As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 26, 2023

Registration No. 333-  

  

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

SOBR SAFE, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

   

Delaware

 

26-0731818

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

 

6400 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, Suite 1400

Greenwood Village, CO 80111

(Address, including zip code, of Registrant’s principal executive office)

 

SOBR Safe, Inc. 2019 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

David Gandini

Chief Executive Officer

6400 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, Suite 1400

Greenwood Village, CO 80111

(844) 762-7723

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

 

Copies to:

Joseph M. Lucosky, Esq.

Soyoung Lee, Esq.

Lucosky Brookman LLP

101 Wood Avenue South, 5th Floor

Woodbridge, New Jersey 08830

Tel. No.: (732) 395-4400

Fax No.: (732) 395-4401

 

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 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. ☐

 

 

 

 

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

 

The information required by Part I is omitted from this Registration Statement and included in documents sent or given to participants in the plans covered by this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

 

 
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PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

 

The following documents have been filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the Commission, and are incorporated herein by reference:

 

 

our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, which was filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023;

 

 

 

 

our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, which was filed with the SEC on May 15, 2023;

 

 

 

 

our Current Reports on Form 8-K (excluding any information and exhibits furnished under either Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 thereof), filed with the SEC on February 3, 2023, March 13, 2023, April 12, 2023, April 20, 2023 and June 15, 2023; and

 

 

 

 

the description of our common stock set forth in the registration statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 13, 2022, including any amendments or reports filed for the purposes of updating this description.

 

All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such reports and documents; provided, however, that documents, reports and definitive proxy or information statements, or portions thereof, which are furnished and not filed in accordance with the rules of the Commission shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this registration statement. Any statement contained in a document 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 statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this registration statement.

 

 
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ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

 

Not applicable.

 

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

 

Not applicable.

 

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

 

Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“DGCL”) permits a corporation to include a provision in its certificate of incorporation eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director to a corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for certain breaches of the director’s fiduciary duty, except (1) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (2) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3) the payment of unlawful dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions or (4) transactions from which the director received an improper personal benefit.

 

Section 145 of the DGCL (“Section 145”) authorizes a corporation to indemnify its directors, officers, employees and agents against certain liabilities (including attorney’s fees, judgments, fines and expenses) they may incur in their capacities as such in connection with specified actions, suits or proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation, or a derivative action), if they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful. Section 145 also provides that directors and officers have a right to indemnification against expenses where they have been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of such actions. A similar standard is applicable in the case of derivative actions, except that indemnification only extends to expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred in connection with defense or settlement of such action, and the statute requires court approval before there can be any indemnification where the person seeking indemnification has been found liable to the corporation. Section 145 also authorizes a corporation to advance expenses incurred in defending such actions, suits or proceedings in advance of their final disposition. Section 145 empowers the corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any directors, officers, employees and agent, against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under Section 145.

 

The Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation includes provisions eliminating the personal liability of the Company’s directors to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, and the Company’s amended and restated bylaws include provisions indemnifying the Company’s directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL.

 

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

 

Not applicable.

 

 
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ITEM 8. EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit

Number

 

Exhibit Description

 

Incorporated by Reference

 

Filed or Furnished

Form

 

Exhibit

 

Filing Date

 

Herewith

3.1

 

Articles of Incorporation of Imagine Media, Ltd.

 

SB-2

 

3.1

 

1/31/2008

 

 

3.2

 

Articles of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation to TransBiotec, Inc

 

S-1

 

3.2

 

11/06/2012

 

 

3.1

 

Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation filed with the State of Delaware on May 25, 2017

 

10-K

 

3.3

 

02/06/2019

 

 

3.2

 

Amended and Restated Bylaws of SOBR Safe, Inc.

 

8-K

 

3.1

 

11/19/2019

 

 

3.1

 

Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation of TransBiotec, Inc. changing name to SOBR Safe, Inc., effecting 1-for-33.26 reverse stock split and decreasing authorized common stock to 100MM shares

 

8-K

 

3.1

 

06/11/2020

 

 

4.1

 

Form of Representative’s Warrant between SOBR Safe, Inc. and Aegis Capital Corp

 

8-K

 

4.1

 

05/19/2022

 

 

4.2

 

Warrant Agency Agreement between SOBR Safe, Inc. and Equiniti Trust Company dated May 17, 2022

 

8-K

 

4.2

 

05/19/2022

 

 

4.3

 

Form of Unit Warrant, issued May 18, 2022

 

8-K

 

4.2

 

05/19/2022

 

 

5.1

 

Opinion of Lucosky Brookman LLP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

23.1

 

Consent of Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

23.2

 

Consent of Haynie & Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

23.3

 

Consent of Lucosky Brookman LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

24.1

 

Power of Attorney (included on signature page hereto)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

99.1

 

SOBR Safe, Inc. 2019 Equity Incentive Plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

107

 

Filing Fee Table

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 
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ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS

 

1. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(a) 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 of 1933;

 

(ii) 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 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 a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement; and

 

(iii) 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;

 

Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(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 section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference herein.

 

(b) 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 herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(c) 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.

 

 
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(d) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant 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:

 

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

(ii) 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;

 

(iii) 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

 

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

 

2. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

3. 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 of 1933 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 of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

 
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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 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 Greenwood Village, CO, on June 26, 2023.

 

 

SOBR Safe, Inc.

 

 

 

 

Date: June 26, 2023

By:

/s/ David Gandini

 

 

 

David Gandini

 

 

 

Chief Executive Officer and

Secretary

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints David Gandini, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange 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 connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitutes or substitute, 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 indicated:

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ David Gandini

 

Chief Executive Officer, Director and Secretary

 

June 26, 2023

David Gandini

 

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Ford Fay

 

Director

 

June 26, 2023

Ford Fay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Steven Beabout

 

Director

 

June 26, 2023

Steven Beabout

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Sandy Shoemaker

 

Director

 

June 26, 2023

Sandy Shoemaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Noreen Butler

 

Director

 

June 26, 2023

Noreen Butler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Jerry Wenzel

 

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

June 26, 2023

Jerry Wenzel

 

(Principal Financial Officer)

 

 

 

 
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