As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 4, 2014

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

The New Home Company Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   27-0560089

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

95 Enterprise, Suite 325

Aliso Viejo, California

  92656
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)

 

 

The New Home Company Inc. 2014 Long-Term Incentive Plan

(Full title of plan)

H. Lawrence Webb

Chief Executive Officer

The New Home Company LLC

95 Enterprise, Suite 325

Aliso Viejo, California 92656

(949) 382-7800

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

 

Edward F. Petrosky, Esq.   J. Gerard Cummins, Esq.
Sidley Austin LLP   Sidley Austin LLP
787 Seventh Avenue   787 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York 10019   New York, New York 10019
Tel (212) 839-5300   Tel (212) 839-5300
Fax (212) 839-5599   Fax (212) 839-5599

 

 

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   ¨    Accelerated filer   ¨
Non-accelerated filer   x   (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    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

 

Amount of

registration fee(3)(4)

Shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share

  1,644,875   $12.46   $20,495,143   $2,639.78

 

 

(1) Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, the number of shares of common stock registered hereby includes an indeterminate number of shares that may be issued in connection with stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
(2) Represents the average of the high and the low sales prices of the shares of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on February 3, 2014.
(3) Computed in accordance with Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933.

 

 

 


PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1. Plan Information.*

Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*

 

* The document(s) containing the information specified in this Part I will be sent or given to participants in The New Home Company Inc. 2014 Long-Term Incentive Plan in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Such documents need not be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 promulgated under the Securities Act. These document(s) and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of 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 REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed by The New Home Company Inc. (the “Company”) with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are incorporated by reference:

(a) The Company’s prospectus, dated January 30, 2014, filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act on February 3, 2014, in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-189366), as amended.

(b) The description of the Company’s shares of common stock contained in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed under the Exchange Act on January 28, 2014.

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 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 into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Any statement contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is 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 that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

 

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Item 4. Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

None.

Item 6. Indemnification of Trustees and Officers.

Delaware General Corporation Law. Under Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which we refer to as the “DGCL,” a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding (1) if such person acted in good faith and in a manner that person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and (2) with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if he or she had no reasonable cause to believe such conduct was unlawful. In actions brought by or in the right of the corporation, a corporation may indemnify such person against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if such person acted in good faith and in a manner that person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except that no indemnification may be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which that person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or other such court shall deem proper. To the extent that such person has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defending any such action, suit or proceeding referred to above or any claim, issue or matter therein, he or she is entitled to indemnification for expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided for or granted pursuant to Section 145 of the DGCL is not exclusive of any other rights of indemnification or advancement of expenses to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled, and a corporation may purchase and maintain insurance against liabilities asserted against any former or current director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or a person who is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, whether or not the power to indemnify is provided by the statute.

Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL permits a corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, for unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases, redemptions or other distributions, or for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Our certificate of incorporation (which we refer to as our “charter”) provides for such limitation of liability.

 

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Our Charter. Article X of our charter provides that we shall, to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL, indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company. We may, by action of our board of directors, provide indemnification to employees and agents of the Company to such extent and to such effect as our board of directors shall determine to be appropriate and authorized by the DGCL. Article X of our charter also provides that to the fullest extent elimination or limitation of personal liability of directors is permitted by the DGCL, no director of the Company shall be personally liable to the Company or our stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.

Our Bylaws. Article VII of our bylaws (which we refer to as our “bylaws”) provides that we shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, indemnify any person made or threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “proceeding”) by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person for whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture or other enterprise, against any and all liability and loss (including judgments, fines, penalties, and amounts paid in settlement) suffered or incurred and expenses reasonably incurred by such person. We may, by action of our board of directors, provide indemnification to such employees and agents of the Company to such extent and to such effect as our board of directors shall determine to be appropriate and authorized by Delaware law. We shall not be required to indemnify any person in connection with a proceeding initiated by such person, including a counterclaim or crossclaim, unless the proceeding was authorized by our board of directors.

Indemnification Agreements. In addition to the provisions of our charter and bylaws described above, upon the completion of our initial public offering, we will enter into an indemnification agreement with each of our officers and directors. These agreements will require us to indemnify these individuals to the fullest extent permitted under Delaware law against liabilities that may arise by reason of their service to us, and to advance expenses incurred as a result of any proceeding against them as to which they could be indemnified.

Insurance. We expect to maintain standard policies of insurance that provide coverage (1) to our directors and officers against loss rising from claims made by reason of breach of duty or other wrongful act and (2) to us with respect to indemnification payments that we may make to such directors and officers.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

 

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Item 8. Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

  4.1    Form of Certificate of Incorporation of The New Home Company Inc.*
  4.2    Form of Bylaws of The New Home Company Inc.**
  4.3    Specimen Common Stock Certificate of The New Home Company Inc.**
  4.4    Form of 2014 Long-Term Incentive Plan.*
  5.1    Opinion of Sidley Austin LLP
23.1    Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.2    Consent of Sidley Austin LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1    Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this Registration Statement)

 

* Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-189366) filed with the Commission on June 14, 2013.
** Incorporated by reference from Amendment No. 10 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-189366) filed with the Commission on January 21, 2014.

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 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. 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 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement.

 

  (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) of this Section 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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

 

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(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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.

(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 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 of 1933 may be permitted to trustees, 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 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 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 Aliso Viejo, State of California, on this 4 th day of February, 2014.

 

The New Home Company Inc.
By:  

/s/ H. Lawrence Webb

Name:   H. Lawrence Webb
Title:   Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below hereby severally constitutes and appoints H. Lawrence Webb and Wayne Stelmar, and each of them singly (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution in each of them for him and in his name, place and stead, and in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, 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, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as full 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 any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully 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/ H. Lawrence Webb

     Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of
the Board of Directors
(Principal Executive Officer)
  February 4, 2014
H. Lawrence Webb       

/s/ Wayne Stelmar

     Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and
Director
(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
  February 4, 2014
Wayne Stelmar       

/s/ Michael Berchtold

     Director   February 4, 2014
Michael Berchtold       

Exhibit 5.1

 

 

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The New Home Company Inc.

95 Enterprise, Suite 325

Aliso Viejo, California 92656

 

  Re: The New Home Company Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We refer to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “ Registration Statement ”) being filed on the date hereof by The New Home Company Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), relating to the registration by the Company of 1,644,875 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “ Plan Shares ”) issuable or reserved for issuance pursuant to The New Home Company Inc. 2014 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “ Plan ”).

As counsel to the Company, we have examined and relied upon copies of the Plan, the Registration Statement, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, the Bylaws of the Company and resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company relating to the Plan and the Registration Statement. We have also examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such records of the Company and other corporate documents, certificates and statements of government officials and other instruments, and have examined such questions of law and have satisfied ourselves as to such matters of fact, as we have considered relevant and necessary as a basis for this opinion letter. We have assumed the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons and the conformity with the original documents of any copies thereof submitted to us for examination. We have also assumed, to the extent relevant to the opinion set forth herein, that the Company was duly organized and at all relevant times was and will be validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that each Plan Share that is newly issued pursuant to the Plan will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable when: (a) the Registration Statement shall have become effective under the Securities Act; (b) such Plan Share shall have been duly issued and delivered in the manner contemplated by the Plan; and (c) a certificate in due and proper form representing such Plan Share shall have been duly executed, countersigned, registered and


delivered to the person entitled thereto against payment of the agreed consideration therefor (not less than the par value thereof) in accordance with the terms of the Plan or, if any such Plan Share is to be issued in uncertificated form, the Company’s books shall reflect the issuance of such Plan Share to the person entitled thereto upon payment of the agreed consideration therefor (not less than the par value thereof) in accordance with the terms of the Plan.

This opinion letter is limited to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. We express no opinion as to matters relating to securities or blue sky laws of any jurisdiction or any rules or regulations thereunder.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to all references to our Firm included in or made a part of the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons for whom consent is required by Section 7 of the Securities Act or the related rules promulgated by the Commission thereunder.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Sidley Austin LLP

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the 2014 Long-Term Incentive Plan of The New Home Company Inc. of our report dated April 19, 2013 (except for the effects on the financial statements of the restatement described in Note 1, as to which the date is December 17, 2013), with respect to the financial statements of The New Home Company LLC included in the Prospectus dated January 30, 2014 filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act on February 3, 2014 of The New Home Company Inc.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Irvine, California

February 4, 2014