Huize Holding Limited (HUIZ) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2024

Registration No. 333-   

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Huize Holding Limited

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

49/F, Building T1, Qianhai Financial Centre, Linhai Avenue,

Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen 518000

People’s Republic of China

+86 755 3689 9088

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Third Amended and Restated 2019 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)

Copies to:

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. ☐

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement is filed by Huize Holding Limited (the “Registrant”) to register additional securities issuable pursuant to the Third Amended and Restated 2019 Share Incentive Plan and consists of only those items required by General Instruction E to Form S-8. In September 2021, May 2023 and November 2023, respectively, the Registrant’s board of directors approved the amendments to the 2019 Share Incentive Plan to increase the maximum number of Class A common shares that may be issued under the 2019 Share Incentive Plan. Under the currently effective Third Amended and Restated 2019 Share Incentive Plan, the maximum aggregate number of Class A common shares that may be issued shall be 187,559,565, plus an annual increase on June 1 of each of 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027, by (i) 31,351,400 Class A common shares or (ii) such number of Class A common shares as may be determined by the Registrant’s board. The purpose of this Registration Statement is to register 135,856,200 Class A common shares that are authorized for issuance under the Third Amended and Restated 2019 Share Incentive Plan.

In accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-238148), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on May 11, 2020, and the registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-269596), as filed with the Commission on February 6, 2023, are incorporated herein by reference, except as otherwise set forth herein.

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PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference

The following documents previously filed by the “Registrant” with the Commission are incorporated by reference herein:

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.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

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 Shenzhen, China, on May 31, 2024.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints, severally and not jointly, Cunjun Ma with full power to act alone, as his 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.

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 Huize Holding Limited, has signed this registration statement in Newark, Delaware, United States on May 31, 2024.