Registration No. 333-_______

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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

               

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American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc.

 

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

                

Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

38-3161171 (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

                        

One Dauch Drive
Detroit, Michigan 48211
(313) 758-2000
(Address of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

                                          

 

                              

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Copies to:
Shearman & Sterling LLP
599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022
(212) 848-8159

 

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.  (Check one):

                           

Large accelerated filer	☒		Accelerated Filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☐		Smaller reporting company	☐
			Emerging growth company	☐

                           

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

 

 

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(1)

Pursuant to Rule 416(a) and Rule 416(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of the Registrant’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”) in respect of the securities identified in the above table as a result of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transactions.  Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the Amended and Restated American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. 2012 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

 

(2)

The Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share, estimated in accordance with Rule 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act for purposes of calculating the registration fee, is $13.59, which was determined based on the average of the high and the low prices of Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on August 29, 2017.

 

(3)	Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(a) under the Securities Act.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

 

The information required by Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this filing in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the introductory note to Part I of Form S-8.  The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered to the participants in the Plans covered by this Registration Statement as required by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act.

 

Part II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3.

Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

 

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

 

(a)          the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 (filed February 10, 2017);

 

(b)          the Registrant’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended on March 31, 2017 (filed May 05, 2017) and June 30, 2017 (filed July 28, 2017);

 

(c)          the Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed February 23, 2017, March 06, 2017, March 06, 2017, March 07, 2017, March 09, 2017, March 23, 2017, March 29, 2017, April 03, 2017, April 05, 2017, April 06, 2017, April 12, 2017, May 5, 2017,  May 17, 2017, and July 28, 2017;

 

(d)          the description of the Registrant’s Common Stock which is contained in the registration statement on Form S-3ASR dated March 30, 2017 (Commission File No. 333-217033), including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description; and

 

(e)          the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 424B3, filed March 06, 2017.

 

All other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (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 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 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 herein or in any other subsequently filed document that 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 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 General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended, provides that under certain circumstances a corporation may 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, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or is or was serving at its request in such capacity in another corporation or business association, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding 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 corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful.

 

Article Sixth of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) provides for the indemnification of the Registrant’s directors and officers. The Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director will not be personally liable for monetary damages to the Registrant or its stockholders for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under Delaware Law. The Certificate of Incorporation also provides that each current or former director, officer, employee or agent of the Registrant, or each such person who is or was serving or who had agreed to serve at the request of the Registrant as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including the heirs, executors, administrators or estate of such person), will be indemnified by the Registrant to the full extent permitted by Delaware Law, as the same exists or may in the future be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Registrant to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the Registrant to provide prior to such amendment). The Certificate of Incorporation also specifically authorizes the Registrant to enter into agreements with any person providing for indemnification greater or different than that provided by the Certificate of Incorporation.

 

Item 7.

Exemption from Registration Claimed.

 

Not applicable.

 

 

Item 8.

Exhibits.

 

See attached Exhibit list.

 

Item 9.

Undertakings.

 

(1)          To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 

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 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 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.

 

The undersigned Registrant further undertakes that, 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 foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC 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, 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.

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

The Registrant.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, 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 Detroit, Michigan on this 1st day of September, 2017.

 

	AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING HOLDINGS, INC.
	By:	/s/ Christopher J. May
	Name:	Christopher J. May
	Title:	Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Christopher J. May and David E. Barnes his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each of whom may act alone, 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) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to sign any related registration statement that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all post-effective amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other 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 and about the premises, 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 his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the 1st day of September, 2017.

 

Signature		Title
/s/David C. Dauch
David C. Dauch		Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer/Director (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/Christopher J. May
Christopher J. May		Vice President & Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) (Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/Elizabeth A. Chappell
Elizabeth A. Chappell		Director
/s/Loren S. Easton
Loren S. Easton		Director
/s/William L. Kozyra
William L. Kozyra		Director
/s/Peter D. Lyons
Peter D. Lyons		Director

/s/James A. McCaslin
James A. McCaslin		Director
/s/William P. Miller II
William P. Miller II		Director
/s/Kevin S. Penn
Kevin S. Penn		Director
/s/John F. Smith
John F. Smith		Director
/s/George Thanopoulos
George Thanopoulos		Director
/s/Samuel Valenti III
Samuel Valenti III		Director

 

 

 

 

         

Exhibit Index

 

The following exhibits are filed as part of this Registration Statement: