As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 28, 2019

Registration No. 333-191905

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE

AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

The Securities Act of 1933

 

 

CONSTELLIUM SE

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

The Netherlands   98-0777516
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
  (IRS Employer
Identification No.)

Tupolevlaan 41-61,

1119 NW Schiphol-Rijk

The Netherlands

(Address, including Zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)

Constellium 2013 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Corporation Service Company

80 State Street

Albany, NY 12207-2543

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

Copies to:

 

Jeremy Leach

Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel

Constellium N.V.

Tupolevlaan 41-61

1119 NW Schiphol-Rijk

The Netherlands

 

Karessa L. Cain

Elina Tetelbaum

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

51 West 52nd Street

New York, NY 10019

 

 

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.  ☐

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment”) to the Form S-8 registration statement (File No. 333-191905) (the “Registration Statement”) does not reflect any increase in the number of shares issuable pursuant to the Constellium N.V. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended, the “Plan”). This Amendment is being filed in accordance with Rule 414(d) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), by Constellium SE (“Constellium SE”), a European company (“Societas Europaea”), as the successor registrant to Constellium N.V. (“Constellium N.V.”), a Dutch public limited liability company (“Naamloze Vennootschap”). Effective on June 28, 2019, Constellium N.V. converted from a Naamloze Vennootschap governed by the laws of the Netherlands with its corporate seat/registered office and headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands to a Societas Europaea governed by the laws of the Netherlands with its corporate seat/registered office and headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (the “Conversion”). The Conversion was accomplished by executing a deed of conversion, including an amendment to the Constellium N.V.’s articles of association (as so amended, the “Articles of Association”) and the registration of the Conversion and the Articles of Association with the Dutch trade register, which actions also effected the change in the company’s name to Constellium SE. Constellium SE expressly adopts the Registration Statement, as modified by this Amendment, as its own registration statement for all purposes of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). The Conversion is part of the previously disclosed transaction to transfer the corporate seat/registered office and headquarters to Paris, France.

For the purposes of this Amendment and the Registration Statement, (i) as of any time prior to the Conversion, references to the “Registrant,” “Constellium” and similar terms mean Constellium N.V. and its consolidated subsidiaries and, as of any time after the Conversion, mean Constellium SE and its consolidated subsidiaries and (ii) as of any time prior to the Conversion, references to “shareholders” mean the holders of any Class A ordinary shares, par value €0.02 per ordinary share, in Constellium N.V., as of any time after the Conversion, mean the holders of any Class A ordinary shares, par value €0.02 per ordinary share, of Constellium SE.

In connection with the Conversion, Constellium SE has amended the Plan with Amendment No. 2 to the Plan, which is filed as an exhibit to this Amendment and is hereby incorporated by reference into this Amendment. The rights of holders of Constellium SE’s Class A ordinary shares are now governed by its Articles of Association, which is filed as an exhibit to this Amendment and is hereby incorporated by reference into this Amendment.

The Registration Statement shall remain unchanged in all other respects. Accordingly, this Amendment consists only of this explanatory note and revised versions of the following parts of the Form S-8: Part I, Part II, the signatures, the exhibit index and the exhibits filed in connection with this Amendment.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The information specified in Items 1 and 2 of Part I of the Form S-8 is omitted from this filing in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the introductory note to Part I of the Form S-8. The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered to the participants in the Plan covered by this Registration Statement, as is defined by this Amendment, as required by Rule 428(b)(1).


PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by the Registrant pursuant to the Securities Act and the Exchange Act are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

 

  (a)

the Registrant’s annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, filed on March 12, 2019;

 

  (b)

all other reports filed or furnished by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since December 31, 2018 (except for (i) Exhibit 99.2, the second paragraph of Exhibit 99.1 (containing certain quotes by the Chief Executive Officer) and the section titled “Outlook” in Exhibit  99.1 to the Form 6-K furnished to the SEC on February 21, 2019, (ii) Exhibit 99.2, the second paragraph of Exhibit 99.1 (containing certain quotes by the Chief Executive Officer) and the section titled “Outlook” in Exhibit 99.1 to the Form 6-K furnished to the SEC on April 24, 2019 and (iii) any information from the Registrant’s website);

 

  (c)

the description of the Class A ordinary shares, set forth in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form F-3ASR filed October 30, 2017 (File Number 333-221221) and any amendments, reports or other filings filed with the Commission for the purpose of updating that description, including the Constellium SE Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-35931) filed on June 28, 2019;

 

  (d)

the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-191905) filed on October 25, 2013;

 

  (e)

the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-201141) filed on December 19, 2014; and

 

  (f)

the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-225926) filed on June 27, 2018.

All documents filed by Constellium SE with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Amendment and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or that deregisters all offerings of 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.

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 Amendment 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. Any statement contained in a document that is deemed to be incorporated by reference or deemed to be part of this Registration Statement after the most recent effective date may modify or replace existing statements contained in this Registration Statement.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

The validity of the Class A ordinary shares will be passed upon for us by Stibbe London B.V.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Our Articles of Association provide that we will indemnify our directors against all adverse financial effects incurred by such person in connection with any action, suit or proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably could believe to be in or not opposed to our best interests. In addition, we may enter into indemnification agreements with our directors and officers. We also purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of our directors and officers to insure them against such liabilities, expenses and claims.


Agents, underwriters and dealers may be entitled under agreements which may be entered into with us to indemnification by us against specified liabilities, including liabilities incurred under the Securities Act, or to contribution by us to payments they may be required to make in respect of such liabilities. If required, a prospectus supplement will describe the terms and conditions of the indemnification or contribution.

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 Commission, indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

The index to exhibits appears below prior to the signature pages of this Amendment to the Registration Statement.

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 of 1933;

 

  (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. 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) (§230.424(b) of this chapter) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 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 the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however, that:

(A) Paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this Item 9 do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-8 (§239.16b of this chapter), and 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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)) that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement; and


  (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.

 

  (4)

That, for the purpose of determining liability of a registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

 

  (i)

any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

  (ii)

any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by an undersigned registrant;

 

  (iii)

the portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

 

  (iv)

any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

(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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 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 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 Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the 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 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number
   Exhibit Document
  3.1    Articles of Association of Constellium SE, a European Company registered in the Netherlands (incorporated by reference to Exhibit  3.1 of Constellium SE’s Form 6-k filed on June 28, 2019)
  5.1*    Opinion of Stibbe London B.V., counsel to Constellium SE, as to the validity of the Class A ordinary shares
10.1    Constellium N.V. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Constellium N.V.’s Form F-1 Registration Statement (Registration No. 333-191863) filed on October 23, 2013)
10.2    Amendment to the Constellium N.V. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, effective as of June  27, 2018 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to Constellium N.V.’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No.  333-191863) filed on June 27, 2018)
10.3    Amendment No. 2 to the Constellium N.V. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, effective as of June  28, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Constellium SE’s Form 6-k filed on June 28, 2019)
23.1*    Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
23.2*    Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Auditors
23.3*    Consent of Stibbe London B.V. (included as part of Exhibit 5.1)
24.1    Power of Attorney for Richard B. Evans, Guy Maugis, Philippe Guillemot, Werner P. Paschke (included on the signature page of Constellium N.V.’s Form S-8 registration statement (File No. 333-225926) filed on June 27, 2018)
24.2*    Power of Attorney for Michiel Brandjes, Peter F. Hartman, John Ormerod, Lori A. Walker, Martha Brooks and Stéphanie Frachet
99.1    SE Conversion Proposal of Constellium N.V., as filed with the Dutch Trade Register on May  3, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of Constellium N.V.’s Registration Statement on Form F-4 (Registration No.  333-231906) filed on June 3, 2019)

 

*

Filed herewith.


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 Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Paris, France, on June 28, 2019.

 

CONSTELLIUM SE
By:   /s/ Jean-Marc Germain
  Name:   Jean-Marc Germain
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Name

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Jean-Marc Germain

Jean-Marc Germain

   Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director (Principal Executive Officer)   June 28, 2019

/s/ Peter R. Matt

Peter R. Matt

  

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  June 28, 2019

*

Richard B. Evans

   Chairman   June 28, 2019

*

Guy Maugis

   Director   June 28, 2019

*

Philippe Guillemot

   Director   June 28, 2019

*

Werner P. Paschke

   Director   June 28, 2019

/s/ Michiel Brandjes

Michiel Brandjes

   Director   June 28, 2019

/s/ Peter F. Hartman

Peter F. Hartman

   Director   June 28, 2019

/s/ John Ormerod

John Ormerod

   Director   June 28, 2019

/s/ Lori A. Walker

Lori A. Walker

   Director   June 28, 2019

/s/ Martha Brooks

Martha Brooks

   Director   June 28, 2019

 


Name

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Stéphanie Frachet

Stéphanie Frachet

   Director   June 28, 2019

 

*By:   /s/ Jeremy Leach
  Name:   Jeremy Leach
  Title:   Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel

 


AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 6(a) of the Securities Act, the undersigned has caused the amendment to this Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed solely in the capacity as the duly authorized representative of Constellium SE in the United States on June 28, 2019.

 

Constellium US Holdings I, LLC
By:   /s/ Rina Teran
  Name:   Rina Teran
  Title:   Vice President & Secretary

 

[Signature Page to Form S-8/A (Reg. No. 333-191905)]

EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

 

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Constellium SE

Tupolevlaan 41 -61

1119 NW Schiphol-Rijk

The Netherlands

 

Subject to review of underlying documents and

subject to internal review

 

Stibbe London B.V.

53 New Broad Street

London EC2M 1JJ

United Kingdom

T +44 20 7151 09 21

 

www.stibbe.com

 

Date

28 June 2019

Constellium SE – Amendment Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

(1)

We have acted as legal counsel as to matters of Netherlands law to Constellium SE, successor registrant of Constellium N.V., with its corporate seat/registered office and headquarters in Schiphol-Rijk, the Netherlands (the “Company”) in connection with (i) the filing by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of a post-effective amendment No. 1 dated the date hereof (the “Amendment Form S-8”) to the registration statement on Form S-8 dated 25 October 2013 with file no. 333-225926 (as so amended, the “Registration Statement”) in relation to the registration of up to 5,292,291 ordinary shares class A of the Company (with nominal value €0.02 per share) (the “Shares”, and each a “Share”) that may be issued pursuant to the Constellium N.V. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and (ii) an amendment No. 2 dated 28 June 2019 (the “Amendment Agreement”) to the Constellium N.V. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (as so amended, the “Plan”).

This opinion is furnished to you in order to be filed as an exhibit to the Amendment Registration Statement to be filed by you with the SEC.

 

(2)

For the purpose of this opinion, we have examined and relied upon photocopies or copies received by fax or by electronic means, or originals if so expressly stated, of the following documents:

 

  (a)

the Amendment Form S-8;

 

 

 

Stibbe London B.V. is a Dutch law firm registered with the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales under numbers FC025331 and BR007672 and with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 34206454. Stibbe London B.V. is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Stibbe London B.V.’s attorneys, civil law notaries (including candidate and assigned civil law notaries) and tax advisers are registered with and bound by the professional rules and codes of conduct of their respective professional organisations in the Netherlands. Stibbe London B.V.’s attorneys who are registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority as Registered European Lawyers are also bound by its professional rules and codes of conduct to the extent that they apply to Registered European Lawyers practising through an Exempt European Practice (as defined in the SRA Handbook 2011). Any services performed are carried out under an agreement for services (‘overeenkomst van opdracht’) with Stibbe London B.V. This agreement is governed exclusively by Dutch law, with the exception of rules of Dutch private international law. All disputes shall be decided exclusively by the competent court in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, without prejudice to the right to appeal. The general conditions of Stibbe London B.V., which include a limitation of liability, apply and are available on www.stibbe.com/generalconditions or upon request. The compulsory insurance scheme of the Solicitors Regulation Authority does not apply to Stibbe London B.V. The attorneys, civil law notaries and tax advisers of Stibbe London B.V. are insured in accordance with the rules of their respective professional organisations under professional indemnity policies with a worldwide coverage. Hans Witteveen was admitted as a lawyer (‘advocaat’) in the Netherlands in 1994 and is a partner of Stibbe London B.V. He is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority as a Registered European Lawyer.


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  (b)

the Registration Statement;

 

  (c)

the Amendment Agreement;

 

  (d)

the Plan;

 

  (e)

the deed of incorporation of the Company dated 14 May 2010 and its articles of association (statuten) as lastly amended on 28 June 2019 pursuant to the Deed of Conversion (as defined below), which according to the Extract (as defined below) are the articles of association of the Company as currently in force;

 

  (f)

a copy of the deed of conversion and amendment of the Company’s articles of association executed before P.H.N. Quist, civil law notary in Amsterdam, on 28 June 2019 and effective as of 28 June 2019 (by which deed, inter alia, Constellium N.V. has been converted from a public limited company (naamloze vennootschap) into a European public limited-liability company (Societas Europaea – SE)) (the “Deed of Conversion”);

 

  (g)

an extract from the Commercial Register of the Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel, afdeling Handelsregister) relating to the Company dated the date hereof (the “Extract”); and

 

  (h)

an extract of the minutes of the general meeting of the Company held on 27 June 2019 (the “Resolution”), inter alia, designating the board of directors of the Company as the authorised body to issue shares and grant rights to subscribe for shares of the Company (irrespective of the class of shares) and to exclude the statutory pre-emptive rights (voorkeursrechten) in respect thereof (the “Designation”).

 

(3)

The Amendment Form S-8, the Registration Statement, the Amendment Agreement, the Plan and the Resolution are collectively also referred to as the “Documents”.

References to the Civil Code, the Bankruptcy Act, the Financial Supervision Act and any other Codes or Acts are references to the Burgerlijk Wetboek, the Faillissementswet, the Wet op het financieel toezicht and such other Codes or Acts of the Netherlands, as amended.

 

(4)

In rendering this opinion we have assumed:

 

  (a)

the legal capacity of natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures on, and the authenticity and completeness of all documents submitted to us as copies of drafts, originals or execution copies and the exact conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as photocopies or copies transmitted by facsimile or by electronic means and that all documents were at this date, and have through the date hereof remained, accurate and in full force and effect without modifications;

 

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  (b)

that the Amendment Agreement and the Plan constitute and will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the participants in the Plan and the Company, respectively, and is enforceable in accordance with its terms under all applicable laws;

 

  (c)

that (a) the Designation, as renewed from time to time, will be in full force and effect (i) as at the date of granting of any rights to subscribe for the Shares under the Plan or, as the case may be, (ii) as at the date of issuance of any Shares under the Plan, and (b) any rights to subscribe for the Shares under the Plan have been validly granted;

 

  (d)

that any Shares will be issued, paid and duly accepted (a) as contemplated in and in accordance with the Documents, (b) in accordance with any applicable law (including, without limitation, the laws of the Netherlands), (c) in accordance with the articles of association of the Company as in force at the date of issuance of such Shares and (d) with such terms so as not to violate any applicable law (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any law applicable at the time of such issue, offer, delivery and acceptance) and upon issue of each Share at least a consideration (in cash or in kind) will be paid to the Company on such Share with a value equal to the nominal amount thereof and any premium agreed upon;

 

  (e)

that the Company has not been declared bankrupt (failliet verklaard), granted suspension of payments (surseance van betaling verleend) or dissolved (ontbonden), nor has ceased to exist due to merger (fusie) or demerger (splitsing); although not constituting conclusive evidence, this assumption is supported by the contents of the Extract and by our online search of the Central Insolvency Register of the courts in the Netherlands (Centraal Insolventieregister) on the date hereof, which did not reveal any information which would render this assumption to be untrue;

 

  (f)

that none of the insolvency proceedings listed in Annex A, as amended, to Regulation (EU) 2015/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on insolvency proceedings has been declared applicable to the Company by a court in one of the member states of the EU (with the exception of Denmark), other than the Netherlands; although not constituting conclusive evidence, this assumption is supported by our online search of the section on EU Registrations of the Central Insolvency Register (Centraal Insolventieregister) on the date hereof, which did not reveal any information which would render this assumption to be untrue;

 

  (g)

that each time a Share is issued, the authorised share capital (maatschappelijk kapitaal) of the Company is sufficient for such Share to be validly issued;

 

  (h)

that the information set forth in the Extract is complete and accurate on the date hereof and consistent with the information contained in the files kept by the Trade Register with respect to the Company;

 

  (i)

that the Resolution has not been annulled, revoked or rescinded and is in full force and effect as at the date hereof; and

 

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  (j)

that any issuance of Shares will not require the Company to publish a prospectus or equivalent document under the provisions of chapter 5.1 of the Financial Supervision Act, Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive or any similar provision under the Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 and the rules promulgated thereunder (as applicable), each as amended from time to time.

 

(5)

We have not investigated the laws of any jurisdiction other than the Netherlands. This opinion is limited to matters of the laws of the Netherlands as they presently stand and as they are interpreted in case law of the courts of the Netherlands and in administrative rulings, in each case published in printed form as at the date of this opinion. We do not express any opinion with respect to (i) any public international law or on the rules of or promulgated under any treaty or by any treaty organisation, other than any EC law provisions having direct effect, (ii) matters of competition law, and (iii) matters of taxation.

 

(6)

Based upon and subject to the foregoing and to the further qualifications, limitations and exceptions set forth herein, and subject to any factual matters not disclosed to us and inconsistent with the information revealed by the documents reviewed by us in the course of our examination referred to above, we are as at the date hereof of the following opinion:

 

  (a)

the Company has been duly incorporated, and is validly existing under the laws of the Netherlands as a European public limited-liability company (Societas Europaea – SE); and

 

  (b)

the Shares, when duly issued and paid for in accordance with the Plan, will be validly issued by the Company and will be fully paid and non-assessable.

 

(7)

This opinion is subject to the following qualifications:

 

  (a)

we express no opinion as to the accuracy of any representations given by the Company, or any other party (express or implied) under or by virtue of the Documents;

 

  (b)

the opinions expressed above are limited by any applicable bankruptcy (faillissement), suspension of payments (surseance van betaling), insolvency, moratorium, reorganisation, liquidation, fraudulent conveyance, or similar laws affecting the enforceability of rights of creditors generally (including rights of set-off) in any relevant jurisdiction including but not limited to section 3:45 of the Civil Code and section 42 of the Bankruptcy Act concerning fraudulent conveyance, as well as by any sanctions or measures under the Sanctions Act 1977 (Sanctiewet 1977) or by EU or other international sanctions;

 

  (c)

no opinion is given as to whether any legal act (rechtshandeling) performed by the Company in entering into the Documents or exercising its rights or performing its obligations thereunder is not contrary to the corporate interest of the Company for purposes of section 2:7 of the Civil Code in which case the relevant legal act of the Company might be held invalid and/or the obligations of the Company thereunder might be held unenforceable in whole or in part; and

 

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  (d)

the term “non-assessable” as used in this opinion is not a recognized legal term under Dutch law; in this opinion, the term “non-assessable” means that the Company does not have a statutory right to require the holder of a Share to pay to the Company any amount on such Share (by reason only of being a holder of such Share) in addition to the amount required to be paid for such Share to be fully paid, without prejudice – for the avoidance of doubt – to claims based on contract or tort.

 

(8)

In this opinion, Netherlands legal concepts are expressed in English terms and not in their original Dutch terms. The concepts concerned may not be identical to the concepts described by the same English terms as they exist under the laws of other jurisdictions. This opinion is given by Stibbe London B.V. (“Stibbe”) and may only be relied upon under the express condition that (i) any issues of interpretation or liability arising hereunder will be governed by the laws of the Netherlands and will be brought exclusively before a court of the Netherlands, and (ii) such liability, if any, shall be limited to Stibbe only, to the exclusion of any of its directors, partners, employees, shareholders and advisors or its or their affiliates and to the aggregate of the amount paid under Stibbe’s professional insurance in the particular instance and any applicable deductible payable thereunder.

 

(9)

We assume no obligation to update this opinion or to inform any person of any changes of law or other matters coming to our knowledge occurring after the date hereof which may affect this opinion in any respect. This opinion is addressed to you and given for the sole purpose of the registration of the Shares with the SEC. We consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an exhibit to the Amendment Registration Statement. In giving such consent we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933, or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. However, it may not be otherwise disclosed or quoted to any person other than to your legal advisers or relied upon by any person or be used for any other purpose, without our prior written consent in each instance.

Yours faithfully,

Stibbe London B.V.

Hans Witteveen

 

(5)

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Constellium SE of our report dated March 11, 2019 relating to the financial statements and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in Constellium’s N.V’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018.

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit

/s/ Pierre Marty

Pierre Marty

Partner

June 28, 2019

EX-23.2

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Constellium SE of our report dated February 15, 2018 relating to the financial statements of Constellium-UACJ ABS LLC, which appears in Constellium N.V.’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

McLean, Virginia

June 28, 2019

EX-24.2

Exhibit 24.2

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Jean-Marc Germain, Peter R. Matt, Jeremy Leach and Rina Teran, and each of them acting individually, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, to execute for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and any other documents required in connection therewith with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and their substitutes, 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 connection therewith, as fully as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this power of attorney has been executed by each of the undersigned as of June 28, 2019.

 

/s/ Michiel Brandjes

Michiel Brandjes

  

Director

  June 28, 2019

/s/ Peter F. Hartman

Peter F. Hartman

  

Director

  June 28, 2019

/s/ John Ormerod

John Ormerod

  

Director

  June 28, 2019

/s/ Lori A. Walker

Lori A. Walker

  

Director

  June 28, 2019

/s/ Martha Brooks

Martha Brooks

  

Director

  June 28, 2019

/s/ Stéphanie Frachet

Stéphanie Frachet

  

Director

  June 28, 2019

[Signature Page to POA for Form S-8/A (Reg. No. 333-191905)]