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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM

40-F

☐

REGISTRATION STATEM

 

ENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

☒

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13(a)

 

OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021

Commission File Number

000-54516

EMERA INC

ORPORATED

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Nova Scotia

, Canada

(Province or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

4911

(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number (if applicable))

Not applicable

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number (if applicable))

5151 Terminal Road

 

Halifax

, Nova Scotia,

Canada

B3J 1A1

Telephone: (

902

)

428-6096

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

Emera US Finance LP

c/o Corporation Service Company

251 Little Falls Drive

Wilmington

,

Delaware

 

19808

 

Telephone: (

302

)

636-5401

 

(Name, address (including zip code) and telephone number (including area code)

 

of agent for service in the United States)

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Not applicable.

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

 

Not applicable.

Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act: Not applicable.

For annual reports, indicate by check mark the information filed with this Form:

☒

 

Annual information form

☒

Audited annual financial statements

Number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer’s classes of

capital or common stock as of

December 31, 2021

:

261,065,175

 

Common Shares

4,866,814

 

Series A First Preferred Shares

1,133,186

 

Series B First Preferred Shares

10,000,000

 

Series C First Preferred Shares

5,000,000

 

Series E First Preferred Shares

8,000,000

 

Series F First Preferred Shares

12,000,000

 

Series H First Preferred Shares

8,000,000

 

Series J First Preferred Shares

9,000,000

 

Series L First Preferred Shares

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange

Act during

 

the preceding 12

 

months (or for

 

such shorter period

 

that the

 

Registrant was required

 

to file such

 

reports) and (2)

 

has

been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes

 

☐

No

 

☒

Indicate by

 

check mark

 

whether the

 

registrant has

 

submitted electronically

 

and posted

 

on its

 

corporate Web

 

site, if

 

any,

 

every

Interactive Data File required to be submitted and

 

posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T

 

(§232.405 of this chapter) during

the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to submit and post such files).

Yes

 

☒

 

No

 

☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Emerging growth company

 

☐

If an emerging growth company that prepares is financial

 

statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, 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 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

 

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†

 

The term “new

 

or revised financial accounting

 

standard” refers to

 

any update issued by

 

the Financial Accounting Standards

 

Board

to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.

Indicate

 

by

 

check

 

mark

 

whether

 

the

 

registrant

 

has

 

filed

 

a

 

report

 

on

 

and

 

attestation

 

to

 

its

 

management’s

 

assessment

 

of

 

the

effectiveness of its

 

internal control over financial

 

reporting under Section 404(b)

 

of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

 

(15 U.S.C. 7262(b))

by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.

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Certifications and Disclosure Regarding Controls

 

and Procedures.

(a)

 

Certifications regarding controls and procedures. See Exhibits 99.5

 

and 99.6.

(b)

 

Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures. As of December 31, 2021, an

 

evaluation of the

effectiveness of the Registrant’s

 

“disclosure controls and procedures” (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-

15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934,

 

as amended (the “Exchange

Act”)), was carried out by the Registrant’s Chief

 

Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial

 

Officer

(“CFO”). Based on that evaluation, the CEO and CFO have concluded that

 

as of such date the Registrant’s

disclosure controls and procedures are effective to provide

 

a reasonable level of assurance that information

required to be disclosed by the Registrant in reports that it files or submits under

 

the Exchange Act is

recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods

 

specified in United States Securities

and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) rules and forms.

It should be noted that while the CEO and CFO believe that the Registrant’s

 

disclosure controls and

procedures provide a reasonable level of assurance that they are effective,

 

they do not expect the disclosure

controls and procedures or internal control over financial reporting to be capable

 

of preventing all errors

and fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived or operated,

 

can provide only reasonable, not

absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met.

(c)

 

Management’s annual report

 

on internal control over financial reporting.

 

The Registrant's management is

responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control

 

over financial reporting. The

Registrant's internal control framework is based on the criteria published

 

in the Internal Control –

Integrated Framework (2013), a report issued by the Committee of Sponsoring

 

Organizations (COSO) of

the Treadway Commission. The Registrant's management,

 

including the CEO and CFO, evaluated the

design and effectiveness of the Registrant's internal control over

 

financial reporting as at December 31,

2021 and concluded that the Registrant's internal control over financial

 

reporting is effective as at

December 31, 2021.

(d)

 

Attestation report of the registered public accounting firm.

 

This annual report does not include an

attestation report of the Registrant’s

 

registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over

financial reporting.

 

(e)

 

Changes in internal control over financial reporting. There were no changes

 

in the Registrant’s internal

control over financial reporting during the fiscal year ended December

 

31, 2021, that have materially

affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect,

 

the Registrant’s internal control

 

over financial

reporting.

Audit Committee Financial Expert.

 

The Registrant’s board of directors

 

(the “Board”) has determined that four

audit committee financial experts serve on its Audit Committee. The audit

 

committee financial experts are Kent M.

Harvey, B. Lynn

 

Loewen, Andrea S. Rosen and Richard P.

 

Sergel. The Board has determined that Kent M. Harvey,

B. Lynn Loewen, Andrea S. Rosen

 

and Richard P.

 

Sergel are independent within the meaning of the listing

standards of the New York

 

Stock Exchange. Information concerning the relevant experience of Kent M. Harvey,

 

B.

Lynn Loewen, Andrea S. Rosen

 

and Richard P.

 

Sergel is included in their biographical information contained in the

Registrant’s Annual Information

 

Form for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto (the

“Annual Information Form”). The Commission has indicated that the

 

designation of a person as an audit committee

financial expert does not make such person an “expert” for any purpose,

 

impose any duties, obligations or liability

on such person that are greater than those imposed on members of the audit committee

 

and board of directors who

do not carry this designation, or affect the duties, obligations or

 

liability of any other member of the audit committee

or board of directors.

Code of Ethics.

 

The Emera Code of Conduct was revised and became effective

 

on February 1, 2021 (the “Code”)

and applies to all directors, officers and employees of the Registrant, including

 

the CEO and CFO. Since the

adoption of the Code, there have not been any waivers, including implied waivers,

 

from any provision of the Code.

A copy of the Code can be found on Emera’s

 

internet website at the following address:

https://www.emera.com/about

 

-us/who-we-are/code-of-conduct.

 

 

 

 

The Code was furnished to the Commission on February 24, 2021

 

as Exhibit 99.1 to a report on Form 6-K and is

incorporated by reference herein as Exhibit 99.9.

Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

 

The information provided under the headings “Audit Committee—Audit

and Non-Audit Services Pre-Approval Process” and “Audit Committee—Auditors’

 

Fees” contained in the

Registrant’s Annual Information

 

Form. The Registrant’s Audit Committee approved

 

all of the Audit-Related and

Tax services provided

 

by Ernst & Young

 

LLP in 2021 and none were approved pursuant to the de minimus

exception provided by Section (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation

 

S-X.

In connection with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s

 

adoption of amendments to finalize the

implementation of disclosure and submission requirements on

 

December 2, 2021, pursuant to Release No. 34-

93701, the Registrant hereby affirms that

 

Ernst & Young LLP

 

(PCAOB ID:

1263

) delivered an audit opinion

relating to the Registrant’s Financial Statements

 

(as defined below) contained in the Annual Information

 

Form, and

such audit opinion was issued in

Halifax, Nova Scotia

, Canada.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The information provided under the headings (a) “Off-Balance Sheet

 

Arrangements” and (b) “Contractual

Obligations” contained in the Registrant’s

 

Management’s Discussion and

 

Analysis dated February 14, 2022 for the

year ended December 31, 2021, filed as Exhibit 99.2 hereto (the “MD&A”) and with

 

respect to clause (a) the

information provided at note 27 (“D. Guarantees and Letters of Credit”) and note

 

32 (“Variable

 

Interest Entities”),

and with respect to clause (b) note 27 (“A. Commitments”) and note 25 (“Long-Term

 

Debt”), to the Audited

Consolidated Financial Statements as at and for the years ended December 31, 2021

 

and December 31, 2020, filed

as Exhibit 99.3 hereto (the “Financial Statements”), are incorporated by reference

 

herein.

Identification of the Audit Committee.

 

The information provided under the heading “Audit Committee” contained

in the Annual Information Form is incorporated by reference herein.

Mine Safety Disclosure.

 

Neither the Registrant nor any of its subsidiaries is the “operator” of

 

any “coal or other

mine”, as those terms are defined in section 3 of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977

 

(30 U.S.C. 802),

that is subject to the provisions of such Act (30 U.S.C. 801 et seq.). Therefore, the

 

provisions of Section 1503(a) of

the Dodd-Frank Wall

 

Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Item 16 of General Instruction

 

B to Form 40-

F requiring disclosure concerning mine safety violations and other

 

regulatory matters do not apply to the Registrant

or any of its subsidiaries.

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit

Number

Description

99.1

2021 Annual Information Form dated February 14, 2022 for the fiscal year ended

 

December 31,

2021

99.2

Management’s Discussion and Analysis

 

dated February 14, 2022 for the year ended December

31, 2021

99.3

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements as at and for the years ended

 

December 31, 2021 and

December 31, 2020

99.4

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

99.5

Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant

 

to Rule 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a) of the U.S.

Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended

99.6

Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or 15d

 

-14(a) of the U.S.

Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended

99.7

Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906

 

of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of

2002

99.8

Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906

 

of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of

2002

99.9

Emera Code of Conduct (as revised on February 1, 2021) (incorporated by reference

 

to Emera

Incorporated’s Form 6-K, furnished

 

to the Commission on February 24, 2021)

101

Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL)

104

Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained

 

in Exhibit 101)

 

UNDERTAKING

 

AND CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS

The Registrant undertakes to make available, in person or by telephone, representatives

 

to respond to inquiries made

by the Commission staff, and to furnish promptly,

 

when requested to do so by the Commission staff, information

relating to the securities in relation to which the obligation to file an annual report on

 

Form 40-F arises or

transactions in said securities.

The Registrant has previously filed a Form F-X in connection with the class of

 

securities in relation to which the

obligation to file this report arises.

Any change to the name or address of a Registrant’s

 

agent for service shall be communicated promptly to the

Commission by amendment to Form F-X referencing the file number of

 

the Registrant.

 

 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of

 

the requirements for

filing on Form 40-F and has duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,

 

thereto

duly authorized.

DATED

 

this 14

th

 

day of February, 2022.

EMERA

INCORPORATED

By:

 

/s/ Scott C. Balfour

Name:

 

Scott C. Balfour

Title:

 

President & Chief

Executive Officer