S-8

Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

Smaller reporting company

Emerging growth company

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 14, 2022

No. 333-______

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CVENT HOLDING CORP.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

98-1560055

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

1765 Greensboro Station Place, 7th Floor

Tysons, Virginia 22102

(703) 226-3500

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Cvent Holding Corp. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan

Cvent Holding Corp. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Lawrence J. Samuelson

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

1765 Greensboro Station Place, 7th Floor

Tysons, Virginia 22102

(703) 226-3500

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

Copies of all communications, including communications sent to agent for service, should be sent to:

Robert M. Hayward, P.C.

Robert E. Goedert, P.C.

Kevin M. Frank

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

300 North LaSalle

Chicago, IL 60654

United States

+1 312 862 2000 - Phone

+1 312 862 2200 - Facsimile

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. ☐

The Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing in accordance with Rule 462 under the Securities Act.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1. Plan Information.

The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered in accordance with Rule 428(b) under the Securities Act. Such documents are not required to be, and are not, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), either as part of this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act. These documents, and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of the Form S-8, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.

The written statement required by Item 2 of Part I is included in documents that will be delivered to participants in the plans covered by this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 428(b) of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

References in this Registration Statement to “we,” “us,” “our” and the “Company,” or similar references, refer to Cvent Holding Corp. (formerly known as Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp. II), unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise requires.

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents, which have been filed by Cvent Holding Corp. or its predecessor Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp. II (as applicable, the “Company”) with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are incorporated by reference in, and shall be deemed to be a part of, this Registration Statement:

(a)

the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, filed with the Commission on March 31, 2021;

(b)

the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2021, June 30, 2021 and September 30, 2021, filed with the Commission on June 21, 2021, August 16, 2021 and November 15, 2021, respectively;

(c)

the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on January 22, 2021, June 4, 2021, July 23, 2021, November 12, 2021, December 7, 2021 and December 14, 2021 and the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A, filed with the Commission on December 14, 2021 (including the portions of the Company’s proxy statement specifically incorporated by reference therein);

(d)

the Company’s prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act (File No. 333-261787) on January 4, 2022, relating to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-261787), originally filed with the Commission on December 21, 2021 (as amended, including all exhibits), that contains audited financial statements for the Company’s latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed; and

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(e)

the description of the Company’s Common Stock contained in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission on November 16, 2020, pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents, except that information furnished to the Commission under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 in Current Reports on Form 8-K and any exhibit relating to such information shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement 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 which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, modifies or supersedes such earlier 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 4. Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

The validity of the common stock offered hereby will be passed upon for the Company by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, Illinois. Certain partners of Kirkland & Ellis LLP are members of a limited partnership that is an investor in one or more investment funds affiliated with Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC (“Vista”). Kirkland & Ellis LLP represents entities affiliated with Vista in connection with legal matters.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Section 102(b)(7) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) allows a corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation will not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except where the director breached the duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or knowingly violated a law, authorized the payment of a dividend or approved a stock repurchase in violation of Delaware corporate law or obtained an improper personal benefit. The Company’s certificate of incorporation provides for this limitation of liability.

Section 145 of the DGCL (“Section 145”) provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any person who was, is or is threatened to be made, party to 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 such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was 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 person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was illegal. A Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who were or are a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests, provided that no indemnification is permitted without judicial approval if the officer,

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director, employee or agent is adjudged to be liable to the corporation. Where an officer or director is successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify him against the expenses which such officer or director has actually and reasonably incurred.

Section 145 further authorizes a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise, against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the corporation would otherwise have the power to indemnify him under Section 145.

The Company’s bylaws provide that the Company will indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL and must also pay expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition upon delivery of an undertaking, by or on behalf of an indemnified person, to repay all amounts so advanced if it should be determined ultimately that such person is not entitled to be indemnified under this section or otherwise.

The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with each of its executive officers and directors. The indemnification agreements provide the executive officers and directors with contractual rights to indemnification, expense advancement and reimbursement, to the fullest extent permitted under the DGCL. The form of Indemnity Agreement was filed as Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 14, 2021.

The indemnification rights set forth above shall not be exclusive of any other right which an indemnified person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Company’s certificate of incorporation or bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

The Company will maintain standard policies of insurance that provide coverage (1) to the Company’s directors and officers against loss arising from claims made by reason of breach of duty or other wrongful act and (2) to the Company with respect to indemnification payments that the Company may make to such directors and officers.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

EXHIBIT INDEX


Exhibit No.		Description

4.1		Certificate of Incorporation of Cvent Holding Corp. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 14, 2021)

4.2		Bylaws of Cvent Holding Corp. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 14, 2021)

5.1*		Opinion of Kirkland & Ellis LLP

10.1		Cvent Holding Corp. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 14, 2021)

10.2		Cvent Holding Corp. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 14, 2021)

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23.1*		Consent of WithumSmith+Brown, PC, independent registered public accounting firm for Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp. II

23.2*		Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent registered public accounting firm for Cvent

23.3*		Consent of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (included as part of Exhibit 5.1)

24.1*		Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto)

107*		Calculation of Filing Fee Tables

* Filed herewith.

Item 9. Undertakings.

(a)	The undersigned Company 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;

(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 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; 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 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 Company 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 which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b)

The undersigned 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.

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(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.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the 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 Tysons, State of Virginia, on February 14, 2022.


Cvent Holding Corp.

By:		/s/ Rajeev K. Aggarwal
Name:		Rajeev K. Aggarwal
Title:		Chief Executive Officer

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Rajeev K. Aggarwal, Lawrence J. Samuelson and William J. Newman, or any of them, severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and revocation, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to execute any or all amendments, including any post-effective amendments and supplements to this Registration Statement, and any additional Registration Statement filed pursuant to Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each attorney-in-fact and agent, 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, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.


Signature	Title	Date

/s/ Rajeev K. Aggarwal Rajeev K. Aggarwal	Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)	February 14, 2022

/s/ William J. Newman William J. Newman	Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)	February 14, 2022

/s/ Sanjeev Bansal Sanjeev Bansal	Director	February 14, 2022

/s/ David Breach David Breach	Director	February 14, 2022

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/s/ Jim Frankola Jim Frankola	Director	February 14, 2022

/s/ Betty Hung Betty Hung	Director	February 14, 2022

/s/ Marcela Martin Marcela Martin	Director	February 14, 2022

/s/ Sam Payton Sam Payton	Director	February 14, 2022

/s/ Maneet Saroya Maneet Saroya	Chairman of the Board	February 14, 2022

/s/ Nicolas Stahl Nicolas Stahl	Director	February 14, 2022

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