As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2006
Registration No.
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CHINA NORTH EAST PETROLEUM HOLDINGS LIMITED
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada |
87-0638750 |
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(State of incorporation) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
20337 Rimview Place
Walnut, California 91789
(Address, including zip code, of Registrant's principal executive offices)
2006 STOCK OPTION/STOCK ISSUANCE PLAN
(Full title of the plans)
Wang Hong Jun
President
China North East Petroleum Holdings Limited
20337 Rimview Place
Walnut, California 91789
(909) 268-2840
(Name, address, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
Mark Crone, Esq.
The Crone Law Group LLP
201 Mission Street, Suite 1930
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 495-8900
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities to be Registered |
Amount |
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share(2) |
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(2) |
Amount of Registration Fee(3) |
Common Stock, $.001 par value to be issued under Registrant's 2006 Stock Option/Stock Issuance Plan | 2,450,000 | $0.445 | $1,090,250 | $116.66 |
Common Stock, $.001 par value to be issued under Registrant's 2006 Stock Option/Stock Issuance Plan | 50,000 | $0.25 | $12,500 | $1.34 |
Total | 2,500,000 | - | $1,102,750 | $118.00 |
(1) | Amount of securities to be registered are computed in accordance with Rule 457(h) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as the maximum number of the Registrant's Common Stock issuable under the 2006 Stock Option/Stock Issuance Plan. This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of Common Stock which become issuable 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 Common Stock. |
(2) | The Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share and Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price are estimated in accordance with Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee based on the average of the high and low prices per share of the Common Stock as reported on the OTC Bulletin Board on February 22, 2006. |
(3) | The amount of the Registration fee was calculated pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 which provides that the fee shall be $107 per $1,000,000 of the proposed maximum aggregate offering price of the securities proposed to be registered. |
CHINA NORTH EAST PETROLEUM HOLDINGS LIMITED
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
There are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and into the Prospectuses relating to this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 428 the following documents and information previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission):
1. China North East Petroleum Holdings Limiteds Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, filed with the Commission on May 18, 2005.
2. China North East Petroleum Holdings Limiteds Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2005, filed with the Commission on June 17, 2005.
3. China North East Petroleum Holdings Limiteds Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2005, filed with the Commission on August 15, 2005.
4. China North East Petroleum Holdings Limited's Amended Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2005, filed with the Commission on November 23, 2005.
5. China North East Petroleum Holdings Limiteds Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2005, filed with the Commission on November 23, 2005.
6. The Companys Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on May 4, 2005, July 1, 2005, November 23, 2005, and February 3, 2006; and
7. The description of the Company's common stock, $0.001 per value (the "Common Stock"), set forth under the caption "Description of Registrant's Securities to be Registered" in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 10-SB filed June 5, 2002, effective 60 days thereafter, and amended August 2, 2002 and October 17, 2002, contained on page 16 of the Companys amended registration statement (Commission file no. 000-49846).
All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date hereof, and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which registers all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
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Any statement contained in the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement 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.
Item 4. Description of Securities
Not applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
The validity of the shares being offered hereby will be passed upon for the Company by The Crone Law Group, LLP, counsel to the Company. Members of The Crone Law Group, LLP are receiving 250,000 shares of the Company's common stock registered pursuant to this Registration Statement as compensation for legal services incurred by the Company to date for services that do not involve an offering of the Registrant's securities. Members of The Crone Law Group, LLP may receive additional shares of the Companys common stock registered pursuant to this registration statement as compensation for additional legal services provided to the Company by The Crone Law Group, LLP if and when approved by the Companys Board of Directors. The Crone Law Group, LLP also receives cash payments from the Company as compensation for legal services. Members of The Crone Law Group, LLP, will also receive options to purchase an aggregate of 50,000 shares of the Company's common stock registered under this Registration Statement for services that do not involve an offering of the Registrant's securities. The Crone Law Group, LLP does not own any shares of the Companys common stock as of the effective date of this registration statement.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and OfficersThe only statutes, charter provisions, by-laws, contracts or other arrangements under which any controlling person, director or officer of the Company is or may be insured or indemnified against any liability which he may incur in that capacity, are as follows:
A. Sections 78.037, 78.7502, 78.751, and 78.752 of the Nevada Revised Statutes offer limitation of liability protection for officers and directors, indemnification protection of officers, directors, employees and agents of a Nevada corporation, and provide that Nevada corporations may purchase insurance to protect directors, officers, employees and agents. They generally provide that:
(a) a Nevada 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, except an action by or in the right of the corporation, by reason of the fact that he 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, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses, including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner which he 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 conduct was unlawful;
(b) a Nevada 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 he 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, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses, including amounts paid in settlement and attorneys' fees actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or
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settlement of the action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation. Indemnification may not be made for any claim, issue or matter as to which such a person has been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction, after exhaustion of all appeals therefrom, to be liable to the corporation or for amounts paid in settlement to the corporation, unless and only to the extent that the court in which the action or suit was brought or other court of competent jurisdiction determines upon application that in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the court deems proper; and
(c) to the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation 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, the corporation shall indemnify him against expenses, including attorneys' fees, actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense.
B. Article IX of the Company's articles of incorporation provides that to the fullest extent allowed by law, the directors and executive officers of the Company shall be entitled to indemnification from the Company for acts and omissions taking place in connection with their activities in such capacities.
C. Article VIII of the Company's by-laws provides indemnification rights to the Company's officers, directors or controlling persons in a manner similar to the Nevada statutes described above.
D. Although Nevada law provides that Nevada corporations may purchase liability insurance to protect officers and directors, the Company has no directors and officers insurance or any other type of insurance that insures its officers, directors or controlling persons against liabilities that may arise against them in those capacities.
Item 7. | Exemption from Registration Claimed | ||
Not applicable. | |||
Item 8. | Exhibits | ||
Exhibit |
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Document |
4.1 | Registrants 2006 Stock Option/Stock Issuance Plan | |
5.1 | Opinion of The Crone Law Group, LLP, as to legality of securities being registered | |
23.1 | Consent of Jimmy C.H. Cheung & Co., CPA, Independent Auditors | |
23.2 | Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1) | |
24.1 | Power of Attorney (see page 7) |
(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 of 1933; |
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(ii) |
To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events, which individually or together, and represent a fundamental change in the information in the 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; |
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(iii) |
To include any additional or changed material information on the plan of distribution; |
Provided however, That:
Paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this Section do not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-8 (§239.16b of this Chapter), and 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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)) that are incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement.
(2) | That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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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(4) | That, for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities: | ||
The undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this Registration Statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser: | |||
(i) | Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (§230.424 of this Chapter); | ||
(ii) | Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned Registrant; | ||
(iii) | The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and | ||
(iv) | Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser. | ||
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant, China North East Petroleum Holdings Limited, 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, on the 23rd day of February, 2006.
China North East Petroleum Holdings Limited |
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/s/ Wang Hong Jun | |
Wang Hong Jun | |
President and Chief Executive Officer |
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Wang Hong Jun, as his attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution, for him and in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement (including post-effective amendments) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorney to any and all amendments to the Registration Statement.
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/ Wang Hong Jun
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President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board (Principal Executive Officer) |
February 23, 2006 | ||
Wang, Hong Jun | ||||
/s/ Wei Guo Ping
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Chief Financial Officer and Director |
February 23, 2006 | ||
Wei, Guo Ping | ||||
/s/ Yu Liguo
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Director |
February 23, 2006 | ||
Yu Liguo |
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS |
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Exhibit Number |
Document |
4.1 |
Registrants 2006 Stock Option/Stock Issuance Plan | |
5.1 | Opinion of The Crone Law Group, LLP, as to legality of securities being registered | |
23.1 | Consent of Jimmy C.H. Cheung & Co., CPA, Independent Auditors | |
23.2 | Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1) | |
24.1 | Power of Attorney (see page 7) | |