SEC Form S-8 filed by CryoPort Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 14, 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

Cryoport, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Cryoport, Inc. 2018 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Robert Stefanovich
Cryoport, Inc.

Chief Financial Officer

112 Westwood Place, Suite 350

Brentwood, TN 37027

(949) 470-2300

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

With a copy to:

Kevin Zen

Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

600 Anton Boulevard., Suite 1400

Costa Mesa, CA 92626

(714) 427-7000

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. ¨

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This registration statement is being filed solely for the registration of 2,500,000 additional shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of Cryoport, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), for issuance pursuant to the Cryoport, Inc. 2018 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (as amended, the “Plan”). Accordingly, pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Company’s prior registration statements relating to the Plan (Nos. 333-225387 and 333-257368) are hereby incorporated by reference in this registration statement, except as revised in Part II of this registration statement.

PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) are incorporated by reference into this registration statement and are deemed to be a part hereof from the date of filing:

All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (other than Current Reports on Form 8-K furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and exhibits furnished on such form that relate to such items), subsequent to the filing of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents, except as to specific sections of such documents as set forth therein. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.

Item 8. Exhibits.

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 the City of Brentwood, State of Tennessee, on June 14, 2024.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Jerrell W. Shelton and Robert S. Stefanovich, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, 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 any and all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, and hereby grants to such 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 in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she 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 of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.