LTRX Lantronix Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 7, 2025

 

Registration No. __________________

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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Lantronix, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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Delaware		33-0362767
(State or other jurisdiction of		(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)		Identification No.)

 

 

48 Discovery, Suite 250

Irvine, California 92618
(Address, including zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)

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Lantronix, Inc. 2020 Performance Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

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Brent Stringham
Chief Financial Officer
Lantronix, Inc.

48 Discovery, Suite 250

Irvine, California 92618
(949) 453-3990

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

COPY TO:

Mark D. Peterson, Esq.

O’Melveny & Myers LLP

610 Newport Center Drive, 17th Floor
Newport Beach, California 92660

Telephone: (949) 823-6900

 

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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 o		Accelerated filer þ
Non-accelerated filer o		Smaller reporting company þ
		Emerging growth company o

  

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. o

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE

SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

 

 

The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3.

Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

 

The following documents of Lantronix, Inc. (the “Company” or “Registrant”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) are incorporated herein by reference:

 

(a)

The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2024, filed with the Commission on September 9, 2024 (Commission File No. 001-16027);

 

(b)

The portions of the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Commission on September 30, 2024, that are incorporated by reference in Part III of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 (Commission File No. 001-16027);

 

(c)

The Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for its fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2024, filed with the Commission on November 8, 2024 and February 7, 2025, respectively (Commission File No. 001-16027);

 

(d)

The Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on February 5, 2025 (with respect to Item 5.02 only), January 10, 2025 (with respect to Item 5.02 and the corresponding portions of Item 9.01 only), November 6, 2024, September 27, 2024, September 16, 2024 (with respect to Item 5.02 and the corresponding portions of Item 9.01 only) and August 12, 2024 (each, Commission File No. 001-16027 and in each case only as to the information “filed” with the Commission thereunder for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and not as to information “furnished” thereunder); and

 

(e)

The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock contained in Exhibit 4.1 of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, filed with the Commission on September 11, 2019 (Commission File No. 001-16027), which updated the description thereof contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Commission on August 2, 2000 (Commission File No. 001-16027), and any other amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

 

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all 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 filing of such documents; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with Commission rules shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is 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 other subsequently filed document which also is or 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 amended, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

 

 

 

 

 

Item 4.

Description of Securities

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 5.

Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 6.

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

 

The Registrant’s Certificate of Incorporation limits the liability of directors to the maximum extent permitted by Delaware law. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law empowers a Delaware corporation to indemnify any persons who are, or are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed legal action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person was an officer or director of such corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided that such officer or director acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests, and, for criminal proceedings, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was illegal. A Delaware corporation may indemnify officers and directors in an action by or in the right of the corporation under the same conditions, except that no indemnification is permitted without judicial approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be liable to the corporation in the performance of his duty. Where an officer or director is successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify him against the expenses which such officer or director actually and reasonably incurred.

 

The Registrant’s Bylaws provide that the Registrant shall indemnify its officers and directors and may indemnify its employees and other agents to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Registrant’s Bylaws also permit it to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director, employee or other agent for any liability arising out of his or her actions in such capacity, regardless of whether the Bylaws would permit indemnification.

 

The Registrant has entered into agreements to indemnify its directors and officers, in addition to the indemnification provided for in the Registrant’s Bylaws. These agreements, among other things, indemnify the Registrant’s directors and officers for certain expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any such person in any action or proceeding, including any action by or in the right of the Registrant, arising out of such person’s services as a director or officer of the Registrant, any subsidiary of the Registrant or any other company or enterprise to which the person provides services at the request of the Registrant. The Registrant believes that these provisions and agreements are necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors and officers.

 

Item 7.

Exemption from Registration Claimed

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 8.

Exhibits

 

See the attached Exhibit Index at page 7, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

 

 

Item 9.

Undertakings

 

(a)

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;

 

(ii)

To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this 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 this Registration Statement;

 

(iii)

To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;

 

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

 

(2)

That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, 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.

 

(b)

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) 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.

 

(h)

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6 above, or otherwise, the Registrant has 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. 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

Exhibit Number		Description of Exhibit
4		Lantronix, Inc. 2020 Performance Incentive Plan. (Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on November 6, 2024 (Commission File No. 001-16027) and incorporated herein by this reference.)
5		Opinion of O’Melveny & Myers LLP (opinion re legality).
23.1		Consent of Baker Tilly US, LLP (consent of independent registered public accounting firm).
23.2		Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5).
24		Power of Attorney (included in this Registration Statement under “Signatures”).
107		Filing Fee Table

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, 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 Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irvine, State of California, on February 7, 2025.

 

 

	LANTRONIX, INC.
	By: /s/ Saleel Awsare
	Saleel Awsare
	Chief Executive Officer

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Saleel Awsare, Brent Stringham and Dennis Gallagher, and each of them, acting individually and without the other, 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, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, 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 individually, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Saleel Awsare Saleel Awsare	President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)	February 7, 2025
/s/ Brent Stringham Brent Stringham	Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)	February 7, 2025
/s/ Narbeh Derhacobian Narbeh Derhacobian	Director	February 7, 2025
/s/ Kevin Palatnik Kevin Palatnik	Director	February 7, 2025
/s/ Hoshi Printer Hoshi Printer	Director	February 7, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT 5

 

[O’Melveny & Myers Letterhead]

 

February 7, 2025

 

Lantronix, Inc.

48 Discovery, Suite 250

Irvine, California 92618

 

Re:       Registration of Securities of Lantronix, Inc.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

In connection with the registration of up to 1,800,000 shares of Common Stock of Lantronix, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), par value $0.0001 per share (the “Shares”), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about the date hereof, such Shares to be issued or delivered pursuant to the Company’s 2020 Performance Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), you have requested our opinion set forth below.

 

In our capacity as counsel, we have examined originals or copies of those corporate and other records of the Company we considered appropriate.

 

On the basis of such examination and our consideration of those questions of law we considered relevant, and subject to the limitations and qualifications in this opinion, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and, when issued in accordance with such authorization, the provisions of the Plan and relevant agreements duly authorized by and in accordance with the terms of the Plan, and upon payment for and delivery of the Shares as contemplated in accordance with the Plan, and either (a) the countersigning of the certificate or certificates representing the Shares by a duly authorized signatory of the registrar for the Company’s Common Stock, or (b) the book-entry of the Shares by the transfer agent for the Company’s Common Stock in the name of The Depository Trust Company or its nominee, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

We consent to your filing this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.

 

	Respectfully submitted,
	/s/ O’Melveny & Myers LLP

 

 

 

EXHIBIT 23.1

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) of our report dated September 9, 2024, relating to the consolidated financial statements of Lantronix, Inc. (the “Company”) and the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (which report expresses an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting because of a material weakness) as of and for the year ended June 30, 2024 appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Lantronix, Inc.

 

/s/ Baker Tilly US, LLP

 

Chicago, Illinois

February 7, 2025

 

EXHIBIT 107

 

CALCULATION OF FILING FEE TABLE

 

Form S-8

(Form Type)

 

Lantronix, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Table 1: Newly Registered Securities

 

Security Type	Security Class Title	Fee Calculation Rule	Amount Registered(1)	Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Unit(2)	Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(2)	Fee Rate	Amount of Registration Fee
Equity	Common Stock, par value of $0.0001 per share, issuable pursuant to the Registrant’s 2020 Performance Incentive Plan	Other(3)	1,800,000	$3.72	$6,696,000	0.0001531	$1,025.16
Total Offering Amounts			1,800,000		$6,696,000		$1,025.16
Total Fee Offsets							$0
Net Fee Due							$1,025.16

 

(1) This Registration Statement covers, in addition to the number of shares of Lantronix, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company” or the “Registrant”), common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), stated above, options and other rights to purchase or acquire the shares of Common Stock covered by this Registration Statement and, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), an additional indeterminate number of shares, options and rights that may be offered or issued pursuant to the Lantronix, Inc. 2020 Performance Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) as a result of one or more adjustments under the Plan to prevent dilution resulting from one or more stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.

 

(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee. The offering price per share and the aggregate offering price are based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s common stock as reported on the Nasdaq Stock Market on February 3, 2025, in accordance with Rule 457(c) of the Securities Act.

 

(3) The registration fee has been calculated in accordance with Rule 457(h) and Rule 457(c) promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

 

 

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