S-8 1 brhc10044010_s8.htm S-8
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 10, 2022

Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 

FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


EverCommerce Inc.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware
  
81-4063248
(State or other jurisdiction of
Incorporation or organization)
  
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
3601 Walnut Street, Suite 400
Denver, Colorado 80205
 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

 2021 Incentive Award Plan
2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
2008 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plans)

Eric Remer
Chief Executive Officer
EverCommerce Inc.
3601 Walnut Street, Suite 400
Denver, Colorado 80205
 Telephone: (720) 647-4948
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
With copies to:
Marc D. Jaffe
  
Lisa Storey
Benjamin J. Cohen
  
General Counsel
Jenna B. Cooper
  
EverCommerce Inc.
Latham & Watkins LLP
  
3601 Walnut Street, Suite 400
1271 Avenue of the Americas
  
Denver, Colorado 80205
New York, New York 10020
  
(720) 647-4948
(212) 906-1200
    


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.

 
Large accelerated filer ☐
Accelerated filer ☐
     
 
Non-accelerated filer ☒
Smaller reporting company ☐
     
   
Emerging growth company ☒

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 is being filed for the purpose of registering (i) an additional 5,865,313 and 1,955,104 shares of the Registrant’s common stock to be issued pursuant to the EverCommerce Inc. 2021 Incentive Award Plan (“2021 Plan”) and the EverCommerce Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“2021 ESPP”), respectively, and for which a Registration Statement of the Registrant on Form S-8 relating to the same employee benefit plans is effective and (ii) 57,846 shares of the Registrant’s common stock to be issued pursuant to the PaySimple, Inc. 2008 Equity Incentive Plan (“2008 Plan”).
 
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF CONTENTS OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8
 
The contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-257707), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, relating to the 2021 Plan and the 2021 ESPP, are incorporated herein by reference.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1.
Plan Information.

Not required to be filed with the Registration Statement.

Item 2.
Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.

Not required to be filed with the Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 2.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents, which have been filed or will be filed by the Registrant with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), with respect to item (a) below and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), with respect to item (b) below are incorporated by reference in, and shall be deemed to be a part of, this Registration Statement:


 (1)
The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Commission on March 15, 2022, which contains the Registrant’s audited financial statements for the latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed;


(2)
The Registrant’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2022, June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022 filed with the Commission on May 9, 2022, August 8, 2022 and November 10, 2022 respectively;


(3)
The Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on June 15, 2022, June 17, 2022 and June 24, 2022; and


(4)
The description of the Registrant’s common stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-40575), filed with the Commission on July 1, 2021, as updated by the Description of Capital Stock filed as Exhibit 4.5 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and any amendment or report which we have filed (or will file after the date of this Registration Statement) for purposes of updating such description.

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to 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 then remaining unsold shall be deregistered, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and to be a part thereof from the date of the filing of such documents.

For purposes of this Registration Statement and the related prospectus, any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained herein or in a subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated herein by reference modifies or replaces such statement. Any statement so modified shall not be deemed in its unmodified form to constitute part of this Registration Statement or the related prospectus.

Under no circumstances shall any information furnished under Item 2.02 and/or Item 7.01 of Current Report on Form 8-K and any corresponding exhibits thereto be deemed incorporated herein by reference unless such Current Report on Form 8-K expressly provides to the contrary.

Item 4.
Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not applicable.

Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

The Registrant is governed by the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL. Section 145 of the DGCL provides that a corporation may indemnify any person, including an officer or director, who was or is, or is threatened to be made, a party to any threatened, pending or completed legal action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person was or is an officer, director, employee or agent of such corporation or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such officer, director, employee or agent acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the corporation’s best interest and, for criminal proceedings, had no reasonable cause to believe that such person’s conduct was unlawful. A Delaware corporation may indemnify any person, including an officer or director, who was or is, or is threatened to be made, a party to any threatened, pending or contemplated action or suit by or in the right of such corporation, under the same conditions, except that such indemnification is limited to expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person, and except that no indemnification is permitted without judicial approval if such person is adjudged to be liable to such corporation. Where an officer or director of a corporation is successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to above, or any claim, issue or matter therein, the corporation must indemnify that person against the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) which such officer or director actually and reasonably incurred in connection therewith.

The Registrant’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes the indemnification of its officers and directors, consistent with Section 145 of the DGCL.

Reference is made to Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL, which enables a corporation in its original certificate of incorporation or an amendment thereto to eliminate or limit the personal liability of a director for violations of the director’s fiduciary duty, except (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) pursuant to Section 174 of the DGCL, which provides for liability of directors for unlawful payments of dividends of unlawful stock purchase or redemptions or (iv) for any transaction from which a director derived an improper personal benefit.

The Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with each of its directors and officers. These indemnification agreements may require the Registrant, among other things, to indemnify its directors and officers for some expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by a director or officer in any action or proceeding arising out of his or her service as one of the Registrant’s directors or officers, or any of its subsidiaries or any other company or enterprise to which the person provides services at the Registrant’s request.

The Registrant maintains a general liability insurance policy that covers certain liabilities of its directors and officers arising out of claims based on acts or omissions in their capacities as directors or officers. In any underwriting agreement the Registrant enters into in connection with the sale of common stock being registered hereby, the underwriters will agree to indemnify, under certain conditions, the Registrant, its directors, its officers and persons who control the Registrant within the meaning of the Securities Act against certain liabilities.

Item 7.
Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8.
Exhibits.

Exhibit
Number
  
Description
   
  4.1
  
   
  4.2
  
   
  5.1*
  
   
23.1*
  
   
23.2*
  
   
24.1*
  
   
99.1
  
   
99.2
  
     
99.3*
  
     
107.1*
  

*
Filed herewith.

Item 9.
Undertakings.

(a) The 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:


(i)
To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;


(ii)
To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement; and


(iii)
To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;

Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-8, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Registrant pursuant to section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.


 (2)
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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.

(b) The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the 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.

(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 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 SEC 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 registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Denver, State of Colorado, on November 10, 2022.

 
EverCommerce Inc.
   
 
By:
/s/ Eric Remer
   
Eric Remer
   
Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Eric Remer, Matthew Feierstein, Marc Thompson and Lisa Storey, or each of them singly, with full power to act without the other, such person’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this registration statement and any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments to this registration statement, and to file the same, with exhibits and schedules thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary or desirable to be done in connection therewith as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
 
Signature
  
Title
  
Date
         
/s/ Eric Remer
  
Director and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
  
November 10, 2022
Eric Remer
        
         
/s/ Marc Thompson
  
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
  
November 10, 2022
Marc Thompson
        
         
/s/ Lee Dabberdt
  
Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Accounting Officer)
  
November 10, 2022
Lee Dabberdt
        
         
/s/ Richard A. Simonson
  
Director
  
November 10, 2022
Richard A. Simonson
        
         
/s/ Kimberly Ellison-Taylor
  
Director
  
November 10, 2022
Kimberly Ellison-Taylor
        
         
/s/ Mark Hastings
  
Director
  
November 10, 2022
Mark Hastings
        
         
/s/ John Marquis
  
Director
  
November 10, 2022
John Marquis
        
         
/s/ Joseph Osnoss
  
Director
  
November 10, 2022
Joseph Osnoss
        
         
/s/ Penny Baldwin-Leonard
  
Director
  
November 10, 2022
Penny Baldwin-Leonard
        
         
/s/ John Rudella
  
Director
  
November 10, 2022
John Rudella
        
         
/s/ Debby Soo
  
Director
  
November 10, 2022
Debby Soo