Invesco (IVZ) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2021.

Registration No. 333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Invesco Ltd.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1555 Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 1800

Atlanta, Georgia 30309

(404) 892-0896

(Address and telephone number of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Invesco Ltd. 2016 Global Equity Incentive Plan as Amended and Restated

(Full title of the plan)

Kevin M. Carome

Senior Managing Director and General Counsel

Invesco Ltd.

1555 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 1800

Atlanta, Georgia 30309

(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

(404) 892-0896

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

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. ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is being filed by Invesco Ltd. (the “Company”) to register an additional 8,789,391 shares (the “Additional Shares”) of the Company’s Common Shares, $0.20 par value per share (the “Common Shares”), issuable under the Invesco Ltd. 2016 Global Equity Incentive Plan as Amended and Restated (the “Plan”). The Additional Shares are in addition to the Common Shares previously registered for issuance under the Plan pursuant to the Company’s (i) Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-212037), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on June 15, 2016, and (ii) Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-231454), filed with the SEC on May 14, 2019 (collectively, the “Prior Registration Statements”).

This Registration Statement relates to securities of the same class as that to which the Prior Registration Statements relate, and is submitted in accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8 regarding registration of additional securities. Pursuant to such instruction, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements are incorporated by reference and made part of this Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents, filed by the Company with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are incorporated herein by reference and deemed to be a part hereof:

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act before the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered 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 a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

In no event, however, will any information that the Company discloses under Item 2.02 or 7.01 of any Current Report on Form 8-K that the Company may from time to time furnish to the SEC, or any other information that is not deemed “filed” with the SEC, be incorporated by reference into, or otherwise become part of, this Registration Statement.

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Any statement contained herein or 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 such statement is modified or superseded by a subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed to constitute a part of this Registration Statement except as so modified or superseded.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Pursuant to its Third Amended and Restated Bye-Laws, the Company will indemnify its officers, directors and employees to the fullest extent permitted by Bermuda law. Such indemnity will extend, without limitation, to any matter in which an officer, director or employee of the Company may be guilty of negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust in relation to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, but will not extend to any matter in which such officer, director or employee is found, by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final judgment or decree not subject to appeal, guilty of any fraud or dishonesty in relation to the Company.

The Bermuda Companies Act 1981 (as amended) enables companies to purchase and maintain, and the Company’s Bye-Laws permit the Company to purchase and maintain, insurance for directors and officers against any liability arising from negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust of which the director or officer may be guilty in relation to the company. The Company maintains such policies of insurance on its officers and directors.

Item 8. Exhibits.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), 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 Atlanta, State of Georgia, on this 15th day of June, 2021.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Kevin M. Carome and Robert H. Rigsby as his/her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute and file this Registration Statement under the Securities Act and any and all amendments (including, without limitation, post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, with all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect thereto, with the SEC or any other regulatory authority, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing appropriate or necessary to be done in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as he himself or she herself might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated and on the dates indicated.

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