As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 23, 2005
Registration No. 333-124294
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
MERCURY COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
| Massachusetts | 04-2741391 | |
| (State of Incorporation) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
199 Riverneck Road
Chelmsford, Massachusetts 01824
(978) 256-1300
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
MERCURY COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC.
1997 STOCK OPTION PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)
Anthony J. Medaglia, Jr., Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(617) 570-1000
(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this post-effective amendment to deregister the securities originally registered pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-124294), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2005 by the Company (the “Registration Statement”) with respect to shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), thereby registered for issuance under the Company’s 1997 Stock Option Plan, as amended (the “1997 Plan”). An aggregate of 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock were registered for issuance under the 1997 Plan pursuant to the Registration Statement.
On November 14, 2005, the Company’s shareholders approved the Company’s 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2005 Plan”), which replaces the 1997 Plan as of the date of approval. Following the approval of the 2005 Plan, no future awards will be made under the 1997 Plan. The maximum number of shares of Common Stock reserved and available for issuance under the 2005 Plan includes the shares available for issuance under the 1997 Plan, as of the effective date of the 2005 Plan. The total number of shares available for grant under the 1997 Plan on that date was 1,942,264 shares (the “Carried Forward Shares”). The Carried Forward Shares include the 1,000,000 shares registered under the Registration Statement, which are hereby deregistered.
Contemporaneously with the filing of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement, the Company is filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 to register the Carried Forward Shares for issuance pursuant to the 2005 Plan.
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 Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Chelmsford, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on this 23rd day of November, 2005.
MERCURY COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC.
By: /s/ James R. Bertelli
James R. Bertelli
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
| Signature |
Title |
Date | ||
| /s/ James R. Bertelli James R. Bertelli |
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer) | November 23, 2005 | ||
| /s/ Robert E. Hult Robert E. Hult |
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) | November 23, 2005 | ||
| /s/ Alex N. Braverman Alex N. Braverman |
Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) | November 23, 2005 | ||
| * Gordon B. Baty |
Director | November 23, 2005 | ||
| * Albert P. Belle Isle |
Director | November 23, 2005 | ||
| * George W. Chamillard |
Director | November 23, 2005 | ||
| * Russell K. Johnsen |
Director | November 23, 2005 | ||
| * Sherman N. Mullin |
Director | November 23, 2005 | ||
| * Lee C. Steele |
Director | November 23, 2005 | ||
| * Richard P. Wishner |
Director | November 23, 2005 | ||
| *By: /s/ James R. Bertelli James R. Bertelli, Attorney-in-Fact |
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EXHIBIT INDEX
| Exhibit No. |
Description | |
| 24.1 | Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 previously filed on April 25, 2005) | |