As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 16, 2024
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CONSTELLIUM SE
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
France | Not Applicable | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
Washington Plaza, | 300 East Lombard Street | |
40-44 rue Washington | Suite 1710 | |
75008 Paris | Baltimore, MD 21202 | |
France | United States | |
(Head Office) |
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Constellium SE 2013 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the Plan)
Corporation Service Company
80 State Street
Albany, NY 12207-2543
(Name and address of agent for service)
(302) 636-5400
(Telephone number, including area code of agent for service)
Copies to:
Jeremy Leach Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel 40-44, rue Washington 75008 Paris, France |
Rina E. Teran Chief Securities Counsel 300 East Lombard Street, Suite 1710 Baltimore, MD 21202 |
Andrew J. Nussbaum Elina Tetelbaum Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 51 West 52nd Street New York, NY 10019 |
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 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. ☐
REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL ORDINARY SHARES PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E
This Registration Statement is being filed pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act). The contents of the Registration Statements on Form S-8 previously filed by Constellium SE (the Registrant) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) on October 25, 2013 (File No. 333-191905), December 19, 2014 (File No. 333-201141), June 27, 2018 (File No. 333-225926), and May 14, 2021 (File No. 333-256148) (together, as amended, the Prior Registration Statements) are incorporated by reference herein and made a part hereof. This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by the Registrant to register an additional 6,000,000 shares of the Registrants ordinary shares, nominal value 0.02 per share, which may be awarded under the Constellium SE 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended, the Plan), which ordinary shares are additional securities of the same class as other securities issuable under the Plan previously filed with the Commission with the Prior Registration Statements.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. | Incorporation of Documents by Reference |
The following documents previously filed or furnished by the Registrant with the Commission are incorporated by reference herein:
(a) | the Registrants annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed on March 18, 2024; |
(b) | all other reports filed or furnished by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act) since December 31, 2023 (other than information in such filings specifically not incorporated therein); |
(c) | the description of the Ordinary Shares, set forth in the Registrants Registration Statement on Form F-3ASR, filed on March 20, 2024 (File No. 333-278097) and any amendments, reports or other filings filed with the Commission for the purpose of updating that description; |
(d) | the Registrants registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-191905), filed on October 25, 2013, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed on June 28, 2019 and by Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 filed on December 12, 2019; |
(e) | the Registrants registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-201141), filed on December 19, 2014, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed on June 28, 2019 and by Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 filed on December 12, 2019; |
(f) | the Registrants registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-225926), filed on June 27, 2018, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed on June 28, 2019 and by Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 filed on December 12, 2019; and |
(g) | the Registrants registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-256148) filed on May 14, 2021. |
In addition to the foregoing, all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, and all reports on Form 6-K subsequently filed or furnished by the Registrant which state that they are incorporated by reference herein, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereunder have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents and reports.
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 herein, or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference, modifies or supersedes such statement. Any 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. |
* | Filed herewith |
Pursuant to the requirements of 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 Baltimore, Maryland on May 16, 2024.
Constellium SE | ||
By: | /s/ Jean-Marc Germain | |
Name: | Jean-Marc Germain | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Jean-Marc Germain, Jack Guo and Jeremy Leach, and each of them acting individually, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, to execute for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement and any registration statement for the same offering covered by this registration statement that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462 promulgated under the Securities Act, as the attorney-in-fact and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and any other documents required in connection therewith with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and their substitutes, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully as he or she 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 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 and on the dates indicated:
Name |
Title |
Date | ||
/s/ Jean-Marc Germain |
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
Jean-Marc Germain | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||
/s/ Jack Guo |
Chief Financial Officer | May 16, 2024 | ||
Jack Guo | (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) | |||
/s/ Jean-Christophe Deslarzes |
Chairman | May 16, 2024 | ||
Jean-Christophe Deslarzes |
/s/ Emmanuel Blot |
Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
Emmanuel Blot | ||||
/s/ Isabelle Boccon-Gibod |
Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
Isabelle Boccon-Gibod | ||||
/s/ Michiel Brandjes |
Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
Michiel Brandjes | ||||
/s/ Martha Brooks |
Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
Martha Brooks | ||||
/s/ John Ormerod |
Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
John Ormerod | ||||
/s/ Jean-Philippe Puig |
Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
Jean-Philippe Puig | ||||
/s/ Jean-François Verdier |
Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
Jean-François Verdier | ||||
/s/ Lori A. Walker |
Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
Lori A. Walker | ||||
/s/ Wiebke Weiler |
Director | May 16, 2024 | ||
Wiebke Weiler |
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 6(a) of the Securities Act, the undersigned has caused this Registration Statement to be signed solely in the capacity as the duly authorized representative of Constellium SE in the United States on May 16, 2024.
Constellium US Holdings I, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Rina E. Teran | |
Name: | Rina E. Teran | |
Title: | Vice President & Secretary |
Exhibit 5.1
May 16, 2024
Constellium SE
Washington Plaza
40-44 rue Washington
75008 Paris
France
Constellium SE Form S-8 Registration Statement Exhibit 5.1 opinion
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have acted as special French counsel to Constellium SE, a Societas Europaea, with its corporate seat in Washington Plaza, 40-44 rue Washington, 75008 Paris, France (the Issuer), in connection with the filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), of a registration statement on Form S-8 dated as of the date hereof (the Form S-8). The Form S-8 is filed by the Issuer for the registration of up to 6,000,000 ordinary shares (with nominal value 0.02 per share) (the Shares) that may be issued pursuant to the Constellium SE 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the Plan), with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
This opinion is furnished to you in order to be filed as an exhibit to the Form S-8 filed by you with the SEC.
A. | For the purpose of this opinion, we have exclusively examined and relied upon photocopies or copies received by fax or by electronic means, or originals if so expressly stated, of the following documents: |
a) | the Form S-8; |
b) | the Plan; |
c) | a copy of the articles of association (statuts) of the Issuer last updated on April 10, 2023, as certified as of May 15, 2024 (the Articles); |
d) | a copy of the resolutions (the Resolutions) of the general meeting of the Issuer held on May 2, 2024 as certified as of May 15, 2024, relating, inter alia, to the authorization granted to the Board of Directors to freely allocate shares, to be issued or existing, under the Plan, for a 38-month period up to 6,000,000 Shares (the Authorization); |
e) | a K-bis extract (Extrait K-bis) of the Issuer issued on May 13, 2024, by the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés of Paris as of May 8, 2024 (the Extract); and |
f) | a certificate en matière de procédures collectives relating to the Issuer issued on May 13, 2024, issued by the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés of Paris as of May 12, 2024 (the Certificate). |
B. | In rendering this opinion, we have assumed: |
a) | the genuineness of all signatures on, and the authenticity and completeness of all documents submitted to us as copies of drafts, originals or execution copies and the exact conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as photocopies or copies transmitted by facsimile or by electronic means and that all documents were at their date, and will have remained, accurate and in full force and effect without modification; |
b) | that the Plan constitutes and will constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of the participants in the Plan and the Issuer, respectively, and is enforceable in accordance with its terms under all applicable laws; |
c) | that (a) the Authorization, as renewed from time to time, will be in full force and effect (i) as of the date of granting any rights to subscribe for the Shares under the Plan or, as the case may be, (ii) as at the date of issuance of any Shares under the Plan, and (b) any rights to subscribe for the Shares under the Plan have been validly granted; |
d) | that prior to the registration (immatriculation) of the Issuer with the Greffe of the Paris Tribunal de commerce, the Issuer was duly established and validly existed as a Societas Europaea (SE) registered in The Netherlands with a capital divided into 137,867,418 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 0.02, each validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; |
e) | the Resolutions have been duly approved and have not been superseded, amended, annulled, revoked or rescinded and are in full force and effect as at the date hereof; |
f) | that any and all authorizations and consents of, or other filings with or notifications to, any public authority or other relevant body or person in or of any jurisdiction which may be required (including, without limitation, the laws of the French Republic) in respect of the Form S-8 have been or will be duly obtained or made, as the case may be; and |
g) | that the information set forth in the Extract and the Certificate is on the date hereof complete and accurate. |
C. | We are rendering this opinion in our capacity as Avocats au Barreau de Paris and this opinion is limited to, and is to be construed in accordance with, the laws of the French Republic and relates to matters of French law exclusively. This opinion is given on the basis that it is to be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the French Republic. In this opinion, references to French law or to the laws of the French Republic are to be read as references to the laws and regulations of France in full force and effect as of the date hereof, as interpreted by the Cour de Cassation and the Conseil dEtat (being the supreme courts of the French judiciary and administrative court systems, respectively) in their decisions reported in major legal publications. We express no opinion as to (i) any matter of foreign law nor as to any matter of fact and, in particular, we express no opinion on European Community law as it affects any jurisdiction other than the Republic of France (ii) matters of competition law, and (iii) matters of taxation. In addition, we have assumed that no foreign law affects the conclusions stated in this opinion and that the recognition by a French court pursuant to a treaty or otherwise of the effects in France of a foreign law does not affect the conclusions stated in this opinion. |
This opinion is strictly limited to the matters specifically stated in Section D below and may not be read as extending by implication to any matters not specifically referred to herein. In particular, nothing in this opinion should be taken as expressing an opinion on our part in respect of any representations and warranties of the parties or any other facts, computations or information contained in the Form S-8 or in respect of any other agreement, instrument or document referred to in the Form S-8.
French law concepts used in this opinion and described in English may not have the same meaning under the laws of other jurisdictions and words appearing in the French language have the meaning ascribed to them under French law and prevail over their translation into English. This opinion is given by GIDE LOYRETTE NOUEL A.A.R.P.I. (Gide) and may only be relied upon under the express condition that (i) any issues of interpretation or liability arising hereunder will be governed by the laws of the French Republic and will be brought exclusively before a French court, and (ii) such liability, if any, shall be limited to Gide only, to the exclusion of any of its directors, partners, employees, shareholders and advisors or its or their affiliates and, to the extent applicable, to the aggregate of the amount paid under Gides professional insurance in the particular instance and any applicable deductible payable thereunder.
D. | Based upon and subject to the foregoing and to the further qualifications, limitations and exceptions set forth herein, and subject to any factual matters not disclosed to us and inconsistent with the information revealed by the documents reviewed by us in the course of our examination referred to above, we are as at the date hereof of the opinion that (a) the Issuer is duly incorporated (immatriculée), and is validly existing under the laws of the French Republic as a European limited-liability company (Societas Europaea) and (b) upon (i) adoption of all corporate and other action required to be taken by the Issuer to issue Shares and (ii) payment in full of the Shares in accordance with the provisions of the Articles, such Shares will have been duly authorized, validly issued and fully paid up and will be non-assessable. |
E. | Our opinions expressed above are subject to the following qualifications: |
a) | We have not investigated or verified the truth, accuracy or appropriateness of any representations of factual nature made by the parties in the Form S-8, or of any information, opinion or statement of facts relating to the Issuer, or the Shares contained in the aforementioned document, nor have we been responsible for ensuring that no material information has been omitted from it; and; |
b) | Our opinion in paragraph D.a) above is solely based on a review of the Articles, the Extract and the Certificate, and the Extract and the Certificate are not conclusively capable of revealing whether or not: |
| a winding-up has been made or a resolution passed for the dissolution (winding-up) of the Issuer, or the Issuers operations have terminated (cessation dactivité), or |
| an order for the procédure de sauvegarde, sauvegarde accélérée, sauvegarde financière accélérée, redressement judiciaire or liquidation judiciaire has been issued, |
as notice of these matters may not be filed immediately and, when filed, may not be entered on the records immediately. Also, a mandat ad hoc or a conciliatory procedure (procédure de conciliation) will not appear in the Extract and the Certificate.
c) | Our opinions are subject to the effects of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors rights generally including, without limitation, laws governing any judicial reorganization (redressement judiciaire), judicial liquidation (liquidation judiciaire), safeguard proceedings (procédure de sauvegarde), accelerated safeguard proceedings (procédure de sauvegarde accélérée), accelerated financial safeguard proceedings (procédure de sauvegarde financière accélérée), appointment of any conciliateur, or ad-hoc agent (mandataire ad-hoc) or judicial administrator (administrateur provisoire), or any procedure in accordance with Livre Sixième of the French Code de commerce, or any similar proceedings in any jurisdiction other than France; and |
d) | The term non-assessable, which has no recognized meaning in French law, for the purposes of this opinion means that no present or future holder of such Shares will be subject to personal liability, by reason of being such a holder, for additional payments or calls for further funds by the Issuer or any other person. |
We assume no obligation to update this opinion or to inform any person of any changes of law or other matters coming to our knowledge occurring after the date hereof which may affect this opinion in any respect. This opinion is given for the purposes of the Form S-8 only and may not be disclosed or quoted other than as an exhibit to (and therefore together with) the Form S-8, without our prior written consent.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Form S-8 and to the use of our name under the heading Legal Matters in the prospectus forming a part thereof. In giving such consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I.
Exhibit 23.2
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Constellium SE of our report dated March 18, 2024 relating to the financial statements and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in Constellium SEs Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
May 16, 2024
Exhibit 107
Calculation of Filing Fee Table
Form S-8
Constellium SE
Table 1: Newly Registered Securities
Security Type | Security Class Title |
Fee Calculation Rule |
Amount Registered(1) |
Proposed Offering Unit(2) |
Maximum Aggregate Offering Price |
Fee Rate |
Amount of Registration Fee(3) | |||||||
Equity | Ordinary shares, nominal value 0.02, to be issued under the Constellium SE 2013 Equity Incentive Plan | Other | 6,000,000 | $20.09 | $120,540,000 | 0.00014760 | $17,791.70 | |||||||
Total Offering Amounts | $120,540,000 | $17,791.70 | ||||||||||||
Total Fee Offset | | |||||||||||||
Net Fee Due | $17,791.70 |
(1) | The Ordinary Shares are being registered for issuance under the Constellium SE 2013 Equity Incentive Plan. Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act), this Registration Statement shall also be deemed to cover any additional securities to be offered or issued in connection with the provisions of the above-referenced plan, which provides for adjustments in the amount of securities to be offered or issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends, or similar events. |
(2) | Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee on the basis of the average of the high and low selling price per share of the Ordinary Shares of Constellium SE, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on May 15, 2024. |
(3) | Calculated at a rate of $147.60 per $1,000,000 of the proposed maximum aggregate offering price. |