UWHR Uwharrie Capital Corp (QX)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2021

Registration Statement No. 333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

UWHARRIE CAPITAL CORP

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

132 North First Street

Albemarle, North Carolina 28001

Telephone: (704) 982-4415

(Address, including zip code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Uwharrie Capital Corp Employees 401(k) Retirement Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Roger L. Dick

President and Chief Executive Officer

Uwharrie Capital Corp

132 North First Street

Albemarle, North Carolina 28001

Telephone: (704) 982-4415

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

COPIES TO:

Todd H. Eveson

Jonathan A. Greene

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300

Raleigh, North Carolina 27607

Telephone: (919) 781-4000

Facsimile: (919) 781-4865

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.  ☐

of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered under this Registration Statement have been sold or that 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 filing of such documents. In no event, however, will any of the information, including exhibits, that the Registrant discloses under Item 2.02 and Item 7.01 of any report on Form 8-K that has been or may from time to time be furnished to the Commission be incorporated by reference into or otherwise become a part of this Registration Statement.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained herein (or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein) modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed to constitute a part hereof except as so modified or superseded.

Section 55-8-57 of the NCBCA permits a corporation to provide for indemnification of directors, officers, employees or agents, in its articles of incorporation or bylaws or by contract or resolution, against liability in various proceedings and to purchase and maintain insurance policies on behalf of these individuals.

Article V of the Registrant’s articles of incorporation, as amended, provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by the NCBCA, individuals serving, or who have served, as directors shall not be personally liable for monetary damages for breach of any duty as a director. In addition, the Registrant’s bylaws provide that the Registrant shall indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent allowed by applicable law against (a) reasonable expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred in connection with any threatened, pending, or completed civil, criminal, administrative, investigative, or arbitrative action, suit, or proceeding (and any appeal thereof), whether or not brought by or on behalf of the Registrant, seeking to hold such director or officer liable by reason of the fact that he or she was acting in such capacity, and (b) reasonable payments made by such director or officer in satisfaction of any judgment, money decree, fine (including excise tax assessed with respect to an employee benefit plan) or penalty for which he or she may have become liable in any such action, suit, or proceeding, or in connection with a settlement approved by the board of directors of any such action, suit, or proceeding.

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section 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)    That, 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)    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, 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 related to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at the time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(h)    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.

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The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the trustees (or other persons who administer the Uwharrie Capital Corp Employees 401(k) Retirement Plan) have duly caused this Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Albemarle, State of North Carolina, on the 23rd day of December, 2021.