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Registration No.____________________
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
COHU, INC.
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 95-1934119
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(State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. employer identification no.)
of incorporation or organization)
5755 KEARNY VILLA ROAD
SAN DIEGO, CA 92123
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(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
COHU, INC.
1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
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(Full title of the plan)
CHARLES A. SCHWAN
VICE PRESIDENT - FINANCE, SECRETARY
COHU, INC.
5755 KEARNY VILLA ROAD
SAN DIEGO, CA 92123
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(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: 619/235-5000
This registration statement, including all exhibits and attachments, contains
14 pages. The exhibit index may be found on page 9 of the consecutively
numbered pages of the registration statement.
This registration statement shall hereafter become effective in accordance with
Rule 462 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Proposed Proposed
Title of maximum maximum
securities Amount offering aggregate Amount of
to be to be price per offering registration
registered registered share(1) price(1) fee
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1994 Stock Option Plan
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Common Stock 94,000 $22.63 $2,127,220
Par Value $1.00 325,000 $8.06 $2,619,500
6,000 $9.69 $58,140
15,000 $19.50 $292,500
TOTAL 440,000 $5,097,360 $1,757.71
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(1) Estimated pursuant to Rule 457 solely for purposes of calculating the
registration fee and subject to the minimum registration fee of $100
pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1993, as amended.
As to shares subject to outstanding but unexercised options, the price is
computed on the basis of the exercise price. As to the remaining shares,
the price is based upon the average of the high and low prices of the
Common Stock on June 26, 1995, as reported on the National Association of
Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Cohu, Inc. (the "Company") hereby incorporates by reference in
this registration statement the following documents:
(a) The Company's latest annual report on Form 10-K
filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), containing audited financial statements
for the Company's latest fiscal year ended December 31, 1994.
(b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a)
or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
document referred to in (a) above.
(c) The description of the Company's Common Stock
contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 10 filed under the
Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of
updating such description.
All documents subsequently 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 to this registration statement which indicates that
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in
this registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of
such documents.
Item 4. Description of Securities
The class of securities to be offered is registered under
Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Inapplicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
The bylaws of the Company provide that any person who was or
is made a party to, or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in,
any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative, by reason of the fact
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that such person is or was a director, officer or employee of the Company or is
or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, or
employee of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or
other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans,
shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Company to the fullest extent
authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law and may be indemnified and
held harmless by the Company to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware
General Corporation Law against all expenses, liability and loss (including
attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties, amounts
paid or to be paid in settlement and amounts expended in seeking
indemnification) reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection
therewith. Such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased
to be a director, officer or employee and inure to the benefits of his or her
heirs, executors and administrators.
The Board of Directors is authorized to, and has entered into
contracts with its directors and executive officers, and may in the future
continue to do so, to provide for indemnification rights equivalent to, or if
the Board of Directors approves, greater than those provided for in the
corporate bylaws.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides
that the Company may indemnify its agents, including directors, officers, and
employees, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgements, fines, and
amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by them in
connection with any proceeding other than an action by or in the right of the
Company, provided such agent acted in good faith and in a manner which he or
she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
Company, and in the case of a criminal proceedings, had no reasonable cause to
believe the conduct was unlawful. In actions by or in the right of the
company, the Company may indemnify an agent for expenses actually and
reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of such action
if that agent acted in good faith in a manner he or she reasonably believed to
be in or not opposed to the best interest of the Company. However, no
indemnification shall be made for any action for which the agent was adjudged
to be liable to the Company or for amounts paid in settlement to the Company
unless a court determines that the agent is entitled to indemnity. To the
extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company has been
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or
proceeding or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he or she shall
be indemnified by the Company against expenses, including attorneys' fees,
actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such defense.
Item 7. Exemption From Registration Claimed
Inapplicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
See Exhibit Index.
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Item 9. Undertakings
(a) Rule 415 Offering
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;
(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)(l)(ii) do not apply if the
registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required
to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is 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 the
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.
(b) Filing incorporating subsequent Exchange Act documents by
reference
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
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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 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.
(h) Request for acceleration of effective date or filing of
registration statement on Form S-8
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 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 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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SIGNATURE
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 San Diego, State of
California, on June 29, 1995.
COHU, INC.
By: /s/ CHARLES A. SCHWAN
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CHARLES A. SCHWAN
Vice President-Finance and
Secretary
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
The officers and directors of Cohu, Inc. whose signatures appear
below, hereby constitute and appoint J.W. Barnes and Charles A. Schwan, and
each of them, their true and lawful attorneys and agents, with full power of
substitution, each with power to act alone, to sign and execute on behalf of
the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this registration statement on
Form S-8, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that
each of said attorney and agent, or their or his substitutes, shall do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons
in the capacities indicated on June 29, 1995.
Signature Title
/s/ J.W. BARNES
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J.W. BARNES President, Director and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ CHARLES A. SCHWAN
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CHARLES A. SCHWAN Vice President-Finance, Secretary, Chief Accounting
Officer and Director (Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
/s/ WILLIAM S. IVANS
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WILLIAM S. IVANS Director and Chairman of the Board
/s/ GENE E. LEARY
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GENE E. LEARY Director
/s/ FRANK W. DAVIS
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FRANK W. DAVIS Director
/s/ HARRY L. CASARI
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HARRY L. CASARI Director
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Sequentially
Numbered Page
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4.1 Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is incorporated --
by reference to Exhibit 3 to the Company's 1981 Form 10-K
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
April 2, 1982
4.2 The Amendments of the Certificate of Incorporation of the --
Company are incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the
Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on October 28, 1994
(File No. 33-85742)
4.3 The Bylaws of the Company, as amended, are incorporated by --
reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Registration Statement on
Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on October 28, 1994 (File No. 33-85742)
5 Opinion re legality 10
23.1 Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5) --
23.2 Consent of Independent Auditors 13
24 Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this --
registration statement)
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EXHIBIT 5
OPINION RE LEGALITY
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Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
400 HAMILTON AVENUE
PALO ALTO, CA 94301-1825
TEL (415) 328-6561
FAX (415) 327-3699
OUR FILE NO.
8203-92001
June 29, 1995
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
RE: COHU, INC.
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8 REGISTERING SHARES
ISSUABLE UNDER THE 1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
Ladies and Gentlemen:
As legal counsel for Cohu, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), we are rendering this opinion in connection with the registration
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of up to 440,000 shares of the
Common Stock, $1.00 par value, of the Company which may be issued pursuant to
the exercise of options granted under the Cohu, Inc. 1994 Stock Option Plan
(the "Plan").
We have examined all instruments, documents and records which
we deemed relevant and necessary for the basis of our opinion hereinafter
expressed. In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all
signatures and the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals
and the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies.
We are admitted to practice only in the State of California
and we express no opinion concerning any law other than the law of the State of
California, the corporation laws of the State of Delaware and the federal law
of the United States.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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As to matters of Delaware corporation law, we have based our
opinion solely upon our examination of such laws and the rules and regulations
of the authorities administering such laws, all as reported in standard,
unofficial compilations. We have not obtained opinions of counsel licensed to
practice in jurisdictions other than the State of California.
Based on such examination, we are of the opinion that the
440,000 shares of Common Stock which may be issued upon exercise of options
granted under the Plans are duly authorized shares of the Company's Common
Stock, and, when issued against payment of the purchase price therefor in
accordance with the provisions of the Plans, will be validly issued, fully paid
and non-assessable.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit
to the Registration Statement referred to above and the use of our name
wherever it appears in said Registration Statement.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ GRAY CARY WARE & FREIDENRICH
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GRAY CARY WARE & FREIDENRICH
A Professional Corporation
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EXHIBIT 23.2
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
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CONSENT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement
(Form S-8) pertaining to the Cohu, Inc. 1994 Stock Option Plan of our report
dated February 10, 1995, with respect to the consolidated financial statements
of Cohu, Inc. incorporated by reference in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for
the year ended December 31, 1994, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
/s/ ERNST & YOUNG LLP
San Diego, California ------------------------
June 29, 1995 ERNST & YOUNG LLP
