SEC Form S-8 POS filed by Lam Research Corporation

Registration No. 333-207844

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 6, 2025

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

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Delaware		94-2634797
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 2025 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 2015 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

(Full title of the plans)

Ava A. Harter

Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer

Lam Research Corporation

4650 Cushing Parkway

Fremont, California 94538

(Name and address of agent for service)

(510) 572-0200

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

Jeremy Cleveland

Jones Day

1755 Embarcadero Road

Palo Alto, CA 94303

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.

 

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

 

Lam Research Corporation (the “Registrant”) previously filed its Registration Statement on Form S-8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or “Commission”) on November 6, 2015 (Commission File No.333-207844) (the “Prior Registration Statement”) to register the offer of 18,000,000 new shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Registrant (the “Common Stock”) pursuant to the Registrant’s 2015 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2015 Plan”). On October 2, 2024, the Registrant effected a 10-for-1 stock split of the Common Stock and a proportional increase in the number of authorized shares.

 

At the Registrant’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on November 4, 2025, the stockholders of the Registrant approved the adoption of the Lam Research Corporation 2025 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2025 Plan”) as successor to the 2015 Plan, effective on November 4, 2025 (the “2025 Plan Effective Date”). On or after the 2025 Plan Effective Date, no new awards will be granted under the 2015 Plan. The outstanding awards under the 2015 Plan continue unaffected following the 2025 Plan Effective Date and will remain subject to the terms of the 2015 Plan notwithstanding the termination of the 2015 Plan. Any shares of Common Stock that are available for grant or would otherwise return to the 2015 Plan as a result of the forfeiture, termination, expiration, or cash settlement of awards previously granted under the 2015 Plan will also be available for issuance under the 2025 Plan (collectively, the “Rollover Shares”).

 

Shortly prior to the 2025 Plan Effective Date, a total of 62,772,164 shares of Common Stock were available for additional awards under the 2015 Plan, and 10,906,926 shares of Common Stock were subject to awards then outstanding under the 2015 Plan, in each case calculated based on the maximum number of shares subject to outstanding performance stock unit awards. The aggregate number of Rollover Shares authorized for issuance under the 2015 Plan that may become authorized for issuance under the 2025 Plan will not exceed 73,679,090 shares. The Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 pursuant to SEC Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 126.43 to amend the Prior Registration Statement to register the offer of this amount of the Rollover Shares under the 2025 Plan (as such shares would no longer be issuable under the 2015 Plan). In accordance with such SEC interpretation, no new filing fee is due upon the filing of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1.

 

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

 

The information specified in Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this Registration Statement on Form S-8 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 sent or given to participants in the 2025 Plan covered by this Registration Statement as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II below, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

The following documents, which have been filed by the Registrant with the Commission are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

All 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 (the “Exchange Act”), 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 herein and to be part hereof from the date of filing such documents. The Registrant will not, however, incorporate by reference any documents or portions thereof that are not deemed “filed” with the Commission, including any information furnished pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of the Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K unless, and except to the extent, specified in such reports.

 

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 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.

 

Not applicable.

 

Not applicable.

 

Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) generally provides that all directors and officers (as well as other employees and agents of the corporation) may be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement in connection with certain specified actions, suits or proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation), if they acted in good faith and in a manner they 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 their conduct was unlawful. A similar standard of care is applicable in the case of derivative actions in which the action is by or in the right of the corporation, except that indemnification extends only to expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred in connection with defense or settlement of an action, and the DGCL requires court approval before there can be any indemnification where the person seeking indemnification has been found liable to the corporation. Section 145 of the DGCL also provides that the rights conferred thereby are not exclusive of any other right to which any person may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, and permits a corporation to advance expenses to or on behalf of a director or officer upon receipt of an undertaking to repay the amounts advanced if it is determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified.

Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL permits the Registrant to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director or officer of the Registrant shall not be personally liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, except (1) with respect to a director or officer, for any breach of the director’s or officer’s duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders, (2) with respect to a director or officer, for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3) with respect to a director, under Section 174 of the DGCL regarding the liability of directors for the unlawful payment of dividend or the unlawful stock purchase or redemption, (4) with respect to a director or officer, for any transaction from which the director or officer derived an improper personal benefit, or (5) with respect to an officer, in any action by or in the right of the corporation.

 

Section 145 of the DGCL also permits a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any director, officer, employee or agent against any liability asserted against such person acting in his or her capacity, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability. The Registrant provides liability insurance for directors and officers of the Registrant and its subsidiaries. The Registrant has additionally entered into indemnification agreements with each of its Section 16 executive officers and directors.

 

Article VI of the Registrant’s bylaws provides that the Registrant shall, to the maximum extent and in the manner permitted by the DGCL, indemnify each of its directors and officers against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, settlements, and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any proceeding, arising by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Registrant. The right conferred on any person by Article VI of the Registrant’s bylaws shall not be exclusive of any other rights, which such person may have or hereafter acquired under any statute, the certificate of incorporation, the bylaws, agreement, vote of the stockholders or directors or otherwise.

 

Not applicable.

* Filed herewith.

 

(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 of 1933;

 

(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 a 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 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) shall not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic 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 of 1933, 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 of 1933, 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 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 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 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 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, 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 Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Fremont, State of California, on November 6, 2025.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby constitute and appoint Timothy M. Archer and Douglas R. Bettinger, with full power of substitution, such person’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents for such person in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to sign any registration statement for the same offering covered by this Registration Statement that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all post-effective amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, 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 in order to effectuate the same as fully, to all intents and purposes, as he, she or such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed below by the following persons in their respective capacities and on the dates indicated.