S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 10, 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

 

 

TaskUs, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   83-1586636

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

1650 Independence Drive, Suite 100

New Braunfels, Texas 78132

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

TaskUs, Inc. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan

Amended and Restated 2019 TaskUs, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plans)

Jeffrey Chugg

Vice President, Legal

TaskUs, Inc.

1650 Independence Drive, Suite 100

New Braunfels, Texas 78132

(888) 400-8275

Telephone: (888) 400-8275

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

With copies to:

Joshua Ford Bonnie

Edgar J. Lewandowski

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

425 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10017

(212) 455-2000

 

 

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(1)
 

Amount

to be

registered

 

Proposed

maximum

offering price

per share(4)

 

Proposed

maximum

aggregate

offering price(4)

 

Amount of

registration fee

Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share(2)

  18,775,051   $24.00   $450,601,224.00   $49,161

Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share(3)

  7,597,730   $5.17   $39,280,264.10   $4,286

 

 

(1)

The securities to be registered include shares of Class A common stock of TaskUs, Inc., par value $0.01 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), issuable under TaskUs, Inc. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Omnibus Incentive Plan”) and the Amended and Restated 2019 TaskUs, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan (the “2019 Stock Incentive Plan”). Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of additional shares of Class A common stock that may be offered and issued under the Omnibus Incentive Plan and the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock distributions or similar transactions.

(2)

Covers 18,775,051 shares of Class A Common Stock approved for issuance under the Omnibus Incentive Plan.

(3)

Covers 7,597,730 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon settlement of outstanding stock options granted pursuant to the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan.

(4)

Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act. The fee is based (1) with respect to the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon settlement of outstanding options granted pursuant to the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan, on the weighted average per share exercise price of $5.17 and (2) with respect to the remaining shares, on a price of $24.00 per share of Class A common stock, which is the high-point of the estimated price range per share of Class A Common Stock for the Registrant’s initial public offering of Class A Common Stock pursuant to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-255190).

 

 

 


PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the introductory 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 Omnibus Incentive Plan and the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan covered by this Registration Statement as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. Such documents are not required to be, and are not, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) either as part of this Registration Statement or as a prospectus or prospectus supplement pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Commission by TaskUs, Inc. (the “Registrant”) pursuant to the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

(a) The Registrant’s Prospectus related to the offering of Class A Common Stock to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act, relating to the Form S-1 (File No. 333-255190); and

(b) The Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, relating to the Registrant’s Class A Common Stock, including all other amendments and reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents that the Registrant subsequently files pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Registration Statement (except for any information deemed furnished to, rather than filed with, the Commission) and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Any statement contained in a document 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 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.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

Not applicable.


Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL, allows a corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation will not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except where the director breached the duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or knowingly violated a law, authorized the payment of a dividend or approved a stock redemption or repurchase in violation of Delaware corporate law or obtained an improper personal benefit. The Registrant’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation will provide for this exculpation against liability for breach of fiduciary duty to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Section 145 of the DGCL, or Section 145, provides, among other things, that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any person who was, is or is threatened to be made, 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 such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was an officer, director, employee or agent of such corporation or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful. Section 145 also provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who were or are 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 another corporation or enterprise or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests, provided further that no indemnification is permitted without judicial approval if the officer, director, employee or agent is adjudged to be liable to the corporation. Section 145 further provides that, where directors and specified officers are successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify them against the expenses they have actually and reasonably incurred.

Section 145 provides that expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by a current officer or director of the corporation in defending against any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of the action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking if it shall ultimately be determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized under Section 145. Such expenses incurred by a former officer or director or other employees and agents of the corporation or by persons serving at the request of the corporation in specified capacities for other enterprises may be paid upon terms and conditions as the corporation deems appropriate.

Section 145 further authorizes a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who 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 or enterprise, against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the corporation would otherwise have the power to indemnify him or her under Section 145.

The Registrant’s amended and restated bylaws will provide that the Registrant must indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL (subject to certain limited circumstances) and must also pay expenses incurred by them in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition upon delivery of an undertaking, by or on behalf of an indemnified person, to repay all amounts so advanced if it should be determined ultimately that such person is not entitled to be indemnified under the Registrant’s amended and restated bylaws or otherwise.

The rights to indemnification and advancement set forth above shall not be exclusive of any other right which an indemnified person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Registrant’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation, the Registrant’s amended and restated bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.


The Registrant expects to maintain standard policies of insurance that provide coverage (1) to its directors and officers against loss arising from claims made by reason of breach of duty or other wrongful act and (2) to the Registrant with respect to indemnification payments that it may make to such directors and officers.

The Registrant is currently party to or intends to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors and executive officers. These agreements require or will require the Registrant to indemnify these individuals to the fullest extent permitted under Delaware law against liabilities that may arise by reason of their service to the Registrant, and to advance expenses incurred as a result of any proceeding against them as to which they could be indemnified. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors or executive officers, the Registrant has been informed that, in the opinion of the Commission, such indemnification is against public policy and is therefore unenforceable.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed as part of this Registration Statement:

 

Exhibit
Number
  

Description of Document

4.1    Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of TaskUs, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Amendment No.  1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-255190) filed with the Commission on May 6, 2021).
4.2    Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of TaskUs, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to Amendment No.  1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-255190 filed with the Commission on May 6, 2021).
4.3    Form of 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Amendment No.  1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-255190) filed with the Commission on May 6, 2021).
4.4    Form of Amended and Restated 2019 TaskUs, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to Amendment No.  1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-255190) filed with the Commission on May 6, 2021).
5.1*    Opinion of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
23.1*    Consent of KPMG LLP.
23.3*    Consent of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (included as part of Exhibit 5.1).
24.1*    Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages to this Registration Statement).

 

*

Filed herewith


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 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; 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) above 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 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.

(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 of 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, 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 Braunfels, State of Texas, on the 10th day of June, 2021.

 

TASKUS, INC.

By:   /s/ Bryce Maddock
 

Name: Bryce Maddock

 

Title: Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Bryce Maddock, Jaspar Weir and Balaji Sekar, and each of them, any of whom may act without joinder of the other, the individual’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this Registration Statement and any or all amendments, including post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, including a prospectus or an amended prospectus therein and any Registration Statement for the same offering that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462 under the Securities Act, and all other documents in connection therewith to be filed 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 and about the premises, 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 as agents or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, 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 on the 10th day of June, 2021.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Bryce Maddock

Bryce Maddock

  

Chief Executive Officer and Director

(principal executive officer)

/s/ Jaspar Weir

Jaspar Weir

   President and Director

/s/ Amit Dixit

Amit Dixit

   Director

/s/ Susir Kumar

Susir Kumar

   Director

/s/ Mukesh Mehta

Mukesh Mehta

   Director

/s/ Jacqueline Reses

Jacqueline Reses

   Director


Signature

  

Title

/s/ Balaji Sekar

Balaji Sekar

  

Chief Financial Officer

(principal financial officer)

/s/ Steven Amaya

Steven Amaya

  

Vice President—Finance

(principal accounting officer)

EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

425 LEXINGTON AVENUE

NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954

 

 

TELEPHONE: +1-212-455-2000

FACSIMILE: +1-212-455-2502

 

Direct Dial Number

      E-mail Address

+1-212-455-7614

      elewandowski@stblaw.com

June 10, 2021            

TaskUs, Inc.

1650 Independence Drive, Suite 100

New Braunfels, Texas 78132

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to TaskUs, Inc. (formerly known as TU TopCo, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to the issuance by the Company of an aggregate of up to 26,372,781 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”), consisting of (1) up to 18,775,051 shares of Common Stock (the “2021 Plan Shares”) that may be issued by the Company pursuant to the TaskUs, Inc. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”) and (2) up to 7,597,730 shares of Common Stock (the “2019 Plan Shares” and, together with the 2021 Plan Shares, the “Shares”) that may be issued by the Company upon settlement of outstanding stock appreciation rights granted pursuant to the Amended and Restated 2019 TaskUs, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan” and, together with the 2021 Plan, the “Plans”).


TaskUs, Inc.    - 2 -    June 10, 2021

 

We have examined the Registration Statement, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (the “Amended Certificate”) and the Plans, each of which have been filed with the Commission as exhibits to the Registration Statement. In addition, we have examined, and have relied as to matters of fact upon, originals, or duplicates or certified or conformed copies, of such records, agreements, documents and other instruments and such certificates or comparable documents of public officials and of officers and representatives of the Company and have made such other investigations as we have deemed relevant and necessary in connection with the opinions hereinafter set forth.

In rendering the opinion set forth below, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as duplicates or certified or conformed copies and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents. We have also assumed that the Amended Certificate is filed with the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware in the form filed with the Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement prior to the issuance of any of the Shares.

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications, assumptions and limitations stated herein, we are of the opinion that upon issuance and delivery in accordance with the applicable Plan, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

We do not express any opinion herein concerning any law other than the Delaware General Corporation Law.


TaskUs, Inc.    - 3 -    June 10, 2021

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement.

 

Very truly yours,

/s/ Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the use of our report dated March 23, 2021, except as to note 2(w), which is as of May 6, 2021, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of TaskUs, Inc. (formerly known as TU Topco, Inc.), incorporated herein by reference.

                                                                                  /s/ KPMG LLP

Los Angeles, California

June 10, 2021