As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 31, 2017
No. 333-220263
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1
To
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
NextDecade Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 46-5723951 | |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
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3 Waterway Square Place, Suite 400 The Woodlands, Texas 77380 (713) 574-1880 |
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(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices) |
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Krysta De Lima, General Counsel NextDecade Corporation 3 Waterway Square Place, Suite 400 The Woodlands, Texas 77380 (713) 574-1880 |
| (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) |
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Copies to:
Jeffery K. Malonson King & Spalding LLP 1100 Louisiana, Suite 4000 Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 751-3200 Carrie A. Ratliff King & Spalding LLP 1180 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Georgia 30309 (404) 572-4600 |
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Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after this Registration Statement becomes effective. |
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
| Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered | Amount to be Registered(1)(2) | Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share(3) | Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price | Amount of Registration Fee(4) | ||||||||||||
| Shares of Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share | 142,279,057 | $ | 9.6218 | $ | 1,368,980,631 | (2) | $ | (5) | ||||||||
| (1) | In accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this registration statement shall be deemed to cover an indeterminate number of additional shares to be offered or issued from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions with respect to the shares being registered. |
| (2) | Includes (i) 103,123,858 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Registrant (“Common Stock”) registered for resale by the Selling Stockholders named in this registration statement, (ii) up to 12,081,895 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants issued in the Registrant’s initial public offering (the “Warrants”) (iii) up to 19,573,304 shares of Common Stock issuable to certain of our Selling Stockholders upon the Company’s achieving certain milestones (the “Contingent Shares”) and (iv) up to 7,500,000 restricted shares of Common Stock issuable to certain of our Selling Stockholders upon the Company’s achieving certain milestones (the “Restricted Stock”). |
| (3) | Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act, based on the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”) on August 28, 2017. |
| (4) | Calculated by multiplying the estimated aggregate offering price of the securities being registered by 0.0001159. |
| (5) | Fees have already been paid during previous filing of registration statement on Form S-3 dated August 30, 2017, Registration No. 333-220263. |
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 Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
NextDecade Corporation (“NextDecade” or “Company”) is hereby filing this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-220263), originally filed on August 30, 2017 (the “Registration Statement”), to include the statement on the facing page regarding delaying amendments. Accordingly, this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 consists only of the facing page, this explanatory note, the signature pages to the Registration Statement, and the Consent filed herewith as Exhibit 23.1. The prospectus and Part II of the Registration Statement are unchanged and have been omitted.
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 Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of The Woodlands, State of Texas, on August 31, 2017.
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NEXTDECADE CORPORATION
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| By: | /s/ Benjamin Atkins | |
| Benjamin Atkins | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the registration statement has been signed by the following persons on August 31, 2017 in the capacities indicated.
Name |
Title | ||
| /s/ Kathleen Eisbrenner | Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) | ||
| Kathleen Eisbrenner | and Director | ||
| /s/ Benjamin Atkins | Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) | ||
| Benjamin Atkins | |||
| /s/ Eric Garcia | Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) | ||
| Eric Garcia | |||
| * | Director | ||
| Brian Belke | |||
| * | Director | ||
| Matthew Bonanno | |||
| * | Director | ||
| David Gallo | |||
| * | Director | ||
| Avinash Kripalani | |||
| * | Director | ||
| David Magid | |||
| * | Director | ||
| Eric S. Rosenfeld | |||
| * | Director | ||
| David D. Sgro | |||
| * | Director | ||
| René van Vliet | |||
| * | Director | ||
| William Vrattos | |||
| * | Director | ||
| Spencer Wells | |||
| *By: | /s/ Krysta De Lima | ||
| Krysta De Lima | |||
| Attorney-in-Fact | |||
| II-4 |
EXHIBIT INDEX
* To be filed, if necessary, after effectiveness of this registration statement by an amendment to the registration statement or incorporated by reference from documents filed or to be filed with the SEC under the Exchange Act.
(1) Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed April 18, 2017.
(2) Incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed July 28, 2017.
(3) Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed October 10, 2014.
** Filed herewith.
*** Previously filed.
II-5
Exhibit 23.1
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm’s Consent
We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement of NextDecade Corporation (formerly known as Harmony Merger Corporation) on Form S-3 of our report dated March 10, 2017, which includes an explanatory paragraph as to the NextDecade Corporation’s ability to continue as a going concern, with respect to our audits of the financial statements of NextDecade Corporation as of December 31, 2016 and 2015 and for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, and the period from May 21, 2014 (inception) through December 31, 2014 and our report dated May 9, 2017 with the with respect to our audits of the consolidated financial statements of NextDecade LLC and Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 and for the years then ended, which report appears in the Schedule 14A (Proxy Statement) of NextDecade Corporation, which is part of this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to our firm under the heading “Experts” in the Prospectus, which is part of this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement.
/s/ Marcum llp
Marcum llp
New York, NY
August 30, 2017