Registration No. 333-
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 8, 2025
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
RPM INTERNATIONAL INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
| Delaware | 02-0642224 | |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
2628 Pearl Road
Medina, Ohio 44256
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)
RPM International Inc. 2024 Omnibus Equity and Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
| Tracy D. Crandall, Esq. | Copy to: | |
| Vice President, General Counsel, | Arthur C. Hall III, Esq. | |
| Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary | Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP | |
| 2628 Pearl Road | 1405 East Sixth Street | |
| Medina, Ohio 44256 | Cleveland, Ohio 44114-2688 | |
| Tel.: (330) 273-5090 | Tel: (216) 622-8200 | |
| (Name, address and 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 | ☒ | Accelerated filer | ☐ | |||
| Non-accelerated filer | ☐ (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) | 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.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by RPM International Inc. (the “Company”) and relates to 5,000,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), issuable under the RPM International Inc. 2024 Omnibus Equity and Incentive Plan. The Company’s stockholders approved the RPM International Inc. 2024 Omnibus Equity and Incentive Plan at the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders on October 3, 2024.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I will be sent or given to participants of the RPM International Inc. 2024 Omnibus Equity and Incentive Plan covered by this Registration Statement as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. In accordance with the Note under Part I of Form S-8, such documents will not be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement, taken together, constitute the prospectus required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
| Item 3. | Incorporation of Documents by Reference. |
The following documents of the Company, previously filed with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference:
| (a) | The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2024; |
| (b) | The Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended August 31, 2024, November 30, 2024 and February 28, 2025; |
| (c) | The Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on July 25, 2024, September 30, 2024, October 9, 2024, January 17, 2025 and April 3, 2025; and |
| (d) |
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (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 documents, other than the portions of such documents that by statute, by designation in such documents or otherwise, are not deemed to be filed with the Commission or are not required to be incorporated herein by reference.
Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded, for purposes of this Registration Statement, to the extent that a statement contained in this Registration Statement, or in any other subsequently filed document that also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, 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. |
A description of the Common Stock is incorporated herein by reference. See Item 3.
| Item 5. | Interests of Named Experts and Counsel. |
Not applicable.
| Item 6. | Indemnification of Directors and Officers. |
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) sets forth the conditions and limitations governing the indemnification of officers, directors and other persons. Section 145 provides that a corporation shall have the power to indemnify 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 was serving at the request of the corporation in a similar capacity with another corporation or other entity, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement incurred in connection therewith if the person acted in good faith and in a manner that the person reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the corporation. With respect to a suit by or in the right of the corporation, indemnity may be provided to the foregoing persons under Section 145 on a basis similar to that set forth above, except that no indemnity may be provided in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person has been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and to the extent that the Delaware Court of Chancery or the court in which such action, suit or proceeding was brought determines that despite the adjudication of liability, but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the court deems proper. Moreover, Section 145 provides for mandatory indemnification of a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation to the extent that such person has been successful in defense of any such action, suit or proceeding and provides that a corporation may pay the expenses of an officer or director in defending an action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking to repay such amounts if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified. Section 145 establishes provisions for determining that a given person is entitled to indemnification, and also provides that the indemnification provided by or granted under Section 145 is not exclusive of any rights to indemnity or advancement of expenses to which such person may be entitled under any by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL permits corporations to eliminate or limit the personal liability of a director to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of the director’s duty of care. Specifically, this section provides that a director of a corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Accordingly, Article VIII of the Registrant’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) provides that to the full extent permitted by the DGCL, no director of the Registrant will be personally liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for or with respect to any acts or omissions in the performance of his or her duties as a director of the Registrant.
Article IX of the Certificate of Incorporation provides in part that the Registrant shall indemnify any director or officer who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or is involved in, any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Registrant, or is or was serving at the request of the Registrant, as a director, officer, employee or agent of certain other entities, against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding.
Both the DGCL and Article IX of the Certificate of Incorporation provide that the Registrant may maintain insurance to cover losses incurred pursuant to liability of directors and officers of the Registrant. The Registrant has purchased a Directors and Officers Liability Insurance Policy, which insures the directors and officers against certain liabilities that might arise in connection with their respective positions with the Registrant.
The Registrant has entered into Indemnification Agreements with each of its directors and officers providing for additional indemnification protection beyond that provided by the Directors and Officers Liability Insurance Policy. In the Indemnification Agreements, the Registrant has agreed, subject to certain exceptions, to indemnify and hold harmless the director or officer to the maximum extent then authorized or permitted by the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, the DGCL, or by any amendment(s) thereto.
| Item 7. | Exemption from Registration Claimed. |
Not applicable.
| Item 8. | Exhibits. |
| Item 9. | Undertakings. |
(a) The Company 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 this 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;
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this 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 reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Company pursuant to Sections 13 or 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 Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Company’s annual report pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 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 this 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 Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company 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 Company of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company 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 Company 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.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, 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 Medina, State of Ohio, on this 8th day of April, 2025.
| RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Frank C. Sullivan | |
| Frank C. Sullivan | ||
| Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below, hereby constitutes and appoints Frank C. Sullivan, Russell L. Gordon, and Tracy D. Crandall, or any one of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him or her in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments or post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto such attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary in connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents or his or her substitute or substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on this 8th day of April, 2025.
| Signature |
Title | |
| /s/ Frank C. Sullivan |
Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director | |
| Frank C. Sullivan | (Principal Executive Officer) | |
| /s/ Russell L. Gordon |
Vice President and Chief Financial | |
| Russell L. Gordon | Officer (Principal Financial Officer) | |
| /s/ Michael J. Laroche |
Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer | |
| Michael J. Laroche | (Principal Accounting Officer) | |
| /s/ Julie A. Beck |
Director | |
| Julie A. Beck | ||
| /s/ Bruce A. Carbonari |
Director | |
| Bruce A. Carbonari | ||
| /s/ Jenniffer D. Deckard |
Director | |
| Jenniffer D. Deckard | ||
| /s/ Salvatore D. Fazzolari |
Director | |
| Salvatore D. Fazzolari | ||
| /s/ Robert A. Livingston |
Director | |
| Robert A. Livingston | ||
| /s/ Christopher L. Mapes |
Director | |
| Christopher L. Mapes | ||
| /s/ Craig S. Morford |
Director | |
| Craig S. Morford | ||
| /s/ Frederick R. Nance |
Director | |
| Frederick R. Nance | ||
| /s/ Ellen M. Pawlikowski |
Director | |
| Ellen M. Pawlikowski
/s/ William B. Summers, Jr. |
Director | |
| William B. Summers, Jr.
/s/ Elizabeth F. Whited |
Director | |
| Elizabeth F. Whited | ||