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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 1, 1998
Registration No. 333-
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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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CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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DELAWARE 54-171854
(State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
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2980 FAIRVIEW PARK DRIVE, SUITE 1300
FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA 22042
(Address, including zip code, of
Registrant's principal executive offices)
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CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
1994 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
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Copy to:
JOHN G. FINNERAN, JR., ESQ. D. MICHAEL LEFEVER, ESQ.
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL COVINGTON & BURLING
AND CORPORATE SECRETARY 1201 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W.
2980 FAIRVIEW PARK DRIVE, SUITE 1300 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20004
FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA 22042 (202) 662-6000
(703) 205-1030
(Name, address, including zip code,
and telephone number, including area
code, of agent for service)
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Security Amount to be Proposed Maximum Proposed Maximum Amount of
to be Registered Registered Offering Price Aggregate Registration
Per Unit (2) Offering Price Fee
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Stock Options (1) 175,000 $95.125 $16,646,875 $4,910.83
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(1) Represent options to purchase shares of common stock, $.01 par value
("Common Stock"), of the Registrant issuable under the Registrant's 1994
Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan") in consideration for the agreement of a
recipient to forgo certain potential incentive compensation payments. The
shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Stock Options
previously either were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, pursuant to Registration Statement No. 33-86986 (dated December 1,
1994), or will be registered before the Stock Options are exercised.
(2) Purchase price of the Stock Option registered for sale under the Plan.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
The following documents, heretofore filed by Capital One Financial
Corporation (the "Registrant") with the Securities and Exchange Commission
pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
Act"), are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, except as
superseded or modified as described herein:
(a) The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 1997.
(b) The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K, dated January 25, 1998 and
April 16, 1998.
All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant 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 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. Any statement contained in any such
incorporated document shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes
of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in any
other incorporated document subsequently filed (or in this Registration
Statement, with respect to an incorporated document filed prior to the filing
hereof), 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 Registration Statement.
ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
The Board of Directors of the Registrant has approved, under the
Registrant's 1994 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), a Tier 5 Special Option
Program (the "Program") under which eligible employees are entitled to elect to
forgo certain potential incentive compensation payments and receive in
consideration stock options issued under the Plan (the "Stock Options"). Each
Stock Option will entitle the holder to purchase shares of Common Stock at an
exercise price per share equal to the fair market value (as defined by the Plan)
of the Common Stock on the date of the grant. Each Stock Option will expire on
the tenth anniversary of its date of grant. Upon the termination of employment
of the holder, the Stock Option will be forfeited if not then vested and the
Stock Option will remain exercisable (if vested) only for a period of three
months from the date of termination, except that, in the event of the death of
the holder or the termination of the holder's employment due to disability, the
Stock Option, to the extent that it was exercisable on the date of such death or
termination, shall remain exercisable for a period of one year (but not beyond
the ten-year expiration date of the Stock Option). The Stock Options will vest
in full on the third anniversary of the date of grant. Notwithstanding these
normal vesting rules, unless previously terminated, all employees will become
fully vested upon a Change of Control (as that term is defined in the Plan).
The Stock Options are nontransferable except by will or by the laws of
descent and distribution and, during the lifetime of an employee, may be
exercised only by the employee.
Under the Plan, in the event of a stock dividend, stock split or
combination of shares, spin-off, recapitalization or merger in which the
Registrant is the surviving corporation or other change in the Registrant's
capital stock, the number and kind of shares subject to the Stock Options, the
exercise price and other relevant provisions of the Stock Options are subject to
appropriate adjustment by the Compensation Committee of the Registrant's Board
of Directors, whose determination is binding on all persons.
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ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
John G. Finneran, Jr., general counsel of the Registrant, who has rendered
the opinion attached hereto as Exhibit 5.1, owns approximately 2,674 shares of
Common Stock and holds options to purchase 162,273 shares of Common Stock issued
under the Plan.
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
Under Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware
(the "GCL"), a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party, or is
threatened to be made a party, to any action, suit or proceeding by reason of
the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of such corporation if
such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to
be in and not opposed to the best interest of the corporation and, with respect
to a criminal action or proceeding, such person had no reasonable cause to
believe that his or her conduct was unlawful, except that, in the case of any
action or suit by or in the right of the corporation, no indemnification is
permitted if the person shall be adjudged liable to the corporation other than
indemnification for such expenses as a court shall determine such person is
fairly and reasonably entitled to.
Article XI of the Registrant's Restated Certificate of Incorporation and
Section 6.7 of the Registrant's By-laws provide, in general, for mandatory
indemnification of directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted from
time to time by the GCL or any other applicable law, against liability incurred
by them in proceedings instituted or threatened against them by third parties,
or by or on behalf of the Registrant itself, relating to the manner in which
they performed their duties unless they have been guilty of willful misconduct
or of a knowing violation of the criminal law.
Under Article X of the Registrant's Restated Certificate of Incorporation,
a director of the Registrant is not personally liable to the Registrant or its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director,
except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the
Registrant or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under
Section 174 of the GCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director
derived an improper personal benefit.
The Registrant also maintains a directors and officers insurance policy
generally covering the activities for which such persons are entitled to
indemnification.
ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
Not applicable.
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
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EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION REFERENCE
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5.1 Opinion of Counsel Filed herewith
23.1 Consent of Counsel Contained in Exhibit 5.1
23.2 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP Filed herewith
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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, as amended, (the "Securities Act").
(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.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume
of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities
offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any
deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule
424(b) under the Securities Act if, in the aggregate, the changes
in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the
maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of
Registration Fee" table in the effective 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 information required to be included in a post-effective
amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed
with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission by the
Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
that are incorporated by reference 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
thereby, 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 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, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 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 thereby, 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 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
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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 County of Fairfax, Commonwealth of Virginia, on the 1st day
of May, 1998.
CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By: /s/ John G. Finneran, Jr.
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John G. Finneran, Jr.
Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints James M.
Zinn and John G. Finneran, Jr., and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-
in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him
and in his name, place and stead, and in any and all capacities, to sign any or
all 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, state securities law administrators, other
governmental authorities, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc,
and stock exchanges, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents 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 and to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitute or substitutes, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated on the 1st day of May, 1998.
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/s/ Richard D. Fairbank
- ---------------------------------- Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and
Richard D. Fairbank Director (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Nigel W. Morris
- ---------------------------------- President and Chief Operating Officer and Director
Nigel W. Morris
/s/ James M. Zinn
- ----------------------------------- Senior Vice President (Principal Financial
James M. Zinn Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ William Ronald Dietz
- ----------------------------------- Director
William Ronald Dietz
/s/ James A. Flick, Jr.
- ----------------------------------- Director
James A. Flick, Jr.
/s/ Patrick W. Gross
- ----------------------------------- Director
Patrick W. Gross
/s/ James V. Kimsey
- ------------------------------------ Director
James V. Kimsey
/s/ Stanley I. Westreich
- ------------------------------------ Director
Stanley I. Westreich
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Exhibit Index
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Exhibit Sequential
Number Description Page Number
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5.1 Opinion of Counsel 9
23.2 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP 10
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[LETTERHEAD OF CAPITAL ONE APPEARS HERE]
Exhibit 5.1
May 1, 1998
Board of Directors
Capital One Financial Corporation
2980 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 1300
Falls Church, Virginia 22042
Gentlemen:
As the General Counsel of Capital One Financial Corporation (the
"Company"), I have participated in the preparation of a Registration Statement
on Form S-8 to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Registration Statement"), with
respect to the offer and sale of stock options of a maximum aggregate dollar
amount of $16,646,875 ("Stock Options") exercisable to purchase shares of Common
Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company to be issued pursuant to the
Capital One Financial Corporation 1994 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan"). I am
familiar with the Registration Statement and have examined such corporate
documents and records, including the Plan, and such matters of law as I have
considered appropriate to enable me to render the following opinion.
On the basis of the foregoing, I am of the opinion that the Stock Options,
when issued consistent with the terms of the Plan and the related resolutions of
the Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee, will be binding
obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with
their terms and conditions.
I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the
Registration Statement and to the reference to me under the caption "Interests
of Named Experts and Counsel" in the Registration Statement.
Very truly yours,
/s/ John G. Finneran, Jr.
John G. Finneran, Jr., Esq.
General Counsel
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Exhibit 23.2
CONSENT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP
We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement
(Form S-8 No. 333- ) pertaining to the 1994 Stock Incentive Plan of Capital
One Financial Corporation of our report dated January 15, 1998, with respect to
the consolidated financial statements of Capital One Financial Corporation
incorporated by reference in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended
December 31, 1997, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
Washington, D.C.
May 1, 1998
