# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001326801
**File Stem:** 0001326801-23-000028
**Filing Date:** 2023-3
**Character Count:** 20260
**Document Hash:** 826b6de15b6a11c44df88a5114ef4a45
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001326801-23-000028.hdr.sgml**: 20230301

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001326801-23-000028

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: S-8

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 6

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230301

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230301

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20230301

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Meta Platforms, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001326801
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SERVICES-COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, DATA PROCESSING, ETC. [7370]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 201665019
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-270184
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23694506

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1601 WILLOW ROAD
- **CITY:** MENLO PARK
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94025
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 650-618-7714

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1601 WILLOW ROAD
- **CITY:** MENLO PARK
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94025

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Facebook Inc
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20050511

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2023**

**&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Registration No. 333-**

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**<u>______________________</u>**

**FORM S-8**

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933**

**<u>______________________</u>**

![metalogoa.jpg](metalogoa.jpg)

**Meta Platforms, Inc.**

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

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|:---|:---|
| **Delaware** | **20-1665019** |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction <br>of Incorporation or Organization) | (I.R.S. Employer <br>Identification No.) |

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**1601 Willow Road <br>Menlo Park, California 94025**

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

**2012 Equity Incentive Plan**

(Full Title of the Plans)

**<u>______________________</u>**

**Susan Li**

**Chief Financial Officer**

**Meta Platforms, Inc.** <br>**1601 Willow Road <br>Menlo Park, California 94025**

(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

**(650) 543-4800**

*(Telephone Number, including area code, of agent for service)*

**<u>______________________</u>**

***Copies to:***

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|:---|:---|
| **Michael Kaplan, Esq.<br>Adam Kaminsky, Esq.<br>Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP<br>450 Lexington Avenue<br>New York, New York 10017<br>(212) 450-4000** | **Jennifer G. Newstead, Esq.<br>Katherine R. Kelly, Esq.<br>Meta Platforms, Inc.<br>1601 Willow Road<br>Menlo Park, California 94025<br>(650) 543-4800** |

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**<u>______________________</u>**

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 definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

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| Large accelerated filer | ⌧ | Accelerated filer | ◻  |
| Non-accelerated filer | ◻  | Smaller reporting company | ◻  |
| | | Emerging growth company | ◻  |

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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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**REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES**

**PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E**

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, Meta Platforms, Inc. ("**Registrant**") is filing this Registration Statement on Form S-8 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "**Commission**") to register 481,242,953 additional shares of the Registrant's Class A common stock for issuance under the Registrant's 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (the "**2012 Plan**"), pursuant to (i) an amendment to the 2012 Plan increasing the number of shares reserved for issuance thereunder by 425,000,000, effective as of March 1, 2023 and (ii) the provisions of the 2012 Plan that provide for an automatic annual increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance under the 2012 Plan. This Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant's registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on <u>[February](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680122000023/a2022forms-8.htm)[4](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680122000023/a2022forms-8.htm)[,](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680122000023/a2022forms-8.htm)[2022](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680122000023/a2022forms-8.htm)</u> (Registration No. 333-262508), <u>[January 28, 2021](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680121000017/a2021forms-8.htm)</u> (Registration No. 333-252518), <u>[January 30, 2020](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680120000015/a2020forms-8.htm)</u> (Registration No. 333-236161), <u>[January 31, 2019](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680119000012/a2019forms-8.htm)</u> (Registration No. 333-229457), <u>[February 1, 2018](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680118000013/a2018forms8.htm)</u> (Registration No. 333-222823), <u>[February 1, 2013](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312513034740/d476000ds8.htm)</u> (Registration No. 333-186402) and <u>[May 21, 2012](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512241917/d354793ds8.htm)</u> (Registration No. 333-181566). 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 Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.

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**PART II**

**Information Required in the Registration Statement**

**Item 3. <u>Incorporation of Documents by Reference</u>.**

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "**Securities Act**"), and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "**Exchange Act**"), are incorporated herein by reference:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)the Registrant's Annual Report on <u>[Form 10-K](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680123000013/meta-20221231.htm)</u> for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Commission on February 2, 2023;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)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; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)the description of the Registrant's Class A common stock contained in <u>[Exhibit](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680123000013/meta-12312022x10kexhibit46.htm)[4.6](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680123000013/meta-12312022x10kexhibit46.htm)[to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680123000013/meta-12312022x10kexhibit46.htm)</u> for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Commission on February 2, 2023, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and 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 into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents, except as to specific sections of such documents as set forth therein. Unless expressly incorporated into this Registration Statement, a report furnished on Form 8-K prior or subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement 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 in any subsequently filed document that also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.

**Item 5. <u>Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</u>.** 

Not applicable.

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**Item 8. <u>Exhibits</u>.** 

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **Exhibit** | | **<u>Incorporated by Reference</u>** | **<u>Incorporated by Reference</u>** | **<u>Incorporated by Reference</u>** | **<u>Incorporated by Reference</u>** | **Filed** |
| **<u>Number</u>** | **<u>Exhibit Description</u>** | **<u>Form</u>** | **<u>File No.</u>** | **<u>Exhibit</u>** | **<u>Filing Date</u>** | **<u>Herewith</u>** |
| 4.1 | <u>[Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant.](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680121000071/a20211028-exhibit31.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-35551 | 3.1 | October 28, 2021 |  |
| 4.2 | <u>[Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant.](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680121000071/a20211028-exhibit32.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-35551 | 3.2 | October 28, 2021 |  |
| 4.3 | <u>[Form of Registrant's Class A Common Stock Certificate.](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680122000018/fb-12312021x10kexhibit41.htm)</u> | 10-K | 001-35551 | 4.1 | February 3, 2022 |  |
| 5.1 | <u>[Opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.](a2023forms-8exhibit51.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 23.1 | <u>[Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.](a2023forms-8exhibit231.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 23.2 | <u>[Consent of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1).](a2023forms-8exhibit51.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 24.1 | <u>[Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this Registration Statement).](#id82255d407c74e94b9fa1c93fe779ff6_7)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 99.1 | <u>[2012 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680123000013/meta-12312022x10kex102a.htm)</u>. | 10-K | 001-35551 | 10.2(A) | February 2, 2023 |  |
| 99.2 | <u>[Third Amendment to the 2012 Equity Incentive](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680123000013/meta-12312022x10kex102b.htm)[Plan](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680123000013/meta-12312022x10kex102b.htm)</u>. | 10-K | 001-35551 | 10.2(B) | February 2, 2023 |  |
| 107 | <u>[Filing Fee Table](a2023forms-8exhibit107.htm)</u>. |  |  |  |  | X |

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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 Menlo Park, State of California, on this 1st day of March 2023.

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| | | **META PLATFORMS, INC.** |
| Date: | March 1, 2023 | /S/ Susan Li |
| | | **Susan Li** |
| | | **Chief Financial Officer** |

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**POWER OF ATTORNEY**

**KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS**, that the undersigned officers and directors of Registrant do hereby constitute and appoint Susan Li, Chief Financial Officer, and Katherine R. Kelly, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary, and each of them, the lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power and authority to do any and all acts and things and to execute any and all instruments which said attorneys and agents, and any one of them, determine may be necessary or advisable or required to enable said corporation to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any rules or regulations or requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with this Registration Statement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing power and authority, the powers granted include the power and authority to sign the names of the undersigned officers and directors in the capacities indicated below to this Registration Statement, to any and all amendments, both pre-effective and post-effective, and supplements to this Registration Statement, and to any and all instruments or documents filed as part of or in conjunction with this Registration Statement or amendments or supplements thereof, and each of the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms that all said attorneys and agents, or any one of them, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

**IN WITNESS WHEREOF**, each of the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the date indicated.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

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|:---|:---|:---|
| **Signature** | **Title** | **Date** |
| /s/ Mark Zuckerberg | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | March 1, 2023 |
| **Mark Zuckerberg** | (*Principal Executive Officer*) |  |
| /s/ Susan Li | Chief Financial Officer | March 1, 2023 |
| **Susan Li** | (*Principal Financial Officer*) |  |
| /S/ Susan J.S. Taylor | Chief Accounting Officer | March 1, 2023 |
| **Susan J.S. Taylor** | (*Principal Accounting Officer*) |  |
| /s/ Peggy Alford | Director | March 1, 2023 |
| **Peggy Alford** |  |  |
| /s/ Marc L. Andreessen | Director | March 1, 2023 |
| **Marc L. Andreessen** |  |  |
| /s/ Andrew W. Houston | Director | March 1, 2023 |
| **Andrew W. Houston** |  |  |
| /s/ Nancy Killefer | Director | March 1, 2023 |
| **Nancy Killefer** |  |  |
| /s/ Robert M. Kimmitt | Director | March 1, 2023 |
| **Robert M. Kimmitt** |  |  |
| /s/ Sheryl K. Sandberg | Director | March 1, 2023 |
| **Sheryl K. Sandberg** |  |  |
| /s/ Tracey T. Travis | Director | March 1, 2023 |
| **Tracey T. Travis** |  |  |
| /s/ Tony Xu | Director | March 1, 2023 |
| **Tony Xu** |  |  |

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## Ex-Filing

**EXHIBIT 107**

**Calculation of Filing Fee Table**

**Form S-8**

(Form Type)

**Meta Platforms, Inc.** 

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Newly Registered Securities

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **Security Type** | **Security Class Title** | **Fee Calculation Rule** | **Amount Registered**<sup>(1)</sup> | **Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Unit**<sup>(3)</sup> | **Maximum Aggregate Offering Price** | **Fee Rate** | **Amount of Registration Fee** |
| Equity | Class A common stock, $0.000006 par value per share | Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) | 481242953<sup>(2)</sup> | $169.19 | $81421495218.07 | 0.00011020 | $8972648.77 |
| **Total Offering Amounts** | **Total Offering Amounts** | **Total Offering Amounts** | **Total Offering Amounts** |  | $81421495218.07 |  | $8972648.77 |
| **Total Fee Offsets** | **Total Fee Offsets** | **Total Fee Offsets** | **Total Fee Offsets** |  |  |  | $— |
| **Net Fee Due** | **Net Fee Due** | **Net Fee Due** | **Net Fee Due** |  |  |  | $8972648.77 |

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1)Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("**Securities Act**"), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of the Registrant's Class A common stock that become issuable in respect of the securities identified in the above table by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without the Registrant's receipt of consideration that results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of the Registrant's Class A common stock.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)Represents additional shares of the Registrant's Class A common stock reserved for issuance under the Registrant's 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (the "**2012 Plan**") pursuant to (i) an amendment to the 2012 Plan increasing the number of shares reserved for issuance thereunder, effective as of March 1, 2023 and (ii) the provisions of the 2012 Plan that provide for an automatic annual increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance under the 2012 Plan.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3)Estimated in accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee based on the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant's Class A common stock as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on February 24, 2023.

## Exhibit 5.1

![image.jpg](image.jpg)

**EXHIBITS 5.1 AND 23.2**

**OPINION OF DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL LLP**

March 1, 2023

Meta Platforms, Inc. <br>1601 Willow Road <br>Menlo Park, California 94025 <br>

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "**Company**"), and are delivering this opinion in connection with the filing of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "**Registration Statement**") with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the purpose of registering under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "**Securities Act**"), an aggregate of 481,242,953 shares of Class A common stock, $0.000006 par value per share (the "**Securities**"), issuable pursuant to the Company's 2012 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended and restated to date (the "**Plan**").

We, as your counsel, have examined originals or copies of such documents, corporate records, certificates of public officials and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purpose of rendering this opinion.

In rendering the opinion expressed herein, we have, without independent inquiry or investigation, assumed that (i) all documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and complete, (ii) all documents submitted to us as copies conform to authentic, complete originals, (iii) all signatures on all documents that we reviewed are genuine, (iv) all natural persons executing documents had and have the legal capacity to do so, (v) all statements in certificates of public officials and officers of the Company that we reviewed were and are accurate and (vi) all representations made by the Company as to matters of fact in the documents that we reviewed were and are accurate.

On the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Securities have been duly authorized and, when and to the extent issued pursuant to the Plan upon receipt by the Company of the consideration for the Securities specified therein, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

We are members of the Bar of the State of New York and the foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

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

Very truly yours,

/s/ Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

___________________________________

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

## Exhibit 23.1

**EXHIBIT 23.1**

**Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm**

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the 2012 Equity Incentive Plan of Meta Platforms, Inc. of our reports dated February 1, 2023, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Meta Platforms, Inc. and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Meta Platforms, Inc., included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

San Mateo, California

March 1, 2023

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