S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 26, 2021

Registration No. 333-                    

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

Registration Statement

under

the Securities Act of 1933

STERICYCLE, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	36-3640402
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

2355 Waukegan Road,

Bannockburn, Illinois 60015

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Stericycle, Inc. 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Kurt M. Rogers

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Stericycle, Inc.

2355 Waukegan Road, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015

(Name and address of agent for service)

(847) 367-5910

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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.  ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of securities to be registered	Amount to be registered (1)	Proposed maximum offering price per share (2)	Proposed maximum aggregate offering price (2)	Amount of registration fee (2)
Common stock, par value $0.01 per share	2,500,000	$77.64	$194,100,000	$21,176.31

(1) The aggregate number of shares to be registered is subject to adjustment by reason of stock splits, stock dividends and other events pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of the Stericycle, Inc. 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan. Accordingly, pursuant to Rule 416, this registration statement covers, in addition to the number of shares of common stock shown in the table above, an indeterminate number of shares of the registrant’s common stock that may become issuable by reason of such provisions.

(2) Computed pursuant to Rule 457(c), in accordance with Rule 457(h)(1), on the basis of the average of the high and low reported sales price on May 19, 2021 of a share of the registrant’s common stock on The Nasdaq Global Select Market.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

On May 26, 2021 (the “Effective Date”), the stockholders of Stericycle, Inc. (the “Company”) approved the Company’s 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”). As provided in the 2021 Plan, 2,500,000 new shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, are available for issuance under the 2021 Plan. The purpose of this registration statement is to register the 2,500,000 shares being registered for the first time pursuant to the 2021 Plan.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE

SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I will be sent or given to employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Such documents are not being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) either as part of this registration statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act. Such documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this registration statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

PART II

Information Required in the Registration Statement

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The registrant incorporates by reference in this registration statement the following documents that the registrant has filed with the Commission:

(a) the registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, filed with the Commission on February 25, 2021;

(b) those portions of the registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for our 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, filed with the Commission on April 14, 2021, that were specifically incorporated by reference into our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December  31, 2020;

(c) the registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2021, filed with the Commission on April 29, 2021; and

(d) the description of the registrant’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, contained in the registration statement on Form 8-A that the registrant filed on August 21, 1996, together with any amendment or report that the registrant may file for the purpose of updating this description.

All documents that the registrant files with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), after the filing of this registration statement but prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which (i) indicates that all of

the shares of the registrant’s common stock covered by this registration statement have been sold, or which (ii) deregisters all of the shares then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in and to be part of this registration statement from the respective dates of filing.

Any statement in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement in this registration statement, or in any document filed after the filing of this registration statement which is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement, modifies or supersedes the earlier statement. The earlier statement shall be deemed to be incorporated in this registration statement only as so modified or superseded.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

Not Applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not Applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

As permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), the registrant’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”) provide that (i) the registrant is required to indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL (provided, however, that the registrant is required to provide indemnification with respect to a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by one of such persons only if the proceeding (or part thereof) is authorized by the registrant’s board of directors), (ii) the registrant may, in its discretion, indemnify other persons as set forth in the DGCL, (iii) to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, the registrant is required to advance all expenses incurred by its directors and officers in connection with a legal proceeding (subject to certain exceptions) and (iv) the rights conferred in the Bylaws are not exclusive.

The registrant has entered into agreements with its directors and executive officers that require the registrant to indemnify such persons against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts that such person becomes legally obligated to pay (including expenses of a derivative action) in connection with any proceeding, whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made a party by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the registrant or any of its subsidiaries, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the registrant. The indemnification agreements also set forth certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder.

By reason of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that the registrant maintains, the registrant’s directors and officers are insured against actual liabilities, including liabilities under the federal securities laws, for acts or omissions related to the conduct of their duties.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not Applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

Exhibit Number	Description of Exhibit
4.1	Amended and restated certificate of incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant’s registration statement on Form S-1 declared effective on August 22, 1996)
4.2	First certificate of amendment to amended and restated certificate of incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed November 29, 1999)
4.3	Second certificate of amendment to amended and restated certificate of incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the registrant’s annual report on Form 10-K for 2002)
4.4	Third certificate of amendment to amended and restated certificate of incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the registrant’s registration statement on Form S-4 declared effective on October 10, 2007)
4.5	Fourth certificate of amendment to amended and restated certificate of incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i).1 to the registrant’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed August 7, 2014)
4.6	Amended and restated bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(ii).1 to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed June 1, 2016)
4.7	Description of the registrant’s common stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to the registrant’s annual report on Form 10-K for 2020)
4.8	Stericycle, Inc. 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Appendix B to the registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed April 14, 2021)
5.1	Opinion of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
23.1	Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
23.2	Consent of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1	Power of attorney (included under the caption “Power of Attorney” on the signature page to this registration statement)

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;

(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. 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 a 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 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 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, each 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 that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, 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 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.

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 Bannockburn, State of Illinois, on May 26, 2021.

Stericycle, Inc.
By:	/s/ Janet H. Zelenka
Janet H. Zelenka
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Information Officer

Power of Attorney

Each person whose signature appears below who is then an officer or director of the registrant authorizes Cindy J. Miller, Janet H. Zelenka and Kurt M. Rogers, or any one of them, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign in his or her name and to file any amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement and all related documents necessary or advisable to enable the registrant to comply with the Securities Act in connection with the registration of the securities which are the subject of this registration statement, which amendments may make such changes in this registration statement (as it may be so amended) as Cindy J. Miller, Janet H. Zelenka and Kurt M. Rogers, or any one of them, may deem appropriate, and to do and perform all other related acts and things necessary to be done.

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/ Cindy J. Miller	Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)	May 26, 2021
Cindy J. Miller
/s/ Janet H. Zelenka	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief	May 26, 2021
Janet H. Zelenka	Information Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Richard J. Hoffman	Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)	May 26, 2021
Richard J. Hoffman
/s/ Robert S. Murley	Chairman of the	May 26, 2021
Robert S. Murley	Board of Directors
/s/ Brian P. Anderson
Brian P. Anderson	Director	May 26, 2021

/s/ Lynn D. Bleil
Lynn D. Bleil	Director	May 26, 2021
/s/ Thomas F. Chen
Thomas F. Chen	Director	May 26, 2021
/s/ J. Joel Hackney Jr.
J. Joel Hackney Jr.	Director	May 26, 2021
/s/ Veronica M. Hagen
Veronica M. Hagen	Director	May 26, 2021
/s/ Stephen C. Hooley
Stephen C. Hooley	Director	May 26, 2021
/s/ James J. Martell
James J. Martell	Director	May 26, 2021
/s/ Kay G. Priestly
Kay G. Priestly	Director	May 26, 2021
/s/ James L. Welch
James L. Welch	Director	May 26, 2021
/s/ Mike S. Zafirovski
Mike S. Zafirovski	Director	May 26, 2021

EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath

LLP

2200 Wells Fargo Center

90 South Seventh Street

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

+1 612 766 7000 main

+1 612 766 1600 fax

May 26, 2021

Board of Directors

Stericycle, Inc.

2355 Waukegan Road

Bannockburn, Illinois 60015

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to Stericycle, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), registering the offer and sale of up to 2,500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”), issuable by the Company pursuant to the Stericycle, Inc. 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

For purposes of this opinion letter, we have examined the Plan, the Registration Statement, the amended and restated certificate of incorporation of the Company, as currently in effect, the amended and restated bylaws of the Company, as currently in effect, and the resolutions of the Company’s board of directors authorizing the issuance of the Shares. We have also examined a certificate of the Secretary of the Company dated the date hereof (the “Certificate”) and originals, or copies certified or otherwise authenticated to our satisfaction, of such corporate records and other records, agreements, instruments, certificates of public officials and documents as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the opinions hereinafter expressed and have reviewed such matters of law as we have deemed relevant hereto. As to facts material to this opinion letter, we have relied upon certificates, statements or representations of public officials, of officers and representatives of the Company (including the Certificate) and of others, without any independent verification thereof.

In our examination, we have assumed: (i) the legal capacity of all natural persons; (ii) the genuineness of all signatures; (iii) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals; (iv) the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified, conformed, photostatic or facsimile copies; (v) the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents; (vi) the truth, accuracy and completeness of the information, representations and warranties contained in the agreements, documents, instruments, certificates and records we have reviewed; and (vii) the absence of any undisclosed modifications to the agreements and instruments reviewed by us.

Based upon such examination and review, and subject to the foregoing and the other qualifications, assumptions and limitations set forth herein, it is our opinion that all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company has been taken to authorize the issuance and sale of the Shares to be issued in accordance with the Plan and that, when issued and sold as contemplated in the Registration Statement and in accordance with the Plan and any applicable award agreement and, where applicable, the consideration for the Shares specified in the Plan and any applicable award agreement has been received by the Company, the Shares will be legally and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

The foregoing opinions are limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law and speak only as of the date the Registration Statement becomes effective under the Act, and we assume no obligation to revise or supplement this opinion thereafter. This opinion is limited to the specific issues addressed herein, and no opinion may be inferred or implied beyond that expressly stated herein.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

Very truly yours,
FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP
By:	/s/ W. Morgan Burns
	W. Morgan Burns
	Partner

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the Stericycle, Inc. 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan of our reports dated February 25, 2021, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and schedule of Stericycle, Inc. and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Stericycle, Inc. included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2020, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Chicago, Illinois

May 26, 2021