SEC Form S-8 filed by Neogen Corporation

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

NEOGEN CORPORATION

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Neogen Corporation 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full Title of the Plan)

Amy M. Rocklin

Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary

Neogen Corporation

620 Lesher Place

Lansing, Michigan 48912

(Name and address of agent for service)

(517) 372-9200

(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.

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

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

The documents containing the information required in this Part I will be delivered to the participants in the Plan, as specified in Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Such documents are not required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as part of this Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents filed with the Commission by Neogen Corporation (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 latest Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission;

(b) All other reports or documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Annual Report on Form 10-K referenced in (a) above; and

(c) The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act.

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of 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 part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Notwithstanding anything herein, the Registrant is not incorporating by reference any information in any filing made by the Registrant with the Commission that is expressly furnished rather than filed, including all information furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of any Current Report on Form 8-K, unless, and to the extent, specified in any such filing.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein by reference modifies or supersedes such prior 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.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The Registrant’s articles of incorporation provide that a director of the Registrant will not be liable to the Registrant or its shareholders for monetary damages for any breach of the director’s fiduciary duty in connection with any action or omission on the part of the director, except for liability for (i) financial benefits to which the director was not entitled, (ii) intentional infliction of harm on the Registrant or its shareholders, (iii) improper distributions or loans in violation of Section 551 of the Michigan Business Corporation Act (the “MBCA”), or (iv) intentional criminal acts. These provisions, however, do not affect liability under the Securities Act.

The Registrant’s bylaws include provisions that require the Registrant to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees with respect to any liability arising out of such positions to the fullest extent allowable under the MBCA. The provisions of the MBCA are broad enough to permit indemnification with respect to liabilities arising under the Securities Act and Michigan Uniform Securities Act.

The limitation of liability and indemnification provisions in the Registrant’s articles of incorporation and bylaws may discourage shareholders from bringing a lawsuit against directors for breach of their fiduciary duty. These provisions may also have the effect of reducing the likelihood of derivative litigation against the Registrant’s directors and officers, even though such an action, if successful, might otherwise benefit the Registrant and its shareholders. However, these provisions do not limit or eliminate the Registrant’s rights, or those of any shareholder, to seek non-monetary relief such as injunction or rescission in the event of a breach of a director’s duty of care. Moreover, the provisions will not alter the liability of directors under the federal securities laws. An investment in the Registrant may, however, be adversely affected to the extent that, in a class action or direct suit, the Registrant pays the costs of settlement and damage awards against directors and officers pursuant to these indemnification provisions.

The Registrant has purchased a policy of directors’ and officers’ insurance that insures both the Registrant and its officers and directors against expenses and liabilities of the type normally insured against under such policies, including the expenses of the indemnification described above and liabilities under the Securities Act.

Not applicable.

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-8, and 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 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement; and

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 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 registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Lansing, State of Michigan, on August 20, 2024.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned officers and directors of NEOGEN CORPORATION, a Michigan corporation (the “Company”), hereby constitutes and appoints JOHN E. ADENT and DAVID H. NAEMURA, and each of them, the true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents of the undersigned, each with the power of substitution for him in any and all capacities, with full power and authority in said attorneys-in-fact and agents and in any one or more of them, to sign, execute and affix his seal thereto and file the proposed registration statement on Form S-8 to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which registration statement relates to the registration and issuance of the Company’s Common Shares, par value $0.16 a share, pursuant to the Neogen Corporation 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and any of the documents relating to such registration statement; any and all amendments to such registration statement, including any amendment thereto changing the amount of securities for which registration is being sought, and any post-effective amendment, with all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect thereto with any regulatory authority; granting unto said attorneys, 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 in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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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.