As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2020

 

Registration No. 333-

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

 

ENZO BIOCHEM, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

New York

(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation or Organization)

 

13-2866202

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

     

527 Madison Avenue
New York, NY

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

10022

(Zip Code)

     
ENZO BIOCHEM, INC. SALARY REDUCTION PROFIT SHARING PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)
 
  Barry W. Weiner
President and Treasurer
Enzo Biochem, Inc.
527 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022 		 
(Name and address of agent for service)
 
(212) 583-0100
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
 

Copy to:
Robert H. Cohen, Esq.
Ze’-ev D. Eiger, Esq.
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
340 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10173
(212) 547-5400

 
     
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 þ
Non-accelerated filer ¨   Smaller reporting company þ
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 Exchange Act.  ¨

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of securities
to be registered 		  Amount to be
registered(1)(2) 		  Proposed maximum
offering price per share(3) 		  Proposed maximum
aggregate offering price(3) 		  Amount of
registration fee
Common Stock,
par value $0.01 per share 		  1,000,000   $2.20   $2,200,000   $284.91
   
(1) Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement also registers any additional shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), of Enzo Biochem, Inc. (the “Company”), as may become available or issuable under the Enzo Biochem, Inc. Salary Reduction Profit Sharing Plan (the “Plan”), to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends, or similar transactions.
(2) Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the Plan.
(3) Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act, based on the average of the high and low prices per share of Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on March 5, 2020.
 

Explanatory Note

 

This Registration Statement is being filed solely to register an additional 1,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Enzo Biochem, Inc. (the “Company”) reserved for issuance under the Company’s Salary Reduction Profit Sharing Plan (the “Plan”). The securities subject to this Registration Statement are of the same class for which the Company previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a Registration Statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The Company initially registered 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock issuable under the Plan pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-197028) filed with Commission on June 25, 2014 (the “Prior Registration Statement”). Accordingly, the contents of the Prior Registration Statement are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8.

 

PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

 

The following documents filed with the Commission are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

 

(a) the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 31, 2019, filed with the Commission on October 15, 2019, as amended by Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A filed with the Commission on November 26, 2019;

 

(b) the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2019, filed with the Commission on December 10, 2019, and for the quarter ended January 31, 2020, filed with the Commission on March 6, 2020;

 

(c) the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on August 5, 2019, September 24, 2019, November 1, 2019, December 5, 2019, December 23, 2019, December 31, 2019, January 8, 2020 (as amended by Amendment No. 1 on Form 8-K/A filed with the Commission on January 17, 2020), January 29, 2020, February 7, 2020, February 11, 2020, February 18, 2020, February 19, 2020, February 25, 2020 and March 2, 2020; and

 

(d) the description of the Common Stock set forth in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission on December 8, 1999.

 

All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, subsequent to the date hereof 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 unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless specifically stated to the contrary, none of the information disclosed by the Company under Items 2.02 or 7.01 of any Current Report on Form 8-K that the Company may from time to time furnish to the Commission will be incorporated by reference into, or otherwise included in, this Registration Statement. Any statement contained herein or 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 or 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.

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company 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 York, State of New York, on March 6, 2020.

 

  ENZO BIOCHEM, INC.
   
  By:  /s/ Elazar Rabbani, Ph.D.
    Elazar Rabbani, Ph.D.
    Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Director

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENT, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Elazar Rabbani, Ph.D. and David Bench, and each or either of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his 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 other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitutes 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 below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

     
Date: March 6, 2020 By: /s/ Elazar Rabbani, Ph.D.
     
    Elazar Rabbani, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
     
Date: March 6, 2020 By: /s/ David Bench
 
    David Bench
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
     
Date: March 6, 2020 By: /s/ Barry W. Weiner
     
    Barry W. Weiner
President and Treasurer
     
By:
     
    Fabian Blank
Director
     
By:
     
    Peter J. Clemens, IV
Director
     
Date: March 6, 2020 By: /s/ Rebecca J. Fischer
     
    Rebecca J. Fischer
Director
     
Date: March 6, 2020 By: /s/ Dov Perlysky
     
    Dov Perlysky
Director
 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

No. Description
   
4.1 Certificate of Incorporation.(1)
   
4.2 Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation, Filed March 17, 1980.(1)
   
4.3 Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation, Filed June 16, 1981.(1)
   
4.4 Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation, Filed July 22, 1988.(1)
   
4.5 Amended and Restated By-Laws.(2)
   
4.6 Amended and Restated By-Laws.(3)
   
4.7 Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated By-Laws.(4)
   
4.8 Form of Common Stock Certificate.(1)
   
5.1 Legal Opinion of McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
   
23.1 Consent of EisnerAmper LLP.
   
23.2 Consent of McDermott Will & Emery LLP (included in exhibit 5.1).
   
24.1 Powers of Attorney of the directors and certain officers of the Company (included on the signature page to the Registration Statement).
   
99.1 Enzo Biochem, Inc. Salary Reduction Profit Sharing Plan.(5)
   
99.2 Enzo Biochem, Inc. Salary Reduction Profit Sharing Plan Adoption Agreement.(5)

 

 

 

(1) Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-123712) filed with the Commission on March 31, 2005.
   
(2) Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 22, 2013.
   
(3) Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 3, 2018.
   
(4) Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on March 2, 2020.
   
(5) Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-197028) filed with the Commission on June 25, 2014.
 
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