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<div><a name="s206aaa3df89d486e9f5ef2456f522526"></a></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;text-indent:240px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 22, 2020</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Registration No.&#160;333-</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;</font><hr></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:18pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:18pt;font-weight:bold;">UNITED STATES</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:18pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:18pt;font-weight:bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Washington, D.C.&#160; 20549</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:18pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:18pt;font-weight:bold;">FORM&#160;S-8</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:18pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:18pt;font-weight:bold;">Avid Technology,&#160;Inc.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:91.40625%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"><tr><td colspan="3"></td></tr><tr><td style="width:49%;"></td><td style="width:2%;"></td><td style="width:49%;"></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Delaware</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:1pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:1pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">04-2977748</font></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or</font></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">organization)</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:1pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:1pt;">&#160;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(I.R.S. 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Silvers&#160;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;       Daniel B. Silvers</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Director</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">May 22, 2020</font></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="padding-top:14px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">/s/ John P. Wallace</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;       John P. 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000-21174)</font></a></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><a style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/896841/000089684105000041/exhibit3-1_093005.txt"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on November 14, 2005)(File No. 000-21174)</font></a></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><a style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/896841/000089684117000079/a03-30x2017exhibit31.htm"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Amended and Restated By-Laws, as amended (incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on March 31, 2017)(File No. 001-36254)</font></a></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><a style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/896841/000089684120000022/avid-12312019xex34.htm"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Amendment to the Amended and Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on March 9, 2020)(File No. 001-36254)</font></a></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Specimen Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on March 11, 1993)(File No. 033-57796)</font></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><font 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style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">23.2*</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><a style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;" href="a2020s-8exh232.htm"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Consent of BDO USA, LLP</font></a></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">24.1*</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Power of Attorney (included on the signature pages of this Registration Statement)</font></div></td></tr><tr><td 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Document
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 22, 2020
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Avid Technology, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
04-2977748
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or
organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
75 Network Drive
Burlington, Massachusetts
01803
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip code)
Avid Technology, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Alessandra Melloni, Esq.
Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary
Avid Technology, Inc.
75 Network Drive
Burlington, Massachusetts 01803
(978) 640-6789
Copy to:
David B.H. Martin, Esq.
Covington & Burling LLP
One CityCenter
850 Tenth St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 662-6000
(Name, address,  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, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
o
Accelerated Filer
x
Non-accelerated filer
o
Smaller reporting company
☐
Emerging growth company
☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.
☐
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of securities to be
registered
Amount to be
registered (1)
Proposed
maximum offering
price per share (2)
Proposed maximum
aggregate offering
price (2)
Amount of
registration fee
Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share
1,400,000 shares
$5.24
$7,336,000
$952.22
(1)
In accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, 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)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933 and based upon the average of the high and low prices of Avid Technology, Inc.'s Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on May 18, 2020, which was $5.24 per share.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "
Registration Statement
") is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 1,400,000 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the "
Common Stock
"), of Avid Technology, Inc. (the "
Company
"), which have been authorized and reserved for issuance under the Avid Technology, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Incentive Plan. Accordingly, the contents of the Company's registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on May 30, 2018 (File No. 333- 225279), June 12, 2017 (File No. 333-218677) and November 12, 2014 (File No. 333-200139) are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The Company is subject to the informational and reporting requirements of Sections 13(a), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934(the "Exchange Act") and in accordance therewith files reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"). The following documents, which are on file with the Commission, are incorporated in the Registration Statement by reference:
(a)
The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the Commission on March 9, 2020, as amended on Form 10-K/A filed with the Commission on March 27, 2020 (File No. 001-36254), including the information specifically incorporated by reference into the Annual Report on Form 10-K from the Company's definitive proxy statement for the 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders;
(b)
All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the document referred to in (a) above (other than the portions of those documents not deemed to be filed); and
(c)
The description of Common Stock filed as Exhibit 4.3 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the Commission on March 9, 2020, as amended on Form 10-K/A filed with the Commission on March 27, 2020 (File No. 001-36254).
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of the 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 the purposes of the Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of the Registration Statement.
Item 8.
Exhibits.
The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is incorporated herein by reference.
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 Lexington, Massachusetts, on May 22, 2020.
Avid Technology, Inc.
By:
/s/ Kenneth L. Gayron
Kenneth L. Gayron
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES
We, the undersigned officers and directors of Avid Technology, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Jeff Rosica, Kenneth L. Gayron and Alessandra Melloni, 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 Avid Technology, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act, 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, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Jeff Rosica
Jeff Rosica
President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
May 22, 2020
/s/ Kenneth L. Gayron
Kenneth L. Gayron
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
May 22, 2020
/s/ Garrard Brown
Garrard Brown
Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)
May 22, 2020
/s/ Peter M. Westley
Peter M. Westley
Chair of the Board of Directors
May 22, 2020
/s/ Christian A. Asmar
Christian A. Asmar
Director
May 22, 2020
/s/ Robert M. Bakish
Robert M. Bakish
Director
May 22, 2020
/s/ Paula E. Boggs
Paula E. Boggs
Director
May 22, 2020
/s/ Elizabeth M. Daley
Elizabeth M. Daley
Director
May 22, 2020
/s/ Nancy Hawthorne
Nancy Hawthorne
Director
May 22, 2020
/s/ Michelle Munson
Michelle Munson
Director
May 22, 2020
/s/ Daniel B. Silvers
Daniel B. Silvers
Director
May 22, 2020
/s/ John P. Wallace
John P. Wallace
Director
May 22, 2020
EXHIBIT INDEX
Number
Description
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
4.1
5.1*
Certificate of Amendment of the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on July 27, 2005)(File No. 000-21174)
Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on November 14, 2005)(File No. 000-21174)
Amended and Restated By-Laws, as amended (incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on March 31, 2017)(File No. 001-36254)
Amendment to the Amended and Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on March 9, 2020)(File No. 001-36254)
Specimen Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on March 11, 1993)(File No. 033-57796)
Opinion of Covington & Burling LLP
23.1*
Consent of Covington & Burling LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
23.2*
Consent of BDO USA, LLP
24.1*
Power of Attorney (included on the signature pages of this Registration Statement)
99.1
Avid Technology, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Appendix A of the Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on March 20, 2020)(File No. 001-36254)
* Filed herewith