley Envelope Corp.) and telecommunication
systems services (T-CAS Corp.) as discontinued operations. The following
description of the Company's business does not include these discontinued
operations.
Electronics
Since 1961, the Company has been engaged in the design, development and
production of stabilization tracking devices and systems. These are dynamically
positioned pedestals on or in moving vehicles such as trucks, ships and
aircraft, upon which tracking equipment, such as radar antenna, is mounted. The
pedestal, through the continuous balancing action of gyroscopes and
servo-mechanical stabilizers operating in all three dimensions, enables the
mounted equipment to remain almost perfectly balanced and motionless. The
equipment can then automatically track or focus on a target as accurately as if
it were on solid ground despite the motion of the vehicle. The Company's
stabilization and tracking devices are a part of major surveillance,
reconnaissance and weapon firing control systems and play an important role in
high altitude aircraft as well as in other aircraft, ships and ground vehicles
which require precise, highly stable mounting for cameras, antennae and lasers.
Since 1974, the Company has been engaged in the design, manufacture and
sale of state-of-the-art microelectronic assemblies for the electronics
industry. In January 1994, the Company acquired substantially all of the net
operating assets of the microelectronics division of Marconi Circuit Technology
Corporation, which manufactures a wide variety of microelectronic assemblies.
This acquisition increased the range of products offered and enhanced the
Company's engineering capability.
Since 1975, the Company has been engaged in the development and manufacture
of electro-optical scanning devices used in infra-red night vision systems.
These systems detect temperature differences in the infra-red radiation
emanating from objects in target areas.
In November 1989, the Company acquired Comstron Corporation which is now an
operating division of Aeroflex Laboratories Incorporated, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Aeroflex. Comstron is a leader in radio frequency and microwave
technology used in the manufacture of fast switching frequency synthesizers and
components. Building on technology acquired from Comstron, Aeroflex develops and
manufactures complex communications and guidance systems and subsystems
including HF, VHF and UHF receivers, communications jammer emulators, weather
radar receivers, up/down converters, frequency agile radar local oscillators and
low phase noise frequency sources. It has developed a phase shifter for the U.S.
Air Force's mid-life upgrade F-16 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system and
a tunable solid state local oscillator for the U.S. Navy MK-92 fire control
radar.
In January 1995, the Company acquired Lintek Inc. as a wholly owned
subsidiary of Aeroflex. Aeroflex Lintek Corp. , the successor to Lintek,
Inc., is a leader in high speed instrumentation radar systems and antenna
measurement systems. These systems are used by the Department of Defense and by
industry. Lintek Inc. was incorporated in 1988 for the purpose of developing and
selling instrumentation radar systems, and currently has systems in place with
many of the large aerospace companies and with major government laboratories.
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In March 1996, the Company acquired MIC Technology Corporation which
designs, develops, manufactures and markets microelectronics products in the
form of passive thin film circuits and interconnects. Its advanced circuit and
interconnect technology is emerging as a key enabling technology for
miniaturized, high frequency, high performance electronic products for rapidly
growing markets like cellular telephones, personal communication service devices
(PCS) and microwave data links. It continues to be an essential technology in
satellite based communication hardware and leading edge military electronic
products.
Isolator Products
Since 1961, the Company has been engaged in the design, development,
manufacture and sale of severe service shock and vibration isolation systems.
These devices consist of helically-wound steel wire rope contained between
rugged metal retainer bars, and are used to store and dissipate potentially
destructive vibration and shock. The purchasers of helical isolators are
manufacturers or users of equipment sensitive to shock and vibration who need to
reduce shock/vibration to levels compatible with equipment fragility to extend
the useful life of this equipment. Isolators are also used to prevent vibrations
in equipment from causing disturbances to surrounding equipment, structures and
configurations. They are manufactured in a variety of materials and with special
anti-corrosion coatings according to each customer's specifications. In
addition, a line of isolated systems evolved in response to the custom
requirements of customers. Systems capability includes integrated avionics trays
and bases, skids and pallets.
In October 1983, the Company acquired Vibration Mountings and Controls,
Inc., which manufactures a line of off-the-shelf noise, shock, vibration and
structureborne noise control devices. These rubber and spring isolators, which
are manufactured in a wide variety of sizes, load ratings and configurations,
are used primarily in commercial applications to protect heavy rotating
equipment, heating, ventilating and air conditioning equipment, and diesel
engines. In December 1986, the Company acquired the operating assets of Korfund
Dynamics Corporation , a manufacturer of an industrial line of heavy duty spring
and rubber shock mounts.
The Company's executive offices are located at 35 South Service Road,
Plainview, New York 11803, and its telephone number is (516) 694-6700.
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SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The following selected financial data is qualified by reference to, and
should be read in conjunction with, the consolidated financial statements,
related notes thereto and other financial information incorporated by reference
herein. The selected financial data for the quarters ended September 30, 1996
and 1995 have been derived from the Company's unaudited consolidated financial
statements. The selected financial data for the five years ended June 30, 1996
have been derived from the Company's audited consolidated financial statements.
(In thousands except ratios and per share data)
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Quarter Ended September 30, Year ended June 30,
1996 1995 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992
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(Unaudited) (Unaudited)
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Earnings Statement Data (4) (5)
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Net Sales $19,061 $13,149 $ 74, 367 $ 71,113 $65,602 $52,031 48,109
Income from Continuing Operations 651 607 (17,420)(1)(2) 6,587(4)(5) 5,850(6) 1,736 227
Income from
Discontinued Operations --- --- --- 462 187 500 635
Extraordinary Item-Tax Benefit
of Loss Carryovers(8) --- --- --- --- --- --- 143
Net Income (Loss) 651 607 (17,420) 7,049 6,037(6) 2,236 1,005
Income (Loss) from Continuing
Operations Per Common Share
and Common Share Equivalent
Primary $.05 $.05 $ (1.46)(1)(2) $ .53 (4)(5) $ .55(6) $.20 $.03
Fully Diluted .05 .05 --- (3) .52 (4)(5) .50(6) .19 .03
Net Income (Loss) Per Common
Share and Common Share Equivalent
Primary .05 .05 (1.46) .57 .57 .26 .12
Fully Diluted .05 .05 --- (3) .55 .51 .24 .12
Weighted Average Number of
Common Shares and Common
Share Equivalents Outstanding
Primary 13,483 12,714 11,971 12,352 10,526 8,757 8,661
Fully Diluted 13,483 12,714 --- (3) 14,249 12,401 10,920 8,661
September 30, June 30,
1996 1995 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992
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Balance Sheet Data
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Working Capital $22,305 $32,786 $ 24,736 $31,533 $ 28,572 $14,982 $15,751
Total Assets 75,452 70,626 81,169 71,936 71,016 60,185 62,473
Long-Term Debt
(including current portion) 30,495 12,796 34,577 13,787 18,408 21,871 28,098
Stockholders' Equity 31,587 47,286 30,472 46,344 39,571 27,208 25,025
Other Statistics (8)
After Tax Profit Margin (Loss)
(from continuing operations) 3.4% 4.6% (23.4)%(1)(2) 9.3%(4)(5) 8.9%(6) 3.3% 0.5%
Return on Average Stockholders'
Equity (from continuing operations) 2.1% 1.3% (45.4)%(1)(2) 15.3% (4)(5) 17.5%(6) 6.6% 0.9%
Stockholders' Equity
Per Share (9) $2.54 $3.98 $ 2.49 $3.95 $3.37 $3.14 $2.87
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(1) Includes $23,200,000 ($1.94 per share) for the year ended June 30,
1996, for the write-off of in-process research and development acquired in
connection with the purchase of MIC Technology Corporation in March 1996.
(2) Includes a $437,000 net of tax, or $.04 per share gain on the sale of
securities for the year ended June 30, 1996.
(3) As a result of the loss, all options, warrants and convertible
debentures are anti-dilutive.
(4) Includes $2,000,000 ($.14 per share fully diluted and $.16 primary) of
insurance proceeds received on the death of the former chairman.
(5) Includes a $1,494,000 net of tax restructuring charge ($.10 per share
fully diluted and $.12 primary) for the consolidation of the Company's Puerto
Rican operations into its domestic facilities.
(6) Includes income tax benefit of $1,716,000, or $.14 per share ($.16 per
share primary), relating to the recognition of a portion of the Company's
unrealized net operating loss carryforward in accordance with Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 109.
(7) See Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of
discontinued operations.
(8) In fiscal 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, and 1993 the tax benefit from prior
years' loss carryforwards was presented as a part of the provision for income
taxes; in 1992 it was presented as an extraordinary item.
(9) Calculated by dividing stockholders' equity, at the end of the period,
by the number of shares outstanding at the end of the period.
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USE OF PROCEEDS
The Company will not receive any proceeds from this offering.
PRICE RANGE OF COMMON STOCK
The Company's Common Stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under
the symbol ARX. The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices of
the Common Stock as reported by the National Quotation Bureau Incorporated for
the calendar periods indicated. See "Dividend Policy". As of December 4, 1996,
there were approximately 1,240 record holders of the Company's Common Stock.
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Common Stock
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High Low
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1994
First Quarter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5.00 $ 3.75
Second Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.75 3.63
Third Quarter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.13 3.63
Fourth Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.00 3.50
1995
First Quarter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4.38 $ 3.50
Second Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.88 3.63
Third Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.63 4.25
Fourth Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 3.88
1996
First Quarter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5.13 $ 3.50
Second Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.63 4.38
Third Quarter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.13 4.63
Fourth Quarter (through December 4, 1996) 4.75 4.13
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DIVIDEND POLICY
The Company has never paid any cash dividends on its Common Stock. There
have been no stock dividends declared or paid by the Company on its Common Stock
during the past three years. Payment of future dividends, if any, will be
dependent upon the earnings and financial position of the Company and such
factors as the Board of Directors shall deem appropriate. In addition, the
Company's Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement, as amended, prohibits, and
its 7-1/2% Senior Subordinated Convertible Debenture Indenture Agreement limits,
it from paying cash dividends.
COMPENSATION/STOCK OPTION COMMITTEE REPORT ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The compensation of the Company's executive officers is generally
determined by the Compensation/Stock Option Committee of the Board of Directors,
subject to applicable employment agreements. Each member of the
Compensation/Stock Option Committee is a director who is not an employee of the
Company or any of its affiliates. The following report with respect to certain
compensation paid or awarded to the Company's executive officers during fiscal
1996 is furnished by the directors who comprised the Compensation/Stock Option
Committee during fiscal 1996.
General Policies
The Company's compensation programs are intended to enable the Company to
attract, motivate, reward and retain the management talent required to achieve
corporate objectives, and thereby increase shareholder value. It is the
Company's policy to provide incentives to its senior management to achieve both
short-term and long-term objectives and to reward exceptional performance and
contributions to the development of the Company's businesses. To attain these
objectives, the Company's executive compensation program includes a competitive
base salary, cash incentive bonuses and stock-based compensation.
Stock options are granted to employees, including the Company's executive
officers, by the Compensation/Stock Option Committee under the Company's option
plans. The Committee believes that stock options provide an incentive that
focuses the executive's attention on managing the Company from the perspective
of an owner with an equity stake in the business. Options are awarded with an
exercise price equal to the market value of Common Stock on the date of grant.
Among the Company's executive officers, the number of shares subject to options
granted to each individual generally depends upon the level of that officer's
responsibility. The largest grants are awarded to the most senior officers who,
in the view of the Compensation/Stock Option Committee, have the greatest
potential impact on the Company's profitability and growth. Previous grants of
stock options are reviewed but are not considered the most important factor in
determining the size of any executive's stock option award in a particular year.
From time to time, the Compensation/Stock Option Committee may utilize the
services of independent consultants to perform analyses and to make
recommendations to the Committee relative to executive compensation matters. No
compensation consultant is paid on a retainer basis.
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Relationship of Compensation to Performance and
Compensation of Chief Executive Officer
The Compensation/Stock Option Committee annually establishes, subject to
the approval of the Board of Directors and any applicable employment agreements,
the salaries which will be paid to the Company's executive officers during the
coming year. In setting salaries, the Compensation/Stock Option Committee takes
into account several factors, including competitive compensation data, the
extent to which an individual may participate in the stock plans maintained by
the Company, and qualitative factors bearing on an individual's experience,
responsibilities, management and leadership abilities, and job performance.
For fiscal 1996, pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement with the
Company, the Company's Chairman received a base salary and additional
compensation. The Compensation/Stock Option Committee also recommended the
issuance, and the Chairman received, options to purchase 175,000 shares of
Common Stock at $3.75 per share.
The Compensation Committee:
Robert Bradley, Sr.
Milton Brenner
Jerome Fox
John S. Patton
Compliance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires the Company's executive
officers, directors and persons who own more than ten percent of a registered
class of the Company's equity securities ("Reporting Persons") to file reports
of ownership and changes in ownership on Forms 3, 4 and 5 with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and the New York Stock Exchange (the
"NYSE"). These Reporting Persons are required by SEC regulation to furnish the
Company with copies of all Forms 3, 4 and 5 they file with the SEC and NYSE.
Based solely upon the Company's review of the copies of the forms it has
received, the Company believes that all Reporting Persons complied on a timely
basis with all filing requirements applicable to them with respect to
transactions during fiscal 1996.
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COMMON STOCK PERFORMANCE
The following graph provides a comparison of cumulative stockholder return
among the Company, Standard and Poors' 500 companies and Standard and Poors'
electronics (instrumentation) companies from June 1991 to date:
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<CAPTION>
6/91 6/92 6/93 6/94 6/95 6/96 8/96
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
AEROFLEX INCORPORATED 100 108 150 267 317 408 342
S & P 500 100 113 129 131 165 208 203
S & P Electronics (Instrumentation) 100 131 157 148 288 327 317
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SELLING SECURITY HOLDERS
The Shares being offered by this Prospectus are for the account of the
following Selling Securityholders in the amounts set forth below:
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Number of Number of Number of
Shares Shares Shares Owned
Securityholder Owned (1) Offered After Offering
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<S> <C> <C> <C>
Value Investing Partners, Inc. 65,975 65,975 -0-
Alan Dorsey 84,295 84,295 -0-
Kevin Cotter 7,650 7,650 -0-
Angus Carlill 18,450 18,450 -0-
Chris Lobo 12,625 12,625 -0-
Kevin Greene 21,450 21,450 -0-
Kevin Flynn 3,000 3,000 -0-
Rich Wilson 1,050 1,050 -0-
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<FN>
(1) Represents an aggregate of 214,495 shares of Common Stock issuable upon
exercise of 214,495 Common Stock Purchase Warrants (the "Warrants") issued
by the Company in October 1992 and June 1994, each to purchase one share of
Common Stock. One hundred fourteen thousand four hundred ninety-five of
these Warrants are exercisable for shares of Common Stock of the Company at
a current exercise price of $2.70 per share and one hundred thousand of
these Warrants are exercisable for shares of Common Stock of the Company at
a current exercise price of $6.75 per share.
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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
The Shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ARX.
The Shares may be sold from time to time directly by the Selling
Securityholders. Alternatively, the Selling Securityholders may from time to
time offer such securities through underwriters, dealers or agents. The
distribution of securities by the Selling Securityholders may be effected in one
or more transactions that may take place on the over-the-counter market,
including ordinary broker's transactions, privately-negotiated transactions or
through sales to one or more broker-dealers for resale of such shares as
principals, at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related
to such prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices. Usual and customary or
specifically negotiated brokerage fees or commissions may be paid by the Selling
Securityholders in connection with such sales of securities.
At the time a particular offer of securities is made by or on behalf of the
Selling Securityholders, to the extent required, a prospectus will be
distributed which will set forth the number of shares being offered and the
terms of the offering, including the name or names of any underwriters, dealers
or agents, if any, the purchase price paid by any underwriter for shares
purchased from the Selling Securityholders and any discounts, commissions or
concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers, and the proposed selling
price to the public.
LEGAL OPINION
Certain legal matters in connection with this offering will be passed upon
for the Company by Blau, Kramer, Wactlar & Lieberman, P.C., Jericho, New York
11753. Harvey R. Blau, a member of the firm, is Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of the Company. Mr. Blau owns 31,311 shares of Common Stock of the
Company and options to purchase 1,015,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company
granted pursuant to certain of the Company's stock option plans. Mr. Blau's wife
owns 62,246 shares of Common Stock of the Company. The Blau, Kramer, Wactlar &
Lieberman, P.C. Profit Sharing Plan owns 3,614 shares of Common Stock of the
Company.
EXPERTS
The consolidated financial statements and the related financial statement
schedule as of and for the years ended June 30, 1996 and 1995 incorporated by
reference in this Prospectus, to the extent and for the periods indicated in
their report, have been audited by KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, independent auditors,
and are included herein in reliance of said firm as experts in accounting and
auditing in giving said report.
The consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash
flows and the related financial statement schedule for the year ended June 30,
1994 incorporated in this prospectus by reference from the Company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 1996 have been audited by
Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent auditors, as stated in their report, which is
incorporated herein by reference, and has been so incorporated in reliance upon
the report of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and
auditing.
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No dealer, salesperson, or other person has been authorized by the Company to
give any information or to make any representations other than those contained
in this Prospectus and, if given or made, such other information or
representations must not be relied upon as having been so authorized by the
Company. This Prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation
of an offer to buy, any securities other than the securities to which it
relates, or an offer to or solicitation of any person in any jurisdiction in
which such offer or solicitation would be unlawful. Neither delivery of this
Prospectus nor any sale made hereunder shall, under any circumstances, create
any implication that the information herein is correct as of any time subsequent
to the date hereof.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
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Available Information 2
Incorporation of Certain
Documents by Reference 2
The Company 3
Selected Financial Data 5
Use of Proceeds 6
Price Range of Common Stock 6
Dividend Policy 7
Compensation/Stock Option
Committee Report on
Executive Compensation 7
Common Stock Performance 9
Selling Security Holders 9
Plan of Distribution 10
Legal Opinion 10
Experts 10
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AEROFLEX INCORPORATED
214,495 Shares of
Common Stock
PROSPECTUS
December 18, 1996
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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
Securities and Exchange Commission
Filing Fee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 305
Legal and Accounting Fees . . . . . . . . . . 6,000
Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,195
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500
The Company will pay all of these expenses.
Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Under provisions of the By-Laws of the Company, each person who is or was a
director or officer of the Company may be indemnified by the Company to the full
extent permitted or authorized by the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
Under such law, to the extent that such person is successful on the merits
of defense of a suit or proceeding brought against him by reason of the fact
that he is a director or officer of the Company, he shall be indemnified against
expenses (including attorneys' fees) reasonably incurred in connection with such
action.
If unsuccessful in defense of a third-party civil suit or if a criminal
suit is settled, such a person may be indemnified under such law against both
(1) expenses (including attorneys' fees) and (2) judgements, fines and amounts
paid in settlement 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 Company, and
with respect to any criminal action, had no reasonable cause to believe his
conduct was unlawful.
If unsuccessful in defense of a suit brought by or in the right of the
Company, or if such suit is settled, such a person may be indemnified under such
law only against expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in the defense or
settlement of such suit 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 Company except
that if such a person is adjudged to be liable in such suit for negligence or
misconduct in the performance of his duty to the Company, he cannot be made
whole even for expenses unless the court determines that he is fairly and
reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses.
The Company and its officers and directors of the Company are covered by
officers and directors liability insurance. The policy coverage is $20,000,000,
which includes reimbursement for costs and fees. There is a maximum deductible
under the policy of $500,000 for each claim. The Company has entered into
Indemnification Agreements with certain of its officers and directors. The
Agreements provide for reimbursement for all direct and indirect costs of any
type or nature whatsoever (including attorneys' fees and related disbursements)
actually and reasonably incurred in connection with either the investigation,
defense or appeal of a Proceeding, as defined, including amounts paid in
settlement by or on behalf of an Indemnitee. Item 16. Exhibits
4.1 Form of Warrant Certificate dated as of July 12, 1994 between the
Company and each of the Selling
Securityholders. *
4.2 Form of Warrant Certificate dated as of October 27, 1992 between the
Company and each of the Selling Securityholders.*
5 Opinion of Blau, Kramer, Wactlar & Lieberman, P.C.
23.1 Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
23.2 Consent of Deloitte & Touche, LLP
24.2 Consent of Blau, Kramer, Wactlar & Lieberman, P.C. (included in
Exhibit 5 hereof)
25 Powers of Attorney (included in the signature pages hereof)*
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*Previously filed
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Item 17. Undertakings
(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Act"), each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a)
or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable,
each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 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.
(b) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 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 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 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.
(c) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Act, the
information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of a registration
statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed
by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Act
shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the time it was
declared effective.
(2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Act, each
post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus 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.
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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-3 and has duly caused this Amendment No. 1 to
the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in Plainview, New York on the 18th day of December,
1996.
Aeroflex Incorporated
By: /s/Harvey R. Blau
Harvey R. Blau
Chairman of the Board
POWER OF ATTORNEY
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement was signed by the following
persons in the capacities indicated on December 18, 1996.
Signature Title
/s/Harvey R. Blau Chairman of the Board
Harvey R. Blau (Chief Executive Officer)
/s/Michael Gorin President and Director
Michael Gorin (Chief Financial Officer and Principal
Accounting Officer)
*
_______________________ Executive Vice President, Secretary
Leonard Borow and Director (Chief Operating Officer)
*
_______________________ Director
Robert Bradley, Sr.
* Director
_______________________
Milton Brenner
* Director
_______________________
Ernest E. Courchene, Jr.
* Director
_______________________
Donald S. Jones
* Director
_______________________
Eugene Novikoff
* Director
________________________
John S. Patton
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*By Harvey R. Blau and Michael Gorin, Attorney-in-fact
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
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EXHIBITS
to
Form S-3
Registration Statement
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Aeroflex Incorporated
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Exhibit 5
December 18, 1996
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Aeroflex Incorporated
Registration Statement on Form S-3
Gentlemen:
Reference is made to the filing by Aeroflex Incorporated (the "Company") of
a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement") with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the provisions of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, covering the registration of 214,495 shares of Common
Stock of the Company, par value $.10 per share (the "Common Stock") obtainable
upon the exercise of Common Stock Purchase Warrants (the "Warrants").
As counsel for the Company, we have examined its corporate records,
including its Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws, its corporate minutes, the
form of its Common Stock certificate and Warrants and such other documents as we
have deemed necessary or relevant under the circumstances.
Based upon our examination, we are of the opinion that:
1. The Company is duly organized and validly existing under the laws of
the State of Delaware.
2. The shares of Common Stock subject to the Registration Statement have
been duly authorized and, when issued in accordance with the terms of the
Warrants and the related Warrant Certificates, as more fully described in the
Registration Statement, will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
We hereby consent to be named in the Registration Statement and in the
prospectus which constitutes a part thereof as counsel to the Company, and we
hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration
Statement.
Very truly yours,
/s/Blau, Kramer, Wactlar &
Lieberman, P.C.
BLAU, KRAMER, WACTLAR
& LIEBERMAN, P.C.
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EXHIBIT 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
Board of Directors
Aeroflex Incorporated and Subsidiaries:
We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on
Form S-3 of our report dated August 12, 1996, relating to the consolidated
balance sheets of Aeroflex Incorporated and Subsidiaries as of June 30, 1996 and
1995 and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity
and cash flows and related schedule for the years then ended which report
appears in the June 30, 1996 annual report on Form 10-K of Aeroflex
Incorporated, and to the reference to our firm under the caption "Experts" in
this Registration Statement.
/s/KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
Jericho, New York
December 16, 1996
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EXHIBIT 23.2
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT
Aeroflex Incorporated and Subsidiaries
We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Amendment No. 1 to
Registration Statement No. 333-15339 of Aeroflex Incorporated on Form S-3 of our
report dated August 12, 1994 on the consolidated statements of operations,
stockholders' equity and cash flows and financial statement schedule for the
year ended June 30, 1994, appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of
Aeroflex Incorporated for the year ended June 30, 1996 and to the reference to
us under the heading "Experts" in such Prospectus, which is part of this
Registration Statement.
/s/Deloitte & Touche LLP
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Jericho, New York
December 16, 1996
