As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 10, 2020

Registration No. 333-                    

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

AQUABOUNTY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   04-3156167

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

Two Mill & Main Place, Suite 395

Maynard, Massachusetts 01754

(978) 648-6000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

David A. Frank

Chief Financial Officer

AquaBounty Technologies, Inc.

Two Mill & Main Place, Suite 395

Maynard, Massachusetts 01754

(978) 648-6000

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

 

 

Copies to:

 

Jocelyn M. Arel, Esq.

Michael J. Minahan, Esq.

Goodwin Procter LLP

100 Northern Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02210

(617) 570-1000

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box:  ☐

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box:  ☒

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering:  ☒    333-224184

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ☐

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      Smaller reporting company  
     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.  ☒

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of each class

of securities to be registered

 

Proposed

maximum

aggregate offering
price(1)

  Amount of
registration fee(2)

Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share

  $10,861,310   $1,184.97

 

 

(1)

The registrant previously registered securities at an aggregate offering price not to exceed $100,000,000 on a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-224184), which was filed by the registrant on April 6, 2018, as amended on April 23, 2018, and declared effective on April 27, 2018 (the “Prior Registration Statement”). In accordance with Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), an additional amount of securities having a proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $10,861,310 is hereby registered, which includes shares issuable upon the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, representing no more than 20% of the maximum aggregate offering price of unsold securities under the Prior Registration Statement. In no event will the maximum aggregate offering price of all securities issued pursuant to this Registration Statement and the Prior Registration Statement exceed that registered under such Registration Statements.

 

(2)

Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act.

This Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE AND

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE

Pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement on Form S-3 (this “Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”). This Registration Statement relates to the public offering of securities contemplated by the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-224184) (the “Prior Registration Statement”), which the Registrant originally filed with the Commission on April 6, 2018 and amended on April 23, 2018, and which the Commission declared effective on April 27, 2018.

The Registrant is filing this Registration Statement for the sole purpose of increasing the aggregate number of securities offered by the Registrant by a proposed aggregate offering price of $10,861,310, which includes shares that may be sold by the Registrant in the event the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares of the Registrant’s common stock. The additional securities that are being registered for issuance and sale are in an amount and at a price that together represent no more than 20% of the maximum aggregate offering price of unsold securities under the Prior Registration Statement. The information set forth in the Prior Registration Statement and all exhibits to the Prior Registration Statement are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.

The required opinion and consents are listed on the Exhibit Index attached hereto and filed herewith.

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
No.
  

Description of Exhibit

5.1    Opinion of Goodwin Procter LLP.
23.1    Consent of Wolf & Company, P.C., Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2    Consent of Goodwin Procter LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1    Power of Attorney (incorporated by reference to the signature page to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-224184) filed on April 6, 2018).


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Maynard, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on December 10, 2020.

 

AQUABOUNTY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

By:

 

/s/ David A. Frank

 

David A. Frank

 

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

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

*

  

President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

   December 10, 2020
Sylvia Wulf   

 

/s/ David A. Frank

   Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)    December 10, 2020
David A. Frank   

 

*

   Chairman of the Board, Director    December 10, 2020
Richard J. Clothier   

 

  

 

*

  

Director

   December 10, 2020
Alana D. Czypinski   

 

  

 

*

  

Director

   December 10, 2020
Theodore J. Fisher   

 

  

 

*

  

Director

   December 10, 2020
Richard L. Huber   

 

  

 

*

  

Director

   December 10, 2020
Christine St.Clare   

 

  

 

*

  

Director

   December 10, 2020
Rick Sterling   

 

  

 

*

  

Director

   December 10, 2020
James C. Turk   

 

  

 

 

 

/s/ David A. Frank

                  

David A. Frank

Attorney-in-Fact

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