As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 1, 2016.

Registration No. 333-___________

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		04-2797789
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

60 Acorn Park Drive

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140

(617) 613-6000

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

 

Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

 

GAIL S. MANN, ESQ.

Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

Forrester Research, Inc.

60 Acorn Park Drive

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140

(Name and address of agent for service)

(617) 613-6000

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copy to:

ROBERT V. JAHRLING, III, ESQ.

Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

Two International Place

Boston, MA 02110

(617) 248-5000

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Securities to be Registered		Amount to be   Registered(1)(2)		Proposed Maximum   Offering Price   Per Share(3)		Proposed Maximum   Offering Price		Amount of   Registration Fee(4)
Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan, Common Stock, $.01 par value		2,000,000 shares		$36.23		$72,460,000		$8,398.12

(1)

An additional 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Forrester Research, Inc. (“Forrester” or the “Company”) not previously registered have been authorized for issuance pursuant to Forrester’s Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and such additional shares are registered hereby. Upon the filing and effectiveness of this Registration Statement on Form S-8, the total number of shares of Common Stock registered pursuant to the Plan will be 7,133,025 shares.

(2)

This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of Common Stock which become issuable under the Plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or reorganization of the Company which results in an increase in the number of the Company’s outstanding shares of Common Stock.

(3)

The price of $36.23 per share, which is the average of the high and low sales prices per share of Common Stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on October 28, 2016 is set forth solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

(4)	Calculated pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

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REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES

AND

INCORPORATION OF EARLIER REGISTRATION STATEMENT BY REFERENCE

This Registration Statement registers additional securities of the same class as other securities for which the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-136109), as filed by Forrester Research, Inc. (“Forrester”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 28, 2006, is effective. Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement is being filed to register an additional 2,000,000 shares authorized under Forrester’s Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) not previously registered. An amendment to the Plan to increase the reserved and authorized number of shares under the Plan by 2,000,000 was authorized by the Company’s Board of Directors on March 24, 2016 and such amendment was approved by the Company’s stockholders on May 17, 2016. The contents of the prior Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-136109 and File No. 333-189089) are incorporated herein by reference, except as amended hereby.

 

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PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

The documents containing the information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Form S-8 will be sent or given to the employees who have been granted awards under the Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act. In accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC and the instructions to Form S-8, such documents are not being filed with the SEC either as part of this Registration Statement or as Prospectuses or Prospectus Supplements pursuant to Rule 424.

 

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PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

The following documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference as of their respective dates:

 

(a)

Forrester’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015, filed on March 11, 2016 (File No. 000-21433);

 

(b)

Forrester’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2016, filed on May 10, 2016 and June 30, 2016, filed on August 9, 2016 (File No. 000-21433), and Forrester’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on February 10, 2016, April 27, 2016, May 20, 2016, July 27, 2016, and October 26, 2016 (File No. 000-21433); and

 

(c)

The section entitled “Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered” contained in Forrester’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on November 15, 1996 (File No. 000-21433).

All documents subsequently filed with the SEC by Forrester 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 herein have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in this Registration Statement 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 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

Forrester’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that Forrester’s directors shall not be liable to Forrester or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent that the exculpation from liabilities is not permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law as in effect at the time such liability is determined. The Restated Certificate of Incorporation also provides that Forrester shall indemnify its directors and officers to the full extent permitted by the laws of the State of Delaware. Forrester also maintains directors’ and officers’ liability insurance to insure its directors and certain officers against certain liabilities and expenses which arise out of or in connection with their capacities as directors and officers.

 

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ITEM 8. EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit No.		Description of Exhibit
Exhibit 4.1		Specimen certificate representing the Common Stock of Forrester (filed as Exhibit 4 to Forrester’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1 previously filed with the SEC on November 5, 1996 (File No. 333-12761) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 4.2		Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Forrester (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Forrester’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1 previously filed with the SEC on November 5, 1996 (File No. 333-12761) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 4.3		Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of Forrester (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Forrester’s Annual Report on Form 10-K previously filed with the SEC on March 10, 2000 (File No. 000-21433) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 4.4		Amended and Restated By-Laws of Forrester (filed as Exhibit 3.3 to Forrester’s Annual Report on Form 10-K previously filed with the SEC on March 18, 2013 (File No. 000-21433) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 4.5		Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (filed as Appendix A to Forrester’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on April 4, 2016 (File No. 000-21433) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 5.1		Opinion of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP.
Exhibit 23.1		Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Exhibit 23.2		Consent of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
Exhibit 24.1		Power of Attorney (included as part of the signature page to this Registration Statement).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.

 

(a)	Forrester 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 and of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of Prospectus filed with the SEC 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.

 

(iii)

To include any additional or changed 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.

 

(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.

 

(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.

 

(b)

Forrester hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of Forrester’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.

 

(c)

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of Forrester pursuant to applicable indemnification provisions, Forrester has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC 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 Forrester of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of Forrester 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 hereby, Forrester 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 of 1933, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing a 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 Cambridge, Commonwealth of Massachusetts on October 25, 2016.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each individual whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints George F. Colony, Michael A. Doyle and Gail S. Mann, jointly and severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full powers of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all supplements, amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below on the dates indicated by the following persons in the capacities indicated.

 

Signature		Capacity In Which Signed		Date
/s/ George F. Colony George F. Colony		Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)		October 25, 2016
/s/ Michael A. Doyle Michael A. Doyle		Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)		October 25, 2016
/s/ Scott R. Chouinard Scott R. Chouinard		Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer (Principal Accounting Officer)		October 25, 2016
/s/ Henk W. Broeders Henk W. Broeders		Member of the Board of Directors		October 25, 2016
/s/ Robert M. Galford Robert M. Galford		Member of the Board of Directors		October 26, 2016
/s/ George R. Hornig George R. Hornig		Member of the Board of Directors		October 25, 2016
/s/ Gretchen Teichgraeber Gretchen Teichgraeber		Member of the Board of Directors		October 25, 2016
/s/ Michael H. Welles Michael H. Welles		Member of the Board of Directors		October 25, 2016

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit No.		Description of Exhibit
Exhibit 4.1		Specimen certificate representing the Common Stock of Forrester (filed as Exhibit 4 to Forrester’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1 previously filed with the SEC on November 5, 1996 (File No. 333-12761) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 4.2		Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Forrester (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Forrester’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1 previously filed with the SEC on November 5, 1996 (File No. 333-12761) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 4.3		Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of Forrester (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Forrester’s Annual Report on Form 10-K previously filed with the SEC on March 10, 2000 (File No. 000-21433) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 4.4		Amended and Restated By-Laws of Forrester (filed as Exhibit 3.3 to Forrester’s Annual Report on Form 10-K previously filed with the SEC on March 18, 2013 (File No. 000-21433) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 4.5		Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (filed as Appendix A to Forrester’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on April 4, 2016 (File No. 000-21433) and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit 5.1		Opinion of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP.
Exhibit 23.1		Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Exhibit 23.2		Consent of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
Exhibit 24.1		Power of Attorney (included as part of the signature page to this Registration Statement).

 

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Exhibit 5.1

November 1, 2016

Forrester Research, Inc.

60 Acorn Park Drive

Cambridge, MA 02140

 

Re:

Registration Statement on Form S-8 Relating to the Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) of Forrester Research, Inc. (the “Company”)

Dear Sir or Madam:

Reference is made to the above-captioned Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by the Company on the date hereof with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to an additional 2,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company issuable pursuant to the Plan (the “Shares”).

We have examined, and are familiar with, and have relied as to factual matters solely upon, a copy of the Plan, the Company’s restated certificate of incorporation, the amended and restated by-laws of the Company, the minute books and stock records of the Company and originals of such other documents, certificates and proceedings as we have deemed necessary for the purpose of rendering this opinion.

Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Plan and the terms of any agreement relating to any of the options granted thereunder, will be legally issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

CHOATE, HALL & STEWART LLP

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of our report dated March 11, 2016 relating to the consolidated financial statements and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in Forrester Research, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

November 1, 2016