3 1 frankfm3.txt FRANKFORM3 U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 3 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Frank Daniel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) c/o Cerberus Partners, L.P., 450 Park Avenue - 28th Floor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) New York NY 10022 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 12/12/01 ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol i-STAT Corporation (STAT) ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) 1 [X] Director [ ] 10% Owner [ ] Officer (give title below) [ ] Other (specify below) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year) ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [X] Form Filed by One Reporting Person [ ] Form Filed by More than One Reporting Person ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned ================================================================================
3. Ownership Form: 2. Amount of Securities Direct (D) or 1. Title of Security Beneficially Owned Indirect (I) 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4) (Instr. 4) (Instr. 5) (Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock, par value $.15 per share 89,700 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ====================================================================================================================================
* If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 5(b)(v). Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Print of Type Responses) (Over) FORM 3 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================
5. Owner- 3. Title and Amount of Securities ship Underlying Derivative Security Form of 2. Date Exercisable (Instr. 4) Derivative and Expiration Date --------------------------------- 4. Conver- Security: (Month/Day/Year) Amount sion or Direct 6. Nature of ---------------------- or Exercise (D) or Indirect Date Expira- Number Price of Indirect Beneficial 1. Title of Derivative Exer- tion of Derivative (I) Ownership Security (Instr. 4) cisable Date Title Shares Security (Instr. 5) (Instr. 5) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ====================================================================================================================================
Explanation of Responses: 1 The reporting person became a director of the Company on December 12, 2001. The reporting person individually holds the shares of common stock (the "Common Stock") of I-STAT Corporation (the "Company") set forth in Table I. The reporting person is an employee of Cerberus Partners, L.P., which, along with certain of its affiliates, owns certain securities of the Company, all of which are subject to the sole voting and investment authority of Stephen Feinberg ("SF"). SF, in his capacity as the holder of sole voting and investment authority of more than 10% of the Common Stock of the Company pursuant to Reg. 13d-3, separately files statements pursuant to Section 13 and Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The reporting person does not exercise any voting, investment or other authority with respect to the shares of the Common Stock separately reported by SF, SF does not exercise any voting, investment or other authority with respect to the shares of Common Stock held by the reporting person and each of the reporting person and SF at all times acts independent of one another with respect to their holdings of securities of the Company. /s/ Daniel Frank December 20, 2001 --------------------------------------------- ----------------------- **Signature of Reporting Person Date ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. (Print of Type Responses) Page 2