# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001827821
**File Stem:** 0001628280-23-009945
**Filing Date:** 2023-3
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001628280-23-009945.hdr.sgml**: 20230330

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001628280-23-009945

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: S-8

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 5

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230330

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230330

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20230330

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Forge Global Holdings, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001827821
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SECURITY & COMMODITY BROKERS, DEALERS, EXCHANGES & SERVICES [6200]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-271009
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23781880

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 415 MISSION ST.
- **CITY:** SAN FRANCISCO
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94105
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 415-881-1612

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 415 MISSION ST.
- **CITY:** SAN FRANCISCO
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94105

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Motive Capital Corp
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20201120

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** MCF2 Acquisition Corp.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20201009

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2023**

**Registration No. 333-**

**UNITED STATES<br>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM S-8**

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT**

***UNDER***

***THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933***

**FORGE GLOBAL HOLDINGS, INC.**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Delaware**<br> (State or other jurisdiction of<br>incorporation or organization) | **98-1561111**<br> (I.R.S. Employer<br>Identification No.) |

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| **415 Mission Street**<br>**Suite 5510**<br>**San Francisco, CA 94105**<br> (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | **94105**<br> (Zip Code) |

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**Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan**

**Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan**

(Full title of the plans)

**Kelly Rodriques**

**Chief Executive Officer**

**415 Mission Street**

**Suite 5510**

**San Francisco, CA 94105**<br> (Name and address of agent for service)

**(415) 881-1612**<br> (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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| ***With a copy to*:**  |
| **W. Stuart Ogg**<br>**Justin Anslow**<br>**Goodwin Procter LLP**<br>**601 Marshall Street**<br>**Redwood City, California 94063**<br>**(650) 752-3100** |

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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.

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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. ◻

**EXPLANATORY NOTE**

Forge Global Holdings, Inc. (the "registrant") is filing this registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") to register (i) 5,176,827 additional shares of the registrant's common stock under the Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the "2022 Plan"), pursuant to the provision of the 2022 Plan providing for such automatic increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance, and (ii) 1,725,609 additional shares of the registrant's common stock under the Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "2022 ESPP"), pursuant to the provision of the 2022 ESPP providing for such automatic increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance. In accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8, this registration statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the registrant's registration statement on Form S-8 filed on <u>[May 2](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_s8.htm)[6, 2022](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_s8.htm)</u>, except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information set forth herein. Only those items of Form S-8 containing new information not contained in the earlier registration statements are presented herein.

**Part II**

**INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT**

**Item 8. Exhibits.**

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| **Exhibit <br>Number** | **Exhibit Description** |
| 4.1 | <u>[Specimen Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 of the Prospectus)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922009809/tm2127561d14_ex4-5.htm).</u> |
| 5.1\* | <u>[Opinion of Goodwin Procter LLP](a51opiniongoodwin.htm)[.](a51opiniongoodwin.htm)</u> |
| 23.1\* | <u>[Consent of Ernst & Young LLP](a231opinioney.htm)[.](a231opinioney.htm)</u> |
| 23.2\* | <u>[Consent of Goodwin Procter LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)](a51opiniongoodwin.htm)[.](a51opiniongoodwin.htm)</u> |
| 24.1\* | <u>[Power of Attorney (included on the signature page)](#ie6fee907666847ebb03a26f3cd53c43f_54)[.](#ie6fee907666847ebb03a26f3cd53c43f_54)</u> |
| 99.1 | <u>[Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the registrant's Form 8-K filed on March 25, 2022)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922038152/tm2210206d1_ex10-3.htm).</u> |
| 99.2 | <u>[Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the registrant's Form 8-K filed on March 25, 2022)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922038152/tm2210206d1_ex10-4.htm).</u> |
| 99.3 | <u>[Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement under Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-4.htm)[(incorporate](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-4.htm)[d](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-4.htm)[by reference to](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-4.htm)[Exhibit 99.4](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-4.htm)[of the](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-4.htm)[registrant's registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-4.htm)[May 26, 2022](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-4.htm)[).](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-4.htm)</u> |
| 99.4 | <u>[Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement under the Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-5.htm)[(incorporated by reference to](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-5.htm)[Exhibit 99.](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-5.htm)[5](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-5.htm)[of the registrant's registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on May 26, 2022](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-5.htm)[)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-5.htm)[.](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-5.htm)</u> |
| 99.5 | <u>[Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-6.htm)[(incorporated by reference to](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-6.htm)[Exhibit 99.](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-6.htm)[6](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-6.htm)[of the registrant's registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on May 26, 2022](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-6.htm)[)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-6.htm)[.](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-6.htm)</u> |
| 99.6 | <u>[Form of Restricted Stock Award Agreement under the Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-7.htm)[(incorporated by reference to](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-7.htm)[Exhibit 99.](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-7.htm)[7](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-7.htm)[of the registrant's registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on May 26, 2022](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-7.htm)[)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-7.htm)[.](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1827821/000110465922065271/tm2216752d1_ex99-7.htm)</u> |
| 107\* | <u>[Filing Fee Table](a107feetable.htm)[.](a107feetable.htm)</u> |

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\* Filed herewith.

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**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 San Francisco, State of California, on March 30, 2023.

**Forge Global Holdings, Inc.** 

By: <u>/s/ Kelly Rodriques&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</u>

Name: Kelly Rodriques

Title: Chief Executive Officer

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**POWER OF ATTORNEY**

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Kelly Rodriques and Mark Lee, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this registration statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, 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 he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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 and on the dates indicated.

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| **Signature** | **Title** | **Date** |
| /s/ Kelly Rodriques | Chief Executive Officer and Director | March 30, 2023 |
| Kelly Rodriques | (Principal Executive Officer) |  |
| /s/ Mark Lee | Chief Financial Officer | March 30, 2023 |
| Mark Lee | (Principal Financial and Principal Accounting Officer) |  |
| /s/ Ashwin Kumar | Director | March 30, 2023 |
| Ashwin Kumar |  |  |
| /s/ Blythe Masters | Director | March 30, 2023 |
| Blythe Masters |  |  |
| /s/ Stephen George | Director | March 30, 2023 |
| Stephen George |  |  |
| /s/ Christoph Hansmeyer | Director | March 30, 2023 |
| Christoph Hansmeyer |  |  |
| /s/ Kimberly Vogel | Director | March 30, 2023 |
| Kimberly Vogel |  |  |
| /s/ James Herbert, II | Director | March 30, 2023 |
| James Herbert, II |  |  |
| /s/ Asiff Hirji | Director | March 30, 2023 |
| Asiff Hirji |  |  |

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## Ex-Filing

**Exhibit 107**

**Calculation of Filing Fee Table**

<u>Form S-8</u>

(Form Type)

<u>Forge Global Holdings, Inc.</u>

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Table 1: 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** | **Maximum Aggregate Offering Price** | **Fee Rate** | **Amount of Registration Fee** |
| Equity | Common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, that may be issued under the Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan | 457(c) and 457(h) | 5176827 <sup>(2)</sup> | $1.5800 <sup>(3)</sup> | $8179386.66 | $110.20 per $1,000,000 | $901.37 |
| Equity | Common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, that may be issued under the Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan | 457(c) and 457(h) | 1725609 <sup>(4)</sup> | $1.3430 <sup>(5)</sup> | $2317492.89 | $110.20 per $1,000,000 | $255.39 |
| **Total Offering Amounts** | **Total Offering Amounts** | **Total Offering Amounts** |  |  | $10496879.55 |  |  |
| **Total Fees Previously Paid** | **Total Fees Previously Paid** | **Total Fees Previously Paid** |  |  |  |  |  |
| **Total Fee Offsets** | **Total Fee Offsets** | **Total Fee Offsets** |  |  |  |  |  |
| **Net Fee Due** | **Net Fee Due** | **Net Fee Due** |  |  |  |  | $1156.76 |

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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 (the "Securities Act"), this registration statement shall also cover any additional shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share of the registrant (the "Common Stock") that may become issuable under the Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the "2022 Plan"), and the Forge Global Holdings, Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "2022 ESPP"), as a result of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, or other similar transaction which results in an increase in the number of shares of the registrant's outstanding common stock.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.Represents an automatic annual increase on January 1, 2023 equal to 3% of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the immediately preceding December 31, which annual increase is provided for in the 2022 Plan.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act and based upon the average of the high and low prices of Common Stock, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on March 24, 2023, which date is within five business days prior to the filing of this registration statement, which was $1.58 per share.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.Represents an automatic annual increase on January 1, 2023 equal to 1% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock on the immediately preceding December 31, which annual increase is provided for in the 2022 ESPP.

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5.Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457 of the Securities Act, and based on 85% of $1.58, the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on March 24, 2023. Pursuant to the 2022 ESPP, the purchase price of the shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance thereunder will be 85% of the fair market value of a share of Common Stock on the first trading day of the offering period or on the exercise date, whichever is less.

## Exhibit 5.1

**Exhibit 5.1**

![image.jpg](image.jpg)

Goodwin Procter LLP

601 Marshall St.

Redwood City, CA 94063

goodwinlaw.com

+1 650 752 3100

March 30, 2023

Forge Global Holdings, Inc.

415 Mission Street

Suite 5510

San Francisco, CA 94105

Re:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Securities Being Registered under Registration Statement on Form S-8</u>

We have acted as counsel to you in connection with your filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), on or about the date hereof relating to an aggregate of 6,902,436 shares (the "Shares") of Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share ("Common Stock"), of Forge Global Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), that may be issued pursuant to the Company's 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan and 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plans").

We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinions set forth below. We have relied, without independent verification, on certificates of public officials and, as to matters of fact material to the opinion set forth below, on certificates of officers of the Company.

The opinion set forth below is limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

For purposes of the opinion set forth below, we have assumed that no event occurs that causes the number of authorized shares of Common Stock available for issuance by the Company to be less than the number of then unissued Shares.

Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, upon issuance and delivery against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Plans, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

This opinion letter and the opinion it contains shall be interpreted in accordance with the Core Opinion Principles as published in 74 *Business Lawyer* 815 (Summer 2019).

We hereby consent to the inclusion of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving our consent, we do not 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 thereunder.

Very truly yours,

<u>s/ Goodwin Procter LLP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</u> 

GOODWIN PROCTER LLP

## Exhibit 23.1

**Exhibit 23.1**

**Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm**

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan of Forge Global Holdings, Inc. and the 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan of Forge Global Holdings, Inc. of our report dated March 1, 2023, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Forge Global Holdings, 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 Francisco, California

March 30, 2023

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