As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 10, 2020

Registration No. 333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. Amended and Restated 2017 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full Title of Plan)

Ori Lev

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

19350 State Highway 249

Suite 600

Houston, TX 77070

(Name and address of agent for service)

(281) 453-2222

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

With a copy to:

Lyuba A. Goltser, Esq.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

767 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10153

(212) 310-8000 (Phone)

(212) 310-8007 (Fax)

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.

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.   ☒

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NCS” or “Registrant”), for the purpose of registering an additional 250,000 shares (“Additional Securities”) of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. that may be issued and sold under the NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. Amended and Restated 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended by that certain First Amendment, effective as of December 1, 2020, the “A&R 2017 Plan”). The maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued under the A&R 2017 Plan is 551,626 shares, which includes 226,626 shares of Common Stock (on a post-reverse stock split basis, or 4,532,523 shares on a pre-split basis) registered on the Registrant’s Form S-8 (File No. 333-217516) filed on April 27, 2017 and 75,000 shares of Common Stock (on a post-reverse stock split basis, or 1,500,000 shares on a pre-split basis) registered on the Registrant’s Form S-8 (File No. 333- 239307) filed on June 19, 2020 (together, “Prior Registration Statements”). All share amounts reflected in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 reflect amounts on a post-reverse stock split basis, after giving effect to the 1-for-20 reverse stock split approved by the Board of Directors and stockholders of NCS that became effective December 1, 2020.

This Registration Statement relates to securities of the same class as registered on the Prior Registration Statements and is submitted in accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8 regarding Registration of Additional Securities. Pursuant to Instruction E of Form S-8, the Prior Registration Statements are incorporated by reference and made part of this Registration Statement, except as amended hereby. The prospectus referred to in Part I of this Registration Statement is a combined prospectus for purposes of Rule 429 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and relates to this Registration Statement and the Prior Registration Statements.

PART I

SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The information specified in Items 1 and 2 of Part I of this Registration Statement on Form S-8 is omitted from this filing in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the introductory note to Part I of the Registration Statement. The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered to the participants in the Plans covered by this Registration Statement as required by Rule 428(b)(1).

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”):

1

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, 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 herein and to be a part hereof from the date of the 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 in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in this Registration Statement, or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, modifies or supersedes such prior statement. Any statement contained in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in a subsequently filed document that is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement modifies or supersedes such prior statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Not applicable.

None.

The Registrant is governed by the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL. Section 145 of the DGCL provides that a corporation may indemnify any person, including an officer or director, who was or is, or is threatened to be made, a party to any threatened, pending or completed legal action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person was or is an officer, director, employee or agent of such corporation or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such officer, director, employee or agent acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the corporation’s best interest and, for criminal proceedings, had no reasonable cause to believe that such person’s conduct was unlawful. A Delaware corporation may indemnify any person, including an officer or director, who was or is, or is threatened to be made, a party to any threatened, pending or contemplated action or suit by or in the right of such corporation, under the same conditions, except that such indemnification is limited to expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person, and except that no indemnification is permitted without judicial approval if such person is adjudged to be liable to such corporation. Where an officer or director of a corporation is successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to above, or any claim, issue or matter therein, the corporation must indemnify that person against the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) which such officer or director actually and reasonably incurred in connection therewith.

The Registrant’s amended and restated bylaws authorize the indemnification of its officers and directors, consistent with Section 145 of the DGCL, as amended. The Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with each of its directors. These agreements, among other things, require the Registrant to indemnify each director to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, including indemnification of expenses such as attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by the director in any action or proceeding, including any action or proceeding by or in right of the Registrant, arising out of the person’s services as a director.

2

Reference is made to Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL, which enables a corporation in its original certificate of incorporation or an amendment thereto to eliminate or limit the personal liability of a director for violations of the director’s fiduciary duty, except (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) pursuant to Section 174 of the DGCL, which provides for liability of directors for unlawful payments of dividends of unlawful stock purchase or redemptions or (iv) for any transaction from which a director derived an improper personal benefit.

The Registrant maintains standard policies of insurance that provide coverage (i) to its directors and officers against loss rising from claims made by reason of breach of duty or other wrongful act and (ii) to the Registrant with respect to indemnification payments that it may make to such directors and officers.

Not applicable.

The exhibits to this Registration Statement are listed in the Exhibit Index below and are incorporated herein by reference.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

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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 the City of Houston, State of Texas, on December 10, 2020.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned constitutes and appoints each of Ori Lev and Ryan Hummer, or any of them, each acting alone, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (including all pre-effective and post-effective amendments and registration statements filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933), 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, each acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming that any such attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, 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.

Exhibit 5.1

767 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10153-0119

+1 212 310 8000 tel

+1 212 310 8007 fax

December 10, 2020

NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc.

19350 State Highway 249

Suite 600

Houston, TX 77070

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Company’s Registration Statement (the “Registration Statement”) on Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to the registration of 250,000 additional shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”), which may be issued by the Company following the filing of the Registration Statement pursuant to the First Amendment, effective as of December 1, 2020 (the “First Amendment”) to the Company’s Amended and Restated 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended by the First Amendment, the “Plan”).

In so acting, we have examined originals or copies (certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction) of (i) the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company; (ii) the Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, effective as of December 1, 2020; (iii) the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company; (iv) the Plan; (v) the First Amendment; (vi) the Registration Statement; and (vii) such corporate records, agreements, documents and other instruments, and such certificates or comparable documents of public officials and of officers and representatives of the Company, and have made such inquiries of such officers and representatives, as we have deemed relevant and necessary as a basis for the opinion hereinafter set forth.

In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified, conformed or photostatic copies, and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents. As to all questions of fact material to this opinion that have not been independently established, we have relied upon certificates or comparable documents of officers and representatives of the Company.

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Based on the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications stated herein, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered in accordance with the terms of the Plan, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

The opinion expressed herein is limited to the corporate laws of the State of Delaware, and we express no opinion as to the effect on matters covered by this letter of the laws of any other jurisdiction.

We hereby consent to the use of this letter as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc., of our report dated March 3, 2020 relating to the financial statements, which appears in NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Houston, Texas

December 10, 2020