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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December&nbsp;4, 2001  </B></FONT></P>

<P ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Registration No.&nbsp;333-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</B></FONT></P>

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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=5><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<BR>  </B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><B>Washington, D.C. 20549  </B></FONT></P>

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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=5><B>FORM S-8<BR>  </B></FONT><FONT SIZE=3><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933  </B></FONT></P>

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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=4><B>ANDREW CORPORATION<BR>  </B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) </FONT></P>

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<TD WIDTH="49%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Delaware</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="49%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>36-2092797</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="49%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>(State or other jurisdiction<BR>
of incorporation or organization)</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="49%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>10500 West 153rd Street<BR>
Orland Park, Illinois 60462<BR>
Telephone: (708)&nbsp;349-3300</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><BR>
(Address, including zip code, telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices) </FONT></P>

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=4><B>ANDREW PROFIT SHARING TRUST</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><BR>
(Full title of the plan) </FONT></P>

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>CHARLES R. NICHOLAS<BR>
Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer<BR>
Andrew Corporation<BR>
10500 West 153rd Street<BR>
Orland Park, Illinois 60462<BR>
Telephone: (708)&nbsp;349-3300</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><BR>
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) </FONT></P>

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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Copies to:  </B></FONT></P>

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B> DEWEY B. CRAWFORD, Esq.</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><BR>
Gardner, Carton&nbsp;&amp; Douglas<BR>
321 North Clark Street, Suite 2900<BR>
Chicago, Illinois 60610 </FONT></P>

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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE  </B></FONT></P>

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<TD WIDTH="35%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="BOTTOM"><FONT SIZE=1><B>Title of Securities to be Registered</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="15%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="BOTTOM"><FONT SIZE=1><B>Amount to be<BR>
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<TD WIDTH="15%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="BOTTOM"><FONT SIZE=1><B>Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="16%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="BOTTOM"><FONT SIZE=1><B>Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="15%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="BOTTOM"><FONT SIZE=1><B>Amount of<BR>
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<TD WIDTH="35%"><FONT SIZE=2>Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share(3)(4)</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="15%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>5,000,000</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="15%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>$21.34</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="16%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>$106,700,000</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="15%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>$25,501</FONT></TD>
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<DT><FONT SIZE=2>(1)</FONT></DT><DD><FONT SIZE=2>Includes
associated common stock purchase rights ("Rights") to purchase one share of Common Stock for a price of $333.33, subject to adjustment. Rights initially are attached to and
trade with the Common Stock. The value attributable to such Rights, if any, is reflected in the market value of the Common Stock.
<BR><BR></FONT></DD><DT><FONT SIZE=2>(2)</FONT></DT><DD><FONT SIZE=2>Together
with an indeterminable number of additional securities in order to adjust the number of securities reserved for issuance pursuant to the plan as the result of a stock
split, stock dividend or similar transaction affecting the Common Stock, pursuant to 17 C.F.R. &sect; 230.416.
<BR><BR></FONT></DD><DT><FONT SIZE=2>(3)</FONT></DT><DD><FONT SIZE=2>Estimated
in accordance with Rule&nbsp;457(c) and (h)(1), the proposed maximum offering price per share, proposed maximum aggregate offering price and the amount of the
registration fee are based upon the average of the high and low prices reported on the Nasdaq National Market on November&nbsp;28, 2001.
<BR><BR></FONT></DD><DT><FONT SIZE=2>(4)</FONT></DT><DD><FONT SIZE=2>Pursuant
to Rule&nbsp;416(c), the Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of plan interests to be offered and sold pursuant to the Andrew Profit Sharing Trust. </FONT></DD></DL>
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<BR></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><B>ANDREW CORPORATION<BR>  <BR>    REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8<BR>  <BR>    INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF EARLIER REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8    <BR>  </B></FONT></P>


<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Andrew Corporation ("Registrant" or the "Company") has earlier filed a registration statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 (File
No.&nbsp;333-57273) relating to the Andrew Profit Sharing Trust (the "Earlier Registration Statement"). This Registration Statement registers additional shares and plan interests for
offering pursuant to such Plan. Subject to Item 3 of Part&nbsp;II of this Registration Statement and except as modified or superseded herein, the contents of the Earlier Registration Statement is
incorporated herein by reference. </FONT></P>

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<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.  </B></FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There are hereby incorporated by reference in to this Registration Statement the following documents and information heretofore filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") by the Registrant or the Andrew Profit Sharing Trust (the "Plan"): </FONT></P>

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<DT><FONT SIZE=2>1.</FONT></DT><DD><FONT SIZE=2>The
Registrant's Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended September&nbsp;30, 2000;
<BR><BR></FONT></DD><DT><FONT SIZE=2>2.</FONT></DT><DD><FONT SIZE=2>The
Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form&nbsp;10-Q for the three months ended December&nbsp;31, 2000 and March&nbsp;31 and June&nbsp;30, 2001;
<BR><BR></FONT></DD><DT><FONT SIZE=2>3.</FONT></DT><DD><FONT SIZE=2>The
description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in Exhibit&nbsp;99(a) to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended
September&nbsp;30, 1997;
<BR><BR></FONT></DD><DT><FONT SIZE=2>4.</FONT></DT><DD><FONT SIZE=2>The
Plan's Annual Report on Form&nbsp;11-K for the fiscal year ended September&nbsp;30, 2000. </FONT></DD></DL>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In
addition, each document filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, after the date hereof, and prior to the
filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered hereunder have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold under this registration
statement, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated herein
by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document incorporated herein by
reference 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 hereof. </FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>Item 4. Description of Securities.  </B></FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not applicable. </FONT></P>


<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.  </B></FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dewey B. Crawford, who is a partner of Gardner, Carton&nbsp;&amp; Douglas, which is delivering the opinion filed as Exhibit&nbsp;5.1 to this Registration
Statement, beneficially owned 35,250 shares of the Company's Common Stock as of December&nbsp;1, 2001. </FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.  </B></FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law ("DGCL") generally permits a Delaware corporation to indemnify officers, directors,
employees or agents of the corporation if they are, or are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding by </FONT></P>

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reason of the fact that such person was an officer, director, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation or enterprise. The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides that the Registrant shall, subject to certain limitations, indemnify its directors and officers against
expenses (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines and certain settlements) actually and reasonably incurred by them in connection with any suit or proceeding to which they are a party so long as
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;102
of the DGCL permits a Delaware corporation to include in its certificate of incorporation a provision eliminating or limiting a director's liability to a
corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty. DGCL Section&nbsp;102 provides, however, that liability for breaches of the duty of loyalty, acts or omissions
not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct, or knowing violation of the law, and the unlawful purchase or redemption of stock or payment of unlawful dividends or the receipt of improper
personal benefits cannot be eliminated or limited in this manner. The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation includes a provision that eliminates, to the fullest extent permitted, director
liability for monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty. </FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.  </B></FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not Applicable. </FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>Item 8. Index to Exhibits.  </B></FONT></P>

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<TD WIDTH="85%"><FONT SIZE=2>Shareholder Rights Agreement dated November&nbsp;14, 1996 between Andrew Corporation and Harris Trust and Savings Bank, as Rights Agent, relating to Rights to purchase Common Stock under certain circumstances,
incorporated herein by reference from the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;8-A filed with the Commission on November&nbsp;26, 1996</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="85%"><FONT SIZE=2>Amended and Restated Andrew Profit Sharing Trust, dated as of October&nbsp;1, 2000</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="85%"><FONT SIZE=2>Consent of Gardner, Carton&nbsp;&amp; Douglas (included in exhibit&nbsp;5.1)</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="12%" ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT SIZE=2>24.1</FONT></TD>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The
Registrant has submitted the Plan to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and has adopted the amendment requested by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan. The Registrant hereby
undertakes to submit any further amendments to the IRS in a timely manner and to make any changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan. </FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>Item 9. Undertakings.  </B></FONT></P>


<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: </FONT></P>

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<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1)&nbsp;To
file during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement: </FONT></P>

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<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i)&nbsp;To
include any prospectus required by section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933; </FONT></P>

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(ii)&nbsp;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; </FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(iii)&nbsp;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
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<P><FONT SIZE=2><I>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Provided, however,</I></FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;that paragraphs (a)(1)(i)&nbsp;and (a)(1)(ii)&nbsp;do not apply if 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&nbsp;13 or
Section&nbsp;15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this registration statement. </FONT></P>

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<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)&nbsp;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. </FONT></P>


<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3)&nbsp;To
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering. </FONT></P>

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<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's annual
report pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a) or Section&nbsp;15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offering herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. </FONT></P>


<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;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 provisions described in Item 6 of this registration statement, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the 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. </FONT></P>

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<BR></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><B>SIGNATURES    <BR>  </B></FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of
the requirements for filing on Form&nbsp;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
Orland Park, State of Illinois, on this15th day of November&nbsp;2001. </FONT></P>

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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>FLOYD L. ENGLISH</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Floyd L. English<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer</I></FONT></TD>
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<BR></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><B>POWER OF ATTORNEY    <BR>  </B></FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Floyd L. English, Charles R. Nicholas or Gregory F.
Maruszak, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign, execute and file this Registration Statement and any or all amendments (including, without limitation, post-effective amendments) to this Registration
Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents required to be filed with respect therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any regulatory authority,
granting unto such 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 in connection
therewith and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorneys-in-fact and agents or his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done. </FONT></P>

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on this15th
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<TD WIDTH="47%"><FONT SIZE=2>/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>FLOYD L. ENGLISH</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Floyd L. English<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)</I></FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="47%"><FONT SIZE=2>/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>CHARLES R. NICHOLAS</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Charles R. Nicholas<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer (Principal
Financial Officer)</I></FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>GREGORY F. MARUSZAK</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Gregory F. Maruszak<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Vice President Finance and Administration (Principal Accounting Officer)
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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>JOHN G. BOLLINGER</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> John G. Bollinger<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Director</I></FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>THOMAS A. DONOHOE</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Thomas A. Donohoe<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Director</I></FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>KENNETH J. DOUGLAS</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Kenneth J. Douglas<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Director</I></FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>JERE D. FLUNO</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Jere D. Fluno<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Director</I></FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>WILLIAM O. HUNT</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> William O. Hunt<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Director</I></FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>GLEN O. TONEY</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Glen O. Toney, Ph.D.<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Director</I></FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>DENNIS L. WHIPPLE</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Dennis L. Whipple<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>Director</I></FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>CHARLES R. NICHOLAS</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Charles R. Nicholas<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2><I>President of Andrew Profit Sharing Trust</I></FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="85%"><FONT SIZE=2>Shareholder Rights Agreement dated November&nbsp;14, 1996 between Andrew Corporation and Harris Trust and Savings Bank, as Rights Agent, relating to Rights to purchase Common Stock under certain circumstances,
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 4, 2001
Registration No. 333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
ANDREW CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
36-2092797
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
10500 West 153rd Street
Orland Park, Illinois 60462
Telephone: (708) 349-3300
(Address, including zip code, telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)
ANDREW PROFIT SHARING TRUST
(Full title of the plan)
CHARLES R. NICHOLAS
Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Corporation
10500 West 153rd Street
Orland Park, Illinois 60462
Telephone: (708) 349-3300
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
DEWEY B. CRAWFORD, Esq.
Gardner, Carton & Douglas
321 North Clark Street, Suite 2900
Chicago, Illinois 60610
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities to be Registered
Amount to be
Registered(1)(2)
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price
Amount of
Registration Fee
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share(3)(4)
5,000,000
$21.34
$106,700,000
$25,501
(1)
Includes
associated common stock purchase rights ("Rights") to purchase one share of Common Stock for a price of $333.33, subject to adjustment. Rights initially are attached to and
trade with the Common Stock. The value attributable to such Rights, if any, is reflected in the market value of the Common Stock.
(2)
Together
with an indeterminable number of additional securities in order to adjust the number of securities reserved for issuance pursuant to the plan as the result of a stock
split, stock dividend or similar transaction affecting the Common Stock, pursuant to 17 C.F.R. § 230.416.
(3)
Estimated
in accordance with Rule 457(c) and (h)(1), the proposed maximum offering price per share, proposed maximum aggregate offering price and the amount of the
registration fee are based upon the average of the high and low prices reported on the Nasdaq National Market on November 28, 2001.
(4)
Pursuant
to Rule 416(c), the Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of plan interests to be offered and sold pursuant to the Andrew Profit Sharing Trust.
ANDREW CORPORATION
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF EARLIER REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8
Andrew Corporation ("Registrant" or the "Company") has earlier filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (File
No. 333-57273) relating to the Andrew Profit Sharing Trust (the "Earlier Registration Statement"). This Registration Statement registers additional shares and plan interests for
offering pursuant to such Plan. Subject to Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement and except as modified or superseded herein, the contents of the Earlier Registration Statement is
incorporated herein by reference.
PART II
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
There are hereby incorporated by reference in to this Registration Statement the following documents and information heretofore filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") by the Registrant or the Andrew Profit Sharing Trust (the "Plan"):
1.
The
Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2000;
2.
The
Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the three months ended December 31, 2000 and March 31 and June 30, 2001;
3.
The
description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in Exhibit 99(a) to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
September 30, 1997;
4.
The
Plan's Annual Report on Form 11-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2000.
In
addition, each document filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, after the date hereof, and prior to the
filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered hereunder have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold under this registration
statement, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated herein
by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document incorporated herein by
reference 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 hereof.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
Not applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Dewey B. Crawford, who is a partner of Gardner, Carton & Douglas, which is delivering the opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration
Statement, beneficially owned 35,250 shares of the Company's Common Stock as of December 1, 2001.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law ("DGCL") generally permits a Delaware corporation to indemnify officers, directors,
employees or agents of the corporation if they are, or are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding by
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reason of the fact that such person was an officer, director, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation or enterprise. The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides that the Registrant shall, subject to certain limitations, indemnify its directors and officers against
expenses (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines and certain settlements) actually and reasonably incurred by them in connection with any suit or proceeding to which they are a party so long as
they acted in good faith
and in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to a criminal action or proceeding, so long as they had no reasonable cause to
believe their conduct to have been unlawful.
Section 102
of the DGCL permits a Delaware corporation to include in its certificate of incorporation a provision eliminating or limiting a director's liability to a
corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty. DGCL Section 102 provides, however, that liability for breaches of the duty of loyalty, acts or omissions
not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct, or knowing violation of the law, and the unlawful purchase or redemption of stock or payment of unlawful dividends or the receipt of improper
personal benefits cannot be eliminated or limited in this manner. The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation includes a provision that eliminates, to the fullest extent permitted, director
liability for monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not Applicable.
Item 8. Index to Exhibits.
Exhibit Number
Description of Document
4.1
Shareholder Rights Agreement dated November 14, 1996 between Andrew Corporation and Harris Trust and Savings Bank, as Rights Agent, relating to Rights to purchase Common Stock under certain circumstances,
incorporated herein by reference from the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on November 26, 1996
4.2
Amended and Restated Andrew Profit Sharing Trust, dated as of October 1, 2000
5.1
Opinion of Gardner, Carton & Douglas regarding legality of securities
23.1
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.2
Consent of Gardner, Carton & Douglas (included in exhibit 5.1)
24.1
Powers of Attorney (included on signature page)
The
Registrant has submitted the Plan to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and has adopted the amendment requested by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan. The Registrant hereby
undertakes to submit any further amendments to the IRS in a timely manner and to make any changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan.
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;
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(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;
(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 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
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this registration statement.
(2) That,
for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3) To
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.
(b) The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's annual
report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offering 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 provisions described in Item 6 of this registration statement, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the 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.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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
Orland Park, State of Illinois, on this15th day of November 2001.
ANDREW CORPORATION
By:
/s/
FLOYD L. ENGLISH
Floyd L. English
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Floyd L. English, Charles R. Nicholas or Gregory F.
Maruszak, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign, execute and file this Registration Statement and any or all amendments (including, without limitation, post-effective amendments) to this Registration
Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents required to be filed with respect therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any regulatory authority,
granting unto such 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 in connection
therewith and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorneys-in-fact and agents or his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on this15th
day of November 2001.
/s/
FLOYD L. ENGLISH
Floyd L. English
Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/
CHARLES R. NICHOLAS
Charles R. Nicholas
Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer (Principal
Financial Officer)
/s/
GREGORY F. MARUSZAK
Gregory F. Maruszak
Vice President Finance and Administration (Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/
JOHN G. BOLLINGER
John G. Bollinger
Director
/s/
THOMAS A. DONOHOE
Thomas A. Donohoe
Director
/s/
KENNETH J. DOUGLAS
Kenneth J. Douglas
Director
/s/
JERE D. FLUNO
Jere D. Fluno
Director
/s/
WILLIAM O. HUNT
William O. Hunt
Director
/s/
GLEN O. TONEY
Glen O. Toney, Ph.D.
Director
/s/
DENNIS L. WHIPPLE
Dennis L. Whipple
Director
The Plan.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Plan has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Orland Park, State of Illinois, on this 15th day of November 2001.
ANDREW PROFIT SHARING TRUST
By:
/s/
CHARLES R. NICHOLAS
Charles R. Nicholas
President of Andrew Profit Sharing Trust
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Index to Exhibits
Exhibit Number
Description of Document
4.1
Shareholder Rights Agreement dated November 14, 1996 between Andrew Corporation and Harris Trust and Savings Bank, as Rights Agent, relating to Rights to purchase Common Stock under certain circumstances,
incorporated herein by reference from the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on November 26, 1996
4.2
Amended and Restated Andrew Profit Sharing Trust, dated as of October 1, 2000
5.1
Opinion of Gardner, Carton & Douglas regarding legality of securities
23.1
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.2
Consent of Gardner, Carton & Douglas (included in exhibit 5.1)
24.1
Powers of Attorney (included on signature page)
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