As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2015

Registration No. 333- 172847

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 4

 

TO

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Vale S.A.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Avenida Graça Aranha, No. 26
20030-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

Matching Program

2015 Cycle

(Full Title of the plan)

 

Vale Americas Inc.

250 Pehle Ave., Suite 302
Saddlebrook, New Jersey 07663
1-201-368-4800

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

 

with copies to:

 

Nicolas Grabar
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
One Liberty Plaza
New York, NY  10006
(212) 225-2000

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, 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

 

Large accelerated filer x	Accelerated filer o
Non-accelerated filer o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)	Smaller reporting company o

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-172847) (the “Registration Statement”) of Vale S.A. (the “Registrant”), which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2011. The Registration Statement registered 20,000,000 Preferred Class A shares of the Registrant’s stock (“Shares”), to be offered pursuant to the Matching Program (the “Plan”).

 

On January 4, 2012, the Registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement No. 333-172847 in order to add the Vale Matching Program 2012 Cycle to the Registration Statement.

 

On November 28, 2012, the Registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement No. 333-172847 in order to add the Vale Matching Program 2013 Cycle to the Registration Statement.

 

On January 24, 2014, the Registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement No. 333-172847 in order to add the Vale Matching Program 2014 Cycle to the Registration Statement

 

The purpose of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 is to add an additional plan cycle, the Vale Matching Program 2015 Cycle (the “2015 Matching Program”), to the Registration Statement.  Under the 2015 Matching Program, as in the Plan, Shares will be offered to certain eligible employees, subject to the satisfaction of applicable vesting conditions, in connection with those employees’ own purchase of Shares.  No additional securities are being registered hereby.

 

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Part II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 8.  Exhibits.

 

The following exhibits are filed with this Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement:

 

Exhibit number		Document
4.5		Vale Matching Program 2015 Cycle (filed herewith)
24		Power of Attorney (included on signature pages)

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, Vale 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 Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 25, 2015.

 

	VALE S.A.
	By:	/s/ Murilo Ferreira
	Name:	Murilo Pinto de Oliveira Ferreira
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer
	By:	/s/ Luciano Siani
	Name:	Luciano Siani Pires
	Title:	Chief Financial Officer

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Mr. Murilo Pinto de Oliveira Ferreira and Mr. Luciano Siani Pires, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement and all additional registration statements pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or either of them 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 of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

SIGNATURE			TITLE		DATE
/s/ Murilo Ferreira					February 25, 2015
Murilo Pinto de Oliveira Ferreira			Chief Executive Officer
/s/ Luciano Siani					February 25, 2015
Luciano Siani Pires			Chief Financial Officer
Vale Americas Inc.
By:	/s/ Paul Houston		Authorized Representative of Vale S.A. in the United States		February 25, 2015
Paul Houston
/s/ Dan Conrado					February 25, 2015
Dan Antonio Marinho Conrado			Chairman of the Board of Directors

 

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Mário da Silveira Teixeira Júnior		Vice-Chairman
/s/ Marcel Juviniano Barros				February 25, 2015
Marcel Juviniano Barros		Director
/s/ Robson Rocha				February 25, 2015
Robson Rocha		Director
Paulo Rogério Caffarelli		Director
/s/ Sérgio Alexandre Figueiredo Clemente				February 25, 2015
Sérgio Alexandre Figueiredo Clemente		Director
Hiroyuki Kato		Director
/s/ Oscar Augusto de Camargo Filho				February 25, 2015
Oscar Augusto de Camargo Filho		Director
Luciano Galvão Coutinho		Director
/s/ Joao Batista Cavaglieri				February, 25 2015
Joao Batista Cavaglieri		Director
José Mauro Mettrau Carneiro da Cunha		Director

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit number		Document
4.5		Vale Matching Program 2015 Cycle (filed herewith)
24		Power of Attorney (included on signature pages)

 

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