As filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
on May 20 ,2025
Registration No. 333- _____________


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549



FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933



PERION NETWORK LTD.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



State of Israel
Not Applicable
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

2 Leonardo Da Vinci  Street, 24th Floor
Tel Aviv 6473309, Israel
Tel: (+972) (3)98-1000
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)
 
Perion Network Ltd. 2024 Share Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the Plans)

Intercept Interactive Inc. d/b/a Perion
One World Trade Center, 77th Floor, Suite A, New York, NY
New York, NY 10007
Phone: (212) 685-8000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:
Yael Shofar, Adv.
Perion Network Ltd.
2 Leonardo Da Vinci St.,
24th Floor
Tel Aviv 6473309, Israel
Tel: +972 (3) 398-1000
Dr. Shachar Hadar, Adv.
Elad Ziv, Adv.
Meitar | Law Offices
16 Abba Hillel Road
Ramat Gan 5250608, Israel
Tel: +972 (3) 610-3100
Fax: +972 (3) 610-3111
Michael Kaplan
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
450 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
United States
+1 212 450 4000

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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (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.


EXPLANATORY NOTE
 
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this registration statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) for the purpose of registering an additional 1,355,704 Ordinary Shares, consisting of (i) 1,250,000 Ordinary Shares under the Plan (as defined below), and (ii) 105,704 Ordinary Shares of Perion Network Ltd. (the “Registrant”), that were previously registered but not issued under the Registrant’s Equity Incentive Plan (a previous incentive plan of the Registrant), for issuance under the Perion Network Ltd. 2024 Share Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), and any additional Ordinary Shares that become issuable under the Plan by reason of any share dividend, share split, or other similar transaction pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

The Registrant initially filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 with the Commission on December 23, 2024 (File No. 333-284011) (the “Prior Registration Statement”).
 
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statement related to the Plan are incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this Registration Statement, except as amended hereby.
 
PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) 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, and the introductory note to Part I of the Form S-8 Instructions. The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be delivered to the participants in the Plan, 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 Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed by the Registrant with the Commission:
 
(a)
The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Commission on March 25, 2025;

(b)
The Registrant’s reports of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K furnished to the Commission on April 3, 2025, April 16, 2025, and May 13, 2025 (with respect to the GAAP financial statements tables contained in the press release attached thereto);

(c)
All reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) since December 31, 2024; and

(d)
The description of the Registrant’s Ordinary Shares set forth in Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 20-F, filed with the Commission on April 8, 2024, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of further updating that description.
 
All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, and any Reports of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K subsequently furnished by the Registrant to the Commission during such period (or portions thereof) that are identified in such forms as being incorporated into this Registration Statement, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the respective dates of filing or furnishing (as applicable) of such documents. Any statement contained in this Registration Statement or in a document incorporated by reference shall be deemed modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed or furnished document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein or therein 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 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not applicable.


ITEM 8.
EXHIBITS.

The following exhibits to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 are filed together herewith or incorporated herein by reference.
 
 EXHIBIT INDEX
 
Exhibit
Number
 
Exhibit
     
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
     

*
Filed herewith.
 
 
(1)
Previously filed with the SEC on December 23, 2024 as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 and incorporated herein by reference.


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 Tel Aviv, Israel, on this 20th day of May, 2025.
 
 
Perion Network Ltd.
 
 
 
 
 
 
By:
/s/ Tal Jacobson
 
 
Name:
Tal Jacobson
 
 
Title:
Chief Executive Officer
 


POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
We, the undersigned directors and/or officers of the Registrant, hereby severally constitute and appoint Tal Jacobson and Elad Tzubery, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys, with full power to any of them, and to each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below the registration statement on Form S-8 filed herewith, and any and all amendments to said registration statement, and any registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, and to file or cause to be filed the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, 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 to all intents and purposes as each of them might or could do in person, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys, and each of them, or their substitute or substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on May 20, 2025.
 
Name
 
Title
 
 
 
/s/ Eyal Kaplan
 
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Eyal Kaplan
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Tal Jacobson
 
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Tal Jacobson
 
(Principal Executive Officer)
 
 
 
/s/ Elad Tzubery
 
Chief Financial Officer
Elad Tzubery
 
(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
 
 
 
/s/ Michal Drayman
 
Director
Michal Drayman
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Amir Guy
 
Director
Amir Guy
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Rami Schwartz
 
Director
Rami Schwartz
 
 
     
/s/ Michael Vorhaus
 
Director
Michael Vorhaus
   
 
 
 
/s/ Joy Marcus
 
Director
Joy Marcus
   


SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED U.S. REPRESENTATIVE OF REGISTRANT

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of Perion Network Ltd., has signed this registration statement on May 20, 2025.

Intercept Interactive Inc.
D/B/A Perion
 
 
 
 
By:
/s/ Tal Jacobson
 
Name:
Tal Jacobson
 
Title:
Director
 



ATTACHMENTS / EXHIBITS

ATTACHMENTS / EXHIBITS

EXHIBIT 5.1

EXHIBIT 23.1

EXHIBIT 107