Edgar Filing: TECOGEN INC.

S-3

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 29, 2015

Registration No. 333-205147

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

Amendment No. 3 to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

TECOGEN INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



Delaware	27-5250881
(State or other jurisdiction of	(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)	Identification No.)

Tecogen Inc.

45 First Avenue

Waltham, MA 02451

(781) 466-6400

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,

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



David A. Garrison		Copy to:
Chief Financial Officer		Edwin L. Miller Jr.
Tecogen Inc.		Sullivan & Worcester LLP
45 First Avenue		One Post Office Square
Waltham, MA 02451		Boston, MA 02109
Tel: (781) 466-6400/Fax: (781) 622-1027		Tel: (617) 338-2800/Fax: (617) 338-2880
(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: As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.

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

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. x

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. o

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. o

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. o

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. o

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” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one)



Large accelerated filer: o	Accelerated filer: o	Non-accelerated filer: o	Smaller reporting company: x

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE



Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered	Amount to be Registered	Proposed Maximum Offering Price per Unit (1)	Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price (1)	Amount of Registration Fee(2)
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share	4,968,839	$3.39	$16,844,364	$1,957


⁽¹⁾	Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee, based upon the average of the high and low prices per share as reported on the NASDAQ Market on August 26, 2015.


⁽²⁾	Tecogen Inc. previoulsy paid a fee of $1,763 in connection with the inital filing of this Registration Statement on June 22, 2015 with respect to $15,172,863 of the proposed maximum aggregate offering price.

TECOGEN INC. HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL TECOGEN INC. 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 COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(A), MAY DETERMINE.

PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

ITEM 14. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.

The following table sets forth an estimate of the expenses we expect to incur and pay in connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities being registered:



	Amount
Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee	$	1,957
Legal fees and expenses	5,000
Accounting fees and expenses	30,000
Printing and miscellaneous	—
Total	$	36,957

ITEM 15. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

Section 102 of the Delaware General Corporation Law allows a corporation to eliminate the personal liability of directors of a corporation to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except where the director breached his duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or knowingly violated a law, authorized the payment of a dividend or approved a stock repurchase in violation of Delaware corporate law or obtained an improper personal benefit. We have included such a provision in our Restated Certificate of Incorporation.

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation has the power to indemnify a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation and certain other persons serving at the request of the corporation in related capacities against amounts paid and expenses incurred in connection with an action or proceeding to which he is or is threatened to be made a party by reason of such position, if such person shall have acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, in any criminal proceeding, if such person had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful; provided that, in the case of actions brought by or in the right of the corporation, no indemnification shall be made with respect to any matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the adjudicating court determines that such indemnification is proper under the circumstances.

Our charter includes a provision that eliminates the personal liability of our directors for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability:


•	for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Company or its stockholders;


•	for acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;


•	under section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law regarding unlawful dividends and stock purchases; or


•	for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

Our charter also provides that:


•	we must indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law;


•	we may, to the extent authorized from time to time by our Board of Directors, indemnify our other employees and agents to the same extent that we indemnified our officers and directors; and


•	in the event we do not assume the defense in a legal proceeding, we must advance expenses, as incurred, to our directors and executive officers in connection with a legal proceeding to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.

The indemnification provisions contained in our Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws are not exclusive of any other rights to which a person may be entitled by law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

In addition, we maintain insurance on behalf of our directors and executive officers that insures them against any liability asserted against them in their capacities as directors or officers or arising out of such status.

ITEM 16. EXHIBITS.

The following exhibits, required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K, are filed as a part of this registration statement. Exhibit numbers, where applicable, in the left column correspond to those of Item 601 of Regulation S-K.



Exhibit Number		Description of Exhibit
3.1		Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation ⁽¹⁾
3.2		Amended and Restated Bylaws ⁽¹⁾
4.1		Specimen Common Stock Certificate of Tecogen Inc. ⁽¹⁾
5.1		Legal Opinion of Sullivan & Worcester LLP (filed herewith)
23.1		Consent of Wolf & Company P.C. (filed herewith)
23.2		Consent of McGladrey LLP (filed herewith)
23.3		Consent of Sullivan & Worcester LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1		Power of Attorney (included on Signature Page)

⁽¹⁾Incorporated by reference to the exhibit with the same exhibit number in Amendment No. 3 to the Company's Form S-1 Registration Statement (No. 333-193791) filed with the SEC on June 27, 2014.

ITEM 17. 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 of 1933;

(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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective 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), (ii) and (iii) do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3 and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.


(2)	That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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.

(4)

That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

(5)

That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities: The undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:


(i)	Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;


(ii)	Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;


(iii)	The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and


(iv)	Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

(b)

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 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 of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant 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 registrant 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 is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Waltham, Commonwealth of Massachusetts on September 29, 2015.

TECOGEN INC.

By: /s/ David A. Garrison

David A. Garrison

Chief Financial Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned officers and directors of the Company hereby constitute and appoint John N. Hatsopoulos and David Garrison, and each of them singly, with full power of substitution, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents to take any actions to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with this registration statement, including the power and authority to sign for us in our names in the capacities indicated below any and all amendments to this registration statement and any other registration statement filed pursuant to the provisions of Rule 462 under the Securities Act of 1933.

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.



Signature	Title	Date

*	Director and Co-Chief Executive Officer	September 29, 2015
John N. Hatsopoulos	(Principal Executive Officer)

*	Co-Chief Executive Officer	September 29, 2015
Benjamin M. Locke	(Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ David A. Garrison	Treasurer, Secretary and Chief Financial Officer	September 29, 2015
David A. Garrison	(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

*	Chairman of the Board	September 29, 2015
Angelina Galiteva

*	Director	September 29, 2015
Ahmed F. Ghoniem

*	Director	September 29, 2015
Joseph E. Aoun

*	Director	September 29, 2015
Charles Maxwell

*	Director	September 29, 2015
Earl Lewis

* By: /s/ David A. Garrison
David A. Garrison, attorney-in-fact

EXHIBIT INDEX



Exhibit Number		Description of Exhibit
3.1		Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation ⁽¹⁾
3.2		Amended and Restated Bylaws ⁽¹⁾
4.1		Specimen Common Stock Certificate of Tecogen Inc. ⁽¹⁾
5.1		Legal Opinion of Sullivan & Worcester LLP (filed herewith)
23.1		Consent of Wolf & Company P.C. (filed herewith)
23.2		Consent of McGladrey LLP (filed herewith)
23.3		Consent of Sullivan & Worcester LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1		Power of Attorney (included on Signature Page)

⁽¹⁾Incorporated by reference to the exhibit with the same exhibit number in Amendment No. 3 to the Company's Form S-1 Registration Statement (No. 333-193791) filed with the SEC on June 27, 2014.