As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 15, 2013.

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

STRATUS PROPERTIES INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		72-1211572
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
212 Lavaca St., Suite 300 Austin, Texas		78701
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Kenneth N. Jones

General Counsel and Secretary

Stratus Properties Inc.

212 Lavaca St., Suite 300

Austin, Texas 78701

(512) 478-5788

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

Kelly C. Simoneaux

Jones Walker LLP

201 St. Charles Avenue, Suite 5100

New Orleans, Louisiana 70170-5100

 

 

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

 

 

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 $0.01 per share)		180,000 shares		$12.795 (2)		$2,303,100 (2)		$315

(1)

Upon a stock split, stock dividend, or similar transaction in the future during the effectiveness of this Registration Statement and involving our Common Stock, the number of shares registered shall be automatically increased to cover the additional securities in accordance with Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933.

 

(2)	Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act of 1933, based on the average of the high and low price per share of common stock of Stratus Properties Inc. on the Nasdaq Global Market on August 9, 2013.

 

 

 

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PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Documents containing the information required by Part I of this Registration Statement will be sent or given to participants in the Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan in accordance with Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In accordance with the Note to Part I of Form S-8, such documents are not filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents, which have been filed by Stratus Properties Inc. (the “Company” or the “Registrant”) with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference:

(a) The Company’s latest annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) on March 29, 2013;

(b) All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report referred to in (a); and

(c) The description of the Company’s Common Stock included in its Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A filed with the Commission on August 26, 2010 under the Exchange Act, including any amendment thereto or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall, except to the extent otherwise provided by Regulation S-K or any other rule promulgated by the Commission, be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statements contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other document subsequently filed or 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 4. Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware empowers the Company to indemnify, subject to the standards therein prescribed, any person in connection with any action, suit or proceeding brought or threatened by reason of the fact that such person is or was the Company’s director, officer, employee or agent or is or was serving as such with respect to another corporation or other entity at the Company’s request. Article EIGHTH of the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation and Article XXIV of the Company’s by-laws provide that each person who was or is made a party to, or is threatened to be made a party to, or is otherwise involved in, any action, suit, or proceeding by reason of the fact that the person is or was the Company’s director, officer, employee or agent shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Company to the fullest extent authorized by the

 

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General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. The indemnification covers all expenses reasonably incurred by the person. The rights conferred by Article EIGHTH of the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation and Article XXIV of the Company’s by-laws are contractual rights and include the right to be paid by the Company the expenses incurred in defending the action, suit or proceeding in advance of its final disposition.

Article EIGHTH of the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that its directors will not be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages resulting from breaches of their fiduciary duty as directors except (1) for any breach of the duty of loyalty to the Company or its stockholders, (2) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the States of Delaware, which makes directors liable for unlawful dividend or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions or (4) transactions from which directors derive improper personal benefit.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

5.1

Opinion of Jones Walker LLP.

 

23.1

Consent of BKM Sowan Horan, LLP.

 

23.2

Consent of Jones Walker LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).

 

24.1

Powers of Attorney pursuant to which this Registration Statement has been signed on behalf of certain of the Company’s officers and directors.

 

99.1

Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on May 30, 2013).

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;

(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 a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement;

(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) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in 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.

 

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(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 the 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.

 

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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 the City of Austin, State of Texas, on August 15, 2013.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on August 15, 2013.

 

Signature		Title
/s/ William H. Armstrong III William H. Armstrong III		Chairman of Board, Chief Executive Officer and President (Principal Executive Officer)
* Erin D. Pickens		Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
* C. Donald Whitmire, Jr.		Vice President and Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)
* William H. Lenehan IV		Director
* James C. Leslie		Director
* Michael D. Madden		Director
* Charles W. Porter		Director

 

*By:		/s/ William H. Armstrong III
		William H. Armstrong III, Attorney-in-Fact

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number		Description of Exhibits
5.1		Opinion of Jones Walker LLP.
23.1		Consent of BKM Sowan Horan, LLP.
23.2		Consent of Jones Walker LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1		Powers of Attorney pursuant to which this Registration Statement has been signed on behalf of certain of the Company’s officers and directors.
99.1		Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on May 30, 2013).

 

E-1

Exhibit 5.1

 

August 15, 2013

Stratus Properties Inc.

212 Lavaca St., Suite 300

Austin, Texas 78701

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to Stratus Properties Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of an aggregate 180,000 shares of common stock of the Company, $0.01 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), to be issued under the Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

We have examined instruments, documents, and records which we deemed relevant and necessary for the basis of our opinion hereinafter expressed. In such examination, we have assumed the following: (a) the authenticity of original documents and the genuineness of all signatures; (b) the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies; and (c) the truth, accuracy, and completeness of the information, representations, and warranties contained in the records, documents, instruments, and certificates we have reviewed.

Based upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the shares of Common Stock to be issued by the Company pursuant to the Plan after the filing of this Registration Statement, are validly authorized shares of Common Stock and, when issued in accordance with the terms described in the Plan, will be legally issued, fully paid, and non-assessable.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the use of our name wherever it appears in the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not consider that we are “experts” within the meaning of such term as used in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued thereunder, with respect to any part of the Registration Statement, including this opinion as an exhibit or otherwise.

JONES WALKER LLP

/s/ Jones Walker LLP

 

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors

Stratus Properties Inc.:

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on the Form S-8 of our reports dated March 28, 2013 relating to the consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the December 31, 2012 annual report on Form 10-K of Stratus Properties Inc., incorporated by reference herein.

/s/ BKM Sowan Horan, LLP

Addison, Texas

August 15, 2013

Exhibit 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

BE IT KNOWN: That the undersigned, in his capacity or capacities as an officer and/or a member of the Board of Directors of Stratus Properties Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), does hereby make, constitute and appoint ERIN D. PICKENS and KENNETH N. JONES, and each of them acting individually, the true and lawful attorney of the undersigned with power to act without the other and with full power of substitution and resubstitution to execute, deliver, and file, for and on behalf of the undersigned and in the name of the undersigned and in the capacity or capacities of the undersigned as aforesaid, a Registration Statement of the Company on Form S-8, or on such other Form as may be determined to be applicable, providing for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 of an aggregate 180,000 shares of common stock of the Company to be issued under the Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, and any and all amendments (including any pre- or post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and any other document in support thereof or supplemental thereto, and the undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever that said attorney or attorneys may deem necessary or advisable to carry out fully the intent of the foregoing as the undersigned might or could do personally or in the capacity or capacities as aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said attorney or attorneys may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

DATED August 15, 2013.

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

BE IT KNOWN: That the undersigned, in her capacity or capacities as an officer and/or a member of the Board of Directors of Stratus Properties Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), does hereby make, constitute and appoint WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG III and KENNETH N. JONES, and each of them acting individually, the true and lawful attorney of the undersigned with power to act without the other and with full power of substitution and resubstitution to execute, deliver, and file, for and on behalf of the undersigned and in the name of the undersigned and in the capacity or capacities of the undersigned as aforesaid, a Registration Statement of the Company on Form S-8, or on such other Form as may be determined to be applicable, providing for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 of an aggregate 180,000 shares of common stock of the Company to be issued under the Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, and any and all amendments (including any pre- or post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and any other document in support thereof or supplemental thereto, and the undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever that said attorney or attorneys may deem necessary or advisable to carry out fully the intent of the foregoing as the undersigned might or could do personally or in the capacity or capacities as aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said attorney or attorneys may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

DATED August 15, 2013.

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

BE IT KNOWN: That the undersigned, in his capacity or capacities as an officer and/or a member of the Board of Directors of Stratus Properties Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), does hereby make, constitute and appoint WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG III, ERIN D. PICKENS and KENNETH N. JONES, and each of them acting individually, the true and lawful attorney of the undersigned with power to act without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution to execute, deliver, and file, for and on behalf of the undersigned and in the name of the undersigned and in the capacity or capacities of the undersigned as aforesaid, a Registration Statement of the Company on Form S-8, or on such other Form as may be determined to be applicable, providing for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 of an aggregate 180,000 shares of common stock of the Company to be issued under the Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, and any and all amendments (including any pre- or post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and any other document in support thereof or supplemental thereto, and the undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever that said attorney or attorneys may deem necessary or advisable to carry out fully the intent of the foregoing as the undersigned might or could do personally or in the capacity or capacities as aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said attorney or attorneys may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

DATED August 15, 2013.

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

BE IT KNOWN: That the undersigned, in his capacity or capacities as an officer and/or a member of the Board of Directors of Stratus Properties Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), does hereby make, constitute and appoint WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG III, ERIN D. PICKENS and KENNETH N. JONES, and each of them acting individually, the true and lawful attorney of the undersigned with power to act without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution to execute, deliver, and file, for and on behalf of the undersigned and in the name of the undersigned and in the capacity or capacities of the undersigned as aforesaid, a Registration Statement of the Company on Form S-8, or on such other Form as may be determined to be applicable, providing for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 of an aggregate 180,000 shares of common stock of the Company to be issued under the Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, and any and all amendments (including any pre- or post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and any other document in support thereof or supplemental thereto, and the undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever that said attorney or attorneys may deem necessary or advisable to carry out fully the intent of the foregoing as the undersigned might or could do personally or in the capacity or capacities as aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said attorney or attorneys may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

DATED August 9, 2013.

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

BE IT KNOWN: That the undersigned, in his capacity or capacities as an officer and/or a member of the Board of Directors of Stratus Properties Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), does hereby make, constitute and appoint WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG III, ERIN D. PICKENS and KENNETH N. JONES, and each of them acting individually, the true and lawful attorney of the undersigned with power to act without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution to execute, deliver, and file, for and on behalf of the undersigned and in the name of the undersigned and in the capacity or capacities of the undersigned as aforesaid, a Registration Statement of the Company on Form S-8, or on such other Form as may be determined to be applicable, providing for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 of an aggregate 180,000 shares of common stock of the Company to be issued under the Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, and any and all amendments (including any pre- or post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and any other document in support thereof or supplemental thereto, and the undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever that said attorney or attorneys may deem necessary or advisable to carry out fully the intent of the foregoing as the undersigned might or could do personally or in the capacity or capacities as aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said attorney or attorneys may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

DATED August 15, 2013.

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

BE IT KNOWN: That the undersigned, in his capacity or capacities as an officer and/or a member of the Board of Directors of Stratus Properties Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), does hereby make, constitute and appoint WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG III, ERIN D. PICKENS and KENNETH N. JONES, and each of them acting individually, the true and lawful attorney of the undersigned with power to act without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution to execute, deliver, and file, for and on behalf of the undersigned and in the name of the undersigned and in the capacity or capacities of the undersigned as aforesaid, a Registration Statement of the Company on Form S-8, or on such other Form as may be determined to be applicable, providing for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 of an aggregate 180,000 shares of common stock of the Company to be issued under the Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, and any and all amendments (including any pre- or post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and any other document in support thereof or supplemental thereto, and the undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever that said attorney or attorneys may deem necessary or advisable to carry out fully the intent of the foregoing as the undersigned might or could do personally or in the capacity or capacities as aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said attorney or attorneys may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

DATED August 15, 2013.

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

BE IT KNOWN: That the undersigned, in his capacity or capacities as an officer and/or a member of the Board of Directors of Stratus Properties Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), does hereby make, constitute and appoint WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG III, ERIN D. PICKENS and KENNETH N. JONES, and each of them acting individually, the true and lawful attorney of the undersigned with power to act without the others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution to execute, deliver, and file, for and on behalf of the undersigned and in the name of the undersigned and in the capacity or capacities of the undersigned as aforesaid, a Registration Statement of the Company on Form S-8, or on such other Form as may be determined to be applicable, providing for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 of an aggregate 180,000 shares of common stock of the Company to be issued under the Stratus Properties Inc. 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, and any and all amendments (including any pre- or post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement and any other document in support thereof or supplemental thereto, and the undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever that said attorney or attorneys may deem necessary or advisable to carry out fully the intent of the foregoing as the undersigned might or could do personally or in the capacity or capacities as aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said attorney or attorneys may do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

DATED August 15, 2013.