KOPN Kopin Corporation

 

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 30, 2024

 

Registration No. 333- 278075

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

KOPIN CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware		04-2833935
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(IRS Employer Identification Number)

 

125 North Drive

Westborough, MA 01581

(508) 870-5959

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

John J. Concannon III, Esq.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

One Federal Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02110

(617) 951-8000

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

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:

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

 

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 under 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, 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 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, 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, 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 pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of 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 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

Kopin Corporation is hereby filing this Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-278075), originally filed on May 19, 2024, the (“Registration Statement”), to amend Exhibit 23.1 originally filed with the Registration Statement. Accordingly, this Amendment No. 1 consists only of the facing page, this Explanatory Note, the Exhibit Index, the signature page, and Exhibit 23.1. The balance of the Registration Statement remains unchanged and has been omitted.

 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

23.1	Consent of RSM US LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant, Kopin Corporation, 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 Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Westborough, Massachusetts, on this 30 day of May, 2024.

 

	KOPIN CORPORATION
	By:	/S/ MICHAEL MURRAY
		Michael Murray President, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints John C.C. Fan and Richard Sneider, as such person’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and additions to this Registration Statement on Form S-3 and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and hereby grants to such 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, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or such person’s 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 Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of the 30 day of May, 2024.

 

Signature		Title		Date
*		Chairman of the Board
James Brewington
*		Director, President and Chief Executive Officer		May 30, 2024
Michael Murray		(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Richard A. Sneider		Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer		May 30, 2024
Richard A. Sneider		(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
*		Director		May 30, 2024
Jill Avery
*		Director		May 30, 2024
John Fan
*		Director		May 30, 2024
Chi Chia Hsieh
*		Director		May 30, 2024
Scott L. Anchin
*		Director		May 30, 2024
David Nieuwsma

 

* By:	/s/ Richard Sneider
	Richard Sneider
	Attorney-in-Fact May 30, 2024

 

 

Exhibit 23.1

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement (No. 333-278075) on Form S-3 and related Prospectus of Kopin Corporation of our report dated March 14, 2024, relating to the consolidated financial statements of Kopin Corporation and its subsidiaries, appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Kopin Corporation for the year ended December 30, 2023.

 

We also consent to the reference to our firm under the heading “Experts” in such Prospectus.

 

/s/ RSM US LLP

 

Boston, Massachusetts

May 30, 2024

 

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