UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC  20549

 

FORM 10-Q/A

 

(Amendment No. 1)

 

x       QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the quarterly period ended December 28, 2012

 

o          TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from:                to                

 

Commission File Number 001-31560

 

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Ireland

 

98-0648577

(State or other jurisdiction of

 

(I.R.S. Employer

incorporation or organization)

 

Identification Number)

 

38/39 Fitzwilliam Square

Dublin 2, Ireland

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

Telephone:  (353) (1) 234-3136

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.  Yes x   No o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).  Yes x   No o

 

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 the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer: x

 

Accelerated filer: o

 

 

 

Non-accelerated filer: o

 

Smaller reporting company: o

(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

 

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).  Yes o   No x

 

As of January 24, 2013, 358,861,313 shares of the registrant’s ordinary shares, par value $0.00001 per share, were issued and outstanding.

 

 

 



 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-Q/A (this “Amendment”) amends our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended December 28, 2012 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 29, 2013 (the “Original Filing”), and is being filed solely to file the attached Exhibit 10.56 Third Amendment to Seagate Deferred Compensation Plan and to refile detail-tagged Interactive Data files as Exhibit 101, to correct a clerical error in Exhibit 101 to the Original Filing.  No other changes have been made to the Original Filing.

 

Pursuant to Rule 12b-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), this Form 10-Q/A also contains new certifications pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Original Filing continues to speak as of the date of the Original Filing.  Unless expressly stated, this Amendment does not reflect events occurring after the filing of the Original Filing, nor does it modify or update in any way the disclosures contained in the Original Filing.  Throughout this report, references to “Seagate”, the “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us” refer to Seagate Technology public limited company and its consolidated subsidiaries, taken as a whole, unless the context otherwise indicates.

 

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ITEM 6.             EXHIBITS

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number

 

Description of Exhibit

 

 

 

3.1

 

Memorandum and Articles of Association of Seagate Technology plc (the “Company”), as amended and restated by Special Resolution dated July 1, 2010, were filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s current report on Form 8-K12B/A filed on July 9, 2010, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

3.2

 

Certificate of Incorporation of Hephaestus plc effective as of January 22, 2010 and Certificate of Incorporation on change of name of Seagate Technology plc, effective as of February 22, 2010 were filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 2, 2010, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

10.56+

 

Third Amendment to Seagate Deferred Compensation Plan

 

 

 

31.1+

 

Certification of Stephen J. Luczo, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, as required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

31.2+

 

Certification of Patrick J. O’Malley, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, as required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

101.INS+

 

XBRL Instance Document.

 

 

 

101.SCH+

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.

 

 

 

101.CAL+

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.

 

 

 

101.LAB+

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.

 

 

 

101.PRE+

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.

 


+  Filed herewith.

 

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DATE:

January 31, 2013

BY:

/s/ STEPHEN J. LUCZO

 

 

 

Stephen J. Luczo

 

 

 

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DATE:

January 31, 2013

BY:

/s/ PATRICK J. O’MALLEY

 

 

 

Patrick J. O’Malley

 

 

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

(Principal Financial Officer)

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number

 

Description of Exhibit

 

 

 

3.1

 

Memorandum and Articles of Association of Seagate Technology plc (the “Company”), as amended and restated by Special Resolution dated July 1, 2010, were filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s current report on Form 8-K12B/A filed on July 9, 2010, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

3.2

 

Certificate of Incorporation of Hephaestus plc effective as of January 22, 2010 and Certificate of Incorporation on change of name of Seagate Technology plc, effective as of February 22, 2010 were filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 2, 2010, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

10.56+

 

Third Amendment to Seagate Deferred Compensation Plan

 

 

 

31.1+

 

Certification of Stephen J. Luczo, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, as required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

31.2+

 

Certification of Patrick J. O’Malley, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, as required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

 

101.INS+

 

XBRL Instance Document.

 

 

 

101.SCH+

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.

 

 

 

101.CAL+

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.

 

 

 

101.LAB+

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.

 

 

 

101.PRE+

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.

 


+  Filed herewith.

 

 

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Exhibit 10.56

 

THIRD AMENDMENT

 

SEAGATE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

 

The Seagate Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended and restated as of January 1, 2009 (the “Plan”), is hereby amended by this Third Amendment (the “Amendment”).

 

WHEREAS, for purposes of this Amendment, capitalized terms used herein that are not defined shall have the meanings given to them in the Plan;

 

WHEREAS, Seagate US LLC (the “Company”) maintains the Plan, which is a nonqualified deferred compensation plan, for the benefit of Directors and eligible employees of the Company and Participating Companies;

 

WHEREAS, Section 9.4 of the Plan document provides that the Committee has the authority to adopt and execute any amendments to the Plan; and

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to authority granted to the Committee under Section 9.4, the Committee has determined that it is appropriate to amend the Plan to (1) clarify which bonuses are eligible for deferral; (2) change prospectively, in accordance with the Treasury Regulations promulgated with respect to section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, the deferral election that applies to amounts deferred for services performed during the Company’s final payroll period for a calendar year; and (3) clarify the Plan provisions relating to deferral elections.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Amendment, as set forth in the attached Exhibit A, is hereby approved and adopted effective as specified in Exhibit A.

 



 

Exhibit A

 

THIRD AMENDMENT

 

SEAGATE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

 

The Seagate Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended and restated as of January 1, 2009 (the “Plan”), is hereby amended as follows:

 

1.               Effective immediately, Section 1.5 is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:

 

1.5  Bonus .  “Bonus” means the performance-based cash incentive compensation payable to a Participant under any bonus and cash incentive plans of the Company or a Participating Company, including the Key Contributor Performance Bonus Plan and the Executive Performance Bonus Plan, the amount of which, or the entitlement to which, is contingent on the satisfaction of organizational or individual performance criteria. For purposes of the Plan, Bonus shall not include any discretionary bonus payments, including Reward and Recognition bonuses.

 

2.               Effective immediately, Section 1.18 is hereby deleted and the remaining subsections of Article I are renumbered accordingly, and the Plan is further amended by replacing “Election Period” with “election period” everywhere that “Election Period” appears in the Plan.

 

3.               Effective immediately, Section 3.1 is hereby amended by deleting and replacing Section 3.1 with the following:

 

(a)          Annual Elections .  For each Plan Year, a Participant may elect to defer some or all of Base Salary, Bonuses, and/or Commissions to be paid for services to be performed during the Plan Year, and to the extent permitted by this Plan, the time and form of distribution of deferrals.  Deferral Elections are effective on a calendar year basis and become irrevocable no later than the date specified by the Committee, but in any event before the beginning of the Plan Year to which the election relates.  A Participant’s elections will become effective only if the forms required by the Committee have been properly completed and signed by the Participant (including, but not limited to, an electronic form), timely delivered to the Committee, and accepted by the Committee.  A Participant who fails to file elections before the required date will be treated as having elected not to defer any amounts earned during the following Plan Year.

 

(b)          Special Rules for New Eligible Employees .

 

(1)          New Hires and Promotions .  The Committee may, in its discretion, permit an Employee who becomes an Eligible Employee after the beginning of a Plan Year to defer Compensation for that Plan Year by filing with the Committee an irrevocable deferral election during the 30 day period following the date the Employee becomes an Eligible Employee.  Any election by an Eligible Employee, pursuant to this Section, to defer Base Salary, Bonuses, and/or Commissions shall apply only to such amounts earned by the Eligible Employee after the date on which the deferral election is filed.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, newly Eligible Employee who participates in any other account balance plan that is aggregated with the Plan pursuant to Code Section 409A shall not be permitted to file an election to defer Compensation in accordance with this Section.

 

(2)          Formerly Eligible Employees Who Again Become Eligible .  An Employee who again becomes an Eligible Employee after a period of ineligibility may defer Compensation in accordance with Section 3.1(b)(1) only if the Employee was not eligible to defer compensation in the Plan and any other account balance plan aggregated with the Plan pursuant to Code Section 409A for the twenty-four (24) month period ending on the date on which the Employee again became an Eligible Employee. Any Employee who again becomes an Eligible Employee after a period of ineligibility and who has an Account

 



 

cannot file new distribution elections for previously deferred amounts credited to such Account except as otherwise provided in the Plan.

 

(c)           Special Rule for Performance-Based Bonuses .  Notwithstanding any provision in the Plan to the contrary, the Committee may, in its discretion, allow a Participant to make a deferral election with respect to a Bonus on or before the date that is six months before the end of the performance period if (1) the Bonus is performance-based compensation within the meaning of Code Section 409A; (2) the performance period is at least 12 consecutive months; and (3) the Participant performs services continuously from the later of the beginning of the performance period or the date the performance criteria are established through the date the election is filed.  Any election pursuant to this Section shall become irrevocable no later than the earlier of: (a) six months preceding the end of the performance period to which the Bonus relates; or (b) the date as of which the Bonus has become readily ascertainable, within the meaning of Code Section 409A.

 

(d)          General Rule .        The amount of Compensation that an Eligible Employee or Director may elect to defer is as follows:

 

(1)          Any whole percentage of Base Salary up to seventy percent (70%);

(2)          Any whole percentage of Bonuses up to one hundred percent (100%); and/or

(3)          Any whole percentage of Commissions up to seventy percent (70%);

 

provided, however, that, to the extent permitted by Code Section 409A, no election shall be effective to reduce the amount actually paid to an Eligible Employee for a calendar year to an amount that is less than the amount necessary to pay (i) FICA and other employment, state, local and foreign taxes payable with respect to the deferred amounts; (ii) any amounts necessary to satisfy any wage garnishment or similar obligations; and (iii) any amounts necessary to satisfy any debt owed by the Participant to the Company.

 

(e)           Deferral Limits .  The Committee may change the maximum deferral percentages and establish minimum deferral percentages from time to time in its sole discretion.  Any such limits shall be communicated by the Committee.

 

(f)            Effectiveness of Deferral Election .  An election to defer Base Salary, Bonuses, and/or Commissions shall be effective with respect to Compensation that is paid with respect to services performed  during the Plan Year, and shall apply to defer Compensation paid commencing the first pay period commencing on or after the beginning of the Plan Year (or if approved by the Committee pursuant to Section 3.1(b), beginning with the first pay period that begins after such initial election is filed), and shall remain in effect for the entire Plan Year for which the election relates (or if approved by the Committee pursuant to Section 3.1(b), the remainder of the Plan Year for which the election relates), without regard to the calendar year of payment, notwithstanding any change in the Participant’s Base Salary, Bonuses and/or Commissions during the Plan Year.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective as of the date of the first anniversary of this Amendment, a Participant’s deferral election for a Plan Year shall not be effective with respect to Compensation for the final payroll period of the Plan Year if such payroll period contains the last day of the Plan Year (i.e., December 31) and the Compensation for such payroll period is paid in the following Plan Year.  In such event, a Participant’s deferral election (if any) for the following Plan Year shall be effective with respect to Compensation for the final payroll period of the Plan Year, and if Participant does not file a deferral election for the following Plan Year, then no portion of such Compensation for the final payroll period shall be deferred.

 

(g)           General Rule Applicable to Deferral Elections .  If the Committee determines in good faith that a Participant is no longer an Eligible Employee, the Participant’s deferral elections for the Plan Year (if any) shall continue to the end of the Plan Year, but shall terminate thereafter, and the terms of the Plan shall continue to govern the Participant’s Account until his or her Account has been paid in full.

 



 

(h)          Withholding of Deferral Amounts .  The Committee shall have the sole discretion to withhold the percentage of Base Salary, Bonuses and/or Commissions designated by the Participant for deferral for a Plan Year at the times and in the amounts that the Committee, in its sole discretion, selects, which need not be uniform among Participants or as to payments to a single Participant; provided, however, that deferral amounts must be withheld not later than the end of the calendar year during which the Company would otherwise have paid the amounts to the Participant but for the Participant’s deferral election.  Deferrals of Base Salary shall not be withheld during any period in which the Participant is on an unpaid leave of absence. All deferral amounts that are withheld in accordance with this Section shall be deemed for all purposes to comply with the Plan requirements regarding deferrals.

 

4.               In all respects not amended, the Plan is hereby ratified and confirmed.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Seagate Benefits Administrative Committee, by its duly authorized officer, has executed this Amendment to the Plan on December 21, 2012.

 

SEAGATE BENEFITS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE

 

 

 

By:

/s/ John Cleveland

 

 

 

 

Title:

VP, Global Compensation & Benefits

 

 


EXHIBIT 31.1

 

CERTIFICATION

 

I, Stephen J. Luczo, certify that:

 

1.             I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Seagate Technology plc;

 

2.             Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.             Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4.             The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

a)            designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

b)            designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

c)             evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

d)            disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5.             The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a)            all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b)            any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date:    January 31, 2013

/s/ STEPHEN J. LUCZO

 

 

 

 

Name:

Stephen J. Luczo

 

Title:

Chairman, President and

 

 

Chief Executive Officer

 


 

EXHIBIT 31.2

 

CERTIFICATION

 

I, Patrick J. O’Malley, certify that:

 

1.             I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Seagate Technology plc;

 

2.             Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.             Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4.             The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

a)            designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

b)            designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

c)             evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

d)            disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5.             The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a)            all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b)            any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date:    January 31, 2013

/s/ PATRICK J. O’MALLEY

 

 

 

 

Name:

Patrick J. O’Malley

 

Title:

Executive Vice President, Finance and

 

 

Chief Financial Officer