As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 10, 2024
Registration No. 333-______
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Altamira Therapeutics Ltd.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Bermuda | Not Applicable | |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
Clarendon House
2 Church Street
Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Alltamira Therapeutics Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan, as amended
(Full title of the plan)
Thomas Meyer, PhD
President
Altamira Therapeutics, Inc.
254 Chapman Rd, Ste 208 #15392
Newark, DE 19702 (Name and address of agent for service)
(302) 200-8095
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Michael J. Lerner, Esq.
Steven M. Skolnick, Esq.
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
1251 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Tel: (212) 262-6700
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 ☐ |
| 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. ☐
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement is filed by Altamira Therapeutics Ltd. (the “Company”) for the purpose of registering additional common shares of the Company, par value USD 0.002 per share (the “Common Shares”) under the Altamira Therapeutics Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “EIP”). This Registration Statement registers an aggregate of 300,000 additional Common Shares available for issuance under the EIP pursuant to the approval by the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) on April 3, 2024.
The Common Shares registered pursuant to this Registration Statement are of the same class of securities as the 3,000 Common Shares registered for issuance under the EIP pursuant to the currently effective Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-252141) filed on January 15, 2021, and the 750 Common Shares registered for issuance under the EIP pursuant to the currently effective Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-232735) filed on July 19, 2019. The information contained in the Company’s Registration Statements on Form S-8 (Registration Nos. 252141 and 333-232735) are hereby incorporated by reference pursuant to General Instruction E.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
| (a) | our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on April 10, 2024; |
| (b) | our Reports on Form 6-K furnished on January 19, 2024 and January 19, 2024; and |
| (c) | the description of our Common Shares contained our Report on Form 6-K furnished on March 18, 2019, including any subsequent amendment or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description. |
All subsequent annual reports on Form 20-F filed by us and all subsequent reports on Form 6-K filed by us that are identified by us as being incorporated by reference shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and shall be deemed to be a part hereof after the date of this Registration Statement but before the termination of the offering hereunder.
In addition, all documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) subsequent to 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 hereunder have been sold or that deregisters all such securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents, provided, that any report on Form 6-K of the Registrant hereafter furnished to the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act shall be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement only if and to the extent provided in such document.
Any statement contained in any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes thereof to the extent that a statement contained therein or in any other subsequently filed document that is also incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference 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.
For a list of exhibits, see the Exhibit Index in this Registration Statement, which is incorporated into this Item by reference.
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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 this Registration Statement and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Hamilton, Bermuda, on April 10, 2024.
| Altamira Therapeutics Ltd. | |||
| By: | /s/ Thomas Meyer | ||
| Name: | Thomas Meyer | ||
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | ||
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Thomas Meyer and Marcel Gremaud and each of them, individually, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead in any and all capacities, in connection with this Registration Statement, including to sign in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, this Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto, including post-effective amendments and registrations filed pursuant to Rule 462 under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or either of them or their 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 Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
| Name | Title | Date | ||
| /s/ Thomas Meyer | Chief Executive Officer and Director | April 10, 2024 | ||
| Thomas Meyer | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||
| /s/ Marcel Gremaud | Chief Financial Officer | April 10, 2024 | ||
| Marcel Gremaud | (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) | |||
| /s/ Mats Blom | Director | April 10, 2024 | ||
| Mats Blom | ||||
| /s/ Alain Munoz | Director | April 10, 2024 | ||
| Alain Munoz | ||||
| /s/ Margrit Schwarz | Director | April 10, 2024 | ||
| Margrit Schwarz |
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AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 6(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned has signed this Registration Statement on Form S-8, solely in the capacity of the duly authorized representative of Altamira Therapeutics Ltd. in the United States, on April 10, 2024.
| Altamira Therapeutics, Inc. | |||
| By: | /s/ Thomas Meyer | ||
| Name: | Thomas Meyer | ||
| Title: | President | ||
EXHIBIT INDEX
* Filed herewith.
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