As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 18, 2023.

Registration No. 333-273904 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

Amendment No. 2 to

FORM S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

Ispire Technology Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   2111   84-5106049
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

 

19700 Magellan Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90502

(310) 742-9975

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

 

Michael Wang, Co-Chief Executive Officer

Ispire Technology Inc.

19700 Magellan Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90502

(310) 742-9975

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

 

Richard I. Anslow, Esq.

Jonathan Deblinger, Esq.

Asher S. Levitsky P.C.

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

1345 Avenue of the Americas; Suite 1100

New York, New York 10105

Telephone: (212) 370-1300

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: as soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.

 

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, 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, 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(d) 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.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

Ispire Technology Inc. is filing this Amendment No. 2 (this “Amendment”) to its Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-273904) (the “Registration Statement”) as an exhibits-only filing. Accordingly, this Amendment consists only of the facing page, this explanatory note, Item 16(a) of Part II of the Registration Statement, the signature page to the Registration Statement and the filed exhibits. The remainder of the Registration Statement is unchanged and has been omitted. 

 

 

 

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.

 

(a) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
number
  Description
3.1   Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on January 31, 2023)
3.2   By-laws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on January 31, 2023)
4.1   Representative’s Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 6, 2023)
5.1   Opinion of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP as to the legality of the securities being registered1 
10.1   Intellectual Property Transfer Agreement dated September 30, 2022, by and among Aspire Global Inc., Shenzhen Yi Jia, Tuanfang Liu, Aspire North America LLC and Ispire Technology Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on January 31, 2023)
10.2   Intellectual Property License Agreement dated September 30, 2022, by and among Aspire Global Inc., Shenzhen Yi Jia, Tuanfang Liu, Aspire Science and Technology Limited and Ispire Technology Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on January 31, 2023)
10.3   Employment agreement dated January 31, 2023, between the Company and Tuanfang Liu (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on February 16, 2023)
10.4   Employment agreement dated January 31, 2023, between the Company and Michael Wang (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on February 16, 2023)
10.5   2022 Long-Term Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on January 31, 2023)
10.6   Independent director agreement dated September 29, 2023 with Brent Cox1
10.7   Form of independent director agreement dated September 29, 2023 with John Fargis1
10.8   Distributorship Agreement dated January 1, 2021, between Aspire Science and Technology Limited and Your-Buyer International Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1(No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on January 31, 2023)
10.9   Supply agreement dated January 27, 2023 by and between Aspire North America LLC and Shenzhen Yi Jia (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on January 31, 2023)
10.10   Supply agreement dated January 27, 2023 by and between Aspire Science and Technology Limited and Shenzhen Yi Jia (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-269470) filed with the SEC on January 31, 2023)
10.11   Form of Subscription Agreement dated June 26, 2023 between the Company and the Purchasers in the Private Placement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K (No. 001-41680) filed with the SEC on June 27, 2023)
10.12   Independent director agreement dated September 29, 2023 with Christopher Robert Burch1
23.1   Consent of MSPC Certified Public Accountants and Advisors, A Professional Corporation1
23.2   Consent of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole, LLP (included as part of Exhibit 5.1 hereto)1
23.3   Consent of Han Kun Law Offices1 
23.4   Consent of Euromonitor International Limited1 
24.1   Power of Attorney (included on signature page of the initial filing of Registration Statement on Form S-1)
101.INS   Inline XBRL Instance Document.
101.SCH   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
101.CAL   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
101.DEF   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.
101.LAB   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
101.PRE   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).
107   Calculation of Filing Fee Table2

 

1 Previously filed
2 Filed herewith
Compensatory plan, contract or arrangement

 

The agreements included as exhibits to this registration statement contain representations and warranties by each of the parties to the applicable agreement. These representations and warranties were made solely for the benefit of the other parties to the applicable agreement and (i) were not intended to be treated as categorical statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating the risk to one of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate; (ii) may have been qualified in such agreement by disclosures that were made to the other party in connection with the negotiation of the applicable agreement; (iii) may apply contract standards of “materiality” that are different from “materiality” under the applicable securities laws; and (iv) were made only as of the date of the applicable agreement or such other date or dates as may be specified in the agreement.

 

We acknowledge that, notwithstanding the inclusion of the foregoing cautionary statements, we are responsible for considering whether additional specific disclosures of material information regarding material contractual provisions are required to make the statements in this registration statement not misleading.

 

(b) Financial Statement Schedules

 

Schedules have been omitted because the information required to be set forth therein is not applicable or is shown in the Consolidated Financial Statements or the Notes thereto.

 

II-1

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Los Angeles, California, on October 18, 2023.

 

  ISPIRE TECHNOLOGY INC.
     
  By: /s/ Michael Wang
    Michael Wang
    Co-Chief Executive Officer

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS that each individual whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Tuanfang Liu and Michael Wang and each of them acting singly, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign (1) any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and (2) any registration statement or post-effective amendment thereto to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other regulatory authority, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done or by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated: 

 

Signature   Title   Date
         
/s/ Michael Wang   Co-Chief executive officer   October 18, 2023
Michael Wang   (principal executive officer)    
         
/s/ Daniel J. Machock   Chief financial officer   October 18, 2023

Daniel J. Machock

 

  Principal financial and accounting officer    
/s/ Tuanfang Liu   Director   October 18, 2023
Tuanfang Liu        
         
/s/ Jiangyan Zhu   Director   October 18, 2023
Jiangyan Zhu        
         
/s/ Christopher Robert Burch   Director    October 18, 2023
Christopher Robert Burch        
         
/s/ Brent Cox   Director   October 18, 2023
Brent Cox          
         
/s/ John Fargis   Director   October 18, 2023
John Fargis        

 

II-2

 

S-1/A true 0001948455 0001948455 2022-07-01 2023-06-30

Exhibit 107

 

Calculation of Filing Fee Table

 

S-1

(Form Type)

 

Ispire Technology Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Security
Type
    Security Class Title    Fee
Calculation
Rule
    Amount to
be Registered(1)
   Proposed
Maximum
Offering
Price
Per Unit
   Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering
Price
   Fee Rate   Amount of
Registration
Fee
   Carry
Forward
Form
Type
   Carry
Forward
File
Number
   Carry
Forward
Initial
effective
date
   Filing Fee
Previously
Paid In
Connection
with
Unsold
Securities
to be
Carried
Forward
 
Equity  Common stock, par value $0.0001 per share  Rule 457(c)   1,117,420 (1)  $   9.23(2)  $10,313,786.60   $0.00014760   $1,522.32                                               
Equity  Common stock’ par value $0.0001 per share (3)  Rule 457(g)   62,100    9.23(3)   573,183    0.00014760    84.60                     
Total Offering Amounts        $10,886,969.60        $1,606.92                     
Total Fees Previously Paid                   -                     
Total Fee Offsets                   -                     
Net Fee Due                  $1,606.92                     

 

(1) Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act, there are also being registered an indeterminable number of additional securities as may be issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
   
(2) Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act, based on the average of the high price ($9.29) and low price ($9.16) for the common stock of the Registrant as reported on The Nasdaq Capital Market on August 2, 2023, which date is within five business days prior to the initial filing of this Registration Statement.
   
(3) Represents shares of the common stock issuable upon exercise of warrants issued to the representative of the underwriters in the Company’s initial public offering, and the fee is based on the offering price of securities of the same class included in the registration statement, which is the price determined pursuant to Rule 457(c).

 

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