As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 4, 2021

Registration No. 333 -               

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE

SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

SHIFTPIXY, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Wyoming   47-4211438

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

501 Brickell Key Drive, Suite 300

Miami, FL 33131

(Address, including zip code, of principal executive offices)

 

SHIFTPIXY, INC. 2017 STOCK OPTION / STOCK ISSUANCE PLAN

(Full Title of the Plan)

 

Scott Absher

Chief Executive Officer

ShiftPixy, Inc.

501 Brickell Key Drive, Suite 300

Miami, FL 33131

(888) 798-9100

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

 

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   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.   ¨

 

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of
Securities to be
Registered
Amount to be
Registered (1)

Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price Per

Share (2)

Proposed

Maximum Aggregate

Offering Price (2)

Amount of

Registration

Fee

Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share 3,000,000 $2.61 $7,830,000 $854.25
   
(1)  The number of shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), of ShiftPixy, Inc. (the “Registrant”) stated above consists of an aggregate of 3,000,000 shares that may be issued under the ShiftPixy, Inc. 2017 Stock Option / Stock Issuance Plan (the “Plan”). The shares of Common Stock registered hereunder consist of 3,000,000 shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the Plan. In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement also covers such indeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock as is necessary to eliminate any dilutive effect of any future stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction.
           

(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) on the basis of the average of the high and low sale prices of the Common Stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market on May 28, 2021.

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

In accordance with the instructional note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), the information specified by Part I of Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement on Form S-8 for offers of Common Stock pursuant to the Plan. The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered to the participants in the Plan covered by this Registration Statement as required by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act.

 

 

 

 

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

 

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission are incorporated herein by reference:

 

(a) the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2020 filed with the Commission on November 30, 2020 and Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 2020 filed on January 12, 2021;

 

(b) the Registrant’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended November 30, 2020 and February 28, 2021 filed with the Commission on January 14, 2021 and April 14, 2021, respectively;

 

(c) the Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 14, 2020April 1, 2021 and May 17, 2021;

 

(e) the portions of the Registrant’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A that we filed with the Commission on February 9, 2021 that are deemed “filed” with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”); and

 

(f) the description of the Registrant’s Securities contained in Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2020 filed with the Commission on November 30, 2020, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

 

All reports and other documents filed by the Registrant after the date hereof pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such reports and documents. 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 which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes 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 4. Description of Securities.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

 

None.

 

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

 

Sections 17-16-851 through -856 of the Wyoming Statutes (the “Applicable Statutes”) provide that directors and officers of Wyoming corporations may, under certain circumstances, be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) and other liabilities actually and reasonably incurred by them as a result of any suit brought against them in their capacity as a director or officer, if they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if they had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful. The Applicable Statutes also provide that directors and officers may also be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by them in connection with a derivative suit if they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except that no indemnification may be made without court approval if such person was adjudged liable to the corporation.

 

 

 

 

Further, Article V of our articles of incorporation, as amended, also provides as follows regarding our indemnification of our directors, officers, employees and agents:

 

“[t]o the fullest extent permitted by the Wyoming Business Corporation Act or any other applicable law as now in effect or as it may hereafter be amended, no person who is or was a director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability for (A) the amount of financial benefit received by a director to which he or she is not entitled; (B) an intentional infliction of harm on the Corporation or the Shareholders; (C) a violation of Section 17-16-833 of the Wyoming Business Corporation Act; or (D) an intentional violation of criminal law. If the Wyoming Business Corporation Act is amended after the effective date of this Amendment to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Wyoming Business Corporation Act, as so amended.

 

The Corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by the Wyoming Business Corporation Act, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time, any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under the Wyoming Business Corporation Act. The indemnification provided for herein shall not be exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled as a matter of law under any Bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors of the Corporation, or otherwise, both as to action in such indemnified person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee, or agent of the Corporation, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee, or agent of the Corporation, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such person.

 

Any repeal or modification of this Article V or amendment to the Wyoming Business Corporation Act shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director, officer, agent, or other person existing at the time of or increase the liability of any director, officer, agent, or other person of the Corporation with respect to any acts or omissions of such director, officer, or agent occurring prior to, such repeal, modification, or amendment.

 

The Corporation shall have the power to purchase and maintain insurance 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 to another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify him against liability under the provisions of this Article V.”

 

Further, Article XIV of our Bylaws also provides as follows regarding our indemnification of our directors, officers, employees and agents:

 

“The corporation shall indemnify any person acting on its behalf in accord with the law of Wyoming. The indemnification provided hereby shall not be deemed exclusive of any other right to which anyone seeking indemnification thereunder may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office. The corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on the behalf of any Director, officer, agent, employee or former Director or officer or other person, against any liability asserted against them and incurred by him.”

 

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

 

Not applicable.

 

 

 

 

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

The following exhibits are filed as a part of or incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

 

Exhibit No.   Description
     
4.1   Articles of Incorporation of ShiftPixy, Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Offering Circular on Form 1-A, filed on May 31, 2016).
   
4.2   Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of ShiftPixy, Inc., dated September 28, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.6 to the Registrant’s Form 1-A/A, filed on October 18, 2016).
   
4.3   Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of ShiftPixy, Inc., dated January 7, 2020 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on January 23, 2020).
     
4.4   Certificate of Amendment to ShiftPixy, Inc.’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, dated May 12, 2021 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 17, 2021).
     
4.5   Bylaws of ShiftPixy, Inc., as amended through February 16, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on February 22, 2018).
     
4.6   Articles of Incorporation of Shift Human Capital Management Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.4 to the Registrant’s Form 1-A/A, filed on August 16, 2016).
     
4.7   Bylaws of Shift Human Capital Management Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.5 to the Registrant’s Form 1-A/A, filed on August 16, 2016).
     
5.1*   Opinion of Bailey, Stock, Harmon, Cottam, Lopez LLP
   
23.1*   Consent of Bailey, Stock, Harmon, Cottam, Lopez LLP (included in opinion of counsel filed as Exhibit 5.1).
   
23.2*   Consent of Marcum LLP.
   
24.1*   Power of Attorney (set forth on the signature page of this Registration Statement).
   
99.1*   ShiftPixy, Inc. 2017 Stock Option / Stock Issuance Plan.

 

*Filed Herewith

 

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;

 

  (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 Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement;

 

  (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 (1)(i) and (1)(ii) of this section 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 the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

 

  (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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 of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in this 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 of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the indemnification provisions summarized in Item 6, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the 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 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

The Registrant. 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 Miami, State of Florida, on June 4 2021.

 

  SHIFTPIXY, INC.
     
  By /s/ Scott W. Absher
    Scott W. Absher
    Chief Executive Officer

 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors and officers of ShiftPixy, Inc. constitutes and appoints Scott W. Absher, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full powers 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 or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power to act alone, 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 he or she might or could do in person, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that the said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitute, 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 persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

     

/s/  Scott W. Absher

Scott W. Absher

  Chief Executive Officer and Director (principal executive officer)   June 4, 2021
     

/s/  Domonic Carney

Domonic Carney

  Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer)   June 4, 2021
     

/s/  Kenneth Weaver

Kenneth Weaver

  Director   June 4, 2021
     

/s/  Whitney White

Whitney White

  Director   June 4, 2021
     

/s/  Christopher Sebes

Christopher Sebes

  Director   June 4, 2021
     

/s/  Amanda Murphy

Amanda Murphy

  Director   June4, 2021

 

 

 

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