As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 30, 2009

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL S.A.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Canton of Vaud, Switzerland		None
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

Logitech International S.A.

Apples, Switzerland

c/o Logitech Inc.

6505 Kaiser Drive

Fremont, California 94555

(510) 795-8500

(Address, including zip code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

1996 Employee Share Purchase Plan (U.S.)

2006 Employee Share Purchase Plan (Non-U.S.)

 

 

Mark J. Hawkins

Senior Vice President, Finance and

Information Systems, and Chief Financial

Officer

Logitech International S.A.

c/o Logitech Inc.

Fremont, California 94555

(510) 795-8500

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copy to:

Steven V. Bernard, Esq.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Professional Corporation

650 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1050

(650) 493-9300

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large Accelerated filer  þ            Accelerated filer  ¨            Non-Accelerated filer  ¨            Smaller reporting company  ¨

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Securities to be Registered		Amount to be Registered (1)		Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share (2)		Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price (2)		Amount of Registration Fee
Registered Shares, par value of CHF 0.25 each		4,000,000		$8.43		$33,720,000.00		$1,325.20

 

(1)

This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares which become issuable under the 1996 Employee Share Purchase Plan (U.S.), as amended, and the 2006 Employee Share Purchase Plan (Non-U.S.), as amended, by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, capitalization of reserves and premiums or other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of Logitech International S.A. The shares under the 1996 Employee Share Purchase Plan (U.S.) and the 2006 Employee Share Purchase Plan (Non-U.S.) will be treasury shares currently held by the Registrant, shares to be repurchased by the Registrant or will be issued from conditional shares approved by the Registrant’s shareholders.

 

(2)

Calculated solely for the purposes of this offering under Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on the basis of 85% of the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s shares as reported on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on January 29, 2009. Pursuant to the 1996 Employee Share Purchase Plan (U.S.), as amended, and the 2006 Employee Share Purchase Plan (Non-U.S.), as amended, the purchase price per share is equal to 85% of the lesser of the fair market value of the share on the offering date or the purchase date.

 

 

 

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LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL S.A.

REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 for the purpose of registering additional Registered Shares of Logitech International S.A. (the “Registrant”) to be issued pursuant to the Registrant’s 1996 Employee Share Purchase Plan (U.S.), as amended, and 2006 Employee Share Purchase Plan (Non-U.S.), as amended. Accordingly, the contents of the earlier registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-07058) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on June 12, 1997 and Form S-8 (File No. 333-100854) filed with the Commission on October 30, 2002, as amended on May 27, 2003 and February 2, 2007, are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3.

Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the Commission:

 

(a)

The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008 filed with the Commission on May 30, 2008 pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”);

 

(b)

All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K referred to in (a) above; and

 

(c)

The description of the Registrant’s shares contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on March 5, 1997, together with Amendment No.1 on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on November 29, 2006, and including any other amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All reports and definitive proxy or information statements filed pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which de-registers all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents, except as to specific sections of such statements as set forth therein. Unless expressly incorporated into this Registration Statement, a report furnished on Form 8-K prior or subsequent to the date hereof shall not be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.

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Item 8.

Exhibits.

 

Incorporated by Reference

Filed Herewith

Exhibit No.

Exhibit

Form

File No.

Filing Date

Exhibit No.

5.1

Opinion and consent of Lenz & Staehelin

X

10.1

1996 Employee Share Purchase Plan (U.S.), as amended.

X

10.2

2006 Employee Share Purchase Plan (Non-U.S.), as amended.

X

23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

X

23.2

Consent of Lenz & Staehelin (included in Exhibit 5.1)

X

24.1

Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this Registration Statement)

X

 

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 this 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 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; 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 (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 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.

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(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, 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) 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 Fremont, State of California, on January 30, 2009.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Guerrino De Luca, Mark J. Hawkins and Thomas Fergoda, and each of them, acting individually, as his attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution, for him and in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement on this Form S-8 and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may 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.

 

Signature		Title		Date
/S/ GERALD P. QUINDLEN Gerald P. Quindlen		President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)		January 30, 2009
/S/ MARK J. HAWKINS Mark J. Hawkins		Senior Vice President, Finance and Information Systems, and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)		January 28, 2009
/S/ THOMAS FERGODA Thomas Fergoda		Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)		January 29, 2009
/S/ DANIEL BOREL Daniel Borel		Director		January 30, 2009

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/S/ MATTHEW BOUSQUETTE Matthew Bousquette		Director		January 30, 2009
/S/ ERH-HSUN CHANG Erh-Hsun Chang		Director		January 30, 2009
/S/ KEE-LOCK CHUA Kee-Lock Chua		Lead Independent Director		January 30, 2009
/S/ SALLY DAVIS Sally Davis		Director		January 30, 2009
/S/ GUERRINO DE LUCA Guerrino De Luca		Chairman		January 30, 2009
/S/ RICHARD LAUBE Richard Laube		Director		January 28, 2009
/S/ ROBERT MALCOLM Robert Malcolm		Director		January 30, 2009
/S/ MONIKA RIBAR Monika Ribar		Director		January 29, 2009

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

Exhibit

Incorporated by Reference

Filed Herewith

Form

File No.

Filing Date

Exhibit No.

5.1

Opinion and consent of Lenz & Staehelin

X

10.1

1996 Employee Share Purchase Plan (U.S.), as amended.

X

10.2

2006 Employee Share Purchase Plan (Non-U.S.), as amended.

X

23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

X

23.2

Consent of Lenz & Staehelin (included in Exhibit 5.1)

X

24.1

Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this Registration Statement)

X