As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2014
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
STEREOTAXIS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 94-3120386 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer | |
Identification No.) |
4320 Forest Park Avenue, Suite 100
St. Louis, Missouri 63108
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including zip code)
Stereotaxis, Inc. 2012 Stock Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plans)
Karen Witte Duros
Sr. Vice President & General Counsel
Stereotaxis, Inc.
4320 Forest Park Avenue, Suite 100
St. Louis, Missouri 63108
(Name and address of agent for service)
(314) 678-6100
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
James L. Nouss, Jr., Esq.
Robert J. Endicott, Esq.
Todd M. Kaye, Esq.
Bryan Cave LLP
211 North Broadway, Suite 3600
St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2750
(314) 259-2000
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 ¨ | Accelerated filer ¨ | Non-accelerated filer ¨ | Smaller reporting company þ | |||
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company) |
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of securities to be registered |
Amount to be registered (1) |
Proposed maximum |
Proposed maximum aggregate |
Amount of registration fee | ||||
Common Stock, $0.001 par value |
1,000,000 | $3.73 (2) | $3,730,000 (2) | $480.42 | ||||
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(1) | Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), this Registration Statement shall also cover an indeterminate number of additional shares of the Registrants common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the Common Stock), that becomes issuable under the Stereotaxis, Inc. 2012 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (as so amended, the 2012 Plan) by reason of any stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalization or other similar transactions. |
(2) | Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act of 1933 and based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Companys Common Stock as reported by the NASDAQ Capital Market on April 28, 2014. |
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 (the plan information, registrant information and employee plan annual information) will be sent or given to participants in the Stereotaxis, Inc. 2012 Stock Incentive Plan (the 2012 Plan) as amended by that certain amendment adopted in April 2013 and approved by the Companys shareholders on June 5, 2013 (the Plan Amendment) as specified in Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act). In accordance with the instructions to Part I, those documents are not filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) as part of this Registration Statement or a prospectus under Rule 424 of the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents filed by Stereotaxis, Inc. (the Registrant or Company) with the Commission (File No. 000-50884) are hereby incorporated by reference:
(a) | The Registrants Annual Report filed on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013; |
(b) | The Registrants Amendment No. 1 to the Annual Report filed on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013; |
(c) | The Registrants Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 14, 2014, February 25, 2014 (regarding Item 8.01), March 31, 2014, and April 10, 2014; and |
(d) | The description of the Registrants common stock contained in the Registrants Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated August 2, 2004, registering the Registrants common stock under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description. |
In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than those made pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K or other information furnished to the Commission) 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 in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. These documents include periodic reports, such as Proxy Statements, Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K (other than the portions of those documents not deemed to be filed, which is deemed not to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement). Any statement contained in a document
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incorporated or deemed to be incorporated herein by reference 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.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
The securities to be offered are registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, our directors shall not be liable to the Company or our stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. In addition, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, indemnify any person made or threatened to be made a party to an action, suit or proceeding, whether criminal, civil, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that such person or his or her testator or intestate is or was a director, officer or employee of the Company, or any predecessor of the Company, or serves or served at any other enterprise as a director, officer or employee at the request of the Company.
Our amended and restated bylaws provide that the Company shall indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent not prohibited by the Delaware General Corporation Law or any other law. We are not required to indemnify any director or officer in connection with a proceeding brought by such director or officer unless (i) such indemnification is expressly required by law; (ii) the proceeding was authorized by our board of directors; or (iii) such indemnification is provided by the Company, in its sole discretion, pursuant to the powers vested in the Company under the Delaware General Corporation Law or any other applicable law. In addition, our amended and restated bylaws provide that the Company may indemnify its employees and other agents as set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law or any other applicable law.
We have also entered into separate indemnification agreements with our directors and officers that require us, among other things, to indemnify each of them against certain liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service with the Company or on behalf of the Company, other than liabilities arising from willful misconduct of a culpable nature. The Company is not required to indemnify under the agreement for (i) actions initiated by the director without the authorization of consent of the board of directors; (ii) actions initiated to enforce the indemnification agreement unless the director is successful; (iii) actions resulting from violations of Section 16 of the Exchange Act in which a final judgment has been rendered against the director; and (iv) actions to enforce any non-compete or non-disclosure provisions of any agreement.
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The indemnification provided for above provides for reimbursement of all losses of the indemnified party, including expenses, judgment, fines and amounts paid in settlement. The right to indemnification set forth above includes the right for us to pay the expenses (including attorneys fees) incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition in certain circumstances.
The Delaware General Corporation Law provides that indemnification is permissible only when the director, officer, employee, or agent acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the conduct was unlawful. The Delaware General Corporation Law also precludes indemnification in respect of any claim, issue, or matter as to which an officer, director, employee, or agent shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine that, despite such adjudication of liability, but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court deems proper.
Item 7. Exemption From Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
The Exhibits to this Registration Statement are listed in the Exhibit Index to this Registration Statement, which Index is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9. Undertakings.
(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) to include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act);
(ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the 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 SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent
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change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the Calculation of Registration Fee table in the effective registration statement; and
(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), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) 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 registrant pursuant to Section 13 and Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of 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.
(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.
(4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser:
(i) Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) of the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of the Registration Statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the Registration Statement; and
(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7), (b)(5), or (b)(7) of the Securities Act as part of this registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of and included in this registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in this registration statement or prospectus that is part of this registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into this registration statement or prospectus that is part of this registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in this registration statement or prospectus that was part of
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this registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date;
(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrants annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plans annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 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.
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 SEC 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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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 registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on May 2, 2014.
STEREOTAXIS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ William C. Mills III | |
William C. Mills III Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature |
Title(s) |
Date | ||
/s/ William C. Mills III William C. Mills III |
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) |
May 2, 2014 | ||
/s/ Martin C. Stammer Martin C. Stammer |
Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer) |
May 2, 2014 | ||
/s/ David W. Benfer David W. Benfer |
Director |
May 2, 2014 | ||
* Joseph D. Keegan |
Director |
May 2, 2014 | ||
* Robert J. Messey |
Director |
May 2, 2014 | ||
* Fred A. Middleton |
Director |
May 2, 2014 | ||
* Eric N. Prystowsky |
Director |
May 2, 2014 | ||
* Euan S. Thomson |
Director |
May 2, 2014 |
*By: | /s/ Karen W. Duros | |
Karen W. Duros Attorney-in-fact |
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Number |
Exhibit | |
4.1 | Stereotaxis, Inc. 2012 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended, incorporated by reference to Annex A to the Registrants Proxy Statement filed April 26, 2013 (File No. 000-50884) | |
5.1 | Opinion of Bryan Cave LLP | |
23.1 | Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accountants | |
23.2 | Consent of Bryan Cave LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1) | |
24.1 | Power of Attorney |
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