THC Tenet Healthcare Corporation New

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 15, 2019

Registration No. 333-                

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1400

Dallas, Texas 75202

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

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 Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

to the extent that the court in which the action or suit was brought or other court of competent jurisdiction determines upon application that in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the court deems proper.

To the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of a Nevada corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (1) and (2) of Section 78.7502, as described above, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, the corporation shall indemnify him or her against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense.

The Registrant’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation provide that no director or officer of the Registrant shall be personally liable to the Registrant or its shareholders for damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, except for liability (i) for acts or omissions that involve intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of law, or (ii) for the payment of dividends in violation of the Section 300 of Chapter 78 of the Nevada Revised Statutes. The Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation further provide that the liability of directors and officers of the Registrant shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent authorized by Nevada law, as amended. Section 78.138(7) of the Nevada Revised Statutes, as amended, provides that, subject to limited statutory exceptions and unless the articles of incorporation or an amendment thereto (in each case filed on or after October 1, 2003) provide for greater individual liability, a director or officer is not individually liable to a corporation or its stockholders or creditors for any damages as a result of any act or failure to act in his or her capacity as a director or officer unless the presumption established by Section 78.138(3) of the Nevada Revised Statutes has been rebutted and it is proven that (i) the director’s or officer’s act or failure to act constituted a breach of his or her fiduciary duties as a director or officer and (ii) such breach involved intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of law.

The Registrant’s Amended and Restated Bylaws, as well as individual indemnification agreements the Registrant has entered into with directors of the corporation:

(a)    provide for mandatory indemnification, to the fullest extent permitted by law, of any present or former director or officer of the Registrant or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries who has served as such a director or officer on or after November 5, 2008 (each, an indemnitee) for all expenses, liabilities, losses or other specified amounts resulting from a legal proceeding arising from any occurrence that takes place after November 5, 2008 and that relates to the fact that such indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Registrant or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries or at the request of the Registrant served in one of several specified capacities with respect to another entity;

(b)    provide that the Registrant is not required to indemnify an indemnitee in connection with any legal proceeding initiated by the indemnitee except under certain specified circumstances;

(c)    require the advancement of expenses to an indemnitee upon receipt of an undertaking by the indemnitee to repay if it is ultimately determined that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified by the Registrant;

(d)    provide that (1) when making a determination of whether an indemnitee is entitled to indemnification under the Amended and Restated Bylaws, there is a presumption that the indemnitee is entitled to indemnification and the Registrant has the burden of proof to overcome that presumption, and (2) that, in an indemnitee’s lawsuit to enforce his or her right to indemnification under the Amended and Restated Bylaws, the Registrant must prove with clear and convincing evidence that the indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification;

(e)    require the Registrant to indemnify an indemnitee for expenses (and, if requested by an indemnitee, to advance such expenses on such terms and conditions as the Board deems appropriate) that are incurred by an indemnitee in a lawsuit to enforce the indemnitee’s indemnification rights under the Amended and Restated Bylaws;

(f)    provide that rights to indemnification under the Amended and Restated Bylaws are non-exclusive, have certain survival rights and are deemed to be contractual rights; and

(g)    provide that the Registrant has the power to purchase insurance or make other financial arrangements on behalf of an indemnitee for any liability and any related expenses, except that no such financial arrangement may provide protection for a person adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be liable for intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of law, except with respect to advancement of expenses or indemnification ordered by a court.

In addition, the Registrant has purchased insurance coverage to insure its directors and officers against certain liabilities that they may incur in their capacity as such.

information set forth in this Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement.

(iii)    To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;

Provided, however , that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) 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 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.

(c)    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.