As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2012
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
MBIA INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Connecticut | 06-1185706 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
113 King Street
Armonk, New York 10504
(Address of Principal Executive Offices including Zip Code)
MBIA Inc. 2005 Omnibus Incentive Plan
(Full title of the Plan)
Ram D. Wertheim, Esq.
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
MBIA Inc.
113 King Street
Armonk, New York 10504
(914) 765-3945
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of large accelerated filer, accelerated filer and smaller reporting company in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer x | Accelerated filer ¨ | |
Non-accelerated filer (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) ¨ | Smaller reporting company ¨ |
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of |
Amount to be registered |
Proposed maximum offering price per share |
Proposed maximum aggregate offering price |
Amount of registration fee | ||||
Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share | 4,000,000(1) | $10.78(2) | $43,120,000(2) | $4,941.56 |
(1) | Consists of shares of Common Stock to be issued under the MBIA Inc. 2005 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the Plan). A total of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock available under the Plan were previously registered, of which 6,000,000 shares were registered on a Form S-8 filed on August 15, 2005 and 4,000,000 shares were registered on a Form S-8 filed on June 1, 2009. Such undeterminable number of additional shares as may be issuable pursuant to the operation of the recapitalization provisions of the Plan are hereby also registered. |
(2) | Computed pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933 solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee, based upon an assumed price of $10.78 per share, which is the average of the high and low prices of MBIA Inc. Common Stock on August 22, 2012, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange Consolidated Tape. |
EXPLANATORY NOTE
MBIA Inc. (the Company) is filing this registration statement in accordance with Instruction E to Form S-8 to register 4,000,000 additional shares of common stock, par value $1.00 per share (the Common Stock) of the Company that may be issuable pursuant to the MBIA Inc. 2005 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the Plan). The contents of the Companys original Registration Statement on Form S-8, Registration Statement No. 333-127539, filed on August 15, 2005, and additional Registration Statement on Form S-8, Registration Statement No. 333-159648, filed on June 1, 2009, are incorporated herein by reference. The additional 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock that are subject of this Registration Statement relate to the increase in the number of authorized shares available for issuance under the Plan as approved by the Companys shareholders at the Companys annual meeting held on May 1, 2012.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company 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 Armonk, State of New York on August 24, 2012.
MBIA INC. | ||
By: | /s/Joseph W. Brown | |
Joseph W. Brown | ||
Chief Executive Officer |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signatures |
Title |
Date | ||
/s/Joseph W. Brown Joseph W. Brown |
Chief Executive Officer and Director |
August 24, 2012 | ||
/s/C. Edward Chaplin C. Edward Chaplin |
President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer |
August 24, 2012 | ||
/s/Douglas C. Hamilton Douglas C. Hamilton |
Controller |
August 24, 2012 | ||
/s/Maryann Bruce Maryann Bruce |
Director |
August 24, 2012 | ||
/s/David A. Coulter David A. Coulter |
Director |
August 24, 2012 | ||
/s/Steven J. Gilbert Steven J. Gilbert |
Director |
August 24, 2012 | ||
/s/Daniel P. Kearney Daniel P. Kearney |
Chairman and Director |
August 24, 2012 | ||
/s/Kewsong Lee Kewsong Lee |
Director |
August 24, 2012 |
/s/Charles R. Rinehart Charles R. Rinehart |
Director |
August 24, 2012 | ||
/s/Theodore Shasta Theodore Shasta |
Director |
August 24, 2012 | ||
/s/Richard C. Vaughan Richard C. Vaughan |
Director |
August 24, 2012 |
Index to Exhibits
Exhibit |
Description of Exhibit | |
4.1 | Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, dated May 5, 2005, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005. | |
4.2 | Companys By-laws as Amended as of July 14, 2009, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 16, 2009. | |
5 | Opinion of Day Pitney LLP as to the legality of securities to be registered (filed herewith). | |
10.1 | MBIA Inc. 2005 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended through March 2012, incorporated by reference to Exhibit A of the Companys Definitive Proxy Statement filed on March 19, 2012. | |
23.1 | Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (filed herewith). | |
23.2 | Consent of Day Pitney LLP (included in Exhibit 5). |