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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 17, 2014

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Caesars Acquisition Company

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware		46-2672999
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

One Caesars Palace Drive

Las Vegas, Nevada 89109

(Address, including zip code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

Caesars Acquisition Company 2014 Performance Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Michael D. Cohen, Esq.

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Caesars Acquisition Company

One Caesars Palace Drive

Las Vegas, Nevada 89109

(702) 407-6000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

COPIES TO:

Monica K. Thurmond, Esq.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6064

(212) 373-3000

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE



Title of Securities to be Registered	Amount to be Registered (1)	Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share	Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price	Amount of Registration Fee
Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share	3,000,000(2)	$12.06(3)	$36,180,000	$4,660

(1)	Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this registration statement shall be deemed to cover any additional securities to be offered or issued from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.

(2)	Consists of shares of Class A common stock issuable in respect of awards granted, and to be granted, under the Caesars Acquisition Company 2014 Performance Incentive Plan.

(3)	Pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act, the proposed maximum offering price per share was determined based on the average of the high and low prices of Caesars Acquisition Company’s Class A common stock reported by Nasdaq Global Select Market on July 15, 2014.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Caesars Acquisition Company (the “Company”) has prepared this Registration Statement in accordance with the requirements of Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), to register 3,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share, which is referred to as the Class A common stock, that are reserved for issuance in respect of awards granted, or in respect of awards to be granted, under the Caesars Acquisition Company 2014 Performance Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1.

Plan Information.

The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants in the Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. Such documents are not being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), but constitute, along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement, a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

Item 2.

Company Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.

The Company will furnish without charge to each person to whom the prospectus is delivered, upon the written or oral request of such person, a copy of any and all of the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement, other than exhibits to such documents (unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference to the information that is incorporated). Those documents are incorporated by reference in the Section 10(a) prospectus. Requests should be directed to Caesars Acquisition Company, One Caesars Palace Drive, Las Vegas, 89109, Attention: Secretary; telephone number (702) 407-6000.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.

Incorporation of Documents by Reference

The following documents filed with the Commission by the Company are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

(1)

The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2013 (including portions of the Definitive Proxy Statement for our 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, dated April 14, 2014, solely to the extent incorporated by reference therein), filed with the Commission on March 28, 2014 (File No. 001-36207) (the “Annual Report”);

(2)

The description of the Class A common stock set forth in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-36207) filed pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on November 18, 2013, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating any such description; and

(3)

All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the Company’s Annual Report referred to in (1) above.

In addition, all reports and documents filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and made a part hereof from the date of the 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 in this Registration Statement or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement 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

The Company is incorporated under the laws of Delaware. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) permits each corporation organized thereunder the power to indemnify any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation or enterprise, against expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, other than an action by or in the right

of the corporation, by reason of being or having been in any such capacity, if he acted in good faith in a manner reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.

Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL enables a corporation in its certificate of incorporation or an amendment thereto to eliminate or limit the personal liability of a director to the corporation or its stockholders of monetary damages for violations of the directors’ fiduciary duty of care, 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 that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) pursuant to Section 174 of the DGCL (providing for liability of directors for unlawful payment of dividends or unlawful stock purchases or redemptions) or (iv) for any transaction from which a director derived an improper personal benefit.

The by-laws of the registrant indemnifies to the fullest extent of the law every director and officer against expenses incurred by him if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interest of the corporation.

In addition, all of the directors and executive officers have entered or intend to enter into separate contractual indemnity arrangements with the Company. These arrangements provide for indemnification and the advancement of expenses to these directors and executive officers in circumstances and subject to limitations substantially similar to those described above.

Item 7.

Exemption from Registration Claimed

Not Applicable.

Item 8.

Exhibits

See the attached Exhibit Index, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.

Undertakings

The Company hereby undertakes:


(a)(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;

(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 the 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 Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement;

(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) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by us pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement;

(2)

That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, 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 hereby which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b)

The Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Company’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) 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 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission 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 Company of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company 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 Company 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, Caesars Acquisition Company 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 Las Vegas, State of Nevada, on July 17, 2014.


CAESARS ACQUISITION COMPANY

By:		/s/ MITCH GARBER
		Name: Mitch Garber
		Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each individual whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints each of Mitch Garber or Craig Abrahams, acting singly, his true and lawful agent, proxy and attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to (i) act on, sign and file with Commission any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement together with all schedules and exhibits thereto and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, together with all schedules and exhibits thereto, (ii) act on, sign and file such certificates, instruments, agreements and other documents as may be necessary or appropriate in connection therewith, (iii) act on and file any supplement to any prospectus included in this registration statement or any such amendment or any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, and (iv) take any and all actions which may be necessary or appropriate in connection therewith, granting unto such agents, proxies and attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate to be done, as fully for all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby approving, ratifying and confirming all that such agents, proxies and attorneys-in-fact or any of their substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed below on July 17, 2014, by the following persons in the capacities indicated.


Signature		Title

/s/ MITCH GARBER		President and Chief Executive Officer
Mitch Garber		(Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ CRAIG ABRAHAMS		Chief Financial Officer
Craig Abrahams		(Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ TROY J. VANKE		Chief Accounting Officer
Troy J. Vanke		(Principal Accounting Officer)


Signature		Title

/s/ MARC BEILINSON		Director
Marc Beilinson

/s/ PHILIP ERLANGER		Director
Philip Erlanger

/s/ DHIREN FONSECA		Director
Dhiren Fonseca

/s/ DON KORNSTEIN		Director
Don Kornstein

/s/ KARL PETERSON		Director
Karl Peterson

/s/ MARC ROWAN		Director
Marc Rowan

/s/ DAVID SAMBUR		Director
David Sambur

INDEX TO EXHIBITS



4.1		First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Caesars Acquisition Company, dated October 21, 2013 (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Form 10-Q, filed November 20, 2013 (File No. 001-36207)).

4.2		Amended and Restated Bylaws of Caesars Acquisition Company, adopted October 21, 2013 (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Form 10-Q, filed November 20, 2013 (File No. 001-36207)).

5.1*		Opinion of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP regarding the legality of the Class A common stock.

10.1		Caesars Acquisition Company 2014 Performance Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K, filed April 15, 2014 (File No. 001-36207)).

23.1*		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered public accounting firm.

23.2*		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered public accounting firm.

23.3*		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered public accounting firm.

23.4*		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent auditors.

23.5*		Consent of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).

24.1*		Power of Attorney (included on signature pages hereto).

*	Filed herewith.