As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 30, 2015

Registration No. 333-

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

The Securities Act of 1933

 

 

FORTINET, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		77-0560389
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

899 Kifer Road

Sunnyvale, California 94086

(Address, including zip code, of principal executive offices)

Meru Networks, Inc. 2010 Equity Incentive Plan

Meru Networks, Inc. 2013 New Employee Stock Inducement Plan

(Full title of the plan)

John Whittle

Vice President and General Counsel

Fortinet, Inc.

899 Kifer Road

Sunnyvale, California 94086

(Name and address of agent for service)

408-235-7700

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

Copy to:

Jeffrey R. Vetter

Fenwick & West LLP

801 California Street

Mountain View, California 94041

650-988-8500

 

 

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 smaller reporting company)		Smaller reporting company		¨

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Securities To Be Registered		Amount To Be Registered (1)		Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share		Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price		Amount of Registration Fee
Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share, issuable in respect of assumed restricted stock units (2)		53,401(2)		$46.90(3)		$2,504,506.90(3)		$291.03(3)

(1)

Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of the Registrant’s common stock that become issuable in respect of the securities identified in the above table by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without the Registrant’s receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of the Registrant’s common stock.

(2)

Represents (i) 52,430 shares of the Registrant’s common stock subject to issuance pursuant to restricted stock units outstanding under the Meru Networks, Inc. 2010 Equity Incentive Plan and (ii) 971 shares of the Registrant’s common stock subject to issuance pursuant to restricted stock units outstanding under the Meru Networks, Inc. 2013 New Employee Stock Inducement Plan, each assumed by the Registrant on July 8, 2015 pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) by and among the Registrant, Meru Networks, Inc., and Malbrouck Acquisition Corp., dated as of May 27, 2015.

(3)	Calculated solely for the purposes of this offering under Rule 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on the basis of the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s common stock as reported on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on July 28, 2015.

 

 

 

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FORTINET, INC.

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS

The documents containing the information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) will be sent or given to employees, officers, directors or others as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) and the instructions to the Registration Statement, 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.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

Fortinet, Inc. (the “Registrant”) hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the Commission:

 

(a)

The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 filed with the Commission on March 2, 2015 pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”);

 

(b)

All other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Registrant’s Annual Report referred to in (a) above; and

 

(c)

The description of the Registrant’s common stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (No. 000-34511) filed with the Commission on October 28, 2009, pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, and including any other amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All reports and definitive proxy or information statements filed pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which de-registers all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents, except as to specific sections of such statements as set forth therein. Unless expressly incorporated into this Registration Statement, a report furnished on Form 8-K prior or subsequent to the date hereof shall not be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. 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 in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such 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.

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a corporation’s board of directors to grant, and authorizes a court to award, indemnity to officers, directors and other corporate agents.

As permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL, the Registrant’s certificate of incorporation includes provisions that eliminate the personal liability of its directors and officers for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duty as directors and officers.

 

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In addition, as permitted by Section 145 of the DGCL, the bylaws of the Registrant provide that:

 

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The Registrant shall indemnify its directors and officers for serving the Registrant in those capacities or for serving other business enterprises at the Registrant’s request, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Delaware law provides that a corporation may indemnify such person if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the registrant and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful.

 

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The Registrant may, in its discretion, indemnify employees and agents in those circumstances where indemnification is permitted by applicable law.

 

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The Registrant is required to advance expenses, as incurred, to its directors and officers in connection with defending a proceeding, except that such director or officer shall undertake to repay such advances if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to indemnification.

 

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The Registrant will not be obligated pursuant to the bylaws to indemnify a person with respect to proceedings initiated by that person, except with respect to proceedings authorized by the Registrant’s board of directors or brought to enforce a right to indemnification.

 

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The rights conferred in the bylaws are not exclusive, and the Registrant is authorized to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors, officers, employees and agents and to obtain insurance to indemnify such persons.

 

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The Registrant may not retroactively amend the bylaws provisions to reduce its indemnification obligations to directors, officers, employees and agents.

The Registrant’s policy is to enter into separate indemnification agreements with each of its directors and officers that provide the maximum indemnity allowed to directors and executive officers by Section 145 of the DGCL and also provides for certain additional procedural protections. The Registrant also maintains directors and officers insurance to insure such persons against certain liabilities.

These indemnification provisions and the indemnification agreements entered into between the Registrant and its officers and directors may be sufficiently broad to permit indemnification of the Registrant’s officers and directors for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

Exhibit Number		Exhibit Description
5.1		Opinion of Fenwick & West LLP.
23.1		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2		Consent of Fenwick & West LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
24		Power of Attorney (included on Signature Page).
99.1		Meru Networks, Inc. 2010 Equity Incentive Plan.
99.2		Meru Networks, Inc. 2013 New Employee Stock Inducement Plan.
99.3		Forms of Fortinet, Inc. Restricted Stock Unit Assumption Agreement.

 

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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 this 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 clauses (1)(i) and (1)(ii) shall not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those clauses is contained in periodic 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 this 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 that remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

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 Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference into this 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 indemnification provisions summarized in Item 6, 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 of 1933, 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 Sunnyvale, State of California, on this 30th day of July, 2015.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Ken Xie and Andrew Del Matto, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney in fact and agent with full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement (including post effective amendments or any abbreviated registration statement and any amendments thereto filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) increasing the number of securities for which registration is sought), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney in fact and agent 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 for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney in fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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.

 

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Signature		Title		Date
/s/ Ken Xie		Chief Executive Officer and Chairman		July 30, 2015
Ken Xie		(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Andrew Del Matto		Chief Financial Officer		July 30, 2015
Andrew Del Matto		(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Michael Xie		President, Chief Technology Officer and Director		July 30, 2015
Michael Xie
/s/ Ming Hsieh		Director		July 30, 2015
Ming Hsieh
		Director
Judith Sim
/s/ Hong Liang Lu		Director		July 30, 2015
Hong Liang Lu
		Director
William H. Neukom
/s/ Christopher B. Paisley		Director		July 30, 2015
Christopher B. Paisley
/s/ Keith Jensen		Principal Accounting Officer		July 30, 2015
Keith Jensen

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit Number		Exhibit Description
5.1		Opinion and Consent of Fenwick & West LLP.
23.1		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2		Consent of Fenwick & West LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
24		Power of Attorney (incorporated by reference to Page II-5 of this Registration Statement).
99.1		Meru Networks, Inc. 2010 Equity Incentive Plan.
99.2		Meru Networks, Inc. 2013 New Employee Stock Inducement Plan.
99.3		Forms of Fortinet, Inc. Restricted Stock Unit Assumption Agreement.

 

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