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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29,
2018.</font></div>
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Registration No. 333-</font></div>
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UNITED STATES</font></div>
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
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Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div>
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FORM S-8</font></div>
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></div>
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UNDER</font></div>
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THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></div>
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AEMETIS, INC.</font></div>
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></div>
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Nevada</font></div>
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26-1407544</font></div>
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(State or other jurisdiction of</font></div>
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incorporation or organization)</font></div>
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(I.R.S. Employer</font></div>
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Identification No.)</font></div>
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20400 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 700</font></div>
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Cupertino, California</font></div>
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95014</font></div>
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Aemetis, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2007 Stock
Plan</font></div>
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Eric A. McAfee</font></div>
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Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board</font></div>
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AEMETIS, INC.</font></div>
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20400 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 700, Cupertino, California
95014</font></div>
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(Name and address of agent for service)</font></div>
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(408) 213-0925</font></div>
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(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large
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or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of &#x201C;large
accelerated filer,&#x201D; &#x201C;accelerated filer&#x201D; and
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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
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(1)</font></font></font></div>
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(3)</font></font></font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Common
Stock, par value $0.001 per share, to be issued pursuant to the
Aemetis, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2007 Stock Plan (the
&#x201C;2007 Plan&#x201D;)</font></div>
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655,192</font><font style="font-size: 70%; vertical-align: top; color: #000000">(2)</font></font></div>
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$2.03</font></div>
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$1,330,040<br></font></div>
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$165.59</font></div>
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TOTAL</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">655,192</font></div>
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$165.59</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="font-size: 70%; vertical-align: top; color: #000000">
(1)</font></font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the &#x201C;Securities Act&#x201D;), this
Registration Statement includes an indeterminate number of
additional shares which may be offered to prevent dilution from
stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalization or other similar
transactions effected without consideration that results in an
increase in the number of the Registrant&#x2019;s outstanding Common
Stock.</font></font></div>
</div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="font-size: 70%; vertical-align: top; color: #000000">
(2)</font></font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">Shares of common stock reserved for issuance under
the 2007 Plan.</font></font></div>
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</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left; display: table-cell"><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Pursuant
to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, the registration fee for the shares covered by this
Registration Statement has been calculated based on the average of
the high and low prices of the Registrant&#x2019;s common stock as
reported by NASDAQ on March 27, 2018.</font></div>
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EXPLANATORY NOTE</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">This
Registration Statement is filed by Aemetis, Inc. (the
&#x201C;Registrant&#x201D;) for the purpose of registering pursuant
to General Instruction E to Form S-8, 655,192 additional shares of
the Registrant&#x2019;s common stock, $0.001 par value per share
(the &#x201C;Common Stock&#x201D;) under the 2007 Plan.</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">The
655,192 additional shares of Common Stock available for issuance
under the 2007 Plan registered pursuant to this Registration
Statement are the same class as those previously registered on Form
S-8 on March 17, 2017 (File No. 333-216762). The contents of the
aforementioned Registration Statement, including any amendments
thereto or filings incorporated therein, are incorporated herein by
reference, except as modified herein.</font></div>
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PART I</font></div>
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<font style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</font></div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px">
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Information
required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus
is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule
428 under the Securities Act and the &#x201C;Note&#x201D; to Part I
of Form S-8.</font></div>
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PART II</font></div>
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<font style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></div>
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Item 3.</font><br></font></div>
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Incorporation of Documents by Reference.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">The
following documents previously filed by the Registrant with the
Commission, are incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement:</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">(a)</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;<font style="color: #000000">The
Registrant&#x2019;s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2017 filed with the Commission on March 29,
2018, which includes audited financial statements for the
Registrant&#x2019;s latest fiscal year;</font></font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">(b)</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;All
other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
<font style="color: #000000">(the &#x201C;Exchange
Act&#x201D;)</font>, since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
audited financial statements described in (a) above<font style="color: #000000">; and</font></font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">(c)</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;<font style="color: #000000">The
description of the Registrant&#x2019;s common stock, par value
$0.001 per share, contained in the Registrant&#x2019;s Form 8-A
filed with the Commission on June 3, 2014, and any amendment or
report filed for the purpose of updating such
description.</font></font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">All
documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of 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 a 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 that is not
deemed filed under such provisions.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">For
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.</font></div>
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Item 6.</font></font></div>
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Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Nevada
Revised Statutes (&#x201C;NRS&#x201D;) Sections 78.7502 and 78.751
authorizes a corporation&#x2019;s board of directors to grant
indemnity to directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to
permit such indemnification under certain circumstances for
liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising
under the Securities Act.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px;">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">The
Registrant&#x2019;s Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws grant it
the power to indemnify any of its directors and officers. The
director or officer must have acted in good faith and in a manner
which he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to the
best interests of the Registrant, and, with respect to any a
criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe
the conduct was unlawful.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px;">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Under
NRS Section 78.751, advances for expenses of officers and directors
incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or
proceeding may be made by the Registrant upon receipt of an
undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay the
amount if it is ultimately determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction that the director or officer is not entitled to be
indemnified by the Registrant.</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 12px; margin-right: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px;">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">The
Registrant&#x2019;s Articles of Incorporation include an
indemnification provision under which the Registrant is required to
indemnify its directors and officers and may indemnify any other
person (including employees and former directors, officers and
employees (including heirs and personal representatives)) to the
fullest extent permitted under Nevada law.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px;">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">As
permitted by the NRS, the Registrant&#x2019;s Articles of
Incorporation includes a provision that provides that no director
or officer shall be personally liable to the Registrant or its
stockholders for damages as a result of any act or failure to act
in his or her capacity as a director or officer unless it is proven
that:</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; display: table-cell"><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">The
director&#x2019;s or officer&#x2019;s act or failure to act
constituted a breach of his or her fiduciary duties as a director
or officer; and</font></div>
</div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">&#xA0;</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; display: table-cell"><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">The
breach of those duties involved intentional misconduct, fraud or a
knowing violation of law.</font></div>
</div>
</div>
<div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px;">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">The
indemnification provision in the Registrant&#x2019;s Articles of
Incorporation may be sufficiently broad to permit indemnification
of the Registrant&#x2019;s directors and officers for liabilities
arising under the Securities Act. The Registrant has
directors&#x2019; and officers&#x2019; liability insurance for
securities matters.</font></div>
<div style="text-indent: 12px; margin-right: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10">&#xA0;</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px;">
<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">The
Registrant&#x2019;s board of directors has approved a form of
indemnification agreement for its directors and officers. Each of
the Registrant&#x2019;s current directors and officers has entered
into, and the Registrant expects that its future directors and
officers will enter into, indemnification agreements substantially
in that form to give the Registrant&#x2019;s directors and officers
additional contractual assurances regarding the scope of the
indemnification set forth in the Registrant&#x2019;s restated
certificate of incorporation and to provide additional procedural
protections. At present, there is no pending litigation or
proceeding involving a director, officer or employee of the
Registrant regarding which indemnification is sought, nor is the
Registrant aware of any threatened litigation that may result in
claims for indemnification.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">The
Registrant and its subsidiaries are covered by liability insurance
policies which indemnify their directors and officers against loss
arising from claims by reason of their legal liability for acts as
such directors, officers or trustees, subject to limitations and
conditions as set forth in the policies.</font></div>
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Item 8.</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;<br></font></div>
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Exhibits.</font></div>
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Exhibit Number</font></font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Opinion
of Nevada Legal Counsel regarding the legality of the securities
being registered</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000">10.1</font></a><font style="font-size: 70%; vertical-align: top; color: #000000">(1)</font></font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Aemetis,
Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2007 Stock Plan</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Consent
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Consent
of Nevada Legal Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1)</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Power
of Attorney (included on the signature page included in this Part
II)</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; display: table-cell"><font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Incorporated
by reference from Aemetis&#x2019; Schedule 14A, filed with the
Commission on April 3, 2015.</font></div>
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Undertakings.</font></div>
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(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">1.</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0; <font style="color: #000000">To file, during any period in which offers or
sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
Registration Statement:</font></font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">(i)</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;<font style="color: #000000">To
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act;</font></font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">(ii)</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0; &#xA0;
&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0; <font style="color: #000000">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 SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the
aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than
20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
"Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective
registration statement;</font></font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">(iii)</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;
<font style="color: #000000">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</font> clauses (1)(i) and (1)(ii) of this section do not apply
if the registration statement is on Form S-8, and the information
required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
clauses is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC
by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference
in the registration statement.</font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">2.</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0; <font style="color: #000000">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.</font></font></div>
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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px"><font style="color: #000000">3.</font>&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0; <font style="color: #000000">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.</font></font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
(b) 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.</font></div>
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(c) 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 SEC such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the 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 Act and will be governed
by the final adjudication of such issue.</font></div>
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SIGNATURES</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">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 Cupertino,
State of California on the 28th day of March, 2018.</font></div>
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AEMETIS, INC.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">By:/s/
Eric A. McAfee</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Eric
A. McAfee</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Chief
Executive Officer</font></div>
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POWER OF ATTORNEY</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the persons whose signatures
appear below constitute and appoint Eric A. McAfee and Todd Waltz,
and each of them, as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents
with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him or her
and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities,
to sign the Form S-8 Registration Statement, and any or all
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to said Form S-8
Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be
done, 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 their substitute or substitutes,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the date
indicated.&#xA0;</font></div>
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Signature</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
/s/ Eric A. McAfee</font></div>
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<font style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px">
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer</font></div>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29,
2018.
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AEMETIS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada
26-1407544
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
20400 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 700
Cupertino, California
95014
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
Aemetis, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2007 Stock
Plan
(Full title of the plan(s))
Eric A. McAfee
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
AEMETIS, INC.
20400 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 700, Cupertino, California
95014
(Name and address of agent for service)
(408) 213-0925
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for
service)
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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
(3)
Proposed Maximum Aggregate
Offering Price
Amount of
Registration Fee
Common
Stock, par value $0.001 per share, to be issued pursuant to the
Aemetis, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2007 Stock Plan (the
"2007 Plan")
655,192
(2)
$2.03
$1,330,040
$165.59
TOTAL
655,192
$165.59
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this
Registration Statement includes an indeterminate number of
additional shares which may be offered to prevent dilution from
stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalization or other similar
transactions effected without consideration that results in an
increase in the number of the Registrant's outstanding Common
Stock.
(2)
Shares of common stock reserved for issuance under
the 2007 Plan.
(3)
Pursuant
to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, the registration fee for the shares covered by this
Registration Statement has been calculated based on the average of
the high and low prices of the Registrant's common stock as
reported by NASDAQ on March 27, 2018.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This
Registration Statement is filed by Aemetis, Inc. (the
"Registrant") for the purpose of registering pursuant
to General Instruction E to Form S-8, 655,192 additional shares of
the Registrant's common stock, $0.001 par value per share
(the "Common Stock") under the 2007 Plan.
The
655,192 additional shares of Common Stock available for issuance
under the 2007 Plan registered pursuant to this Registration
Statement are the same class as those previously registered on Form
S-8 on March 17, 2017 (File No. 333-216762). The contents of the
aforementioned Registration Statement, including any amendments
thereto or filings incorporated therein, are incorporated herein by
reference, except as modified herein.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Information
required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus
is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule
428 under the Securities Act and the "Note" to Part I
of Form S-8.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The
following documents previously filed by the Registrant with the
Commission, are incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement:
(a)
The
Registrant's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2017 filed with the Commission on March 29,
2018, which includes audited financial statements for the
Registrant's latest fiscal year;
(b)
All
other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the "Exchange
Act")
, since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
audited financial statements described in (a) above
; and
(c)
The
description of the Registrant's common stock, par value
$0.001 per share, contained in the Registrant's Form 8-A
filed with the Commission on June 3, 2014, and any amendment or
report filed for the purpose of updating such
description.
All
documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of 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 a 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 that is not
deemed filed under such provisions.
For
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.
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Nevada
Revised Statutes ("NRS") Sections 78.7502 and 78.751
authorizes a corporation's board of directors to grant
indemnity to directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to
permit such indemnification under certain circumstances for
liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising
under the Securities Act.
The
Registrant's Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws grant it
the power to indemnify any of its directors and officers. The
director or officer must have acted in good faith and in a manner
which he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to the
best interests of the Registrant, and, with respect to any a
criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe
the conduct was unlawful.
Under
NRS Section 78.751, advances for expenses of officers and directors
incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or
proceeding may be made by the Registrant upon receipt of an
undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay the
amount if it is ultimately determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction that the director or officer is not entitled to be
indemnified by the Registrant.
The
Registrant's Articles of Incorporation include an
indemnification provision under which the Registrant is required to
indemnify its directors and officers and may indemnify any other
person (including employees and former directors, officers and
employees (including heirs and personal representatives)) to the
fullest extent permitted under Nevada law.
As
permitted by the NRS, the Registrant's Articles of
Incorporation includes a provision that provides that no director
or officer shall be personally liable to the Registrant or its
stockholders for damages as a result of any act or failure to act
in his or her capacity as a director or officer unless it is proven
that:
●
The
director's or officer's act or failure to act
constituted a breach of his or her fiduciary duties as a director
or officer; and
●
The
breach of those duties involved intentional misconduct, fraud or a
knowing violation of law.
The
indemnification provision in the Registrant's Articles of
Incorporation may be sufficiently broad to permit indemnification
of the Registrant's directors and officers for liabilities
arising under the Securities Act. The Registrant has
directors' and officers' liability insurance for
securities matters.
The
Registrant's board of directors has approved a form of
indemnification agreement for its directors and officers. Each of
the Registrant's current directors and officers has entered
into, and the Registrant expects that its future directors and
officers will enter into, indemnification agreements substantially
in that form to give the Registrant's directors and officers
additional contractual assurances regarding the scope of the
indemnification set forth in the Registrant's restated
certificate of incorporation and to provide additional procedural
protections. At present, there is no pending litigation or
proceeding involving a director, officer or employee of the
Registrant regarding which indemnification is sought, nor is the
Registrant aware of any threatened litigation that may result in
claims for indemnification.
The
Registrant and its subsidiaries are covered by liability insurance
policies which indemnify their directors and officers against loss
arising from claims by reason of their legal liability for acts as
such directors, officers or trustees, subject to limitations and
conditions as set forth in the policies.
Item 8.
Exhibits.
Exhibit Number
Description of Exhibit
5.1
Opinion
of Nevada Legal Counsel regarding the legality of the securities
being registered
10.1
(1)
Aemetis,
Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2007 Stock Plan
23.1
Consent
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
23.2
Consent
of Nevada Legal Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1
Power
of Attorney (included on the signature page included in this Part
II)
(1)
Incorporated
by reference from Aemetis' Schedule 14A, filed with the
Commission on April 3, 2015.
Item 9.
Undertakings.
(a) 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 SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the
aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than
20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
"Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective
registration statement;
(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
clauses (1)(i) and (1)(ii) of this section do not apply
if the registration statement is on Form S-8, and the information
required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
clauses is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC
by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 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.
(b) 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.
(c) 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 SEC such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the 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 Act and will be governed
by the final adjudication of such issue.
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 Cupertino,
State of California on the 28th day of March, 2018.
AEMETIS, INC.
By:/s/
Eric A. McAfee
Eric
A. McAfee
Chief
Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the persons whose signatures
appear below constitute and appoint Eric A. McAfee and Todd Waltz,
and each of them, as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents
with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him or her
and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities,
to sign the Form S-8 Registration Statement, and any or all
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to said Form S-8
Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be
done, 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 their substitute or substitutes,
may lawfully 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 below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the date
indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Eric A. McAfee
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
March 27, 2018
Eric A. McAfee
and Director (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Todd Waltz
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
March 27, 2018
Todd Waltz
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Francis P. Barton
Francis P. Barton
Director
March 27, 2018
/s/ Lydia I Beebe
Lydia I Beebe
Director
March 27, 2018
/s/ John R. Block
John R. Block
Director
March 27, 2018
/s/ Steven W. Hutcheson
Steven W. Hutcheson
Director
March 27, 2018