As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 15, 2006

Registration No. 333-_____

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		04-3432319
(State or other jurisdiction of		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
incorporation or organization)
8 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA		02142
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip code)

Nine Systems Corporation (formerly known as Streaming Media Corporation) 2002 Stock Option Plan
(Full title of the Plan)

Melanie Haratunian, Esq.
Vice President and General Counsel
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
8 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
(Name and address of agent for service)

617-444-3000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:
Susan W. Murley, Esq.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
60 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Telephone: 617-526-6000

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Proposed

Proposed

Maximum

Maximum

Title of Securities to be

Amount to be

Offering Price

Aggregate Offering

Registered

Registered(1)

Per Share

Price

Amount of Registration Fee

Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (including associated preferred stock purchase rights)

421,762 shares

$

4.88

(2)

$

2,058,198.50

(2)

$

220.23

 

 

PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

     Item 1. Plan Information.

     The information required by Item 1 is included in documents sent or given to participants in the plan covered by this registration statement pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

     Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.

     The written statement required by Item 2 is included in documents sent or given to participants in the plan covered by this registration statement pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act.

PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

     Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     We are subject to the informational and reporting requirements of Sections 13(a), 14, and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and in accordance therewith file reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”). The following documents, which are on file with the Commission, are incorporated in this registration statement by reference:

     (a) Our latest annual report filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or the latest prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act that contains audited financial statements for our latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed.

     (b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the document referred to in (a) above.

     (c) The description of the securities contained in our registration statements on Form 8-A filed under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

     All documents subsequently filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby 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 part hereof from the date of the 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 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 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.

     Article SEVENTH of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) provides that no director of our company shall be personally liable for any monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent that the Delaware General Corporation Law prohibits the elimination or limitation of liability of directors for breach of fiduciary duty.

     Article EIGHTH of our Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director or officer of our company (a) shall be indemnified by us against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement incurred in connection with any litigation or other legal proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of our company) brought against him by virtue of his position as a director or officer of our company if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of our company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful and (b) shall be indemnified by our company against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) and amounts paid in settlement incurred in connection with any action by or in the right of our company brought against him by virtue of his position as a director or officer of our company if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of our company, except that no indemnification shall be made with respect to any matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to us, unless a court determines that, despite such adjudication but in view of all of the circumstances, he is entitled to indemnification of such expenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that a director or officer has been successful, on the merits or otherwise, including, without limitation, the dismissal of an action without prejudice, he is required to be indemnified by us against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred in connection therewith. Expenses shall be advanced to a director or officer at his request, provided that he undertakes to repay the amount advanced if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to indemnification for such expenses.

     Indemnification is required to be made unless we determine that the applicable standard of conduct required for indemnification has not been met. In the event of a determination by us that the director or officer did not meet the applicable standard of conduct required for indemnification, or if we fail to make an indemnification payment within 60 days after such payment is claimed by such person, such person is permitted to petition the court to make an independent determination as to whether such person is entitled to indemnification. As a condition precedent to the right of indemnification, the director or officer must give us notice of the action for which indemnity is sought and we have the right to participate in such action or assume the defense thereof.

     Article Eighth of our Certificate of Incorporation further provides that the indemnification provided therein is not exclusive, and provides that in the event that the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended to expand the indemnification permitted to directors or officers we must indemnify those persons to the fullest extent permitted by such law as so amended.

     Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended, provides that a corporation may indemnify a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation and certain other persons serving at the request of the corporation in related capacities against amounts paid and expenses incurred in connection with an action or proceeding to which he is or is threatened to be made a party by reason of such position, if such person shall have acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, in any criminal proceeding, if such person had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful; provided that, in the case of actions brought

by or in the right of the corporation, no indemnification shall be made with respect to any matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the adjudicating court determines that such indemnification is proper under the circumstances.

     We maintain a general liability insurance policy which covers certain liabilities of directors and officers of our company arising out of claims based on acts or omissions in their capacities as directors or officers.

     Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

     Item 8. Exhibits.

The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is incorporated herein by reference.

     Item 9. Undertakings.

1. Item 512(a) of Regulation S-K. 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 the 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 the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (i) and (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 us pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the 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.

2. Item 512(b) of Regulation S-K. The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of our 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.

3. Item 512(h) of Regulation S-K. 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, we have been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange 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 us 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, we will, unless in the opinion of our counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by us 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 of 1933, 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 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, on this 15^th day of December 2006.

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

     We, the undersigned officers and directors of Akamai Technologies, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Paul Sagan, J. Donald Sherman and Melanie Haratunian, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the registration statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said registration statement, and generally to do all such things in our names and on our behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable Akamai Technologies, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said registration statement and any and all amendments thereto.

     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/ Paul Sagan   Paul Sagan		President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal executive officer)		December 15, 2006
/s/ J. Donald Sherman   J. Donald Sherman		Chief Financial Officer (Principal financial and accounting officer)		December 15, 2006
/s/ George H. Conrades   George H. Conrades		Director		December 15, 2006
/s/ Martin M. Coyne II   Martin M. Coyne II		Director		December 15, 2006
/s/ Ronald L. Graham   Ronald L. Graham		Director		December 15, 2006
/s/ William A. Halter   William A. Halter		Director		December 15, 2006

Signature		Title		Date
/s/ Peter J. Kight   Peter J. Kight		Director		December 15, 2006
/s/ F. Thomson Leighton   F. Thomson Leighton		Director		December 15, 2006
/s/ Geoffrey A. Moore   Geoffrey A. Moore		Director		December 15, 2006
/s/ Frederic V. Salerno   Frederic V. Salerno		Director		December 15, 2006
/s/ Naomi O. Seligman   Naomi O. Seligman		Director		December 15, 2006

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

*4.1		Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant
**4.2		Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant
***4.3		Certificate of Designations of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock of the Registrant
****4.4		Rights Agreement, dated September 10, 2002, by and between the Registrant and Equiserve Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent.
*****4.5		Amendment No. 1, dated as of January 29, 2004, to the Rights Agreement, dated as of September 10, 2002, between the Registrant and EquiServe Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent.
5		Opinion of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, counsel to the Registrant
23.1		Consent of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5)
23.2		Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
24		Power of attorney (included on the signature pages of this registration statement)
99.1		Nine Systems Corporation (formerly known as Streaming Media Corporation) 2002 Stock Option Plan