S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2022

Registration No. 333-          

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

The Securities Act of 1933

 

 

CONTEXTLOGIC INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   27-2930953

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

One Sansome Street, 33rd Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104

(415) 432-7323

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

ContextLogic Inc. 2022 New Employee Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of Plan)

Vivian Liu

Chief Financial Officer

ContextLogic Inc.

One Sansome Street, 33rd Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104

(Name and address of agent for service)

(415) 432-7323

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

Jeffrey R. Vetter

Ryan J. Gunderson

Heather N. Aune

Gunderson Dettmer Stough

Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP

One Bush Plaza, Suite 1200

San Francisco, CA 94104

(415) 978-9803

 

Devang S. Shah

ContextLogic Inc.

One Sansome Street, 33rd Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104

(415) 432-7323

 

 

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 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      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.  ☐

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, ContextLogic Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement on Form S-8 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to register 15,000,000 additional shares of the Registrant’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Additional Shares”), reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2022 New Employee Equity Incentive Plan (the “Inducement Plan”). This Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on January 31, 2022 (Registration No. 333-262433). The Additional Shares are to be used exclusively for grants of equity-based awards to individuals who were not previously employees or directors of the Registrant, as an inducement material to the individual’s entry into employment with the Registrant within the meaning of Rule 5635(c)(4) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules. The Inducement Plan, as amended, was adopted by the Registrant’s compensation committee of the board of directors without stockholder approval pursuant to Rule 5635(c)(4) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules.

PART II

Information Required in the Registration Statement

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference

ContextLogic Inc. hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents:

 

  (a)

the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC on March 14, 2022;

 

  (b)

the Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January  31, 2022, February  10, 2022 March  1, 2022, and April 14, 2022 (each to the extent filed and not furnished);

 

  (c)

the description of the Registrant’s common stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-39775), filed with the SEC on December 8, 2020, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description;

 

  (d)

the information specifically incorporated by reference into the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 from the Registrant’s definitive proxy statement relating to the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders; and

 

  (e)

all other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), since the end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant document referred to in (a) above.

All other reports and documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which de-registers all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. The Registrant is not, however, incorporating any documents or information that the Registrant is deemed to furnish and not file in accordance with SEC rules. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement will be deemed modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed document that also is deemed incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement modifies or supersedes that 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

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court to award, or a corporation’s board of directors to grant, indemnity to directors and officers under certain circumstances and subject to certain limitations. The terms of Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law are sufficiently broad to permit indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities, including reimbursement of expenses incurred, arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

As permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Registrant’s restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions relating to the limitation of liability and indemnification of directors and officers. The restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Registrant’s directors will not be personally liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability:

 

   

for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders;

 

   

for acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

 

   

in respect of unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law; or

 

   

for any transaction from which the director derives any improper personal benefit.

The Registrant’s restated certificate of incorporation also provides that if Delaware law is amended after the approval by the Registrant’s stockholders of the certificate of incorporation to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of the directors will be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.

The Registrant’s amended and restated bylaws provide that the Registrant will indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, as it now exists or may in the future be amended, against all expenses and liabilities reasonably incurred in connection with their service for or on the Registrant’s behalf. The Registrant’s amended and restated bylaws provide that the Registrant shall advance the expenses incurred by a director or officer in advance of the final disposition of an action or proceeding, and permit the Registrant to secure insurance on behalf of any director, officer, employee, or other enterprise agent for any liability arising out of his or her action in that capacity, whether or not Delaware law would otherwise permit indemnification.

The Registrant entered into indemnification agreements with each of its directors and executive officers and certain other key employees. The form of agreement provides that the Registrant will indemnify each of its directors, executive officers and such other key employees against any and all expenses incurred by that director, executive officer, or other key employee because of his or her status as one of the Registrant’s directors, executive officers, or other key employees, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, the Registrant’s restated certificate of incorporation and its amended and restated bylaws. In addition, the form agreement provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, the Registrant will advance all expenses incurred by its directors, executive officers and other key employees in connection with a legal proceeding.

The Registrant currently carries and intends to continue to carry liability insurance for its directors and officers.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed

Not applicable.


Item 8. Exhibits

The following exhibits are incorporated herein by reference.

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

          Incorporated by Reference       

Exhibit

Number

  

Description

   Form      File No.      Exhibit      Filing
Date
    

Filed
Herewith

4.1    Specimen Class A common stock certificate of the Registrant.      S-1/A        333-250531        4.1        12/7/2020     
4.2    Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant.      8-K        001-39775        3.1        12/18/2020     
4.3    Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant.      8-K        001-39775        3.2        12/18/2020     
5.1    Opinion and Consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP.                X
23.1    Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.                X
23.2    Consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1).                X
24.1    Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page hereto).                X
99.1    ContextLogic Inc. 2022 New Employee Equity Incentive Plan and forms of agreements thereunder.      S-8        333-262433        99.1        1/31/2022     
107    Filing Fee Table.                X

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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement, and


(iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement; provided, however, that clauses A(1)(i) and A(1)(ii) above shall 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 SEC 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; and

 

  (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 Registrant’s 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 Section 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 SEC, 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.


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 San Francisco, State of California on this 2nd day of May, 2022.

 

CONTEXTLOGIC INC.

By:

 

 

/s/ Vivian Liu

Name:   Vivian Liu
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Vijay Talwar, Vivian Liu, and Devang Shah, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her 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 exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in fact and agents, and each of them, 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 of said attorney-in-fact and agents or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the date indicated.

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/ Vijay Talwar

Vijay Talwar

   Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
   May 2, 2022

/s/ Vivian Liu

Vivian Liu

   Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
   May 2, 2022

/s/ Brett Just

Brett Just

  

Chief Accounting Officer

(Principal Accounting Officer)

   May 2, 2022

/s/ Tanzeen Syed

Tanzeen Syed

   Director and Chairperson    May 2, 2022

/s/ Julie Bradley

   Director    May 2, 2022

Julie Bradley

/s/ Piotr Szulczewski

Piotr Szulczewski

   Director    May 2, 2022

/s/ Stephanie Tilenius

Stephanie Tilenius

   Director    May 2, 2022

/s/ Hans Tung

Hans Tung

   Director    May 2, 2022
EX-5.1
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Exhibit 5.1

May 2, 2022

ContextLogic Inc.

One Sansome Street, 33rd Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We refer to the registration statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed by ContextLogic Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), of an aggregate of 15,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Class A Common Stock”) that are subject to issuance by the Company upon the exercise or settlement of awards to be granted under the Company’s 2022 New Employee Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

In connection with this opinion, we have reviewed the actions proposed to be taken by you in connection with the issuance and sale of the Shares to be issued under the Plan. We have also examined and relied upon the Registration Statement and the originals or copies certified to our satisfaction of such other documents, records, certificates, memoranda and other instruments as in our judgment are necessary or appropriate to enable us to render the opinion expressed below. With your consent, we have relied upon certificates and other assurances of officers of the Company as to factual matters without having independently verified such factual matters. We have assumed the genuineness and authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, and the conformity to originals of all documents submitted to us as copies thereof and the due execution and delivery of all documents where due execution and delivery are a prerequisite to the effectiveness thereof.

This opinion is being furnished in connection with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Act, and no opinion is expressed herein as to any matter pertaining to the contents of the Registration Statement, other than as expressly stated herein with respect to the issue of the Shares. Our opinion is limited to the matters stated herein and no opinion is implied or may be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated. Our opinion herein is expressed solely with respect to the federal laws of the United States and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”). Our opinion is based on these laws as in effect on the date hereof, and we disclaim any obligation to advise you of facts, circumstances, events or developments which hereafter may be brought to our attention and which may alter, affect or modify the opinion expressed herein. We are not rendering any opinion as to compliance with any federal or state antifraud law, rule or regulation relating to securities, or to the sale or issuance thereof.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we advise you that, in our opinion, when the Shares have been issued and sold by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Plan and pursuant to the agreements which accompany the Plan, and in accordance with the Registration Statement, such Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 

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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

Sincerely,

/s/ Gunderson Dettmer Stough

Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP

GUNDERSON DETTMER STOUGH

VILLENEUVE FRANKLIN &

HACHIGIAN, LLP

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP, INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the 2022 New Employee Equity Incentive Plan of ContextLogic Inc. of our reports dated March 14, 2022, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of ContextLogic Inc. and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of ContextLogic Inc. included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

San Francisco, California

May 2, 2022

EX-FILING FEES

Exhibit 107

Calculation of Filing Fee Tables

Form S-8

(Form Type)

ContextLogic Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Table 1 – Newly Registered Securities

 

Security

Type

  

Security Class Title

   Fee
Calculation
Rule(3)
    Amount
Registered (1)
    Proposed
Maximum
Offering
Price
Per Share
    Maximum
Aggregate
Offering
Price
     Fee Rate      Amount of
Registration
Fee(4)
 

Equity

  

Class A Common Stock, par value

$0.0001 per share

    

457

457

(h) 

(c) 

    15,000,000 (2)    $ 1.75 (3)    $ 26,250,000.00        0.0000927      $ 2,433.38  

Total Offering Amounts        

         $ 26,250,000.00         $ 2,433.38  

Total Fee Offsets        

                  

Net Fee Due        

               $ 2,433.38  
  (1)

Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of Registrant’s Class A Common Stock that become issuable under the Registrant’s 2022 New Employee Equity Incentive Plan (the “Inducement Plan”), as a result of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, or other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration that results in an increase to the number of outstanding shares of Registrant’s Class A Common Stock.

  (2)

Represents 15,000,000 additional shares of Class A Common Stock reserved for issuance pursuant to awards that may be granted under the Inducement Plan as inducement grants under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). Class A Common Stock issuable under the Inducement Plan were previously registered on a Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 31, 2022 (File No. 333-262433).

  (3)

This estimate is made pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) and Rule 457(c) of the Securities Act solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee. The price per share and aggregate offering price are based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Class A Common Stock on April 27, 2022, as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, which date is within five business days prior to the filing of this Registration Statement.

  (4)

The Registrant does not have any fee offsets.