S-8 1 GENZYME CORPORATION FORM S-8 1 As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 1995 REGISTRATION NO. 33- __________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D. C. 20549 --------------- FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 --------------- GENZYME CORPORATION (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) MASSACHUSETTS 06-1047163 (State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) of incorporation) ONE KENDALL SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02139 (617) 252-7500 (Address and telephone number of registrant's principal executive offices) --------------- 1990 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN (Full Title of the Plan) HENRI A. TERMEER, PRESIDENT Genzyme Corporation One Kendall Square Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (617) 252-7500 (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service) with copies to: PETER WIRTH, ESQUIRE Palmer & Dodge One Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 (617) 573-0304 --------------- CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of each class of Amount to be Proposed maximum Proposed maximum Amount of securities to be registered registered offering price aggregate offering registration per share(1) price(1) fee General Division Common 400,000 shares(2) $38.625 $15,450,000 $5,327.59 Stock, $0.01 par value (1) Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee and computed pursuant to Rule 457(h) based upon the average of the high and low sale prices on March 28, 1995 as reported by the Nasdaq National Market System. (2) This Registration Statement registers an additional 400,000 shares of General Division Common Stock (formerly Common Stock) under the 1990 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. An aggregate of 350,000 shares of General Division Common Stock (formerly Common Stock) have previously been registered under the 1988 Employee Stock Purchase Plan which was amended and restated as the 1990 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (SEC File Nos. 33-22464, 33-29440, 33-51416 and 33-68186).
2 PART II INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference. ------------------------------------------------ The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated herein by reference: (a) The Registrant's latest annual report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). (b) All other reports of the registrant filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report referred to in (a) above. (c) The description of the Registrant's General Division Common Stock contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-B filed on February 28, 1992, as amended by Form 8-B/A filed on March 31, 1995, including any further amendment or report filed hereafter for the purpose of updating such description. (d) The description of the Registrant's General Division Common Stock Purchase Rights contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on March 23, 1989, as amended by Form 8-A/A filed on November 28, 1994, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description. All documents filed after the date of this Registration Statement by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all shares of General Division Common Stock offered hereunder have been sold or which deregisters all shares of General Division Common Stock remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such reports and documents. Item 4. Description of Securities. ---------------------------------- Not Applicable. Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel. ----------------------------------------------- The validity of the General Division Common Stock offered hereby will be passed upon for the Registrant by Palmer & Dodge, Boston, Massachusetts. Peter Wirth, a partner of Palmer & Dodge, is Clerk of the Registrant. Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers. ------------------------------------------------- Section 67 of chapter 156B of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law grants the Registrant the power to indemnify any director, officer, employee or agent to whatever extent permitted by the Registrant's Restated Articles of Organization, Bylaws or a vote adopted by the holders of a majority of - 2 - 3 the shares entitled to vote thereon, if such indemnitee acted (a) in good faith in the reasonable belief that his action was in the best interests of the corporation or (b) to the extent that the matter for which indemnification is sought relates to service with respect to an employee benefit plan, in the best interests of the participants or beneficiaries of such employee benefit plan. Such indemnification may include payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by the person indemnified to repay such payment if he shall be adjudicated to be not entitled to indemnification under the statute. Article VI of the Registrant's Bylaws provides that the Registrant shall, to the extent legally permissible, indemnify each person who may serve or who has served at any time as a director or officer of the corporation or of any of its subsidiaries, or who at the request of the corporation may serve or at any time has served as a director, officer or trustee of, or in a similar capacity with, another organization or an employee benefit plan, against all expenses and liabilities (including counsel fees, judgments, fines, excise taxes, penalties and amounts payable in settlements) reasonably incurred by or imposed upon such person in connection with any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or other proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, in which he may become involved by reason of his serving or having served in such capacity (other than a proceeding voluntarily initiated by such person unless he is successful on the merits, the proceeding was authorized by the corporation or the proceeding seeks a declaratory judgment regarding his own conduct). Such indemnification shall include payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by the person indemnified to repay such payment if he shall be adjudicated to be not entitled to indemnification under Article VI, which undertaking may be accepted without regard to the financial ability of such person to make repayment. The indemnification provided for in Article VI is a contract right inuring to the benefit of the directors, officers and others entitled to indemnification. In addition, the indemnification is expressly not exclusive of any other rights to which such director, officer or other person may be entitled by contract or otherwise under law, and inures to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person. The Registrant also has in place agreements with certain officers and directors which affirm the Registrant's obligation to indemnify them to the fullest extent permitted by law and contain various procedural and other provisions which expand the protection afforded by the Registrant's Bylaws. Section 13(b)(1 1/2) of chapter 156B of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law provides that a corporation may, in its Articles of Organization, eliminate the directors' personal liability to the corporation and its stockholders for monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty, except in circumstances involving (i) a breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) unauthorized distributions and loans to insiders, and (iv) transactions from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Section VI.C.5 of the Registrant's Restated Articles of Organization provides that no director shall be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent that such exculpation is not permitted under the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law as in effect when such liability is determined. - 3 - 4 Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed. ------------------------------------------- Not Applicable. Item 8. Exhibits. ----------------
Exhibit Number Description ------ ----------- 4.1 Articles of Organization of Genzyme Corporation. Filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Genzyme Corporation's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1994 (File No. 0-14680) and incorporated herein by reference. 4.2 By-laws of Genzyme Corporation. Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to Genzyme Corporation's Form 8-K dated December 31, 1991 (File No. 0-14680) and incorporated herein by reference. 4.3 Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of October 13, 1994 between Genzyme Corporation and American Stock Transfer and Trust Company. Filed as Exhibit 4 to Genzyme Corporation's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 30, 1994 (File No. 0-14680) and incorporated herein by reference. 5.1 Opinion of Palmer & Dodge as to the legality of the securities registered hereunder. Filed herewith. 23.1 Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P., independent accountants. Filed herewith. 23.2 Consent of Palmer & Dodge (contained in Opinion of Palmer & Dodge filed as Exhibit 5.1). 24.1 Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page hereto). 24.2 Certified copy of Board of Directors' resolution authorizing Power of Attorney. Filed herewith. 99.1 Genzyme Corporation 1990 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended through December 12, 1994. Filed as Annex IX to Genzyme Corporation's Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 33-83346) and incorporated herein by reference.
- 4 - 5 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 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 this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represents a fundamental change in the information set forth in this Registration Statement; (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this 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 periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this 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) 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 Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in this 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 of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the provisions referred to in Item 6 hereof, 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, - 5 - 6 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. - 6 - 7 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, 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 Cambridge, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on this 30th day of March, 1995. GENZYME CORPORATION By: /s/ Henri A. Termeer ------------------------- Henri A. Termeer President POWER OF ATTORNEY We, the undersigned officers and directors of Genzyme Corporation, hereby severally constitute and appoint Henri A. Termeer, David J. McLachlan, Mark A. Hofer, Evan M. Lebson and Peter Wirth, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power to them in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (including any post-effective amendments thereto), 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 each of said attorneys-in-fact may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE --------- ----- ---- /s/ Henri A. Termeer Director and Principal March 30, 1995 ------------------------------------ Executive Officer Henri A. Termeer /s/ David J. McLachlan Principal Financial and March 30, 1995 ------------------------------------ Accounting Officer David J. McLachlan /s/ Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos Director March 30, 1995 ------------------------------------ Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos /s/ Douglas A. Berthiaume Director March 30, 1995 ------------------------------------ Douglas A. Berthiaume
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SIGNATURE TITLE DATE --------- ----- ---- /s/ Henry E. Blair Director March 30, 1995 ------------------------------------ Henry E. Blair /s/ Robert J. Carpenter Director March 30, 1995 ------------------------------------ Robert J. Carpenter /s/ Charles L. Cooney Director March 30, 1995 ------------------------------------ Charles L. Cooney /s/ Henry R. Lewis Director March 30, 1995 ------------------------------------ Henry R. Lewis
- 8 - 9 EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT NUMBER DESCRIPTION PAGE NUMBER -------------- ----------- ----------- 4.1 Articles of Organization of Genzyme Corporation. Filed as * Exhibit 3.1 to Genzyme Corporation's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1994 (File No. 0-14680) and incorporated herein by reference. 4.2 By-laws of Genzyme Corporation. Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to * Genzyme Corporation's Form 8-K dated December 31, 1991 (File No. 0-14680) and incorporated herein by reference. 4.3 Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of October * 13, 1994 between Genzyme Corporation and American Stock Transfer and Trust Company. Filed as Exhibit 4 to Genzyme Corporation's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 30, 1994 (File No. 0-14680) and incorporated herein by reference. 5.1 Opinion of Palmer & Dodge as to the legality of the 10 securities registered hereunder. 23.1 Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P., independent 11 accountants. 23.2 Consent of Palmer & Dodge (contained in Opinion of Palmer & * Dodge, filed as Exhibit 5.1). 24.1 Power of Attorney (set forth on the signature page to this * Registration Statement). 24.2 Certified copy of Board of Directors' resolution 12 authorizing Power of Attorney. 99.1 Genzyme Corporation 1990 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as * amended through December 12, 1994. Filed as Annex IX to Genzyme Corporation's Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 33-83346) and incorporated herein by reference.
- 9 - EX-5.1 2 OPINION OF PALMER & DODGE 1 Exhibit 5.1 PALMER & DODGE One Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02018 Telephone: (617) 573-0100 Facsimile: (617) 227-4420 March 30, 1995 Genzyme Corporation One Kendall Square Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Dear Sirs: We are rendering this opinion in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") filed by Genzyme Corporation (the "Company") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), on or about the date hereof. The Registration Statement relates to 400,000 additional shares (the "Shares") of the Company's General Division Common Stock, $0.01 par value (formerly Common Stock, $0.01 par value), offered pursuant to the provisions of the Company's 1990 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plan"). We have acted as your counsel in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statement and are familiar with the proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the authorization of the issuance and sale of the Shares. We have examined all such documents as we consider necessary to enable us to render this opinion. Based upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that when issued in accordance with the terms of the Plan, the Shares will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as a part of the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm under Item 5 thereof. Very truly yours, /s/ Palmer & Dodge - 10 - EX-23.1 3 CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS 1 Exhibit 23.1 CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS ---------------------------------- We consent to the incorporation by reference in this registration statement on Form S-8 of Genzyme Corporation for its 1990 Employee Stock Purchase Plan of our reports dated March 1, 1995 on our audits of the consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule of Genzyme Corporation, the combined financial statements of Genzyme General Division and the combined financial statements of Genzyme Tissue Repair Division all as of December 31, 1993 and 1994 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1994, which reports are included in Genzyme Corporation's 1994 Annual Report on Form 10-K. /s/ Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. Boston, Massachusetts March 30, 1995 - 11 - EX-24.2 4 AUTHORIZATION OF POWER OF ATTORNEY 1 Exhibit 24.2 GENZYME CORPORATION Certificate of Clerk -------------------- I, Peter Wirth, being the duly elected and acting Clerk of Genzyme Corporation (the "Company"), a Massachusetts corporation, hereby certify that the following is a true, correct and complete copy of a resolution duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company at a meeting of the Board of Directors convened and held on August 25, 1994, at which meeting a quorum for the transaction of business was present and acting throughout; and that said resolution has not been amended or rescinded and is now in full force and effect. VOTED: That the President, the Senior Vice President, Finance, the Senior Vice President and General Counsel and the Treasurer of the Company, each acting singly, are hereby authorized in the name and on behalf of the Company to (1) execute and file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") registration statements on Form S-4, S-3, S-8 and 8-A (the "Registration Statements") relating to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, of shares of the Company's Tissue Repair Common Stock ("TR Stock") to be created pursuant to the amendment to the Company's Articles of Organization approved at this meeting and, to the extent required in connection with the transactions in which the TR Stock is issued, shares of the Company's Common Stock, such Registration Statements and any amendments thereto to be in such form as may be approved by the officer executing the same, his execution and filing thereof to be conclusive evidence of this approval; and (2) take any and all other action as they or any of them may deem necessary or advisable to effect such registration. That any officer of the Company executing, on behalf of the Company or in any other capacity, the Registration Statements and any and all amendments to such Registration Statements and other documents to be filed with the Commission in connection therewith is hereby authorized to execute the same through or by Henri A. Termeer, David J. McLachlan, Mark A. Hofer, Evan M. Lebson or Peter Wirth, as attorney-in-fact, pursuant to a power of attorney reflecting such authorization. WITNESS my signature and the seal of the Company affixed this 30th day of March, 1995. [CORPORATE SEAL] /s/ Peter Wirth Peter Wirth, Clerk - 12 -