As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 31, 2018
Registration No. 333-                          
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
     Washington, D.C. 20549     
 

FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 

 
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Israel
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
Not applicable
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
5 Ha’solelim Street, Tel Aviv, Israel
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
6789705
(Zip Code)
 
Dome9 Security Ltd. 2011 Share Option Plan and the 2016 Equity Incentive Subplan
(Full title of the plan)
 

 
John Slavitt, Esq.
General Counsel
Check Point Software Technologies, Inc.
959 Skyway Road, Suite 300
San Carlos, CA 94070
(650) 628-2110
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copy to:
 
Rezwan D. Pavri, Esq.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
650 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 493-9300
Tuvia J. Geffen, Adv.
Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co.
5 Tuval Street
Tel Aviv 6789717, Israel
(+972) 3-623-5000
 
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
 
Ordinary shares, par value NIS 0.01 per share issuable under the Dome9 Security Ltd. 2011 Share Option Plan and the 2016 Equity Incentive Subplan
   
47,816
(3) 
 
$
14.57
   
$
696,679.12
   
$
84.44
 
 
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this registration statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) shall also cover any additional number of ordinary shares, par value NIS 0.01 per share, of  the registrant which become issuable under the Dome9 Security Ltd. 2011 Share Option Plan and the 2016 Equity Incentive Subplan (the “Plan”) by reason of any future share dividend, share split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without the registrant’s receipt of consideration that results in an increase in the number of outstanding ordinary shares.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act based upon the weighted average exercise price of options outstanding under the Plan.
(3)
Represents 47,816 ordinary shares subject to options outstanding under the Plan, which options were assumed by the registrant in connection with its acquisition of Dome9 Security Ltd. (“Dome9”). The number of ordinary shares subject to outstanding options under the Plan and registered hereunder and the applicable exercise prices have been calculated based on the purchase price for Dome9’s shares in the acquisition.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE
 
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is filed by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a company organized under the laws of Israel (the “Registrant”), in connection with its acquisition of Dome9 Security Ltd. (“Dome9” and the “Acquisition”, respectively). Upon the completion of the Acquisition, among other things, the Registrant assumed all outstanding unvested and unexercised options to purchase Dome9 ordinary shares granted under the Dome9 Security Ltd. 2011 Share Option Plan and the 2016 Equity Incentive Subplan (the “Plan”) and held by U.S. employees.  Pursuant to the terms of the Acquisition, the assumed options converted into options exercisable for Ordinary Shares, par value NIS 0.01 per share, of the Registrant (“Ordinary Shares”), subject to appropriate adjustments to the number of shares and the exercise price of such options.  This Registration Statement relates to 47,816 Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of such assumed options issued under the Plan.  The Registrant is filing this Registration Statement to register such shares under the Securities Act.
 
PART I
 
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
 
Information required by Part I of Form S-8 to be contained in the Section 10(a) Prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act, and the “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 plan by the Registration Statement as specified by Rules 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act.
 
PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
 
Item 3.          Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
 
The following documents and information previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by the Registrant are incorporated herein by reference into this Registration Statement:
 
·
the description of the Registrant’s Ordinary Shares contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-6412) filed with the Commission on February 7, 1997, under the Securities Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description;
 
·
the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, filed with the Commission on April 28, 2018; and
 
·
the Registrant’s Reports on Form 6-K filed with the Commission on April 25, 2018, July 9, 2018, July 18, 2018, July 25, 2018 (two reports), July 30, 2018, August 20, 2018 and October 24, 2018, except, in each case, to the extent that information therein is furnished to and not filed with the Commission.
 
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All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the “Exchange Act”) subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment indicating that all of the securities offered hereunder have been sold or deregistering all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part of this Registration Statement (in the case of any Report on Form 6-K, if and to the extent the Registrant identifies in the Report on Form 6-K that it is being incorporated by reference herein) from the date of filing of such documents.  Any statement contained in a document incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document that is also incorporated by reference herein 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 4.          Description of Securities.
 
Not applicable.
 
Item 5.          Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
 
None.
 
Item 6.          Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
 
The Registrant is an Israeli company.  The Registrant’s articles of association allow it to indemnify, exculpate and insure its directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted under Israel’s Companies Law, 5759-1999 (the “Israeli Companies Law”).
 
Under the Israeli Companies Law, the Registrant may indemnify a director or officer for any of the following liabilities or expenses that they may incur due to an act performed or failure to act in his or her capacity as the Registrant’s directors and officers:
 
·
Monetary liability imposed on the director or officer in favor of a third party in a judgment, including a settlement or an arbitral award confirmed by a court.
 
·
Reasonable legal costs, including attorneys’ fees, expended by a director or officer as a result of an investigation or proceeding instituted against the director or officer by a competent authority, provided that such investigation or proceeding concludes without the filing of an indictment against the director or officer, and either:
 
o
no financial liability was imposed on the director or officer in lieu of criminal proceedings, or
 
o
financial liability was imposed on the director or officer in lieu of criminal proceedings, but the alleged criminal offense does not require proof of criminal intent.
 
·
Reasonable legal costs, including attorneys’ fees, expended by the director or officer or for which the director or officer is charged by a court:
 
o
in an action brought against the director or officer by the Registrant, on the Registrant’s behalf or on behalf of a third party;
 
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o
in a criminal action in which the director or officer is found innocent; or
 
o
in a criminal action in which the director or officer is convicted, but in which proof of criminal intent is not required.
 
A company may indemnify a director or officer in respect of these liabilities either in advance of an event or following an event.  If a company undertakes to indemnify a director or officer in advance of an event, the indemnification, other than litigation expenses, must be limited to foreseeable events in light of the company’s actual activities when the company undertook such indemnification, and reasonable amounts or standards, as determined by the board of directors.
 
A company may obtain insurance for a director or officer against liabilities incurred in his or her capacity as a director or officer.  These liabilities include a breach of duty of care to the company or a third party including a breach arising out of negligent conduct of the director or officer, a breach of duty of loyalty and any monetary liability imposed on the director or officer in favor of a third party.  A company may also exculpate a director or officer from a breach of duty of care in advance of that breach.  The Registrant’s Articles of Association provide for exculpation both in advance or retroactively, to the extent permitted under Israeli law.  A company may not exculpate a director or officer from a breach of duty of loyalty towards the company or from a breach of duty of care concerning dividend distribution or a purchase of the company’s shares by the company or other entities controlled by the company.
 
Under the Israeli Companies Law, a company may indemnify or insure a director or officer against a breach of duty of loyalty only to the extent that the director or officer acted in good faith and had reasonable grounds to assume that the action would not prejudice the company.  In addition, a company may not indemnify, insure or exculpate a director or officer against a breach of duty of care if committed intentionally or recklessly (excluding mere negligence), or committed with the intent to derive an unlawful personal gain, or for a fine or forfeit levied against the director or officer in connection with a criminal offense.
 
The Registrant has resolved to indemnify our directors and officers, to the extent permitted by law and by its Articles of Association, for liabilities not covered by insurance, that are of certain enumerated types of events, and subject to limitations as to amount.
 
The Registrant has also entered into indemnification, insurance and exculpation agreements with its directors and officers undertaking to indemnify, insure and exculpate them to the full extent permitted by the Israeli Companies Law.
 
Item 7.          Exemption from Registration Claimed.
 
Not applicable.
 
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Item 8.          Exhibits.
 
Exhibit
No.
 
Description
 
4.1
Articles of Association of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (incorporated by referenced to Exhibit 1 of Check Point’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2005).
 
4.2
Dome9 Security Ltd. 2011 Share Option Plan and the 2016 Equity Incentive Subplan.
 
5.1
Opinion of Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co., Advocates.
 
23.1
Consent of Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co., Advocates (included in Exhibit 5.1).
 
23.2
Consent of Kost, Forer, Gabbay & Kasierer, a Member of Ernst & Young Global.
 
24.1
Power of Attorney (on signature page).
 
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 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 periodic 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 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.
 
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(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 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 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, 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 October 31, 2018.
 
  Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.  
       
By:
/s/ Gil Shwed  
    Gil Shwed  
    Chief Executive Officer  
       
 
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints GIL SHWED, TAL PAYNE and JOHN SLAVITT, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person’s name, place and stead, and in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement (including post-effective amendments), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, 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 said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, or their, his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
 
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/ Gil Shwed
  
Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
 
 
October 31, 2018
Gil Shwed
         
/s/ Tal Payne
  
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
 
 
October 31, 2018
Tal Payne
     
/s/ Marius Nacht
  
Chairman of the Board

 
October 31, 2018
Marius Nacht
     
/s/ Jerry Ungerman
  
Director
 
October 31, 2018
Jerry Ungerman
       
         
/s/ Yoav Chelouche
  
Director
 
October 31, 2018
Yoav Chelouche
       
     
/s/ Irwin Federman
  
Director
 
October 31, 2018
Irwin Federman
       
         
/s/ Guy Gecht  
Director
 
October 31, 2018
Guy Gecht
       
         
/s/ Dan Propper  
Director
 
October 31, 2018
Dan Propper
       
         
/s/ Ray Rothrock  
Director
 
October 31, 2018
Ray Rothrock
       
         
/s/ David Rubner  
Director
 
October 31, 2018
David Rubner        

/s/ Tal Shavit  
Director
 
October 31, 2018
Tal Shavit        
         
/s/ John Slavitt  
Authorized Representative in the United States
 
October 31, 2018
John Slavitt, on behalf of Check Point Software Technologies, Inc.
       

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
 
Exhibit
No.
 
Description
 
4.1
 
4.2
 
5.1
 
23.1
 
23.2
 
24.1
 
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