Securities Registration: Employee Benefit Plan (s-8)
10 Maio 2023 - 7:04AM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 9, 2023
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LIMITED
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its
charter)
Bermuda |
|
98-0395986 |
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation
or organization) |
|
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.) |
92 Pitts Bay Road
Pembroke
Bermuda HM 08
(Address, including zip code, of principal executive
offices)
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited Second Amended
and Restated 2017 Long-Term Equity Compensation Plan
(Full title of the plan)
C T Corporation System
28 Liberty Street
New York, New York 10005
Telephone: (212) 894-8940
(Name, address and telephone number, including
area code, of agent for service of process)
Copies of all communications to:
Conrad D. Brooks, Esq.
General Counsel
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited
92 Pitts Bay Road
Pembroke HM 08
Bermuda
Telephone: (441) 496-2600 |
Lesley Peng, Esq.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
425 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10017-3954
Telephone: (212) 455-2000 |
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. ¨
EXPLANATORY NOTE
On May 4, 2023, at the annual general meeting of shareholders of AXIS
Capital Holdings Limited (the “Company”), the Company’s shareholders approved the AXIS Capital Holdings Limited Second
Amended and Restated 2017 Long-Term Equity Compensation Plan (the “Second Amended and Restated Plan” and, prior to such amendment
and restatement, the “Plan”). Among other things, the Second Amended and Restated Plan provides that the number of Common
Shares which may be granted under the Second Amended and Restated Plan shall be increased by 1,125,000 in addition to the 5,000,000 Common
Shares which were previously authorized for issuance under the Plan.
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”)
relates to the additional 1,125,000 Common Shares authorized for issuance under the Second Amended and Restated Plan.
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the
Registration Statements on Form S-8 with respect to the Plan, filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
on May 11, 2021 (File No. 333-256010) and May 8, 2017 (File No. 333-217786), including any amendments thereto or filings incorporated
therein, are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement, except that the provisions contained in Part II of such
earlier registration statements are modified as set forth in this Registration Statement.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. |
Incorporation of Documents by Reference. |
The following documents filed with the Commission by the Company pursuant
to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement:
|
(i) |
the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 filed with the Commission on February 27, 2023; |
|
|
|
|
(ii) |
the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2023 filed with the Commission on April 26, 2023; |
|
|
|
|
(iii) |
the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed
with the Commission on May
8, 2023 and April
4, 2023 and the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K/As filed with the Commission on January 27, 2023 and April
14, 2023; and |
|
|
|
|
(iv) |
the description of the Common Stock contained in Exhibit 4.12 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 filed with the Commission on February 27, 2023, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description. |
All documents that the Company subsequently files pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the 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
the Commission) and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all securities offered
have been sold or which deregisters 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.
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.
The following exhibits are filed or incorporated by reference as part
of this Registration Statement:
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 Pembroke, Bermuda on May
9, 2023.
|
AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LIMITED |
|
|
|
|
By: |
/s/ Vincent Tizzio |
|
|
Name: Vincent Tizzio |
|
|
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive
Officer) |
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each of the registrant and each director or officer of the registrant
whose individual signature appears below hereby appoints Vincent Tizzio, Conrad D. Brooks and G. Christina Gray-Trefry and each of them,
any of whom may act without the joinder of the others, as the true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent of the undersigned, in any and
all capacities, with full power of substitution, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement (including post-effective
amendments), and, in connection with any registration of additional securities, to sign any abbreviated registration statement and any
and all amendments thereto, 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 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 the undersigned might or could do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that each said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration
statement and power of attorney has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated below on May 9, 2023.
Signature |
|
Title |
|
|
|
/s/ Vincent Tizzio |
|
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director |
Vincent Tizzio |
|
(Principal Executive Officer) |
|
|
|
/s/ Peter Vogt |
|
Chief Financial Officer |
Peter Vogt |
|
(Principal Financial Officer) |
|
|
|
/s/ Kent Ziegler |
|
Global Corporate Controller |
Kent Ziegler |
|
(Principal Accounting Officer) |
|
|
|
/s/ W. Marston Becker |
|
Director |
W. Marston Becker |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ Charles A. Davis |
|
Director |
Charles A. Davis |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ Anne Melissa Dowling |
|
Director |
Anne Melissa Dowling |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ Elanor R. Hardwick |
|
Director |
Elanor R. Hardwick |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ Michael Millegan |
|
Director |
Michael Millegan |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ Thomas C. Ramey |
|
Director |
Thomas C. Ramey |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ Henry B. Smith |
|
Director |
Henry B. Smith |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ Axel Theis |
|
Director |
Axel Theis |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ Barbara A. Yastine |
|
Director |
Barbara A. Yastine |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ Lizabeth H. Zlatkus |
|
Director |
Lizabeth H. Zlatkus |
|
|
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 6(a) of the Securities Act
of 1933, the undersigned has signed this Registration Statement, solely in the capacity of the duly authorized representative of AXIS
Capital Holdings Limited in the State of Georgia on this 9th day of May 2023.
|
By: |
/s/ Conrad D. Brooks |
|
|
Name: Conrad D. Brooks |
|
|
Title: General Counsel |
Axis Capital (NYSE:AXS-E)
Gráfico Histórico do Ativo
De Mai 2024 até Jun 2024
Axis Capital (NYSE:AXS-E)
Gráfico Histórico do Ativo
De Jun 2023 até Jun 2024