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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June&nbsp;5, 2009</B>
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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>Registration No.&nbsp;333-</B><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>BFC FINANCIAL CORPORATION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(State or other jurisdiction of <BR>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>2100 West Cypress Creek Road</B></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Fort Lauderdale, Florida</B>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>33309</B></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>BFC Financial Corporation 2005 Stock Incentive Plan<BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Full title of the plan)</DIV>



<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>Alan B. Levan<BR>
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President<BR>
BFC Financial Corporation<BR>
2100 West Cypress Creek Road<BR>
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309</B><BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>(954)&nbsp;940-4900</B><BR>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; text-indent: 0%; margin-right: 0%; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">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 &#147;large accelerated
filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer&#148; and &#147;smaller reporting company&#148; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</DIV>

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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B>
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                    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Class&nbsp;A Common Stock, par
value $0.01 per share
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    <TD align="right" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">3,000,000</TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">64</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement shall also
cover any additional shares of Class&nbsp;A Common Stock which may become issuable under the BFC
Financial Corporation 2005 Stock Incentive Plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split,
recapitalization or any other similar transaction.<BR></TD>
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    <TD>Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) and
(h)&nbsp;under the Securities Act of 1933 on the basis of the average of the high and low prices of the
Class&nbsp;A Common Stock on the Pink Sheets Electronic Quotation Service on June&nbsp;2, 2009.</TD>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#002">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</A></TD></TR>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On May&nbsp;19, 2009, the shareholders of BFC Financial Corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;) approved an
amendment (the &#147;Amendment&#148;) to the Company&#146;s 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;) to, among other
things, increase the maximum number of shares of the Company&#146;s Class&nbsp;A Common Stock, par value
$0.01 per share (&#147;Class&nbsp;A Common Stock&#148;), available for grant under the Plan from 3,000,000 shares
to 6,000,000 shares. The Company is filing this Registration Statement to register the additional
3,000,000 shares of Class&nbsp;A Common Stock available for grant under the Plan as a result of the
Amendment.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The additional 3,000,000 shares of Class&nbsp;A Common Stock registered hereunder are of the same
class as those securities registered by the Company under its Registration Statement on Form S-8
which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) on August&nbsp;4, 2005
(Registration No.&nbsp;333-127206) (the &#147;Earlier Registration Statement&#148;). Pursuant to General
Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Earlier Registration Statement are incorporated
herein by reference, except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information
set forth herein.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following documents previously filed by the Company with the Commission are incorporated
herein by reference:
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    <TD>The Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2008, filed with the
Commission on March&nbsp;31, 2009.</TD>
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    <TD>The Company&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March&nbsp;31, 2009,
filed with the Commission on May&nbsp;14, 2009.</TD>
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    <TD>The Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on May&nbsp;19, 2009.</TD>
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    <TD>The portions of the Company&#146;s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule&nbsp;14A, filed with the
Commission on April&nbsp;29, 2009, that are deemed &#147;filed&#148; with the Commission under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;).</TD>
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    <TD>The description of the Company&#146;s Class&nbsp;A Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share, contained
in the Company&#146;s Registration Statements on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission on October&nbsp;16,
1997 and June&nbsp;20, 2006.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections&nbsp;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 into this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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 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.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following exhibits are filed herewith:
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff &#038; Sitterson, P.A. (included in Exhibit
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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 Fort Lauderdale, State of Florida, on June&nbsp;5, 2009.
</DIV>

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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">BFC FINANCIAL CORPORATION<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Alan B. Levan
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Alan B. Levan,&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
President&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby
constitute and appoint Alan B. Levan and John E. Abdo, and each of them, his or her true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name,
place and stead, in any and all capacities, to execute any and all amendments, including
post-effective 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,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as
he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue hereof.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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.
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Alan B. Levan
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Alan B. Levan</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
and President
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">June 5, 2009</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ John E. Abdo
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
John E. Abdo</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Vice Chairman
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">June 5, 2009</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ John K. Grelle
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
John K. Grelle</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">June 5, 2009</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Maria R. Scheker
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Maria R. Scheker</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Chief Accounting Officer
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">June 5, 2009</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ D. Keith Cobb
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
D. Keith Cobb</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">June 5, 2009</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Neil Sterling
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Neil Sterling</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">June 5, 2009</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Oscar Holzmann
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Oscar Holzmann</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">June 5, 2009</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Opinion of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff &#038; Sitterson, P.A.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</DIV></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">23.2</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of Ernst &#038; Young LLP</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff &#038; Sitterson, P.A. (included in Exhibit
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Power of Attorney (set forth on the signature pages to this Registration Statement)</DIV></TD>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 5, 2009
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
BFC FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Florida
59-2022148
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
2100 West Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
33309
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
BFC Financial Corporation 2005 Stock Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Alan B. Levan
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
BFC Financial Corporation
2100 West Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309
(Name and address of agent for service)
(954) 940-4900
(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.
o
Large accelerated filer
o
Accelerated filer
o
Non-accelerated filer (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
x
Smaller reporting company
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
maximum
Proposed
Title of
Amount to be
offering price
maximum aggregate
Amount of
securities to be registered
registered(1)
per share(2)
offering price(2)
registration fee(2)
Class A Common Stock, par
value $0.01 per share
3,000,000
$
0.38
$
1,140,000
$
64
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement shall also
cover any additional shares of Class A Common Stock which may become issuable under the BFC
Financial Corporation 2005 Stock Incentive Plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split,
recapitalization or any other similar transaction.
(2)
Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) and
(h) under the Securities Act of 1933 on the basis of the average of the high and low prices of the
Class A Common Stock on the Pink Sheets Electronic Quotation Service on June 2, 2009.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Explanatory Note
Part II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
Item 8. Exhibits.
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
EX-5.1
EX-23.1
EX-23.2
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Explanatory Note
On May 19, 2009, the shareholders of BFC Financial Corporation (the "Company") approved an
amendment (the "Amendment") to the Company's 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan") to, among other
things, increase the maximum number of shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock, par value
$0.01 per share ("Class A Common Stock"), available for grant under the Plan from 3,000,000 shares
to 6,000,000 shares. The Company is filing this Registration Statement to register the additional
3,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock available for grant under the Plan as a result of the
Amendment.
The additional 3,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock registered hereunder are of the same
class as those securities registered by the Company under its Registration Statement on Form S-8
which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on August 4, 2005
(Registration No. 333-127206) (the "Earlier Registration Statement"). Pursuant to General
Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Earlier Registration Statement are incorporated
herein by reference, except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information
set forth herein.
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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 Commission are incorporated
herein by reference:
(1)
The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, filed with the
Commission on March 31, 2009.
(2)
The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2009,
filed with the Commission on May 14, 2009.
(3)
The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on May 19, 2009.
(4)
The portions of the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the
Commission on April 29, 2009, that are deemed "filed" with the Commission under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act").
(5)
The description of the Company's Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share, contained
in the Company's Registration Statements on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission on October 16,
1997 and June 20, 2006.
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 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 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 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.
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Item 8. Exhibits.
The following exhibits are filed herewith:
Exhibit
Number
Description
5.1
Opinion of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A.
23.1
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
23.2
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.3
Consent of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A. (included in Exhibit
5.1)
24.1
Power of Attorney (set forth on the signature pages to this Registration Statement)
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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 the City of Fort Lauderdale, State of Florida, on June 5, 2009.
BFC FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By:
/s/ Alan B. Levan
Alan B. Levan,
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
President
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby
constitute and appoint Alan B. Levan and John E. Abdo, and each of them, his or her true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name,
place and stead, in any and all capacities, to execute any and all amendments, including
post-effective 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,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as
he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their 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 by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
SIGNATURE
TITLE
DATE
/s/ Alan B. Levan
Alan B. Levan
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
and President
June 5, 2009
/s/ John E. Abdo
John E. Abdo
Vice Chairman
June 5, 2009
/s/ John K. Grelle
John K. Grelle
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
June 5, 2009
/s/ Maria R. Scheker
Maria R. Scheker
Chief Accounting Officer
June 5, 2009
/s/ D. Keith Cobb
D. Keith Cobb
Director
June 5, 2009
/s/ Neil Sterling
Neil Sterling
Director
June 5, 2009
/s/ Oscar Holzmann
Oscar Holzmann
Director
June 5, 2009
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Description
5.1
Opinion of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A.
23.1
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
23.2
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.3
Consent of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A. (included in Exhibit
5.1)
24.1
Power of Attorney (set forth on the signature pages to this Registration Statement)
6