As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 26, 2020
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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ELASTIC N.V.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
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The Netherlands Not Applicable
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
2012 Stock Option Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Elastic N.V.
800 West El Camino Real, Suite 350
Mountain View, California 94040
(650) 458-2620
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
Shay Banon
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Elastic N.V
800 West El Camino Real, Suite 350
Mountain View, California 94040
(650) 458-2620
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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Copies to:
Steven E. Bochner, Esq.
Steven V. Bernard, Esq.
Andrew D. Hoffman, Esq.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Professional Corporation
650 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 493-9300
W.H. Baird Garrett, Esq.
Elastic N.V.
800 West El Camino Real, Suite 350
Mountain View, California 94040
(650) 458-2620
Reinier Kleinpool
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V. Claude Debussylaan 80
1082 MD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 577 1771
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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 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. ☐
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Each Class
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 €0.01 per share:
—2012 Stock Option Plan 4,142,849(2) $90.31(3)
 $ 374,140,693.19
 $ 48,563.47
(1) Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement covers any additional ordinary shares of the Registrant (“Ordinary Shares”) that become issuable under the Registrant’s 2012 Stock Option Plan (the “2012 Plan”) by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without the Registrant’s receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the outstanding ordinary shares.
(2) Reflects an automatic increase to the number of Ordinary Shares reserved for issuance for future awards under the 2012 Plan, which annual increase is provided for in the 2012 Plan.
(3)
Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee on the basis of $90.31 per share, which is the average of the high and low prices of the Ordinary Shares, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on June 19, 2020.




EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) registers 4,142,849 additional ordinary shares of Elastic N.V. (the “Registrant”) under the Elastic N.V. 2012 Stock Option Plan (the “2012 Plan”), which provides for an automatic annual increase on the first day of each fiscal year, by an amount equal to the lesser of (i) 9,000,000 ordinary shares, (ii) five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares on the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year or (iii) such number of ordinary shares determined by the Board. On May 1, 2020, the number of the Registrant’s ordinary shares available for grant and issuance under the 2012 Plan increased by 4,142,849 shares, which represents 5% of the shares outstanding on April 30, 2020. Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on October 10, 2018 (File No. 333-227782) and August 26, 2019 (File No. 333-233467) are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement, except that the provisions contained in Part II of such earlier registration statements are modified as set forth in this Registration Statement. In accordance with the instructional note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the Commission, the information specified by Part I of the Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the Commission:
(1)The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2020, filed with the Commission on June 26, 2020;
(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 (a) above (other than the portions of these documents not deemed to be filed); and
(3)The description of the Registrant’s Ordinary Shares contained in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-38675) filed with the Commission on September 24, 2018, pursuant to Section 12(b) of 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 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.
The Registrant’s executive officers and directors have entered into indemnification agreements with the Registrant. The agreements provide, to the fullest extent permitted by the Registrant’s articles of association and the law of the Netherlands, that the Registrant will indemnify the executive officers who are not also a director against any and all liabilities, claims, judgments, fines, penalties, interest and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, incurred in connection with any expected, threatened, pending or completed action, investigation or other proceeding, whether civil, criminal or administrative, involving an executive officer by reason of his position as officer.
The articles of association provide that the Registrant will indemnify current and former directors against:
(i)the reasonable costs of conducting a defense against claims resulting from an act or omission in performing their duties or in performing other duties the company has asked them to fulfil;
(ii)any compensation or financial penalties they owe as a result of an act or omission as referred to under (i) above;
(iii)any amounts they owe under settlements they have reasonably entered into in connection with an act or omission as referred to under (i) above;
(iv)the reasonable costs of other proceedings in which they are involved as a current or former director, except for proceedings in which they are primarily asserting their own claims; and
(v)tax damage due to reimbursements in accordance with the above, to the extent this relates to the indemnified person’s current or former position with the Registrant and/or a group company and in each case to the extent permitted by applicable law.
No indemnification shall be given to an indemnified person insofar as:
(i)it has been established in a final and non-appealable decision of the competent court or, in the event of arbitration, of an arbitrator, that the act or omission of the indemnified person can be described as deliberate (opzettelijk), willfully reckless (bewust roekeloos) or seriously culpable. In that case, the indemnified person must immediately repay the sums reimbursed by the company, unless Dutch law provides otherwise or this would, in the given circumstances, be unacceptable according to standards of reasonableness and fairness; or
(ii)the costs or the capital losses of the indemnified person are covered by an insurance policy and the insurer has paid out these costs or capital losses; or
(iii)the indemnified person failed to notify the company as soon as possible of the costs or the capital losses or of the circumstances that could lead to the costs or capital losses.
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
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;
(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 Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.
(2)For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, 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)It will 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, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) 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 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 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 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 Mountain View, California, on June 26, 2020.
ELASTIC N.V.
By: /s/ Shay Banon
Name: Shay Banon
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Shay Banon, Janesh Moorjani and W.H. Baird Garrett, 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 Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact, proxy 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, proxy and agent, or his 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 on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date
/s/ Shay Banon
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
June 26, 2020
Shay Banon
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Janesh Moorjani
Chief Financial Officer
June 26, 2020
Janesh Moorjani
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Jonathan Chadwick
Director June 26, 2020
Jonathan Chadwick
/s/ Peter Fenton Director June 26, 2020
Peter Fenton
/s/ Alison Gleeson Director June 26, 2020
Alison Gleeson
/s/ Caryn Marooney Director June 26, 2020
Caryn Marooney
/s/ Chetan Puttagunta Director June 26, 2020
Chetan Puttagunta
/s/ Steven Schuurman Director June 26, 2020
Steven Schuurman
/s/ Michelangelo Volpi Director June 26, 2020
Michelangelo Volpi



AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the undersigned as the duly authorized representative in the United States of the Registrant in Mountain View, California, on June 26, 2020.
ELASTICSEARCH, INC.
By: /s/ Janesh Moorjani
Name: Janesh Moorjani
Title: President, Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

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