Registration No. ______________

 

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 12, 2007

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

 

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

AngioDynamics, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

 

11-3146460

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

603 Queensbury Avenue

Queensbury, New York

(518) 798-1215

(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)

 

12804

(Zip Code)

 

RITA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. 2005 STOCK AND INCENTIVE PLAN

RITA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. 2000 STOCK PLAN

RITA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. 2000 DIRECTORS' STOCK OPTION PLAN

RITA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. 1994 INCENTIVE STOCK PLAN

HORIZON MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC. 1998 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

(Full titles of plans)

 

Copies to:

Robert B. Pincus, Esq.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &

Flom LLP

One Rodney Square

Wilmington, Delaware 19801

(302) 651-3000

 

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

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(1) In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 (c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plans described herein.

 

(2) The registration fee for the securities registered hereby has been calculated pursuant to Rule 457 (h) under the Securities Act and is based upon the average of the high and low prices per share of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange as of a date (February 7, 2007) within five business days prior to filing this Registration Statement.

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Pursuant to a certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 27, 2006, as amended on December 7, 2006, as further amended January 16, 2007, by and among AngioDynamics, Inc. (the "Company" or the "Registrant"), Royal I, LLC, and RITA Medical Systems, Inc. ("RITA"), on January 29, 2007 the Registrant assumed all options to purchase RITA common stock then outstanding under the Rita Medical Systems, Inc. 2005 Stock and Incentive Plan (the "2005 Plan"), the Rita Medical Systems, Inc. 2000 Stock Plan (the "2000 Plan"), the Rita Medical Systems, Inc. 2000 Directors' Stock Option Plan (the "2000 Directors' Plan"), the Rita Medical Systems, Inc. 1994 Incentive Stock Plan (the "1994 Plan"), and the Horizon Medical Products, Inc. 1998 Stock Incentive Plan (the "1998 Plan" and, together with the 2005 Plan, the 2000 Plan, the 2000 Directors' Plan, and the 1994 Plan, the "Plans"). In conjunction with its assumption of those options, the Registrant is registering on this Registration Statement an aggregate of 400,000 shares under the 2005 Plan, an aggregate of 460,000 shares under the 2000 Plan, an aggregate of 110,000 shares under the 2000 Directors' Plan, an aggregate of 10,000 shares under the 1994 Plan, and an aggregate of 70,000 shares under the 1998 Plan.

 

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

 

(a)    The documents constituting Part I of this Registration Statement will be sent or given to participants in the Plans as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. The Part I Information is not filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to the note to Part I of Form S-8.

 

(b)           Upon written or oral request, the Registrant will provide, without charge, the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement. The documents are incorporated by reference in the Section 10(a) prospectus. The Registrant will also provide, without charge, upon written or oral request, other documents required to be delivered to employees pursuant to Rule 428(b). Requests for the above-mentioned information should be directed to Gregory J. Champion, the Registrant’s Secretary, at the address and telephone number on the cover of this Registration Statement.

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

 

The Registrant is permitted by the Commission to "incorporate by reference" the information filed with or furnished to them. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this Registration Statement, and later information that the Registrant files with or, to the extent designated therein, furnishes to the Commission will automatically update and supersede this information. The documents listed below have been filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Registrant, and are incorporated herein by reference to the extent filed or furnished:

 

(a) The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 3, 2006, filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on August 11, 2006, as amended September 21, 2006.

 

(b) All other reports furnished by the Registrant or filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Registrant's annual report referred to in (a) above.

 

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(c) The description of the Registrant’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on May 13, 2004, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

 

(d) The description of the Registrant’s preferred stock purchase rights contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on October 27, 2004, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

 

All documents subsequently furnished to the Commission or filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities covered by this Registration Statement have been sold or which deregisters all of the securities then remaining unsold, will be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part of this document from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this document will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in this document or in any other subsequently filed documents that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this document modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration 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.

 

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") provides, in summary, that directors and officers of Delaware corporations are entitled, under certain circumstances, to be indemnified against all expenses and liabilities (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by them as a result of suits brought against them in their capacity as directors or officers, if they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the Registrant's best interests, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if they had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful; provided that no indemnification may be made against expenses in respect of any claim, issue, or matter as to which they shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Registrant, unless and only to the extent that 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 the circumstances of the case, they are fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the court shall deem proper. Any such indemnification may be made by the Registrant only as authorized in each specific case upon a determination by the stockholders, disinterested directors or independent legal counsel that indemnification is proper because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct.

 

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.

 

The Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation ("COI") provides for the elimination of the personal liability of its directors to the Company and its stockholders for monetary damages for breach

 

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of their fiduciary duties as directors, subject to the exceptions set forth in DGCL Section 102. The Company’s COI and bylaws provide that the Company will indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL. The Company’s COI and bylaws also authorize it to indemnify its employees and other agents to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL.

 

The Company maintains a directors and officers liability insurance and company reimbursement policy. The policy insures directors and officers, subject to various exclusions, against unindemnified losses arising from certain wrongful acts in their capacities and reimburses the Company for such losses for which the Company has lawfully indemnified the directors and officers. The policy contains various exclusions, none of which relate to the offering hereunder.

 

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

 

Not applicable.

 

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.

 

See Exhibit Index attached hereto.

 

ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.

 

 

(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;

 

(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. 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 a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in this Registration Statement;

 

(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 paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) above 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 Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

 

(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.

 

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(b)         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 Section 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 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 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 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.

 

(Signatures on following page)

 

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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 Queensbury, State of New York, on February 12, 2007.

 

 

 

 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below authorizes Eamonn P. Hobbs and Joseph G. Gerardi, and each or any of them, as his attorney in fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute, in his name and on his behalf, in any and all capacities, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and any amendments thereto (and any additional registration statement related thereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments including post-effective amendments thereto)) necessary or advisable to enable the Registrant to comply with the Securities Act, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Commission, in respect thereof, in connection with the registration of the securities which are the subject of such Registration Statement, which amendments may make such changes in such Registration Statement as such attorney may deem appropriate, and with full power and authority to perform and do any and all acts and things whatsoever which any such attorney or substitute may deem necessary or advisable to be performed or done in connection with any or all of the above-described matters, as fully as each of the undersigned could do if personally present and acting, hereby ratifying and approving all acts of any such attorney or substitute.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

 

 

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

 

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