Form S-8


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
  
FORM S-8
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  
ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Maryland
95-4502084
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

385 East Colorado Boulevard, Suite 299
Pasadena, California  91101
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
 
ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC.
AMENDED AND RESTATED 1997 STOCK AWARD AND INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
 
Joel S. Marcus
Chief Executive Officer
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
385 East Colorado Boulevard, Suite 299
Pasadena, California  91101
(626) 578-0777
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copy to:
 
Kenneth E. Kohler
Morrison & Foerster LLP
707 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90017
(213) 892-5200 
 
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.

Large accelerated filer x
 
Accelerated filero
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
 
Proposed Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
 
Amount of
Registration Fee
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share
 
2,800,000 shares
(2) 
$
76.17

(3) 
$
213,276,000

(3) 
$
27,470

Total
 
2,800,000 shares
 
N/A

 
$
213,276,000

 
$
27,470


(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416, this Registration Statement shall also cover an indeterminate amount of any additional shares of Registrant’s Common Stock that become issuable under the plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration that increases the number of outstanding shares of Registrant’s Common Stock.
(2)
Represents 2,800,000 shares of Common Stock reserved for future grant under Registrant’s Plan.
(3)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h).  The price per share and aggregate offering price are based upon the average of the high and low prices of Registrant’s Common Stock on June 26, 2014 as quoted on the New York Stock Exchange.






EXPLANATORY NOTE
 
In accordance with the instructional Note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), the information specified by Part I of Form S-8 has been omitted from this registration statement.  This registration statement has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), to register an additional 2,800,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding option awards and awards to be granted under the Company’s Amended and Restated 1997 Stock Award and Incentive Plan.

INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF CONTENTS OF CERTAIN REGISTRATION STATEMENTS ON FORM S-8
 
In accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8 regarding the registration of additional securities of the same class as other securities for which there has been filed Registration Statements on Form S-8 relating to the same employee benefit plan, the prior Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-34223) filed with the Commission on August 22, 1997, Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-60075) filed with the Commission on July 29, 1998, Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-152433) filed with the Commission on July 21, 2008 and Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-167889) filed with the Commission on June 30, 2010 are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information set forth herein.

PART II
 
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

The following documents are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, filed with the SEC on March 3, 2014;

all other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), since the end of the fiscal year covered by the financial statements included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, filed with the SEC on March 3, 2014; and

the description of the Company’s common stock contained in the Company’s registration statement on Form 8-A, filed with the SEC on May 14, 1997, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and shall be a part of this Registration Statement 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 the purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in this Registration Statement or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.







ITEM 8. EXHIBITS

Exhibit 
Number
 
Description
 
 
 
5.1
 
Opinion of Venable LLP
10.1
 
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Amended and Restated 1997 Stock Award and Incentive Plan, dated May 29, 2014 (filed as an exhibit to the Company’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 29, 2014 and incorporated herein by reference)
23.1
 
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.2
 
Consent of Venable LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement)
24.1
 
Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page to this Registration Statement)
 





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 Pasadena, State of California, on July 2, 2014.

ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC.
 
/s/ Joel S. Marcus
Joel S. Marcus, Chief Executive Officer





 POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Joel S. Marcus and Dean A. Shigenaga, and each or any one of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign 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, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitutes or substitute, 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/ Joel S. Marcus
 
Chairman of the Board of Directors
 
July 2, 2014
Joel S. Marcus
 
and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Dean A. Shigenaga
 
Chief Financial Officer (Principal
 
July 1, 2014
Dean A. Shigenaga
 
Financial and Principal Accounting Officer)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Richard B. Jennings
 
Lead Director
 
July 1, 2014
Richard B. Jennings
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ John L. Atkins, III
 
Director
 
June 27, 2014
John L. Atkins, III
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Maria C. Freire, Ph.D.
 
Director
 
July 1, 2014
Maria C. Freire, Ph.D.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Steven R. Hash
 
Director
 
June 30, 2014
Steven R. Hash
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Richard H. Klein
 
Director
 
June 30, 2014
Richard H. Klein
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ James H. Richardson
 
Director
 
June 30, 2014
James H. Richardson