Edgar Filing: FTI CONSULTING INC

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Form S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 22, 2014

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

FTI Consulting, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Maryland		52-1261113
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

1101 K Street NW Washington, D.C.		20005
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

FTI Consulting, Inc. Nonstatutory Stock Option Award Agreements for Employment Inducement Awards to David M. Johnson and Paul Linton

FTI Consulting, Inc. Restricted Stock Agreements for Employment Inducement Awards to David M. Johnson and Paul Linton

(Full title of the plan)

Steven H. Gunby

President and Chief Executive Officer

FTI Consulting, Inc.

1101 K Street NW

Washington, D.C. 20005

(202) 312-9100

(Name and Address, including Zip Code, and

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

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):

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE



Title of securities to be registered (1)	Amount to be registered (1)	Proposed maximum offering price per share	Proposed maximum aggregate offering price	Amount of registration fee (2)
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issuable pursuant to the FTI Consulting, Inc. Nonstatutory Stock Option Award Agreement with David M. Johnson	26,164 shares	$36.97	$967,283	$124.59
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issuable pursuant to the FTI Consulting, Inc. Nonstatutory Stock Option Award Agreement with David M. Johnson	85,421 shares	$36.97	$3,158,014	$406.75
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issuable pursuant to the FTI Consulting, Inc. Nonstatutory Stock Option Award Agreement with Paul Linton	62,642 shares	$36.97	$2,315,875	$298.28
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issuable pursuant to the FTI Consulting, Inc. Restricted Stock Award Agreement with David M. Johnson	8,204 shares	$36.97	$303,302	$39.07
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issuable pursuant to the FTI Consulting, Inc. Restricted Stock Award Agreement with David M. Johnson	26,785 shares	$36.97	$990,241	$127.54
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issuable pursuant to the FTI Consulting, Inc. Restricted Stock Award Agreement with Paul Linton	19,642 shares	$36.97	$726,165	$93.53

(1)

Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock as may be issuable pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of the FTI Consulting, Inc. Non-Statutory Stock Option Agreements and the FTI Consulting, Inc. Restricted Stock Agreements as a result of stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalizations or similar transactions.

(2)	Calculated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act based on the average of the high and low selling price per share of Registrant’s Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on August 20, 2014.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by FTI Consulting, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company” or the “Registrant”), to register an aggregate of 228,858 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), of the Registrant, of which an aggregate of up to a maximum of 174,227 option shares may be issuable upon exercise, from time to time, of employment inducement awards of nonstatutory stock options, and an aggregate of up to a maximum of 54,631 shares may be issuable as employment inducement awards of restricted stock, authorized by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company under Rule 303.08 of the New York Stock Exchange, consisting of up to a maximum of: (i) 26,164 shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Nonstatutory Stock Option Award Agreement (the “First CFO Option Inducement Award”) with David M. Johnson, the Company’s newly hired Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), (ii) 85,421 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to a Nonstatutory Stock Option Award Agreement (the “Second CFO Option Inducement Award,” and together with the First CFO Option Inducement Award, the “CFO Option Inducement Awards”) with the CFO, (iii) 62,642 shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Nonstatutory Stock Option Award Agreement (the “CSO Option Inducement Award”) with Paul Linton, the Company’s newly hired Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer (“CSO,” and together with the CFO, the “Participants”), (iv) 8,204 shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award Agreement (the “First CFO Stock Inducement Award”) with the CFO, (v) 26,785 shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award Agreement (the “Second CFO Stock Inducement Award,” and together with the First CFO Stock Inducement Award, the “CFO Stock Inducement Awards,” and together with the CFO Option Inducement Awards, the “CFO Inducement Awards”) with the CFO, and (vi) 19,642 shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award Agreement with the CSO (the “CSO Stock Inducement Award,” and together with the CSO Option Inducement Award, the “CSO Inducement Awards,” and together with the CFO Inducement Awards, the “Inducement Awards”), in each case outside of the FTI Consulting, Inc. 2009 Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan, as amended and restated as of June 2, 2010, as further amended from time to time (the “2009 Plan”), as a material inducement for the CFO to accept employment with the Company and enter into the Offer of Employment Letter with the Company dated July 10, 2014, and for the CSO to accept employment with the Company and enter into the Offer of Employment Letter with the Company dated July 15, 2014. The applicable grant date of each of the Inducement Awards shall be the date of the commencement of the employment of the CFO or CSO, as the case may be, with the Company.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is intended that all of the terms and conditions of the 2009 Plan that would otherwise have been applicable to the Inducement Awards had the Inducement Awards been granted under the 2009 Plan (except as otherwise expressly provided in the applicable inducement award agreement) shall be applicable to the Inducement Awards, and accordingly, references to the 2009 Plan are made herein for such purpose and those terms are incorporated herein by reference. The 2009 Plan was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 23, 2010 as Appendix A to FTI Consulting, Inc.’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Form 14A dated April 23, 2010, and Amendment No. 1 to the 2009 Plan was filed with the SEC on February 24, 2014, as Exhibit 10.85 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, which in each case is hereby incorporated by reference herein.

PART I

Information Required in the Section 10(a) Prospectus

The documents containing the information specified in Part I, Items 1 and 2, have been or will be delivered to the Participants in accordance with this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents previously filed by the Company with the SEC are incorporated herein by reference (other than, in each case, documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with SEC rules):

(1)

The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 filed with the SEC on February 24, 2014;

(2)

The Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2014 filed with the SEC on May 2, 2014 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2014 filed with the SEC on July 31, 2014;

(3)

The Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 23, 2014, February 20, 2014, March 27, 2014, June 6, 2014, July 31, 2014 and August 8, 2014;

(4)

The Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Form 14A filed with the SEC on April 17, 2014;

(5)

The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as filed with the SEC on April 30, 1996, and all amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description; and

(6)

All of the other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act filed with the SEC since the year ended December 31, 2013.

All documents subsequently filed by the Company with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, 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, 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; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with the SEC’s rules shall not be deemed incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement 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 which 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.

Eric B. Miller, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer of the Registrant, is passing on certain legal matters regarding the shares of Common Stock being registered pursuant to this Registration Statement. Mr. Miller is a full-time employee of the Registrant, owns shares of Common Stock of the Registrant, and is eligible to participate in various stock-based employee benefit plans, including the 2009 Plan.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

(I) § 2-418. “Indemnification of directors, officers, employees, and agents,” of the Corporations and Associations Article of the Maryland Annotated Code, reads as follows:

§ 2-418. Indemnification of directors, officers, employees, and agents.

(a) Definitions. —

(1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2) “Corporation” includes any domestic or foreign predecessor entity of a corporation in a merger, consolidation, or other transaction in which the predecessor’s existence ceased upon consummation of the transaction.

(3) “Director” means any person who is or was a director of a corporation and any person who, while a director of a corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, limited liability company, other enterprise, or employee benefit plan.

(4) “Expenses” include attorney’s fees.

(5) (i) “Official capacity” means:

1. When used with respect to a director, the office of director in the corporation; and

2. When used with respect to a person other than a director as contemplated in subsection (j) of this section, the elective or appointive office in the corporation held by the officer, or the employment or agency relationship undertaken by the employee or agent in behalf of the corporation.

(ii) “Official capacity” does not include service for any other foreign or domestic corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, other enterprise, or employee benefit plan.

(6) “Party” includes a person who was, is, or is threatened to be made a named defendant or respondent in a proceeding.

(7) “Proceeding” means any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative.

(b) Permitted indemnification of director. —

(1) A corporation may indemnify any director made a party to any proceeding by reason of service in that capacity unless it is established that:

(i) The act or omission of the director was material to the matter giving rise to the proceeding; and

1. Was committed in bad faith; or

2. Was the result of active and deliberate dishonesty; or

(ii) The director actually received an improper personal benefit in money, property, or services; or

(iii) In the case of any criminal proceeding, the director had reasonable cause to believe that the act or omission was unlawful.

(2) (i) Indemnification may be against judgments, penalties, fines, settlements, and reasonable expenses actually incurred by the director in connection with the proceeding.

(ii) However, if the proceeding was one by or in the right of the corporation, indemnification may not be made in respect of any proceeding in which the director shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation.

(3) (i) The termination of any proceeding by judgment, order, or settlement does not create a presumption that the director did not meet the requisite standard of conduct set forth in this subsection.

(ii) The termination of any proceeding by conviction, or a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, or an entry of an order of probation prior to judgment, creates a rebuttable presumption that the director did not meet that standard of conduct.

(4) A corporation may not indemnify a director or advance expenses under this section for a proceeding brought by that director against the corporation, except:

(i) For a proceeding brought to enforce indemnification under this section; or

(ii) If the charter or bylaws of the corporation, a resolution of the board of directors of the corporation, or an agreement approved by the board of directors of the corporation to which the corporation is a party expressly provide otherwise.

(c) No indemnification of director liable for improper personal benefit. — A director may not be indemnified under subsection (b) of this section in respect of any proceeding charging improper personal benefit to the director, whether or not involving action in the director’s official capacity, in which the director was adjudged to be liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received.

(d) Required indemnification against expenses incurred in successful defense. — Unless limited by the charter:

(1) A director who has been successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding referred to in subsection (b) of this section, or in the defense of any claim, issue, or matter in the proceeding, shall be indemnified against reasonable expenses incurred by the director in connection with the proceeding, claim, issue, or matter in which the director has been successful.

(2) A court of appropriate jurisdiction, upon application of a director and such notice as the court shall require, may order indemnification in the following circumstances:

(i) If it determines a director is entitled to reimbursement under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the court shall order indemnification, in which case the director shall be entitled to recover the expenses of securing such reimbursement; or

(ii) If it determines that the director is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification in view of all the relevant circumstances, whether or not the director has met the standards of conduct set forth in subsection (b) of this section or has been adjudged liable under the circumstances described in subsection (c) of this section, the court may order such indemnification as the court shall deem proper. However, indemnification with respect to any proceeding by or in the right of the corporation or in which liability shall have been adjudged in the circumstances described in subsection (c) shall be limited to expenses.

(3) A court of appropriate jurisdiction may be the same court in which the proceeding involving the director’s liability took place.

(e) Determination that indemnification is proper. —

(1) Indemnification under subsection (b) of this section may not be made by the corporation unless authorized for a specific proceeding after a determination has been made that indemnification of the director is permissible in the circumstances because the director has met the standard of conduct set forth in subsection (b) of this section.

(2) Such determination shall be made:

(i) By the board of directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors not, at the time, parties to the proceeding, or, if such a quorum cannot be obtained, then by a majority vote of a committee of the board consisting solely of one or more directors not, at the time, parties to such proceeding and who were duly designated to act in the matter by a majority vote of the full board in which the designated directors who are parties may participate;

(ii) By special legal counsel selected by the board of directors or a committee of the board by vote as set forth in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, or, if the requisite quorum of the full board cannot be obtained therefor and the committee cannot be established, by a majority vote of the full board in which directors who are parties may participate; or

(iii) By the stockholders.

(3) Authorization of indemnification and determination as to reasonableness of expenses shall be made in the same manner as the determination that indemnification is permissible. However, if the determination that indemnification is permissible is made by special legal counsel, authorization of indemnification and determination as to reasonableness of expenses shall be made in the manner specified in paragraph (2)(ii) of this subsection for selection of such counsel.

(4) Shares held by directors who are parties to the proceeding may not be voted on the subject matter under this subsection.

(f) Payment of expenses in advance of final disposition of action. —

(1) Reasonable expenses incurred by a director who is a party to a proceeding may be paid or reimbursed by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding upon receipt by the corporation of:

(i) A written affirmation by the director of the director’s good faith belief that the standard of conduct necessary for indemnification by the corporation as authorized in this section has been met; and

(ii) A written undertaking by or on behalf of the director to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the standard of conduct has not been met.

(2) The undertaking required by paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection shall be an unlimited general obligation of the director but need not be secured and may be accepted without reference to financial ability to make the repayment.

(3) Payments under this subsection shall be made as provided by the charter, bylaws, or contract or as specified in subsection (e)(2) of this section.

(g) Validity of indemnification provision. — The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided or authorized by this section may not be deemed exclusive of any other rights, by indemnification or otherwise, to which a director may be entitled under the charter, the bylaws, a resolution of stockholders or directors, an agreement or otherwise, both as to action in an official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.

(h) Reimbursement of director’s expenses incurred while appearing as witness. — This section does not limit the corporation’s power to pay or reimburse expenses incurred by a director in connection with an appearance as a witness in a proceeding at a time when the director has not been made a named defendant or respondent in the proceeding.

(i) Director’s service to employee benefit plan. — For purposes of this section:

(1) The corporation shall be deemed to have requested a director to serve an employee benefit plan where the performance of the director’s duties to the corporation also imposes duties on, or otherwise involves services by, the director to the plan or participants or beneficiaries of the plan;

(2) Excise taxes assessed on a director with respect to an employee benefit plan pursuant to applicable law shall be deemed fines; and

(3) Action taken or omitted by the director with respect to an employee benefit plan in the performance of the director’s duties for a purpose reasonably believed by the director to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan shall be deemed to be for a purpose which is not opposed to the best interests of the corporation.

(j) Officer, employee or agent. — Unless limited by the charter:

(1) An officer of the corporation shall be indemnified as and to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this section for a director and shall be entitled, to the same extent as a director, to seek indemnification pursuant to the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section;

(2) A corporation may indemnify and advance expenses to an officer, employee, or agent of the corporation to the same extent that it may indemnify directors under this section; and

(3) A corporation, in addition, may indemnify and advance expenses to an officer, employee, or agent who is not a director to such further extent, consistent with law, as may be provided by its charter, bylaws, general or specific action of its board of directors, or contract.

(k) Insurance or similar protection. —

(1) A corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, or who, while a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, other enterprise, or employee benefit plan against any liability asserted against and incurred by such person in any such capacity or arising out of such person’s position, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify against liability under the provisions of this section.

(2) A corporation may provide similar protection, including a trust fund, letter of credit, or surety bond, not inconsistent with this section.

(3) The insurance or similar protection may be provided by a subsidiary or an affiliate of the corporation.

(l) Report of indemnification to stockholders. — Any indemnification of, or advance of expenses to, a director in accordance with this section, if arising out of a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation, shall be reported in writing to the stockholders with the notice of the next stockholders’ meeting or prior to the meeting.

(II) The Registrant has provided for indemnification of directors, officers, employees, and agents in ARTICLE EIGHTH, paragraph 5, of its Articles of Amendment and Restatement. This provision reads as follows:

5. The Corporation shall indemnity (a) its directors and officers, whether serving the Corporation or at its request any other entity, to the full extent required or permitted by the General Laws of the State of Maryland now or hereafter in force, including the advance of expenses under the procedures and to the full extent permitted by law, and (b) its other employees and agents to such extent as shall be authorized by the Board of Directors or in the Corporation’s By-Laws and be permitted by law. The foregoing shall not be exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled. The Board of Directors may take such actions as are necessary to carry out these indemnification provisions and is expressly empowered to adopt, approve, and amend from time to time such By-Laws, resolutions and contracts implementing such provisions or such further indemnification arrangements as may be permitted by law. No amendment to the charter of the Corporation shall limit or eliminate the right to indemnification provided hereunder with respect to acts or omissions occurring prior to such amendment or appeal.

(III) The Registrant has provided for indemnification of directors, officers, employees, and agents in ARTICLE XI Indemnification and Advance of Expenses, of its Bylaws. This provision reads as follows:

To the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law in effect from time to time, the Corporation shall indemnify and, without requiring a preliminary determination of the ultimate entitlement to indemnification, shall pay or reimburse reasonable expenses in advance of final disposition of a proceeding to (a) any individual who is a present or former director or officer of the Corporation and who is made or threatened to be made a party to the proceeding by reason of his or her service in that capacity or (b) any individual who, while a director or officer of the Corporation and at the request of the Corporation, serves or has served as a director, officer, partner, trustee, member or manager of another corporation, real estate investment trust, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise and who is made or threatened to be made a party to the proceeding by reason of his or her service in that capacity. The rights to indemnification and advance of expenses provided by the charter of the Corporation and these Bylaws shall vest immediately upon election of a director or officer. The Corporation may, with the approval of its Board of Directors, provide such indemnification and advance for expenses to an individual who served a predecessor of the Corporation in any of the capacities described in (a) or (b) above and to any employee or agent of the Corporation or a predecessor of the Corporation. The indemnification and payment or reimbursement of expenses provided in these Bylaws shall not be deemed exclusive of or limit in any way other rights to which any person seeking indemnification or payment or reimbursement of expenses may be or may become entitled under any bylaw, resolution, insurance, agreement or otherwise.

Neither the amendment nor repeal of this Article, nor the adoption or amendment of any other provision of the charter of the Corporation or these Bylaws inconsistent with this Article, shall apply to or affect in any respect the applicability of the preceding paragraph with respect to any act or failure to act which occurred prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption.

(IV) § 2-405.2. “Corporate limitations on director liability,” of the Corporations and Associations Article of the Maryland Annotated Code. This provision reads as follows:

§ 2-405.2. Corporate limitations on director liability

The charter of the corporation may include any provision expanding or limiting the liability of its directors and officers to the corporation or its stockholders as described under § 5-418 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article.

(V) § 5.418. Immunity — “Charter provisions governing liability of corporate directors or officers,” of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article of the Maryland Annotated Code. This provision reads as follows:

§ 5-418. Immunity — Charter provisions governing liability of corporate directors or officers.

(a) Expansion or limitation of liability. — The charter, as defined under § 1-101 of the Corporations and Associations Article, of a Maryland corporation may include any provision expanding or limiting the liability of its directors and officers to the corporation or its stockholders for money damages, but may not include any provision that restricts or limits the liability of its directors or officers to the corporation or its stockholders:

(1) To the extent that it is proved that the person actually received an improper benefit or profit in money, property, or services for the amount of the benefit or profit in money, property, or services actually received;

(2) To the extent that a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the person is entered in a proceeding based on a finding in the proceeding that the person’s action, or failure to act, was the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and was material to the cause of action adjudicated in the proceeding; or

(3) With respect to any action described in subsection (b) of this section.

(b) Exceptions. — This section does not apply to an action brought by or on behalf of a State governmental entity, receiver, conservator, or depositor against a director or officer of:

(1) A banking institution as defined in § 1-101 of the Financial Institutions Article;

(2) A credit union as described in § 6-301 of the Financial Institutions Article;

(3) A savings and loan association as defined in § 8-101 of the Financial Institutions Article; or

(4) A subsidiary of a banking institution, credit union, or savings and loan association described in this subsection.

(c) Construction. — This section may not be construed to affect the liability of a person in any capacity other than the person’s capacity as a director or officer.

(VI) The Registrant has provided for the limitation of liability of directors, officers, employees, and agents in ARTICLE EIGHTH, paragraph 6, of its Articles of Amendment and Restatement. This provision reads as follows:

To the fullest extent permitted by Maryland statutory or decisional law, as amended or interpreted, no director or officer of this Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for money damages. No amendment of the Charter of the Corporation or repeal of any of its provisions shall limit or eliminate the benefits provided to directors and officers under this provision with respect to any act or omission that occurred prior to such amendment or repeal.

(VII) Section 2-418(k) — Indemnification of directors, officers, employees, and agents, of the Corporations and Associations Article of the Maryland Annotated Code.

As permitted under Section 2-418(k) of the Corporations and Associations Article of the Maryland Annotated Code, the Registrant has purchased and maintains insurance on behalf of its directors and officers against any liability asserted against such directors and officers in their capacities as such, whether or not the Registrant would have the power to indemnify such persons under the provisions of Maryland law governing indemnification.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable

Item 8. Exhibits.


Exhibit No.		Exhibit Description

4.1		Articles of Incorporation of FTI Consulting, Inc., as amended and restated. (Filed with the SEC on May 23, 2003 as an exhibit to FTI Consulting, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 21, 2003 and incorporated herein by reference.)

4.2		Articles of Amendment of FTI Consulting, Inc. (Filed with the SEC on June 2, 2011 as an exhibit to FTI Consulting, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 1, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference.)

4.3		Bylaws of FTI Consulting, Inc., as amended and restated on June 1, 2011. (Filed with the SEC on June 2, 2011 as an exhibit to FTI Consulting, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 1, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference.)

4.4		Amendment No. 1 to Bylaws of FTI Consulting, Inc. (Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 16, 2013 as an exhibit to FTI Consulting, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 13, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference.)



5.1*		Opinion of In-House General Counsel of FTI Consulting, Inc.

10.1*‡		Form of FTI Consulting, Inc. Restricted Stock Agreement for Employment Inducement Awards to Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer

10.2*‡		Form of FTI Consulting, Inc. Non-Statutory Stock Option Agreement for Employment Inducement Award to Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer

23.1*		Consent of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

23.2*		Consent of In-House General Counsel (set forth in his opinion filed herewith as Exhibit 5.1).

24.1*		Powers of Attorney (included as part of the signature page to this Registration Statement).

‡	Compensation Plan

*	Filed herewith

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 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 end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (§230.424(b) of this chapter) 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.

(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 Paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-8 (§239.16b of this chapter), and 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 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)) 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 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 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.

(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 foregoing provisions, 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, 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

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 District of Columbia, on this 22^nd day of August, 2014.


FTI CONSULTING, INC.

By:		/S/ STEVEN H. GUNBY
		Steven H. Gunby
		President and Chief Executive Officer

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that Eric B. Miller has been appointed the true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent of the persons identified below, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments, supplements or post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, 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 or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he 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, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.


SIGNATURE	CAPACITY IN WHICH SIGNED	DATE

/S/ STEVEN H. GUNBY Steven H. Gunby	President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director (Principal Executive Officer)	August 22, 2014

/S/ ROGER D. CARLILE Roger D. Carlile	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)	August 22, 2014

/S/ CATHERINE M. FREEMAN Catherine M. Freeman	Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)	August 22, 2014

/S/ GERARD E. HOLTHAUS Gerard E. Holthaus	Director and Chairman of the Board	August 22, 2014



/S/ BRENDA J. BACON Brenda J. Bacon	Director	August 22, 2014

Claudio Costamagna	Director	August , 2014

/S/ JAMES W. CROWNOVER James W. Crownover	Director	August 22, 2014

/S/ VERNON ELLIS Vernon Ellis	Director	August 22, 2014

/S/ NICHOLAS C. FANANDAKIS Nicholas C. Fanandakis	Director	August 22, 2014

/S/ MARC HOLTZMAN Marc Holtzman	Director	August 22, 2014

Exhibit Index


Exhibit No.		Exhibit Description

4.1		Articles of Incorporation of FTI Consulting, Inc., as amended and restated. (Filed with the SEC on May 23, 2003 as an exhibit to FTI Consulting, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 21, 2003 and incorporated herein by reference.)

4.2		Articles of Amendment of FTI Consulting, Inc. (Filed with the SEC on June 2, 2011 as an exhibit to FTI Consulting, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 1, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference.)

4.3		Bylaws of FTI Consulting, Inc., as amended and restated on June 1, 2011. (Filed with the SEC on June 2, 2011 as an exhibit to FTI Consulting, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 1, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference.)

4.4		Amendment No. 1 to Bylaws of FTI Consulting, Inc. (Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 16, 2013 as an exhibit to FTI Consulting, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 13, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference.)

5.1*		Opinion of In-House General Counsel of FTI Consulting, Inc.

10.1*‡		Form of FTI Consulting, Inc. Restricted Stock Agreement for Employment Inducement Awards to Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer

10.2*‡		Form of FTI Consulting, Inc. Non-Statutory Stock Option Agreement for Employment Inducement Award to Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer

23.1*		Consent of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

23.2*		Consent of In-House General Counsel (set forth in his opinion filed herewith as Exhibit 5.1).

24.1*		Powers of Attorney (included as part of the signature page to this Registration Statement).

‡	Compensation Plan

*	Filed herewith