UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

PERMA-FIX ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC.

  (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)  

Mark Duff

President and Chief Executive Officer

8302 Dunwoody Place, Suite 250

Atlanta, Georgia 30350

(Name and address of agent for service)

(770) 587-9898

(Telephone number, including area code of

agent for service)

Copy to:

Irwin H. Steinhorn, Esquire

CONNER & WINTERS, LLP

One Leadership Square, Suite 1700

211 North Robinson

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102

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

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. [  ]

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company”), relating to (i) 540,000 shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”), issuable to eligible employees and consultants of the Company under the Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. 2017 Stock Option Plan, and (ii) 300,000 shares of its Common Stock, issuable to non-employee directors of the Company under the Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. 2003 Outside Directors Stock Plan (“Directors’ Plan”), which shares of Common Stock being registered hereunder under the Directors’ Plan is in addition to the (a) 200,000 shares of Common Stock registered on the Corporation’s Form S-8 filed on December 8, 2003 (Commission File No. 333-110995), (b) the 200,000 shares of Common Stock registered on the Corporation’s Form S-8 filed on August 19, 2008 (Commission File No. 333-153086), and (c) the 400,000 shares of Common Stock registered on the Corporation’s Form S-8 filed on March 31, 2015 (Commission File No. 333-203137) (collectively, the “Prior Registration Statements”).

In accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8, and only with respect to the Common Stock issuable under the Directors’ Plan, this Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Prior Registration Statements, to the extent not superseded hereby.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 (Items 1 and 2) will be sent or delivered to the participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the instructions to Form S-8, such documents are not being filed as part of this registration statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act.

PART II.

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed by the Company with the Securities Exchange Commission are incorporated herein by reference:

All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 subsequent to the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment, 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 herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents (such documents, and the documents listed above, being hereinafter referred to as “Incorporated Documents”). Any statement contained in an Incorporated Document 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 Incorporated Document 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.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

The Registrant is incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware. Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who are, or are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person was an officer, director, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such person as an officer, director, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided that such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was illegal. A Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who are, or are threatened to be made, a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation by reason of the fact that such person was a director, officer, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests except that no indemnification is permitted without judicial approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be liable to the corporation. Where an officer or director is successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify him against the expenses which such officer or director has actually and reasonably incurred.

The Registrant’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (“Restated Certificate of Incorporation”), provides for the mandatory indemnification by the Registrant of its directors to the full extent permitted by Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (or any similar provision or provisions of applicable law at the time in effect), and for the permissive indemnification of its officers, employees or agents, as may be authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company. This indemnification is not deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification might be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, both as to action in an official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office. This indemnification will continue as to such person who was a director or officer of the Registrant, but has ceased to be a director or officer and inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such person.

The Company has entered into separate employment agreements, each dated as of September 8, 2017, with Mark Duff, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Dr. Louis Centofanti, Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, and Ben Naccarato, Chief Financial Officer (collectively, the “Employment Agreements”). The Employment Agreements contain identical provisions that obligate the Company to indemnify the named officers against any and all expenses reasonably incurred by him in connection with or arising out of (a) the defense of any action, suit or proceeding in which he is a party, or (b) any claim asserted or threatened against him, in either case by reason of or relating to his being or having been an employee, officer, director or agent of the Company, any subsidiary thereof, or another company, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise for which he was serving in such capacity at the request of the Company, except insofar as such indemnification is prohibited by law. Expenses covered by the indemnification provisions of the Employment Agreements include the fees and disbursements of attorneys, amounts of judgments and amounts of any settlements.

The Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant limits the liability of its directors to the corporation or its stockholders for any monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty as a director. Under the Registrant’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, and as permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law, directors are not liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages arising from a breach of their fiduciary duties as directors. Such provision, however, does not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders; (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (relating to liability of directors for unlawful payment of dividend or unlawful stock purchase or redemption); or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. The director’s limitations of liability described above may not limit a director’s liability for violation of, or otherwise relieve the Registrant or its directors from the necessity of complying with, federal or state securities laws or affect the availability of equitable remedies, such as injunctive relief or rescission. However, as a practical matter, equitable remedies may not be available in all situations, and there may be instances in which no effective remedy is available at all.

The foregoing summaries are necessarily subject to the complete text of the statutes, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation referred to above, and the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws, as amended, and are qualified in their entirety by reference thereto.

Not applicable.

provided, however, that the undertakings set forth in paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(ii) above do not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8 and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, 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 Atlanta, State of Georgia, on the 26th day of March, 2018.

Power of Attorney

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints MARK DUFF and BEN NACCARATO, and each or either of them, his attorney-in-fact, with the full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all interests and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 this report has been signed below by the following persons in capacities and on the dates indicated.