Wearable Devices (WLDS) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2024

Registration No. 333-               

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

WEARABLE DEVICES LTD.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

2 Ha-Ta’asiya Street, Yokne’am Illit, 2069803 Israel

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Wearable Devices Ltd. 2024 Global Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Mudra Wearable, Inc.

24A Trolley Square #2203

Wilmington, DE 19806

(Name, Address and Telephone Number 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 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 on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is being filed to register 565,970 ordinary shares, no par value per share (the “Ordinary Shares”), of Wearable Devices Ltd. (the “Registrant”), reserved for issuance under the Wearable Devices Ltd. 2024 Global Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of Registration Statement on Form S-8 is omitted from this Registration Statement. The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be delivered to the participants in the Plan covered by this Registration Statement as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

PART II

ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

(a) The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the Commission on March 15, 2024;

(b) The Registrant’s Reports of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K (“Form 6-K”) filed with the Commission on March 15, 2024 (with respect to the sections titled “2023 and Recent Business Highlights,” “Full Year 2023 Financial Highlights” and “Forward-Looking Statements” and the financial statements in the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1 to the Form 6-K only), April 24, 2024, May 16, 2024 (with respect to the first two paragraphs and the section titled “Forward-Looking Statements” in the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1 to the Form 6-K only), June 7, 2024, August 22, 2024, August 22, 2024 (Report No. 2), September 9, 2024 (with respect to the first two, the fourth and the fifth paragraphs and the section titled “Forward-Looking Statements” in the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1 to the Form 6-K only), September 23, 2024 (other than the fifth, sixth and seventh paragraphs in the press release attached as Exhibit 99.3 to the Form 6-K), September 26, 2024, October 7, 2024, October 28, 2024, November 27, 2024, and November 27, 2024; and

(c) The description of the Registrant’s Ordinary Shares which is contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on September 9, 2022 (File No. 001-41502) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as amended by Exhibit 2.3 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2024, including any further amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents, reports and definitive proxy or information statements filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act and all reports on Form 6-K subsequently filed by the Registrant which state that they are incorporated by reference herein on or after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or that 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 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 subsequently filed document that also 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.

ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

Not applicable.

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

Not applicable.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

Indemnification

The Israeli Companies Law, 5759-1999 (the “Companies Law”) provide that a company may indemnify an office holder against the following liabilities and expenses incurred for acts performed by him or her as an office holder, either pursuant to an undertaking made in advance of an event or following an event, provided its articles of association include a provision authorizing such indemnification:

The Companies Law also permits a company to add provisions in the articles of association, to undertake in advance to indemnify an office holder, provided that if such indemnification relates to financial liability imposed on him or her, as described above, then the undertaking should be limited and shall detail the following foreseen events and amount or criteria:

The Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with all of its directors and with all members of its senior management. Each such indemnification agreement provides the office holder with indemnification permitted under applicable law and up to a certain amount, and to the extent that these liabilities are not covered by directors and officer’s insurance.

Exculpation

Under the Companies Law, an Israeli company may not exculpate an office holder from liability for a breach of his or her duty of loyalty, but may exculpate in advance an office holder from his or her liability to the company, in whole or in part, for damages caused to the company as a result of a breach of his or her duty of care (other than in relation to distributions), but only if a provision authorizing such exculpation is included in its articles of association. The Registrant’s amended and restated articles of association provide that it may exculpate, in whole or in part, any office holder from liability to it for damages caused to the company as a result of a breach of his or her duty of care, but prohibit an exculpation from liability arising from a transaction in which its controlling shareholder or officer has a personal interest. Subject to the aforesaid limitations, and to other limitations detailed in the indemnification agreements, the Registrant exculpates and releases its office holders from any and all liability to the Registrant related to any breach by them of their duty of care to us to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Limitations

The Companies Law provides that we may not exculpate or indemnify an office holder nor enter into an insurance contract that would provide coverage for any liability incurred as a result of any of the following: (1) a breach by the office holder of his or her duty of loyalty unless (in the case of indemnity or insurance only, but not exculpation) the office holder acted in good faith and had a reasonable basis to believe that the act would not prejudice us; (2) a breach by the office holder of his or her duty of care if the breach was carried out intentionally or recklessly (as opposed to merely negligently); (3) any act or omission committed with the intent to derive an illegal personal benefit; or (4) any fine, monetary sanction, penalty or forfeit levied against the office holder.

Under the Companies Law, exculpation, indemnification and insurance of office holders in a public company must be approved by the compensation committee and the board of directors (and, with respect to directors and chief executive officer, by the shareholders). However, under regulations promulgated under the Companies Law, the insurance of office holders shall not require shareholder approval and may be approved by only the compensation committee, if the engagement terms are determined in accordance with the company’s compensation policy that was approved by the shareholders by the same special majority required to approve a compensation policy, provided that the insurance policy is on market terms and the insurance policy is not likely to materially impact the company’s profitability, assets or obligations. In addition, under regulations promulgated under the Companies Law, with respect to the insurance of office holders of a company in which there is a controlling shareholder who is also an office holder, a board approval is also required, subject to meeting the aforesaid conditions.

The Registrant’s amended and restated articles of association permit it to exculpate (subject to the aforesaid limitation), indemnify and insure its office holders to the fullest extent permitted or to be permitted by the Companies Law.

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

Not applicable.

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS. 

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 F-1 and has duly caused this registration statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Yokne’am Illit, Israel, on December 23, 2024.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned officers and directors of Wearable Devices Ltd. hereby constitute and appoint each of Asher Dahan and Alon Mualem with full power of substitution, each of them singly his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents to take any actions to enable Wearable Devices Ltd. to comply with the Securities Act, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the SEC, in connection with this registration statement on Form S-8, including the power and authority to sign for the undersigned in his name in the capacities indicated below any and all further amendments to this registration statement and any other registration statement filed pursuant to the provisions of Rule 462 under the Securities Act.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this amendment to the registration statement on Form S-8 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, Mudra Wearable, Inc., the duly authorized representative in the United States of Wearable Devices Ltd., has signed this registration statement on December 23, 2024.

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