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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. – ‘S-8’ on 8/11/22

On:  Thursday, 8/11/22, at 5:23pm ET   ·   Effective:  8/11/22   ·   Accession #:  1104659-22-89453   ·   File #:  333-266803

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 8/11/22  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.      S-8         8/11/22    5:83K                                    Toppan Merrill/FA

Registration Statement – Securities for an Employee Benefit Plan   —   Form S-8   —   SA’33

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: S-8         Registration Statement - Securities for an          HTML     51K 
                Employee Benefit Plan                                            
 2: EX-5.1      Opinion of Counsel re: Legality                     HTML      9K 
 3: EX-23.1     Consent of Expert or Counsel                        HTML      5K 
 4: EX-24.1     Power of Attorney                                   HTML     10K 
 5: EX-FILING FEES  Filing Fees                                     HTML     13K 


‘S-8’   —   Registration Statement – Securities for an Employee Benefit Plan


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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 11, 2022

 

Registration No. 333-_______

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Republic of Liberia   98-0081645
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

1050 Caribbean Way, Miami, Florida 33132
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD.
2008 Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

R. Alexander Lake

Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
1050 Caribbean Way
Miami, Florida 33132
(Name and address of agent for service)

 

(305) 539-6000
(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 x   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. ¨

 

 

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (the “Company”) has filed this registration statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) to register under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the offer and sale of 9,500,000 additional shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), under the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. 2008 Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The increase in shares reserved for issuance under the Plan was approved by the shareholders of the Company on June 2, 2022 and was effective as of such date.

 

Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Company’s prior registration statements on Form S-8 related to the Plan filed on February 4, 2009 (File no. 333-157097), October 27, 2010 (File No. 333-170170) and November 16, 2018 (File No. 333-228427) are incorporated herein by reference and made part of this Registration Statement, except as amended hereby, and this Registration Statement is only required to include those items specified by such instruction.

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

 

The contents of the following documents, which have previously been filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), are hereby incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference:

 

  a) Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Commission on March 1, 2022;  
     
  b)   Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2022, filed with the Commission on May 5, 2022;  

 

  c)   Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022, filed with the Commission on July 29, 2022;  

 

  d) The Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 4, 2022, January 4, 2022, January 7, 2022, February 11, 2022 (excluding the information disclosed pursuant to Item 7.01 and exhibit 99.1 thereto), June 3, 2022, August 1, 2022, August 2, 2022, and August 8, 2022;  

 

  e) The description of the Company’s Common Stock filed as Exhibit 4.10 to its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, filed with the Commission on February 26, 2021.  

 

Each document filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, after the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment hereto which indicates that all shares of Common Stock being offered pursuant to this Registration Statement have been sold or which deregisters all shares of Common Stock then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such document except that the portion of any document “furnished” but not “filed” shall not be incorporated by reference herein.

 

Any statement contained in a document, all or a portion of which is 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 other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such prior 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.

 

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Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

 

Certain legal matters with respect to the offering of the shares of Common Stock registered hereby have been passed upon by R. Alexander Lake, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of the Company.

 

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

The documents listed hereunder are filed or incorporated by reference as exhibits hereto.

 

Exhibit    
Number   Description of Document
4.1   Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended (composite) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3, File No. 333-158161, filed with the Commission on March 23, 2009).
4.2   Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 11, 2022).
5.1   Opinion of R. Alexander Lake, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of the Company.
23.1   Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2   Consent of R. Alexander Lake (included in Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement).
24.1   Power of Attorney.
99.1   2008 Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on June 3, 2022).  
107.1   Calculation of Filing Fee Table.

 

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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 the City of Miami, State of Florida, on August 11, 2022.

 

  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
   
   
  By: /s/ NAFTALI HOLTZ  
    Naftali Holtz
    Chief Financial Officer  

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and as of the dates indicated:

 

Signature   Title   Date
         
/s/ JASON T. LIBERTY   Director, President and Chief    
Jason T. Liberty     Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)   August 11, 2022
         
/s/ NAFTALI HOLTZ   Chief Financial Officer    
Naftali Holtz     (Principal Financial Officer)   August 11, 2022
         
/s/ HENRY L PUJOL   Senior Vice President and Chief    
Henry L. Pujol   Accounting Officer   August 11, 2022
    (Principal Accounting Officer)      
         
*        
Richard D. Fain   Chairman   August 11, 2022
*        
John F. Brock   Director   August 11, 2022
         
*        
Stephen R. Howe Jr.   Director   August 11, 2022
         
*        
William L. Kimsey   Director   August 11, 2022
*        
Michael O. Leavitt   Director   August 11, 2022
*        
Amy C. McPherson   Director   August 11, 2022
         
*        
Maritza G. Montiel   Director   August 11, 2022
         
*        
Ann S. Moore   Director   August 11, 2022
         
*        
Eyal M. Ofer   Director   August 11, 2022
         
*        
William K. Reilly   Director   August 11, 2022
         
*        
Vagn O. Sørensen   Director   August 11, 2022
         
*        
Donald Thompson   Director   August 11, 2022
         
*        
Arne Alexander Wilhelmsen   Director   August 11, 2022

 

* By:    
  /s/ NAFTALI HOLTZ  
  Name: Naftali Holtz  
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact  

 

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Dates Referenced Herein   and   Documents Incorporated by Reference

This ‘S-8’ Filing    Date    Other Filings
Filed on / Effective on:8/11/22
6/2/224,  8-K,  DEF 14A
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16 Previous Filings that this Filing References

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 8/08/22  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.      8-K:1,2,3,8 8/05/22   12:1.1M                                   Toppan Merrill/FA
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 1/04/22  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.      8-K:8,9     1/04/22   11:227K                                   Toppan Merrill/FA
 2/26/21  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.      10-K       12/31/20  153:57M
11/16/18  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.      S-8        11/16/18    4:152K                                   Toppan Merrill/FA
10/27/10  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.      S-8        10/27/10    4:132K
 3/23/09  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.      S-3ASR      3/23/09   10:1.1M                                   Bowne of Atlanta Inc./FA
 2/04/09  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.      S-8         2/04/09    4:107K
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