Initial Registration Statement for Employee Benefit Plan Form S 8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2024

Registration No.__________________

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE HOLDINGS LTD.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Bermuda	98-0691007
(State or other jurisdiction of	(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)	Identification No.)

7665 Corporate Center Drive

Miami, Florida 33126
(Address, including zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.

Amended and Restated 2013 Performance Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Daniel S. Farkas

Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Development Officer and Secretary

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.

7665 Corporate Center Drive

Miami, Florida 33126

(305) 436-4000

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

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.

Large accelerated filer x	Accelerated filer ¨
Non-accelerated filer ¨	Smaller reporting company ¨
	Emerging growth company ¨

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 is filed by the Company to register additional securities issuable pursuant to the Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. Amended and Restated 2013 Performance Incentive Plan (the "Plan") and consists of only those items required by General Instruction E to Form S-8.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE

SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.

Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

The following documents of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (the "Company" or "Registrant") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated herein by reference:

	(a)	The Company's Registration Statements on Form S-8, filed with the Commission on January 24, 2013, June 30, 2016, May 27, 2021, August 9, 2022 and August 8, 2023 (Commission File Nos. 333-186184, 333-212352, 333-256544,333-266688 and 333-273795 respectively);
	(b)	The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the Commission on February 28, 2024 (Commission File No. 001-35784);
	(c)	The portions of the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Commission on April 29, 2024 that are incorporated by reference in Part III of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 (Commission File No. 001-35784);
	(d)	The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for its fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2024 and June 30, 2024, filed with the Commission on May 7, 2024 and August 8, 2024 (each, Commission File No. 001-35784);
	(e)	The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on March 12, 2024, April 8, 2024, June 14, 2024, August 15, 2024 and September 17, 2024 (each, Commission File No. 001-35784, and in each case only as to the information "filed" with the Commission thereunder for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") and not as to information "furnished" thereunder); and
	(f)	The description of the Company's Ordinary Shares contained in Exhibit 4.16 to its Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the Commission on February 28, 2024 (Commission File No. 001-35784), and any other amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents subsequently filed by the Company 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 into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with Commission rules shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is 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 herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.

Description of Securities

Not applicable.

Item 5.

Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

Not applicable.

Item 6.

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

The Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda (the "Companies Act") requires every officer, including directors, of a company in exercising powers and discharging duties, to act honestly in good faith with a view to the best interests of the company, and to exercise the care, diligence and skill that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances. The Companies Act provides that a Bermuda company may indemnify its directors in respect of any loss arising or liability attaching to them as a result of any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust of which they may be guilty. However, the Companies Act further provides that any provision, whether in the bye-laws of a company or in any contract between the company and any officer or any person employed by the company as auditor, exempting such officer or person from, or indemnifying him against, any liability which by virtue of any rule of law would otherwise attach to him, in respect of any fraud or dishonesty of which he may be guilty in relation to the company shall be void.

The Registrant has adopted provisions in its bye-laws that, subject to certain exemptions and conditions, require the Registrant to indemnify to the full extent permitted by the Companies Act in the event each person who is involved in legal proceedings by reason of the fact that person is or was a director, officer or resident representative of the Registrant, or is or was serving at the request of the Registrant as a director, officer, resident representative, employee or agent of another company or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement, and excise taxes or penalties arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) incurred and suffered by the person in connection therewith. The Registrant is also required under its bye-laws to advance to such persons expenses incurred in defending a proceeding to which indemnification might apply, provided if the Companies Act requires, the recipient provides an undertaking agreeing to repay all such advanced amounts if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified. In addition, the Registrant's bye-laws specifically provide that the indemnification rights granted thereunder are non-exclusive.

In addition, the Registrant has entered into separate contractual indemnification arrangements with its directors. These arrangements provide for indemnification and the advancement of expenses to these directors in circumstances and subject to limitations substantially similar to those described above. Section 98A of the Companies Act and the Registrant's bye-laws permit the Registrant to purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any officer or director in respect of any loss or liability attaching to him in respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust, whether or not the Registrant may otherwise indemnify such officer or director. The Registrant expects to continue to maintain standard policies of insurance that provide coverage (i) to its directors and officers against loss arising 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.

Item 7.

Exemption from Registration Claimed

Not applicable.

Item 8.

Exhibits

The following documents are filed as exhibits to this Registration Statement.

Exhibit Number	Description of Exhibit
4	Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. Amended and Restated 2013 Performance Incentive Plan (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Form 8-K filed on June 14, 2024 (Commission File No. 001-35784)).
5	Opinion of Walkers (Bermuda) Limited (opinion re legality).
23.1	Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
23.2	Consent of Walkers (Bermuda) Limited (included in Exhibit 5).
24	Power of Attorney (included in this Registration Statement under "Signatures").
107	Filing Fee Table

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, 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 Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Miami, State of Florida, on November 7, 2024.

	NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE HOLDINGS LTD.
	By:	/s/ Harry Sommer
		Harry Sommer
		President and Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Harry Sommer, Mark A. Kempa, Daniel S. Farkas and Angela Stark, and each of them, acting individually and without the other, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, 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 (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the 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 and about the premises, 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 either of them individually, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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

Signature		Title	Date
/s/Harry Sommer		Director, President and Chief Executive Officer	November 7, 2024
Harry Sommer		(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/Mark A. Kempa		Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	November 7, 2024
Mark A. Kempa		(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/Faye L. Ashby		Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer	November 7, 2024
Faye L. Ashby		(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Stella David		Director, Chairperson of the Board	November 7, 2024
Stella David
/s/David M. Abrams		Director	November 7, 2024
David M. Abrams
/s/José E. Cil		Director	November 7, 2024
José E. Cil
/s/Harry C. Curtis		Director	November 7, 2024
Harry C. Curtis
/s/Mary E. Landry		Director	November 7, 2024
Mary E. Landry
/s/Zillah Byng-Thorne		Director	November 7, 2024
Zillah Byng-Thorne
/s/Daniel S. Farkas		Authorized Representative in the United States	November 7, 2024
Daniel S. Farkas

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