As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2018.

Registration No. 333-     

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-3

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

VERICEL CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Michigan

 

94-3096597

(State or other jurisdiction of
Incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

64 Sidney Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
 
(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(617) 588-5555
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Dominick C. Colangelo

President and Chief Executive Officer

Vericel Corporation

64 Sidney Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

(617) 588-5555

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

 

With copy to:

 

Mitchell S. Bloom, Esq.
Caitlin Murray, Esq.
 
Goodwin Procter LLP
100 Northern Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02210
(617) 570-1000

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

 

If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. o

 

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, as amended, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box: o

 

If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. x File No. 333- 205336

 

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. o

 

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. o

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. o

 

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 x

Non-accelerated filer o

Smaller reporting company o

 

 

(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

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

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered (1)

 

Proposed Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price

 

Amount of
Registration
Fee

 

Common Stock, no par value per share

 

 

 

Preferred Stock, no par value per share

 

 

 

Debt Securities

 

 

 

Warrants

 

 

 

Units (2)

 

 

 

Total:

 

$

2,695,489.95

 

$

335.59

(3)

(1)                     The Registrant previously registered securities, including common stock, preferred stock,  debt securities, warrants and units comprised of same, with an aggregate offering price of $100,000,000 on a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-205336) filed by the Registrant on June 29, 2015, and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 15, 2015 (the “Registration Statement”). In accordance with Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, an additional amount of securities, including common stock, preferred stock, warrants, debt securities and units comprised of same having a proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $ 2,695,489.95 is hereby registered, representing no more than 20% of the maximum aggregate offering price of securities available for issuance under the Registration Statement. In no event will the maximum aggregate offering price of all securities issued pursuant to this Registration Statement exceed that registered under such registration statements. The securities registered also include such indeterminate number of shares of common stock and preferred stock and amount of debt securities as may be issued upon conversion of or exchange for preferred stock or debt securities that provide for conversion or exchange, upon exercise of warrants or pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of any such securities.

(2)                     Consisting of some or all of the securities listed above, in any combination, including common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants and units.

(3)                     The amount of the registration fee has been calculated in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act.

 

 

 



 

EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

This registration statement is being filed to register an additional $2,695,489.95 of securities, including common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants and units comprised of same, of Vericel Corporation, a Michigan corporation, pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and General Instruction IV of Form S-3. This registration statement incorporates by reference the contents of the registrant’s registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-205336), which was declared effective by the Commission on July 15, 2015, including all amendments and exhibits thereto and all information incorporated by reference therein, other than the exhibits filed herewith. The Company is filing this Registration Statement for the sole purpose of increasing the maximum aggregate offering amount of securities registered under the Prior Registration Statement by $2,695,489.95.

 

The required opinion and consent is listed on an Exhibit Index attached hereto and filed herewith.

 

The registrant hereby certifies to the Commission that (i) it has instructed its bank to pay the Commission the filing fee set forth in the cover page of this registration statement by wire transfer of such amount to the Commission’s account as soon as practicable (but no later than the close of business on June 1, 2018); (ii) it will not revoke such instruction; and (iii) it has sufficient funds in the relevant account to cover the amount of such filing fee.

 

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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-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Cambridge, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 31st day of May, 2018.

 

 

VERICEL CORPORATION

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Dominick C. Colangelo

 

 

Dominick C. Colangelo

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Dominick C. Colangelo

 

President and Chief Executive Officer, Director

 

May 31, 2018

Dominick C. Colangelo

 

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Gerard Michel

 

Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development

 

May 31, 2018

Gerard Michel

 

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*

 

Chairman of the Board of Directors

 

May 31, 2018

Robert L. Zerbe, M.D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*

 

Director

 

May 31, 2018

Alan L. Rubino

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*

 

Director

 

May 31, 2018

Heidi Hagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*

 

Director

 

May 31, 2018

Steven Gilman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*

 

Director

 

May 31, 2018

Kevin McLaughlin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*

 

Director

 

May 31, 2018

Paul Wotton

 

 

 

 

 

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