Securities Registration: Employee Benefit Plan (s-8)
December 20 2022 - 4:29PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
As filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on December 20, 2022
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
The Securities Act of 1933
TOUGHBUILT INDUSTRIES, INC. |
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) |
Nevada |
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46-0820877 |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
8669 Research Drive, Irvine, CA 92618
(949) 528-3100
(Address, including zip code, and telephone
number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
ToughBuilt Industries,
Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the
Plans)
Mr. Michael Panosian
Chief Executive Officer
8669 Research Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
Telephone: (949) 528-3100
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone
number, including area code, of agent for service)
With copies to:
Ross D. Carmel, Esq.
Philip Magri, Esq.
Carmel, Milazzo & Feil LLP
55 W 39th Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Tel: 212-658-0458
Fax: 646-838-1314
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 |
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Accelerated filer |
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Non-accelerated filer |
x |
Smaller reporting company |
x |
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Emerging growth company |
x |
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. ¨
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the information specified
in “Item 1. Plan Information” and “Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information” of Form
S-8 will be sent or given to participants of the Registrant’s 2022 Equity Incentive Plan, as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Such documents are not required to be, and are not, filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) either as part of this Registration Statement or as a prospectus
or prospectus supplement pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in
this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of Form S-8, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements
of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The Commission allows us to
“incorporate by reference” the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you
by referring you to those documents instead of having to repeat the information in this prospectus. The information incorporated by reference
is considered to be part of this prospectus, and later information that we file with the Commission will automatically update and supersede
this information. The documents listed below are incorporated by reference into this prospectus:
| · | the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC on April 18, 2022; |
| · | the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 filed with the SEC on May 23, 2022; |
| · | the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 filed with the Commission on August 19, 2022; |
| · | the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 202 with the Commission on November 14, 2022; |
| · | the Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 15, 2022, February 17, 2022, February 23,
2022, April 4, 2022, April 18, 2022, April 25, 2022, April 27, 2022, May 9, 2022, May 24, 2022, June 9, 2022, June 23, 2022, July 13,
2022, July 27, 2022, August 19, 2022, September 23, 2022, October 7, 2022, October 11, 2022, November 14, 2022, and November 18, 2022;
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| · | the description of the Registrant’s common stock contained in the Registrant’s Form 8-A (File No: 001-38739) filed with
the Commission on October 8, 2018. |
All documents filed and to
be filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the effectiveness
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, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement
and to be a part hereof from the respective date of filing of such documents. Unless expressly incorporated into this Registration Statement,
a report (or portion thereof) furnished under Item 7.01 of Form 8-K prior or subsequent to the date hereof shall not be incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein 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 subsequently filed document which also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein 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
Section 78.7502 of the Nevada
Revised Statutes (“NRS”) permits a Nevada corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be
made a party 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 the corporation (i.e., a “non-derivative proceeding”), by reason of the fact that
he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation
as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses,
including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection
with the action, suit or proceeding if he or she:
| ● | is not liable under NRS 78.138 for breach of his or her fiduciary duties to the corporation; or |
| ● | acted in good faith and in a manner which he or she 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 his or her conduct was unlawful. |
In addition, NRS 78.7502 permits
Nevada corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending, or completed
action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor (i.e., a “derivative proceeding”),
by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the
request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise against expenses, including amounts paid in settlement and attorneys’ fees actually and reasonably incurred by him or
her in connection with the defense or settlement of the action or suit if he or she:
| ● | is not liable under NRS 78.138 for breach of his or her fiduciary duties to the corporation; or |
| ● | acted in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation. |
Under NRS 78.502, indemnification
may not be made for any claim, issue, or matter as to which such a person has been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction, after
exhaustion of all appeals therefrom, to be liable to the corporation or for amounts paid in settlement to the corporation, unless and
only to the extent that the court in which the action or suit was brought or other court of competent jurisdiction determines upon application
that in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the
court deems proper.
To the extent that a director,
officer, employee or agent of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any non-derivative proceeding
or any derivative proceeding, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, the corporation is obligated to indemnify him or her
against expenses, including attorneys’ fees, actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense.
NRS 78.752 permits a Nevada
corporation to purchase and maintain insurance or to make other financial arrangements on behalf of any person who is or was a director,
officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee
or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise for any liability asserted against him or her and
liability and expenses incurred by him or her in his or her capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent, or arising out of his
or her status as such, whether or not the corporation has the authority to indemnify him or her against such liability and expenses.
Under the Registrant’s
bylaws, the directors shall cause the Registrant to indemnify a director or former director of the
Registrant, and the directors may cause the Registrant to indemnify a director or former director of a corporation of which the Registrant
is or was a shareholder and the heirs and personal representatives of any such person against all costs, charges, and expenses, including
any amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment, actually and reasonably incurred by him, her or them including an amount paid
to settle an action or satisfy a judgment inactive criminal or administrative action or proceeding to which he or she is, or they are
made a party by reason of his or her being or having been a director of the Registrant or a director of such corporation, including an
action brought by the Registrant. Each director of the Registrant on being elected or appointed is deemed to have contracted with the
Registrant on the terms of the foregoing indemnity.
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 Commission, this indemnification
is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
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;
(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 in the 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) and (a)(1)(ii) of this
section do not apply to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 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 the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in 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.
(b) The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act 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.
(c) 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 Commission
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.
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 City of Irvine, State of California, on December 20, 2022.
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TOUGHBUILT INDUSTRIES, INC. |
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/s/ Michael Panosian |
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Michael Panosian |
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Chair and Chief Executive Officer |
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(Principal Executive Officer) |
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS,
that each of the undersigned constitutes and appoints Michael Panosian, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any
and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto 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, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his or
her substitutes or substitute may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Act of l933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
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/s/ Michael Panosian |
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Chair and Chief Executive Officer |
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December 20, 2022 |
Michael Panosian |
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(Principal Executive Officer) |
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/s/ Martin Galstyan |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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December 20, 2022 |
Martin Galstyan |
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(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) |
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/s/ Robert Faught |
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Director |
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December 20, 2022 |
Robert Faught |
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/s/ Linda Moossaian |
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Director |
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December 20, 2022 |
Linda Moossaian |
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/s/ William Placke |
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Director |
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December 20, 2022 |
William Placke |
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/s/ Joshua Keeler |
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Director |
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December 20, 2022 |
Joshua Keeler |
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