As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2022

Registration No. ______

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Aqua Metals, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

2019 Stock Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Stephen Cotton
Chief Executive Officer
5370 Kietzke Lane, Suite 201

Reno, Nevada 89511

(Name and address of agent for service)

(775) 446-4418

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

Daniel K. Donahue

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

18565 Jamboree Road, Suite 500

Irvine, California 92612

(949) 732-6500

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.

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

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed by Aqua Metals, Inc (the “Company”) for the purpose of registering an additional 7,000,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock that became reserved for issuance as a result of stockholder approval on June 7, 2022. These additional shares of the Company’s Common Stock are securities of the same class as other securities for which an original Registration Statement on Form S-8 was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on June 14, 2019 (File No. 333-232148). Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, this Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of such prior Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED

IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents filed by the Company with the Commission are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements of 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 Reno, Nevada on August 24, 2022.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Stephen Cotton and Judd Merrill, and each of them, as such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each with full powers of substitution and re-substitution, for such person and in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post effective amendments) to this 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 attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed on August 24, 2022 by the following persons in the capacities indicated.