VERO Venus Concept Inc

UNITED STATES

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

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Venus Concept Inc. 2019 Incentive Award Plan

(Full Title of the Plan)

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Michael Mandarello

General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Venus Concept Inc.

235 Yorkland Boulevard, Suite 900

Toronto, Ontario M2J 4Y8

(877) 848-8430

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

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Copies to:

Richard Raymer, Esq.

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

161 Bay Street, Suite 4310

Toronto, ON M5J 2S1

Telephone: (416) 367-7388

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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.

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. ☐

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INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF CONTENTS

OF REGISTRATION STATEMENTS ON FORM S-8

 

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Registration Statements on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on December 13, 2019 (File No. 333-235480), August 14, 2020 (File No. 333-246083), April 9, 2021 (File No. 333-255159), April 8, 2022 (File No. 333-264203) and May 26, 2023 (File No. 333-272235) are incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 8.

Exhibits.

Reference is made under this Item 8 to the exhibit index included in this Registration Statement.

 

Exhibit Index

 

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-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Toronto, Province of Ontario, Canada, on this 16^th day of August, 2024.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby constitute and appoint Rajiv De Silva and Domenic Della Penna and each of them, with full power of substitution and full power to act without the other, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent to act for him or her in his or her 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 this registration statement, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, 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 order to effectuate the same as fully, to all intents and purposes, as they or he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

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 date indicated.

 

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Exhibit 5.1 and Exhibit 23.2

August 16, 2024

 

Venus Concept Inc.

235 Yorkland Blvd., Suite 900

Toronto, ON M2J 4Y8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as counsel to Venus Concept Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the filing by the Company on the date hereof of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) covering the offer and sale of up to 221,165 shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Shares”), issuable pursuant to the Venus Concept Inc. 2019 Incentive Award Plan (the “Plan”).

 

This opinion is being furnished at the Company’s request in connection with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and no opinion is expressed herein as to any matter pertaining to the contents of the Registration Statement or the prospectus forming a part thereof, other than as to the issuance of the Shares.

 

In rendering the opinion hereinafter expressed, we have made such legal and factual examinations and inquiries, including an examination of originals or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction as being true reproductions of originals, of all such documents, records, agreements and other instruments, including the Registration Statement, the Plan, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as amended, the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, and corporate minutes of the Company as we have deemed necessary and appropriate for the purpose of this opinion. We have assumed that there are no agreements or understandings between or among the Company and any participants in the Plan that would expand, modify or otherwise affect the terms of the Plan or the respective rights or obligations of any participants thereunder. We have further assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents, certificates and records submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents, certificates and records of all documents, certificates and records submitted to us as copies, and the truthfulness of all statements of fact contained therein.

 

Based upon the foregoing, and having regard to legal considerations and other information that we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that, as of the date hereof, when the Shares shall have been duly registered on the books of the transfer agent and registrar therefor in the name or on behalf of the purchasers, and have been issued by the Company against payment therefor in the circumstances contemplated by the Plan and assuming that the individual issuances, grants or awards under the Plan are duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and duly issued, granted or awarded and exercised and paid for, for consideration at least equal to the par value thereof, in accordance with the requirements of law and the Plan (and the agreements and awards duly adopted thereunder and in accordance therewith), the offer and sale of the Shares shall have been duly authorized and, when and to the extent that the Shares are issued in accordance with the foregoing, such Shares will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

 

We express no opinion herein as to the laws of any state or jurisdiction other than the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and the reference to this firm therein. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.

 

	Very truly yours,
	/s/ Dorsey & Whitney LLP

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EXHIBIT 107

 

Calculation of Filing Fee Tables

 

FORM S-8

(Form Type)

VENUS CONCEPT INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Table 1: Newly Registered and Carry Forward Securities

 

 

 

 

 

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