Securities Registration: Employee Benefit Plan (s-8)
June 12 2018 - 4:36PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 12, 2018
Registration
No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware
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94-1655526
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(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
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(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
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3050 Bowers Avenue, P.O. Box 58039, Santa Clara, California 95052-8039
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 2016 DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
Thomas F. Larkins
Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Applied Materials, Inc.
3050 Bowers Avenue, P.O. Box 58039, Santa Clara, California 95052-8039
(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (408)
727-5555
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a
non-accelerated
filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of large accelerated filer, accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, and emerging growth company in
Rule 12b-2
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:
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Large accelerated filer
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Accelerated filer
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Non-accelerated filer
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Smaller reporting company
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Emerging growth company
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period
for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
CALCULATION
OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of securities to be registered
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Amount to be
registered
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Proposed maximum
offering price per
share
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Proposed maximum
aggregate offering
price
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Amount of
registration fee
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Deferred Compensation Obligations (1)
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$175,000,000
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100%
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$175,000,000
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$21,788
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(1)
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The Deferred Compensation Obligations are unsecured obligations of the registrant to pay deferred compensation in the future in accordance with the terms of the Applied Materials, Inc. 2016 Deferred Compensation Plan.
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INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents are incorporated by reference in this registration statement: (i) the latest annual report of Applied Materials,
Inc. (the Registrant) filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act); and (ii) all other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a)
or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report referred to in clause (i) above (other than the portions of these documents not deemed to be filed). All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than the portions of these documents not deemed to be filed), 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 a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
The securities being registered pursuant to this registration statement represent unsecured general obligations of the Registrant (the
Obligations) to pay certain deferred compensation in the future in accordance with the terms of the Applied Materials, Inc. 2016 Deferred Compensation Plan (the Plan). The Obligations rank equally with
other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Registrant.
Under the Plan, the Registrant may provide eligible employees of the
Registrant and its participating affiliates (each, a Participating Employer) with the opportunity to elect to defer certain eligible compensation that is otherwise payable by a Participating Employer, as set forth in the Plan. Employer
contributions also may be made by a Participating Employer, in its sole discretion, on behalf of a Plan participant, as set forth in the Plan.
A Plan participants deferral contributions and any discretionary employer contributions made on his or her behalf under the Plan will be
credited to the participants account(s) under the Plan. A participants Plan account(s) will be credited with deemed investment returns equal to the experience of selected investment funds offered under the Plan, as elected by the
participant in accordance with the Plans procedures. If a participant fails to make an investment election with respect his or her Plan account(s), the account(s) will be deemed invested in the Plans default investment fund, as
determined by the Plans administrative committee (the Committee) in its discretion. Amounts deferred into the Plan prior to 2016 will be credited with deemed interest at a rate determined under the Plan.
A participant will be 100% vested at all times in his or her deferral contributions under the Plan. A participant generally will be vested in
any employer contributions made on his or her behalf by a Participating Employer in accordance with the vesting schedules established by the Committee at the time such amounts are first credited to the participants Plan account.
The Obligations generally are payable upon a participants separation from service or the date(s) elected by the participant in
accordance with the terms of the Plan, subject to exceptions as provided in the Plan, such as death, qualifying disability, unforeseeable emergency or qualifying change in control of the Registrant. The Obligations generally are payable in the form
of a lump sum cash payment or annual cash installment payments, at the election of the participant made in accordance with the terms of the Plan.
A Plan participant may designate one or more beneficiaries to receive any portion of his or her Plan account payable in the event of the
participants death, in accordance with the Plans procedures. Plan participants or their beneficiaries generally may not sell, transfer, pledge, assign or otherwise dispose of any right or interest in the Plan.
The Registrant may, in its sole discretion, establish a grantor trust, commonly known as a rabbi trust, as a vehicle for accumulating assets
to pay the Obligations. Any such rabbi trust shall be constructed to constitute an unfunded arrangement that shall not affect the status of the Plan as an unfunded plan for purposes of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act or the Internal
Revenue Code. The Obligations may be paid from the general assets of the Participating Employers or from the assets of any such rabbi trust.
The Registrant has reserved the right to amend or terminate the Plan at any time and for any reason, provided that any such amendment may not
reduce or delay the vesting of account balances of any participant accrued as of the date of any such amendment.
The Obligations are not convertible into any other security of the Registrant. The Obligations
will not have the benefit of a negative pledge or any other affirmative or negative covenant on the part of the Registrant. No trustee has been appointed to take action with respect to the Obligations and each Plan participant or beneficiary will be
responsible for enforcing his or her own rights, if any, with respect to the Obligations.
The foregoing is not a complete description of
the Obligations, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms of the Plan document.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Inapplicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of
Directors and Officers.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court to award, or a corporations
board of directors to grant, indemnity to directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit such indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended. The Registrants Certificate of Incorporation provides for indemnification of the Registrants directors, officers, employees and other agents to the maximum extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. In
addition, the Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with its directors and certain of its officers.
Item 7. Exemption From
Registration Claimed.
Inapplicable.
Item 8.
Exhibits.
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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities
offered (if the total dollar value of the 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) 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 reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission 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 purpose 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 Registrants 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 plans 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.
(c) 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 Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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 Santa Clara, State of
California on the 12th day of June, 2018.
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APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
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By:
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/s/ Gary E. Dickerson
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Gary E. Dickerson
President
Chief Executive
Officer
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:
Each of
the undersigned directors or officers of Applied Materials, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company), hereby constitutes and appoints Gary E. Dickerson, Daniel J. Durn and Thomas F. Larkins and each of them with power to act alone,
his or her true and lawful
attorney-in-fact,
with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and
all capacities, to execute a Registration Statement on Form
S-8
or other appropriate form, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating up to $175 million of general unsecured obligations of the
Company to pay deferred compensation pursuant to the Companys 2016 Deferred Compensation Plan, and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and
all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorney-in-fact
full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney-in-fact
or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
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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 and on the date indicated.
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Signature
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Title
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Date
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/s/ Gary E. Dickerson
Gary E. Dickerson
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President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Daniel J. Durn
Daniel J. Durn
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Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Charles W. Read
Charles W. Read
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Corporate Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Accounting Officer)
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June 12, 2018
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Signature
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Title
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Date
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/s/ Thomas J. Iannotti
Thomas J. Iannotti
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Chairman of the Board
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Judy Bruner
Judy Bruner
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Director
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Xun Chen
Xun Chen
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Director
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Aart J. de Geus
Aart J. de Geus
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Director
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Stephen R. Forrest
Stephen R. Forrest
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Director
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Alexander A. Karsner
Alexander A. Karsner
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Director
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Adrianna C. Ma
Adrianna C. Ma
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Director
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Scott A. McGregor
Scott A. McGregor
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Director
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June 12, 2018
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/s/ Dennis D. Powell
Dennis D. Powell
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Director
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June 12, 2018
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