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filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March&nbsp;8, 2023</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: right; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"> Registration No. __________________</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 14pt"><B>AFC Gamma, Inc.</B></FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">(State or other jurisdiction of</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">(I.R.S. Employer</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Identification No.)</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>525 Okeechobee Blvd., Suite 1650</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>AFC Gamma, Inc.</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Leonard M. Tannenbaum<BR> Chief Executive Officer<BR> AFC Gamma, Inc.</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">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 &ldquo;large accelerated filer,&rdquo; &ldquo;accelerated filer,&rdquo; &ldquo;smaller reporting company,&rdquo; and &ldquo;emerging growth company&rdquo; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">The AFC Gamma, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (the &ldquo;Plan&rdquo;), includes an evergreen provision which provides that the total number of shares reserved for issuance under the Plan (the &ldquo;Share Limit&rdquo;) will automatically increase (i) upon the sale and consummation of any offering of the Company&rsquo;s Common Stock after the date of the Company&rsquo;s initial public offering (each such sale and offering, an &ldquo;Equity Offering&rdquo;), in an amount equal to ten percent (10.0%) of the total number of shares of Common Stock sold by the Company in connection with such Equity Offering and (ii) if on the last day of the Company&rsquo;s fiscal year, the Share Limit has not increased during such fiscal year by an aggregate amount equal to or greater than two percent (2.0%) of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the first day of such fiscal year (the &ldquo;Minimum Annual Increase&rdquo;), then in an amount equal to the difference between the Minimum Annual Increase and the aggregate amount that the Share Limit increased during such fiscal year, effective as of the last day of such fiscal year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company&rsquo;s Board of Directors may act prior to the sale and consummation of the applicable Equity Offering or the last day of such fiscal year, as applicable, to provide that an increase in the Share Limit will be a lesser number of shares of Common Stock than would otherwise occur pursuant to the preceding sentence.</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">The following documents of AFC Gamma (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo; or &ldquo;Registrant&rdquo;) the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;Commission&rdquo;) are incorporated herein by reference:</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(a)</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">The Company&rsquo;s Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed with the Commission on <A HREF="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000114036121009237/nt10017017x11_s8.htm">March&nbsp;19, 2021</A> (Commission File No. 333-254480), as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Form S-8, filed with the Commission on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000114036122001177/ny20001242x13_s8pos.htm">January&nbsp;10, 2022</A> (Commission File No. 333-254480), and the Company&rsquo;s Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed with the Commission on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000114036122001179/ny20001242x14_s8.htm">January&nbsp;10, 2022</A> (Commission File No. 333-262091);</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">The Company&rsquo;s Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K for its fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2022, filed with the Commission on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000182252323000006/afcg-20221231.htm">March&nbsp;7, 2023</A> (Commission File No. 001-39995);</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">The portions of the Company&rsquo;s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule&nbsp;14A, filed with the Commission on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000114036122012896/ny20003036x2_defa14a.htm">April&nbsp;4, 2022</A>, that are incorporated by reference in Part III of the Company&rsquo;s Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K for its fiscal year ended <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000114036122008768/brhc10034929_10k.htm">December&nbsp;31, 2021</A> (Commission File No. 001-39995);</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">The Company&rsquo;s Quarterly Reports on Form&nbsp;10-Q for its fiscal quarters ended March&nbsp;31, 2022, June&nbsp;30, 2022 and September&nbsp;30, 2022, filed with the Commission on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000114036122018393/brhc10037349_10q.htm">May&nbsp;10, 2022</A>, <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000182252322000005/afcg-20220630.htm">August&nbsp;9, 2022</A>, and <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000182252322000015/afcg-20220930.htm">November&nbsp;8, 2022</A>, respectively (each, Commission File No. 001-39995);</FONT></TD></TR>
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the Commission on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000182252323000007/afcg-20230307.htm">March 7, 2023</A> (Commission File No. 001-39995 and only as to the information &ldquo;filed&rdquo; with the Commission thereunder
for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &ldquo;Exchange Act&rdquo;) and not as to information "furnished"
thereunder); and</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">The description of the Company&rsquo;s Common Stock contained in its Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;8-A filed on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000114036121003206/nt10017017x7_8a12b.htm">February&nbsp;3, 2021</A> (Commission File No. 001-39995), under the Exchange Act, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Exhibits</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: bottom; width: 90%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Description of Exhibit</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">4.1&dagger;</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><A HREF="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822523/000114036121001807/nt10017017x4_ex10-5.htm">AFC Gamma, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan (Filed as Exhibit 10.5 to the Company&rsquo;s Registration Statement on Form S-11 (Commission File No. 333-251762), initially filed with the Commission on December&nbsp;28, 2020, as amended on January&nbsp;22, 2021, February&nbsp;3, 2021, February&nbsp;11, 2021, February&nbsp;16, 2021, February&nbsp;24, 2021, and March&nbsp;16, 2021).</A></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">5.1</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><A HREF="afcgamma_ex5-1.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Opinion of Venable LLP (opinion re legality).</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">23.1</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><A HREF="afcgamma_ex23-1.htm">Consent of CohnReznick LLP (consent of independent registered public accounting firm).</A></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">23.2</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><A HREF="afcgamma_ex5-1.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1).</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">24.1</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><A HREF="#poa">Power of Attorney (included in this Registration Statement under &ldquo;Power of Attorney&rdquo;).</A></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">107</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><A HREF="afcgamma_ex107.htm">Filing Fee Table</A></FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">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 Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of West Palm Beach, State of Florida, on March&nbsp;8, 2023.</FONT></P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: left">AFC Gamma, Inc.</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left; width: 50%">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left">By:</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: left">/s/ Leonard M. Tannenbaum</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: left">Leonard M. Tannenbaum</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: left">Chief Executive Officer</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Leonard M. Tannenbaum and Brett Kaufman, and each of them, acting individually and without the other, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them individually, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Leonard M. Tannenbaum</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Chief Executive Officer and Director</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">March&nbsp;8, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Leonard M. Tannenbaum</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(Principal Executive Officer)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Brett Kaufman</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">March&nbsp;8, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Brett Kaufman</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Jonathan Kalikow</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Head of Real Estate and Director</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">March&nbsp;8, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Robert Levy</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">March&nbsp;8, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Robert Levy</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Jodi Hanson Bond</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">March&nbsp;8, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Jodi Hanson Bond</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Thomas Harrison</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Alexander Frank</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">March&nbsp;8, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left; vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Alexander Frank</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Marnie Sudnow</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left; vertical-align: bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">March&nbsp;8, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 8, 2023
Registration No. __________________
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AFC Gamma, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Maryland
85-1807125
(State or other jurisdiction of
(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)
Identification No.)
525 Okeechobee Blvd., Suite 1650
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
(561) 510-2390
(Address, including zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)
AFC Gamma, Inc.
Stock Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Leonard M. Tannenbaum
Chief Executive Officer
AFC Gamma, Inc.
525 Okeechobee Blvd., Suite 1650
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
(561) 510-2390
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
COPY TO:
C. Brophy Christensen, Esq.
Jeeho M. Lee, Esq.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Times Square Tower
7 Times Square
New York, New York 10036
(212) 326-2000
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. ☐
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The AFC Gamma, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (the "Plan"), includes an evergreen provision which provides that the total number of shares reserved for issuance under the Plan (the "Share Limit") will automatically increase (i) upon the sale and consummation of any offering of the Company's Common Stock after the date of the Company's initial public offering (each such sale and offering, an "Equity Offering"), in an amount equal to ten percent (10.0%) of the total number of shares of Common Stock sold by the Company in connection with such Equity Offering and (ii) if on the last day of the Company's fiscal year, the Share Limit has not increased during such fiscal year by an aggregate amount equal to or greater than two percent (2.0%) of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the first day of such fiscal year (the "Minimum Annual Increase"), then in an amount equal to the difference between the Minimum Annual Increase and the aggregate amount that the Share Limit increased during such fiscal year, effective as of the last day of such fiscal year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company's Board of Directors may act prior to the sale and consummation of the applicable Equity Offering or the last day of such fiscal year, as applicable, to provide that an increase in the Share Limit will be a lesser number of shares of Common Stock than would otherwise occur pursuant to the preceding sentence.
This Registration Statement is filed by the Company to register additional securities issuable pursuant to the Plan and consists of only those items required by General Instruction E to Form S-8.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference
The following documents of AFC Gamma (the "Company" or "Registrant") the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated herein by reference:
(a)
The Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed with the Commission on
March 19, 2021
(Commission File No. 333-254480), as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Form S-8, filed with the Commission on
January 10, 2022
(Commission File No. 333-254480), and the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed with the Commission on
January 10, 2022
(Commission File No. 333-262091);
(b)
The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Commission on
March 7, 2023
(Commission File No. 001-39995);
(c)
The portions of the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Commission on
April 4, 2022
, that are incorporated by reference in Part III of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended
December 31, 2021
(Commission File No. 001-39995);
(d)
The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for its fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2022, June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022, filed with the Commission on
May 10, 2022
,
August 9, 2022
, and
November 8, 2022
, respectively (each, Commission File No. 001-39995);
(e)
The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with
the Commission on
March 7, 2023
(Commission File No. 001-39995 and only as to the information "filed" with the Commission thereunder
for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") and not as to information "furnished"
thereunder); and
(f)
The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in its Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on
February 3, 2021
(Commission File No. 001-39995), under the Exchange Act, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with Commission rules shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement 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 amended, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Not applicable.
Item 8.
Exhibits
See the attached Exhibit Index at page 3, which is incorporated herein by reference.
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EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Number
Description of Exhibit
4.1†
AFC Gamma, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan (Filed as Exhibit 10.5 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-11 (Commission File No. 333-251762), initially filed with the Commission on December 28, 2020, as amended on January 22, 2021, February 3, 2021, February 11, 2021, February 16, 2021, February 24, 2021, and March 16, 2021).
5.1
Opinion of Venable LLP (opinion re legality).
23.1
Consent of CohnReznick LLP (consent of independent registered public accounting firm).
23.2
Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (included in this Registration Statement under "Power of Attorney").
107
Filing Fee Table
†
Previously filed.
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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 Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of West Palm Beach, State of Florida, on March 8, 2023.
AFC Gamma, Inc.
By:
/s/ Leonard M. Tannenbaum
Leonard M. Tannenbaum
Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Leonard M. Tannenbaum and Brett Kaufman, and each of them, acting individually and without the other, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them individually, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Leonard M. Tannenbaum
Chief Executive Officer and Director
March 8, 2023
Leonard M. Tannenbaum
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Brett Kaufman
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
March 8, 2023
Brett Kaufman
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Jonathan Kalikow
Head of Real Estate and Director
March 8, 2023
Jonathan Kalikow
/s/ Robert Levy
Director
March 8, 2023
Robert Levy
/s/ Jodi Hanson Bond
Director
March 8, 2023
Jodi Hanson Bond
/s/ Thomas Harrison
Director
March 8, 2023
Thomas Harrison
/s/ Alexander Frank
Director
March 8, 2023
Alexander Frank
/s/ Marnie Sudnow
Director
March 8, 2023
Marnie Sudnow
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