As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 2024

 

Registration No. 333-

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

Precipio, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware  91-1789357
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

4 Science Park, New Haven, CT  06511
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)  (Zip Code)

 

Precipio, Inc. Amended and Restated 2017 Stock Option and Incentive Plan

(Full Title of the Plans)

 

Ilan Danieli

Chief Executive Officer

4 Science Park,

New Haven, CT 06511

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

(203) 787-7888

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

Copy to:

 

Stephen M. Davis, Esq.

Goodwin Procter LLP

620 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY

(212) 813-8800

 

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

 

Large accelerated filer ¨ Accelerated filer ¨
Non-accelerated filer x Smaller reporting company x
  Emerging growth company ¨

 

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. ¨

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) is being filed by Precipio, Inc. (the “Registrant”) to register additional securities issuable pursuant to the Registrant’s Amended and Restated 2017 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and consists of only those items required by General Instruction E to Form S-8. Pursuant to certain provisions of the Plan (referred to as the “evergreen provisions”), the number of shares of the Registrant’s common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), that are available for award grant purposes under the Plan, is automatically increased each year in accordance with a formula set forth in the Plan. Pursuant to the Plan’s evergreen provisions, the additional securities registered hereby include 71,006 shares of Common Stock that were automatically added to the Plan, effective January 1, 2024.

 

In accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the earlier registration statements on Form S-8 (File No. 333-271002, 333-222819 and File No. 333-221804), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on March 30, 2023, February 1, 2018 and November 29, 2017, respectively are effective and are incorporated herein by reference, except as otherwise set forth herein.

 

Part II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

 

The following documents have been previously filed by the Registrant with the Commission and are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and shall be deemed a part hereof:

 

(a) The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the Commission on March 29, 2024;

 

(b) The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock contained in the Registrant’s registration statement on Form 8-A filed with the SEC on June 29, 2017, including any amendments or reports filed for the purposes of updating this description; and

 

All reports and other documents subsequently filed with the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, 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 a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents, excluding any information furnished under Item 7.01 or Item 2.02 of any Current Report on Form 8-K (and corresponding information furnished under Item 9.01 or included as an exhibit thereto). Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or replaces such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

 

 

 

 

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
No.
  Description
3.1   Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on June 30, 2017).
3.2   Amended and Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on June 30, 2017).
3.3   Certificate of Elimination (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 of the Company’s Form 8-K filed on June 30, 2017).
3.4   Certificate of Designation for Series B Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company’s Form 8-K filed on August 31, 2017).
3.5   Certificate of Designation for Series C Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company’s Form 8-K filed on November 3, 2017).
3.6     Certificate of Amendment to the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated April 25, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company's Form 8-K filed on April 26, 2019).
3.7   Certificate of Amendment to the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated 21 September 21, 2023
5.1*   Opinion of Goodwin Procter LLP.
23.1*   Consent of Marcum LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2*   Consent of Goodwin Procter LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1*   Power of Attorney (included on signature page).
99.1   Amended and Restated 2017 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Annex B of the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on April 29, 2021).
107*   Filing Fee Table

 

 

* Filed herewith.

 

 

 

 

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 New Haven, State of Connecticut, on the 29th day of March 2024.

 

  Precipio, Inc.
   
  By: /s/ Ilan Danieli
  Ilan Danieli
  Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENT, that each individual whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints each of Ilan Danieli and Matthew Gage as such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent 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 such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that any said attorney-in-fact and agent, or any substitute or substitutes of any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following person in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Signature  Title  Date
/s/ Ilan Danieli  Director and Chief Executive Officer  March 29, 2024
Ilan Danieli  (Principal Executive Officer)   
       
/s/ Matthew Gage  Interim Chief Financial Officer  March 29, 2024
Matthew Gage  (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   
       
/s/ Richard Sandberg  Chairman of the Board of Directors  March 29, 2024
Richard Sandberg      
       
/s/ Kathleen Laporte  Director  March 29, 2024
Kathleen Laporte      
       
/s/ Ronald Andrews  Director  March 29, 2024
Ronald Andrews      
       
/s/ Christina Valauri.  Director  March 29, 2024
Christina Valuari      
       
/s/ Jeffrey Cossman, M.D.  Director  March 29, 2024
Jeffrey Cossman, M.D.      
       
/s/ David Cohen  Director  March 29, 2024
David Cohen      

 

 

 


Exhibit 5.1

 

   

Goodwin Procter llp

The New York Times Building

620 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10018

 

goodwinlaw.com

+1 212 813 8800

 

March 29, 2024

 

Precipio, Inc.

4 Science Park

New Haven, CT 06511

 

Re:      Securities Being Registered under Registration Statement on Form S-8

 

We have acted as counsel to you in connection with your filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), on or about the date hereof relating to an aggregate of 71,006 shares (the “Shares”) of Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”), of Precipio, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), that may be issued pursuant to the Precipio, Inc. Amended and Restated 2017 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

 

We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinions set forth below. We have relied, without independent verification, on certificates of public officials and, as to matters of fact material to the opinion set forth below, on certificates of officers of the Company.

 

The opinion set forth below is limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

For purposes of the opinion set forth below, we have assumed that no event occurs that causes the number of authorized shares of Common Stock available for issuance by the Company to be less than the number of then unissued Shares.

 

Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, upon issuance and delivery against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Plan, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 

This opinion letter and the opinion it contains shall be interpreted in accordance with the Core Opinion Principles as published in 74 Business Lawyer 815 (Summer 2019).

 

We hereby consent to the inclusion of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving our consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

 

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  /s/ Goodwin Procter LLP
  GOODWIN PROCTER LLP

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.1

 

 

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm’s Consent

 


We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement of Precipio, Inc. (“the Company”) on Form S-8 of our report dated March 29, 2024, which includes an explanatory paragraph as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, with respect to our audits of the consolidated financial statements of Precipio, Inc. as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 and for the years then ended, appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Precipio, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2023.

 

 

/s/ Marcum llp

 New Haven, CT

March 29, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 107

 

Calculation of Filing Fee Table

 

Form S-8

(Form Type)

 

Precipio, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Table 1: Newly Registered Securities

 

Security
Type
Security Class Title Fee Calculation
Rule
Amount
Registered (1)
Proposed
Maximum
Offering
Price Per
Unit
Maximum Aggregate
Offering Price
Fee Rate Amount of
Registration
Fee
Equity Precipio, Inc. Amended and Restated 2017 Stock Option and Incentive Plan Common stock, $0.01 par value per share 457(c) and 457(h) 71,006 (2) $6.1175 (3) $434,379.21 $0.00014760 $64.12
Total Offering Amounts   $434,379.21   $64.12
Total Fee Offsets       $0
Net Fee Due       $64.12

 

(1) Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of the Registrant’s common stock that become issuable by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, or other similar transaction effected that results in an increase to the number of outstanding shares of the Registrant’s common stock.
   
(2) Represents 71,006 shares of Common Stock that were automatically added to the Plan, effective January 1, 2024. Other shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the Plan were previously registered on registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2023 (File No. 333-271002), February 1, 2018 (File No. 333-222819) and November 29, 2017 (File No. 333-221804).
   
(3) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act, and based on the average of the high and low sale prices of the Registrant’s Common Stock, as quoted on The Nasdaq Capital Market, on March 27, 2024.