As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 8, 2015

 

Registration No. 333-207205

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

Amendment No. 1 to

FORM S-3

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

 

WPCS INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   98-0204758
(State or other jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)   Identification Number)

 

521 Railroad Avenue

Suisun City, California 94585

(707) 432-1300

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,

of registrant's principal executive offices)

 

The Corporation Trust Company

Corporation Trust Center

Wilmington, DE 19801

(302) 658-7581

(Name, address, including zip code, and

telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

Copy to:

Robert S. Matlin, Esq.

Jonathan M. Barron, Esq.

K&L Gates LLP

599 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

212-536-3900

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: from time to time after the registration statement becomes effective.

 

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

 

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, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. x

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o

 

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. o

 

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.  o

 

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.   o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer o Accelerated filer o
   
Non-accelerated filer   o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) Smaller reporting company   x

 

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

TITLE OF EACH CLASS

OF SECURITIES TO BE

REGISTERED  

 

AMOUNT TO BE

REGISTERED (1)

  

PROPOSED

MAXIMUM

OFFERING

PRICE PER

SHARE (2)

  

PROPOSED

MAXIMUM

AGGREGATE

OFFERING

PRICE

  

AMOUNT OF

REGISTRATION

FEE (3)

 
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share   2,132,959   $1.31   $2,794,176.29   $324.68 

 

(1) 2,132,959 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of WPCS International Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), are being registered hereunder. These shares consist of (i) 853,200 shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon conversion of the Series H-1 Preferred Stock of the Company (the “Series H-1 Preferred Stock”) and (ii) 1,279,759 shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon exercise of warrants of the Company (the “Warrants”). In accordance with Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Registrant is also registering hereunder an indeterminate number of shares that may be issued and resold resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.

 

(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) of the Securities Act based upon the price of $1.31, which was the average of the high and low bid prices for the Company’s Common Stock on NASDAQ Capital Market on September 25, 2015.

 

(3) Computed in accordance with Section 6(b) of the Securities Act. Previously paid. 

 

THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(a) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SECTION 8(a), MAY DETERMINE.

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

The purpose of this Amendment No. 1 to the registration statement is solely to file an exhibit to the registration statement as set forth below in Item 16 of Part II.

 

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PART II

 

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

 

Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

 

The following table sets forth the expenses payable by the Registrant in connection with the sale and distribution of the securities being registered hereby. All amounts are estimated except the Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee.

 

Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee  $324.68 
Accounting fees and expenses  $10,000 
Printing and engraving  $3,500 
Legal fees and expenses  $35,000 
Total  $48,824.68 

 

Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

 

Our Certificate of Incorporation limits, to the maximum extent permitted by Delaware law, the personal liability of directors for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duties as a director. Our Bylaws provide that we shall indemnify our officers and directors and may indemnify our employees and other agents to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.

 

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation may indemnify a director, officer, employee or agent made a party to an action by reason of the fact that he or she was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or was serving at the request of the corporation against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner 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, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have 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.

 

Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL provides that a certificate of incorporation may contain a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that such provision may not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 (relating to liability for unauthorized acquisitions or redemptions of, or dividends on, capital stock) of the DGCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Our certificate of incorporation contains such a provision.

 

The indemnification provisions contained in our certificate of incorporation are in addition to any other right that a person may have or acquire under any statute, bylaw, resolution of shareholders or directors or otherwise.

 

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Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

 

The following documents are exhibits to the registration statement:

 

Exhibit Number   Description
     
5.1*   Opinion of K&L Gates LLP
     
23.1**   Consent of Marcum LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
     
23.2*   Consent of K&L Gates LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1)
     
24.1**   Power of Attorney (included in the signature page to the Registration Statement)

 

* Filed herewith.

** Previously filed.

 

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Item 17. Undertakings

 

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 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective 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 the undertakings set forth in paragraphs (1)(i), (1)(ii) and (1)(iii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic 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 this registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of this 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.

 

4.That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

 

(i) Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

 

(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be a part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is a part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.

 

5.That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

 

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(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

 

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

 

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 

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.

 

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to supplement the prospectus, after the expiration of the subscription period, to set forth the results of the subscription offer, the transactions by the underwriters during the subscription period, the amount of unsubscribed securities to be purchased by the underwriters, and the terms of any subsequent reoffering thereof. If any public offering by the underwriters is to be made on terms differing from those set forth on the cover page of the prospectus, a post-effective amendment will be filed to set forth the terms of such offering.

 

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 foregoing provisions, 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 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.

 

 

 

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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-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in New York, New York, on the 8th day of October, 2015.

 

  WPCS INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
   
     
  By: /s/ Sebastian Giordano
    Sebastian Giordano
    Interim Chief Executive Officer

 

 

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.

 

/s/ Sebastian Giordano   Interim Chief Executive Officer and Director   October 8, 2015
Sebastian Giordano   (Principal Executive Officer)    
         
*   Chief Financial Officer   October 8, 2015
David Allen   (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)    
         
*   Director   October 8, 2015
Charles Benton        
         
*   Director   October 8, 2015
Norm Dumbroff        
         
*   Director   October 8, 2015
Edward Gildea        

 

* By Sebastian Giordano, as attorney-in-fact.

       
         
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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

Exhibit Number   Description
     
5.1*   Opinion of K&L Gates LLP
     
23.1**   Consent of Marcum LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
     
23.2*   Consent of K&L Gates LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1)
     
24.1**   Power of Attorney (included in the signature page to the Registration Statement)

 

* Filed herewith.

** Previously filed.

 

 

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