As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 8, 2019
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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Sunrun Inc.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware
26-2841711
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
595 Market Street, 29th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
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Sunrun Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan
Sunrun Inc. 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full title of the plan)
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Lynn Jurich
Chief Executive Officer
Sunrun Inc.
595 Market Street, 29th Floor
San Francisco, California 94105
(415) 580- 6900
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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Copies to:
Jon C. Avina, Esq.
Jeanna Steele, Esq.
Calise Y. Cheng, Esq.
Sundance Banks, Esq.
Cooley LLP
Sunrun Inc.
3715 Hanover Street
595 Market Street, 29th Floor
Palo Alto, California 94304-1130
San Francisco, California 94105
650-843-5000
(415) 580-6900
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Accelerated filer
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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. ☐




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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
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share, reserved for issuance pursuant to the Sunrun Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan
    4,525,946(2)
$15.18(4)
$68,703,860.28
$8,326.91
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share, reserved for issuance pursuant to the Sunrun Inc. 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
   2,262,973(3)
$12.90(5)
$29,192,351.70
$3,538.11
TOTAL:
6,788,919
 
$97,896,211.98
$11,865.02
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of the Registrant’s common stock that become issuable under the Sunrun Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (“2015 Plan”) and the Sunrun Inc. 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“2015 ESPP”), by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration that increases the number of the Registrant’s outstanding shares of common stock.
(2)
Represents an automatic increase of 4% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock on the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year to the number of the Registrant’s common stock reserved for issuance under, and which annual increase is provided for in the 2015 Plan.
(3)
Represents an automatic increase of 2% of the outstanding shares on the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year to the number of shares of the Registrant’s common stock reserved for issuance under, and which annual increase is provided for, in the 2015 ESPP.
(4)
Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee on the basis of $15.18 per share, the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s common stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select stock market on May 2, 2019.
(5)
Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(c) and (h) solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee on the basis of 85% of $12.90, the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s common stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select stock market on May 2, 2019. Pursuant to the 2015 ESPP, the purchase price of the shares of the Registrant’s common stock reserved for issuance thereunder will be at least 85% of the lower of the fair market value of the Registrant’s common stock on the first trading day of the offering period or on the exercise date.
 




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 on Form S-8 (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 REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
Sunrun Inc. (the “Registrant”) hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”):
(1)
The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the Commission on February 28, 2019 and as amended on March 5, 2019, pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”);
(2)
All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Registrant’s Annual Report referred to in (1) above (other than the portions of these documents not deemed to be filed); and
(3)
The description of the Registrant’s common stock contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-37511) filed with the Commission on July 22, 2015, pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act on or after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all 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; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with the rules of the Commission 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 herein or in any subsequently filed document which also 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 4.  Description of Securities.
Not applicable.




Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a corporation’s board of directors to grant, and authorizes a court to award, indemnity to officers, directors, and other corporate agents.
As permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Registrant’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation includes provisions that eliminate the personal liability of its directors and officers for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duty as directors and officers.
In addition, as permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws of the Registrant provides that:
•
The Registrant shall indemnify its directors and officers for serving the Registrant in those capacities or for serving other business enterprises at the Registrant’s request, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Delaware law provides that a corporation may indemnify such person if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful.
•
The Registrant may, in its discretion, indemnify employees and agents in those circumstances where indemnification is permitted by applicable law.
•
The Registrant will not be obligated pursuant to its amended and restated bylaws to indemnify a person with respect to proceedings initiated by that person, except with respect to proceedings authorized by the Registrant’s board of directors or brought to enforce a right to indemnification.
•
The rights conferred in the amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws are not exclusive, and the Registrant is authorized to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors, officers, employees, and agents and to obtain insurance to indemnify such persons.
•
The Registrant may not retroactively amend the bylaw provisions to reduce its indemnification obligations to directors, officers, employees, and agents
The Registrant’s policy is to enter into separate indemnification agreements with each of its directors and officers that provide the maximum indemnity allowed to directors and executive officers by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law and also to provide for certain additional procedural protections. The Registrant also maintains directors and officers insurance to insure such persons against certain liabilities.
These indemnification provisions and the indemnification agreements entered into between the Registrant and its officers and directors may be sufficiently broad to permit indemnification of the Registrant’s officers and directors for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.





Item 8.  Exhibits.
 
Exhibit
 
 
 
Incorporated by Reference
Number
 
Exhibit Description
 
Form
 
File No.
 
Exhibit
 
Filing Date
4.1
 
 
S-1
 
333-205217
 
4.1
 
June 25, 2015
5.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23.2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
99.1
 
 
S-1/A
 
333-205217
 
10.2
 
July 22, 2015
99.2
 
 
10-Q
 
001-37511
 
10.1
 
August 9, 2018

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) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and
(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 paragraphs (A)(1)(i) and (A)(1)(ii) do not apply if 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 that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

(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.





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 Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 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 Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.




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 San Francisco, California, on May 8, 2019.
SUNRUN INC.
 
 
 
By:
 
/s/ Lynn Jurich
 
 
Lynn Jurich
 
 
Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Lynn Jurich, Bob Komin and Jeanna Steele, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, 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), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent 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 attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.




Signature
 
Title
 
Date
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Lynn Jurich
 
Chief Executive Officer and Director
 
May 8, 2019
Lynn Jurich
 
(Principal Executive Officer)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Robert Komin
 
Chief Financial Officer
 
May 8, 2019
Robert Komin
 
(Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Edward Fenster
 
Chairman and Director
 
May 8, 2019
Edward Fenster
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Katherine August-deWilde
 
Director
 
May 8, 2019
Katherine August-deWilde
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Leslie Dach
 
Director
 
May 8, 2019
Leslie Dach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Alan Ferber
 
Director
 
May 8, 2019
Alan Ferber
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Mary Powell
 
Director
 
May 8, 2019
Mary Powell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Gerald Risk
 
Director
 
May 8, 2019
Gerald Risk
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Steve Vassallo
 
Director
 
May 8, 2019
Steve Vassallo