UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

NATURAL ALTERNATIVES INTERNATIONAL, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		84-1007839
(State of incorporation)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

1185 Linda Vista Drive

San Marcos, California 92078

(Address of principal executive offices)

2009 Omnibus Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Ken Wolf

Chief Financial Officer

Natural Alternatives International, Inc.

1185 Linda Vista Drive

San Marcos, California 92078

(760) 736-7745

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

 

 

Copy to:

David A. Fisher, Esq.

K&L Gates LLP

3580 Carmel Mt. Road, Suite 200

San Diego, CA 92130

(858) 509-7400

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.

 

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

 

 

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(2)		Amount of registration fee(3)
2009 Omnibus Incentive Plan, Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share		500,000		$7.761		$3,880,500		$276.68

 

(1)

Includes 500,000 shares issuable pursuant to the grant or exercise of awards under the Natural Alternatives International, Inc. (NAI) 2009 Omnibus Incentive Plan. This registration statement also covers such indeterminate number of additional shares of NAI common stock as may become issuable by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction under the adjustment and anti-dilution provisions of such plan, in accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (1933 Act).

(2)	Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) and 457(h) under the 1933 Act, based on the average of the high and low prices of NAI’s common stock reported on the Nasdaq Global Market on February 1, 2010.

(3)

On February 21, 2006, NAI filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a registration statement on Form S-8 (file no. 333-131968) (Prior Registration Statement) to register 700,000 shares of NAI’s common stock, $0.01 par value per share, issuable under NAI’s 1999 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (1999 Plan) and paid registration fees of $552.39. On December 15, 2009, NAI filed Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Prior Registration Statement to deregister 533,498 of such shares that remained unissued upon the termination of the 1999 Plan. An amount equal to $276.68 of such previously paid registration fee is being offset against the current registration fee due pursuant to Rule 457(p) under the 1933 Act and, as a result, no additional registration fee is due with respect to the 500,000 shares registered under this registration statement.

 

 

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Natural Alternatives International, Inc. (NAI) is filing this registration statement on Form S-8 to register 500,000 shares of NAI’s common stock authorized for issuance under NAI’s 2009 Omnibus Incentive Plan.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

As permitted by the rules of the SEC, this registration statement omits the information specified in Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered to the participants in the plan covered by this registration statement as required by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated under the 1933 Act. Such documents are not being filed with the SEC as part of this registration statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the 1933 Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3.

Incorporation of Documents by Reference

NAI incorporates by reference into this registration statement the documents listed below, which NAI has already filed with the SEC:

 

(a)

NAI’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (which incorporates by reference certain portions of NAI’s Proxy Statement for its Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on November 30, 2009), filed with the SEC on September 28, 2009, which contains audited consolidated financial statements for the most recent fiscal year for which such statements have been filed;

 

(b)	NAI’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on November 12, 2009; and

 

(c)	The description of NAI’s common stock contained in NAI’s registration statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on March 31, 1994 (SEC File No. 33-44292), including all amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

Any other documents subsequently filed by NAI under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act), excluding any information in those documents that is deemed by the rules of the SEC to be furnished but not filed, before the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates all securities offered herein have been sold or that deregisters all securities covered by this registration statement then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement and to be part of this registration statement from the date of filing of such documents.

Any statement in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the 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 supercedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this registration statement.

 

Item 6.

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

NAI’s charter provides that it may indemnify, to the full extent authorized or permitted by law, any person made, or threatened to be made, a defendant or witness to any action, suit or proceeding (whether civil or criminal or otherwise) by reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate, is or was a director or officer of NAI or by reason of the fact that such director of officer, at the request of NAI, is or was serving any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, in any capacity.

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Under Delaware law, a director or officer who 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 shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred. In other circumstances, a director, officer, employee or agent of NAI may be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interest of NAI.

The bylaws of NAI provide that costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by or on behalf of a director, officer, employee or agent of NAI in defending or investigating any action, suit, proceeding or investigation shall be paid by NAI in advance of the final disposition of such matter, if such director, officer, employee or agent undertakes in writing to repay any such advances if it is ultimately determined that he or she was not entitled to indemnification.

NAI’s charter further provides that NAI may buy and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of NAI, or is serving at the request of NAI as a director, officer, employee or agent of any corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not NAI would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of the law. NAI has in effect a directors and officers liability insurance policy protecting its directors and officers against liability by reason of their being or having been directors or officers of NAI.

Under the terms of NAI’s charter, no director of NAI shall be personally liable to NAI or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty by such a director as a director. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a director shall be liable to the extent provided by applicable law (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to NAI or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) for any unlawful payment of dividends or unlawful stock purchase or redemption, or (iv) for any transaction from which such director derived an improper personal benefit.

NAI has entered into indemnification agreements with each of its directors and anticipates that it will enter into similar arrangements with any future directors. NAI may also enter into similar arrangements with certain of its officers who are not also directors. Generally, the indemnification agreements attempt to provide the maximum protection permitted by Delaware law with respect to indemnification of directors.

 

Item 8.

Exhibits

The following exhibit index shows those exhibits filed with this registration statement and those incorporated by reference:

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number		Description		Incorporated By Reference To
4.1		Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Natural Alternatives International, Inc. filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on January 14, 2005		Exhibit 3(i) of NAI’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended December 31, 2004, filed with the commission on February 14, 2005
4.2		Amended and Restated By-laws of Natural Alternatives International, Inc. dated as of February 9, 2009		Exhibit 3(ii) of NAI’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 9, 2009, filed with the commission on February 13, 2009
4.3		Form of NAI’s Common Stock Certificate		Exhibit 4(i) of NAI’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005, filed with the commission on September 8, 2005
5		Opinion of K&L Gates LLP		Filed herewith
23.1		Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		Filed herewith
23.2		Consent of K&L Gates LLP		Filed herewith (included in Exhibit 5)
99.1		2009 Omnibus Incentive Plan as adopted effective October 15, 2009		Exhibit D of NAI’s definitive Proxy Statement filed with the commission on October 16, 2009

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Item 9.

Undertakings

(a) NAI 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 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 the 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 SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

 

(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) 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 SEC by NAI pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the 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.

 

(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) NAI hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each filing of NAI’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 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 1933 Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of NAI, NAI has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC 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 NAI of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of NAI 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, NAI 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.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the 1933 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 San Marcos, State of California, on February 3, 2010.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the 1933 Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Signature		Title		Date
/s/    MARK A. LEDOUX (Mark A. LeDoux)		Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors (principal executive officer)		February 3, 2010
/s/    KEN WOLF (Ken Wolf)		Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)		February 3, 2010
/s/    JOE E. DAVIS (Joe E. Davis)		Director		February 3, 2010
/s/    ALAN G. DUNN (Alan G. Dunn)		Director		February 3, 2010
/s/    ALAN LANE (Alan Lane)		Director		February 3, 2010
/s/    LEE G. WELDON (Lee G. Weldon)		Director		February 3, 2010

Exhibit 5

February 2, 2010

Natural Alternatives International, Inc.

1185 Linda Vista Drive

San Marcos, California 92078

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as your counsel in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), for the registration of 500,000 shares (the “Shares”) of Common Stock, par value $0.01, of Natural Alternatives International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), issuable under the Company’s 2009 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

You have requested our opinion as to the matters set forth below in connection with the Registration Statement. For purposes of rendering that opinion, we have examined the Registration Statement, the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, and Bylaws, the Plan and the corporate action of the Company that provides for the issuance of the Shares, and we have made such other investigation as we have deemed appropriate. We have examined and relied upon certificates of public officials and, as to certain matters of fact that are material to our opinion, we have also relied on a certificate of an officer of the Company. In rendering our opinion, we also have made the assumptions that are customary in opinion letters of this kind. We have not verified any of those assumptions.

Our opinion set forth below is limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law, including the applicable provisions of the Delaware Constitution and reported judicial decisions interpreting those laws.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, it is our opinion that the Shares are duly authorized for issuance by the Company and, when issued and paid for as described in the Plan included in the Registration Statement, will be validly issued, fully paid, and nonassessable.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving our consent we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the 1933 Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

 

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 2009 Omnibus Incentive Plan of Natural Alternatives International, Inc., of our report dated September 25, 2009, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Natural Alternatives International, Inc., included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2009, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/    Ernst & Young LLP

San Diego, California

February 3, 2010