As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
December 11, 1995
File No. ________
_________________________________________________________________
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
containing a reoffer prospectus on Form S-3
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CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMPANY, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 94-2213782
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
302 South 36th Street, Suite 400
Omaha, Nebraska 68131
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Restricted Stock Grant for David L. Sokol
(Full Titles of the Plans)
Steven A. McArthur, Senior Vice President
302 South 36th Street, Suite 400, Omaha, Nebraska 68131
(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone Number (402) 341-4500
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
Robert M. Mattson, Jr., Esq.,
Morrison & Foerster
19900 MacArthur Blvd., Irvine, California 92715
(714) 251-7500
Calculation of Registration Fee
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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Title of Amount to be Proposed Proposed Amount of
Securities to Registered Maximum Maximum Registration
be Registered Offering Price Agregate Fee (1)
Per Share (1) Offering
Price (1)
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Common Stock, 500,000 $19.81 $9,905,000 $3,415.52
$0.0675 par value
per share (including
attached Series A
Junior Preferred Share
Purchase Rights) (2)
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(1) Pursuant to Rule 457(c), based on $19.81 the average of the
high and low sales prices of the Registrant's Common Stock on
the New York Stock Exchange on December 6, 1995
(2) Prior to the occurrence of certain events, the Series A Junior
Preferred Share Purchase Rights (the "Rights") will not be
evidenced separately from shares of the Common Stock. Upon
the occurrence of such events, Separate Rights certificates
will be issued representing one Right for each share of Common
Stock held, subject to adjustment pursuant to antidilution
provisions.
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Approximate date of commencement of proposed
sale to public: From time to time after
this Registration Statement becomes effective.
This Prospectus constitutes the prospectus covering
securities that have been registered
under the Securities Act of 1933
(Registration Statement No. 33-_____________)
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PROSPECTUS
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CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMPANY, INC.
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500,000 Shares of Common Stock, $0.0675 par value
These securities of California Energy Company, Inc. (the
"Registrant" or the "Company") are to be offered from time to
time by and for the account of David L. Sokol (the "Selling
Stockholder").
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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.
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Price to Public Underwriting Proceeds to
Discounts and Issuer or
Other Persons
Total * * *
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It is anticipated that the Selling Stockholder may from time
to time make sales of these securities on the New York Stock
Exchange, by block trading, in negotiated transactions or
otherwise. In addition to sales under this Prospectus, the
Selling Stockholder may also effect sales of stock covered by
this Prospectus pursuant to Rule 144, promulgated under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"). These securities
may be sold at market prices prevailing at the time of sale or at
negotiated prices. All of the foregoing transactions are
anticipated to be made without payment of any underwriting
commissions or discounts, other than the customary brokers' fees
normally paid in connection with such transactions. The Selling
Stockholder will have the right to withdraw the offered shares
prior to sale. The price used to calculate the registration fee
was $19.81 per share, the average of the high and low sales
prices on December 6, 1995 for the Company's Common Stock on the
New York Stock Exchange. With respect to expenses (other than
underwriting discounts or commissions) of issuance and
distribution, the Registrant will pay all costs of preparation,
reproduction and distribution of this Prospectus and any
registration statement containing this Prospectus, any filing fee
set forth in such registration statement and any related counsel
or accountants' fees and expenses and any other related costs
(all of which individually and in total are expected to be
minimal). The Registrant will receive no proceeds from the sale
of these securities pursuant to this Prospectus.
This Prospectus also relates to such additional shares as
may be issued to the Selling Stockholder because of future stock
dividends, stock distributions, stock splits or similar capital
readjustments.
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The date of this Prospectus is December 11, 1995.
AVAILABLE INFORMATION
The Registrant 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 (including the Registration
Statement containing this Prospectus) with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission) all of which may be
inspected and copied at the public reference facilities
maintained by the Commission at 450 Fifth Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C., and at the following Regional Offices of the
Commission: 7 World Trade Center, New York, New York 10048 and
Chicago Regional Office, 230 South Dearborn Street, Chicago,
Illinois 60604. Copies of such material can be obtained at
prescribed rates from the Public Reference Section of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20549.
The Registrant will provide without charge to each person to
whom a copy of this Prospectus is delivered, upon written or oral
request of such person, a copy of any and all of the information
that has been incorporated by reference in this Prospectus and
any registration statement containing this Prospectus (not
including exhibits to the information that is incorporated by
reference unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by
reference in the information that this Prospectus and any
registration statement containing this Prospectus incorporates).
Such requests should be made to Chief Financial Officer,
California Energy Company, Inc., 302 South 36th Street, Suite
400, Omaha, Nebraska 68131 (telephone (402) 341-4500), which
address and telephone number are those of the Registrant's
principal executive offices.
SELLING STOCKHOLDER
This 500,000 shares of Common Stock issued to David L. Sokol
(the "Selling Stockholder") are being registered hereunder. The
Selling Stockholder acquired these shares pursuant to a
restricted stock grant.
The following table shows the names and address of the
Selling Stockholder, his position with the Company and the number
of shares and approximate percentage of outstanding shares of
Common Stock of the Company beneficially owned by him as of
December 6, 1995.
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Name and Address Current Number of Percentage of
Address Position with Shares Shares
The Company Beneficially Outstanding
Owned Owned
David L. Sokol Chairman of the
302 South 36th St. Board and Chief
Suite 400 Executive 986,289 2% (approx.)
Omaha, Nebraska Officer
68131
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EXPERTS
The financial statements and the related financial statement
schedule of the Company and its subsidiaries incorporated in this
Prospectus by reference to the Company's 1994 10-K have been
audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent auditors, as stated
in their reports (which reports express an unqualified opinion
and include an explanatory paragraph referring to the Company's
adoption effective January 1, 1993, of Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes")
which are incorporated herein by reference, and have been so
incorporated in reliance upon the reports of such firm given upon
their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.
With respect to the unaudited interim financial information
for the periods ended March 31, 1994 and 1995, June 30, 1994 and
1995, and September 30, 1994 and 1995, incorporated herein by
reference, Deloitte & Touche LLP have applied limited procedures
in accordance with professional standards for a review of such
information. However, as stated in their reports included in the
Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended
March 31, 1995, June 30, 1995 and September 30, 1995 and
incorporated by reference herein, they did not audit and they do
not express an opinion on that interim financial information.
Accordingly, the degree of reliance on their reports on such
information should be restricted in light of the limited nature
of the review procedures applied. Deloitte & Touche LLP are not
subject to the liability provisions of Section 11 of the
Securities Act for their reports on the unaudited interim
financial information because those reports are not "reports" or
a "part" of a registration statement prepared or certified by an
accountant within the meaning of Sections 7 and 11 of the Act.
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
It is anticipated that the Selling Stockholder may from time
to time make sales of all or part of the shares of stock covered
by this Prospectus on the New York Stock Exchange, in block
trades, in negotiated transactions or otherwise at prices then
prevailing or in private transactions at negotiated prices. In
addition to sales under this Prospectus, the Selling Stockholder
may also effect sales of stock covered by this Prospectus
pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Act. All the
foregoing transactions are anticipated to be made without payment
of any underwriting commissions or discounts, other than the
customary brokers' fees normally paid in connection with such
transactions. The Selling Stockholder will have the right to
withdraw the offered shares prior to sale.
LEGAL OPINION
The validity of the Common Stock offered hereby will be
passed upon by Steven A. McArthur, Senior Vice President and
General Counsel of the Company.
INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE
The documents listed in (a) through (f) below are
incorporated by reference in this Prospectus.
(a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 1994.
(b) The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the
quarters ended March 31, 1995, June 30, 1995 and
September 30, 1995, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the
Exchange Act.
(c) All other reports filed since the September 30, 1995
Form 10-Q by the Registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act.
(d) The description of securities to be registered
contained in the registration statement filed on Form
8-A under the Exchange Act dated July 28, 1993,
including any amendment or reports filed for the
purpose of updating such description.
In addition, all reports and other documents filed by the
Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the
termination of the Offering hereby shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the
date of filing of such reports and documents. Any statement
contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Prospectus to the extent that a statement
contained herein, or in any other subsequently filed document
that also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein, modifies or supersedes such statement. Any
such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,
except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this
Prospectus.
The Company hereby undertakes to provide without charge to
each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom this
Prospectus is delivered, upon written or oral request from such
person, a copy of any and all of the documents incorporated by
reference in this Prospectus (other than exhibits to such
documents unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by
reference into the documents that this Prospectus incorporates).
Written or oral requests for such copies should be directed to
California Energy Company, Inc., 302 South 36th Street, Suite
400, Omaha, Nebraska 68131, Attention: Chief Financial Officer.
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware (the "DGCL") grants each corporation organized
thereunder, such as the Company, the power to indemnify its
directors and officers against liabilities for certain of their
acts. Article EIGHTH of the Company's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation and Article V of the Company's By-Laws provide for
indemnification of directors and officers of the Company to the
fullest extent permitted by the DGCL. Article V of the Company's
By-Laws further provides that the Company may enter into
contracts providing indemnification to the full extent authorized
or permitted by the DGCL and that the Company may create a trust
fund, grant a security interest and/or use the other means to
ensure the payment of such amounts as may become necessary to
effect indemnification pursuant to such contracts or otherwise.
Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL permits a provision in the
certificate of incorporation of each corporation organized
thereunder, such as the Company, eliminating or limiting, with
certain exceptions, the personal liability of a director to the
corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for certain
breaches of fiduciary duty as a director. Article EIGHTH of the
Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation eliminates the
personal liability of directors to the full extent permitted by
the DGCL.
The foregoing statements are subject to the detailed
provisions of Sections 145 and 102(b)(7) of the DGCL, Article
EIGHTH of the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation and
Article V of Company's By-Laws.
No person has been authorized to give any information or to
make any representations other than those contained or
incorporated by reference in this Prospectus and, if given or
made, such information or representations must not be relied upon
as having been authorized by the Registrant or the Selling
Stockholder. Neither the delivery of this Prospectus nor any
sale made hereunder shall, under any circumstances, create any
implication that there has been no change in the affairs of the
Company since the date hereof or that the information contained
herein is correct as of any time subsequent to the date hereof.
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 this Prospectus relates or an offer to or
solicitation of any person in any jurisdiction in which such
offer or solicitation would be unlawful.
PROSPECTUS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Available Information 1
Selling Stockholder 1
Experts 2
Plan of Distribution 2
Legal Opinion 2
Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference 3
Indemnification 4
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The documents listed in (a) through (e) below are
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.
(a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 1994.
(b) The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the
quarters ended March 31, 1995, June 30, 1995 and September 30,
1995, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act.
(c) All other reports filed by the Registrant since the
September 30, 1995 Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
(d) The description of securities to be registered
contained in the registration statement filed on Form 8-A under
the Exchange Act dated July 28, 1993, including any amendment or
reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.
(e) 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 which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which de-
registers 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.
Any statement contained in a document incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes
of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document
which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified
or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or
superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
Not applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware (the "DGCL") grants each corporation organized
thereunder, such as the Company, the power to indemnify its
directors and officers against liabilities for certain of their
acts. Article EIGHTH of the Company's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation and Article V of the Company's By-Laws provide for
indemnification of directors and officers of the Company to the
fullest extent permitted by the DGCL. Article V of the Company's
By-Laws further provides that the Company may enter into
contracts providing indemnification to the full extent authorized
or permitted by the DGCL and that the Company may create a trust
fund, grant a security interest and/or use the other means to
ensure the payment of such amounts as may become necessary to
effect indemnification pursuant to such contracts or otherwise.
Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL permits a provision in the
certificate of incorporation of each corporation organized
thereunder, such as the Company, eliminating or limiting, with
certain exceptions, the personal liability of a director to the
corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for certain
breaches of fiduciary duty as a director. Article EIGHTH of the
Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation eliminates the
personal liability of directors to the full extent permitted by
the DGCL.
The foregoing statements are subject to the detailed
provisions of Sections 145 and 102(b)(7) of the DGCL, Article
EIGHTH of the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation and
Article V of Company's By-Laws.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
3.1 Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Registrant and
Certificates of Amendment thereto and Certificate of
Designation. Incorporated by reference to Exhibits 3.1, 3.2,
3.3 and 3.4 of Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994.
3.2 Bylaws of Registrant. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit
3.5 of Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 1994.
4.1 Specimen copy of form of Certificate for Common Stock.
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Registrant's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 1993, File No. 1-9874.
4.2 Shareholders Rights Agreement between the Registrant and
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company of California dated
December 1, 1988 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to
the Registrant's Form 8-K dated December 5, 1988, File No.
1-9874).
4.3 Amendment Number 1 to Shareholders Rights Agreement, dated
February 15, 1991 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2
to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 1992).
5.1 Opinion of Steven A. McArthur as to the legality of the
securities being registered.
15.1 Awareness Letter for Review Reports of Deloitte & Touche
LLP.
23.1 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
23.2 Consent of Steven A. McArthur (contained in the opinion of
counsel filed as Exhibit 5 to this Registration Statement).
24.1 Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto).
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;
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section
10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
(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;
(iii) To include any material information with respect
to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed in the Registration Statement or any
material change to such information in the
Registration Statement;
Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii)
do not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3 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 Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.
(2) That, for the purposes 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
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 of 1933 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.
SIGNATURES
The Registrant. 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 Omaha,
State of Nebraska, on December 11, 1995.
CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMPANY, INC., a
Delaware corporation (Registrant)
By: /s/ Steven A. McArthur
Senior Vice President
Further, 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.
Signature Title Date
/s/ David L. Sokol Chairman of the December 11, 1995
(David L. Sokol) Board, Chief
Executive Officer
(Principal Executive
Officer)
/s/ John G. Sylvia Senior Vice President December 11, 1995
Chief Financial Officer
and Treasurer (Principal
Financial Officer)
/s/ Gregory E. Abel Senior Vice President December 11, 1995
Chief Accounting
Officer and Controller
(Principal Financial Officer)
The undersigned, a member of the Board of Directors of
California Energy Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints Steven A. McArthur,
as his/her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for and in his/her
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign on his/her behalf and
any and all Registration Statements filed by the Company on Form
S-8 with respect to employee stock purchase plan and employee
stock option and other employee benefit plans, including, without
limitation, the 1994 Employee Stock Purchase Plan of the Company,
the Amended and Restated 1986 Stock Option Plan of the Company,
the 401(K) Plan of the Company and any other employee benefit
plan of the Company, as they may be amended from time to time and
to execute any amendments thereto (including post-effective
amendments) or certificates that may be required in connection
with such Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and all other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with the
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing necessary or advisable to all intents and purposes as
he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, and his/her
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.
/s/ Edgar D. Aronson* Director December 11, 1995
Edgar D. Aronson
Director December 11, 1995
Judith Ayres
/s/ James Q. Crowe* Director December 11, 1995
James Q. Crowe
/s/ Richard K. Davidson* Director December 11, 1995
Richard K Davidson
/s/ Ben M. Holt* Director December 11, 1995
Ben M. Holt
/s/ Richard R. Jaros* Director December 11, 1995
Richard R. Jaros
/s/ Walter Scott, Jr.* Director December 11, 1995
Walter Scott, Jr.
Director December 11, 1995
Bernard Reznicek
Director December 11, 1995
John Shiner
/s/ David E. Wit* Director December 11, 1995
David E. Wit
* By /s/ Steven A. McArthur
Steven A. McArthur
Attorney-in-fact
Exhibit Index
Sequentially
Exhibit Numbered Page
3.1 Certificate of Incorporation of Registrant. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3.1 of Registrant's Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994.
3.2 Bylaws of Registrant. Incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 3.2 of Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994.
4.1 Specimen copy of Form of Certificate for Common Stock.
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Registrant's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 1993.
4.2 Stockholders Rights Agreement between the Registrant and
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company of California dated
December 1, 1988 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to
the Registrant's Form 8-K dated December 5, 1988, File No.
1-9874).
4.3 Amendment Number 1 to Stockholders Rights Agreement, dated
February 15, 1991 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2
to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 1992).
5.1 Opinion of Steven A. McArthur s to the legality of the
securities being registered.
15.1 Awareness Letter for Review Reports of Deloitte & Touche
LLP.
23.1 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
23.2 Consent of Steven A. McArthur (Contained in the opinion of
counsel filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration
Statement).
24.1 Power of Attorney (included on signature page hereto).
EXHIBIT 5.1
December 11, 1995
California Energy Company, Inc.
302 South 36th Street, Suite 400
Omaha, Nebraska 68131
Attention: Board of Directors
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In my capacity as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of
California Energy Company, Inc. (the "Company"), I have examined the
Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission on December 11, 1995 in connection with the
registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of 500,000
shares of the Company's Common Stock, $0.0675 par value (the "Stock"), all
of which shares are presently issued and outstanding and held by David L.
Sokol, (the "Selling Stockholder").
As the Company's counsel, I have examined the registration statement
and other documents relating to the issuance of the 500,000 shares held by
the Selling Stockholder (the "Shares"). In addition, I have examined and
relied upon originals or copies of documents, records, certificates
(including certificates of public officials and of officers of the Company)
and other instruments, have made such inquiries as to questions of fact of
representatives of the Company and relied to the extent I deemed appropriate
upon the responses to such inquiries and have made such examinations of law
as in my judgment are necessary or appropriate to enable me to render the
opinion expressed below. In all such examinations, I have assumed the
genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to
me as originals and the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted
to me as copies. The opinion below is restricted to matters controlled by the
federal laws of the United States and the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware.
Based on and subject to the foregoing, it is my opinion that (i) the
Shares are legally and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
I consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement and further consent to all references to me in the Registration
Statement and any amendments thereto.
The opinion is delivered in my capacity as Senior Vice President and
General Counsel of the Company, addresses matters only as of the date hereof
and is solely for your benefit and may not be relied upon by you for any
purpose other than in connection with the Company's registration statement
and may not be relied upon by any other person or provided to any other party
without my prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
Steven A. McArthur
Senior Vice President and
General Counsel
Exhibit 15.1
California Energy Company, Inc.
Omaha, Nebraska
We have made a review, in accordance with standards established
by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, of the
unaudited interim financial information of California Energy
Company, Inc. for the periods ended March 31, 1995 and 1994, June
30, 1995 and 1994 and September 30, 1995 and 1994, as indicated
in the reports of Deloitte & Touche LLP dated April 25, 1995,
July 27, 1995 and October 19, 1995, respectively; because we did
not perform an audit, we expressed no opinion on that
information.
We are aware that the reports of Deloitte & Touche LLP referred
to above, which were included in your Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 1995, June 30, 1995 and
September 30, 1995 are being used in this Registration Statement
on Form S-8.
We are also aware that the aforementioned reports of Deloitte &
Touche LLP, pursuant to Rule 436(c) under the Securities Act of
1993, are not considered a part of the Registration Statement
prepared or certified by an accountant or a report prepared or
certified by an accountant within the meaning of Sections 7 and
11 of that Act.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Omaha, Nebraska
December 8, 1995
Exhibit 23.1
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT
We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration
Statement of California Energy Company, Inc. on Form S-8 of the
reports of Deloitte & Touche LLP dated February 3, 1995 (which
reports express an unqualified opinion and include an explanatory
paragraph referring to California Energy Company, Inc.'s adoption
effective January 1, 1993, of Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 109, (Accounting for Income Taxes), appearing in and
incorporated by reference in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of
California Energy Company, Inc. for the year ended December 31,
1994 and to the reference to Deloitte & Touche LLP under the
heading "Experts" in the Prospectus, which is part of this
Registration Statement.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Omaha, Nebraska
December 8, 1995
