As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 3, 2020

Registration Statement No. 333-               

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ClearPoint Neuro, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Third Amended and Restated 2013 Incentive Compensation Plan

(Full title of the plans)

Harold A. Hurwitz

Chief Financial Officer and Secretary

5 Musick

Irvine, California 92618

(Name and address of agent for service)

(949) 900-6833

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

With copies to:

Richard F. Mattern, Esq.

Kristin C. Dunavant, Esq.

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

100 Peabody Place, Suite 1300

Memphis, Tennessee 38103

(901) 543-5933

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.

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 the Securities Act. ☐

 CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

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REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES

This Registration Statement relates solely to the registration of additional securities of the same class as other securities for which a registration statement on this form relating to an employee benefit plan is effective. Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of (i) the registration statement on Form S-8 filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on October 25, 2013 (Registration No. 333-191908), (ii) the registration statement on Form S-8 filed by the Registrant with the Commission on August 17, 2015 (Registration No. 333-206432), and (iii) the registration statement on Form S-8 filed by the Registrant with the Commission on October 3, 2017 (Registration No. 333-220783), with respect to the ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. 2013 Incentive Compensation Plan, as amended and restated.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Documents containing information required by Part I of this Registration Statement will be sent or given to employees, officers, directors or others as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. In accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission and the Note to Part I of Form S-8, such documents are not filed with the Commission either as a part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents, which have been filed by the Registrant with the Commission, are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all of the shares of common stock offered have been sold or which deregisters all of such shares then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents; except as to any portion of any future annual or quarterly report to stockholders or document or current report furnished under current items 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K that is not deemed filed under such provisions. For the purposes of this Registration Statement, any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Under no circumstances will any information furnished under current items 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K be deemed incorporated herein by reference unless such Current Report on Form 8-K expressly provides to the contrary.

Item 8. Exhibits.

The exhibits listed below are filed as part of or incorporated into this Registration Statement.

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-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 3^rd day of June, 2020.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned directors and officers do hereby constitute and appoint Joseph M. Burnett and Harold A. Hurwitz and each of them, with full power of substitution, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents to do any and all acts and things in our name and behalf in our capacities as directors and officers, and to execute any and all instruments for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, that such person may deem necessary or advisable to enable the registrant to comply with the Securities Act and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with this registration statement, including specifically, but not limited to, power and authority to sign for us, or any of us, in the capacities indicated below, any and all amendments hereto (including pre-effective and post-effective amendments or any other registration statement filed pursuant to the provisions of Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act); and we do hereby ratify and confirm all that such person or persons shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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 date indicated.