As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 19, 2024.
Registration No. 333-281631
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Amendment No. 1
to
FORM F-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
the Securities Act of 1933
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leddartech holdings inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
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Canada | 7372 | 98-1776150 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of | (Primary Standard Industrial | (I.R.S. Employer |
LeddarTech Holdings Inc.
4535, boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel, Suite 240
Québec G1P 2J7, Canada
(418) 653-9000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
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LeddarTech USA Inc.
c/o The Corporation Trust Company
Corporation Trust Center
1209 Orange Street
Wilmington DE 19801
(418) 653-9000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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Copies to:
John T. Blatchford | Pierre-Yves Leduc | Barry I. Grossman |
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Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.
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, check the following box. ☒
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) 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 ☐
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. ☐
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.
Emerging growth company ☒
If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, 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. ☐
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† The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.
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 Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
LeddarTech Holdings Inc. is filing this Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment No. 1”) to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 (Registration No. 333-281631) as an exhibit-only filing solely to file the opinion of Stikeman Elliott LLP as Exhibit 5.1 and the consent of Stikeman Elliott LLP as Exhibit 23.3 (included in Exhibit 5.1). Accordingly, this Amendment No. 1 consists only of the facing page, this explanatory note, Part II of the Registration Statement, the signature pages to the Registration Statement, and the exhibits being filed, and is not intended to amend or delete any part of the Registration Statement except as specifically noted herein.
PART II
Information Not Required in Prospectus
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
In accordance with the Canada Business Corporations Act and pursuant to the Company’s by-laws subject to certain conditions, the Company shall indemnify, to the maximum extent permitted by law, (i) any director or officer of the Company; (ii) any former director or officer of the Company; (iii) any individual who acts or acted at the Company’s request as a director or officer, or in a similar capacity, of another entity, against all costs, charges and expenses reasonably incurred by the individual in respect of any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other proceeding in which the individual is involved because of that association with the Company or other entity. The Company shall advance monies to a director, officer or other individual for costs, charges and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with such a proceeding; provided that such individual must repay the monies if the individual does not fulfill the conditions described below.
Indemnification is prohibited under the CBCA unless the individual (i) acted honestly and in good faith with a view to best interests of the Company, or the best interests of the other entity for which the individual acted as director or officer or in a similar capacity at the Company’s request; and (ii) in the case of a criminal or administrative action or proceeding that is enforced by a monetary penalty, the individual had reasonable grounds for believing that his or her conduct was lawful.
Item 7. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
The following list sets forth information regarding all securities sold or granted by LeddarTech Holdings Inc. within the past three years that were not registered under the Securities Act and the consideration, if any, received by us for such securities.
In connection with the Business Combination, on December 21, 2023, we issued 6,093,750 Common Shares, 2,031,250 Class A Non-Voting Special Shares and 6,632,413 warrants to Sponsor pursuant to the BCA and related agreements; issued 4,999,815 Company Earnout Non-Voting Special Shares to former LeddarTech Inc. shareholders; and assumed the Lender Warrants and issued Company Options in exchange for LeddarTech M-Options.
In connection with the PIPE Financing, we issued or assumed an aggregate principal amount of approximately US$44.0 million in secured convertible notes.
On April 30, 2024, we granted the Legacy Director Warrants following approval at the Company’s April 30, 2024 annual general and special meeting of shareholders.
We have granted equity awards under our Incentive Plan.
We are party to a consulting agreement with a service provider dated May 8, 2023, as amended as of March 21, 2024, pursuant to which we issued 198,864 Common Shares.
In connection with the SEPA, we issued 163,363 SEPA Commitment Shares with a value of US$375,000.
On May 16, 2024, Desjardins exercised the Desjardins Warrants and subsequently we issued to Desjardins 250,000 Common Shares.
The foregoing securities issuances were made in reliance upon the exemptions provided in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Regulation D, Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act or Regulation S promulgated thereunder, as applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.
(a) The following exhibits are included or incorporated by reference in this registration statement on Form F-1:
The exhibits filed as part of this Registration Statement are listed in the index to exhibits immediately following the signature page to this Registration Statement, which index to exhibits is incorporated herein by reference.
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Exhibit Index
Exhibit No. | Description | |
1.1 | ||
1.2 | ||
1.3 | ||
2.1†† | ||
2.2†† | ||
3.1 | ||
3.2 | ||
3.3 | ||
4.1 | ||
4.2 | ||
4.3 | ||
4.4 | ||
4.5 | ||
4.6 | ||
5.1 | ||
5.2 | ||
10.1 | ||
10.2 | ||
10.3 | ||
10.4 | ||
10.5 |
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Exhibit No. | Description | |
10.6 | ||
10.7 | ||
10.8 | ||
10.9 | ||
10.10 | ||
10.11 | ||
10.12 | ||
10.13 | ||
10.14 | ||
10.15 | ||
10.16 | ||
10.17 | ||
10.18 | ||
10.19 | ||
10.20 | ||
10.21 | ||
10.22 | ||
10.23† | ||
10.24 |
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Exhibit No. | Description | |
10.25 | ||
10.26 | ||
10.27 | ||
10.28 | ||
10.29 | ||
10.30 | ||
10.31 | ||
21.1 | ||
23.1 | Consent of Ernst & Young LLP (LeddarTech Inc. and LeddarTech Holdings Inc.).* | |
23.2 | ||
23.3 | ||
23.4 | ||
24.1 | ||
101.INS | Inline XBRL Instance Document. | |
101.SCH | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document. | |
101.CAL | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document. | |
101.DEF | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document. | |
101.LAB | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document. | |
101.PRE | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document. | |
104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101). | |
107 |
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* Previously filed.
† Indicates management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
†† Certain of the exhibits and schedules to these exhibits have been omitted in accordance with Regulation S-K Item 601(a)(5). The registrant agrees to furnish a copy of all omitted exhibits and schedules to the SEC upon its request.
All schedules have been omitted because they are not required, are not applicable or the information is otherwise set forth in the financial statements or notes thereto.
Item 9. Undertakings.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
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
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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 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table, in the effective registration statement.
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.
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.
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.
To file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement to include any financial statements required by Item 8.A of Form 20-F at the start of any delayed offering or throughout a continuous offering.
That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, will be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness; 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 part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, 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 date of first use.
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act 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:
• Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;
• 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;
• 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
• Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.
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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The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes as follows: that prior to any public reoffering of the securities registered hereunder through use of a prospectus which is a part of this registration statement, by any person or party who is deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of Rule 145(c), the issuer undertakes that such reoffering prospectus will contain the information called for by the applicable registration form with respect to reofferings by persons who may be deemed underwriters, in addition to the information called for by the other items of the applicable form.
The registrant undertakes that every prospectus: (i) that is filed pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph, or (ii) that purports to meet the requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Act and is used in connection with an offering of securities subject to Rule 415, will be filed as a part of an amendment to the registration statement and will not be used until such amendment is effective, and that, for purposes 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.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-1 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Quebec, Canada, on the 19th day of August, 2024.
LEDDARTECH HOLDINGS INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ Frantz Saintellemy | |||
Name: | Frantz Saintellemy | |||
Title: | Chief Executive Officer and Director | |||
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.
Signature | Capacity | Date | ||
/s/ Frantz Saintellemy | Chief Executive Officer and Director | August 19, 2024 | ||
Frantz Saintellemy | ||||
/s/ Christopher Stewart | Chief Financial Officer | August 19, 2024 | ||
Christopher Stewart | ||||
* | Chairman | August 19, 2024 | ||
Derek Kenneth Aberle | ||||
| Director | August 19, 2024 | ||
Charles Boulanger | ||||
| Director | August 19, 2024 | ||
Nick Stone | ||||
* | Director | August 19, 2024 | ||
Michelle Sterling | ||||
* | Director | August 19, 2024 | ||
Yann Delabrière | ||||
* | Director | August 19, 2024 | ||
Sylvie Veilleux | ||||
* | Director | August 19, 2024 | ||
Lizabeth Ardisana | ||||
* By: /s/ Frantz Saintellemy | August 19, 2024 | |||
Frantz Saintellemy | ||||
Attorney-in-Fact |
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AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly undersigned representative in the United States of LeddarTech Holdings Inc., has signed this registration statement on August 19, 2024.
LEDDARTECH USA INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ Frantz Saintellemy | |||
Name: | Frantz Saintellemy | |||
Title: | Director | |||
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