ECOL US Ecology Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 4, 2015.

Registration No. 333-              

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

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FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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US ECOLOGY, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	251 E. Front St. Suite 400 Boise, Idaho 83702	95-3889638
(State of Incorporation)	(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

US ECOLOGY, INC. OMNIBUS INCENTIVE PLAN

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(Full Title of the Plan)

 

Jeffrey R. Feeler

President and Chief Executive Officer

251 E. Front St., Suite 400

Boise, ID 83702

(Name and address of agent for service)

(208) 331-8400
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

Copies of all communications to:

 

Stephen Leitzell, Esq.

Dechert LLP

Cira Centre
2929 Arch Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
(215) 994-4000

 

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. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer x		Accelerated filer o
Non-accelerated filer o	(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)	Smaller reporting company o

 

 

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, par value $0.01 per share	1,500,000	$36.88	$55,320,000	$5,570.72

 

(1)	Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this registration statement (the “Registration Statement”) shall also cover any additional shares of common stock of US Ecology, Inc. (the “Registrant”) which become issuable under the Registrant’s Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Omnibus Plan”) by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of the Registrant.
(2)	Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act, solely for the purposes of calculating the registration fee, based upon the average of the reported high and low sales prices for a share of the Registrant’s common stock on October 30, 2015 as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.

 

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

 

The Registrant will send or give documents containing the information specified by Part I of this Registration Statement to participants in the Omnibus Plan to which this Registration Statement relates, as specified in Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act. The Registrant is not filing such documents with the Commission, but these documents constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof) a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

 

The following documents, as originally filed with the Commission by the Registrant, are incorporated herein by reference:

 

(a) the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, filed on March 2, 2015;

 

(b) the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2015, filed on May 4, 2015;

 

(c) the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2015, filed on August 7, 2015;

 

 

(d) the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2015, filed on November 4, 2015;

 

(e) the Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on March 12, 2015, June 1, 2015, August 7, 2015 and November 4, 2015; and

 

(f) the description of the Registrant’s common stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on March 1, 2013, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

 

In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) 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, will be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement. Each document incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a part of this Registration Statement from the date of the filing of such document with the Commission, until the information contained in such document is superseded or updated by any subsequently filed document which is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Item 3, no document, or portion of or exhibit to any document, that is “furnished” to (rather than filed with) the Commission shall be incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

 

Item 4. Description of Securities.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

 

The Registrant has broad powers to indemnify directors and officers against liabilities they incur in these capacities under the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”). The Registrant’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation (i) requires that the Registrant indemnify current and former officers and directors of the Registrant for expenses, liabilities and losses incurred when they are made parties to or are threatened to be made parties to actions, suits or proceedings by reason of the fact that they are or were directors or officers of the Registrant and (ii) eliminates personal liability of individual directors to the Registrant or its stockholders for any breach of fiduciary duty, in each case, to the fullest extent allowed under the DGCL.

 

Section 145(a) of the DGCL provides that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, 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, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.

 

 

Section 145(b) of the DGCL provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such person acted in any of the capacities set forth above, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to be indemnified for such expenses which the court shall deem proper.

 

Section 145 of the DGCL further provides that (i) to the extent that a former or present director or officer of a corporation has been successful in the defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) or in the defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection therewith; (ii) indemnification provided for by Section 145 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which the indemnified party may be entitled; and (iii) the corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any present or former director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or any person who at the request of the corporation was serving in such capacity for another entity against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by him or her in any such capacity or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify him or her against such liabilities under Section 145.

 

Article Seven of the Registrant’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that the Registrant shall indemnify to the full extent permitted by the DGCL any person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involuntarily involved in any action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Registrant (including service by such person in any capacity at another entity during his or her tenure as a director or officer of the Registrant at the Registrant’s request) for all expenses, liabilities or losses reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding. The Registrant shall pay the indemnified person’s expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance if the indemnified person undertakes in writing to repay the amounts advanced if it is determined ultimately that the indemnified person is not entitled to indemnification. Article Seven of the Registrant’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation also eliminates the personal liability of the Registrant’s directors to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty, to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL.

 

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

See Exhibit Index.

 

 

Item 9. Undertakings

 

(a) The 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 this Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective 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 (i) and (ii) shall not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment of this Registration Statement 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 Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in 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.

 

(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 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 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to 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 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.

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

The Registrant. 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 the City of Boise, State of Idaho, on November 4, 2015.

 

US ECOLOGY, INC.

 

 

By:/s/ Jeffrey R. Feeler

      Jeff Feeler

      President and Chief Executive Officer

      (Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW TO ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Jeffrey R. Feeler and Eric L. Gerratt, each and individually, his or her attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments or post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement and to file the same with the Commission, granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary in connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each such attorney-in-fact, or his agent or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Jeffery R. Feeler. Jeffrey R. Feeler	Director, President, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)	November 4, 2015
/s/ Eric L. Gerratt. Eric L. Gerratt	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)	November 4, 2015
/s/ Joe F. Colvin . Joe F. Colvin	Director	November 4, 2015
/s/ Katina Dorton . Katina Dorton	Director	November 4, 2015
/s/ Daniel Fox . Daniel Fox	Director	November 4, 2015
/s/ David M. Lusk. David M. Lusk	Director	November 4, 2015
/s/ Stephen A. Romano Stephen A. Romano	Director	November 4, 2015
/s/ John T. Sahlberg John T. Sahlberg	Director	November 4, 2015

 

 

Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit Number		Description
4.1		US Ecology, Inc. Omnibus Incentive Plan (filed as Exhibit A to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on April 15, 2015, and incorporated by reference herein).
5.1		Opinion of Dechert LLP (counsel to the Registrant) as to the legality of the securities being registered.
23.1		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
23.2		Consent of Dechert LLP (included as Exhibit 5.1).
24.1		Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT 5.1

 

OPINION RE LEGALITY

 

November 4, 2015

 

US Ecology, Inc.

251 E. Front St.

Suite 400

Boise, Idaho 83702

 

Re: REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

 

We have acted as counsel to US Ecology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) for the purpose of registering under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Company’s issuance of 1,500,000 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”), issuable under the U.S. Ecology, Inc. Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

 

This opinion is being furnished to the Company in connection with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, and no opinion is expressed herein as to any matter pertaining to the contents of the Registration Statement other than as expressly stated herein with respect to the Shares.

 

As your counsel, we have examined such documents and such matters of fact and law that we have deemed necessary for the purpose of rendering the opinion expressed herein. In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as original documents, and the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies, the legal capacity of natural persons who are signatories to the documents examined by us, and the legal power and authority of all persons signing on behalf of parties to all documents.

 

Subject to the foregoing and the other matters set forth herein, it is our opinion that, as of the date hereof, when the Shares shall have been duly registered on the books of the transfer agent and registrar therefor in the name or on behalf of the holders and have been issued by the Company against payment therefor (not less than par value) in the circumstances contemplated by the Plan, assuming in each case that the individual issuances, grants or awards under the Plan are duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and duly issued, granted or awarded and exercised in accordance with the requirements of law and the Plan (and the agreements and awards duly adopted thereunder and in accordance therewith), the issue and sale of the Shares will have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, and the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

We are members of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the foregoing opinion is limited to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ DECHERT LLP

EXHIBIT 23.1

 

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of our report dated March 2, 2015, relating to the consolidated financial statements of US Ecology, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) and the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2014.

 

/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

 

Boise, ID

 

November 4, 2015