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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CBS CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

51 West 52^nd Street, New York, New York 10019

(212) 975-4321

(Address and phone number of principal executive offices, including zip code)

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CBS Excess 401(k) Plan

CBS Excess 401(k) Plan for Designated Senior Executives

CBS Bonus Deferral Plan

CBS Bonus Deferral Plan for Designated Senior Executives

 

(Full title of the plans)

Louis J. Briskman, Esq.

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

CBS Corporation, 51 West 52^nd Street, New York, New York 10019

(212) 975-4321

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

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

 

 

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PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents, which have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by the Registrant are incorporated herein by reference into this Registration Statement:

(a)           The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (filed March 16, 2006);

(b)           The Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended March 31, 2006 (filed May 9, 2006);

(c)           The Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended June 30, 2006 (filed August 8, 2006);

(d)           The Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended September 30, 2006 (filed November 7, 2006);

(e)           The Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed March 17, 2006, April 5, 2006, April 26, 2006, May 22, 2006, May 23, 2006, May 26, 2006, June 1, 2006, July 5, 2006, August 3, 2006, August 14, 2006, September 7, 2006, October 27, 2006 and November 2, 2006; and

(f)            The description of CBS capital stock contained in CBS’s registration statement on Form S-3, filed with the SEC on February 1, 2006, including all amendments or reports updating this description.

In addition, all documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the effective date of this Registration statement, but prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment 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 the Registration Statement and to be part thereof 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 purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement 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.

Under the Excess 401(k) Plan and the Excess 401(k) Plan for Designated Senior Executives, the Company provides eligible employees the opportunity to defer a specific percentage of their cash compensation.  Under the Bonus Deferral Plan and the Bonus Deferral Plan for Designated Senior Executives, the Company provides eligible employees the opportunity to defer a specific percentage of their bonus compensation.  The obligations of the Company under such agreements (the “Obligations”) will be unsecured general obligations of the Company to pay the deferred compensation, including, in the case of the Excess 401(k) Plan and the Excess 401(k) Plan for Designated Senior Executives, the amounts that the Registrant has credited to a participant’s account as matching contributions, and earnings credited on such amounts in the future in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan, and will rank pari passu with other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company from time to time outstanding.

Under the Excess 401(k) Plan, the Excess 401(k) Plan for Designated Senior Executives, the Bonus Deferral Plan and the Bonus Deferral Plan for Designated Senior Executives, amounts credited to a participant’s account are credited with earnings based on a notional investment measurement, which may be shares in investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (mutual funds), commingled investment funds managed by banks or registered investment advisors, bank and debt obligations, investment contracts issued by insurance companies, direct or guaranteed federal or state governmental obligations and shares of common stock that are listed on a domestic or international stock exchange, including shares of the Registrant’s

 

 

Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, and Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share.  The Obligations are payable in cash after termination of employment in a lump-sum distribution or in installments, in accordance with the participant’s payment election made in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan.

The Obligations are not subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, attachment or garnishment.  Any attempt by any person to transfer or assign benefits under the Excess 401(k) Plan, the Excess 401(k) Plan for Designated Senior Executives, the Bonus Deferral Plan or the Bonus Deferral Plan for Designated Senior Executives, other than a claim for benefits by a participant or his or her beneficiary(ies), will be null and void.

There is no trading market for the Obligations.  The Obligations are not convertible into any other security of the Registrant.  No trustee has been appointed to take action with respect to the Obligations and each participant in the Excess 401(k) Plan, the Excess 401(k) Plan for Designated Senior Executives, the Bonus Deferral Plan or the Bonus Deferral Plan for Designated Senior Executives will be responsible for enforcing his or her own rights with respect to the Obligations.  The Registrant may, but is not obligated to, set aside amounts or establish a trust or fund to serve as a source of funds from which it can satisfy the Obligations.  Participants in the Excess 401(k) Plan, the Excess 401(k) Plan for Designated Senior Executives, the Bonus Deferral Plan or the Bonus Deferral Plan for Designated Senior Executives will have no rights to any assets held in any trust or fund except as general creditors of the Registrant.  Assets in any trust or fund will at all times be subject to the claims of the Registrant’s general creditors.

Louis J. Briskman, Esq., Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of the Registrant, who has rendered an opinion as to the enforceability of the Obligations, participates in the Excess 401(k) Plan for Designated Senior Executives and may continue to do so in the future.

Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) allows a corporation to include in its certificate of incorporation a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except in cases where the director breached his duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of the law, willfully or negligently authorized the unlawful payment of a dividend or approved an unlawful stock redemption or repurchase or obtained an improper personal benefit. The Registrant’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “CBS Charter”) contains provisions that eliminate directors’ personal liability, in certain circumstances.

Pursuant to the CBS Charter and the Registrant’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “CBS Bylaws”), the Registrant shall indemnify any person who was or is involved in or is threatened to be involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer or employee of the Registrant, or is or was serving at the request of the Registrant as a director, officer or employee (including a trustee) of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (such person, an “indemnitee”), to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, against judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and expenses (including attorneys’ fees), actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, except with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses, the Registrant shall indemnify an indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by the indemnitee, if and only if the Board of Directors of the Registrant authorized the bringing of the action, suit or proceeding (or part thereof) in advance of the commencement of the proceeding.

Pursuant to the CBS Charter and the CBS Bylaws, to the extent that an indemnitee has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to above, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith.

The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the indemnification provisions of the CBS Charter and the CBS Bylaws shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a person seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any statute, bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official

 

capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office. Without limiting the foregoing, the Registrant is authorized to enter into an agreement with any director, officer or employee of the Registrant providing indemnification for such person against expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement that result from any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, including any action, suit or proceeding by or in the right of the Registrant, that arises by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer or employee of the Registrant, or is or was serving at the request of the Registrant as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, to the fullest extent allowed by law, except that no such agreement shall provide for indemnification for any actions that constitute fraud, actual dishonesty or willful misconduct.

The Registrant may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer or employee of the Registrant, or is or was serving at the request of the Registrant as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Registrant would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of the CBS Charter.

Not Applicable.

 

Item 9. Undertakings.

 

 

(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;

(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 the Registration Statement;

provided, however, that the undertakings set forth in paragraphs (1)(i) and (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 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 undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining 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 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

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 New York, State of New York, on this 11th day of December, 2006.

CBS CORPORATION

 

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the 11th day of December, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit Index

 

 

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