As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 21, 2025
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
DOMINARI HOLDINGS INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 52-0849320 | |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
| 725 5th Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY | 10022 | |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) |
| Dominari Holdings Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (f/k/a AIkido Pharma Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan) |
| (Full Title of the Plan) |
Anthony Hayes
Chief Executive Officer
Dominari Holdings Inc.
725 5th Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10022
(Name and address of agent for service)
(212) 393-4540
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
With copies to:
Robert F. Charron, Esq. Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP 1345 Avenue of the Americas, 11th Floor New York, NY 10105 (212) 370-1300 |
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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).
| Large accelerated filer | ☐ | Accelerated filer | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer | ☒ | 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 ¨
REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES
AND INCORPORATION OF PREVIOUS REGISTRATION Statement by reference
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this registration statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is filed by Dominari Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant” or the “Company”), to register an additional 1,229,379 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), reserved for issuance under the Dominari Holdings Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (f/k/a AIkido Pharma Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan) (the “2022 Plan”), adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors, and approved by the Company’s stockholders at the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders on December 5, 2022. On April 7, 2023, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-271179) (the “2023 Registration Statement”) to register 1,100,000 shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the 2022 Plan as originally approved by the Company’s stockholders in December 2022.
On January 1, 2024, as the result of an automatic increase in the number of shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the 2022 Plan, pursuant to the provisions of the 2022 Plan, an additional 769,736 shares of Common Stock became available for issuance under the 2022 Plan, and the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-284014) (the “2024 Registration Statement”) to register the additional 769,736 shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the 2022 Plan.
On January 1, 2025, as a result of an automatic increase in the number of shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the 2022 Plan, pursuant to the provisions of the 2022 Plan, an additional 1,229,379 shares of Common Stock became available for issuance under the 2022 Plan. This Registration Statement is being filed to register the additional 1,229,379 shares of Common Stock that became available for issuance under the 2022 Plan on January 1, 2025.
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 under the Securities Act, the contents of the 2023 Registration Statement and 2024 Registration Statement, including the documents incorporated therein by reference, are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement to the extent not otherwise amended or superseded by the contents hereof. Additionally, 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 the Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The Commission allows us to incorporate by reference the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to another document that we have filed separately with the Commission. You should read the information incorporated by reference herein because it is an important part of this prospectus. We incorporate by reference into this prospectus and the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part the information or documents listed below that we have filed with the Commission:
(a) Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 (File No. 001-41845), filed with the Commission on April 1, 2024 (the “Annual Report”);
(b) All other reports filed by us with the Commission pursuant of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Annual Report; and
(c) The description of our shares of Common Stock contained in Exhibit 4.2 to the Annual Report.
All reports and documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (other than Current Reports furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and exhibits furnished on such form that relate to such items) on or after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement 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 purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also 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.
Item 8. Exhibits.
| (1) | Included as Annex A to the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Form DEF 14A, filed with the Commission on October 21, 2022. |
| * | Filed herewith |
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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-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 January 21, 2025.
| DOMINARI HOLDINGS INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Anthony Hayes | |
| Anthony Hayes | ||
| Chief Executive Officer | ||
We, the undersigned officers and directors of Dominari Holdings Inc., hereby constitute and appoint Anthony Hayes, our true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution in his 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 on Form S-8 of Dominari Holdings Inc. and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, 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 attorney-in-fact and agent or any of them 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, as amended, this Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.
| Name | Title | Date | ||
| /s/ Anthony Hayes | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors | January 21, 2025 | ||
| Anthony Hayes | (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) | |||
| /s/ Kyle Wool | ||||
| Kyle Wool | President and Director | January 21, 2025 | ||
| /s/ Tim S. Ledwick | ||||
| Tim S. Ledwick | Director | January 21, 2025 | ||
| /s/ Gregory James Blattner | ||||
| Gregory James Blattner | Director | January 21, 2025 | ||
| /s/ Soo Yu | ||||
| Soo Yu | Director | January 21, 2025 | ||
| /s/ Kyle Haug | ||||
| Kyle Haug | Director | January 21, 2025 | ||
| /s/ Robert Dudley | ||||
| Robert Dudley | Director | January 21, 2025 | ||
| /s/ Ronald J. Lieberman | ||||
| Ronald J. Lieberman | Director | January 21, 2025 |
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