------------------------------ OMB APPROVAL ------------------------------ OMB Number 3235-0362 Expires: January 31, 2005 Estimated average burden hours per response ....... 0.5 ------------------------------ U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 5 ANNUAL STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [_] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). [_] Form 3 Holdings Reported [X] Form 4 Transactions Reported ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Salas Ricardo A. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) 4300 W. Cypress Street, Suite 900 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) Tampa FL 33607 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Liquidmetal Technologies (LQMT) ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Year December 31, 2002 ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) [X] Director [_] 10% Owner [_] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below) _______________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [X] Form filed by one Reporting Person [_] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person ________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned ================================================================================ 5. 6. 2A. 4. Amount of Owner- Deemed Securities Acquired (A) or Securities ship Execu- Disposed of (D) Beneficially Form: 7. tion (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Owned at End Direct Nature of 2. Date, 3. ---------------------------- of Issuer's (D) or Indirect 1. Transaction if any Transaction (A) Fiscal Year Indirect Beneficial Title of Security Date (Month/ Code Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership (Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) Day/Year) (Instr. 8) (D) and 4) (Instr.4)(Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Liquidmetal Technologies Common Stock 12/19/02 J(1) 1,842,044(1) A 2,266,976 D(2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ By J. Holdsworth Liquidmetal Technologies Capital, Common Stock 12/19/02 J(1) 398,366(1) A 519,334 I Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Held By Wesley Liquidmetal Technologies Investments, Common Stock 12/19/02 J(1) 717,058(1) A 717,058 I Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Held as Trustee of Ricardo A. Salas 2002 Grantor Retained Liquidmetal Technologies Annuity Common Stock 161,291 I Trust ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==================================================================================================================================== * If the form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). (1) Reflects change in form of beneficial ownership of 2,957,468 shares as a result of pro rata distribution by ATI Holdings, LLC and Cook Street, LLC. These shares have been previously reported as beneficially owned by the reporting person, and therefore these transactions do not represent an increase in the number of shares beneficially owned. (2) These shares were temporarily assigned to a trust for the benefit of the reporting person during December 2002, but such shares were automatically distributed back to the reporting person on or about January 31, 2003 pursuant to the terms of the trust document. Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over) (Form 3/99) FORM 5 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================ 9. 10. Number Owner- of ship 2. Deriv- of Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11. sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature or 3A. Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of Exer- Deemed Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In- cise 3. Ex- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct Price Trans- ecution 4. or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene- 1. of action Date, Trans- of (D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial Title of Deriv- Date if any action (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner- Derivative ative (Month/ (Month/ Code 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Year (I) ship Security Secur- Day/ Day/ (Instr. ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. 3) ity Year) Year) 8) (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Liquidmetal Option to Technologies purchase Common common stock $4.65 02/21/01 12/31/05 Stock 322,581 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Liquidmetal Option to Technologies purchase Common common stock $9.955 01/02/03 A4 10,000 * 01/02/13 Stock 10,000 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==================================================================================================================================== Explanation of Responses: * 2,000 shares exercisable on each of January 2, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. /s/ Curt P. Creely February 14, 2003 --------------------------------------------- ----------------------- CURT P. CREELY AS ATTORNEY IN FACT FOR Date RICARDO A. SALAS ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.