SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

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FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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NOKIA CORPORATION

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Karaportti 3, P.O. Box 226

FI-00045 NOKIA GROUP

Espoo, Finland

+358 10 4488000

 (Address and telephone number of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

NOKIA USA INC. RETIREMENT SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT PLAN

(Full title of the plans)

Genevieve A. Silveroli

Nokia USA Inc.

6000 Connection Drive

Irving, Texas 75039

+1 (972) 374-3000

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

Copies to:

Doreen E. Lilienfeld, Esq.

Shearman & Sterling LLP

599 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10022

+1 (212) 848-7171

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer or a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.  (Check one):

Large accelerated filer  ☒     Accelerated filer  ☐     Non-accelerated filer  ☐     Smaller reporting company  ☐

 

 

 

 

Part I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

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Part II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.

Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) are incorporated by reference as of their respective dates in this Registration Statement:

 

(a)          The Registrant’s Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 (File No. 001-13202), filed on March 23, 2017;

          

(b)          The Registrant’s Form 11-K for the Plan for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 (File No. 001-13202), filed on July 12, 2016; and

(c)          the description of the Registrant’s Shares, registered under Section 12 of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), contained in “Item 9.  The Offer and Listing” and “Item 10.  Additional Information,” respectively, of the Form 20-F described in, and incorporated by reference in, paragraph (a) above.

 

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement, which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and are a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

 

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement 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 superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

 

Item 4.

Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

 

Item 5.

Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Riikka Tieaho, the Registrant’s Vice President, Corporate Legal, has opined as to the legality of the issuance of the Shares being registered under this Registration Statement. At the time of rendering this opinion, the value of the Shares owned by Ms. Tieaho or subject to her outstanding equity awards exceeded $50,000.

Item 6.

Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

The Articles of Association of the Registrant contain no provisions under which any member of the Board of Directors or officers is indemnified in any manner against any liability which he may incur in his capacity as such.  Article 12 of the Articles of Association of the Registrant, however, provides inter alia, that the “Annual General Meeting shall … take resolutions on … discharging the members of the Board of Directors and the President from liability.

 

 

 

The Registrant maintains liability insurance for its Board of Directors and certain of its officers.  Such persons are insured against liability for “wrongful acts,” including breach of duty, breach of trust, neglect, error and misstatement.

Item 7.

Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

 

Item 8.

Exhibits.

See Exhibit Index.

 

Pursuant to Item 8(b) of Part II of Form S-8, the Registrant hereby undertakes that it will submit the Plan and any amendment thereto to the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) in a timely manner and it will make all changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan.

 

Item 9.

Undertakings.

(a)           The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(1)           To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made of securities registered hereby, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which shall 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;

 

(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; and

 

(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 further 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 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 Securities and Exchange 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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Part III

 

 

The Registrant.  Pursuant to the requirements of the U.S. 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 Espoo, Republic of Finland on March 23, 2017.

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Ms. Riikka Tieaho and/or Ms. Saana Nurminen his/her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting alone, each with full power of substitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments, including post-effective amendments, and supplements to this Nokia Corporation 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 attorney(s)-in-fact and agent(s) 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/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney(s)-in-fact and agent(s), or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the indicated capacities on March 23, 2017.

Members of the Board of Directors

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The Plan:

 

Nokia USA Inc. Retirement Savings and Investment Plan
	/s/ Pekka Louhevirta
Name:	Pekka Louhevirta
Title:	Director, Compensation & Benefits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

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* Filed herewith.

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