As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2021

Registration No. 333-          

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

TELADOC HEALTH, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)  

Teladoc Health, Inc. 2015 Incentive Award Plan (as amended and restated effective May 25, 2017)

Teladoc Health, Inc. 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full title of the plans) 

Adam Vandervoort
Chief Legal Officer
Teladoc Health, Inc.
2 Manhattanville Road, Suite 203
Purchase, New York 10577
(Name and address of agent for service) 

(203) 635-2002
(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.     ¨ 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES

PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, Teladoc Health, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to register 7,496,820 additional shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”), under the Registrant’s 2015 Incentive Award Plan, as amended and restated effective May 25, 2017 (the “2015 IAP”), and 93,617 additional shares of Common Stock under the Registrant’s 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan pursuant to the provisions of those plans providing for an automatic annual increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance under such plans. This Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant’s previous registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on July 9, 2015 (Registration No. 333-205568) and July 14, 2017 (Registration No. 333-219275) to the extent not modified or superseded hereby. In accordance with the instructional note of Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the SEC, the information specified by Part I of Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

We incorporate by reference herein the following documents filed by the Registrant with the SEC:

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 to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated herein by reference from the date of filing of such documents. In no event, however, shall any information that the Registrant discloses under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of any Current Report on Form 8-K (or otherwise indicates that the information is being “furnished” on such Current Report on Form 8-K (and not “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section)) and any corresponding exhibits thereto, which the Registrant may furnish to the SEC from time to time, be incorporated by reference into, or otherwise become a part of, this Registration Statement. Any statement contained herein or 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 incorporated or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such earlier statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute part of this Registration Statement.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

The validity of the shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock registered on this Registration Statement has been passed upon by Adam C. Vandervoort, Chief Legal Officer of the Registrant. Mr. Vandervoort beneficially owns an aggregate of less than one percent of the outstanding shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock and is eligible to participate in the Plans on the same basis as other similarly eligible employees.

Item 8. Exhibits.

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 Purchase, State of New York, on March 1, 2021.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Adam Vandervoort and Mala Murthy, and each of them acting individually, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be filed by Teladoc Health, Inc., and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority 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 their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power of attorney shall be governed by and construed with the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable federal securities laws.

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