As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 12, 2010
Registration No. 333-________
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware
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11-2139466
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(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
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68 South Service Road, Suite 230
Melville, New York 11747
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
THE COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP.
2000 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
Amended and Restated Effective as of October 18, 2009
(Incorporating Amendments Effective on or Before November 9, 2009)
(Full title of the plan)
Fred Kornberg
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
68 South Service Road, Suite 230
Melville, New York 11747
(631) 962-7000
(Name, address including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies of all communications to:
Robert A. Cantone, Esq.
Proskauer Rose LLP
1585 Broadway
New York, New York 10036
(212) 969-3000
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.
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Securities To
Be Registered
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Amount To Be
Registered (1)
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Proposed Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share (2)
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Proposed Maximum
Aggregate Offering
Price (2)
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Amount Of
Registration
Fee (3)
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Common Stock,
par value $.10 per
share
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3,225,000 shares
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$31.62
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$101,974,500
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$7,270.78
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(1)
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Represents the additional shares of common stock, par value $.10 (“Common Stock”), of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (the “Registrant”) issuable under the Comtech Telecommunications Corp. 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, Amended and Restated Effective as of October 18, 2009 (incorporating amendments effective on or before November 9, 2009) (the “Plan”).
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Pursuant to Rule 416 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) this Registration Statement also registers such additional shares of Common Stock as may be offered or issued under the Plan to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
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(2)
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Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee, pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h)(1) under the Securities Act, on the basis of the high and low sale prices of the Registrant’s Common Stock as reported by the NASDAQ Global Select Market on May 7, 2010.
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(3)
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Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, a filing fee is only being paid with respect to the registration of additional securities for the Plan. The existing securities under the Plan were registered, and the correlating filing fee paid, pursuant to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on December 12, 2000 (Registration No. 333-51708) and the post-effective amendments to such Registration Statement filed on January 18, 2002 and October 22, 2003, the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on June 8, 2005 (Registration No. 333-125625), and the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on June 6, 2007 (Registration No. 333-143548).
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Explanatory Note
Incorporation by Reference. This Registration Statement is filed pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8. The contents of each of the Registration Statements on Form S-8 (Registration Nos. 333-51708, 333-125625, and 333-143548) (collectively, the “Prior Registration Statements”) are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof, except as otherwise updated or modified by this Registration Statement.
Registration of Additional Shares of Common Stock Under the Plan. This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by the Registrant to register an additional 3,225,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.10 per share (“Common Stock”), of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (the “Registrant”), which may be awarded under the Comtech Telecommunications Corp. 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, Amended and Restated Effective as of October 18, 2009 (incorporating amendments effective on or before November 9, 2009) (the “Plan”).
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
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Item 3.
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Incorporation of Documents By Reference.
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The Registrant incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the contents of the Prior Registration Statements and the following documents filed with the Commission (excluding any portions of such documentation that have been “furnished” but not “filed” for purposes of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)):
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(1)
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the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2009, filed with the Commission on September 23, 2009; and Amendment No. 1 thereto, filed with the Commission on May 10, 2010;
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the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2009, filed with the Commission on December 8, 2009; and the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2010, filed with the Commission on March 3, 2010;
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the Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K dated August 18, 2009, filed with the Commission on August 18, 2009; dated September 22, 2009, filed with the Commission on September 24, 2009; dated November 13, 2009, filed with the Commission on November 13, 2009; dated December 9, 2009, filed with the Commission on December 14, 2009; dated January 28, 2010, filed with the Commission on January 28, 2010; dated May 5, 2010, filed with the Commission on May 5, 2010; and dated May 10, 2010, filed with the Commission on May 11, 2010;
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the description of the Registrant’s Common Stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission on November 22, 1974, as amended by the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on December 11, 2000;
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the description of the Registrant’s preferred stock, $0.10 par value, contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission on December 22, 1998, as amended by the Registrant’s Amended Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A, filed with the Commission on December 23, 1998; and
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all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date of this registration statement 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.
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Any statement contained in this Registration Statement or a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the 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 statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
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Item 4.
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Description of Securities.
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Not Applicable.
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Item 5.
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Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
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The validity of the shares of Common Stock offered hereby will be passed upon for the Registrant by the law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP, 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036. Richard L. Goldberg, a member of the Registrant’s Board of Directors, is a partner in said firm.
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Item 6.
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Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
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As permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) of the State of Delaware, Article VII of the Registrant’s Amended and Restated By-Laws contains the following provisions regarding indemnification of directors and officers:
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Section 1. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer or employee of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement, actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
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Section 2. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer or employee of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
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Section 3. To the extent that a director, officer or employee of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Sections 1 and 2 of this Article VII, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith.
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Section 4. Any indemnification under Sections 1 and 2 of this Article VII (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director, officer or employee is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in said Sections 1 and 2. Such determination shall be made (1) by the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (2) if such quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (3) by the stockholders.
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Section 5. Expenses incurred in defending a civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding, or threat thereof, may be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding as authorized by the Board of Directors in the specific case upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director, officer or employee to repay such amount unless it shall ultimately be determined that he is entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article VII.
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Section 6. The indemnification provided by this Article VII shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any By-Law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, statute, court decision, insurance policy or otherwise, now or hereafter in effect, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer or employee and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
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Section 7. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer or employee of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of this Article VII or of the DGCL.
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Section 8. For purposes of this Article VII, references to “other enterprises” shall include employee benefit plans; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer or employee of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer or employee with respect to any employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acting in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believes to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation” as referred to in this Article VII.
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On March 7, 2007, the Board of Directors approved and authorized the Registrant to enter into agreements with each of its non-employee directors, its principal executive officer, principal financial officer, other named executive officers and other corporate officers, pursuant to which the directors and such officers shall be entitled to be indemnified by the Registrant, to the extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, against liabilities incurred in the performance of their duties, subject to certain exceptions. The foregoing description of such agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the form of Indemnification Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed March 8, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference.
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Item 7.
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Exemption from Registration Claimed.
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Not Applicable.
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* Filed herewith.
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Item 9.
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Undertakings.
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(a)
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The Registrant hereby undertakes:
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(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
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(i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933.
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(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 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement.
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(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.
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Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) above 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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this registration statement.
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(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.
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(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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(4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:
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(i) If the Registrant is relying on Rule 430B:
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(A) Each prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and
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(B) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in this registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the Registrant and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of this registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into this registration statement or prospectus that is part of this registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of this registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; or
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(ii) If the Registrant is subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of this registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into this registration statement or prospectus that is part of this registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of this registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.
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(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities:
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The Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the Registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:
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(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;
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(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the Registrant or used or referred to by the Registrant;
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(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the Registrant; and
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(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the Registrant to the purchaser.
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(b) The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, 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 of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the indemnification provisions described in Item 6 above or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the 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 hereby, 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 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, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Melville, State of New York, on May 12, 2010.
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COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP.
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By
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/s/ Fred Kornberg
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Fred Kornberg
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Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
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Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Fred Kornberg and Michael D. Porcelain and each of them his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements 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, and hereby grants to such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, 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 either of them, or their 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 Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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/s/ Fred Kornberg
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Chairman of the Board,
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May 12, 2010
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Fred Kornberg
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Chief Executive Officer and President
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/s/ Michael D. Porcelain
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Senior Vice President
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Michael D. Porcelain
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and Chief Financial Officer
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/s/ Richard L. Goldberg
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Director
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Richard L. Goldberg
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/s/ Edwin Kantor
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Director
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/s/ Ira Kaplan
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Director
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/s/ Gerard R. Nocita
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Director
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/s/ Robert G. Paul
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Director
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