AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON DECEMBER 19, 2003
REGISTRATION NO. 333-[ ]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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PARTY CITY CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 22-3033692
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
400 COMMONS WAY
ROCKAWAY, NEW JERSEY 07866
(973) 983-0888
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of registrant's principal executive offices)
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1999 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
(AMENDED AND RESTATED AS OF OCTOBER 17, 2003)
(Full title of the plan)
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JOSEPH J. ZEPF, ESQ.
VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL & SECRETARY
PARTY CITY CORPORATION
400 COMMONS WAY
ROCKAWAY, NEW JERSEY 07866
(973) 983-0888
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of agent for service)
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Copies to:
STEVEN DELLA ROCCA, ESQ.
LATHAM & WATKINS LLP
885 THIRD AVENUE, SUITE 1000
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022
(212) 906-1200
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
PROPOSED MAXIMUM PROPOSED MAXIMUM
TITLE OF EACH CLASS OF AMOUNT TO BE OFFERING PRICE AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF
SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED REGISTERED(1) PER SHARE(2) OFFERING PRICE REGISTRATION FEE
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Common Stock, par value
$0.01 per share 5,500,000 $13.05 $71,775,000 $5,807
(1) The 1999 Stock Incentive Plan (Amended and Restated as of October 17, 2003)
(the "Plan") authorizes the issuance of up to a maximum of 7,500,000 shares
of common stock of Party City Corporation (the "Company"). The Company
previously filed a registration statement for 1,960,590 shares of common
stock on December 16, 2002.
(2) For purposes of computing the registration fee only. Pursuant to Rule 457(h)
of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), the
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share is based upon the average of the
high and low trading prices ($13.05) of the Company's common stock as
reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers' Automated
Quotation Service on December 18, 2003.
PART I
Item 1. Plan Information
Not required to be filed with this Registration Statement.
Item 2. Registration Information and Employee Plan Annual Information
Not required to be filed with this Registration Statement.
PART II
I. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
The following documents, which have been filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), are hereby incorporated by reference in, and shall be deemed to
be a part of, this Registration Statement:
A. The Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on December
16, 2002, File Number 333-101865, relating to the 1,960,590 Shares
previously authorized and registered for issuance under the Plan.
B. The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 28,
2003.
C. The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
September 27, 2003.
D. The description of the Common Stock, contained in the Company's
Registration Statement on Form 8-A under the heading "Description of
Registrant's Securities to be Registered," filed on February 23,
1996 pursuant to the Exchange Act, as updated in the Company's
Registration Statement on Form S-1, under the heading "Description
of Capital Stock," filed on April 11, 1997 pursuant to the
Securities Act.
All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14
and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters
all securities then remaining unsold are incorporated by reference in 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 herein, or in any subsequently filed document which 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 superseded, to constitute part of this Registration
Statement.
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II. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
Not Applicable.
III. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
Not Applicable.
IV. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law
("Delaware GCL"), the Company has adopted provisions in its Certificate of
Incorporation which require the Company to indemnify its directors and officers
to the fullest extent permitted by law, and eliminate the personal liability of
its directors to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach
of their duty of due care except (a) for any breach of the duty of loyalty; (b)
for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct
or knowing violations of law; (c) for liability under Section 174 of the
Delaware GCL (relating to certain unlawful dividends, stock repurchases or stock
redemptions); or (d) for any transaction from which the director derived any
improper personal benefit. In addition, the Company's Certificate of
Incorporation requires the Company to indemnify its directors and officers,
permits the Company to insure its directors and officers and permits the Company
to indemnify or insure its employees or agents to the fullest extent permitted
by Delaware law, including those circumstances in which indemnification would
otherwise be discretionary, except that the Company shall not be obligated to
advance expenses or to indemnify any such person (x) with respect to
proceedings, claims or actions initiated or brought voluntarily by any such
person and not by way of defense, (y) for any amounts paid in settlement of an
action indemnified against by the Company without the prior written consent of
the Company, or (z) in connection with any event in which the person did not act
in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the
best interest of the Company.
V. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
Not applicable.
VI. EXHIBITS.
A list of exhibits included as part of this Registration Statement is set
forth on the Exhibit Index appearing elsewhere herein and is incorporated herein
by reference.
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VII. UNDERTAKINGS.
1. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
a. To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
being made, a post-effective amendment to this
Registration Statement:
(1) To include any prospectus required by Section
10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(2) 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;
(3) 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)
shall not apply to information contained in periodic reports
filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference
in this Registration Statement.
b. That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
the 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.
c. To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered that
remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
2. 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 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.
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3. 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, 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 Rockaway, State of New Jersey, on December 19, 2003.
PARTY CITY CORPORATION
By: /s/ Linda M. Siluk
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Name: Linda M. Siluk
Title: Chief Financial Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each of the undersigned officers and directors of the Company hereby
severally constitutes and appoints Linda M. Siluk as the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities (unless revoked in writing) to sign this
Registration Statement on Form S-8, and any and all amendments thereto,
including any post-effective amendments as well as any related registration
statement (or amendment thereto) filed in reliance upon Rule 462(b) under the
Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting to such attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done
in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned
might and could do in person hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney-in-fact and agent or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue thereof.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
date indicated.
Signature Title Date
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/s/ Ralph D. Dillon Non-Executive Chairman of December 19, 2003
------------------------------- the Board and Director
Ralph D. Dillon
/s/ Nancy Pedot Acting Chief Executive December 19, 2003
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Nancy Pedot (Principal Executive
Officer)
/s/ Linda M. Siluk Chief Financial Officer December 19, 2003
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Linda M. Siluk Accounting Officer)
/s/ Richard H. Griner Director December 19, 2003
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Richard H. Griner
/s/ L.R. Jalenak, Jr. Director December 19, 2003
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L.R. Jalenak, Jr.
/s/ Franklin R. Johnson Director December 19, 2003
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Franklin R. Johnson
/s/ Howard Levkowitz Director December 19, 2003
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Howard Levkowitz
/s/ Walter J. Salmon Director December 19, 2003
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Walter J. Salmon
/s/ Michael E. Tennenbaum Director December 19, 2003
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Michael E. Tennenbaum
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT DESCRIPTION
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4.1 The Company's 1999 Stock Incentive Plan (Amended and Restated
as of October 17, 2003) (incorporated by reference to the
Company's Definitive Proxy Statement for the 2003 Annual
Meeting to Stockholders, included within Form 14-A as filed on
October 20, 2003, File No. 000-27826).
4.2 Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by
reference to the exhibits in the Company's Registration
Statement as amended on Form S-1, File No. 333-00350, as filed
with the Commission on January 18, 1996, File No. 000-27826
(the "S-1")).
4.3 By-Laws of the Company, as amended (incorporated by reference
to the exhibits in the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q
as filed on November 12, 2003, File No. 000-27826).
4.4 Specimen Certificate of Common Stock (incorporated by
reference to the S-1).
5.1 Opinion of Counsel.
23.1 Independent Auditors' Consent.
23.2 Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1 Powers of Attorney (included on the signature pages to the
Registration Statement).