0001140361-12-000982.txt : 20120104 0001140361-12-000982.hdr.sgml : 20120104 20120104180154 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001140361-12-000982 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20111231 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120104 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120104 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ELLIOTT JOHN RAYMOND CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001238656 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-11083 FILM NUMBER: 12508027 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O ZIMMER INC STREET 2: PO BOX 708 CITY: WARSAW STATE: IN ZIP: 46580 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000885725 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SURGICAL & MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS & APPARATUS [3841] IRS NUMBER: 042695240 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE BOSTON SCIENTIFIC PL CITY: NATICK STATE: MA ZIP: 01760-1537 BUSINESS PHONE: 508-650-8000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE BOSTON SCIENTIFIC PL CITY: NATICK STATE: MA ZIP: 01760-1537 4 1 doc1.xml FORM 4 X0304 4 2011-12-31 0 0000885725 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP BSX 0001238656 ELLIOTT JOHN RAYMOND ONE BOSTON SCIENTIFIC PLACE NATICK MA 01760-1537 1 0 0 0 Common Stock 2011-12-31 4 M 0 333333 0 A 742843 D Common Stock 2011-12-31 4 F 0 139167 5.34 D 603676 D Restricted Deferred Stock Units 2011-12-31 4 M 0 333333 0 D Common Stock 333333 0 D Each deferred stock unit represents the Company's commitment to issue one share of Boston Scientific common stock. The Company's closing stock price on December 30, 2011. One third of the shares vested on June 23, 2010, the first anniversary of the award, and thereafter 1/36th of the shares vest on each subsequent monthly anniversary until the award is fully vested on the third anniversary of the award provided the reporting person is still an employee of the Company. Vested shares of common stock will be issued and income tax withholding amounts will be assessed to the reporting person on December 31 of the year shares vest. The remaining 166,667 restricted deferred stock units forfeited as of December 31, 2011 in connection with the reporting person's retirement from the Company. Exhibit 24.1 Power of Attorney /s/ Theresa R. Boni, Attorney-in-Fact 2012-01-04 EX-24.1 2 poa1.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY elliott_poa.htm
POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these present that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Vance R. Brown, Theresa R. Boni, Anne M. Thompson, Michelle K. Gewandter and Linda M. Tibbetts signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

 
(1)
execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an executive officer and/or director of Boston Scientific Corporation (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5, and amendments thereto, in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

 
(2)
do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority;

 
(3)
execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an executive officer and/or director of the Company, Forms 144 in accordance with Rule 144 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933, as amended and the rules and regulations thereunder; and

 
(4)
take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 and Forms 144 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 7th day of February, 2011.

 
/s/J. Raymond Elliott 
 
J. Raymond Elliott