As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 21, 2026
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 46-4464131 | |||||||||||||
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | |||||||||||||
601 12th Street, 14th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 778-7787
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
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2016 Equity Incentive Award Plan
2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
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Tarang P. Amin
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.
601 12th Street, 14th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(Name and address of agent for service)
(510) 778-7787
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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Copies to:
Tad J. Freese
Kathleen M. Wells
Richard Kim
Latham & Watkins LLP
140 Scott Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Telephone: (650) 328-4600
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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 | x | 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
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement for the purpose of registering:
•an additional 1,181,044 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock (“Common Stock”) to be issued pursuant to the Registrant’s 2016 Equity Incentive Award Plan, as amended (the “2016 Plan”) (resulting from an automatic annual increase as of January 1, 2026 pursuant to the “evergreen” provision of the 2016 Plan); and
•an additional 590,522 shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the Registrant’s 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”) (resulting from an automatic annual increase as of January 1, 2026 pursuant to the “evergreen” provision of the ESPP).
The shares being registered pursuant to this Registration Statement are the same class as other securities for which earlier registration statements relating to the 2016 Plan and the ESPP were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) (collectively, the “Prior Registration Statements”) on:
In accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements are incorporated herein by reference and made part of this Registration Statement, except as amended hereby.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS
The information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and the introductory note to Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be delivered to the participants in the equity benefit plans covered by this Registration Statement as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act.
PART II
Information Required in the Registration Statement
| Item 3. | Incorporation of Documents by Reference. | ||||
The following documents filed by the Registrant with the SEC are incorporated herein by reference:
(a)the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, filed with the SEC on May 20, 2026 (the “2026 Annual Report”);
(b)the information specifically incorporated by reference into the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 from the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the SEC on July 9, 2025; and
(c)the description of the Registrant’s Common Stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on September 12, 2016 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents, except as to specific sections of such documents as set forth therein. Unless expressly incorporated into this Registration Statement, a report furnished on Form 8-K prior or subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. 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 Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed document that also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.
| Item 8. | Exhibits. | ||||
Exhibit Number | Filed Herewith | Incorporated by Reference | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibit Description | Form | Date | Exhibit Number | File Number | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.1 | 8-K | 9/27/2016 | 3.1 | 001-37873 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.2 | 8-K | 8/27/2024 | 3.1 | 001-37873 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.3 | 8-K | 9/27/2016 | 3.2 | 001-37873 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.4 | S-1/A | 9/12/2016 | 4.4 | 333-213333 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23.2 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 24.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 99.1(a)# | S-1/A | 9/12/2016 | 10.16 | 333-213333 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 99.1(b)# | 8-K | 7/2/2020 | 10.2 | 001-37873 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 99.2# | S-1/A | 9/12/2016 | 10.18 | 333-213333 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 107.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # Indicates management contract or compensatory plan. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Oakland, State of California, on May 21, 2026.
| e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. | ||||||||
| By: | /s/ Tarang P. Amin | |||||||
| Name: | Tarang P. Amin | |||||||
| Title: | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | |||||||
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tarang P. Amin, Mandy Fields, and Scott K. Milsten, and each of them acting individually, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement, including post-effective amendments or any abbreviated registration statement and any amendments thereto filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) increasing the number of securities for which registration is sought, 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, with full power of each to act alone, 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 for 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 his, 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 or amendment thereto has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
| Signature | Title | Date | ||||||||||||
/s/ Tarang P. Amin | Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and Director (Principal Executive Officer) | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Tarang P. Amin | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Mandy Fields | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Mandy Fields | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Charles Bergh | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Charles Bergh | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Tiffany Daniele | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Tiffany Daniele | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Matthew Farrell | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Matthew Farrell | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Maria Ferreras | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Maria Ferreras | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Lori Keith | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Lori Keith | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Lauren Cooks Levitan | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Lauren Cooks Levitan | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Kenny Mitchell | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Kenny Mitchell | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Gayle Tait | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Gayle Tait | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Maureen Watson | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Maureen Watson | ||||||||||||||