-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, B6yIIahjI24ZHn4y/p1mu8Ry2lpPrTSbrQb5y7XPm29PuU4rp41OUDeQckpoqNB0 KR3oI+m0H0QiDAb1mVBbrw== 0001193125-07-037160.txt : 20070222 0001193125-07-037160.hdr.sgml : 20070222 20070222163636 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-07-037160 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-8 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070222 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070222 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20070222 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BOEING CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000012927 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: AIRCRAFT [3721] IRS NUMBER: 910425694 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-8 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-140837 FILM NUMBER: 07642680 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: P O BOX 3707 MS 1F 31 CITY: SEATTLE STATE: WA ZIP: 98124 BUSINESS PHONE: 2066552121 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 N RIVERSIDE PLZ CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60606 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BOEING AIRPLANE CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19730725 S-8 1 ds8.htm REGISTRATION STATEMENT Registration Statement

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 22, 2007

Registration No. 333-          


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


THE BOEING COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Delaware   91-0425694

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

100 N. Riverside

Chicago, IL 60606-1596

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 


THE BOEING COMPANY 2003 INCENTIVE STOCK PLAN

(AS AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 27, 2006)

THE BOEING COMPANY VOLUNTARY INVESTMENT PLAN

(Full title of the plans)

 


JAMES C. JOHNSON

Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Assistant General Counsel

The Boeing Company

100 N. Riverside

Chicago, IL 60606-1596

(312) 544-2000

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

 


Copies to:

J. SUE MORGAN

Perkins Coie LLP

1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4800

Seattle, Washington 98101-3099

(206) 359-8447

 


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

   Amount of
Registration Fee

Common Stock, par value $5.00 per share

                         

The Boeing Company 2003 Incentive Stock Plan

   30,000,000    $ 89.72    $ 2,691,600,000.00    $ 82,632.12

The Boeing Company Voluntary Investment Plan

   9,000,000    $ 89.72    $ 807,480,000.00    $ 24,789.64

In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to The Boeing Company Voluntary Investment Plan described herein.

 

(1) Includes an indeterminate number of additional shares that may be issued to adjust the number of shares issued pursuant to such employee benefit plans as the result of any future stock split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of the Registrant’s outstanding Common Stock.
(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457 under the Securities Act. The price per share is estimated to be $89.72, based on the average of the high sales price ($90.17) and the low sales price ($89.27) for the Registrant’s Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on February 14, 2007.

 



PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

The following documents are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

(a) The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on February 16, 2007, which contains audited consolidated financial statements for the most recent fiscal year for which such statements have been filed;

(b) The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 11-K for The Boeing Company Voluntary Investment Plan, filed with the Commission on June 28, 2006; and

(c) The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock contained in its Current Report on Form 8-K, dated June 30, 2006, under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters the securities covered hereby then remaining unsold shall also be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof commencing on the respective dates on which such documents are filed.

 

Item 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

The opinion of counsel as to the legality of the securities that may be issued under the plans is given by James C. Johnson, Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Assistant General Counsel for the Registrant. As of February 21, 2007, Mr. Johnson owned 21,274 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock as well as stock units granted under various incentive plans of the Registrant.

 

Item 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation may indemnify directors and officers as well as other employees and individuals against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement in connection with specified actions, suits or proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation in a derivative action), if they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with the respect to any criminal action, had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful. A similar standard is applicable in the case of derivative actions, and the statute requires court approval before there can be any indemnification where the person seeking indemnification has been found liable to the corporation. The statute provides that it is not exclusive of other indemnification that may be granted by a corporation’s charter, by-laws, disinterested director vote, stockholder vote, agreement or otherwise.

 

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Article VII, Section 4 of the Registrant’s By-Laws provides for indemnification of the Registrant’s directors and officers to the full extent permitted under Delaware law.

Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law 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 (i) any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) payments of unlawful dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

Article Eleventh of the Registrant’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that, to the full extent that Delaware law permits the limitation or elimination of the liability of directors, a director of the Registrant will not be liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for conduct as a director.

Officers and directors of the Registrant are covered by insurance that, with certain exceptions and within certain limitations, indemnifies them against losses and liabilities arising from any alleged “wrongful act,” including any alleged error or misstatement, misleading statement, wrongful act or omission, neglect or breach of duty in their capacities as such.

 

Item 8. EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit

Number

  

Description

  5.1    Opinion of counsel regarding legality of the Common Stock being registered
23.1    Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.2    Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.3    Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1    Power of Attorney (see Signature Page)
99.1    The Boeing Company 2003 Incentive Stock Plan (As Amended and Restated Effective February 27, 2006) (incorporated by reference to Appendix B to the definitive proxy statement filed by the Registrant on March 24, 2006)

The Registrant hereby undertakes that it will submit or has submitted The Boeing Company Voluntary Investment Plan subject to this Registration Statement and any amendments thereto to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) in a timely manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS as necessary in order to qualify such plan under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

Item 9. UNDERTAKINGS

A. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

 

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(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; 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 (1)(i) and (1)(ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed 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 the Registration Statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities 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. 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 benefits 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 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.

 

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SIGNATURES

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 Chicago, State of Illinois, on the 20th day of February, 2007.

 

THE BOEING COMPANY

By:  

/s/ James A. Bell

  James A. Bell
 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints W. James McNerney, Jr. and James A. Bell, or either of them, his or her attorneys-in-fact, with the power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this Registration Statement and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitute or substitutes, may 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 below on the 20th day of February, 2007.

 

Signature

     

Title

/s/ W. James McNerney, Jr.

W. James McNerney, Jr.

   

Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ James A. Bell

James A. Bell

   

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ Harry S. McGee III

Harry S. McGee III

   

Vice President and Corporate Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)

/s/ John H. Biggs

John H. Biggs

   

Director

/s/ John E. Bryson

John E. Bryson

   

Director

 

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Signature

     

Title

/s/ Linda Z. Cook

Linda Z. Cook

   

Director

/s/ William M. Daley

William M. Daley

   

Director

/s/ Kenneth M. Duberstein

Kenneth M. Duberstein

   

Director

/s/ John F. McDonnell

John F. McDonnell

   

Director

/s/ Richard D. Nanula

Richard D. Nanula

   

Director

/s/ Rozanne L. Ridgway

Rozanne L. Ridgway

   

Director

/s/ Mike S. Zafirovski

Mike S. Zafirovski

   

Director

THE BOEING COMPANY VOLUNTARY INVESTMENT PLAN

Pursuant to requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the persons who administer The Boeing Company Voluntary Investment Plan have duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, on the 20th day of February, 2007.

 

THE BOEING COMPANY VOLUNTARY INVESTMENT PLAN
By:   THE BOEING COMPANY
By:  

/s/ James A. Bell

  James A. Bell
 

Executive Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit

Number

 

Description

  5.1   Opinion of counsel regarding legality of the Common Stock being registered
23.1   Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.2   Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.3   Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1   Power of Attorney (see Signature Page)
99.1   The Boeing Company 2003 Incentive Stock Plan (As Amended and Restated Effective February 27, 2006) (incorporated by reference to Appendix B to the definitive proxy statement filed by the Registrant on March 24, 2006)

 

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EX-5.1 2 dex51.htm OPINION OF COUNSEL REGARDING LEGALITY OF THE COMMON STOCK BEING REGISTERED Opinion of Counsel regarding legality of the Common Stock being registered

Exhibit 5.1

[Letterhead of The Boeing Company]

February 20, 2007

The Boeing Company

100 North Riverside

Chicago, IL 60606-1596

 

  RE: Registration Statement on Form S-8

Gentlemen and Ladies:

As Assistant General Counsel of The Boeing Company (the “Company”), I have acted as counsel in connection with the registration statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) that is being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the “Act”), with respect to up to an aggregate of 39,000,000 shares of common stock, $5.00 par value per share, of the Company (the “Shares”), of which up to 30,000,000 shares may be issued pursuant to The Boeing Company 2003 Incentive Stock Plan (As Amended and Restated Effective February 27, 2006) (the “2003 Plan”) and up to 9,000,000 shares may be issued pursuant to The Boeing Company Voluntary Investment Plan (together with the 2003 Plan, the “Plans”).

I have examined the Registration Statement, the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation as amended to date, the Company’s By-Laws as amended to date, and such resolutions of the Company’s Board of Directors and other documentation as I have deemed necessary for the purpose of this opinion.

Based on and subject to the foregoing, I am of the opinion that the Shares that may be issued by the Company pursuant to the Plans as original issuance shares, upon the due execution by the Company and registration by its registrar of the Shares and the issuance thereof by the Company in accordance with the terms of the Plans, and the receipt of consideration therefor in accordance with the terms of the Plans, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to me under the heading “Interests of Named Experts and Counsel” in the Registration Statement.

 

Cordially,

/s/ James C. Johnson

James C. Johnson

Vice President, Corporate Secretary and

Assistant General Counsel

EX-23.1 3 dex231.htm CONSENT OF DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Board of Directors and Shareholders

The Boeing Company

Chicago, Illinois

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of our reports dated February 15, 2007, relating to the financial statements and financial statement schedule of The Boeing Company (which report expresses an unqualified opinion and includes an explanatory paragraph relating to the Company’s changes in accounting for pension and postretirement benefits and concessions received from vendors), and management’s report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of The Boeing Company for the year ended December 31, 2006.

 

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Chicago, Illinois

February 20, 2007

EX-23.2 4 dex232.htm CONSENT OF DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Board of Directors and Shareholders

The Boeing Company

Chicago, Illinois

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of our report dated June 22, 2006, relating to the financial statements and supplemental schedule of The Boeing Company Voluntary Investment Plan (the “Plan”) appearing in the Annual Report on Form 11-K of the Plan for the year ended December 31, 2005.

 

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Seattle, Washington

February 20, 2007

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