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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 10, 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
______________________

Wix.com Ltd.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

State of Israel
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
98-0685109
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
40 Namal Tel Aviv St.
Tel Aviv, Israel
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
6350671
(Zip Code)

Wix.com Ltd. 2013 Incentive Compensation Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)

Wix.com, Inc.
500 Terry A. Francois Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 643-6479
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies of communications to:

Joshua G. Kiernan, Esq.
Latham & Watkins LLP
99 Bishopsgate
London EC2M 3XF, UK
Tel: +44 20 7710-5820
Fax: +44 20 7374-4460
Eitan Israeli, Adv.
Chief Legal Officer
Wix.com Ltd.
40 Namal Tel Aviv St.
Tel Aviv, 6350671 Israel
Tel: +972 (3) 545-4900
Fax: +972 (3) 546 6407
Tuvia J. Geffen, Adv.
Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co.,
Advocates
5 Tuval Street
Tel Aviv 6789717 Israel
Tel: +972 (3) 623-5000
Fax: +972 (3) 623-5005

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.


CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of securities to be registered
 
Amount to be registered(1)
   
Proposed maximum offering price per share
   
Proposed maximum aggregate offering price
   
Amount of
registration fee
 
Ordinary Shares, par value NIS 0.01
   
2,801,387
(2)
 
$
291.63
(3)
 
$
816,968,490.81
   
$
89,131.27
 

(1)
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 covers the following ordinary shares of Wix.com Ltd. (the “Registrant” or the “Company”): (i) 2,801,387 ordinary shares that may be issued under the Wix.com Ltd. 2013 Incentive Compensation Plan, as amended (the “2013 Plan”), and (ii) pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), an indeterminate number of additional shares that may become issuable under the terms of the 2013 Plan by reason of any share split, share dividend, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without the Registrant’s receipt of consideration that results in an increase in the number of outstanding ordinary shares of the Registrant.
 
(2)
Represents an automatic increase to the number of ordinary shares available for issuance under the 2013 Plan, effective as of January 1, 2021. Ordinary shares available for issuance under the 2013 Plan were previously registered on a registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2020 (Registration No. 333-238250), May 15, 2019 (Registration No. 333-231501), May 9, 2018 (Registration No. 333-224768), May 10, 2017 (Registration No. 333-217822), May 5, 2016 (Registration No. 333-211143), August 27, 2015 (Registration No. 333-206611) and November 7, 2013 (Registration No. 333-192172).
 
(3)
Calculated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) on the basis of the average of the high and low prices ($297.98 and $285.27) of the Registrant’s ordinary shares as quoted on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on May 5, 2021.
 


EXPLANATORY NOTE
 
Wix.com Ltd. (the “Company” or the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to register 2,801,387 additional ordinary shares, par value NIS 0.01, under the Wix.com Ltd. 2013 Incentive Compensation Plan, as amended (the “2013 Plan”), pursuant to the provisions of the 2013 Plan providing for an automatic increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance under such plan. Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Company’s registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on May 14, 2020 (Registration No. 333-238250), May 15, 2019 (Registration No. 333-231501), May 9, 2018 (Registration No. 333-224768), May 10, 2017 (Registration No. 333-217822), May 5, 2016 (Registration No. 333-211143), August 27, 2015 (Registration No. 333-206611) and November 7, 2013 (Registration No. 333-192172), and the information required by Part II is omitted, except as supplemented by the information set forth below.
 
PART I
 
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
 
Item 1.     Plan Information*
 
Item 2.     Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information*
 
* The documents containing the information specified in this Part I of Form S-8 (plan information and registration information and employee plan annual information) will be sent or given to employees as specified by the Commission pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act. Such documents are not required to be, and are not, filed with the Commission either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act. The Registrant will provide a written statement to participants advising them of the availability, without charge, upon written or oral request, of the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II hereof and including the statement in the preceding sentence. The written statement to all participants will indicate the availability, without charge, upon written or oral request, of other documents required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 428(b), and will include the address and telephone number to which the request is to be directed.
 
PART II
 
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
 
Item 3.     Incorporation of Documents by Reference
 
          The following documents filed by the Company are incorporated herein by reference:
 
(i)
the Company’s annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2020 filed with the Commission on March 25, 2021;
(ii)
the GAAP financial information contained in the Company’s report on Form 6-K furnished to the Commission on February 17, 2021, and the Company’s separate report on Form 6-K furnished to the Commission on January 4, 2021; and
(iii)
the description of the Company’s ordinary shares contained in Item 1 of the Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-36158) filed with the Commission on October 29, 2013.
In addition to the foregoing, all documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and, to the extent specifically designated therein, Reports of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K furnished by us to the Commission, in each case, subsequent to the effective date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all securities offered under the Registration Statement have been sold, or deregistering all securities then remaining unsold, are also incorporated herein by reference and shall be a part hereof from the date of the filing or furnishing of such documents.

 
Any statement contained herein or in a document all or a portion of which is 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 other 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.
 
Item 8.          Exhibits
 
Exhibit No.
 
Description
     
 
 
 
 
 


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 Tel Aviv, State of Israel, on May 10, 2021.
 
 
WIX.COM LTD.

By: /s/ Lior Shemesh          
       Name: Lior Shemesh
       Title:   Chief Financial Officer


POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Avishai Abrahami, Lior Shemesh, or Eitan Israeli, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power to act separately and 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, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or either of them or his or her or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons on May 10, 2021 in the capacities indicated:
 
 
Name
Title
 
       
By:  
/s/ Avishai Abrahami
Chief Executive Officer and Director
 
 
    Avishai Abrahami
(Principal Executive Officer)
 
       
By:  
/s/ Lior Shemesh
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
    Lior Shemesh
(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
 
       
By:  
/s/ Mark Tluszcz
Chairman of the Board
 
 
    Mark Tluszcz
   
       
By:  
/s/ Yuval Cohen
Director
 
 
    Yuval Cohen
   
       
By:  
/s/ Allon Bloch
Director
 
 
Allon Bloch
   

By:  
/s/ Ron Gutler
Director
 
 
    Ron Gutler
 
 
       
By:  
/s/ Diane Greene
Director
 
 
Diane Greene
   
       
By:  
/s/ Roy Saar
Director
 
 
   Roy Saar

   
By:  
/s/ Deirdre Bigley
Director
 
 
   Deirdre Bigley
   
 
By:  
 
/s/ Ferran Soriano
 
Director
 
 
    Ferran Soriano
 
 

WIX.COM, INC.
     
By:
 
/s/ Nir Zohar
 
 
Authorized Representative in the United States
 
 
Name: Nir Zohar
Title: Director