SEC Form S-8 filed by CDT Environmental Technology Investment Holdings Limited

UNITED STATES 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CDT Environmental Technology Investment Holdings Limited

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

C1, 4th Floor, Building 1, Financial Base, No. 8 Kefa Road
Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China 518057
86-0755-86667996
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)

2025 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full Title of the Plans)

Puglisi & Associates
850 Library Avenue, Suite 204
Newark, DE 19711
302-738-6680 

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

Copies to:

Lawrence S. Venick, Esq.
Loeb & Loeb LLP
2206-19 Jardine House
1 Connaught Road Central
Hong Kong SAR
Telephone: +852-3923-1111
Facsimile: +852-3923-1100

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. ☐

 PART I

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement registers 1,500,000 additional ordinary shares, par value $0.0025 per share (“Ordinary shares”), of CDT Environmental Technology Investment Holdings Limited (the “Registrant”) under the Registrant’s 2025 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), representing an increase of 1,500,000 ordinary shares reserved for issuance under the Plan, effective February 13, 2025. The description of the Ordinary Shares set forth under the heading “Description of Share Capital and Governing Documents “ in the Registrant’s prospectus that constitutes part of the Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333- 252127) initially filed publicly by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 15, 2021, as subsequently amended and supplemented from time to time thereafter, including any form of prospectus contained therein filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, is incorporated herein by reference.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

 The documents containing the information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. In accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) and the instructions to Form S-8, such documents are not being filed with the Commission either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The documents listed below have been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by the Registrant and are incorporated herein by reference to the extent not superseded by documents subsequently filed:

All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement 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. The Registrant is not incorporating by reference any document or portion thereof, whether specifically listed above or to be filed in the future, that is not deemed “filed” with the Commission.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein (or in any other subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or 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.

The Cayman Islands laws do not limit the extent to which a company’s memorandum and articles of association may provide for indemnification of directors and officers, save to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, for example, where a provision purports to provide indemnification against the consequences of committing a crime. Our memorandum and articles of association provide that, to the extent permitted by law, we shall indemnify each existing or former Director (including alternate Director), secretary and other officer of our Company (including an investment adviser or an administrator or liquidator) and their personal representatives against:

No such existing or former Director (including alternate Director), secretary or officer, however, shall be indemnified in respect of any matter arising out of his own dishonesty.

To the extent permitted by the Companies Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands (“Cayman Companies Act”), the Company may make a payment, or agree to make a payment, whether by way of advance, loan or otherwise, for any legal costs incurred by an existing or former Director (including alternate Director), secretary or officer of the Company in respect of any matter identified above on condition that the Director (including alternate Director), secretary or officer must repay the amount paid by our Company to the extent that we are ultimately found not liable to indemnify the Director (including alternate Director), secretary or that officer for those legal costs.

As provided in our memorandum and articles of association, we may, to the extent permitted by the Cayman Companies Act, pay or agree to pay, a premium in respect of a contract insuring each of the following persons against risks determined by the Directors, other than liability arising out of that person’s own dishonesty:

We have insurance policies under which, subject to the limitations of the policies, coverage is provided to our directors and officers against loss arising from claims made by reason of breach of fiduciary duty or other wrongful acts as a director or officer, including claims relating to public securities matters, and to us with respect to payments that may be made by us to these officers and directors pursuant to our indemnification obligations or otherwise as a matter of law.

At present, we are not aware of any pending litigation or proceeding involving any person who is or was one of our directors, officers, employees or other agents or is or was serving at our request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, for which indemnification is sought, and we are not aware of any threatened litigation that may result in claims for indemnification.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is theretofore unenforceable.

Item 7. Exemption From Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

Item 9. Undertakings.

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 Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

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 People’s Republic of China, on February 14, 2025

SIGNATURES AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY

Each of the undersigned officers and directors of the Registrant hereby severally constitutes and appoints Liu Xiaohua, acting alone, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, and in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462 under the Securities Act, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission and any applicable securities exchange or securities self-regulatory body, 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 and agents, or either of them individually, or their 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, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Authorized U.S. Representative

Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of CDT Environmental Technology Investment Holdings Limited, has signed this registration statement in New York, on February 14, 2025.

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