UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of
Report (Date of earliest event reported)
December
23, 2008 (December 18, 2008)
St.
Mary Land & Exploration Company
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
|
001-31539
|
41-0518430
|
(State
or other jurisdiction
|
(Commission
|
(I.R.S.
Employer
|
of
incorporation)
|
File
Number)
|
Identification
No.)
|
1776
Lincoln Street, Suite 700, Denver, Colorado
(Address
of principal executive offices)
|
80203
(Zip
Code)
|
Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code: (303) 861-8140
Not
applicable
(Former
name or former address, if changed since last report.)
Check the
appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
provisions (see General Instruction A.2.):
[_]
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR
230.425)
[_]
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.14a-12)
[_]
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act
(17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
[_]
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act
(17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item
5.03
Amendments
to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year
On
December 18, 2008, upon recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate
Governance Committee, the Board of Directors approved an amendment to St. Mary
Land & Exploration Company’s (“St. Mary” or the “Company”) Restated By-Laws
(the “Amendment”), effective immediately. Apart from non-substantive
language and conforming changes, the principal components of the Amendment are
briefly summarized below. The summary of the Amendment is not
intended to be complete and is qualified in its entirety to
the Restated By-Laws, as amended, attached as Exhibit 3.1 to this
report and incorporated herein by reference.
Section 4
of the Amendment clarifies the advance notice provisions relating to
stockholders proposals for stockholder-proposed board nominations and for
stockholder-proposed business generally. Generally, the Amendment
clarifies the application of advance notice provisions to extend to all
stockholder proposals and nominations for election as directors of St. Mary,
revises and expands the scope of information that a stockholder needs to provide
to St. Mary in connection with any proposal, and requires the person making the
proposal to provide St. Mary with a completed written questionnaire concerning
the director nominee and provide certain representations to St.
Mary. The Amendment also requires disclosure of all forms of
ownership (including, for example, any derivative instruments directly or
indirectly owned beneficially), and all relationships, proxies and other
agreements that would entitle or enable a stockholder to acquire equity in the
Company or control votes.
Section
21 of the Amendment clarifies the rights of directors and officers to
indemnification and advancement of indemnification expenses. The
Amendment adds language expressly stating that the rights to indemnification and
advancement of expenses are deemed to have fully vested at the time the
indemnitee assumes his or her position with St. Mary.
Section
17 of the Amendment clarifies certain requirements with respect to action by
stockholders taken by written consent. The Amendment requires that a
stockholder seeking to take action by written consent must first submit a notice
containing specified information to the Company and to request the Board of
Directors to promptly, but in all events within ten days after the
date on which such a written request is received, to adopt a resolution fixing a
record date for such action.
Item
7.01 Regulation
FD Disclosure.
In
accordance with General Instruction B.2. of Form 8-K, the following information,
including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, nor shall such information and Exhibit be
deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933,
except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a
filing.
On
December 22, 2008, St. Mary issued a press release announcing its 2009 capital
program guidance. Additionally, in that press release and as more
fully detailed below in Item 8.01, the Company announced it has entered into
agreements that grant the Company the opportunity to earn approximately 43,000
net acres located in McKean and Potter counties, Pennsylvania. A copy
of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.
Item
8.01 Other
Events.
On
December 22, 2008, St. Mary announced that the Company has entered into
agreements that grant the Company the opportunity to earn approximately 43,000
net acres (50,000 gross acres) with potential for the Marcellus shale in north
central Pennsylvania. The acreage is located in McKean and Potter
counties, Pennsylvania.
This
report contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of
the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934. The words “will,” “believe,” “plan,” “intend,” “estimate,”
“forecast,” “expect,” “opportunity,” and “potential” and similar
expressions are intended to identify forward looking
statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, which
may cause St. Mary’s actual results to differ materially from results expressed
or implied by the forward looking statements. These risks include
such factors as the pending nature of the reported acquisition agreements as
well as the ability to complete the transactions, the uncertain nature of the
expected benefits from the acquisition of oil and gas properties and the ability
to successfully integrate acquisitions, the imprecise nature of oil and gas
reserve estimates, and other such matters discussed in the “Risk Factors”
section of St. Mary’s 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. Although St. Mary
may from time to time voluntarily update its prior forward looking statements,
it disclaims any commitment to do so except as required by securities
laws.
Item
9.01 Financial
Statements and Exhibits.
(d)
|
Exhibits. The
following exhibits are filed or furnished as part of this
report:
|
Exhibit
|
Description
|
3.1*
|
Restated
By-Laws of St. Mary Land & Exploration Company amended as of December
18, 2008.
|
99.1**
|
Press
release of St. Mary Land & Exploration Company dated December 22,
2008.
|
|
|
*
|
Filed
with this Current Report on Form 8-K. |
**
|
Furnished
with thie Current Report on Form
8-K. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
duly authorized.
ST. MARY
LAND & EXPLORATION COMPANY
Date:
|
December
23, 2008
|
By:
|
/s/ MARK
T. SOLOMON
|
|
|
|
Mark
T. Solomon
|
|
|
|
Controller
|