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filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 4,
2005.</p>
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333-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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STATES<br>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<br> Washington, D.C.
20549</p>
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S-8<br>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</p>
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<font style="font-size: 10pt;">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its
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Diehl Road<br>Naperville, Illinois 60563<br>(630) 305-1000<br>
<font style="font-size: 8pt;">(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of principal executive offices)</font>
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Incentive Plan<br>
<font style="font-size: 8pt;">(Full Title of the
Plan)</font>
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Esq.<br>General Counsel<br>Nalco Holding Company<br>1601 West Diehl
Road<br>Naperville, Illinois 60563<br>(630) 305-1000<br>
<font style="font-size: 8pt;">(Name and address of Agent for Service)</font>
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III, Esq.<br> Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett LLP<br> 425 Lexington
Avenue<br> New York, New York 10017-3954<br> (212) 455-2000</p>
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share(3)</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000 ;padding-top: 0pt" align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="1">&nbsp;</td>
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The securities to be registered include options and rights to acquire
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<td align="left" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 9pt;  padding-bottom: 6pt;">(2) Covers 7,500,000 shares under the Nalco Holding
Company 2004 Stock Incentive Plan and an indeterminate number of
additional shares which may be offered and issued to prevent dilution
resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar
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<td align="left" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 9pt;  padding-bottom: 6pt;">(3) Estimated pursuant to
Rule 457(h) and 457(c) under the Securities Act, solely for the purpose
of computing the registration fee, based on the average of the high and
low prices of the common stock being registered hereby on the New York
Stock Exchange on February 2,
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I</p>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">The information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of the
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration
Statement") is omitted from this filing in accordance with
the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the
introductory note to Part I of the Registration Statement. The
documents containing the information specified in Part I will be
delivered to the participants in the plan covered by this Registration
Statement as required by Rule 428(b)(1).</p>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: center; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</p>
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3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Incorporation of Documents by Reference.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">The following
documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") by Nalco Holding Company (the
"Company") pursuant to the Securities Act and
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), are hereby incorporated by
reference in this registration statement:</p>
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<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">The Company's Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2004;</td>
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<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">The Company's Prospectus filed
pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act (Registration No.
333-118583) filed on November 12, 2004 (the
"Prospectus"); and</td>
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<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">The Company's registration statement
on Form 8-A (Registration No. 001-32342), filed on November 2,
2004.</td>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">All documents that the Company subsequently files pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the
date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that
all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from
the date of filing of such documents.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">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 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.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Description of
Securities.</p>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interests of
Named Experts and Counsel.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Not applicable.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item
6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">The Company
is a Delaware corporation. Section 145 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law provides, in summary, that directors and officers of
Delaware corporations are entitled, under certain circumstances, to be
indemnified against all expenses and liabilities (including
attorneys' fees) incurred by them as a result of suits brought
against them in their capacity as a director or officer, if they acted
in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the Company's best </p>
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interests, and, with respect to any criminal
action or proceeding, if they had no reasonable cause to believe their
conduct was unlawful; provided that no indemnification may be made
against expenses in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which
they shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Company, unless and
only to the extent that 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, they are
fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the
court shall deem proper. Any such indemnification may be made by the
Company only as authorized in each specific case upon a determination
by the stockholders, disinterested directors or independent legal
counsel that indemnification is proper because the indemnitee has met
the applicable standard of conduct.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">The Company's amended
and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated
by-laws provide that it will indemnify its directors and officers to
the fullest extent permitted by law and that no director shall be
personally liable for monetary damages to the Company or its
stockholders for any breach of fiduciary duty, except to the extent
provided by applicable law.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">The Company currently maintains
liability insurance for its directors and officers. Such insurance
would be available to the Company's directors and officers in
accordance with its terms.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Reference is made to the form of
underwriting agreement filed as Exhibit 1.1 to the Company's
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-118583)
("Form S-1") for provisions providing that
the underwriters and the Company are obligated under certain
circumstances to indemnify the Company's directors, officers and
controlling persons against certain liabilities under the Securities
Act.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exemption from Registration Claimed.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Not applicable.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exhibits.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">The following
exhibits are filed as part of this registration statement:</p>
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Number</td>
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of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Form
S-1)</td>
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By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the
Form S-1)</td>
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Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Form
S-1)</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal;  font-style: normal;  border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff; padding-left: 10pt; text-indent: -10pt;  padding-top: 0pt" align="right" valign="top" colspan="1" nowrap="nowrap"><font style="background-color: #ffffff;">4.4</font></td>
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between the Company and Nalco LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
10.28 of the Form S-1)</td>
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Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett
LLP</td>
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Bartlett LLP (included in Exhibit
5.1)</td>
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LLP</td>
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signature page to this registration
statement)</td>
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Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.29 of the
Form S-1)</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal;  font-style: normal;  border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff; padding-left: 10pt; text-indent: -10pt;  padding-top: 0pt" align="right" valign="top" colspan="1" nowrap="nowrap"><font style="background-color: #ffffff;">99.2</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 0pt" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3">Form of Nalco Holding Company
2004 Stock Incentive Plan Restricted Stock Unit
Agreement</td>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Undertakings.</p>
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<td align="right" valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 6pt; padding-left: 0pt; text-align: left;  font-style: normal; width: 18pt">(a)&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 438pt">The undersigned registrant hereby
undertakes:</td>
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<td align="right" valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 6pt; padding-left: 20pt; text-align: left;  font-style: normal; width: 42pt">(1)&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">To file, during any period
in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to
this registration
statement:</td>
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<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">(i)</td>
<td style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">To
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act of
1933.</td>
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<td align="right" valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 6pt; padding-left: 0pt; text-align: left;  font-style: normal; width: 42pt">&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">(ii)</td>
<td style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">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 percent change in
the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
"Calculation of Registration Fee" table in
the effective registration
statement.</td>
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<td><img src="spacer.gif" height="1" width="523"></td>
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<td align="right" valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 6pt; padding-left: 0pt; text-align: left;  font-style: normal; width: 42pt">&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">(iii)</td>
<td style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">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;</td>
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<font style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic">provided, however</font>, that paragraphs
(a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the registration statement is
on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3, and the information required to be
included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained
in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the
registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration
statement.</p>
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<td align="right" valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 6pt; padding-left: 20pt; text-align: left;  font-style: normal; width: 42pt">(2)&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">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.</td>
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<td><img src="spacer.gif" height="1" width="546"></td>
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<td align="right" valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 6pt; padding-left: 20pt; text-align: left;  font-style: normal; width: 42pt">(3)&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">To remove from
registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered hereby which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.</td>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff">(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 Exchange Act 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.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff">(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.</p>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: center; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">SIGNATURES</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">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 city of Naperville,
state of Illinois on February 4, 2005.</p>
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COMPANY</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 0pt" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3">By:</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 0pt" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"><u>/s/
William H.
Joyce&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</u>
<br>
Name: William H. Joyce<br>Title: Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer</td>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: center; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">POWER OF ATTORNEY</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">We, the
undersigned officers and directors of Nalco Holding Company, hereby
severally constitute and appoint Bradley J. Bell, Stephen N. Landsman
and Michael P. Murphy, and each of them acting alone, our true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution
and resubstitution in each of them for him and in his name, place and
stead, and 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 and any applicable securities
exchange or securities self-regulatory body, 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 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 attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or
their or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue hereof.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed
below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on February
4, 2005.</p>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000 ;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="bottom" colspan="3">Title</td>
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William H. Joyce<br>________________________________<br>William H.
Joyce</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer and Director<br>(Principal Executive
Officer)</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">/s/ Bradley J.
Bell<br>________________________________<br>Bradley J.
Bell</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer<br> (Principal Financial
Officer)</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">/s/ Bruno
Lavandier<br>________________________________<br>Bruno
Lavandier</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">Controller<br>(Principal Accounting
Officer)</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">/s/ Leon D.
Black<br>________________________________<br>Leon D.
Black</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">Director</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">/s/ Chinh
E. Chu<br>________________________________<br>Chinh E.
Chu</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">Director</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">/s/ Richard
A. Friedman<br>________________________________<br>Richard A.
Friedman</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; border-bottom: 3px double #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt" align="center" valign="top" colspan="3">Director</td>
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As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 4,
2005.
Registration No.
333-
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
20549
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
NALCO HOLDING COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its
charter)
Delaware
16-1701300
(State or other
jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S.
Employer
Identification
Number)
1601 West
Diehl Road
Naperville, Illinois 60563
(630) 305-1000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of principal executive offices)
Nalco Holding Company 2004 Stock
Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the
Plan)
Stephen N. Landsman,
Esq.
General Counsel
Nalco Holding Company
1601 West Diehl
Road
Naperville, Illinois 60563
(630) 305-1000
(Name and address of Agent for Service)
With a copy to:
Edward P. Tolley
III, Esq.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
425 Lexington
Avenue
New York, New York 10017-3954
(212) 455-2000
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION
FEE
Title
of securities to be
registered(1)
Amount to be
registered(2)
Proposed maximum
offering price per
share(3)
Proposed maximum
aggregate offering
price(3)
Amount of
registration
fee
Common stock, $0.01 par
value
7,500,000
$
19.53
$
146,475,000
$
17,240
(1)
The securities to be registered include options and rights to acquire
common stock, including restricted stock units.
(2) Covers 7,500,000 shares under the Nalco Holding
Company 2004 Stock Incentive Plan and an indeterminate number of
additional shares which may be offered and issued to prevent dilution
resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar
transactions.
(3) Estimated pursuant to
Rule 457(h) and 457(c) under the Securities Act, solely for the purpose
of computing the registration fee, based on the average of the high and
low prices of the common stock being registered hereby on the New York
Stock Exchange on February 2,
2005.
PART
I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of the
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration
Statement") is omitted from this filing in accordance with
the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the
introductory note to Part I of the Registration Statement. The
documents containing the information specified in Part I will be
delivered to the participants in the plan covered by this Registration
Statement as required by Rule 428(b)(1).
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") by Nalco Holding Company (the
"Company") pursuant to the Securities Act and
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), are hereby incorporated by
reference in this registration statement:
(a)
The Company's Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2004;
(b)
The Company's Prospectus filed
pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act (Registration No.
333-118583) filed on November 12, 2004 (the
"Prospectus"); and
(c)
The Company's registration statement
on Form 8-A (Registration No. 001-32342), filed on November 2,
2004.
All documents that the Company subsequently files pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the
date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that
all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference into 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 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.
Not applicable.
Item
6.    Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
The Company
is a Delaware corporation. Section 145 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law provides, in summary, that directors and officers of
Delaware corporations are entitled, under certain circumstances, to be
indemnified against all expenses and liabilities (including
attorneys' fees) incurred by them as a result of suits brought
against them in their capacity as a director or officer, if they acted
in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the Company's best
interests, and, with respect to any criminal
action or proceeding, if they had no reasonable cause to believe their
conduct was unlawful; provided that no indemnification may be made
against expenses in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which
they shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Company, unless and
only to the extent that 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, they are
fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the
court shall deem proper. Any such indemnification may be made by the
Company only as authorized in each specific case upon a determination
by the stockholders, disinterested directors or independent legal
counsel that indemnification is proper because the indemnitee has met
the applicable standard of conduct.
The Company's amended
and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated
by-laws provide that it will indemnify its directors and officers to
the fullest extent permitted by law and that no director shall be
personally liable for monetary damages to the Company or its
stockholders for any breach of fiduciary duty, except to the extent
provided by applicable law.
The Company currently maintains
liability insurance for its directors and officers. Such insurance
would be available to the Company's directors and officers in
accordance with its terms.
Reference is made to the form of
underwriting agreement filed as Exhibit 1.1 to the Company's
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-118583)
("Form S-1") for provisions providing that
the underwriters and the Company are obligated under certain
circumstances to indemnify the Company's directors, officers and
controlling persons against certain liabilities under the Securities
Act.
Item 7.    Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8.    Exhibits.
The following
exhibits are filed as part of this registration statement:
Exhibit
Number
Description of Document
4.1
Form
of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Form
S-1)
4.2
Form of Amended and Restated
By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the
Form S-1)
4.3
Specimen of Common Stock
Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Form
S-1)
4.4
Form of Stockholders Agreement
between the Company and Nalco LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
10.28 of the Form S-1)
5.1
Opinion of
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
LLP
23.1
Consent of Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett LLP (included in Exhibit
5.1)
23.2
Consent of Ernst & Young
LLP
24
Power of Attorney (included in the
signature page to this registration
statement)
99.1
Nalco Holding Company 2004
Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.29 of the
Form S-1)
99.2
Form of Nalco Holding Company
2004 Stock Incentive Plan Restricted Stock Unit
Agreement
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) if, in the aggregate, the
changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent 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) do not apply if the registration statement is
on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3, and the information required to be
included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained
in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the
registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 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 hereby 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 Exchange Act 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 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 city of Naperville,
state of Illinois on February 4, 2005.
NALCO HOLDING
COMPANY
By:
/s/
William H.
Joyce
Name: William H. Joyce
Title: Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
We, the
undersigned officers and directors of Nalco Holding Company, hereby
severally constitute and appoint Bradley J. Bell, Stephen N. Landsman
and Michael P. Murphy, and each of them acting alone, our true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution
and resubstitution in each of them for him and in his name, place and
stead, and 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 and any applicable securities
exchange or securities self-regulatory body, 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 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 attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or
their 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, this registration statement has been signed
below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on February
4, 2005.
Signature
Title
/s/
William H. Joyce
________________________________
William H.
Joyce
Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive
Officer)
/s/ Bradley J.
Bell
________________________________
Bradley J.
Bell
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer
(Principal Financial
Officer)
/s/ Bruno
Lavandier
________________________________
Bruno
Lavandier
Controller
(Principal Accounting
Officer)
/s/ Leon D.
Black
________________________________
Leon D.
Black
Director
/s/ Chinh
E. Chu
________________________________
Chinh E.
Chu
Director
/s/ Richard
A. Friedman
________________________________
Richard A.
Friedman
Director
Signature
Title
/s/
Joshua J. Harris
________________________________
Joshua J.
Harris
Director
/s/
Sanjeev K. Mehra
________________________________
Sanjeev K.
Mehra
Director
/s/ Paul
H. O'Neill
________________________________
Paul H.
O'Neill
Director
/s/
Douglas A. Pertz
________________________________
Douglas A.
Pertz
Director
/s/
Daniel S. Sanders
________________________________
Daniel S.
Sanders
Director