As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 25, 2007

Registration No. 333-        

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Key Energy Services, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Maryland

 

04-2648081

(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

 

 

1301 McKinney Street, Suite 1800, Houston, Texas

 

77010

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Non-Plan Stock Option Agreements

(Full Title of the Plan)

Newton W. Wilson

General Counsel

Key Energy Services, Inc.

1301 McKinney Street, Suite 1800

Houston, TX 77010

(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

713-651-4300

(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of 
Securities to be
Registered

 

Amount to  be
Registered(1)

 

Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price Per
Share

 

Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price

 

Amount of
Registration Fee

 

Common Stock, $0.10 par value per share

 

460,000 shares

 

8.00-$8.25

(2)

3,726,250

(2)

$

115

 

(1)            In accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement shall be deemed to cover any additional securities that may from time to time be offered or issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.

(2)            Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The price per share and aggregate offering price are calculated on the basis of (a) $8.00, the exercise price of 275,000 shares subject to outstanding non-plan stock option agreements, and (b) $8.25, the exercise price of 185,000 shares subject to outstanding non-plan stock option agreements.

 




PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1.     Plan Information.

The information required by Item 1 is included in documents sent or given to participants in the plan covered by this registration statement pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

Item 2.     Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.

The written statement required by Item 2 is included in documents sent or given to participants in the plan covered by this registration statement pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act.

PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.     Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The registrant is subject to the informational and reporting requirements of Sections 13(a), 14, and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and in accordance therewith files reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”).  The following documents, which are on file with the Commission, are incorporated in this registration statement by reference:

(a)            The registrant’s latest annual report filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

(b)            All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act for periods following the end of the fiscal year covered by the document referred to in (a) above.

(c)            The description of the securities contained in the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 24, 2007.

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 hereby 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 the filing of such documents.  Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the purposes of this registration statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any 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.

Not applicable.

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Item 5.     Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (“WilmerHale”) has opined as to the legality of the securities being offered by this registration statement.

Item 6.     Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Section 2-418 of the Maryland General Corporation Law provides that a corporation may indemnify any director made a party to any proceeding against judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable expenses, unless it is established that (i) the act or omission of the director was material to the matter giving rise to the proceeding and was committed in bad faith or was a result of deliberate dishonesty, (ii) the director actually received an improper personal benefit or (iii) in a criminal proceeding, the director had reasonable cause to believe the act or omission was unlawful. A director may not be indemnified in any proceeding charging improper personal benefit if the director was adjudged to be liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received and, in a derivative action, there shall not be indemnification if a director has been adjudged liable to the corporation. A director or officer of a corporation who has been successful in the defense of any proceeding shall be indemnified against reasonable costs incurred in such defense. Indemnification may not be made unless authorized for a specific proceeding after determination by the board of directors, special legal counsel or the stockholders that indemnification is permissible because the director has met the requisite standard of conduct.

Article Seventh of the Company’s Articles of Restatement (the “Charter”), provides that the Company shall indemnify (i) its directors and officers, whether serving the Company or at its request any other entity, to the full extent required or permitted by the Maryland law, including the advance of expenses under the procedures and to the full extent permitted by law and (ii) other employees and agents to such extent as shall be authorized by the Board of Directors or the Company’s Bylaws and be permitted by law. The foregoing rights of indemnification are not exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled. The Board of Directors may take such action as is necessary to carry out these indemnification provisions and is expressly empowered to adopt, approve and amend from time to time such By-laws, resolutions or contracts implementing such provisions or such further indemnification arrangements as may be permitted by the Maryland law. Furthermore, no director or officer of the Company shall be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or an officer, except to the extent that exculpation from liability is not permitted under the Maryland law as in effect when such breach occurred. No amendment of the Charter or repeal of any of its provisions shall limit or eliminate the limitations on liability provided to directors and officers with respect to acts or omissions occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

Item 7.     Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8.     Exhibits.

The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.     Undertakings.

1.              Item 512(a) of Regulation S-K .  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

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(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;
(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; and
(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 (i) and (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 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 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.

2.              Item 512(b) of Regulation S-K .  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 therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

3.              Item 512(h) of Regulation S-K .  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 Houston, Texas, on this 25th day of September, 2007.

Key Energy Services, Inc.

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Richard J. Alario

 

 

 

Richard J. Alario

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

We, the undersigned officers and directors of Key Energy Services, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Richard J. Alario and William M. Austin, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the registration statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said registration statement, and generally to do all such things in our names and on our behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable Key Energy Services, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said registration statement and any and all amendments thereto.

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.

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Richard J. Alario

 

Chairman of the Board of Directors,
President and Chief Executive
Officer (Principal executive officer)

 

September 25, 2007

Richard J. Alario

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ William M. Austin

 

Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer (Principal
financial officer)

 

September 25, 2007

William M. Austin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ J. Marshall Dodson

 

Vice President and Chief
Accounting Officer (Principal
Accounting Officer)

 

September 25, 2007

J. Marshall Dodson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ David J. Breazzano

 

Director

 

September 25, 2007

David J. Breazzano

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Kevin P. Collins

 

Director

 

September 25, 2007

Kevin P. Collins

 

 

 

 

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/s/ William D. Fertig

 

Director

 

September 25, 2007

William D. Fertig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ W. Phillip Marcum

 

Director

 

September 25, 2007

W. Phillip Marcum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Ralph S. Michael, III

 

Director

 

September 25, 2007

Ralph S. Michael, III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ William F. Owens

 

Director

 

September 25, 2007

William F. Owens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ J. Robinson West

 

Director

 

September 25, 2007

J. Robinson West

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Morton Wolkowitz

 

Director

 

September 25, 2007

Morton Wolkowitz

 

 

 

 

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Number

 

Description

 

 

 

4.1

 

Form of Non-Plan Option Agreement

 

 

 

5.1

 

Opinion of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, counsel to the Registrant

 

 

 

23.1

 

Consent of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5)

 

 

 

23.2

 

Consent of Grant Thornton LLP

 

 

 

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Power of attorney (included on the signature pages of this registration statement)

 



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