As filed with the Securities And Exchange Commission on September 10, 2009

Registration No. 333-151643

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

NETLIST, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

95-4812784

(State or other jurisdiction of

 

(I.R.S. Employer

incorporation or organization)

 

Identification No.)

 

51 Discovery, Suite 150

Irvine, CA 92618

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

2008 Employment Inducement Award

(Full title of the plans)

 

Chun K. Hong

President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

51 Discovery, Irvine, CA 92618

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

(949) 435-0025

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

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.

 

Large accelerated filer  o

 

Accelerated filer  o

 

 

 

Non-accelerated filer  o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

 

Smaller reporting company x

 

 

 



 

EXPLANATORY NOTE/DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

 

Netlist, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement to deregister the shares of its common stock, par value $.001 per share (“Common Stock”), originally registered by the Registrant pursuant to its Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-151643) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 13, 2008 (the “Registration Statement”).  The Registration Statement registered 250,000 shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to a Stock Option Agreement dated May 2, 2008 between the Registrant and James P. Perrott (the “Agreement”).

 

Pursuant to its terms, the shares of Common Stock included in the Registration Statement are no longer issuable pursuant to the Agreement.  Therefore, in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statements that have not been sold, the Registrant hereby amends the Registration Statement to deregister the remaining 250,000 shares of Common Stock registered and unsold under the Registration Statement.

 

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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 Irvine, State of California, on this 8 th   day of September, 2009.

 

 

NETLIST, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Chun K. Hong

 

 

Chun K. Hong

 

 

President, Chief Executive Officer

 

 

and Chairman of the Board

 

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(s)

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Chun K. Hong

 

President, Chief Executive Officer and

 

September 8, 2009

Chun K. Hong

 

Chairman of the Board (Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Gail Itow

 

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

September 8, 2009

Gail Itow

 

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Nam Ki Hong

 

Director

 

September 8, 2009

Nam Ki Hong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Thomas F. Lagatta

 

Director

 

September 8, 2009

Thomas F. Lagatta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Alan H. Portnoy

 

Director

 

September 8, 2009

Alan H. Portnoy

 

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit 23.1

 

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

We consent to the use in this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement No. 333-151643 on Form S-8 of our report dated March 30, 2009, relating to the consolidated financial statements of Netlist, Inc. and subsidiaries as of January 3, 2009 and December 29, 2007 and for each of the years then ended (which report expresses an unqualified opinion and includes an explanatory paragraph relating to the adoption of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes—an Interpretation of FASB Statement 109 ), which report is included in Netlist, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 3, 2009.

 

 

KMJ Corbin & Company LLP

 

 

 

Costa Mesa, California

 

September 10, 2009