As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 6, 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
Ameresco, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
| Delaware | 001-34811 | 04-3512838 | ||||||||||||
| (State or Other Juris- diction of Incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) | ||||||||||||
| 111 Speen Street, | Suite 410, | Framingham, | MA | 1701 | |||||||||||||
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) | ||||||||||||||||
2017 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended
(Full Title of the Plan)
(Full Title of the Plan)
George P. Sakellaris President and Chief Executive Officer
111 Speen Street, Suite 410
Framingham, Massachusetts 01701
(Name and Address of Agent For Service)
(508) 661-2200
(Telephone number, including area code)
(Telephone number, including area code)
| 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. | ||||||||
| 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 is being filed to register 225,000 additional shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Ameresco, Inc. (the “Company”) issuable under the Company's 2017 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended (the “ESPP”).
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Company’s Registration Statements on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-219864) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 10, 2017, Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-226698) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 8, 2018, and Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-238792) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 29, 2020, including the documents incorporated by reference therein, related to the ESPP are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement, except as set forth below, in each case, except to the extent amended or superseded by the contents hereof.
Item 8. Exhibits.
| EXHIBIT INDEX | |||||||||||
| Exhibit No. | Description | ||||||||||
| 4.1 | |||||||||||
| 4.2 | |||||||||||
| 5.1* | |||||||||||
| 23.1* | |||||||||||
| 23.2* | Consent of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1). | ||||||||||
| 24.1 | Power or Attorney (included in the signature pages of this registration statement) | ||||||||||
| 99.1 | |||||||||||
| 107* | |||||||||||
| *Filed herewith | |||||||||||
SIGNATURE
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 the in the town of Framingham, Massachusetts, on this 6th day of August 2024.
| AMERESCO, INC. | ||||||||||||||
| By: | /s/ Spencer Doran Hole | |||||||||||||
| Spencer Doran Hole | ||||||||||||||
| Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||||||||
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 dates indicated.
| Signature | Title | Date | ||||||||||||
| /s/ George P. Sakellaris | Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| George P. Sakellaris | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Spencer Doran Hole | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Spencer Doran Hole | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Mark Chiplock | Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Mark Chiplock | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ David J. Corrsin | Director | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| David J. Corrsin | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Claire Hughes Johnson | Director | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Claire Hughes Johnson | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Nickolas Stavropoulos | Director | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Nickolas Stavropoulos | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Jennifer L. Miller | Director | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Jennifer L. Miller | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Joseph W. Sutton | Director | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Joseph W. Sutton | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Frank V. Wisneski | Director | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Frank V. Wisneski | ||||||||||||||
/s/ Charles R. Patton | Director | August 6, 2024 | ||||||||||||
Charles R. Patton | ||||||||||||||