SEC Form S-8 POS filed by Arcadium Lithium plc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 7, 2025 

Registration No. 333-276377

Registration No. 333-276378 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT TO

FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENTS

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-276377

FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-276378

Arcadium Lithium plc

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Arcadium Lithium plc Omnibus Incentive Plan

Livent Corporation Incentive Compensation and Stock Plan

Livent Nonqualified Savings Plan

(Full title of the plans)

Paul W. Graves

President and Chief Executive Officer

1818 Market Street

Suite 2550

Philadelphia, PA

United States
19103

+1 215 299 5900

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

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

Arcadium Lithium plc, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey (the “Registrant”), is filing this Post-Effective Amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) with respect to the following Registration Statements on Form S-8 (collectively, the “Registration Statements”), originally filed by the Registrant, with the Securities and Exchange Commission:

On March 6, 2025, the acquisition by Rio Tinto BM Subsidiary Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales (the “Buyer”), of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of the Registrant, as contemplated by the Transaction Agreement dated as of October 9, 2024 (the “Transaction Agreement”), by and among, the Registrant, Rio Tinto Western Holdings Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales (the “Parent”), and the Buyer, was completed and the Registrant became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Buyer (or such affiliate of the Buyer designated by the Buyer in accordance with the terms of the transaction). The Buyer is a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Rio Tinto plc, which together with each of Rio Tinto plc’s subsidiaries, Rio Tinto Limited, and each of Rio Tinto Limited’s subsidiaries, comprise the Rio Tinto Group.

The Registrant, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements and removes from registration any and all securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statements as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II of the Registration Statements to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold or unissued at the termination of the offering. The Registration Statements are hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), 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 Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 7, 2025.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the trustees (or other persons who administer the Livent NQ Savings Plan) have duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 7, 2025.