QUANTUM CORP /DE/
S-8, 1999-07-20
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           As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 19, 1999
                                                    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
                              ___________________

                              QUANTUM CORPORATION
              (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

           DELAWARE                                          94-2665054
  (State of incorporation)                                (I.R.S. Employer
                                                        Identification Number)

                            500 McCarthy Boulevard
                          Milpitas, California 95035
                   (Address of principal executive offices)
                             ___________________

                         1993 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
                           (Full title of the plan)
                             ___________________

                              Richard L. Clemmer
                            Chief Financial Officer
                              Quantum Corporation
                            500 McCarthy Boulevard
                          Milpitas, California 95035
                    (Name and address of agent for service)

                                (408) 894-4000
         (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                              ___________________

                                   Copy to:
                            Steven E. Bochner, Esq.
                       WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
                           Professional Corporation
                              650 Page Mill Road
                       Palo Alto, California 94304-1050
                              ___________________

                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

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                                                                     Proposed         Proposed
                                                   Amount            Maximum          Maximum
                                                   to be          Offering Price     Aggregate          Amount of
    Title of Securities to be Registered        Registered (1)      Per Share*     Offering Price*    Registration Fee
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<S>                                            <C>              <C>              <C>               <C>
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share            6,697,118        $24.156        $161,775,582        $44,973.61
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*    Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of
     calculating the registration fee based on the average of the high and low
     price of the Company's Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq National
     Market on July 13, 1999.
(1)  The shares covered by this Registration Statement represent the shares of
     Common Stock which have become available for issuance under the
     Registrant's 1993 Long-Term Incentive Plan as a result of its share
     replenishment feature.
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                              QUANTUM CORPORATION
                      REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

                                    PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
          ---------------------------------------

     There are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
the following documents and information heretofore filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (Quantum Corporation is sometimes referred to herein as the
"Company"):

          (a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
     March 31, 1999, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act
     of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act");

          (b) The Company's Form S-8 Registration Statement under the Securities
     Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act") (File No. 33-72222), which became
     effective November 30, 1993.

          (c) The Company's Form S-8 Registration Statement under the 1933 Act
     (File No. 33-30627), which became effective July 2, 1997.

          (d) The Company's Form S-8 Registration Statement under the 1933 Act
     (File No. 333-58193) which became effective June 30, 1998.

          (e) The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the
     Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed August 1, 1983 pursuant
     to Section 12(b) of the 1934 Act and any amendment or report filed for the
     purpose of updating any such description; and

          (f) Quantum's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on August 5,
     1988, relating to the Company's Preferred Share Purchase Rights and any
     amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating any such description;
     and

     All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14
and 15(d) of the 1934 Act on or after the date of this Registration Statement
and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then
remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

ITEM 4.   Description of Securities.
          -------------------------

     Inapplicable.

ITEM 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
          --------------------------------------

     Inapplicable.
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ITEM 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
          -----------------------------------------

     Section  of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court to
award, or a corporation's Board of Directors to grant, indemnification to
directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit such
indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities (including
reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act of 1933.
The Company's Bylaws provide for the mandatory indemnification of its directors,
officers, employees and other agents to the maximum extent permitted by Delaware
General Corporation Law, and the Company has entered into agreements with its
officers, directors and certain key employees implementing such indemnification.

ITEM 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.
          ------------------------------------
     Inapplicable.

ITEM 8.   Exhibits.
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    Exhibit
    Number                        Description
____________  __________________________________________________________________

     5.1       Opinion of Counsel as to legality of securities being registered.

    23.1       Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors.

    23.2       Independent Accountants' Consent.

    23.3       Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

    24.1       Power of Attorney (see page 5 of Registration Statement).

ITEM 9.  Undertakings.
         ------------

A.        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 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.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

     B.   The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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
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incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

     C.   Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securitie Act") may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant to the Delaware General
Corporation Law, the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, the Bylaws of
the Company, indemnification agreements entered into between the Company and its
officers and directors or otherwise, the Company 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 Company in successful defense of any
action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling
person in connection with the securities being registered hereunder, the Company
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 of 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,
Quantum Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware, 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 Milpitas, State of California, on this 19th day
of July, 1999.

                                           QUANTUM CORPORATION

                                           By:   /s/ Richard L. Clemmer
                                               --------------------------------
                                               Richard L. Clemmer,
                                               Chief Financial Officer
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Michael A. Brown and Richard L. Clemmer,
jointly and severally, his attorneys-in-fact, each with the power of
substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with exhibits
thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said
attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, 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
________________________________________   ________________________________________   ________________
<S>                                        <C>                                        <C>
       /s/ Michael A. Brown                Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of    July 19, 1999
- ----------------------------------------   the Board (Principal Executive Officer)
          (Michael A. Brown)

       /s/ Richard L. Clemmer              Chief Financial Officer (Principal         July 19, 1999
- ----------------------------------------   Financial and Accounting Officer)
         (Richard L. Clemmer)

       /s/ Stephen M. Berkley              Director                                   July 19, 1999
- ----------------------------------------
         (Stephen M. Berkley)

       /s/ David A. Brown                  Director                                   July 19, 1999
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           (David A. Brown)

       /s/ Robert J. Casale                Director                                   July 19, 1999
- ----------------------------------------
          (Robert J. Casale)

       /s/ Edward M. Esber                 Director                                   July 19, 1999
- ----------------------------------------
           (Edward M. Esber)

       /s/ Steven C. Wheelwright           Director                                   July 19, 1999
- ----------------------------------------
        (Steven C. Wheelwright)

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                               INDEX TO EXHIBITS

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                                                                                                Sequentially
  Exhibit                                                                                         Numbered
  Number                                       Description                                          Page
____________  _______________________________________________________________________________  ________________
<C>           <S>                                                                              <C>
     5.1      Opinion of Counsel............................................................
    23.1      Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors............................
    23.2      Independent Accountants' Consent..............................................
    23.3      Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).................................
    24.1      Power of Attorney (see Page 5 of Registration Statement)......................
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                                                                     Exhibit 5.1

                                 July 19, 1999

Quantum Corporation
500 McCarthy Boulevard
Milpitas, CA 95035

     RE:  REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     We have examined the Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be filed by you
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about July 19, 1999 (the
"Registration Statement"), in connection with the registration under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of 6,697,118 additional shares of your
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, (the "Shares") reserved for issuance
pursuant to the 1993 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the "Plan").  As your counsel in
connection with the transaction, we have examined the proceedings taken and are
familiar with the proceedings proposed to be taken by you in connection with the
sale and issuance of the Shares pursuant to the Plan.

     It is our opinion, when issued and sold in the manner referred to in the
Plan, the Shares will be legally and validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable.

     We consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement and further consent to the use of our name wherever appearing in the
Registration Statement and any amendment thereto.

                                    Very truly yours,

                                    /s/ WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
                                    Professional Corporation

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                                                                    Exhibit 23.1

                CONSENT OF ERNST & YOUNG, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

     We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement
(Form S-8) pertaining to the 1993 Long-Term Incentive Plan of our report dated
April 26, 1999, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and
schedule of Quantum Corporation included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for
the year ended March 31, 1998, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.

                                    /s/ ERNST & YOUNG LLP

Palo Alto, California
July 13, 1999

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                                                                  Exhibit 23.2

                       INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS CONSENT

The Board of Directors
MKE-Quantum Components LLC:

We consent to incorporation by reference in the registration statement on Form
S-8 of Quantum Corporation of our report dated April 14, 1998, except for notes
6(b) and 12, which are as of June 5, 1998, with respect to the consolidated
balance sheet of MKE-Quantum Components LLC as of March 31, 1998, and the
related consolidated statements of operations, members' equity, and cash flows
for the period from May 16, 1997 (Inception) through March 31, 1998, which
report appears in Form 8-K of Quantum Corporation dated March 26, 1999.

                                        /s/ KPMG LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
July 16, 1999


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