EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement is filed pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 for the purpose of registering an additional 7,000,000 Ordinary Shares of the Company that are reserved for future award grants pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated 2015 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), as amended and restated on June 11, 2020 (as in effect, the “Amended Plan”).
On April 28, 2020, the Company filed its definitive proxy statement (the “Proxy Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”). Proposal 3 in the Proxy Statement requested that shareholders of the Company approve the Amended Plan, which, among other things, increases the authorized number of Ordinary Shares that may be issued under the Amended Plan by 7,000,000. On June 11, 2020, the shareholders of the Company approved the Amended Plan. The newly added 7,000,000 Ordinary Shares are being registered on this Registration Statement.
Previously, Ordinary Shares were registered for issuance under the Plan pursuant to the Registrant’s registration statements on Form S-8 filed on June 15, 2015 (File No. 333-204958), on August 9, 2017 (File No. 333-219806), on August 8, 2018 (File No. 333-226677) and on August 5, 2019 (File No. 333-233029) (collectively, the “Prior Registration Statements”). The Ordinary Shares registered pursuant to this Registration Statement are of the same class of securities as the Ordinary Shares registered pursuant to the Prior Registration Statements. In accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements, including any amendments thereto or filings incorporated therein, are incorporated herein by reference.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. | INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE. |
The following documents filed with the Commission are incorporated herein by reference (except for any portions of Current Reports on Form 8-K furnished pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 thereof and any corresponding exhibits thereto not filed with the Commission):
| (2) | The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, filed on February 26, 2020; |
| (3) | The Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and June 30, 2020, filed on May 7, 2020 and August 6, 2020, respectively; |
| (4) | The Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on January 6, 2020, February 19, 2020, April 28, 2020, May 14, 2020, May 28, 2020, May 29, 2020, June 2, 2020, June 11, 2020, June 16, 2020 and July 29, 2020; |
| (5) | Those portions of the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed on April 28, 2020, that are incorporated by reference into Part III of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, filed on February 26, 2020; and |
| (6) | The description of the Company’s Ordinary Shares contained in Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, filed on February 26, 2020. |
All documents that the Company files pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), subsequent to the effective date of this Registration Statement (except for any portions of the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K furnished pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 thereof and any corresponding exhibits thereto not filed with Commission), but prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing 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 other 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.