0000924168-17-000062.txt : 20170809 0000924168-17-000062.hdr.sgml : 20170809 20170809090527 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000924168-17-000062 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-8 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 FILED AS OF DATE: 20170809 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20170809 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20170809 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ENERGY FOCUS, INC/DE CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000924168 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC LIGHTING & WIRING EQUIPMENT [3640] IRS NUMBER: 943021850 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-8 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-219805 FILM NUMBER: 171016584 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 32000 AURORA ROAD STREET 2: SUITE B CITY: SOLON STATE: OH ZIP: 44139 BUSINESS PHONE: 4407151300 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 32000 AURORA ROAD STREET 2: SUITE B CITY: SOLON STATE: OH ZIP: 44139 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FIBERSTARS INC /CA/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19940527 S-8 1 a20170809forms-8.htm S-8 Document


 
 UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Energy Focus, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware
 
94-3021850
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
 
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
 
 
 
32000 Aurora Road, Suite B
 
 
Solon, Ohio
 
44139
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip Code)

Energy Focus, Inc. 2014 Stock Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)

Michael H. Port
Chief Financial Officer
Energy Focus, Inc.
32000 Aurora Road, Suite B
Solon, OH 44139
(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

(440) 715-1300
(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, 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 ☐
 (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
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 Securities to be Registered
Amount to be
Registered (1)
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price
Amount of Registration Fee
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value, pursuant to the Energy Focus, Inc. 2014 Stock Incentive Plan
1,300,000
$1.815 (2)
$2,353,000
$273.42
 

(1)
In accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminable number of additional shares of Common Stock that may become issuable pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of the 2014 Stock Incentive Plan.

(2)
This calculation is made solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The fee is calculated on the basis of the average of the high and low sale prices of the Common Stock on the NASDAQ Capital Market as of a date (August 4, 2017) within five business days prior to filing this Registration Statement.
 





REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) of Energy Focus, Inc. (the “Company” or the “Registrant”) is being filed pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to register 1,300,000 additional shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), under the 2014 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), as amended. This Registration Statement on Form S-8 hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on July 15, 2014 (Registration No. 333-197422) (the “Original Registration Statement”) and the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on August 5, 2015 (Registration No. 333-206088) (the “Second Registration Statement”). After giving effect to the one-for-ten reverse stock split of the Common Stock, effective as of July 16, 2014, the number of shares of Common Stock covered by the Original Registration Statement was proportionately reduced to 600,000 shares and the Second Registration Statement covered the issuance of up to an additional 600,000 shares.

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:

(1) The Registrant’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, filed with the Commission on February 23, 2017, including the information incorporated by reference into the annual report on Form 10-K from the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, filed with the Commission on April 24, 2017.

(2) The Registrant’s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2017, filed with the Commission on May 4, 2017, and June 30, 2017, filed with the Commission on August 9, 2017.

(3) The Registrant’s current reports on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on February 21, 2017, March 17, 2017, April 17, 2017, and June 21, 2017.

(4) The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share, contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act on July 29, 2014, and any other amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description (File No. 001-36583).

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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (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 the 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.

You may request a copy of these filings, at no cost, by writing or telephoning the Company at the following address: Energy Focus, Inc., 32000 Aurora Road, Suite B, Solon, Ohio 44139; telephone number (440) 715-1300.






Item 8. Exhibits.

Exhibit
 
 
 
Number
Description
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.1
Opinion of Baker & Hostetler LLP.
23.1
Consent of Plante & Moran, PLLC, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2
Consent of Baker & Hostetler LLP (filed as part of Exhibit 5.1).
24
Power of Attorney (Included in the signature page to this Registration Statement).






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 Solon, State of Ohio, on this 9th day of August, 2017.
                                
 
 
 
 
ENERGY FOCUS, INC.
 
 
 
 
Date: August 9, 2017
By:
 /s/ Theodore L. Tewksbury III
 
Name:
Theodore L. Tewksbury III
 
Title:
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President







POWER OF ATTORNEY

We, the undersigned officers and directors of Energy Focus, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Theodore L. Tewksbury III and Michael H. Port, and each of them singly (with full power to each of them to act alone), our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution in each of them for him and in his name, place and stead, and 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 or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as full to all intents and purposes as he might or could do, in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agent or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, 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.

Signatures
 
Titles
 
Date
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Theodore L. Tewksbury III, Ph.D.
 
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
(principal executive officer)
 
August 9, 2017
Theodore L. Tewksbury III, Ph.D.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Michael H. Port
 
Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
(principal financial and accounting officer)
 
August 9, 2017
Michael H. Port
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Ronald D. Black, Ph.D.
 
Director
 
August 9, 2017
Ronald D. Black, Ph.D.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ William Cohen
 
Director
 
August 9, 2017
William Cohen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Glenda M. Dorchak
 
Director
 
August 9, 2017
Glenda M. Dorchak
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Marc J. Eisenberg
 
Director
 
August 9, 2017
Marc J. Eisenberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Michael R. Ramelot
 
Director
 
August 9, 2017
Michael R. Ramelot
 
 
 
 






EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit
 
 
 
Number
Description
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.1
Opinion of Baker & Hostetler LLP.
23.1
Consent of Plante & Moran, PLLC, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2
Consent of Baker & Hostetler LLP (filed as part of Exhibit 5.1).
24
Power of Attorney (Included in the signature page to this Registration Statement).
 
 
 
 



EX-5.1 2 exhibit51.htm EXHIBIT 5.1 Exhibit

EXHIBIT 5.1
August 9, 2017
Energy Focus, Inc.
32000 Aurora Road, Suite B
Solon, Ohio 44139

Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to Energy Focus, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with respect to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about August 9, 2017, in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), by the Company of 1,300,000 additional shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company to be offered and sold pursuant to the Company’s 2014 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (the “Plan”).
We have examined such documents and such matters of fact and law as we deem necessary to render the opinions contained herein. In our examination, we have assumed, but have not independently verified, the genuineness of all signatures, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified, facsimile or other copies, and the authenticity of all such documents. As to questions of fact material to this opinion, we have relied on certificates or comparable documents of public officials and of officers and representatives of the Company.
Based on the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications stated herein, we are of the opinion that the Shares to be issued by the Company under the Plan, when issued and sold in accordance with the terms of the Plan, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
The opinions expressed herein are limited to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and we express no opinion as to the effect on the matters covered by this letter of the laws of any other jurisdiction.
We hereby consent to the filing of this letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not hereby 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 of the Commission.

Very truly yours,
/s/ Baker & Hostetler LLP

EX-23.1 3 exhibit231.htm EXHIBIT 23.1 Exhibit

EXHIBIT 23.1


CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We have issued our report dated February 22, 2017, with respect to the consolidated financial statements in the Annual Report of Energy Focus, Inc. on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016. We consent to the incorporation by reference of the aforementioned report in this Registration Statement.

/s/ Plante & Moran, PLLC
Cleveland, Ohio
August 8, 2017