PALL CORP
10-K/A, 1996-10-30
GENERAL INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT, NEC
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                UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                 FORM 10-K/A

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934

For the Fiscal Year Ended August 3, 1996

Commission File Number 1-4311

PALL CORPORATION
2200 Northern Boulevard, East Hills, N.Y.  11548
(516) 484-5400

Incorporated in New York State          I.R.S. Employer Identification
                                        Number 11-1541330

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

                                                 Name of Exchange
          Title of Class                         on Which Registered
    -------------------------                    -----------------------
   Common Stock $.10 par value                   New York Stock Exchange
  Common Share Purchase Rights                   New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:  NONE

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required
to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during
the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that registrant was required
to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirement for
the past 90 days.
                                                   Yes   X     No
                                                     -------  ------

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405
of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained to the best
of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements
incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this
Form 10-K. [ ]

The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the
registrant was $2,963,763,000, based upon the closing price on October 4, 1996.

The number of common shares, $.10 par value outstanding of the registrant was
115,101,755 shares on October 4, 1996.

Total number of pages - 241          Exhibit index located on page 19

            DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE:

Portions of the Proxy Statement for the 1996 annual meeting of shareholders are
incorporated by reference into Items 10, 11 and 12.

Portions of the Annual Report to Shareholders for the year ended August 3, 1996
are incorporated by reference into items 1, 5, 7 and 8.
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Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorised.

                                       /s/ Jeremy Hayward-Surry
                                       ---------------------------
                                       PALL CORPORATION
                                       By: Jeremy Hayward-Surry
                                       President and Treasurer -
                                       Chief Financial Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report
has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant, and
in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
<S>                                         <C>                                     <C>
/s/ Eric Krasnoff                           Chairman of the Board and               October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------           Chief Executive Officer
Eric Krasnoff                       

/s/ Jeremy Hayward- Surry                   President and Treasurer - Chief         October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------           Financial Officer and Director
Jeremy Hayward-Surry  

/s/ Peter Schwartzman                       Chief Accountant (Chief                 October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------           Accounting Officer)
Peter Schwartzman          

/s/ Abraham Appel                           Director                                October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------
Abraham Appel

/s/ Ulric S. Haynes, Jr.                    Director                                October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------
Ulric S. Haynes

/s/ Edwin W. Martin                         Director                                October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------
Edwin W. Martin

/s/ David B. Pall                           Director                                October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------
David B. Pall

/s/ Katharine Plourde                       Director                                October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------
Katharine L. Plourde

/s/ Chesterfield F. Seibert                 Director                                October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------
Chesterfield F. Seibert

/s/ Heywood Shelley                         Director                                October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------
Heywood Shelley

                                            Director                                October  , 1996
- ----------------------------------
Alan B. Slifka

/s/ James D. Watson                         Director                                October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------
James D. Watson

/s/ Derek T.D. Williams                     Director                                October 24, 1996
- ----------------------------------
Derek T.D. Williams
</TABLE>

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                                 EXHIBIT INDEX

                                                                       Page
 Exhibit                                                              of 1996
  Number            Description of Exhibit                           Form 10-K
 -------            ----------------------                           ---------

10.7(a)            Service Agreement dated November 28, 1995
                   with Derek Thomas Donald Williams.                25-36


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                                                                EXHIBIT 10.7


                               SERVICE AGREEMENT


AN AGREEMENT dated 28 November, 1995 between PALL EUROPE LIMITED of Europa
House, Havant Street, Portsmouth PO1 3PD, ("the Company") of the one part and
DEREK THOMAS DONALD WILLIAMS of "Martas Plat", St. Patricks Lane, Rake, Liss,
Hampshire, GU33 7HQ ("the Executive") of the other part.


WHEREBY IT IS AGREED as follows:


1.       EMPLOYMENT AND TERM

         SUBJECT as hereinafter provided the Company hereby agrees to employ the
         Executive, and the Executive hereby agrees to act as an executive
         employee of the Company with the duties set forth in Clause 3 hereof,
         for two years from the date hereof and thereafter until either party
         gives to the other not less than two year's previous written notice
         until the Executive reaches age 65 and one year's previous written
         notice after age 65 such notice in either case to expire at any time.


2.       GENERAL


         THERE shall be deemed to form part of the terms and conditions of this
         Agreement the Terms and Conditions of Employment for Monthly Paid Staff
         (as amended from time to time) and the terms of the Company's Technical
         Patent and Confidentiality Agreement, copies of which the executive
         acknowledges having received PROVIDED ALWAYS that in the event of
         conflict between any part of those terms and this Agreement the terms
         and conditions of this Agreement shall prevail.
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3.       DUTIES

         (A)  THE Executive agrees that during the continuance of this Agreement
              he will hold such offices or positions within the Company, and
              perform such duties and assignments relating to the business of
              the Company as the Board of Directors or its Chairman shall direct
              except that the Executive shall not be required to hold any office
              or position or to perform any duties of assignment inconsistent
              with his experience and qualifications or not customarily
              performed by an officer of the company.

         (B)  If the Board of Directors or its Chairman so directs, the
              Executive shall without further remuneration serve as an officer
              of or perform services for one or more subsidiary or associated
              company of the Company provided that the duties of such office are
              not inconsistent with the Executive's experience and
              qualifications and are duties customarily performed by an officer
              of the Company. The Executive hereby agrees that the Company shall
              be entitled from time to time to second the Executive to any
              subsidiary or associated company of the Company without prejudice
              to the rights of the Executive hereunder or the other provisions
              of this Agreement and the Company shall be at liberty to appoint
              other persons to act jointly with the Executive whether in such
              secondment or in his normal duties hereunder.

         (C)  During the continuance of this Agreement the Executive shall,
              except during customary periods of holiday and periods of illness,
              devote all of his business time and attention to the performance
              of his duties hereunder and to the business and affairs of the
              Company and its subsidiary and associated companies and to
              promoting the best interests of the Company and its subsidiary and
              associated companies.
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         (D)  The Executive shall not during the continuance of his employment
              hereunder (except as a representative of the Company or with the
              consent in writing of the Board of Directors of the Company) be
              directly or indirectly engaged or concerned in the conduct of any
              other business nor shall he be directly or indirectly interested
              in any such business save through his holding or being interested
              in investments (quoted or unquoted) not representing more than
              five per cent of the issued investments of any class of any one
              company.


4.       SALARY AND OTHER BENEFITS

         (A)  THE Company shall pay to the Executive during the continuance of
              his employment hereunder a salary at the annual rate set out in
              the Schedule hereto (or such rate as may from time to time be
              agreed or determined upon and notified by the Company to the
              Executive). In the event of any alteration of salary being so
              agreed or notified the alteration shall thereafter have effect as
              if it were specifically provided for as a term of this Agreement.
              Such salary shall be inclusive of any other sums receivable as
              Director's fees or other remuneration from the Company or any of
              its subsidiary or associated companies. The said salary shall be
              payable by equal monthly payments in arrear by the last day of
              each month.

         (B)  Bonus Compensation. With respect to each fiscal year of Pall
              Corporation falling in whole or in part within the Term of
              Employment beginning with the fiscal year in which the Term
              Commencement Date occurs, Executive shall be entitled to a bonus
              (in addition to his Base Salary) in such amount and computed in
              such manner as shall be determined by the Board of Directors but
              in no event shall the bonus payable to Executive under this 4(B)
              be less than an amount computed by applying to the fiscal year in
              question the following bonus formula:
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              "Bonus Compensation" means the amount, if any, payable to
              Executive under this 4(B).

              "Average Equity" means the average of stockholders' equity as
              shown on the fiscal year-end consolidated balance sheet of Pall
              Corporation as of the end of the fiscal year with respect to which
              Bonus Compensation is being computed hereunder and as of the end
              of the immediately preceding fiscal year (e.g., "Average Equity"
              to be used in computing Bonus Compensation for the fiscal year
              ending August 3, 1996 will be the average of stockholders' equity
              as of July 29, 1995 and August 3, 1996) except that the amount
              shown as the "equity adjustment from foreign currency translation"
              on each such consolidated balance sheet shall be disregarded and
              the amount of $3,744,000 shall be the equity adjustment (increase)
              from foreign currency translation used to determine stockholders'
              equity at each such year-end balance sheet date.


              "Net Earnings" means the after-tax consolidated net Earnings of
              Pall Corporation and its subsidiaries as certified by its
              independent accountants for inclusion in the annual report to
              stockholders.


              "Return on Equity" means Net Earnings as a percentage of Average
              Equity.


              For fiscal year 1996, "Zero Bonus Percentage" shall mean a Return
              on Equity of 12.5% and "Maximum Bonus Percentage" shall mean a
              Return on Equity of 20.0%. For fiscal years after fiscal 1996 Pall
              Corporation shall determine the Zero Bonus Percentage and the
              Maximum Bonus Percentage, consistent in each case with expected
              results based upon the Company's normal projection procedures, or
              based on sound statistical or trend data, and the determination by
              the Company of such percentage shall be conclusive and binding on
              Executive.
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         If Return on Equity for the fiscal year in question is the Zero Bonus
         Percentage or less, no Bonus Compensation shall be payable. If Return
         on Equity equals or exceeds the Maximum Bonus Percentage, the Formula
         Bonus Compensation payable to Executive shall be 45% of his Base
         Salary. If Return on Equity is more than the Zero Bonus Percentage and
         less than the Maximum Bonus Percentage, the Bonus Compensation shall be
         increased from zero percent of Base Salary towards 45% of Base Salary
         in the same proportion that Return on Equity increases from the Zero
         Bonus Percentage to the Maximum Bonus Percentage. Thus, for example, if
         Return on Equity for fiscal 1996 is 16.25% (the midpoint between 12.5%
         and 20.0%) the Bonus Compensation shall be an amount equal to 22.5% of
         Executive's Base Salary (the midpoint between zero percent of Base
         Salary and 45% of Base Salary).

(C)      The Bonus Compensation shall be paid in instalments as follows:

         (1)  50% of the estimated amount thereof in the October following the
              end of the fiscal year with respect to which the Bonus
              Compensation is payable (e.g., 50% in October 1996 with respect to
              Bonus Compensation for the fiscal year ending August 3, 1996),
              based on the then current projections of Return on Equity and
              results of operations of Executive's Business Segment, and

         (ii) the balance thereof not later than April 30 next following the end
              of the fiscal year with respect to which the Bonus Compensation is
              payable.
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              With respect to any fiscal year of Pall Corporation which falls in
              part but not in whole within the Term of Employment, the Bonus
              Compensation to which Executive is entitled under 4(B) shall be
              pro rated on the basis of the number of days of such fiscal year
              falling within the Term of Employment except that if the Term of
              Employment ends within five days before or after the end of a
              fiscal year, there shall be no proration and the Bonus
              Compensation shall be payable with respect to the full fiscal year
              ending within such five-day period.

         (D)  There shall be refunded to the Executive all out-of-pocket
              expenses properly incurred by him in the performance of his duties
              including expenses of entertainment, subsistence and travelling.
              The Executive shall produce to the Company at its request all
              supporting vouchers and documents in respect of such expenses.

         (E)  The Executive shall be entitled without loss of remuneration to
              such holiday in each year (in addition to Bank and other public
              holidays occurring when not on holiday) as stated in the Terms
              and Conditions of Employment for Monthly Paid Staff or as may
              otherwise be determined by the Board of Directors to be taken at
              such time or times as may be approved by the Board of Directors.
              No holiday entitlement may be carried over from year to year and
              the Executive shall not be entitled to be paid in lieu of untaken
              holiday.

         (F)  The Executive shall be entitled to participate in such benefit
              schemes as may be provided by the Company from time to time
              including but not limited to medical insurance and life insurance,
              and the executive supplementary pension scheme in accordance with
              the rules and regulations and announcements applicable to the said
              schemes from time to time in force.
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         (G)  The Company shall provide a motor car for the use of the Executive
              for the performance of his duties under this Agreement. The motor
              car shall have an engine capacity of not less than two litres and
              be of such make and model as shall be determined by the Board of
              Directors to be consistent with the Executive's office or
              position. The Company shall bear the cost of maintaining,
              insuring, testing and taxing the motor car. The Executive is
              authorised to use the motor car for private purposes.

5.            TERMINATION

         (A)  THIS Agreement shall be subject to termination by the Company:

              (i)  by not less than six months' notice given at any time while
                   the Executive is incapacitated by reason of ill health,
                   mental disability or accident and shall have been so
                   incapacitated for an aggregate of 130 working days (whether
                   or not consecutive);

              (ii) by summary notice if the Executive shall have committed any
                   serious breach or have repeated or have continued (after
                   warning) any material breach of his obligations hereunder or
                   shall have been guilty of conduct tending to bring himself or
                   the Company or any of its subsidiary or associated companies
                   into disrepute or shall have become bankrupt or compounded
                   with this creditors generally or have been convicted of any
                   criminal offence involving a custodial sentence;

             (iii) at any time after the Executive's 65th birthday
                   (irrespective of whether the Executive is age 65 when this
                   Agreement is entered into), by notice to the Executive
                   effective on the date specified in such notice;
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         (B)  In the event of a Change in Control (as hereinafter defined) of
              the Company, the Executive shall have the right to terminate this
              Agreement by giving not less than 3 months' and not more than 24
              months' prior written notice to the Company such notice to be
              given not more than 24 months following such Change in Control.

         (C)  Upon the termination of this Agreement howsoever arising the
              Executive shall at any time or from time to time thereafter upon
              the request of the Company, resign without claim for compensation
              from office as a Director of the Company and all offices held by
              him in subsidiary and associated companies of the Company and
              should he fail so to do the Company is hereby irrevocably
              authorised to appoint some person in his name and on his behalf to
              sign and do any documents or things necessary or requisite to give
              effect thereto. If the Executive shall cease to be an officer of
              the Company or any of its subsidiaries or associated companies
              (other than ceasing to be Executive Vice President and Chief
              Operating Officer of Pall Corporation) this Agreement shall not
              hereby automatically terminate.


6.       COMPANY'S RIGHTS TO INJUNCTIVE RELIEF


         THE Executive acknowledges that his services to the Company are of a
         unique character, which gives them a peculiar value to the Company, the
         loss of which cannot be reasonably or adequately compensated in
         damages in any action at law, and that therefore, in addition to any
         other remedy which the Company may have at law or in equity, the
         Company shall be entitled to injunctive relief for a breach of this
         Agreement by the Executive.
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7.       HEADINGS

         THE headings in this Agreement are not part of the provisions hereof,
         are merely for the purpose of reference and shall have no force or
         effect for any purpose whatsoever, including the construction of the
         provisions of this Agreement, and if any heading is inconsistent with
         any provisions of this Agreement, the said provisions shall govern.

8.       IN this Agreement:


          (i) words and phrases defined for the purposes of Section 736 of the
              Companies Act 1985 shall bear the same meaning;


         (ii) "associated company" means any company which is (a) a company
              having an ordinary share capital of which not less than 25 per
              cent is owned directly or indirectly by the Company applying the
              provisions of Section 838 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act
              1988 in the determination of ownership or (b) a holding company of
              the Company or a subsidiary of any such holding company or (c) a
              company to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries renders
              managerial, administrative or technical service otherwise than in
              the ordinary course of its business;


        (iii) "the Board of Directors" means the Board of Directors of the
              Company as the same may be constituted from time to time and
              includes any duly appointed committee thereof;


         (iv) "Change of Control" - a Change in Control of the Company shall be
              deemed to have occurred if:


              (a)  the Company or its holding company sells or agrees to sell
                   the whole or substantially the whole of the undertaking and
                   assets of the Company; or
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              (b)  the Company or its holding company sells or agrees to sell
                   the whole or not less than 50% of the equity share capital of
                   the Company; or

              (c)  a member of the Company or its holding company obtains
                   control of the composition of the Board of Directors of the
                   Company. For the purpose of this paragraph (c) the
                   composition of the Company's Board of Directors shall be
                   deemed to be controlled by a member if (but only if) the
                   member by the exercise of some power exercisable by it
                   without the consent or concurrence of any other person can
                   appoint or remove all or a majority of the Directors of the
                   Company.


9.       CHOICE OF LAW

         THIS Agreement is made in, and shall be governed by and construed in
         accordance with the laws of England.


10.      ENTIRE CONTRACT


         THIS instrument contains the entire agreement of the parties on the
         subject matter hereof except that the rights of the Company hereunder
         shall be deemed to be in addition to and not in substitution for its
         rights under the Company's standard form of Technical Patent and
         Confidentiality Agreement if heretofore or hereafter entered into
         between the parties hereto so that the making of this Agreement shall
         not be construed as depriving the Company of any of its rights or
         remedies under any such Technical Patent and Confidentiality Agreement.
         This Agreement may not be changed orally, but only by an agreement in
         writing signed by the parties hereto.
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II.      NOTICES


         ALL notices given hereunder shall be in writing and shall be sent by
         registered post or delivered by hand and, if intended for the Company,
         shall be addressed to it (if sent by post) or delivered to it (if
         delivered by hand) at its registered office for the attention of the
         Secretary of the Company, or at such other address and for the
         attention of such other person of which the Company shall have given
         notice to the Executive in the manner herein provided and, if intended
         for the Executive, shall be delivered to him personally or shall be
         addressed to him (if sent by post) at his most recent residence address
         shown in the Company's employment records or at such other address or
         to such designee of which the Executive shall have given notice to the
         Company in the manner herein provided. Each such notice shall be deemed
         to be given on the date of posting thereof or, if delivered personally,
         on the date so delivered.


12       TERMINATION OF ANY PRIOR EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT


         THIS Agreement is in substitution for all previous employment
         agreements in effect between the Company and Executive on the date
         hereof which shall be deemed to have been terminated by mutual consent
         as from the date of commencement of this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Company has affixed its Common Seal and the Executive has
set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.

THE COMMON SEAL OF                   )
PALL EUROPE LIMITED                  ) /s/ Eric Krasnoff
was hereunto affixed                 )
in the presence of:                  )



SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED          )
by the said                          ) /s/ Derek Thomas Donald Williams
DEREK THOMAS DONALD WILLIAMS         ) /s/ Marcus Wilson
in the presence of: MARCUS WILSON    )


                                    SCHEDULE



Pursuant to Clause 4 (A) the annual salary of the Executive shall be Pound
Sterling 145,600.00






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