8-K 1 a06-12134_28k.htm CURRENT REPORT OF MATERIAL EVENTS OR CORPORATE CHANGES

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)  May 19, 2006

 

INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

1-7935

 

95-1528961

(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)

 

(Commission
File Number)

 

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 

233 KANSAS STREET, EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA

 

90245

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code 310-726-8000

 

NO CHANGE

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

o              Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o              Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o              Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o              Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 


 

Item 7.01               Regulation FD Disclosure

 

The securities trading policy of International Rectifier Corporation (the “Company”) permits its employees, officers and directors to engage in pre-determined plans for trades on a regular basis over a period of time of specified amounts of Company stock in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

As permitted by this policy, Chairman of the Board Eric Lidow, Chief Executive Officer Alexander Lidow, Executive Vice President Robert Grant and Executive Vice President & General Counsel Donald Dancer have entered into sales plans for common stock arising from the exercise of a portion of the Company stock options each holds. Eric Lidow will sell up to 208,000 shares over a period of about twelve months. Alexander Lidow will sell up to 137,000 shares, Robert Grant up to 160,000 shares and Donald Dancer up to 49,750 shares, in each case over a period of about nine months.

 

The new sales plan for Eric Lidow follows the expiration of a sales plan reported by him in February 2005.  The new sales plans for Alexander Lidow, Robert Grant and Donald Dancer follow the expiration of sales plans reported by them in August 2005.

 

The information in this Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K will not be treated as filed for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. This information will not be incorporated by reference into a filing under the Securities Act of 1933, or into another filing under the Exchange Act, unless that filing expressly refers to specific information in this report.  The furnishing of the information in this Item 7.01 of this Current Report is not intended to and does not, constitute a representation that such furnishing is required by Regulation FD or that the information this Item 7.01 contains is material investor information that is not otherwise publicly available.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER CORPORATION

 

 

Date: May 19, 2006

By:

/s/   DONALD R. DANCER

 

 

 

Name:

Donald R. Dancer

 

 

Title:

Secretary and General Counsel

 

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