IDT (IDT) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 16, 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

IDT CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

520 Broad Street

Newark, New Jersey 07102

(973) 438-1000

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

IDT Corporation 2015 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, As Amended and Restated

(Full Title of the Plan)

Shmuel Jonas

Chief Executive Officer

IDT Corporation

520 Broad Street

Newark, New Jersey 07102

(973) 438-1000

(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

Joyce J. Mason, Esq.

General Counsel

IDT Corporation

520 Broad Street

Newark, New Jersey 07102

(973) 438-1000

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.

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. ☐

PART I

SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants in the IDT Corporation 2015 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, as Amended and Restated, as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act. Such documents are not filed with the Commission, either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 (§230.424). These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in the registration statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Form, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by the Registrant, pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of 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 hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the respective dates of filing of such documents (such documents, and the documents enumerated above, being hereinafter referred to as “Incorporated Documents”).

Any statement contained in an Incorporated Document 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 Incorporated Document 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.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Certain legal matters with respect to the Class B Common Stock have been passed on by Joyce J. Mason, Esq. Ms. Mason is Executive Vice President, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel of the Registrant and is the beneficial owner of 55,379 shares of Class B Common Stock, consisting of (a) 36,198 shares of Class B Common Stock held directly, (b) 4,655 shares of Class B Common Stock held by Ms. Mason in her 401(k) plan account as of August 31, 2023, (c) 1,396 shares of Class B Common Stock purchased through the Company’s Employee Stock Purchase Program, and (d) 13,130 shares of Class B Common Stock owned by Ms. Mason’s husband. In addition, Ms. Mason directly holds 3,600 deferred stock units (each, a “DSU”). Each DSU is the right to receive between 1/2 of a share and 2 shares of the Company’s Class B common stock. Vesting is 2,400 in February 2024 and 1,200 in February 2025. The number of shares that will actually vest for each DSU depends on the market price for the Class B common stock as of the relevant vesting date. 1/2 of a share will be issued for each DSU if the market price on the vesting date is less than $12.705 (50% of the grant date value of a share of Class B common stock) and 2 shares will be issued for each DSU if the market price on the vesting date is $50.82 (200% of the grant date value) or greater, with a proportionate amount to vest based on thresholds of 62.5%, 75%, 87.5%, 100%, 112.5%, 125%, 137.5%, 150%, 162.5% and 175% of the grant date value. Upon vesting in full, Ms. Jonas will be entitled to receive between 1,800 and 7,200 shares of Class B common stock. Ms. Mason is the sister of Howard Jonas, Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Registrant, aunt of Shmuel Jonas, Chief Executive Officer of the Registrant, and the aunt of Liora Stein, a director of the Registrant.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

The Registrant’s Certificate of Incorporation provides that, to the extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”), directors of the Registrant shall not be personally liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. Section 102(7) of the DGCL, however, states that such a provision may not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL, relating to unlawful dividends, distributions or the repurchase or redemption of stock or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derives an improper personal benefit.

The Registrant’s By-Laws provide that the Registrant shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, any person against expenses (including attorney’s fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement, actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any threatened, pending or completed legal proceedings in which such person is involved by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Registrant (or serving in any such capacity with another business organization at the request of the Registrant) if he acted in good faith and in a manner that he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if he had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. If the legal proceeding, however, is by or in the right of the Registrant, such director, officer, employee or agent may not be indemnified in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which he shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Registrant unless a court determines otherwise.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

Item 9. Undertakings.

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) will not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Securities Exchange Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Newark, State of New Jersey, on October 16, 2023.

The undersigned directors and officers hereby constitute and appoint Shmuel Jonas and Marcelo Fischer, and each of them, with full power to act without the other and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact with full power to execute in our name in the capacities indicated any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and to sign any and all additional registration statements relating to the same offering of securities as this Form S-8 that are filed pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and hereby ratify and confirm that all such attorneys-in fact, or either of them, or their substitutes shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Form S-8 Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated and on the date indicated.

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