SYM Symbotic Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 31, 2024

Registration No. 333-   

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

SYMBOTIC INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

200 Research Drive

Wilmington, MA 01887

Telephone: (978) 284-2800

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

Symbotic Inc. 2022 Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan

Symbotic Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full Title of the Plan)

Corey Dufresne

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Symbotic Inc.

200 Research Drive

Wilmington, MA 01887

Telephone: (978) 284-2800

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

Copies to:

Robert W. Downes

Matthew B. Goodman

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

125 Broad Street

New York, New York 10004

Tel: (212) 558-4000

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 company in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). (Check one):

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

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) is filed by Symbotic Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), for the purpose of registering an additional 7,184,563 shares of its Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”) issuable under the Symbotic Inc. 2022 Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan (the “Omnibus Plan”) and 1,436,911 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable under the Symbotic Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”).

The number of shares of Class A Common Stock available for grant and issuance under the Omnibus Plan is subject to an annual increase on the first day of each calendar year beginning January 1, 2023, equal to the lesser of (i) five percent of the aggregate number of shares of Class A Common Stock outstanding on the final day of the immediately preceding calendar year and (ii) such smaller number of shares as is determined by the compensation committee of the Company’s board of directors (“Compensation Committee” and such annual increase, the “Omnibus Evergreen Provision”). In addition, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock available for grant and issuance under the ESPP is subject to an annual increase on the first day of each calendar year beginning January 1, 2023, equal to the lesser of (i) one percent of the aggregate number of shares of Class A Common Stock outstanding on the final day of the immediately preceding calendar year and (ii) such smaller number of shares as is determined by the Compensation Committee (such annual increase, the “ESPP Evergreen Provision” and together with the Omnibus Evergreen Provision, the “Evergreen Provisions”).

The additional shares are securities of the same class and relate to the same Omnibus Plan and ESPP as those registered pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (FileNo. 333-266829) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on August 12, 2022, including any filings incorporated therein and as amended from time to time (as amended, “Prior Registration Statement”).

In accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference, and the information required by Part II of Form S-8 is omitted, except as amended or supplemented by the information set forth below.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Company 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 Town of Wilmington, Commonwealth of Massachusetts on July 31, 2024.

SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENT, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Corey Dufresne and Carol Hibbard, jointly and severally, his or her attorney-in-fact, with the power of substitution, for him or her, in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated:

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Exhibit 5.1

[Letterhead of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP]

July 31, 2024

Symbotic Inc.,

  200 Research Drive,

    Wilmington, MA 01887.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) of (i) 7,184,563 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), of Symbotic Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), issuable under the Symbotic Inc. 2022 Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan and (ii) 1,436,911 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable under the Symbotic Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (such shares to be registered, the “Securities”), we, as your counsel, have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents, and such questions of law, as we have considered necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion. Upon the basis of such examination, it is our opinion that, when the registration statement relating to the Securities (“Registration Statement”) has become effective under the Act, the terms of the sale of the Securities have been duly established in conformity with the Company’s certificate of incorporation, and the Securities have been duly issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Securities will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

In rendering the foregoing opinion, we are not passing upon, and assume no responsibility for, any disclosure in any registration statement or any related prospectus or other offering material relating to the offer and sale of the Securities.

The foregoing opinion is limited to the Federal laws of the United States and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and we are expressing no opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction.

We have relied as to certain factual matters on information obtained from public officials, officers of the Company and other sources believed by us to be responsible.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We have issued our report dated December 11, 2023 with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Symbotic Inc. included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2023, which is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement. We consent to the incorporation by reference of the aforementioned report in this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 107

Calculation of Filing Fee Table

Form S-8

(Form Type)

Symbotic Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Table 1 – Newly Registered Securities

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