S-8 POS 1 er556.txt AMENDMENT NO. 1 As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 12, 2002. Registration No. 333-74340 ================================================================================ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 AMENDMENT NO. 1 to FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 HILB, ROGAL AND HAMILTON COMPANY (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter) Virginia 54-1194795 (State or Other Jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer of Incorporation or Organization) Identification Number) 4951 Lake Brook Drive, Suite 500, Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) ------------------------ HILB, ROGAL AND HAMILTON COMPANY EXECUTIVE VOLUNTARY DEFERRAL PLAN (Full Title of the Plan) Walter L. Smith, Esq. Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company 4951 Lake Brook Drive, Suite 500 Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 (804) 747-6500 (Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service) ================================================================================ PART II INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference The following documents previously filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof: (1) the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K (the "Form 10-K") for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2000, File No. 0-15981; (2) the portions of the Registrant's definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on May 1, 2001 that have been incorporated by reference into the Form 10-K; (3) the Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2001, June 30, 2001 and September 30, 2001, File No. 0-15981; (4) the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on June 11, 2001, File No. 0-15981; and (5) the description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained in the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, dated January 23, 2001, File No. 0-15981. All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such earlier statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement. Item 4. Description of Securities The securities being registered are deferred compensation obligations ("Deferred Compensation Obligations") and shares ("Shares") of Common Stock of the Registrant payable with respect to certain Deferred Compensation Obligations of the Registrant under the Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company Executive Voluntary Deferral Plan, as amended and restated effective II-2 January 1, 2002 (the "Plan"). Capitalized terms used in this Item 4 and not otherwise defined in this Registration Statement shall have the respective meanings attributed to such terms in the Plan. The Deferred Compensation Obligations incurred by the Registrant under the Plan are unsecured general obligations of the Registrant, and will rank equally with other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Registrant outstanding from time to time. The Plan is unfunded, and the Registrant is not required to set aside assets to be used for payment of the Deferred Compensation Obligations. In addition, the right of the Registrant (and hence the rights of creditors of the Registrant, including Participants in the Plan) to participate in a distribution of the assets of a subsidiary of the Registrant upon its liquidation or reorganization or otherwise is necessarily subject to the prior claims of creditors of the subsidiary, except to the extent that claims of the Company itself as a creditor may be recognized. Under the Plan, the Registrant will provide a select group of its executives who have the rank of President or higher of a subsidiary of the Company or any member of the executive group of the Company with the opportunity to elect to defer part of the Salary plus part or all of the Bonus payable to such executives during any Plan Year. The Registrant will establish a Deferred Cash Account and a Deferred Stock Unit Account for each executive who elects to participate in the Plan. A Participant may designate a fixed dollar amount or a percentage to be deducted from his or her Salary and Bonus ("Deferral Contribution") and shall indicate how the Deferral Contribution is to be allocated between the Participant's Deferred Cash Account and the Participant's Deferred Stock Unit Account. The maximum deferral during any Plan Year is 50% of the amount of any Salary and 100% of the amount of any Bonus. Amounts credited to the Participant's Deferred Cash Account earn interest at the Rate of Return (initially 7%), subject to increase by the Compensation Committee. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, a Participant's Deferred Stock Unit Account will be treated as if it were invested in Deferred Stock Units that are equivalent in value to the fair market value of the shares of the Registrant's Common Stock in accordance with the terms set forth in the Plan. The number of Deferred Stock Units credited to a Participant's Deferred Stock Unit Account will be increased on each date on which a dividend is paid on the Registrant's Common Stock. The number of additional Deferred Stock Units credited to a Participant's Deferred Stock Unit Account as a result of such increase will be determined by (i) multiplying the total number of Deferred Stock Units (with fractional Deferred Stock Units rounded off to the nearest thousandth) credited to the Participant's Deferred Stock Unit Account immediately before such increase by the amount of the dividend paid per share of the Registrant's Common Stock on the dividend payment date, and (ii) dividing the product so determined by the Closing Price of the Registrant's Common Stock on the dividend payment date. The dollar value of the Deferred Stock Units credited to a Participant's Deferred Stock Unit Account on any date will be determined by multiplying the number of Deferred Stock Units (including fractional Deferred Stock Units) credited to the Participant's Deferred Stock Unit Account by the Closing Price on that date. The amounts deferred by Participants under the Plan represent an obligation of the Registrant to make payments to the Participants at some time in the future. A Participant's Deferred Stock Unit Account shall be paid in Shares of the Company's Common Stock with fractional Shares II-3 paid in cash, and the Deferred Cash Account shall be paid in cash. The amount that the Registrant is required to pay to any Participant under the terms of the Plan is equal to the Deferral Benefit, or the sum of the Deferred Contributions made by the Participant plus interest accrued at the Rate of Return with respect to a Participant's Deferred Cash Account, and adjusted for hypothetical gains or losses attributable to the deemed investment of such Deferral Contributions in shares of the Registrant's Common Stock with respect to his or her Deferred Stock Unit Account. The amounts payable to Participants under the Plan are distributed in accordance with the distribution provisions of the Plan. Generally, such distributions are made as of the Benefit Commencement Date specified in the Participant's Deferral Election. Payment of benefits may either be in a lump sum or in annual installments at the Participant's election. The Plan also provides for interim distributions of amounts payable from the Participant's Deferral Account and for withdrawal of Plan amounts in the event of a financial emergency. The Registrant is entitled to withhold all federal, state and local income, employment and other taxes required to be withheld by the Registrant in connection with payments to be made to Participants under the Plan. Each Participant is at all times 100% vested in all Deferral Contributions, as well as in any appreciation (or depreciation) in the amount thereof due to appreciation or depreciation in the Registrant's Common Stock. The Plan provides that the Company may, but is not required to, establish a grantor trust (the "Trust") which may be used to hold assets of the Company to be maintained as reserves against the Company's unfunded, unsecured obligations under the Plan. The Company may appoint one or more individuals or corporations to act as Trustee. The Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee at any time. The Trustee's responsibility would be limited to holding and investing the assets of the Trust in its possession and voting the Common Stock it holds in its discretion as a fiduciary. No Participant or Beneficiary would have any right, title or interest in or to, any Trust assets (and all such assets shall remain subject to the claims of the Company's creditors). Neither the Participant nor his or her Beneficiary has any right to sell, assign, transfer or otherwise convey the right to receive any payments under the Plan or any interest in the Plan, which payments and interest are expressly declared to be non-assignable and non-transferable. The interests of each Participant under the Plan are not subject to the claims of the Participant's creditors. The Registrant reserves the right to amend or terminate the Plan, provided that any such amendment does not decrease or restrict the value of a Participant's account balance under the Plan in existence at the time the amendment is made. Moreover, the Registrant reserves the right to unilaterally shorten the Deferral Period of any Participant, if it determines that to do so will be fair and equitable to the Participant. Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel Williams Mullen, counsel to the Registrant, has rendered its opinion that (i) the Deferred Compensation Obligations, when issued pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Plan, will be II-4 legal, valid and binding obligations of the Registrant and (ii) any Shares which are original issue securities, when paid pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Plan, will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable. Julious P. Smith, Jr., a principal in Williams Mullen, is a director of the Registrant and beneficially owned an aggregate of 1000 shares of Common Stock as of November 27, 2001. Other attorneys employed by the firm beneficially owned an aggregate of 931 shares of the Registrant's Common Stock as of November 27, 2001. Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers Article 10 of Chapter 9 of Title 13.1 of the Code of Virginia (the "Code") permits a Virginia corporation to indemnify any director or officer for reasonable expenses incurred in any legal proceeding in advance of final disposition of the proceeding, if the director or officer furnishes the corporation a written statement of his good faith belief that he or she has met the standard of conduct prescribed by the Code, and a determination is made by the board of directors that such standard has been met. In a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation, no indemnification shall be made in respect of any matter as to which an officer or director is adjudged to be liable to the corporation, unless the court in which the proceeding took place determines that, despite such liability, such person is reasonably entitled to indemnification in view of all of the relevant circumstances. In any other proceeding, no indemnification shall be made if the director or officer is adjudged liable to the corporation on the basis that he improperly received a personal benefit. Corporations are given the power to make any other or further indemnity, including advance of expenses, to any director or officer that may be authorized by the articles of incorporation or any bylaw made by the shareholders, or any resolution adopted, before or after the event, by the shareholders, except an indemnity against willful misconduct or a knowing violation of the criminal law. Unless limited by its articles of incorporation, indemnification of a director or officer is mandatory when he or she entirely prevails in the defense of any proceeding to which he or she is a party because he or she is or was a director or officer. The Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant contain provisions indemnifying the directors and officers of the Registrant to the full extent permitted by Virginia law. In addition, the Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant eliminate the personal liability of the Registrant's directors and officers to the Registrant or its shareholders for monetary damages to the full extent permitted by Virginia law. Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed Not applicable. Item 8. Exhibits The following exhibits are filed on behalf of the Registrant as part of this Registration Statement: 4.1 Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3, File No. 33-56488. 4.2 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Registrant's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998, File No. 0-15981. 4.3 Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company Executive Voluntary Deferral Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2002.* 4.4 Form of Common Stock Certificate, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 of the Registrant's Form 8-A Registration Statement, filed June 12, 1987, File No. 0-15981. 5.1 Opinion of Williams Mullen. 23.1 Consent of Williams Mullen (included in Exhibit 5.1). 23.2 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.* 24 Powers of Attorney (included on Signature Page to original filing). ------------ *Filed herewith Item 9. Undertakings 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 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 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 Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement; and II-6 (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 paragraph (1)(i) and (1)(ii) shall not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with 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 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 that remain unsold at the termination of the offering. 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 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. 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 foregoing provisions, 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, 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. II-7 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 County of Henrico, Commonwealth of Virginia, on this 8th day of February, 2002. HILB, ROGAL AND HAMILTON COMPANY By: * ------------------------------------ Andrew L. Rogal Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 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 and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date --------- ----- ---- * Chairman, Chief Executive Officer February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- and Director Andrew L. Rogal (Principal Executive Officer) * Senior Vice President February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- and Chief Financial Officer Carolyn Jones (Principal Financial Officer) * Vice President and Controller February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- (Principal Accounting Officer) Robert W. Blanton, Jr. * Chairman Emeritus and Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- Robert H. Hilb Signature Title Date --------- ----- ---- * President, Chief Operating Officer February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- and Director Martin L. Vaughan, III * Executive Vice President, February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- Finance and Administration and Director Timothy J. Korman * Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- Theodore L. Chandler, Jr. * Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- Norwood H. Davis, Jr. * Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- Robert W. Fiondella * Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- J.S.M. French * Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- Anthony F. Markel * Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- Thomas H. O'Brien Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- David W. Searfoss * Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- Robert S. Ukrop Signature Title Date --------- ----- ---- * Director February 8, 2002 -------------------------------------------- Julious P. Smith, Jr.
* Walter L. Smith, by signing his name hereto, signs this document on behalf of each of the persons indicated by asterisk above pursuant to powers of attorney duly executed by such persons and previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of the registration statement. Date: February 8, 2002 /s/ Walter L. Smith ---------------------------------------- Walter L. Smith Attorney-in-Fact EXHIBIT INDEX ------------- TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT ---------------------- Exhibit Number Description of Exhibit ------ ---------------------- 4.1 Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3, File No. 33-56488. 4.2 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Registrant's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998, File No. 0-15981. 4.3 Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company Executive Voluntary Deferral Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2002.* 4.4 Form of Common Stock Certificate, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 of the Registrant's Form 8-A Registration Statement, filed June 12, 1987, File No. 0-15981. 5.1 Opinion of Williams Mullen. 23.1 Consent of Williams Mullen (included in Exhibit 5.1). 23.2 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.* 24 Powers of Attorney (included on Signature Page to original filing). ------------ *Filed herewith