PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing information specified in Part I will be delivered in accordance with FormS-8 and Rule 428(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Such documents are not required to be, and are not, filed with the SEC, either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act. These documents, and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to item 3 of Part II of this FormS-8, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Exchange Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
In this Registration Statement, Broadcom Inc. is sometimes referred to as “Registrant,” “we,” “us” or “our.”
Registration of Additional Securities
By a registration statement on FormS-8 filed with the SEC on February 2, 2016, FileNo. 333-209331 (the “February 2016 Registration Statement”), Broadcom Limited, the Registrant’s predecessor, registered an aggregate of 32,761,012 ordinary shares, no par value, of Broadcom Limited (“Ordinary Shares”) issuable under the Avago 2009 Plan and 79,306,533 Ordinary Shares issuable under the Broadcom 2012 Plan. The February 2016 Registration Statement also registered an aggregate of 641,508 Ordinary Shares issuable under the Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan for Executive Employees of Avago Technologies Limited and Subsidiaries (the “Executive Plan”) and the Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan for Senior Management Employees of Avago Technologies Limited and Subsidiaries (the “Senior Management Plan,” and together with the Executive Plan, the “Prior Plans”), which shares become available for issuance under the Avago 2009 Plan to the extent awards under the Prior Plans were forfeited or lapsed unexercised and the underlying Ordinary Shares were not issued under the Prior Plans. In addition, by a registration statement on FormS-8 filed with the SEC on December 23, 2016, FileNo. 333-215291 (the “December 2016 Registration Statement”), Broadcom Limited registered an additional 6,000,000 Ordinary Shares issuable under the Avago 2009 Plan and 12,195,965 Ordinary Shares issuable under the Broadcom 2012 Plan. By a registration statement on FormS-8 filed with the SEC on November 17, 2017, FileNo. 333-221654 (the “November 2017 Registration Statement”), Broadcom Limited registered an additional 6,000,000 Ordinary Shares issuable under the Avago 2009 Plan and 12,195,965 Ordinary Shares issuable under the Broadcom 2012 Plan. The February 2016 Registration Statement, the December 2016 Registration Statement and the November 2017 Registration Statement, each as amended, are referred to as the “Prior Registration Statements”). In connection with the Registrant’s redomiciliation from the Republic of Singapore to Delaware, the Registrant assumed Broadcom Limited’s obligations in connection with awards granted under Broadcom Limited’s incentive plans and other similar employee awards and amended such plans and awards as necessary to provide for the issuance of shares of the Registrant’s common stock rather than Ordinary Shares. On April 4, 2018, the Registrant filed post-effective amendments to each of the Prior Registration Statements, pursuant to which the Registrant expressly adopted each of the Prior Registration Statements as its own for purposes of the Securities Act and Exchange Act. The Prior Registration Statements are currently effective.
The Registrant is hereby registering an additional (i) 6,000,000 shares of common stock under the Avago 2009 Plan, which are currently available for issuance under the Avago 2009 Plan due to an automatic annual increase provision in the Avago 2009 Plan, and (ii) 12,195,965 shares of common stock under the Broadcom 2012 Plan, which will become available for issuance under the Broadcom 2012 Plan on January 1, 2019 due to an automatic annual increase provision in the Broadcom 2012 Plan.
Pursuant to Instruction E of FormS-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement on FormS-8.
Item 3. | Incorporation of Documents by Reference. |
The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” the information we file with them, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this Registration Statement, and later information filed with the SEC will update and supersede this information. We hereby incorporate by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the SEC (only to the extent “filed” and not “furnished” in accordance with SEC rules):
| (a) | Annual Report of Broadcom Limited and Broadcom Cayman L.P. on Form10-K for the fiscal year ended October 29, 2017, filed with the SEC on December 21, 2017; |
| (b) | Quarterly Report of Broadcom Limited and Broadcom Cayman L.P. on Form10-Q for the quarterly period ended February 4, 2018, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2018; |