SEC Form S-8 filed by electroCore Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 12, 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

electroCore, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

200 Forge Way, Suite 205

Rockaway, New Jersey 07866

(Address, including zip code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

2018 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan 

(Full title of the plan)

Daniel S. Goldberger

Chief Executive Officer

electroCore, Inc.

200 Forge Way, Suite 205

Rockaway, NJ 07866

(973) 290-0097

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

Copies to:

Ira L. Kotel, Esq.

Dentons US LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10020

(212) 768-6700

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 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

EXPLANATORY NOTE

electroCore, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement on Form S-8 for the purpose of registering an additional 430,523 shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), issuable to eligible persons under the 2018 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan, which shares are in addition to the shares registered on the Registrant’s registration statements on Form S-8 filed on June 25, 2018 (File No. 333-225864), March 31, 2020 (File No. 333-237498), March 11, 2021 (File No. 333-254171), March 18, 2022 (File No. 333-263675), March 8, 2023 (File No. 333-270362), and March 13, 2024 (File No. 333-277901) (collectively, the “Prior Registration Statements”).

This Registration Statement relates to securities of the same class as that to which the Prior Registration Statements relate, and is submitted in accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8 regarding Registration of Additional Securities. Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements, to the extent relating to the registration of Common Stock issuable under the 2018 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan, are incorporated herein by reference and made part of this Registration Statement, except as supplemented, amended, and superseded by the information set forth or incorporated by reference herein. Only those items of Form S-8 containing new information not contained in the Prior Registration Statements are presented herein.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are hereby incorporated by reference in this registration statement:

All documents that the Registrant subsequently files pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this registration statement (except for any portions of the Registrant’s current reports on Form 8-K furnished pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 thereof and any corresponding exhibits thereto not filed with the Commission) and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration statement indicating that all securities offered 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 of such documents.

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 herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this registration statement.

Item 8. Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed as part of this registration statement:

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, 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 Rockaway, State of New Jersey, on this 12^th day of March 2025.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Daniel S. Goldberger and Joshua S. Lev, and each of them, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of electroCore, Inc., and any or all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents 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 for all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby and about the premises hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agent, proxy and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.