As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 22, 2006.
Registration No. 333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
DSP GROUP, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
| Delaware | 94-2683643 | |
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(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
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| 3120 Scott Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA | 95054 | |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) | |
DSP GROUP, INC.
1993 Director Stock Option
1993 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Eliyahu Ayalon
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
DSP Group, Inc.
3120 Scott Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95054
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
408/986-4300
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
With a copy to:
Bruce Alan Mann, Esq.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
425 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Calculation of Registration Fee
| Title of Securities to be Registered |
Number of
Shares to be Registered |
Proposed
Maximum Offering Price per Share |
Proposed
Maximum Aggregate Offering Price |
Amount of
Registration Fee |
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|
Common Stock |
550,000(1) | $23.72(2) | $13,046,000(2) | $1,395.92(2) |
| (1) | This Registration Statement on Form S-8 registers 250,000 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock issuable under the 1993 Director Stock Option Plan and 300,000 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock issuable under the 1993 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. |
| (2) | Calculated solely for purposes of this offering under Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933 on the basis of the average of the high and low price per share of the Registrant’s Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market on June 20, 2006. |
Part I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Registration Statement on Form S-8 will be sent or given to the employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Such documents need not be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Part II hereof), taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
Part II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
Item 3. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference
DSP Group, Inc. (the “Registrant”) hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”):
| (a) | The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2006, which includes audited financials for the Registrant’s latest fiscal year. |
| (b) | The Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2006, filed with the SEC on May 10, 2006. |
| (c) | The Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 25, 2005. |
| (d) | The Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 25, 2006. |
| (e) | The Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 31, 2006. |
| (f) | The Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 28, 2006. |
| (g) | The Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 11, 2006. |
| (h) | The Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 26, 2006. |
| (i) | The Registrant’s Proxy Statement relating to its 2006 annual meeting of stockholders held on May 24, 2006 filed with the SEC on April 7, 2006. |
| (j) | All other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K described in (a) above. |
| (k) | The Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 000-23006) filed with the SEC on December 3, 1993, in which there is described the terms, rights and provisions applicable to the Registrant’s Common Stock, 0.001 per value (the “Common Stock”). |
All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date 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 deregisters 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 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 purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement
Item 4. Description of Securities
Not Applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Not Applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Under Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Registrant has broad powers to indemnify its directors and officers against liabilities that they may incur in such capacities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. The Registrant’s Bylaws also provide for mandatory indemnification of its directors and executive officers, to the fullest extent permissible under Delaware law.
The Registrant’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation limits the liability of directors to the maximum extent permitted by Delaware law. Delaware law provides that directors of a company may not be personally liable to the company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duties as directors, except liability for (a) any breach of their duty of loyalty to the company or its stockholders, (b) acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions or (d) any transaction from which the directors derived an improper personal benefit. The Registrant’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation also provides that the Registrant may indemnify any director or officer to the
maximum extent provided by Delaware law, and that such right of indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer of the Registrant. Responsibility for determinations with respect to such indemnification will be made by the Registrant’s Board of Directors.
In addition, the Registrant has entered into indemnity agreements with its directors and certain of its executive officers that require the Registrant to indemnify such persons against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred (including expenses of a derivative action) in connection with any proceeding, whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made a party by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Registrant or any of its affiliated enterprises, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. The indemnification agreements also set forth certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder.
The Registrant has obtained a policy of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that insures the Registrant’s directors and officers
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
Not Applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
| Exhibit No. |
Description |
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| 5.1 | Opinion of Morrison & Foerster llp as to the legality of the securities being registered. | |
| 23.1 | Consent of Kost, Forer, Gabbay & Kassierer, a member of Ernst & Young Global, independent registered public accounting firm. | |
| 23.2 | Consent of Morrison & Foerster llp (contained in the opinion of counsel filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement). | |
| 24.1 | Power of Attorney (set forth on the signature page of this Registration Statement). | |
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 1933 Act, (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 this Registration Statement and (iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement; provided, however, that clauses (1)(i) and (1)(ii) shall 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 SEC by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the 1934 Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement; (2) that for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 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 and (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 1933 Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 1934 Act that is incorporated by reference in this 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 1933 Act may be permitted to directors, officers or 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 1933 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 1933 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 June 22, 2006.
| DSP GROUP, INC. | ||
| By: |
/s/ Eliyahu Ayalon |
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| Eliyahu Ayalon | ||
| Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ||
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND ADDITIONAL SIGNATURES
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Eliyahu Ayalon and Moshe Zelnik, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstituiton, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments to this Registration Statement, including post-effective amendments, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do so and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Further, 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 |
Title |
Date |
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/s/ Eliyahu Ayalon |
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive | June 22, 2006 | ||
| Eliyahu Ayalon | Officer (Principal Executive Officer) | |||
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/s/ Moshe Zelnik |
Chief Financial Officer and Secretary | June 22, 2006 | ||
| Moshe Zelnik | (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) | |||
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/s/ Zvi Limon |
Director | June 19, 2006 | ||
| Zvi Limon | ||||
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Signature |
Title |
Date |
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/s/ Yair Shamir |
Director | June 22, 2006 | ||
| Yair Shamir | ||||
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/s/ Yair Seroussi |
Director | June 19, 2006 | ||
| Yair Seroussi | ||||
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/s/ Louis Silver |
Director | June 19, 2006 | ||
| Louis Silver | ||||
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/s/ Patrick Tanguy |
Director | June 22, 2006 | ||
| Patrick Tanguy | ||||
Exhibit Index
| Exhibit No. |
Description |
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| 5.1 | Opinion of Morrison & Foerster llp as to the legality of the securities being registered. | |
| 23.1 | Consent of Kost, Forer, Gabbay & Kassierer, a member of Ernst & Young Global, independent registered public accounting firm. | |
| 23.2 | Consent of Morrison & Foerster llp (contained in the opinion of counsel filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement). | |
| 24.1 | Power of Attorney (set forth on the signature page of this Registration Statement). | |
Exhibit 5.1
June 22, 2006
DSP Group, Inc.
3120 Scott Boulevard
Santa Clara, California 95054
Ladies and Gentlemen:
At your request, we have examined the Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be filed by DSP Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on June 22, 2006 (the “Registration Statement”), in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of 550,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, $0.001 par value (the “Common Stock”) reserved for issuance under the Company’s 1993 Director Stock Option Plan and the 1993 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (collectively, the “Plans”).
As counsel to the Company, we have examined the proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the reservation of an aggregate of 550,000 shares of Common Stock for issuance under the Plans.
It is our opinion that the 550,000 shares of Common Stock which may be issued and sold by the Company pursuant to the Plans, when issued and sold in the manner referenced in the Registration Statement, will be legally and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
We consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and further consent to all references to us in the Registration Statement and any further amendments thereto.
| Very truly yours, |
| /s/ Morrison & Foerster LLP |
| Morrison & Foerster LLP |
Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement on Form S-8 pertaining to the 1993 Director Stock Option Plan and to the 1993 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, of our reports dated March 14, 2006, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of DSP Group, Inc. included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005, DSP Group, Inc. management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of DSP Group, Inc., filed with the securities and exchange Commission.
| /s/ Kost Forer Gabby & Kasierer |
| Kost Forer Gabby & Kasierer |
| A Member of Ernst & Young Global |
June 21, 2006
Tel-Aviv, Israel