As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 11, 2019
Registration No. 333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Niu Technologies
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Cayman Islands |
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(State or other jurisdiction of |
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incorporation or organization) |
| Identification Number) |
No. 10 Wangjing Street, Building A, 11/F
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102
People’s Republic of China
+86-10-6432-1899
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Amended and Restated 2016 Global Share Incentive Plan
2018 Share Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Puglisi & Associates
850 Library Avenue, Suite 204
Newark, Delaware 19711
+1 302-738-6680
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting 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 o |
| Accelerated filer o |
| Non-accelerated filer x |
Emerging growth company x |
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| Smaller reporting company o |
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. o
Copies to:
Hardy Peng Zhang |
| Z. Julie Gao, Esq. |
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Class A Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share(1) |
| 5,315,246 | (3) | US$ | 0.17 | (3) | US$ | 903,591.82 |
| US$ | 109.52 |
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Class A Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share(1) |
| 100,000 | (4) | US$ | 3.45 | (4) | US$ | 345,000.00 |
| US$ | 41.81 |
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Class A Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share(1) |
| 7,179,937 | (5) | US$ | 3.45 | (5) | US$ | 24,770,782.65 |
| US$ | 3,002.22 |
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Total |
| 12,595,183 |
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| US$ | 26,019,374.47 |
| US$ | 3,153.55 |
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(1) These shares may be represented by the Registrant’s American Depositary Shares, or ADSs, each of which represents two (2) Class A ordinary shares. The Registrant’s ADSs issuable upon deposit of the Class A ordinary shares registered hereby have been registered under a separate registration statement on Form F-6 (333-227702).
(2) Represents Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of options and pursuant to other awards granted under the Amended and Restated 2016 Global Share Incentive Plan (the “2016 Plan”) and the 2018 Share Incentive Plan (the “2018 Plan”, and together with the 2016 Plan, the “Plans”). Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this registration statement also covers an indeterminate number of additional shares which may be offered and issued to prevent dilution from share splits, share dividends or similar transactions as provided in the Plans. Any Class A ordinary shares covered by an award granted under the Plans (or portion of an award) that terminates, expires or lapses for any reason will be deemed not to have been issued for purposes of determining the maximum aggregate number of Class A ordinary shares that may be issued under the Plans.
(3) The amount to be registered represents Class A ordinary shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options granted under the Plans as of the date of this registration statement, and the corresponding proposed maximum offering price per share represents the weighted average exercise price of these outstanding options.
(4) The amount to be registered represents outstanding restricted shares and restricted share units granted under the Plans. The corresponding proposed maximum offering price per share, which is estimated solely for the purposes of calculating the registration fee under Rule 457(h) and Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act, is based on US$6.90 per ADS, the average of the high and low prices for the registrant’s ADSs as quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market on January 2, 2019.
(5) These shares are reserved for future award grants under the Plans. The proposed maximum offering price per share, which is estimated solely for the purposes of calculating the registration fee under Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act, is based on US$6.90 per ADS, the average of the high and low prices for the Registrant’s ADSs as quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market on January 2, 2019.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1. Plan Information*
Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information*
* Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this registration statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the Note to Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing information specified in this Part I will be separately provided to the participants covered by the Plans, as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The following documents previously filed by Niu Technologies (the “Registrant”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) are incorporated by reference herein:
(a) The Registrant’s prospectus dated October 18, 2018 (File No. 333-227497) filed with the Commission on October 19, 2018 pursuant to Rule 424 (b)(4) under the Securities Act; and
(b) The description of the Registrant’s Class A ordinary shares incorporated by reference in the Registrant’s registration statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-38696) filed with the Commission on October 9, 2018, including any amendment and report subsequently filed for the purpose of updating that description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), after the date of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration statement which indicates that all securities offered 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 part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement will be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in this registration statement or in any other later filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to be a part of this registration statement.
Item 4. Description of Securities
Not applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Not applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s articles of association may provide for indemnification of directors and officers, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. The Registrant’s currently effective amended and restated articles of association, adopted by its shareholders on September 24, 2018, provide that the Registrant shall indemnify any persons against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred in connection with legal, administrative or investigative proceedings who:
(a) is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that the person is or was a Director, an officer or a liquidator of the Company; or
(b) is or was, at the request of the Company, serving as a Director, officer or liquidator of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another company or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
Pursuant to the indemnification agreements, the form of which was filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-227497), the Registrant has agreed to indemnify its directors and officers against certain liabilities and expenses incurred by such persons in connection with claims made by reason of their being such a director or officer.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been informed that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
The Registrant also maintains a directors and officers liability insurance policy for its directors and officers.
Item 7. Exemption From Registration Claimed
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
See the Index to Exhibits attached hereto.
Item 9. Undertakings
(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this registration statement; and
(iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to that information in the registration statement;
provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement;
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
EXHIBIT INDEX
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* Filed herewith.
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 Beijing, China, on January 11, 2019.
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| By: | /s/ Yan Li |
| Name: | Yan Li |
| Title: | Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer |
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints, severally and not jointly, each of Yan Li and Hardy Peng Zhang, with full power to act alone, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with the power of substitution, for and in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each said attorney-in-fact may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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/s/ Yan Li |
| Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) |
| January 11, 2019 |
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/s/ Hardy Peng Zhang |
| Director and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
| January 11, 2019 |
Hardy Peng Zhang |
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/s/ Token Yilin Hu |
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Token Yilin Hu |
| Director |
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/s/ Jenny Hongwei Lee |
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Jenny Hongwei Lee |
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/s/ Changqing Ye |
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Changqing Ye |
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/s/ Xiaojun Li |
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Xiaojun Li |
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/s/ Mei-Wei Cheng |
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| January 11, 2019 |
Mei-Wei Cheng |
| Director |
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/s/ Julian Juul Wolhardt |
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Julian Juul Wolhardt |
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/s/ John Jinshu Zhang |
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| January 11, 2019 |
John Jinshu Zhang |
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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES
Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of Niu Technologies, has signed this registration statement in Newark, Delaware, United States of America on January 11, 2019.
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| By: | /s/ Donald J. Puglisi |
| Name: | Donald J. Puglisi |
| Title: | Managing Director |
