As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2024
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CROWDSTRIKE HOLDINGS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
| Delaware | 7372 | 45-3788918 | ||
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) |
(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
206 E. 9th Street, Suite 1400
Austin, Texas 78701
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. 2019 Equity Incentive Plan
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. Amended and Restated 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full Titles of the Plans)
George Kurtz
President and Chief Executive Officer
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
206 E. 9th Street, Suite 1400
Austin, Texas 78701
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
(888) 512-8906
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
With copies to:
Alan F. Denenberg
Emily Roberts
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
1600 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, California 94025
Telephone: (650) 752-2000
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.
| Large accelerated filer x | Accelerated filer ¨ |
| Non-accelerated filer ¨ | Smaller reporting company ¨ |
| Emerging growth company ¨ |
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. ¨
REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement on Form S-8 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to register additional shares of the Registrant’s Class A Common Stock for issuance under the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan and the Amended and Restated 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, pursuant to the provisions of such plans that provide for automatic annual increases in the number of shares reserved for issuance thereunder. This Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant’s registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on June 12, 2019 (Registration No. 333-232084), March 23, 2020 (Registration No. 333-237343), March 18, 2021 (Registration No. 333-254460), March 16, 2022 (Registration No. 333-263610) and March 9, 2023 (333-270378) to the extent not superseded hereby.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 8. Exhibits.
| * | Filed herewith. |
| (1) | Filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed on May 29, 2019 and incorporated herein by reference. |
| (2) | Filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2021, filed on September 1, 2021 and incorporated herein by reference. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc., 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 6th day of March, 2024.
| CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. | |||
| By: | /s/ GEORGE KURTZ | ||
| Name: | George Kurtz | ||
| Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES
Know all persons by these presents, that each person whose signature appears below, constitutes and appoints each of George Kurtz and Burt W. Podbere as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, upon the action of such appointee, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to do any and all acts and things and execute, in the name of the undersigned, any and all instruments which each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents may deem necessary or advisable in order to enable CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. to comply with the Securities Act, and any requirements of the Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the filing with the Commission of this Registration Statement under the Securities Act, including specifically but without limitation, power and authority to sign the name of the undersigned to such Registration Statement, and any amendments to such Registration Statement (including post-effective amendments), and to file the same with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, to sign any and all applications, registration statements, notices or other documents necessary or advisable to comply with applicable state securities laws, and to file the same, together with other documents in connection therewith with the appropriate state securities authorities, granting unto each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and to perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully and to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
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/ GEORGE KURTZ | President, Chief Executive Officer and Director | March 6, 2024 | ||
| George Kurtz | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||
| /s/ BURT W. PODBERE | Chief Financial Officer | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Burt W. Podbere | (Principal Financial Officer) | |||
| /s/ ANURAG SAHA | Chief Accounting Officer | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Anurag Saha | (Principal Accounting Officer) | |||
| /s/ GERHARD WATZINGER | Chairman of the Board of Directors | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Gerhard Watzinger | ||||
| /s/ ROXANNE S. AUSTIN | Director | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Roxanne S. Austin |
| Signature | Title | Date | ||
| /s/ CARY J. DAVIS | Director | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Cary J. Davis | ||||
| /s/ JOHANNA FLOWER | Director | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Johanna Flower | ||||
| /s/ SAMEER K. GANDHI | Director | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Sameer K. Gandhi | ||||
| /s/ DENIS J. O’LEARY | Director | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Denis J. O’Leary | ||||
| /s/ LAURA J. SCHUMACHER | Director | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Laura J. Schumacher | ||||
| /s/ GODFREY R. SULLIVAN | Director | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Godfrey R. Sullivan |
Exhibit 5.1
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Davis Polk & Wardwell llp 1600 El Camino Real davispolk.com |
March 6, 2024
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
206 E. 9th Street, Suite 1400
Austin, Texas 78701
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel to CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and are delivering this opinion in connection with the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the registration of 7,255,963 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0005 per share, issuable pursuant to the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan and the Company’s Amended and Restated 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan and the Company’s Amended and Restated 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, together, the “Plans”).
We, as your counsel, have examined originals or copies of such documents, corporate records, certificates of public officials and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purpose of rendering this opinion.
In rendering the opinion expressed herein, we have, without independent inquiry or investigation, assumed that (i) all documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and complete, (ii) all documents submitted to us as copies conform to authentic, complete originals, (iii) all signatures on all documents that we reviewed are genuine, (iv) all natural persons executing documents had and have the legal capacity to do so, (v) all statements in certificates of public officials and officers of the Company that we reviewed were and are accurate and (vi) all representations made by the Company as to matters of fact in the documents that we reviewed were and are accurate.
On the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, when and to the extent issued pursuant to the Plans upon receipt by the Company of the consideration for the Shares specified therein, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
We are members of the Bars of the States of New York and California and the foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.
| Very truly yours, | |
| /s/ Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP |
Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. of our report dated March 6, 2024 relating to the financial statements and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2024.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
San Jose, California
March 6, 2024
Exhibit 107
FILING FEE TABLES FOR
FORM S-8
Calculation of Filing Fee Tables
Form S-8
(Form Type)
CROWDSTRIKE HOLDINGS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Newly Registered Securities
| Security Type |
Title of each Class of Securities to be Registered |
Fee Calculation Rule |
Amount to be Registered (1) |
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share (4) |
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price |
Fee Rate | Amount of Registration Fee (5) |
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| Equity | Class A Common Stock, $0.0005 par value per share, reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan | Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) | 4,837,309 | (2) | $ | 314.42 | $ | 1,520,946,695.78 | 0.0001476 | $ | 224,491.73 | |||||||||||||
| Equity | Class A Common Stock, $0.0005 par value per share, reserved for issuance pursuant to the Amended and Restated 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan | Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) | 2,418,654 | (3) | $ | 314.42 | $ | 760,473,190.68 | 0.0001476 | $ | 112,245.84 | |||||||||||||
| Total | 7,255,963 | $ | 2,281,419,886.46 | $ | 336,737.58 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total Fee Offsets (6) | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net Fee Due | $ | 336,737.58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1) | In the event of a stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction involving the Registrant’s Class A common stock, $0.0005 par value per share (“Class A Common Stock”), the number of shares registered hereby shall automatically be adjusted in accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). |
| (2) | Represents 4,837,309 shares of Class A Common Stock available for future issuance under the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan by reason of the automatic increase provisions therein. |
| (3) | Represents 2,418,654 shares of Class A Common Stock available for future issuance under the Amended and Restated 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan by reason of the automatic increase provisions therein. |
| (4) | Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) and Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act. The Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share is based on the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s Class A Common Stock on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on March 1, 2024. |
| (5) | Rounded to the nearest cent. |
| (6) | The Registrant does not have any fee offsets. |