0001209191-12-040322.txt : 20120803 0001209191-12-040322.hdr.sgml : 20120803 20120803193245 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-12-040322 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120801 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120803 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120803 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CHRISTIANSON JEFFREY A CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001105033 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-26041 FILM NUMBER: 121008109 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3650 131 AVENUE SE SUITE 400 CITY: BELLEVUE STATE: WA ZIP: 98006 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: F5 NETWORKS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001048695 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT [3576] IRS NUMBER: 911714307 STATE OF INCORPORATION: WA FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 401 ELLIOT AVE WEST STREET 2: STE 500 CITY: SEATTLE STATE: WA ZIP: 98119 BUSINESS PHONE: 2062725555 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 401 ELLIOT AVE WEST STREET 2: STE 500 CITY: SEATTLE STATE: WA ZIP: 98119 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: F5 LABS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19990305 4 1 doc4.xml FORM 4 SUBMISSION X0306 4 2012-08-01 0 0001048695 F5 NETWORKS INC FFIV 0001105033 CHRISTIANSON JEFFREY A C/O F5 NETWORKS, INC. 401 ELLIOTT AVE. WEST SEATTLE WA 98119 0 1 0 0 EVP and General Counsel Common Stock 2012-08-01 4 A 0 1816 0.00 A 11864 D Common Stock 2012-08-01 4 M 0 1701 0.00 A 13565 D Common Stock 2012-08-02 4 S 0 1545 90.8542 D 12020 D Common Stock 2012-08-02 4 S 0 600 92.335 D 11420 D Common Stock 2012-08-02 4 S 0 200 93.66 D 11220 D Restricted Stock Units 0.00 2012-08-01 4 M 0 719 0.00 D Common Stock 719 8879 D Restricted Stock Units 0.00 2012-08-01 4 M 0 676 0.00 D Common Stock 676 5410 D Restricted Stock Units 0.00 2012-08-01 4 M 0 306 0.00 D Common Stock 306 2748 D Shares acquired based on performance targets for the August 2, 2010, August 1, 2011, and November 9, 2011 awards of Restricted Stock Units. Shares acquired upon vesting of the August 2, 2010, August 1, 2011, and November 9, 2011 awards of service-based Restricted Stock Units. This transaction was executed pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, in multiple trades at prices ranging from $90.59 to $91.42. The reported price is the weighted average sale price. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the Company, any security holder of the Company, or Securities and Exchange Commission staff, upon request, complete information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. This transaction was executed pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, in multiple trades at prices ranging from $91.81 to $92.80. The reported price is the weighted average sale price. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the Company, any security holder of the Company, or Securities and Exchange Commission staff, upon request, complete information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. This transaction was executed pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Each Restricted Stock Unit represents a contingent right to receive one share of F5 Networks, Inc. Common Stock on the vest date. 8,635 of the service-based Restricted Stock Units awarded August 2, 2010 vest in twelve equal quarterly increments beginning November 1, 2010; an additional 6,000 Restricted Stock Units vest August 1, 2013. If the reporting person continues to serve as an officer of the Company on the vest date, the corresponding number of shares of Common Stock of F5 Networks, Inc. will be issued to the reporting person on the vest date. The August 1, 2011 award of service-based Restricted Stock Units vests in twelve equal quarterly increments beginning November 1, 2011. The November 9, 2011 award of service-based Restricted Stock Units vest in twelve equal quarterly increments beginning February 1, 2012. /s/ Jeffrey A. Christianson 2012-08-03 EX-24.4_434077 2 poa.txt POA DOCUMENT POWER OF ATTORNEY The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Scot Rogers or John E. Rodriguez, or either of them, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to: (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of F5 Networks, Inc. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder; (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion. The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 26 day of April, 2007. /s/ Jeffrey A. Christianson Jeffrey A. Christianson