Red Hat, Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 10, 2006

Registration No. 333-            

 


UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


Red Hat, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 


 

Delaware   06-1364380

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina   27606
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Amended and Restated

2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan

(Full Title of the Plan)

 


MICHAEL R. CUNNINGHAM, ESQ.

General Counsel

Red Hat, Inc.

1801 Varsity Drive

Raleigh, North Carolina 27606

(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

 


(919) 754-3700

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

 


CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 


Title of Securities to be Registered    Amount to be
Registered(1)
    Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price Per
Share
    Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
    Amount of
Registration Fee

Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share

   8,000,000 shares  (2)   $ 20.83 (3)   $ 166,640,000 (3)   $ 17,830

 

(1) In accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement shall be deemed to cover any additional securities that may from time to time be offered or issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
(2) Consists of 8,000,000 shares issuable under the Amended and Restated 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
(3) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq National Market on October 3, 2006.

 



STATEMENT OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Except as otherwise set forth below, this registration statement on Form S-8 incorporates by reference the contents of the registration statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-121507.

Item 8. Exhibits

The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is incorporated by reference.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Raleigh, North Carolina on this 10th day of October, 2006.

 

RED HAT, INC.
By:  

/s/ Charles E. Peters, Jr.

  Charles E. Peters, Jr.
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
  Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

We, the undersigned officers and directors of Red Hat, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Charles E. Peters, Jr. and Michael R. Cunningham and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the registration statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said registration statement, and generally to do all such things in our names and on our behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable Red Hat, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said registration statement and any and all amendments thereto.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Matthew J. Szulik

Matthew J. Szulik

  

Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors

(Principal executive officer)

  October 10, 2006

/s/ Charles E. Peters, Jr.

Charles E. Peters, Jr.

  

Executive Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal financial officer)

  October 10, 2006

/s/ Gabriela Gonzalez

Gabriela Gonzalez

  

Controller

(Principal accounting officer)

  October 10, 2006

/s/ W. Steve Albrecht

W. Steve Albrecht

   Director   October 9, 2006

 

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/s/ Marye Anne Fox, Ph.D.

Marye Anne Fox, Ph.D.

   Director   October 3, 2006

/s/ Narendra Gupta

Narendra Gupta

   Director   October 2, 2006

/s/ William S. Kaiser

William S. Kaiser

   Director   October 3, 2006

/s/ Eugene McDonald

Eugene McDonald

   Director   October 3, 2006

/s/ Henry Hugh Shelton

Henry Hugh Shelton

   Director   October 3, 2006

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Number   

Description

4.1    Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 23, 2006 (File No. 333-135323)
4.2    Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 14, 2000 (File No. 333-94775)
5.1    Opinion of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, counsel to the Registrant
23.1   

Consent of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

(included in Exhibit 5.1)

23.2    Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
24    Power of attorney (included on the signature pages of this registration statement)