SEC Form S-8 filed by China SXT Pharmaceuticals Inc.
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2025
Registration No. 333- [●]
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CHINA SXT PHARMACEUTICALS, 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.) |
178 Taidong Rd North, Taizhou
Jiangsu, China
(Address, Including Zip Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)
2025 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Puglisi & Associates
850 Library Avenue
Suite 204
Newark, Delaware 19711
Tel: (302) 738-6680
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Kyle Leung, Esq.
Concord & Sage
1360 Valley Vistra Dr
Suite 140
Diamond Bar, CA 91765
Tel: +1 929-989-7572
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 the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “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 by the registrant in accordance with the requirements of Form S-8 in order to register 2,064,490 ordinary shares, no par value, (“Ordinary Shares”) of China SXT Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) issuable pursuant to the 2025 equity incentive plan of the Company (the “2025 Plan”) adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1. Plan Information.
The Company has adopted the 2025 Plan. The maximum number of Ordinary Shares that are available for issuance under the 2025 Plan is 2,064,490 Ordinary Shares. This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) for the purposes of registering the 2,064,490 of the Company’s Ordinary Shares issuable under the 2025 Plan.
Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.
The documents containing the information specified in this Part I of Form S-8 (plan information and registration information) will be sent or given to participants as specified by the Commission pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Such documents are not required to be and are not filed with the Commission either as part of Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act. The Company will provide a written statement to participants advising them of the availability without charge, upon written or oral request, of the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II hereof and including the statement in the preceding sentence. The written statement to all participants will indicate the availability without charge, upon written or oral request, of other documents required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 428(b) of the Securities Act, and will include the address and telephone number to which the request is to be directed.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
China SXT Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) is subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and, accordingly, files periodic reports and other information with the Commission. The Commission also maintains a Web site that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the Commission, including the Company. The address for the Commission’s Web site is “http://www.sec.gov”. The following documents are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:
(a) | The Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 filed with the Commission on August 13, 2024. |
(b) | The description of the Company’s Share Capital contained in the registration statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-221899 initially filed with the Commission on December 4, 2017, which was later amended and declared effective on September 28, 2018. |
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of 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 to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Any statement in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement will be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in this Registration Statement or in any other later filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to be a part of this Registration 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.
In accordance with, and subject to, the Company’s memorandum and articles of association (“M&A”, including the limitations detailed therein), the Company shall indemnify 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 any person who (a) 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 (b) 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 company or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
In accordance with, and subject to, the Company’s M&A (including the limitations detailed therein), the indemnity referred to above only applies if the liability does not arise as a result of actual fraud or willful default of the indemnified person.
In accordance with, and subject to, the Company’s M&A, the Company may purchase and maintain insurance in relation to any person who is or was a director, officer or liquidator of the Company, or who at the request of the Company is or was serving as a director, officer or liquidator of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another company or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against the person and incurred by the person in that capacity, whether or not the Company has or would have had the power to indemnify the person against the liability as provided in the articles.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit | Description | |
4.1 | Specimen share certificate(1) | |
4.2* | 2025 Equity Incentive Plan | |
5.1* | Opinion of Campbells | |
23.1* | Consent of ZH CPA, LLC | |
23.2* | Consent of Campbells (included as Exhibit 5.1) | |
24.1* | Power of Attorney (included on signature page hereof) | |
107* | Filing Fee Table |
* | Filed herewith. |
(1) | Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of China SXT Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s Registration Statement on Form F-1 or amendments thereto (File No. 333-221899). |
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: |
(i) | To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act; |
(ii) | To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the 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 the registration statement; |
(iii) | To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement. |
provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) of this section 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 Securities and Exchange Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act.
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(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 Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Company’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 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 the 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 Company pursuant to the foregoing procedures, or otherwise, the Company 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 Company of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company 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 Company 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 against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. |
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Signatures
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company 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 Taizhou, Jiangsu, China on this 28th day of March, 2025.
CHINA SXT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Feng Zhou | |
Feng Zhou | ||
Chief Executive Officer, | ||
Chairman of the Board of Directors (Principal Executive Officer) | ||
By: | /s/ Xiaodong Pan | |
Xiaodong Pan | ||
Chief Financial Officer | ||
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
Each person whose signature appears below hereby appoints Feng Zhou and Xiaodong Pan, and each of them, with full power to act without the other, such person’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this registration statement, any and all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and any amendments thereto and to file the same, with exhibits and schedules thereto, and other 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 necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature | Title | Date | ||
/s/ Feng Zhou | Chief Executive Officer | March 28, 2025 | ||
Name: Feng Zhou | (principal executive officer) and Executive Director | |||
/s/ Xiaodong Pan | Chief Financial Officer | March 28, 2025 | ||
Name: Xiaodong Pan | (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer) | |||
/s/ Tong Liu | Director | March 28, 2025 | ||
Name: Tong Liu | ||||
/s/ Songfan He | Director | March 28, 2025 | ||
Name: Songfan He | ||||
/s/ Jun Zheng | Director | March 28, 2025 | ||
Name: Jun Zheng | ||||
/s/ Xiaodong Ji | Director | March 28, 2025 | ||
Name: Xiaodong Ji |
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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES
Pursuant to the Securities Act, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of America, has signed this registration statement thereto in Newark, DE on March 28, 2025.
Puglisi & Associates | ||
By: | /s/ Donald J. Puglisi | |
Name: | Donald J. Puglisi | |
Title: | Managing Director |
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