As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 21, 2019

Registration No. 333-            

 

  

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

NEVRO CORP.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

1800 Bridge Parkway

Redwood City, CA 94065

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

2014 Equity Incentive Award Plan

2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Rami Elghandour

Chief Executive Officer

Nevro Corp.

1800 Bridge Parkway

Redwood City, CA 94065

(Name and address of agent for service)

(650) 251-0005

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

 

 

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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.  ☐

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

 

 

 

Proposed sale to take place as soon after the effective date of the

registration statement as awards under the plans are granted, exercised and/or vest.

 

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 1,513,176 shares of the Registrant’s common stock issuable under the following employee benefit plans for which Registration Statements of the Registrant on Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-200145, 333-202857, 333-209816, 333-216206 and 333-223159) is effective: (i) the 2014 Equity Incentive Award Plan, as a result of the operation of an automatic annual increase provision therein, which added 1,210,541 shares of common stock, and (ii) the 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as a result of the operation of an automatic annual increase provision therein, which added 302,635 shares of common stock.

INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF CONTENTS OF REGISTRATION STATEMENTS ON

FORM S-8

Pursuant to Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Registration Statements on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (File Nos. 333-200145, 333-202857, 333-209816, 333-216206 and 333-223159) are incorporated by reference herein.

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

 

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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 Redwood City, State of California, on this 21st day of February, 2019.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each individual whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Rami Elghandour and Andrew H. Galligan, and each of them, as attorneys-in-fact, each with the power of substitution, 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) to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all 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, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, 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 and on the dates indicated.