Exhibit 5.1

 

Hogan Lovells US LLP Columbia Square 555 Thirteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 T +1 202 637 5600 F +1 202 637 5910 www.hoganlovells.com

 

May 16, 2012

 

CIBER, Inc.

6363 South Fiddler’s Green Circle, Suite 1400

Greenwood Village, CO 80111

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We are acting as counsel to CIBER, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with its registration statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) relating to the proposed offering of up to 2,500,000 newly issued shares of the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) of the Company (the “Shares”), all of which shares are issuable pursuant to the CIBER, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Plan”), and associated stock purchase rights (the “Rights”), all of which stock purchase rights are to be issued pursuant to the First Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of May 2, 2008 (the “Rights Agreement”), between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Rights Agent (the “Rights Agent”).  This opinion letter is furnished to you at your request to enable you to fulfill the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K, 17 C.F.R. § 229.601(b)(5), in connection with the Registration Statement

 

For purposes of this opinion letter, we have examined copies of such agreements, instruments and documents as we have deemed an appropriate basis on which to render the opinions hereinafter expressed.   In our examination of the aforesaid documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the accuracy and completeness of all documents submitted to us, the authenticity of all original documents, and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies (including telecopies).  We also have assumed that the Rights Agreement has been duly authorized, executed, and delivered by the Rights Agent, and that the members of the Board of Directors of the Company have acted in a manner consistent with their fiduciary duties as required under applicable law in adopting the Rights Agreement.   As to all matters of fact, we have relied on the representations and statements of fact made in the documents so reviewed, and we have not independently established the facts so relied on.  This opinion letter is given, and all statements herein are made, in the context of the foregoing.

 

This opinion letter is based as to matters of law solely on the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended.  We express no opinion herein as to any other laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, or regulations.  As used herein, the term “Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended” includes the statutory provisions contained therein, all applicable provisions of the Delaware Constitution and reported judicial decisions interpreting these laws.

 

 

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Based upon, subject to and limited by the foregoing, we are of the opinion that, as of the date hereof, the Shares and the associated Rights have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and, following (i) effectiveness of the Registration Statement, (ii) issuance of the Shares pursuant to the terms of the Plan, and (iii) receipt by the Company of the consideration for the Shares specified in the applicable resolutions of the Board of Directors and in the Plan, the Shares and the associated Rights will be validly issued, and the Shares will be fully paid and nonassessable.

 

It should be understood that the opinion above concerning the Rights does not address the determination a court of competent jurisdiction may make regarding whether the Board of Directors of the Company would be required to redeem or terminate, or take other action with respect to, the Rights at some future time based on the facts and circumstances existing at that time and that our opinion above addresses the Rights and the Rights Agreement in their entirety and not any particular provision of the Rights or the Rights Agreement and that it is not settled whether the invalidity of any particular provision of a rights agreement or of rights issued thereunder would result in invalidating in their entirety such rights.

 

This opinion letter has been prepared for use in connection with the Registration Statement.  We assume no obligation to advise you of any changes in the foregoing subsequent to the effective date of the Registration Statement.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement.  In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are an “expert” within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Hogan Lovells US LLP
HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP