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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 21, 2021

Registration No. 333- 259164

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Amendment No. 2

to

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

BRILLIANT EARTH GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   5944   87-1015499

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

 

300 Grant Avenue, Third Floor

San Francisco, California 94108

Telephone: (800) 691-0952

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

 

 

Incorporating Services, Ltd.

3500 South DuPont Highway

Dover, Delaware 19901

Telephone: (800) 346-4646

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

 

 

Copies to:

Tad J. Freese

Haim Zaltzman

Kristen Grannis

Benjamin J. Cohen

Latham & Watkins LLP

1271 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10022

Telephone: (212) 906-1200

Fax: (212) 751-4864

 

Alex K. Grab

General Counsel

300 Grant Avenue, Third Floor

San Francisco, California 94108

Telephone: (800) 691-0952

 

Shane Tintle

Roshni Banker Cariello

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10017

Telephone: (212) 450-4000

Fax: (212) 701-5526

 

 

APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC: AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT IS DECLARED EFFECTIVE.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box.  

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer         Accelerated filer     
Non-accelerated filer         Smaller reporting company     
Emerging growth company          

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of Each Class of

Securities to be Registered

 

Amount

to be
registered(1)(2)

 

Proposed

maximum

offering price

per share(1)

 

Proposed

Maximum

Aggregate

Offering Price(1)(2)

 

Amount of

Registration Fee(3)

Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share

  19,166,667   $16.00   $306,666,672.00   $33,457.33

 

 

(1)

Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

(2)

Includes the shares of Class A common stock that may be sold if the option to purchase additional shares of Class A common stock granted by the Registrant to the underwriters is executed.

(3)

The filing fee has been previously paid.

 

 

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

Brilliant Earth Group, Inc. is filing this Amendment No. 2 to its Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-259164) as an exhibits-only filing. Accordingly, this Amendment consists only of the facing page, this explanatory note, Item 16(a) of Part II of the Registration Statement, the signature page to the Registration Statement and the filed exhibits. The remainder of the Registration Statement is unchanged and has therefore been omitted.


PART II

Item 16. Exhibits and financial statements.

 

(a)

Exhibits

The following documents are filed as exhibits to this registration statement.

 

Exhibit
No.

    
  1.1**    Form of Underwriting Agreement.
  3.1**    Certificate of Incorporation of Brilliant Earth Group, Inc., as in effect prior to the consummation of the Transactions.
  3.2*    Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Brilliant Earth Group, Inc., to be in effect upon the consummation of the Transactions.
  3.3**    Bylaws of Brilliant Earth Group, Inc., as in effect prior to the consummation of the Transactions.
  3.4**    Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Brilliant Earth Group, Inc. to be in effect upon the consummation of the Transactions.
  4.1**    Specimen Stock Certificate evidencing the shares of Class A common stock.
  5.1**    Opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP.
10.1†**    Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of September  30, 2019, by and among Brilliant Earth, LLC, the Lenders party thereto and Runway Growth Credit Fund Inc., as Agent.
10.2**    First Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of December  17, 2020, by and among Brilliant Earth, LLC, the Lenders party thereto and Runway Growth Credit Fund Inc., as Agent.
10.3†**    Second Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of August  6, 2021, by and among Brilliant Earth, LLC, the Lenders party thereto and Runway Growth Credit Fund Inc., as Agent.
10.4†**    Third Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of August  29, 2021, by and among Brilliant Earth, LLC, the Lenders party thereto and Runway Growth Finance Corp. (f/k/a Runway Growth Credit Fund Inc.), as Agent.
10.5**    Form of Tax Receivable Agreement, to be effective upon the consummation of the Transactions.
10.6**    Form of LLC Agreement of Brilliant Earth, LLC, to be effective upon the consummation of the Transactions.
10.7**    Form of Stockholders Agreement, to be effective upon the consummation of the Transactions.
10.8**    Form of Registration Rights Agreement, to be effective upon the consummation of the Transactions.
10.9#**    Form of Brilliant Earth, LLC Unit Restriction Agreement (Class M Units).
10.10#**    2021 Incentive Award Plan.
10.11#**    Form of Stock Option Grant Notice and Stock Option Agreement under the 2021 Incentive Award Plan.

 

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Exhibit
No.

    
10.12#**    Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Grant Notice and Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the 2021 Incentive Award Plan.
10.13#**    Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
10.14#**    Non-Employee Director Compensation Program.
10.15**    Form of Indemnification Agreement
10.16#**    Form of Offer Letter, by and between Brilliant Earth Group, Inc. and Beth Gerstein.
10.17#**    Form of Offer Letter, by and between Brilliant Earth Group, Inc. and Eric Grossberg.
10.18#**    Form of Offer Letter, by and between Brilliant Earth Group, Inc. and Jeffrey Kuo.
21.1**   

List of Subsidiaries

23.1**    Consent of BDO USA, LLP, as to Brilliant Earth Group, Inc.
23.2**    Consent of BDO USA, LLP, as to Brilliant Earth, LLC.
23.3**    Consent of Latham & Watkins LLP (contained in its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 hereto).
24.1**    Power of Attorney.

 

*

Filed herewith

 

**

Previously filed

 

#

Indicates management contract or compensatory plan

 

Certain portions of this exhibit (indicated by “[***]”) have been omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item (601)(b)(10).

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Brilliant Earth Group, Inc. has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of San Francisco, state of California, on this 21st day of September, 2021.

 

Brilliant Earth Group, Inc.
By:  

/s/ Beth Gerstein

  Beth Gerstein
  Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on September 21, 2021.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Beth Gerstein

Beth Gerstein

   Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jeffrey Kuo

Jeffrey Kuo

   Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

*

Eric Grossberg

   Executive Chairman and Director

*

Gavin Turner

   Director

*

Beth Kaplan

   Director

*

Jennifer Harris

   Director

*

Ian Bickley

   Director

*

Attica Jaques

   Director

 

*By:  

/s/ Jeffrey Kuo

 

Jeffrey Kuo

Attorney-in-fact

 

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