As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2007
Registration No.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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KABUSHIKI KAISHA ADVANTEST
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
ADVANTEST CORPORATION
(Translation of Registrant's name into English)
Japan Not Applicable
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
Shin-Marunouchi Center Building
1-6-2 Marunouchi,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
Japan
(Address of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices)
THE ADVANTEST CORPORATION INCENTIVE STOCK OPTION PLAN 2006
(Full title of the plan)
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Advantest America Corporation (Holding Co.)
3201 Scott Boulevard
Santa Clara, California 95054
Attention: Corporate Secretary
(408) 988-7700
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
With a copy to:
Masahisa Ikeda
Shearman & Sterling
Fukoku Seimei Building
2-2 Uchisaiwaicho 2-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011
Japan
81-3-5251-1601
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Securities to be Amount to be Proposed Proposed Amount of
Registered Registered Maximum Maximum Registration
(2) Offering Aggregate Fee
Price per Offering
Share (3) Price
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Common Stock of Registrant(1) 348,000 $50.42 $17,546,160 $538.67
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(1) Each share of the Registrant's common stock (the "Common Stock") issuable
in the United States pursuant to the Rules of the Advantest Corporation
Incentive Stock Option Plan 2006 (the "Plan") will be represented by one
(1) American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") on deposit with JPMorgan Chase Bank
(formerly known as Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York), as
depositary bank (the "Depositary"). Each ADS will be evidenced by one (1)
American Depositary Receipt issued by the Depositary. A separate
Registration Statement on Form F-6 (Registration No. 333-13886) was filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on September
5, 2001 for the registration of ADSs issuable upon deposit of shares of
Common Stock.
(2) Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"), there is also being registered such number of additional
shares of Common Stock that may become available for issuance under the
Plan in the event of certain changes in the outstanding shares of Common
Stock, including reorganizations, mergers, recapitalizations,
restructurings, stock dividends, stock splits, reverse stock splits and
reclassifications.
(3) Pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act, the Proposed Maximum
Offering Price Per Share and the Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price
for the 348,000 shares of Common Stock subject to currently outstanding
options are based on the per share weighted average exercise price of the
options. The per share weighted average exercise price is 5,888 Yen. For
purposes of calculating the filing fee, the exercise price has been
converted to U.S. Dollars using the noon buying rate in New York, New York
for cable transfers in Yen as certified for customs purposes by the Federal
Reserve Bank on March 16, 2007.
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the information specified in Part I, Items 1 and
2, will be delivered to employees in accordance with the "Note" to Part I of
Form S-8 and Rule 428 of the Securities Act.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
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The following documents filed with the Commission are incorporated by
reference as of their respective dates into this Registration Statement and
shall be deemed a part hereof:
(i) the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the
Commission on June 28, 2006;
(ii) the description of the American Depository Shares of the
Registrant contained in the Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form 20-F filed with the Commission on September
4, 2001; and
(iii) all other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section
13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the "Exchange Act") since March 31, 2006.
All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, subsequent to the date of the filing
hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this
Registration Statement 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 in 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
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement 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.
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Item 4. Description of Securities.
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Not applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
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Advantest Corporation has agreed to indemnify and hold KPMG AZSA & Co.
(KPMG) harmless against and from any and all legal costs and expenses incurred
by KPMG in successful defense of any legal action or proceeding that arises as a
result of KPMG's consent to the incorporation by reference of its audit report
on the Company's past financial statements incorporated by reference in this
registration statement.
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Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
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Articles 330 of the Corporate Law of Japan (the "Corporate Law") make
the provisions of Section 10, Chapter 2, Book III of the Civil Code of Japan
applicable to the relationships between the Registrant and its directors and
corporate auditors, respectively. Section 10, among other things, provides in
effect that:
(1) Any director or corporate auditor of a company may demand
advance payment of expenses which are considered necessary for
the management of the affairs of such company entrusted to
such director or corporate auditor;
(2) If a director or corporate auditor of a company has defrayed
any expenses which are considered necessary for the management
of the affairs of such company entrusted to such director or
corporate auditor, the director or corporate auditor may
demand reimbursement therefor and interest thereon after the
date of payment from the company;
(3) If a director or corporate auditor has assumed an obligation
necessary for the management of affairs entrusted to such
director or corporate auditor, the director or corporate
auditor may require the company to perform it in such
director's or corporate auditor's place or, if it is not due,
to furnish adequate security; and
(4) If a director or corporate auditor, without any fault on such
director's or corporate auditor's part, sustains damage
through the management of the affairs entrusted to such
director or corporate auditor, the director or corporate
auditor may demand compensation therefor from the company.
Under Article 388 of the Corporate Law, a company may not refuse a
demand from a corporate auditor referred to in subparagraphs (1) through (3)
above unless the company establishes that the relevant expense or obligation was
or is not necessary for the performance of the corporate auditor's duties.
Pursuant to Article 426 of the Corporate Law and to the extent
permitted by law and regulations, the Registrant may, by resolution of its board
of directors, exempt the liabilities of its directors and corporate auditors
(including persons who have previously served as the Registrant's directors or
corporate auditors). Pursuant to Article 427 of the Corporate Law, Article 28
and 39 of the Registrant's Article of Incorporation and to the extent permitted
by law and regulations, the Registrant may conclude an agreement with its
outside directors and outside corporate auditors to limit the liability for
damages of the Registrant caused by non-performance of their duties.
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The Registrant maintains a directors' insurance policy to insure its
directors and corporate auditors against liability for actions or omissions
occurring in their capacity as director or corporate auditor, subject to certain
exclusions and limitations.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
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Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
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See Exhibit list on page 13 of this Registration Statement.
Item 9. Undertakings.
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(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;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
events arising after the effective date of
this 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; and
(iii) To include any material information with
respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in this Registration
Statement or any material change to such
information in this Registration Statement;
provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
(a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the
information required to be 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 Exchange Act that are incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement;
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, 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; and
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(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 any liability under the Securities Act, 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 therein, 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 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 Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities 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 of whether such indemnification by it is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities 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, 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 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo of Japan on this 19 day of March, 2007.
ADVANTEST CORPORATION
By: /s/ Hitoshi Owada
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Name: Hitoshi Owada
Title: Director and Managing Executive Officer
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SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned
constitutes and appoints Hitoshi Owada as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact
and agent with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in
his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement,
and registration statements filed pursuant to Rule 462 under the Securities Act,
and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection
therewith, with the Commission, granting such attorney-in-fact and agent, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully and to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that such attorney-in-fact and agent may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the indicated
capacities on March 19, 2007.
Signature Capacity
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/s/ Shimpei Takeshita
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Shimpei Takeshita Chairman of the Board
/s/ Toshio Maruyama
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Toshio Maruyama President and CEO
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Hiroshi Oura
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Hiroshi Oura Director and Senior Executive Advisor
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Naoyuki Akikusa Director
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Yasushige Hagio Director
/s/ Junji Nishiura
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Junji Nishiura Director and Senior Executive Officer
/s/ Hiroji Agata
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Hiroji Agata Director and Senior Executive Officer
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/s/ Takashi Tokuno
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Takashi Tokuno Director and Senior Executive Officer
/s/ Hitoshi Owada
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Hitoshi Owada Director and Managing Executive Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REGISTRANT
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of
Advantest Corporation has signed this Registration Statement or amendment
thereto in Santa Clara, California, on March 19, 2007.
Advantest America Corporation (Holding Co.)
By: /s/ Keith Hardwick
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Name: Keith Hardwick
Title: Corporate Secretary
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number Description
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4.1 Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant
(English Translation) (incorporated by reference herein to the
Registrant's Report on Form 6-K (No. 001-15236), filed October
27, 2006).
4.2 Regulations of the Board of Directors of the Registrant (English
Translation) (incorporated by reference herein to the
Registrant's Annual Report on Form 20-F (No. 001-15236), filed
June 28, 2006).
4.3 Share Handling Regulations of the Registrant (English
Translation) (incorporated by reference herein to the
Registrant's Annual Report on Form 20-F (No. 001-15236), filed
June 28, 2006).
4.4 Form of Deposit Agreement, dated as of September 14, 2001, among
Advantest Corporation, JPMorgan Chase Bank (formerly known as
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York), as depositary, and
all holders from time to time of American Depositary Receipts
issued thereunder, including the form of American Depositary
Receipt attached thereto as Exhibit A (incorporated by reference
herein to Exhibit A to the Registrant's Registration Statement
on Form F-6 (Registration No. 333-13886)).
4.5* Rules of the Advantest Corporation Incentive Stock Option Plan
2006.
5* Opinion of Nishimura & Partners regarding the legality of
securities being offered hereby.
23.1* Consent of Ernst & Young ShinNihon
23.2* Consent of KPMG AZSA & Co.
23.3* Consent of Nishimura & Partners (contained in Exhibit 5).
24* Powers of Attorney (included on signature page to this
Registration Statement).
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* Filed herewith.
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