S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 20, 2018

Registration No. 333-     

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Connecticut	1000 Stanley Drive New Britain, Connecticut 06053	06-0548860
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)	(Address of Principal Executive Offices Including Zip Code)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

Stanley Black & Decker 2018 Omnibus Award Plan

(Full Title of the Plan)

Janet M. Link, Esquire

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

1000 Stanley Drive

New Britain, Connecticut 06053

(860) 225-5111

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer	x		Accelerated filer	o
Non-accelerated filer	o	(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)	Smaller reporting company	o
			Emerging growth company	o

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). o

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of Securities to be Registered(1)			Amount to be Registered(1)	Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share(2)		Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(2)		Amount of Registration Fee
Common Stock, par value $2.50 per share			16,750,000	$	134.33	$	2,250,027,500	$	280,128.43
	(1)	Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act, this Registration Statement also covers additional securities that may become issuable under the Stanley Black & Decker 2018 Omnibus Award Plan (the “Plan”) by Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., a Connecticut corporation (the “Registrant”) by reason of certain corporate transactions or events, including any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the Registrant’s outstanding shares of Common Stock.
	(2)	Estimated for purposes of calculation of the Registration Fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) and based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock of the Registrant as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on July 17, 2018, a date that is within five business days prior to the date of the filing of this Registration Statement.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

ITEM 1. PLAN INFORMATION.*

ITEM 2. REGISTRANT INFORMATION AND EMPLOYEE PLAN ANNUAL INFORMATION.*

* The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I (along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof) will be sent or given to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act. In accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) and the “Note” in Part I of the Form S-8 instructions, such documents are not being filed with the Commission either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the Commission:

(1)Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2017, including portions of the Company’s proxy statement for the 2018 annual meeting of stockholders filed on March 9, 2018, to the extent specifically incorporated by reference therein;

(2)Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2018 and June 30, 2018;

(3)Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on March 2, 2018; April 23, 2018; July 9, 2018; and July 18, 2018 and the Report on Form 8-K/A filed on January 22, 2018; and

(4)the description of the Common Stock contained in the Registrant’s registration statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on November 1, 1985, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description (including the amendment filed on March 12, 2010).

In addition, all documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date hereof and 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 (except for documents or portions thereof that are deemed “furnished” and not filed with the Commission pursuant to applicable securities laws and regulations).

Any statement contained 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 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.

Not applicable.

ITEM 5.INTEREST OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

The validity of the Common Stock being registered pursuant to this Registration Statement has been passed upon by Janet M. Link, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Registrant. Ms. Link holds options to purchase the Registrant’s Common Stock, owns shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock and is a participant in the Plan.

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ITEM 6.INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

Connecticut Business Corporations Act. Sections 33-770 through 33-776 of the Connecticut Business Corporation Act provide that a corporation in Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.’s circumstances may indemnify a director or officer against judgments, fines, penalties, amounts paid in settlement and reasonable expenses actually incurred by him, including attorneys’ fees, for actions brought against him in his capacity as a director or officer, when it is determined by certain disinterested parties that he acted in good faith in a manner he reasonably believed to be in the corporation’s best interest (or in the case of conduct not in his official capacity, at least not opposed to the best interests of the corporation). In any criminal action or proceeding, it also must be determined that the director or officer had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. The director or officer must be indemnified when he is wholly successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of a proceeding or in circumstances where a court determines that he is entitled to indemnification or that it is fair and reasonable that the director or officer be indemnified. In connection with shareholder derivative suits, the director or officer may not be indemnified except for reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the proceeding (and then only if it is determined that he met the relevant standard of conduct described above), subject, however, to courts’ power under Section 33-774 to order indemnification. Unless ordered by a court under Section 33-774, a corporation may not indemnify a director with respect to conduct for which he was adjudged liable on the basis that he received a financial benefit to which he was not entitled, whether or not he was acting in his official capacity.

Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws. The Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Certificate of Incorporation provides that no director of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. will be personally liable to Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. or any of its shareholders for monetary damages in an amount greater than the compensation received by that director for serving Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. during the year of the violation to the extent permitted by applicable law, which permits such limitation provided that such violation must not involve a knowing and culpable violation of law, enable the director or an affiliate to receive an improper personal gain, show a lack of good faith and a conscious disregard for the director’s duty to the corporation, amount to an abdication of the director’s duty to the corporation, or create liability for an unlawful distribution. Our bylaws also provide for the indemnification of directors and officers to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Directors & Officers Insurance. Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. has purchased insurance providing officers and directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (and their heirs and other legal representatives) coverage against certain liabilities arising from any negligent act, error, omission or breach of duty claimed against them solely by reason of their being such officers and directors, and providing coverage for Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. against its obligation to provide indemnification as required by the above-described statute.

ITEM 7.EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

Not applicable.

ITEM 8.EXHIBITS.

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.	Exhibit Description
3.1	Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (3)(i) to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on May 2, 2012).
3.6	Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 on the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 18, 2018).
4.1	Specimen of Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 dated November 6, 2003).
5.1*	Opinion of Janet M. Link as to legality.

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23.1*	Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2*	Consent of Janet M. Link (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1*	Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Power of Attorney.
99.1(a)	Stanley Black & Decker 2018 Omnibus Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on July 20, 2018).
(b)	Form of stock option certificate for grants to executive officers pursuant to the Company’s 2018 Omnibus Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on July 20, 2018).
(c)	Form of restricted stock unit award certificate for grants to executive officers pursuant to the Company’s 2018 Omnibus Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on July 20, 2018).
(d)	Form of restricted stock unit retention award certificate for grants to executive officers pursuant to the Company’s 2018 Omnibus Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on July 20, 2018).

*Filed herewith.

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;

(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 a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement;

(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 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 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, 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; and

(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.

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(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 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.

(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act 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 Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities 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 Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, 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 New Britain, State of Connecticut, on this 20th day of July, 2018.

STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC.
By:	/s/ Janet M. Link
Name:	Janet M. Link
Title:	Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on this 20th day of July, 2018.

Signature	Title
/s/ James M. Loree	President & Chief Executive Officer
James M. Loree	(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Donald Allan Jr.	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
Donald Allan Jr.
/s/ Jocelyn S. Belisle	Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)
Jocelyn S. Belisle
*	Director
Andrea J. Ayers
*	Director
George W. Buckley
*	Director
Patrick D. Campbell
*	Director
Carlos M. Cardoso
*	Director
Robert B. Coutts
	Director
Debra A. Crew
*	Director
Michael D. Hankin
*	Director
Marianne Miller Parrs

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*	Director
Robert L. Ryan
*	Director
James H. Scholefield

* By:	/s/ Janet M. Link
	Janet M. Link Attorney-in-Fact

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EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

	Janet M. Link
	Senior Vice President,
	General Counsel & Secretary
	Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
	1000 Stanley Drive, New Britain, CT 06053

July 20, 2018

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

1000 Stanley Drive

New Britain, Connecticut 06053

RE:Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. — Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I am the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., a Connecticut corporation (the “Corporation”), and have assisted the Corporation in connection with the filing by the Corporation of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) relating to the registration of 16,750,000 shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock, par value $2.50 per share (the “Common Stock”), relating to the Corporation’s 2018 Omnibus Award Plan (the “Plan”).

I have examined the originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to my satisfaction, of the Plan and such other corporate records, documents, certificates or other instruments as in my judgment are necessary or appropriate to enable me to render the opinion set forth below. In rendering such opinion, I have assumed that grants of Common Stock subject to restrictions on transferability pursuant to the Plan will be made only for past services to the Corporation having an aggregate value not less than the aggregate par value of the Common Stock so granted.

Based on the foregoing, I am of the opinion that the authorized but not previously issued shares of Common Stock which may be issued under the Plan have been duly authorized and when issued in accordance with the terms of the Plan and any applicable award agreements will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

The foregoing opinion is limited to matters involving the federal laws of the United States of America and the Connecticut Business Corporations Act and I do not express any opinion as to the laws of any other jurisdiction.

I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Corporation’s Registration Statement. In giving such consent, I do not thereby admit that I am within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933 or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Janet M. Link

Janet M. Link

Senior Vice President,

General Counsel and Secretary

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the Stanley Black & Decker 2018 Omnibus Award Plan of our reports dated February 27, 2018, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and schedule of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of the Company included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 30, 2017, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

	/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Hartford, Connecticut
July 20, 2018

EX-24.1

Exhibit 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each of the undersigned officers and/or directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., a Connecticut corporation (the “Registrant”), does hereby make, constitute and appoint each of Janet M. Link and Kathryn P. Sherer, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to execute (a) a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Form S-8 Registration Statement”) under the Securities Act of 1933 concerning the Registrant’s common stock, par value $2.50 per share, to be offered in connection with certain equity compensation plans of the Registrant and its subsidiaries including, the Stanley Black & Decker 2018 Omnibus Award Plan, (b) any and all amendments and supplements to the Form S-8 Registration Statement, including post-effective amendments, and any additional registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and (c) other instruments necessary or appropriate in connection therewith, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary or desirable to be done, and to take or cause to be taken any and all such further actions in connection with such registration statement as such attorney-in-fact and agent, in his or her sole discretion, deems necessary or appropriate, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this power of attorney has been signed by the following persons in the capacities listed below on July 20, 2018.

Signature	Title
	President & Chief Executive Officer
James M. Loree	(Principal Executive Officer)
	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Donald Allan Jr.	(Principal Financial Officer)
	Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer
Jocelyn S. Belisle	(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Andrea J. Ayers	Director
Andrea J. Ayers
/s/ George W. Buckley	Director
George W. Buckley
/s/ Patrick D. Campbell	Director
Patrick D. Campbell
/s/ Carlos M. Cardoso	Director
Carlos M. Cardoso
/s/ Robert B. Coutts	Director
Robert B. Coutts

Signature	Title
	Director
Debra A. Crew
/s/ Michael D. Hankin	Director
Michael D. Hankin
/s/ Marianne Miller Parrs	Director
Marianne Miller Parrs
/s/ Robert L. Ryan	Director
Robert L. Ryan
/s/ James H. Scholefield	Director
James H. Scholefield
/s/ Dmitri L. Stockton	Director
Dmitri L. Stockton