As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 8, 2004.
File No. 333-________
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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BNP RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, INC.
(Exact Name of Issuer as Specified in its Charter)
Maryland 56-1574675
(State or Other Jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
Incorporation or Organization) Identification Number)
301 S. College Street, Suite 3850
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
Telephone: (704) 944-0100
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number of
Principal Executive Offices)
Boddie-Noell Restaurant Properties, Inc. 1994 Stock Option and Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
ERIC S. ROHM
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
BNP Residential Properties, Inc.
301 S. College Street, Suite 3850
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
Telephone: (704) 944-0100
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
ROBERT H. BERGDOLT
Alston & Bird LLP
3201 Beechleaf Court, Suite 600
Raleigh, North Carolina 27604-1062
Telephone: (919) 862-2216
Facsimile: (919) 862-2260
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Proposed Proposed
Title of Securities Amount to Maximum Maximum Amount of
to be Registered be Registered Offering Price Aggregate Registration Fee
Per Share Offering Price
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Common Stock, 570,000 (1) $13.69 (2) $7,803,300 (2) $988.68
$0.01 par value
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(1) Includes an aggregate of 570,000 shares to be issued pursuant to the grant
or exercise of awards under the Registrant's Amended and Restated 1994 Stock
Option and Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), including additional shares that may
become issuable in accordance with the adjustment and anti-dilution provisions
of such plan.
(2) Determined in accordance with Rule 457(h), the registration fee calculation
is based on the average of the high and low prices of the BNP Residential
Properties, Inc. (the "Company") Common Stock reported on the American Stock
Exchange on October 4, 2004.
PART I INFORMATION REQUIRED IN The Section 10(a) Prospectus
(a) The documents constituting Part I of this Registration Statement
will be sent or given to participants in the Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1)
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
(b) Upon written or oral request, the Company will provide, without
charge, the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II of this
Registration Statement. The documents are incorporated by reference in the
Section 10(a) prospectus. The Company will also provide, without charge, upon
written or oral request, other documents required to be delivered to employees
pursuant to Rule 428(b). Requests for the above-mentioned information should be
directed to Eric S. Rohm at the address and telephone number on the cover of
this Registration Statement.
PART II. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The following documents filed by the Company with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") are incorporated herein by reference
and are deemed to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such
documents:
(1) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2003;
(2) All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a)
or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since December 31, 2003;
(3) The description of Common Stock contained in the Company's
Registration Statement filed under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, including all
amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description;
(4) All other documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to
Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all
securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities that remain
unsold.
Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed
incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for the purpose of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is, or is
deemed to be, incorporated herein by reference 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. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel. Not applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Maryland corporation law and our charter exculpate each director and
officer in actions by the company or by stockholders in derivative actions from
liability unless the director or officer has received
an improper personal benefit in money, property or service or he has acted
dishonestly, as established by a final judgment of a court.
Our charter also provides that the company will indemnify a present or
former director or officer against expense or liability in an action to the
fullest extent permitted by Maryland law. Maryland law permits a corporation to
indemnify its present and former directors and officers, among others, against
judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable expenses they incur in
connection with any proceeding to which they are a party because of their
service as an officer, director or other similar capacity. However, Maryland law
prohibits indemnification if a court establishes that: (i) the act or omission
of the director or officer was material to the matter giving rise to the
proceeding and was committed in bad faith or was the result of active and
deliberate dishonesty; (ii) the director or officer actually received an
improper personal benefit in money, property or services; or (iii) in the case
of any criminal proceeding, the director or officer had reasonable cause to
believe that the act or omission was unlawful. The exculpation and
indemnification provisions in the charter have been adopted to help induce
qualified individuals to agree to serve on behalf of the company by providing a
degree of protection from liability for alleged mistakes in making decisions and
taking actions. You should be aware, however, that these provisions in our
charter and Maryland law give you a more limited right of action than you
otherwise would have in the absence of such provisions. We also maintain a
policy of directors and officers liability insurance covering certain
liabilities incurred by our directors and officers in connection with the
performance of their duties.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed. Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
See Exhibit Index, which is incorporated here by reference.
Item 9. Undertakings.
(a) The undersigned Company 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 of 1933;
(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
Commission 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; and
(iii) To include any material information with
respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
statement or any material change in such information in the registration
statement.
Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(l)(i) and (a)(l)(ii)
above do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and
the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Company 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 of 1933, 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) The undersigned issuer hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Company'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.
(h) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Company pursuant to Item 6 of this Part II, or otherwise, the
Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a
claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by
the Company of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the Company 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 Company 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 of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
(signatures on following page)
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 Charlotte, State of North Carolina, on the 8th day of
October, 2004.
BNP RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, INC.
By: /s/ D. Scott Wilkerson
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D. Scott Wilkerson
President and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW BY ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints D. Scott Wilkerson and Philip S. Payne,
and each or any one of them, as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents,
with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign any amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
said attorney-in-fact, or their 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 by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated:
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE
/s/ Philip S. Payne Chairman and Chief Financial Officer October 8, 2004
Philip S. Payne (Principal Financial and Accounting
Officer)
/s/ D. Scott Wilkerson President, Chief Executive Officer and October 8, 2004
D. Scott Wilkerson Director (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Stephen R. Blank Director October 8, 2004
Stephen R. Blank
/s/ Paul G. Chrysson Director October 8, 2004
Paul G. Chrysson
/s/ W. Michael Gilley Director October 8, 2004
W. Michael Gilley
/s/ Peter J. Weidhorn Director October 8, 2004
Peter J. Weidhorn
EXHIBIT INDEX
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FORM S-8
4.1 Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's
Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on March 23,
1999)
4.2 Amended and Restated By-laws of the Company (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Current Report on
Form 8-K filed by the Company on July 14, 2004)
5 Opinion of Alston & Bird LLP
23.1 Consent of Alston & Bird LLP (included in Exhibit 5)
23.2 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
24 Power of Attorney (included as part of signature page)
99.1 Amended and Restated 1994 Stock Option and Incentive Plan
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Company's
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending June 30, 1998)