Boston Scientific (BSX) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 5, 2020

Registration No. 333-      

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

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) relates to the registration of an additional 25,375,000 shares (the “Shares”) of the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Boston Scientific Corporation (the “Registrant”). The Shares are securities of the same class and relate to the same employee benefit plan, the Boston Scientific Corporation Amended and Restated 2011 Long-Term Incentive Plan, which was amended and restated effective as of October 1, 2020, as those registered pursuant to the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-174622), previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2011 (the “Prior Registration Statement”). In accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference and the information required by Part II is omitted, except as supplemented by the new information set forth below.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents previously filed by the Registrant with the Commission are incorporated herein by reference and shall be deemed to be a part hereof:

(1)       The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the Commission on February 25, 2020;

(2)       The Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, filed with the Commission on August 5, 2020;

(3)       The Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on the following dates in 2020: January 14, February 5, February 27, March 30, April 2, April 10, April 21, April 29, May 12, May 15, May 18, May 22, May 28, May 29, June 8, July 29, and August 3, (provided that any portions of such reports that are deemed furnished and not filed pursuant to instructions to Form 8-K shall not be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement); and

(4)       The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock under the heading “Description of Common Stock” contained in the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-132626) as originally filed by the Registrant with the Commission under the Securities Act on March 22, 2006, including any reports filed that updated such description.

In addition, all documents that the Registrant files pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the effective date of this Registration Statement (except for any portions of the Registrant’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), but prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all securities offered hereby 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 a part hereof from the date of filing such documents.

For purposes of this Registration Statement, any document or statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded 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 document or statement in such document. 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 8. Exhibits.

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 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Marlborough, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on August 5, 2020.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Desiree Ralls-Morrison and Scott Hodgdon his and her true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him and her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments including post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (including, without limitation, any additional registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462 under 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, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his or her substitute, each acting alone, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

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.