We, or any selling securityholders, may sell the securities offered under this prospectus:
Each prospectus supplement relating to an offering of securities will state the terms of the offering, including:
We, or any selling securityholders, may offer and sell securities from time to time to one or more underwriters who would purchase the securities as principal for resale to the public, either on a firm commitment or best efforts basis. If we, or the selling securityholders, sell securities to underwriters, we, and/or the selling securityholders, as applicable, will execute an underwriting agreement with the underwriters at the time of the sale and will name them in the applicable prospectus supplement. In connection with these sales, the underwriters may be deemed to have received compensation from us, and/or the selling securityholders, as applicable, in the form of underwriting discounts and commissions. The underwriters also may receive commissions from purchasers of securities for whom they may act as agent. Unless we, or the selling securityholders, specify otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, the underwriters will not be obligated to purchase the securities unless the conditions set forth in the underwriting agreement are satisfied, and if the underwriters purchase any of the securities, they will be required to purchase all of the offered securities. The underwriters may acquire the securities for their own account and may resell the securities from time to time in one or more transactions, including negotiated transactions, at a fixed public offering price or varying prices determined at the time of sale. The underwriters may sell the offered securities to or through dealers, and those dealers may receive discounts, concessions, or commissions from the underwriters as well as from the purchasers for whom they may act as agent. Any initial public offering price and any discounts or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers may be changed from time to time.
We, or any selling securityholders, may offer and sell securities from time to time to one or more dealers who would purchase the securities as principal. The dealers then may resell the offered securities to the public at fixed or varying prices to be determined by those dealers at the time of resale. We, or the selling securityholders, will set forth the names of the dealers and the terms of the transaction in the applicable prospectus supplement.
We, or any selling securityholders, may offer and sell securities on a continuous basis through agents that become parties to an underwriting or distribution agreement. We, or the selling securityholders, will name any agent involved in the offer and sale and describe any commissions payable by us in the applicable prospectus supplement. Unless we specify otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, the agent will be acting on a best efforts basis during the appointment period.
Direct Sales
We, or any selling securityholders, may sell directly to, and solicit offers from, institutional investors or others who may be deemed to be underwriters, as defined in the Securities Act for any resale of the securities. We, or the selling securityholders, will describe the terms of any sales of this kind in the applicable prospectus supplement.
General Information
Underwriters, dealers, or agents participating in an offering of securities may be deemed to be underwriters, and any discounts and commissions received by them and any profit realized by them on resale of the offered securities for whom they act as agent, may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act.
We, or any selling securityholders, may offer to sell securities either at a fixed price or at prices that may vary, at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to prevailing market prices, or at negotiated prices. Securities may be sold in connection with a remarketing after their purchase by one or more firms, including our affiliates, acting as principal for their own accounts or as our agent.
In connection with an underwritten offering of securities, the underwriters may engage in over-allotment, stabilizing transactions, and syndicate covering transactions in accordance with Regulation M under the Exchange Act. Over-allotment involves sales in excess of the offering size, which creates a short position for the underwriters. The underwriters may enter bids for, and purchase, securities in the open market in order to stabilize the price of the securities. Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of the securities in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover short positions. In addition, the underwriting syndicate may reclaim selling concessions allowed to an underwriter or a dealer for distributing the securities in the offering if the syndicate repurchases previously distributed securities in transactions to cover syndicate short positions, in stabilization transactions, or otherwise. These activities may ca use the price of the securities to be higher than it would otherwise be. Those activities, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time.
Under agreements entered into with us, underwriters and agents may be entitled to indemnification by us against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribution for payments the underwriters or agents may be required to make.
In compliance with the guidelines of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or the NASD, the maximum commission or discount to be received by any NASD member or independent broker-dealer may not exceed 8% of the initial gross proceeds from the sale of any security being sold.
Although we expect that delivery of securities generally will be made against payment on or about the third business day following the date of any contract for sale, we may specify a longer settlement cycle in the applicable prospectus supplement. Under Rule 15c6-1 of the Exchange Act, trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in three business days, unless the parties to a trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, if we have specified a longer settlement cycle in the applicable prospectus supplement for an offering of securities, purchasers who wish to trade those securities on the date of the contract for sale, or on one or more of the next succeeding business days as we will specify in the applicable prospectus supplement, will be required, by virtue of the fact that those securities will settle in more than T+3, to specify an alternative settlement cycle at the time of the trade to prevent a failed settlement and should consult thei r own advisors in connection with that election.
Certain of our securityholders may have pledged shares of their common stock in connection with borrowing arrangements. In connection with a default and foreclosure pursuant to such a borrowing arrangement, the pledgee may use this prospectus to sell the pledged selling securityholder shares.
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Legal matters
The validity of the issuance of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, New York.
Experts
The consolidated financial statements of Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. and its subsidiary as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and for each of the years in the three year period ended December 31, 2006 have been incorporated by reference herein in reliance upon the reports of Kesselman & Kesselman, Certified Public Accountant (Isr.), a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, independent registered public accounting firm, incorporated by reference herein, and upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.
Incorporation by reference
We incorporate by reference the filed documents listed below, except as superseded, supplemented or modified by this prospectus, and any future filings we will make with the Commission under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, other than information that furnished but deemed by the rules of the Commission not to have been filed:
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• | our Annual Report on Form 10-K, for the year ended December 31, 2006, as amended by our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2006; |
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• | our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2007, and June 30, 2007; |
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• | our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 5, 2007, February 7, 2007 (as amended by a Form 8-K/A filed on February 22, 2007), March 2, 2007, March 12, 2007, April 18, 2007, May 4, 2007, June 4, 2007, June 20, 2007, June 27, 2007; July 13, 2007, August 6, 2007, August 10, 2007, August 27, 2007, and September 19, 2007; and |
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• | the description of our common stock contained in our Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on March 9, 2007. |
All documents filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this registration statement, and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which de-registers all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document 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 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. Y ou may request and obtain a copy of these filings, at no cost, by writing or telephoning us at the following address or phone number:
2 Snunit Street
Science Park
POB 455
Carmiel, Israel 20100
972-4-988-9488
Attn: Yossi Maimon, Chief Financial Officer
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Where you can find more information
This prospectus is part of a registration statement on Form S-3 that we filed with the Commission under the Securities Act. You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone else to provide you with different information. You should not assume that the information in this prospectus is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front cover of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or any sale of common stock.
We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the Commission. You may read, without charge, and copy the documents we file at the Commission’s public reference rooms at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. You can request copies of these documents by writing to the Commission and paying a fee for the copying cost. Please call the Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public reference rooms. Our Commission filings are also available to the public at no cost from the Commission’s website at www.sec.gov and our website at www.protalix.com. We have not incorporated by reference into this prospectus the information on our website, and you should not consider it to be a part of this document.
Disclosure of commission position on indemnification for
securities act liabilities
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the registrant, the registrant has been informed that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
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