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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: center">As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 17, 2016</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: right">Registration No. 333-</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">Washington, D.C. 20549</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">FORM S-8</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Abaxis, Inc. </font>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-STYLE: italic; TEXT-ALIGN: center">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">3240 Whipple Road</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">Abaxis, Inc.</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">Clinton H. Severson</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service:&#160; (510) 675-6500.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: center">&#160;Copies to:</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">43,029,000</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">4,988</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Pursuant to Rule 416 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;), this registration statement shall also cover any additional shares of the registrant&#8217;s common stock that become issuable under the registrant&#8217;s 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the &#8220;Amended 2014 Plan&#8221;) by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration that increases the number of outstanding shares of the registrant&#8217;s common stock.</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) promulgated under the Securities Act. The offering price per share and the aggregate offering price are based upon the average of the high and low prices of the registrant&#8217;s common stock as reported on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on November 9, 2016.</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left">This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering the offering and sale of an additional 900,000 shares of the registrant&#8217;s common stock issuable pursuant to the registrant&#8217;s 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the &#8220;Amended 2014 Plan&#8221;). The offering of the shares of the Registrant&#8217;s common stock previously reserved for issuance under the Amended 2014 Plan was registered on the registrant&#8217;s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-199518), previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Abaxis, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) hereby incorporates by reference in this registration statement the following documents:</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The Company&#8217;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2016.</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The Company&#8217;s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, provide that the liability of the directors for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under California law. Pursuant to California law, the Company&#8217;s directors shall not be liable for monetary damages for breach of the directors&#8217; fiduciary duty of care to the Company and its shareholders. However, this provision does not eliminate the duty of care, and in appropriate circumstances, equitable remedies such as injunctive or other forms of nonmonetary relief will remain available under California law.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left">In addition, each director will continue to be subject to liability for (i) acts or omissions that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing and culpable violation of law, (ii) acts or omissions that a director believes to be contrary to the best interests of the Company or its shareholders or that involve the absence of good faith on the part of the director, (iii) any transaction from which a director derived an improper personal benefit, (iv) acts or omissions that show a reckless disregard for the director&#8217;s duty to the Company or its shareholders in circumstances in which the director was aware, or should have been aware, in the ordinary course of performing a director&#8217;s duties, of a risk of serious injury to the Company or its shareholders, (v) acts or omissions that constitute an unexcused pattern of inattention that amounts to an abdication of the director&#8217;s duty to the Company or its shareholders, (vi) any transaction that constitutes an illegal distribution or dividend under California law, and (vii) any transaction involving an unlawful conflict of interest between the director and the Company under California law. The provision also does not affect a director&#8217;s responsibilities under any other law, such as the federal securities laws or state or federal environmental laws.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left">In addition, the Company&#8217;s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, provide that the Company is authorized to provide indemnification of agents (as defined in Section 317 of the California Corporations Code) for breach of duty to the Company and its shareholders through bylaw provisions, agreements with agents, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, in excess of the indemnification otherwise permitted by Section 317 of the California Corporation Code, subject to the limits on such excess indemnification set forth in Section 204 of the California Corporations Code.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The Company&#8217;s Amended and Restated By-laws provide that the Company will indemnify its directors and officers and may indemnify its employees and other agents to the fullest extent authorized by the California General Corporation Law. Such indemnification is intended to provide the full flexibility available under California law and may, under certain circumstances, include indemnification for negligence, gross negligence and certain types of recklessness. Under California law and the Company&#8217;s Amended and Restated By-laws, the Company will be permitted to indemnify its directors, officers, employees and other agents, within the limits established by law and public policy, pursuant to an express contract, bylaw provision, shareholder vote or otherwise, any or all of which could provide indemnification rights broader than those expressly available under California law.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The Company is also empowered under its Amended and Restated By-laws to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors and officers and to purchase insurance on behalf of any person whom it is required or permitted to indemnify. The Company has entered into agreements with its directors and certain of its executive officers that require the Company to indemnify such persons against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred (including expenses of a derivative action) in connection with any proceeding, whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made a party by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or an executive officer of the Company or any of its affiliated enterprises, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The indemnification agreements also set forth certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Section 317 of the California Corporations Code makes provisions for the indemnification of officers, directors and other corporate agents in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such persons, under certain circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act. Section 317 also provides that the indemnification provided by this section is not exclusive to the extent additional rights are authorized in a corporation&#8217;s articles of incorporation.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><u>provided</u></font>, <font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><u>however</u></font>, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (l)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt">The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant&#8217;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&#8217;s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-STYLE: italic">bona fide</font> offering thereof.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended (filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 30, 2014 as Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant&#8217;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014 and incorporated herein by reference).</div>
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As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 17, 2016
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Abaxis, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
California
77-0213001
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
3240 Whipple Road
Union City, California 94587
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)  (Zip Code)
Abaxis, Inc.
2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended
(Full title of the plan)
Clinton H. Severson
Chief Executive Officer
and Chairman of the Board
Abaxis, Inc.
3240 Whipple Road
Union City, California 94587
(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service:  (510) 675-6500.
Copies to:
Jodie M. Bourdet
Cooley LLP
101 California Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, California 94111-5800
(415) 693-2000
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.
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities
to be Registered
Amount to be
Registered
(1)
Proposed Maximum
Offering
Price Per Share
(2)
Proposed Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
(2)
Amount of
Registration Fee
Common Stock, no par value
900,000 shares
$
47.81
$
43,029,000
$
4,988
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this registration statement shall also cover any additional shares of the registrant's common stock that become issuable under the registrant's 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the "Amended 2014 Plan") by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration that increases the number of outstanding shares of the registrant's common stock.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) promulgated under the Securities Act. The offering price per share and the aggregate offering price are based upon the average of the high and low prices of the registrant's common stock as reported on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on November 9, 2016.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering the offering and sale of an additional 900,000 shares of the registrant's common stock issuable pursuant to the registrant's 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the "Amended 2014 Plan"). The offering of the shares of the Registrant's common stock previously reserved for issuance under the Amended 2014 Plan was registered on the registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-199518), previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Abaxis, Inc. (the "Company") hereby incorporates by reference in this registration statement the following documents:
·
The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2016.
·
The Company's Amendment to its Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 29, 2016.
·
The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended June 30, 2016 and September 30, 2016 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 9, 2016 and November 9, 2016, respectively.
·
The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 28, 2016 (accepted at 16:01:16, with respect to Item 8.01 only), April 28, 2016 (accepted at 17:20:41), July 21, 2016 (with respect to Item 8.01 only) and November 1, 2016.
·
The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on December 11, 1991 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
·
All other reports and documents subsequently filed by the registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than Current Reports furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and exhibits furnished on such form that relate to such items) on or after the date of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration statement which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part of this registration statement from the date of the filing of such reports and documents. Any statement contained in a document 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 subsequently filed document that also 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
.
Item 4.
Description of Securities
Not applicable.
Item 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Not applicable.
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
The Company's Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, provide that the liability of the directors for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under California law. Pursuant to California law, the Company's directors shall not be liable for monetary damages for breach of the directors' fiduciary duty of care to the Company and its shareholders. However, this provision does not eliminate the duty of care, and in appropriate circumstances, equitable remedies such as injunctive or other forms of nonmonetary relief will remain available under California law.
In addition, each director will continue to be subject to liability for (i) acts or omissions that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing and culpable violation of law, (ii) acts or omissions that a director believes to be contrary to the best interests of the Company or its shareholders or that involve the absence of good faith on the part of the director, (iii) any transaction from which a director derived an improper personal benefit, (iv) acts or omissions that show a reckless disregard for the director's duty to the Company or its shareholders in circumstances in which the director was aware, or should have been aware, in the ordinary course of performing a director's duties, of a risk of serious injury to the Company or its shareholders, (v) acts or omissions that constitute an unexcused pattern of inattention that amounts to an abdication of the director's duty to the Company or its shareholders, (vi) any transaction that constitutes an illegal distribution or dividend under California law, and (vii) any transaction involving an unlawful conflict of interest between the director and the Company under California law. The provision also does not affect a director's responsibilities under any other law, such as the federal securities laws or state or federal environmental laws.
In addition, the Company's Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, provide that the Company is authorized to provide indemnification of agents (as defined in Section 317 of the California Corporations Code) for breach of duty to the Company and its shareholders through bylaw provisions, agreements with agents, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, in excess of the indemnification otherwise permitted by Section 317 of the California Corporation Code, subject to the limits on such excess indemnification set forth in Section 204 of the California Corporations Code.
The Company's Amended and Restated By-laws provide that the Company will indemnify its directors and officers and may indemnify its employees and other agents to the fullest extent authorized by the California General Corporation Law. Such indemnification is intended to provide the full flexibility available under California law and may, under certain circumstances, include indemnification for negligence, gross negligence and certain types of recklessness. Under California law and the Company's Amended and Restated By-laws, the Company will be permitted to indemnify its directors, officers, employees and other agents, within the limits established by law and public policy, pursuant to an express contract, bylaw provision, shareholder vote or otherwise, any or all of which could provide indemnification rights broader than those expressly available under California law.
The Company is also empowered under its Amended and Restated By-laws to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors and officers and to purchase insurance on behalf of any person whom it is required or permitted to indemnify. The Company has entered into agreements with its directors and certain of its executive officers that require the Company to indemnify such persons against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred (including expenses of a derivative action) in connection with any proceeding, whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made a party by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or an executive officer of the Company or any of its affiliated enterprises, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The indemnification agreements also set forth certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder.
Section 317 of the California Corporations Code makes provisions for the indemnification of officers, directors and other corporate agents in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such persons, under certain circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act. Section 317 also provides that the indemnification provided by this section is not exclusive to the extent additional rights are authorized in a corporation's articles of incorporation.
Item 7.
Exemption From Registration Claimed
Not applicable.
Item 8.
Exhibits
The exhibits listed on the accompanying Exhibit Index are incorporated by reference herein
.
Item 9.
Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)
To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i)
To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii)
To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement;
and
(iii)
To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;
provided
,
however
, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (l)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2)
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(3)
To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Union City, State of California, on November 17, 2016.
ABAXIS, INC.
By:
/s/ Clinton H. Severson
Clinton H. Severson
Chief Executive Officer
and Chairman of the Board
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below, hereby constitutes and appoints Clinton H. Severson and Ross Taylor,
and each of them, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with the full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place or stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this registration statement (including post-effective amendments), and to sign any registration statement for the same offering covered by this registration statement that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act, and all post-effective amendments thereto, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange 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 might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their, his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof
.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
Chief Executive Officer and Director
/s/ Clinton H. Severson
(Principal Executive Officer)
November 17, 2016
Clinton H. Severson
/s/ Ross Taylor
Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance and Secretary
November 17, 2016
Ross Taylor
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Vernon E. Altman
Director
November 17, 2016
Vernon E. Altman
/s/ Richard J. Bastiani, Ph.D.
Director
November 17, 2016
Richard J. Bastiani, Ph.D.
/s/ Michael D. Casey
Director
November 17, 2016
Michael D. Casey
/s/ Henk J. Evenhuis
Director
November 17, 2016
Henk J. Evenhuis
/s/ Prithipal Singh, Ph.D.
Director
November 17, 2016
Prithipal Singh, Ph.D.
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No.
Description
4.1
Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended (filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 30, 2014 as Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014 and incorporated herein by reference).
4.2
Amended and Restated By-laws (filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 10, 2015 as Exhibit 3.2 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 6, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
5.1
Opinion of Cooley LLP.
23.1
Consent of Cooley LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
23.2
Consent of Burr Pilger Mayer, Inc., Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on the signature pages to this registration statement).
99.1
2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 1, 2016 as Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 26, 2016 and incorporated herein by reference).