As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2024

Registration No. 333-          

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

AGM GROUP HOLDINGS INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

British Virgin Islands   N/A
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

c/o Creative Consultants (Hong Kong) Limited

Room 1502-3 15/F., Connuaght Commercial
Building, 185 Wanchai Road

   
Wanchai, Hong Kong   N/A
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

 

2024 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full Title of the Plan)

 

Cogency Global Inc.

122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor

New York, New York 10168

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

800-221-0102

(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

 

Copy To:

 

William S. Rosenstadt, Esq.

Mengyi “Jason” Ye, Esq.
Yarona L. Yieh, Esq.
Ortoli Rosenstadt LLP
366 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel: +1-212-588-0022

Fax: +1-212-826-9307

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting 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. ☐

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This registration statement (this “Registration Statement”) is filed by AGM Group Holdings Inc., a British Virgin Islands Business Company registered in the British Virgin Islands with company number 1871545 (the “Registrant”) to register securities issuable pursuant to the AGM Group Holdings Inc. 2024 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended and restated, “the 2024 Equity Incentive Plan”). The securities registered hereby consist of 3,750,000 Class A Ordinary Shares, US$0.001 par value per share of the Registrant, which represent the number of Class A Ordinary Shares that were authorized under the 2024 Equity Incentive Plan. Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of additional shares which may be offered and issued to prevent dilution from share splits, share dividends or similar transactions as provided in the 2024 Equity Incentive Plan. Any Class A Ordinary Shares covered by an award granted under the 2024 Equity Incentive Plan (or portion of an award) that terminates, expires, lapses or repurchased for any reason will be deemed not to have been issued for purposes of determining the maximum aggregate number of Class A Ordinary Shares that may be issued under the 2024 Equity Incentive Plan.

 

 

 

 

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE 10(A) PROSPECTUS

 

Item 1. Plan Information*

 

Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information*

 

*The documents containing the information specified in “Item 1. Plan Information” and “Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information” of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants of the 2024 Equity Incentive Plan, as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. Such documents are not required to be, and are not, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) either as part of this Registration Statement or as a prospectus or prospectus supplement pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of Form S-8, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of 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, and all documents we subsequently file pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement 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 shall be deemed to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents:

 

  (1) our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Commission on November 13, 2023;

 

  (2) our Reports on Form 6-K, filed with the Commission on November 14, 2023, December 13, 2023, December 27, 2023, March 27, 2024 and April 30, 2024

 

  (3) The description of our ordinary shares incorporated by reference in our registration statement on Form 8-A, as amended (File No. 001-38309) filed with the Commission on November 29, 2017, including any amendment and report subsequently filed for the purpose of updating that description; and

 

  (4) all reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the report referred to in (1) above.

 

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of 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 herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

 

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed 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 deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.

 

Item 4. Description of Securities.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

 

Not applicable.

 

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Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

 

British Virgin Islands law allows the Company to indemnify any current or former director against any expense, judgment, fine or amount paid in settlement and reasonably incurred in connection with any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings brought against a director as a result of the director serving as a director of the Company if:

 

(1)the director acted honestly and in good faith and in what the director believed to be in the best interests of the Company; and
   
(2)(in the case of criminal proceedings) the director had no reasonable cause to believe that the director's conduct was unlawful, save that any indemnity that breaches British Virgin Islands law is void.

 

Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provide that the Company shall indemnify its directors against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred in connection with legal, administrative or investigative proceedings of any director who:

 

(1)is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director of the Company; or

 

(2)is or was, at the request of the Company, serving as a director of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another body corporate or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, save that this indemnity only applies if the director acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Company and, in the case of criminal proceedings, the director had no reasonable cause to believe that their conduct was unlawful.

 

In addition, we have entered into indemnification agreements with our prior directors and executive officers that provide such persons with additional indemnification beyond that provided in our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to our directors, officers or persons controlling us under the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

 

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

Reference is hereby made to the Exhibit Index, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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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:

 

(a)To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

 

(b)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; and

 

(c)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 (1)(a) and (1)(b) above 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 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.

 

C. 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 foregoing provisions, 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.

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.   Description
     
4.1   Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of AGM Group Holdings Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to our registration statement on Form F-1 filed on May 15, 2017 and incorporated by reference herein
     
5.1   Opinion of Mourant Ozannes (filed herewith)
     
10.1   2024 Equity Incentive Plan of AGM Group Holdings Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on April 30, 2024)
     
23.1   Consent of Mourant Ozannes (included in Exhibit 5.1)
     
23.2   Consent of JLKZ CPA LLP (filed herewith)
     
23.3   Consent of TPS Thayer LLC (filed herewith)
     
23.4   Consent of KCCW Accountancy Corp. (filed herewith)
     
107   Filing Fee Table (filed herewith)

 

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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-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in China, on April 30, 2024.

 

  AGM GROUP HOLDINGS INC.
     
  By: /s/ Bo Zhu
  Name:  Bo Zhu
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

Signature   Title   Date
         
/s/ Bo Zhu   Chief Executive Officer, Chief Strategy Officer   April 30, 2024
Bo Zhu  

and a director

(Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

   
         
/s/ Jialin Liu   Director   April 30, 2024
Jialin Liu        
         
/s/ Jiaqi Zhu   Director   April 30, 2024
Jiaqi Zhu        
         
/s/ Fangjie Wang   Director   April 30, 2024
Fangjie Wang        

 

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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES

 

Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of AGM Group Holdings Inc., has signed this registration statement or amendment thereto in New York, NY on April 30, 2024.

 

 

Authorized U.S. Representative

Cogency Global Inc.

     
  By:

/s/ Colleen A. De Vries

    Name: Colleen A. De Vries
    Title: Senior Vice President

 

 

 

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ATTACHMENTS / EXHIBITS

ATTACHMENTS / EXHIBITS

OPINION OF MOURANT OZANNES

CONSENT OF JLKZ CPA LLP

CONSENT OF TPS THAYER LLC

CONSENT OF KCCW ACCOUNTANCY CORP

FILING FEE TABLE