As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 25, 2022

 

Registration No. 333-261485

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

AMENDMENT NO. 2

TO

FORM S-3

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

TRIO-TECH INTERNATIONAL

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

California

  

95-2086631

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

  

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)
     

Trio-Tech International

Block 1008 Toa Payoh North

Unit 03-09 Singapore 318996

(65) 6265 3300

  

Victor H.M. Ting

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Trio-Tech International

Block 1008 Toa Payoh North

Unit 03-09 Singapore 318996

(65) 6265 3300

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,

including area code of Registrant’s principal executive offices),

  

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

 

From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement

(Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public)

 

Copies of all communications, including all communications sent to the agent for service, should be sent to:

 

Victor H.M. Ting

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Trio-Tech International

Block 1008 Toa Payoh North

Unit 03-09 Singapore 318996

(65) 6265 3300

 

Daniel W. Rumsey, Esq.

Jessica R. Sudweeks, Esq.

Disclosure Law Group,

a Professional Corporation

655 West Broadway, Suite 870

San Diego, California 92101

Tel: (619) 272-7050

Fax: (619) 330-2101

 

If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ☐

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. ☒

 

If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, please check the following box. ☐

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box. ☐

 

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 Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

 

The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 
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EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

Trio-Tech International (the “Company”) is filing this Amendment No. 2 to our Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-261485) for the sole purpose of filing Exhibits 5.1, 23.1 and 107 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This Amendment No. 2 does not modify any provision of the Prospectus that forms a part of the Registration Statement and accordingly such Prospectus has not been included herein.

 

 

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

ITEM 16.  EXHIBITS

 

1.1*

Form of Underwriting Agreement

1.2*

Form of Placement Agent Agreement

4.1*

Form of indenture for senior debt securities

4.2*

Form of indenture for subordinated debt securities

4.3*

Form of senior note

4.4*

Form of subordinated note

4.5*

Form of any warrant agreement with respect to each particular series of warrants issued hereunder

4.6*

Form of any warrant agency agreement with respect to each particular series of warrants issued hereunder

4.7*

Form of any unit agreement with respect to any unit issued hereunder

5.1

Opinion of Disclosure Law Group, a Professional Corporation, filed herewith

23.1

Consent of Disclosure Law Group, a Professional Corporation, included in Exhibit 5.1

23.2 **

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm – Mazars LLP

24

Power of Attorney (located on signature page of the Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed December 3, 2021)
107 Filing Fee Table

 

*

To be filed, if necessary, by an amendment to this registration statement or incorporation by reference pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K in connection with an offering of securities.

**

Previously filed as an exhibit to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed on February 8, 2022.

 

 

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Country of Singapore on February 25, 2022.

 

 

TRIO-TECH INTERNATIONAL
     
 

By:

/s/ S. W. Yong

  
   

S. W. Yong
   

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Name

  

Position

  

Date
         

/s/ *

  

President and Chief Executive Officer

  

February 25, 2022

S.W. Yong

  

(Principal Executive Officer)

    
         

/s/ *

  

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

  

February 25, 2022

Victor H. M. Ting

  

(Principal Financial Officer)

    
         

/s/ *

  

Chairman of the Board

  

February 25, 2022

A. Charles Wilson

        
         

/s/ *

  

Director

  

February 25, 2022

Jason T. Adelman

        
         

/s/ *

  

Director

  

February 25, 2022

Richard M. Horowitz

        

 

By:  /s/ S.W. Yong

* Attorney-in-fact

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

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February 25, 2022

 

Trio-Tech International

Block 1008 Toa Payoh North

Unit 03-09 Singapore 318996

 

Re:    Registration Statement on Form S-3

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We are acting as counsel for Trio-Tech International, a California corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-3 relating to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) of the following securities of the Company having an aggregate initial public offering price of up to $10,000,000: (i) shares (the “Company Shares”) of common stock, no par value (“Common Stock”), (ii) warrants to purchase Common Stock (“Warrants”), (iii) convertible and non-convertible debt securities (the "Debt Securities"); and (iv) units consisting of two or more of the Securities (as defined below) (“Units”).  The Company Shares, Warrants, Debt Securities and Units are collectively referred to herein as the “Securities.” The Securities shall include any additional amounts of such securities the offer and sale of which are registered pursuant to a registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act in connection with one or more offerings contemplated by such Registration Statement. Such Registration Statement, as amended, and including any registration statement related thereto and filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act, is herein referred to as the “Registration Statement.”

 

The Securities may be offered and sold from time to time by the Company as set forth in the Registration Statement, the prospectus contained within the Registration Statement (the “Prospectus”), and supplements to the Prospectus (each, a “Prospectus Supplement”). The Warrants may be issued under one or more warrant agreements (each, a “Warrant Agreement”) by and between the Company and a bank or trust company to be identified therein as warrant agent. The Debt Securities may be issued under one or more indentures (each, an "Indenture"). The Units may be issued under one or more unit agreements (each, a “Unit Agreement”) between the Company and a third party to be identified therein as unit agent. Each Warrant Agreement, each Indenture, and each Unit Agreement are herein collectively called the “Agreements.”

 

We have reviewed the Registration Statement and such other agreements, documents, records, certificates and other materials, and have reviewed and are familiar with such corporate proceedings and satisfied ourselves as to such other matters, as we have considered relevant or necessary as a basis for this opinion. In such review, we have assumed the accuracy and completeness of all agreements, documents, records, certificates and other materials submitted to us, the conformity with the originals of all such materials submitted to us as copies (whether or not certified and including facsimiles), the authenticity of the originals of such materials and all materials submitted to us as originals, the genuineness of all signatures and the legal capacity of all natural persons.

 

 
 

 

On the basis of the assumptions and subject to the qualifications and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:

 

 

1.

When an issuance of Common Stock has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, upon issuance, delivery and payment therefor in an amount not less than the par value thereof in the manner contemplated by the Registration Statement and/or the Prospectus and related Prospectus Supplement(s) and by such corporate action, such shares of Common Stock will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 

 

2.

When a Warrant Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and duly executed and delivered, and when the specific terms of a particular issuance of Warrants have been duly established in accordance with such Warrant Agreement and authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, and the Warrants have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered against payment therefor in accordance with such Warrant Agreement and in the manner contemplated by the Registration Statement and/or the Prospectus and related Prospectus Supplement(s) and by such corporate action (assuming the securities issuable upon exercise of the Warrants have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance by all necessary corporate action), the Warrants will be legally valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

 

 

3.

When an Indenture has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and duly executed and delivered, and when the specific terms of a particular issuance of Debt Securities have been duly established in accordance with such Indenture and authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, and the Debt Securities have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered against payment therefor in accordance with such Indenture and in the manner contemplated by the Registration Statement and/or the Prospectus and related Prospectus Supplement(s) and by such corporate action (assuming the securities issuable upon exercise of the Debt Securities, if convertible, have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance by all necessary corporate action), the Debt Securities will be legally valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms

 

 

4.

When a Unit Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and duly executed and delivered, and when the specific terms of a particular issuance of Units have been duly established in accordance with such Unit Agreement and authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, and the Units have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered against payment therefor in accordance with such Unit Agreement and in the manner contemplated by the Registration Statement and/or the Prospectus and related Prospectus Supplement(s) and by such corporate action (assuming the constituent securities of the Units have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance by all necessary corporate action), the Units will be legally valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

 

Our opinions set forth above are subject to and limited by the effect of (a) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer, receivership, conservatorship, arrangement, moratorium and other laws affecting and relating to the rights of creditors generally, (b) general equitable principles and (c) general principles of equity, including without limitation concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, and the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief and limitation of rights of acceleration, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

 

 
 

 

In connection with the opinions expressed above, we have assumed that at or prior to the time of the delivery of any of the Securities (a) the Registration Statement, and any amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), will have been declared effective under the Act and a Prospectus Supplement relating to the offer and sale of such Securities to the Prospectus will have been prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act, (b) the Board shall not have rescinded or otherwise modified the authorization of such Securities, (c) that a definitive purchase, underwriting or similar agreement, including any Agreements, with respect to any Securities offered will have been duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto, (d) that any Securities issuable upon conversion, exchange, redemption or exercise of any Securities being offered will be duly authorized, created and, if appropriate, reserved for issuance upon such conversion, exchange, redemption or exercise, and (e) neither the establishment of any terms of such Securities after the date hereof nor the issuance and delivery of, or the performance of the Company’s obligations under, such Securities will require any authorization, consent, approval or license of or exemption from, or registration or filing with, or report or notice to, any governmental unit, agency, commission, department or other authority (a “Governmental Approval”) or violate or conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute a default under, (i) any agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its affiliates is a party or by which the Company or any of its affiliates or any of their respective properties may be bound, (ii) any Governmental Approval that may be applicable to the Company or any of its affiliates or any of their respective properties, (iii) any order, decision, judgment or decree that may be applicable to the Company or any of its affiliates or any of their respective properties, or (iv) any applicable law (other than the California General Corporation Law and the and the federal laws of the United States in each case as in effect on the date hereof).

 

The opinions set forth in this letter are limited to the California General Corporation Law and the federal laws of the United States, in each case as in effect on the date hereof.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement and to the use of our name under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Registration Statement and in the Prospectus forming a part thereof and any supplement thereto. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ Disclosure Law Group

Disclosure Law Group, a Professional Corporation

 

 

Exhibit 107

 

Calculation of Filing Fee Tables

 

Form S-3

(Form Type)

 

Trio-Tech International

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Table 1: Newly Registered and Carry Forward Securities

 
   

Security

Type

  

Security
Class

Title

Fee

Calculation
or Carry

Forward
Rule

  

Amount
Registered (1)

  

Proposed
Maximum
Offering

Price

Per Unit (1)

  

Maximum

Aggregate

Offering

Price(2)

  

Fee Rate

  

Amount

of

Registration

Fee(3)

  

Carry

Forward

Form

Type

  

Carry

Forward

File

Number

  

Carry

Forward

Initial

effective

date

  

Filing

Fee

Previously

Paid In

Connection

with

Unsold

Securities

to be

Carried

Forward
 

Newly Registered Securities

Fees to Be Paid

                                              
Fees Previously Paid   Equity   Common Stock, no par value                                      
    Other   Warrants                                      
    Debt   Debt Securities                                      
    Other   Units(4)                                      

 

   Unallocated (Universal Shelf)   – 457(o)   (1)   (1)   $10,000,000   $92.70 per million   $927.00                
 

Carry Forward Securities

Carry Forward Securities

  

N/A

  

N/A

N/A

  

N/A

  

N/A

  

N/A

  

N/A

  

N/A

  

N/A

  

N/A

  

N/A

  

N/A
   

Total Offering Amounts

       $10,000,000       $927.00                
   

Total Fees Previously Paid

               $927.00                
   

Total Fee Offsets

               –                
   

Net Fee Due

               $0.00                
 

(1)  There are being registered hereunder such indeterminate number of shares of common stock, such indeterminate principal amount of debt securities and such indeterminate number of warrants and units as shall have an aggregate offering price not to exceed $10.0 million. If any debt securities are issued at an original issue discount, then the principal amount of such debt securities shall be in such greater amount as shall result in an aggregate offering price not to exceed $10.0 million, less the aggregate dollar amount of all securities previously issued hereunder. Any securities registered hereunder may be sold separately or as units with other securities registered hereunder. The securities registered also include such indeterminate number of shares of common stock and amount of debt securities as may be issued upon exchange for debt securities, upon exercise of warrants or pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of any such securities. In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the securities being registered hereunder include such indeterminate number of shares of common stock as may be issuable with respect to the securities being registered hereunder as a result of stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.

 

(2)  The proposed maximum aggregate offering price per class of security will be determined from time to time by the Registrant in connection with the issuance by the Registrant of the securities registered hereunder and is not specified as to each class of security.

 

(3)  The registration fee has been calculated in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act.

 

(4)  Any securities registered under the registration statement may be sold separately or as units with other securities registered under the registration statement.

 

 

Table 2: Fee Offset Claims and Sources

 

   

Registrant

or Filer

Name

  

Form

or

Filing

Type

  

File

Number

  

Initial

Filing

Date

  

Filing

Date

  

Fee

Offset

Claimed

  

Security Type

Associated with
Fee Offset

Claimed

  

Security Title

Associated with
Fee Offset

Claimed

  

Unsold

Securities

Associated with
Fee Offset

Claimed

  

Unsold Aggregate

Offering Amount

Associated with Fee

Offset Claimed

  

Fee Paid

with Fee
Offset

Source

Rules 457(b) and 0-11(a)(2)

Fee Offset Claims

   —   

— 

  

— 

  

— 

      

— 

                    

Fee Offset Sources

  

— 

  

— 

  

— 

      

— 

                      

— 

Rules 457(p)

Fee Offset Claims

  

— 

  

— 

  

— 

  

— 

      

— 

  

— 

  

— 

  

— 

  

— 

    

Fee Offset Sources

  

— 

  

— 

  

— 

      

— 

                      

— 

 

Table 3: Combined Prospectuses

 

Security Type

  

Security Class
Title

    

Amount of Securities Previously
Registered

    

Maximum Aggregate Offering
Price of Securities
Previously Registered

    

Form
Type

    

File
Number

    

Initial Effective
Date

  

— 

    

— 

      

— 

      

— 

      

— 

      

— 

      

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