ICON Public Limited (ICLR) S-8 POSRegistration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1, 2021 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 ON FORM S-8 TO FORM F-4
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ICON PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

PRA Health Sciences, Inc. 2020 Stock Incentive Plan
PRA Health Sciences, Inc. 2018 Stock Incentive Plan
PRA Health Sciences, Inc. 2014 Omnibus Incentive Plan
2013 Stock Incentive Plan for Key Employees of PRA Health Sciences and its Subsidiaries

(Full title of the plans)

Puglisi & Associates
850 Library Avenue, Suite 204
Newark, Delaware 19711

(Name and address of agent for service)

(302) 738-6680

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

Copies to:

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” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on Form S-8 (“Post-Effective Amendment”) amends the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form F-4 (File No. 333-254891) filed with the Commission on March 31, 2021, as previously amended by the Amendment No. 1 filed with the Commission on April 26, 2021, and which became effective on April 27, 2021, and Registration Statement on Form F-4 (File No. 333-257578), filed with the Commission on June 30, 2021, which became effective on filing (the “Forms F-4” and, together with this Post-Effective Amendment, the “Registration Statement”). The Registrant filed the Forms F-4 in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of February 24, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Registrant, ICON US Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Registrant (“US Holdco”), Indigo Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Registrant and US Holdco (“Merger Sub”) and PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (“PRA”).

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, effective on July 1, 2021, Merger Sub merged with and into PRA, with PRA surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Registrant and US Holdco (the “Merger”), and each outstanding share of PRA common stock (each, a “PRA Share”) converted into the right to receive (i) 0.4125 of one Ordinary Share and (ii) $80.00 in cash. Further, each outstanding stock option and restricted stock unit under the PRA Plans was assumed by the Registrant and converted into a stock option or restricted stock unit exercisable for or payable in Ordinary Shares based on the ratio of the average trading price per Ordinary Share for the ten days prior to July 1, 2021, and the corresponding value of the merger consideration for each PRA Share. This Post-Effective Amendment relates to 2,605,853 Ordinary Shares previously registered on the Forms F-4 for issuance under stock options and restricted stock units assumed by the Registrant under the PRA Plans.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The information required by Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this filing in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the introductory note to Part I of Form S-8.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission (File No. 000-29714) are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

In addition, all documents subsequently filed with the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), 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 thereof from the filing date of such documents.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The constitution of the Registrant provides that, so far as may be permitted by the Irish Companies Act, every director, managing director, secretary or other officer of the Registrant shall be entitled to be indemnified by the Registrant against all costs, charges, losses, expenses, and liabilities incurred by them in the execution and discharge of their duties or in relation thereto including any liability incurred by them in defending any proceedings, civil or criminal, which relate to anything done or omitted or alleged to have been done or omitted by them as an officer or employee of the Registrant and in which judgment is given in their favor (or the proceedings are otherwise disposed of without any finding or admission of any material breach of duty on their part) or in which he is acquitted or in connection with any proceedings or any application under the Irish Companies Act or under any statute for relief from liability in respect of any such act or omission in which relief is granted to them by the court.

However the Irish Companies Act only permits the Registrant to enter into an agreement to pay the costs or discharge the liability of a director or the secretary where judgment is given in their favor in any civil or criminal action in respect of such costs or liability, or where an Irish court grants relief because the director or secretary acted honestly and reasonably and ought fairly to be excused. This restriction does not apply to executives who are not directors or the secretary of the Registrant. Any obligation of an Irish company which purports to indemnify a director or secretary of an Irish company over and above this will be void under Irish law, whether contained in its constitution or any contract between the director and the company.

The Irish company law restrictions outlined above do not prevent the Registrant from obtaining, and paying for, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, as well as other types of insurance, for its directors and officers.

Not applicable.

The following exhibits are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Post-Effective Amendment:

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:

provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) 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.

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.

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.

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 Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Dublin, Ireland, on July 1, 2021.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

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