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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 12, 1999.
Registration No. 333-78641
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CB Richard Ellis Services, Inc.
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 62-1616016
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(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification Number)
200 North Sepulveda Boulevard
El Segundo, CA 90245-4380
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(Address, including zip code, of Registrant's principal executive offices)
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1999 Employee Stock Option Plan
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(Full title of the plan)
Walter V. Stafford
Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel
353 Sacramento Street, Suite 1900
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 733-5500
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(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
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The undersigned Registrant hereby removes and withdraws from registration
1,000,000 shares of the Registrant's Common Stock, constituting all of the
unsold shares registered under this Registration Statement proposed to be issued
pursuant to the Registrant's 1999 Employee Stock Option Plan, because such plan
did not take effect and the Registrant will not be issued securities thereunder.
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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-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective
Amendment No. 1 to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Francisco, State of
California, on July 30, 1999.
CB RICHARD ELLIS SERVICES, INC.
By: /s/ Walter V. Stafford
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Name: Walter V. Stafford
Title: Senior Executive Vice President
and General Counsel
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints
James J. Didion, John C. Haeckel, Walter V. Stafford and Debra L. Morris his or
her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, with full
powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments
(including Post-Effective Amendments) to this registration statement, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might
of could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-
in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or his or her substitute or substitutes,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
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Signature Title Date
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/s/ James J. Didion Chief Executive Officer May 13, 1999
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James J. Didion
/s/ John C. Haeckel Senior Executive Vice President, May 13, 1999
- ------------------------------ Chief Financial Officer and
John C. Haeckel Treasurer
/s/ Debra L. Morris Executive Vice President and May 13, 1999
- ------------------------------ Global Chief Accounting Officer
Debra L. Morris (Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Stanton D. Anderson Director May 12, 1999
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Stanton D. Anderson
Director
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Gary J. Beban
Director
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Richard C. Blum
Director
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Bradford M. Freeman
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Signature Title Date
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/s/ Donald M. Koll Director May 13, 1999
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Donald M. Koll
/s/ Paul C. Leach Director May 12, 1999
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Paul C. Leach
Director
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Frederic V. Malek
Director
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Peter V. Ueberroth
Director
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Ray Elizabeth Uttenhove
/s/ W. Brett White Director May 12, 1999
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W. Brett White
/s/ Gary L. Wilson Director May 13, 1999
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Gary L. Wilson
/s/ Raymond E. Wirta Director May 13, 1999
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Raymond E. Wirta
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