UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under
The Securities Act of 1933

NovoCure Limited

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

NovoCure Limited

Second Floor, No.4 The Forum

Grenville Street

St. Helier, Jersey JE2 4UF

(Address, including zip Code, of Principal Executive Offices)

 

NovoCure Limited 2015 Omnibus Incentive Plan

(Full title of each plan)

 

Wilhelmus Groenhuysen

Chief Financial Officer

NovoCure Limited

c/o NovoCure Inc.

20 Valley Stream Pkwy

Suite 300

Malvern, PA 19355

(212) 767-7530

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

 

Copies to:

Pran Jha

Sidley Austin LLP

One South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois 60603

(312) 853-7000

 

 

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)B) of the Securities Act.☐

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement also covers any additional shares of the Registrant that become issuable under the 2015 Plan to prevent dilution by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration that results in an increase in the number of outstanding ordinary shares.

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is being filed to register an additional 3,577,103 ordinary shares issuable under the 2015 Plan. Registration Statements on Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-209854 and 333-217619) (collectively, the “Previous Registration Statements”) were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by the Registrant on March 1, 2016, and May 3, 2017, respectively, covering a total of 19,730,105 ordinary shares issuable under the 2015 Plan.

 

The contents of the Previous Registration Statements are hereby incorporated by reference pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, except for Items 3 and 8 of Part II, which are being updated by this Registration Statement.

 

 

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents, which previously have been filed with the Commission, are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

All documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or that deregisters all offerings of 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 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 purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein 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.

In no event, however, will any information that the Registrant discloses under Item 2.02 and Item 7.01 of any Current Report on Form 8-K that the Registrant may from time to time furnish to the Commission be incorporated by reference into, or otherwise become a part of, this Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a document that is deemed to be incorporated by reference or deemed to be part of this Registration Statement after the most recent effective date may modify or replace existing statements contained in this Registration Statement.

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Item 8.Exhibits.

* Filed herewith.

 

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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 the City of Malvern, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on May 1, 2018.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby severally constitutes and appoints Wilhelmus Groenhuysen and Todd Longsworth, and each of them individually, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, his true and lawful attorney-in fact and agent, with full powers to each of them to sign for us, in our names and in the capacities indicated below, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, and any and all amendments to said Registration Statement (including post-effective amendments), granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as each of us might or could do in person, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys, and each of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney. This power of attorney may be executed in counterparts.

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 date indicated.

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