Securities Registration: Employee Benefit Plan (s-8)
07 Février 2023 - 11:08PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 7, 2023
Registration
No. 333-
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
UNDER
THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CREATD,
INC.
(Exact
name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada |
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87-0645394 |
(State
or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization) |
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(I.R.S.
Employer
Identification Number) |
419
Lafayette Street
6th
Floor
New
York, NY 10003
(Address,
including zip code, of Registrant’s principal executive office)
Creatd,
Inc. 2022 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
(Full
title of the plan)
Jeremy
Frommer
Chief
Executive Officer
419
Lafayette Street, 6th Floor
New
York, NY 10003
(201)
258-3770
(Name,
address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies
to:
Joseph
M. Lucosky, Esq.
Scott
E. Linsky, Esq.
Lucosky
Brookman LLP
101
Wood Avenue South, 5th Floor
Woodbridge,
New Jersey 08830
Tel.
No.: (732) 395-4400
Fax
No.: (732) 395-4401
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 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 |
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Accelerated
filer |
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Non-accelerated
filer |
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Smaller
reporting company |
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Emerging
growth company |
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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. ☐
EXPLANATORY
NOTE
The
Registrant has prepared this registration statement (this “Registration Statement”) in accordance with the requirement of
Form S-8 under the Securities Act, to register 30,000,000 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the Creatd, Inc. 2022 Omnibus
Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The 2022 Plan has been previously approved by the Registrant’s stockholders.
PART
I
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS
The
information required by Part I is omitted from this Registration Statement and included in documents sent or given to participants in
the plans covered by this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
PART
II
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM
3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
The
following documents have been filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the Commission, and are incorporated herein
by reference:
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our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, which was filed with the SEC on April 6, 2022; |
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our
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2022, June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022, which were filed with
the SEC on May 16, 2022, August 15, 2022 and November 16, 2022, respectively; |
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our
Current Reports on Form 8-K (excluding any information and exhibits furnished under either Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 thereof), filed
with the SEC on April 7, 2022, April 28, 2022, May 13, 2022, May 17, 2022, June 1, 2022, June 7, 2022, July 26, 2022, July 29, 2022,
August 31, 2022, September 6, 2022, September 9, 2022, September 19, 2022, September 26, 2022, September 30, 2022, October 25, 2022,
November 7, 2022, November 18, 2022, December 6, 2022 and January 20, 2023; and |
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the
description of our common stock set forth in the registration statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on September 9, 2020, including any amendments or reports filed for the purposes of updating this description. |
All
reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration
statement and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such reports and documents; provided, however, that documents, reports
and definitive proxy or information statements, or portions thereof, which are furnished and not filed in accordance with the rules of
the Commission shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this registration statement. Any statement contained in a document
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 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
Not
applicable.
ITEM
6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
Nevada
Law
We
are incorporated in Nevada. Section 78.7502(1) of the Nevada Revised Statutes, or NRS, provides that a corporation may indemnify, pursuant
to that statutory provision, any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a 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 the
corporation) by reason of the fact that the person 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, partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually
and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he or she is not liable pursuant to NRS 78.138
or if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests
of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was
unlawful. NRS 78.138(7) provides that, subject to limited statutory exceptions and unless the articles of incorporation or an amendment
thereto (in each case filed on or after October 1, 2003) provide for greater individual liability, a director or officer is not individually
liable to the corporation or its stockholders or creditors for any damages as a result of any act or failure to act in his or her capacity
as a director or officer unless the presumption established by NRS 78.138(3) has been rebutted and it is proven that (i) his or her act
or failure to act constituted a breach of his or her fiduciary duties as a director or officer, and (ii) such breach involved intentional
misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of the law.
NRS
78.7502(2) permits a corporation to indemnify, pursuant to that statutory provision, any person who was or is a party or is threatened
to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment
in its favor by reason of the fact that such person 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, partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise against expenses, including amounts paid in settlement and attorneys’ fees actually and reasonably incurred
by him or her in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he or she is not liable pursuant to NRS 78.138 or
if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
the corporation, except that no indemnification pursuant to NRS 78.7502 may be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which
such person shall have been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction, after any appeals taken therefrom, to be liable to the corporation
or for amounts paid in settlement to the corporation, unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action or suit was brought
or other court of competent jurisdiction determines upon application that in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is
fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the court deems proper. NRS 78.751(1) provides that a corporation shall
indemnify any person who is a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, against expenses actually and reasonably incurred
by the person in connection with defending an action (including, without limitation, attorney’s fees), to the extent that the person
is successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative or investigative, including, without limitation, an action by or in the right of the corporation, by reason
of the fact that the person 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, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise,
or any claim, issue or matter in such action.
NRS
78.751(3) provides that the indemnification pursuant to NRS 78.7502 does not exclude any other rights to which a person seeking indemnification
may be entitled, except that indemnification may not be made to or on behalf of any director or officer finally adjudged by a court of
competent jurisdiction, after exhaustion of any appeals taken therefrom, to be liable for intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing
violation of the law and such intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of the law was material to the cause of action and
that the indemnification shall continue as to directors, officers, employees or agents who have ceased to hold such positions, and to
their heirs, executors and administrators. NRS 78.752 permits a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of a director,
officer, employee or agent of the corporation against any liability asserted against him or her or incurred by him or her in any such
capacity or arising out of his or her status as such whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify him or her against
such liabilities.
Bylaws
Our
bylaws include express provisions providing for the indemnification of our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted under
the NRS, and the mandatory payment by us of expenses incurred by such persons in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding
in advance of the final disposition of the action, suit or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director
or officer to repay the amount if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by us. Our bylaws also
permit us to purchase and maintain insurance or make other financial arrangements on behalf of any such person for certain liability
and expenses, whether or not we have the authority to indemnify such person against such liability and expenses.
ITEM
7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
Not
applicable.
ITEM
8. EXHIBITS
ITEM
9. UNDERTAKINGS
1.
The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(a)
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 of 1933;
(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 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 the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;
Provided,
however, that paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference herein.
(b)
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment 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)
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.
(d)
That, for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution
of the securities, the undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant
to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities
are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to
the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:
(i)
Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule
424;
(ii)
Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant or used or
referred to by the undersigned Registrant;
(iii)
The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant
or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and
(iv)
Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.
2.
The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing
of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934) that is incorporated by reference in the 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.
3.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 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 Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 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 of 1933 and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 New York, NY, on February 7, 2023.
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Creatd,
Inc. |
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Date:
February 7, 2023 |
By: |
/s/
Jeremy Frommer |
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Jeremy
Frommer |
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Chief
Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board of Directors
(Principal Executive Officer) |
POWER
OF ATTORNEY
KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Jeremy Frommer, his true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and
all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the
same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto
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 in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he 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 substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in
the capacities indicated:
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Date |
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/s/
Jeremy Frommer |
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Chief
Executive Officer and Chairman
of the Board of Directors |
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February
7, 2023 |
Jeremy
Frommer |
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(Principal
Executive Officer) |
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/s/
Chelsea Pullano |
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Chief
Financial Officer |
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February
7, 2023 |
Chelsea
Pullano |
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(Principal
Accounting Officer and Principal
Financial Officer) |
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/s/
Justin Maury |
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Chief
Operating Officer and Director |
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February
7, 2023 |
Justin
Maury |
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/s/
Peter Majar |
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Director |
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February
7, 2023 |
Peter
Majar |
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/s/
Erica Wagner |
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Director |
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February
7, 2023 |
Erica
Wagner |
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