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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 8, 2000
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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SYNOPSYS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant As Specified in its Charter)
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DELAWARE 56-1546236
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(State of Incorporation) (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
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700 EAST MIDDLEFIELD ROAD
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043-4033
(Address, Including Zip Code, of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices)
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Employee Stock Purchase Plan
International Employee Stock Purchase Plan
1998 Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan
(Full Title of the Plans)
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AART J. DE GEUS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
SYNOPSYS, INC.
700 EAST MIDDLEFIELD ROAD
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043-4033
(650) 962-5000
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code, of Agent for Process)
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Copy to:
THOMAS C. DEFILIPPS, ESQ.
WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
650 PAGE MILL ROAD
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94303
(650) 493-9300
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
TITLE OF EACH CLASS PROPOSED MAXIMUM PROPOSED MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF
OF SECURITIES TO BE AMOUNT TO BE OFFERING PRICE AGGREGATE REGISTRATION
REGISTERED REGISTERED(1) PER SHARE(2) OFFERING PRICE(2) FEE(2)
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Common Stock, $0.01 par value
to be issued under:
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
and International Employee
Stock Purchase Plan 1,200,000 shares $42.63/sh. $51,159,375.00 $13,506.08
1998 Nonstatutory Stock
Option Plan 540,000 shares $50.16/sh. $27,084,375.00 $7,150.28
Total: 1,740,000 shares --- --- $20,656.36
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(1) Pursuant to Rule 429 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"), the prospectus relating hereto also relates to shares
registered under Form S-8 Registration Statements, 333-77597 and 333-50947.
(2) Computed in accordance with Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of
calculating the registration fee.
(3) Based upon 85% of the average of the high and low sale prices on June 6,
2000, as reported on the Nasdaq National Market.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
Synopsys, Inc. (the "Company") hereby incorporates by reference in this
registration statement the following documents:
(a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
September 30, 1999 filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act").
(b) The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
January 29, 2000, filed pursuant to the Exchange Act.
(d) The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K regarding its financial
results for the quarter ended January 29, 2000, filed pursuant to
Section 13 of the Exchange Act.
(e) The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K regarding its financial
results for the quarter ended April 29, 2000, filed pursuant to
Section 13 of the Exchange Act.
(f) The description of the Company's Common Stock as set forth in the
Registration Statement filed by the Company on Form 8-A on January 24,
1992 pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and any amendments
or reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the
purpose of updating such description.
(g) 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 to this registration statement which
indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which
deregisters all securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this registration statement and to be a
part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
The class of securities to be offered is registered under Section 12 of the
Exchange Act.
ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
Not applicable.
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
Delaware law authorizes corporations to eliminate the personal liability of
directors to corporations and their stockholders for monetary damage for breach
or alleged breach of the directors' "duty of care." While the relevant statute
does not change directors' duty of care, it enables corporations to limit
available relief to equitable remedies such as injunction or rescission. The
statute has no effect on directors' duty of loyalty, acts or omissions not in
good faith or involving intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law,
illegal payment of dividends and approval of any transaction from which a
director derives an improper personal benefit.
The Company has adopted provisions in its Certificate of Incorporation
which eliminate the personal liability of its directors to the Company and its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged
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breach of their duty of care. The Bylaws of the Company provide for
indemnification of its directors, officers, employees and agents to the full
extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the
"DGCL"), the Company's state of incorporation, including those circumstances in
which indemnification would otherwise be discretionary under the DGCL. Section
145 of the DGCL provides for indemnification in terms sufficiently broad to
indemnify such individuals, under certain circumstances, for liabilities
(including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act.
ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
Not applicable.
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
See Index to Exhibits.
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.
(a) Rule 415 Offering. 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, 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) Filings incorporating subsequent Exchange Act documents by reference.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) 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.
(c) Request for acceleration of effective date or filing of registration
statement on Form S-8.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities 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 Securities 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 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 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 Mountain View, State of California, on May 23, 2000.
SYNOPSYS, INC.
By:
/s/ Aart J. de Geus
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Aart J. de Geus
Chief Executive Officer
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each such person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Aart J. de Geus and Robert B. Henske, and
each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power of
substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form
S-8, 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, and each of them, full power and authority to
do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done
in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might
or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully 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
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/s/ Aart J. de Geus Chief Executive Officer and May 23, 2000
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Aart J. de Geus (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Chi-Foon Chan President, Chief Operating May 23, 2000
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Chi-Foon Chan
/s/ Andy D. Bryant Director May 23, 2000
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Andy D. Bryant
/s/ Deborah A. Coleman Director May 23, 2000
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Deborah A. Coleman
/s/ Harvey C. Jones Director May 23, 2000
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Harvey C. Jones, Jr.
/s/ William W. Lattin Director May 23, 2000
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William W. Lattin
/s/ A. Richard Newton Director May 23, 2000
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A. Richard Newton
/s/ SASSON SOMEKH Director May 30, 2000
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Sasson Somekh
/s/ Steven C. Walske Director May 23, 2000
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Steven C. Walske
/s/ Robert B. Henske Chief Financial Officer May 23, 2000
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Robert B. Henske
/s/ Richard Rowley Corporate Controller May 23, 2000
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Richard Rowley
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
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Number Exhibit
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5.1 Opinion of counsel as to legality of securities being registered
10.1 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
10.2 International Employee Stock Purchase Plan
10.3 1998 Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan*
23.1 Consent of Independent Auditors
23.2 Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1 Power of Attorney (see page 6)
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* Incorporated by reference to exhibit to the Company's Registration Statement
on Form S-8 (File No. 333-90643) as filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on November 9, 1999
