S-8 1 ea0242347-s8_etoro.htm REGISTRATION STATEMENT

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 20, 2025 

Registration No. 333-                

 

 

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

 

 

 

FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

 

ETORO GROUP LTD.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

British Virgin Islands   Not Applicable
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)   Identification No.)

 

30 Sheshet Hayamim St., Bnei Brak, Israel   5120261
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

 

eToro Group Ltd. 2007 Employee Share Option Plan
eToro Group Ltd. 2021 Share Incentive Plan, as amended
eToro Group Ltd. 2025 Employee Share Purchase Plan
(Full title of the plans)

 

 

 

Yoni Assia
eToro USA LLC
221 River St 9th floor,
Hoboken, NJ 07030
(Name and address of agent for service)


(201) 479-0267
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

With a copy to:

 

David J. Goldschmidt
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
One Manhattan West
New York, NY 10001
(212) 735-3000

 

 

 

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. ¨

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS*

 

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

 

PART II

 

ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

 

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

 

(a)The Registrant’s prospectus filed with the Commission on May 14, 2025 pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, relating to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 originally filed with the Commission on March 24, 2025 (File No. 333-286050), as amended;

 

(b)The description of the Registrant’s Class A Common Shares, which is contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on May 13, 2025 (File No. 001-42647) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description; and

 

(c)The Registrant’s Current Report on 6-K filed with the Commission on May 15, 2025.

 

All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act 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 have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, including any Reports of Foreign Private Issuers on Form 6-K furnished by the Registrant to the Commission that indicate that they are incorporated herein by reference, 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; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with the rules of the Commission shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. 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

 

Under British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) law, each of our directors and officers, in performing his or her functions, is required to act honestly and in good faith with a view to the Company’s best interests and exercise the care, diligence and skill that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances. Fiduciary duties are owed to the Company and, under BVI law (and as further provided by our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (our “A&R Memorandum and Articles”), our directors will not be personally liable to the Company or our shareholders for any acts or omissions in the performance of their fiduciary duties. Such limitation of liability does not affect the availability of equitable remedies such as injunctive relief or rescission. These provisions will not limit the liability of directors under United States federal securities laws.

 

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Our A&R Memorandum and Articles provide that we shall indemnify any of our directors, officers or anyone serving at our request as a director or officer of another entity against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred in connection with legal, administrative or investigate proceeding or suits; provided that such indemnification shall not apply unless the person claiming such indemnification acted honestly and in good faith and in what that person believed to be the best interests of the Company and, in the case of criminal proceedings, the person had no reasonable cause to believe that their conduct was unlawful. We may pay any expenses, including legal fees, incurred by any such person in defending any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings in advance of the final disposition of the proceedings. If a person to be indemnified has been successful in defense of any proceedings referred to above, the director or officer is entitled to be indemnified against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred by the director or officer in connection with the proceedings.

 

We may purchase and maintain insurance in relation to any of our directors or officers against any liability asserted against the directors or officers and incurred by the directors or officers in that capacity, whether or not we have or would have had the power to indemnify the directors or officers against the liability as provided in our current memorandum and articles.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to our directors, officers or controlling persons pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable as a matter of United States law.

 

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

 

Not applicable.

 

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit

Number

 

Description

3.1   Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 filed with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 6-K, filed with the Commission on May 15, 2025).
     
4.2   eToro Group Ltd. 2007 Employee Share Option Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 filed with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-286050), filed with the Commission on April 2, 2025).
     
4.3*   eToro Group Ltd. 2021 Share Incentive Plan, as amended.
     
4.4*   eToro Group Ltd. 2025 Employee Share Purchase Plan.
     
5.1*   Opinion of Appleby (BVI) Limited.
     
23.1*   Consent of Kost Forer Gabbay & Kasierer, a Member of EY Global.
     
23.2*   Consent of Appleby (BVI) Limited (included in Exhibit 5.1).
     
24.1*   Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this Registration Statement).
     
107*   Filing Fee Table.

 

*Filed herewith.

 

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ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS

 

(a)The undersigned 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 this 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 this Registration Statement.

 

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

 

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this 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 undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’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 this 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.

 

(h)Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act 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 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 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.

 

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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 Tel Aviv, Israel on May 20, 2025.

 

ETORO GROUP LTD.  
   
By: /s/ Jonathan Alexander Assia  
Name: Jonathan Alexander Assia  
Title: Chief Executive Officer  

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Jonathan Alexander Assia and Meron Shani and each of them, individually, as attorneys-in-fact with full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to do any and all acts and all things and to execute any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents may deem necessary or desirable to enable the registrant to comply with the Securities Act, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder, including, without limitation, the power and authority to sign the name of each of the undersigned in the capacities indicated below to the Registration Statement on Form S-8, or the Registration Statement, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to any and all amendments or supplements to such Registration Statement, whether such amendments or supplements are filed before or after the effective date of such Registration Statement, to any related Registration Statement filed pursuant to Rule 462 under the Securities Act, and to any and all instruments or documents filed as part of or in connection with such Registration Statement or any and all amendments thereto, whether such amendments are filed before or after the effective date of such Registration Statement; and each of the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that such attorneys and agents shall 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/ Jonathan Alexander Assia   Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer   May 20, 2025
Jonathan Alexander Assia   (Principal Executive Officer)    
         
/s/ Meron Shani   Chief Financial Officer   May 20, 2025
Meron Shani   (Principal Financial Officer and
Principal Accounting Officer)
   
         
/s/ Ronen Assia   Director   May 20, 2025
Ronen Assia        
         
/s/ Santo Politi   Director   May 20, 2025
Santo Politi        
         
/s/ Avner Stepak   Director   May 20, 2025
Avner Stepak        
         
/s/ Eddy Shalev   Director   May 20, 2025
Eddy Shalev        

 

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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED U.S. REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REGISTRANT

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the undersigned certifies that it is the duly authorized United States representative of the registrant and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hoboken, State of New Jersey, on May 20, 2025.

 

  ETORO GROUP LTD.
     
  By: /s/ Jonathan Alexander Assia
    Name: Jonathan Alexander Assia
    Title: Director

 

 

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