FORM S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 12, 2011

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

QuinStreet, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware
  77-0512121

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

950 Tower Lane, Suite 600

Foster City, CA 94404

(650) 578-7700

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

2010 Equity Incentive Plan

2010 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Award Plan

(Full Titles of the Plan(s))

 

 

Douglas Valenti

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

950 Tower Lane, Suite 600

Foster City, CA 94404

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

 

(650) 578-7700

(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

 

 

With a copy to:

Alan F. Denenberg, Esq.

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

1600 El Camino Real

Menlo Park, CA 94025

(650) 752-2000

 

 

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   ¨     Accelerated filer   x
Non-accelerated filer   ¨   (Do not check if a 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 (2)
 

Proposed

Maximum
Aggregate

Offering Price (2)

  Amount of
Registration Fee (3)

2010 Equity Incentive Plan
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share

  2,369,371 shares   $12.66   $29,996,236.86   $3,482.57

2010 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Award Plan
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share

     320,000 shares   $12.66   $  4,051,200.00   $   470.35

Total

  2,689,371 shares   $12.66   $34,047,436.86   $3,952.92

 

 

(1) This Registration Statement covers shares being added to the QuinStreet, Inc. 2010 Equity Incentive Plan and 2010 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Award Plan, in each case in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of common stock which become issuable under the QuinStreet, Inc. 2010 Equity Incentive Plan and 2010 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Award Plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without Registrant’s receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of Registrant’s common stock.
(2) Calculated under Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on the basis of the average of the high and low selling prices per share of the Registrant’s Common Stock on August 11, 2011 as reported by the NASDAQ Global Market.
(3) Rounded up to the nearest penny.

 

 

 


INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF CONTENTS OF

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

This Registration Statement is being filed for the purpose of increasing the number of securities of the same class as other securities for which a Registration Statement of the Registrant on Form S-8 relating to the same employee benefit plans is effective. The Registrant previously registered shares of its common stock for issuance under the 2010 Equity Incentive Plan and the 2010 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Award Plan under a Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 17, 2010 (File No. 333-165534). Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, this Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registration Statement referenced above.

PART II

Item 8. Exhibits

 

Exhibit
Number

    
  5.1    Opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
23.1    Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent registered public accounting firm
23.2    Consent of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1    Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages hereof)
99.1    Quinstreet, Inc. 2010 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.9 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on March 17, 2010)
99.2    Quinstreet, Inc. 2010 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.12 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on March 17, 2010)

 

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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 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 Foster City, State of California, on the 12th day of August, 2011.

 

QuinStreet, Inc.
By:  

          /s/ Douglas Valenti

 

Name:

Title:

 

Douglas Valenti

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Douglas Valenti and Kenneth Hahn, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any and all 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 that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

      /s/ Douglas Valenti

  Chief Executive Officer   August 12, 2011
Douglas Valenti   (Principal Executive Officer) and Chairman  

      /s/ Kenneth Hahn

  Chief Financial Officer   August 12, 2011
Kenneth Hahn  

(Principal Financial Officer and

Principal Accounting Officer)

 

      /s/ William Bradley

  Director   August 12, 2011
William Bradley    

      /s/ John G. McDonald

  Director   August 12, 2011
John G. McDonald    

      /s/ Gregory Sands

  Director   August 12, 2011
Gregory Sands    

      /s/ James Simons

  Director   August 12, 2011
James Simons    

      /s/ Glenn Solomon

  Director   August 12, 2011
Glenn Solomon    

      /s/ Dana Stalder

  Director   August 12, 2011
Dana Stalder    

      /s/ Bronwyn Syiek

  Director   August 12, 2011
Bronwyn Syiek    

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

    
  5.1    Opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
23.1    Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent registered public accounting firm
23.2    Consent of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1    Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages hereof)
99.1    Quinstreet, Inc. 2010 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.9 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on March 17, 2010)
99.2    Quinstreet, Inc. 2010 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.12 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on March 17, 2010)