As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2019

Registration No. 333-         

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

ZYNGA INC.

(Exact name of Zynga as specified in its charter)

 

699 Eighth Street

San Francisco, CA 94103

(855) 449-9642

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

 

2011 Equity Incentive Plan

2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

Gerard Griffin

Zynga Inc.

699 Eighth Street

San Francisco, CA 94103

(855) 449-9642

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

 

Copies to:

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, 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. ☐

 

 

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

 

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Zynga is filing this Registration Statement for the purpose of registering (i) an additional 34,444,440 shares of Class A Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the 2011 Plan and (ii) an additional 17,222,220 shares of Class A Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the 2011 ESPP. These shares being registered pursuant to this Registration Statement are the same class as other securities for which earlier registration statements relating to the 2011 Plan and the 2011 ESPP were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 15, 2011 (File No. 333-178529), August 17, 2012 (File No. 333-183406), May 2, 2013 (File No. 333-188282), November 7, 2014 (File No. 333-199959), August 7, 2015 (File No. 333-206185), May 6, 2016 (File No. 333-211201), May 5, 2017 (File No. 333-217752) and February 20, 2018 (File No. 333-223109) (collectively, the “Prior Registration Statements”). In accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements are incorporated herein by reference and made part of this Registration Statement, except as amended hereby.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

The following documents filed by Zynga with the SEC are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

In addition, all documents filed by Zynga pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Registration Statement, and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which de-registers 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 filing of such documents, except as to any portion of any future annual, quarterly or current report of Zynga or document that is not deemed filed under such provisions.  Unless expressly incorporated into this Registration Statement, a report (or portion thereof) “furnished” but not filed on Form 8-K shall not be 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.

 

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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 San Francisco, State of California, on February 27, 2019.

 

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Gerard Griffin and Phuong Y. Phillips, and each or any one of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her 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 or she 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 or her 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 and on the dates indicated.