AEye Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Other Events, Financial Statements and Exhibits
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| Item 8.01. | Other Events. |
On December 30, 2024, AEye, Inc. (the “Company”) filed a prospectus supplement (the “Current Prospectus Supplement”) to update the maximum number of shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Placement Shares”) issuable pursuant to the At Market Issuance Sales Agreement between the Company and A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners, dated September 12, 2024 (the “Sales Agreement”), to up to an aggregate of $5,230,000 of Placement Shares.
The issuance and sale of the Placement Shares by the Company under the Sales Agreement will be made pursuant to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-274546) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2023, and declared effective on September 26, 2023, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement, dated as of September 13, 2024, and the Current Prospectus Supplement.
A copy of the legal opinion of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP relating to the Placement Shares is filed as Exhibit 5.1 hereto.
This Current Report on Form 8-K shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any shares of common stock in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statement and Exhibits. |
| (d) | Exhibits. |
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| 5.1 | Opinion of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP. |
| 23.1 | Consent of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1) |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101). |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| AEye, Inc. | |||
| Dated: December 30, 2024 | |||
| By: | /s/ Andrew S. Hughes | ||
| Andrew S. Hughes | |||
| Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary | |||