As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2023

Registration No. 333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

AVITA MEDICAL, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

28159 Avenue Stanford, Suite 220

Valencia, CA 91355

(661) 367-9170

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

AVITA Medical, Inc. 2020 Omnibus Incentive Plan

AVITA Medical, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Individual Stock Option Award Agreements

(Full Title of the Plans)

Donna Shiroma

28159 Avenue Stanford, Suite 220

Valencia, CA 91355

(661) 367-9170

(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copy to:

Christopher H. Cunningham

Coleman Wombwell

K&L Gates LLP

925 Fourth Avenue, Suite 2900

Seattle, Washington 98104

(206) 623-7580

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,” “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 to register (i) an additional 2,500,000 shares (the “Omnibus Plan Shares”) of common stock under the AVITA Medical, Inc. 2020 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended (the “Omnibus Plan”), as a result of the stockholders of AVITA Medical, Inc. (the “Registrant”) approving an amendment to the Omnibus Plan to increase the shares of common stock available for issuance under the Omnibus Plan on June 6, 2023 at the Registrant’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2023 Annual Meeting”); (ii) 1,000,000 shares of common stock under the AVITA Medical, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Stock Purchase Plan”), as a result of the Registrant’s stockholders approving the Stock Purchase Plan at the 2023 Annual Meeting; and (iii) an aggregate of 395,244 shares of common stock that are issuable upon the exercise of stock options granted pursuant to individual stock option award agreements approved by the Registrant’s stockholders at the Registrant’s 2021, 2022 and 2023 Annual Meetings of Stockholders.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The documents 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) of the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference into this registration statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this registration statement, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

In this registration statement, AVITA Medical, Inc. is sometimes referred to as “Registrant,” “we,” “us,” “our,” or “AVITA”.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) allows us to “incorporate by reference” the information we file with them, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this registration statement, and later information filed with the SEC will update and supersede this information.

We hereby incorporate by reference into this registration statement the following documents previously filed with the SEC:

In addition, all documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the filing of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which de-registers 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 such documents, except as to specific sections of such statements as set forth therein. 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 other subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement contained herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or 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.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

We are a Delaware corporation and certain provisions of Delaware law and our bylaws provide for indemnification of our officers and directors against liabilities that they may incur in such capacities. A summary of the circumstances in which indemnification is provided is discussed below, but this description is qualified in its entirety by reference to our bylaws and to the statutory provisions.

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) provides for, under certain circumstances, the indemnification of our officers, directors, employees and agents against liabilities that they may incur in such capacities. A summary of the circumstances in which such indemnification provided for is contained herein, but that description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the relevant Section of the DGCL.

In general, the statute provides that any director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation may be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement, actually and reasonably incurred in a proceeding (including any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative proceeding) to which the individual was a party by reason of such status. Such indemnity may be provided if the indemnified person’s actions resulting in the liabilities: (i) were taken in good faith; (ii) were reasonably believed to have been in or not opposed to our best interest; and (iii) with respect to any criminal action, such person had no reasonable cause to believe the actions were unlawful. Unless ordered by a court, indemnification generally may be awarded only after a determination of independent members of the Board of Directors or a committee thereof, by independent legal counsel or by vote of the stockholders that the applicable standard of conduct was met by the individual to be indemnified.

The statutory provisions further provide that to the extent a director, officer, employee or agent is wholly successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any proceeding to which he was a party, he is entitled to receive indemnification against expenses, including attorneys’ fees, actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the proceeding.

Indemnification in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the Company in which the director, officer, employee or agent is successful is permitted only with respect to expenses, including attorneys’ fees actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense. In such actions, the person to be indemnified must have acted in good faith, in a manner believed to have been in our best interest and must not have been adjudged liable to us unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability, in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expense which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper. Indemnification is otherwise prohibited in connection with a proceeding brought on behalf of the Company in which a director is adjudged liable to us, or in connection with any proceeding charging improper personal benefit to the director in which the director is adjudged liable for receipt of an improper personal benefit.

Delaware law authorizes us to reimburse or pay reasonable expenses incurred by a director, officer, employee or agent in connection with a proceeding in advance of a final disposition of the matter. Such advances of expenses are permitted if the person furnishes to us a written agreement to repay such advances if it is determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by us.

The statutory section cited above further specifies that any provisions for indemnification of or advances for expenses does not exclude other rights under our certificate of incorporation, corporate bylaws, resolutions of our stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise. These indemnification provisions continue for a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation and inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such persons.

The statutory provision cited above also grants the power to the Company to purchase and maintain insurance policies that protect any director, officer, employee or agent against any liability asserted against or incurred by him in such capacity arising out of his status as such. Such policies may provide for indemnification whether or not the corporation would otherwise have the power to provide for it.

Articles V and VI of our certificate of incorporation provide that we shall indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL.

We have purchased directors’ and officers’ liability insurance in order to limit the exposure to liability for indemnification of directors and officers, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted for our directors, officers, and controlling persons pursuant to the foregoing provisions or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.

Not applicable.

EXHIBIT INDEX

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if this registration statement is on Form S-8 and 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 this registration statement.

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 Valencia, California, on June 30, 2023.

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints James Corbett and Donna Shiroma, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact with power of substitution and resubstitution to sign in his or her name, place and stead in any and all capacities the Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments) and any documents in connection therewith, and to file the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each of said attorneys full power to act with or without the other, and full power and authority to do and perform, in his or her name and on his or her behalf, every act whatsoever which such attorneys, or any one of them, may deem necessary or desirable to be done in connection therewith as fully and to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact, or any of them, 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 indicated on June 30, 2023.

Exhibit 5.1

June 30, 2023

AVITA MEDICAL, INC.

28159 Avenue Stanford, Suite 220

Valencia, CA 91355

Re: Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to AVITA Medical, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed by the Company on the date hereof with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, for the registration of 3,895,244 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), (i) 2,500,000 of which are issuable pursuant to the Company’s 2020 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2020 Plan”); (ii) 1,000,000 of which are issuable pursuant to the Company’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Stock Purchase Plan” and together with the 2020 Plan, the “Plans”); and (iii) an aggregate of 395,244 of which are issuable upon the exercise of stock options granted pursuant to individual stock option award agreements (the “Option Agreements”).

This opinion is being furnished in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act.

For the purposes of rendering the opinion stated herein, we have examined (a) the Registration Statement; (b) the Plans; (c) the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended through the date hereof; (d) the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws; (e) resolutions adopted by, or minutes of meetings of, the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) on March 18, 2023, February 22, 2023, August 10, 2022, and August 24, 2021 authorizing and approving the issuance of the Shares and other related matters; (f) the Option Agreements; and (g) a certificate of an officer of the Company, dated the date hereof (the “Fact Certificate”).

We have also examined such questions of law, and the originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such instruments, documents and records as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinion stated herein. In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity and competency of all natural persons, the accuracy and completeness of all documents submitted to us, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, and the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. As to matters of fact relevant to our opinion set forth below, we have relied, without independent investigation, on certificates of public officials and the Fact Certificate.

In rendering our opinion below, we also have assumed that (i) the Company will have sufficient authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock at the time of each issuance of any Shares, (ii) the Shares will be evidenced by appropriate certificates, duly executed and delivered, or the Board will adopt a resolution providing that all shares of the Company’s Common Stock shall be uncertificated in accordance with Section 158 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) prior to the issuance of the Shares, (iii) the issuance of each Share will be properly recorded in the books and records of the Company, (iv) each Plan and each Option Agreement constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms; (v) the Company will receive consideration for each Share at least equal to the par value of such share of Common Stock and in the amount required by the applicable Plan, the award agreement issued thereunder and the Authorizing Resolutions (as defined below), or the applicable Option Agreement, as applicable; and (vi) prior to the issuance of any Shares under the Plans, the Board will duly authorize each award granted under the 2020 Plan and the Stock Purchase Plan, as applicable, pursuant to resolutions (the “Authorizing Resolutions”) approving an award agreement and in accordance with the DGCL and the respective Plan.

Our opinion set forth below is limited to the DGCL and reported decisions interpreting the DGCL.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, it is our opinion that the Shares, when issued and paid for in accordance with the terms of the applicable Plan, the Authorizing Resolutions and the applicable award agreements, or the applicable Option Agreement, as applicable, will be validly issued, fully paid, and non-assessable.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter with the SEC as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We have issued our report dated February 23, 2023 with respect to the consolidated financial statements of AVITA Medical, Inc. included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, which are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement. We consent to the incorporation by reference of the aforementioned report in this Registration Statement.

/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP

Los Angeles, California

June 30, 2023

Exhibit 107.1

Calculation of Filing Fee Tables

Form S-8

(Form Type)

AVITA Medical, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Table 1: Newly Registered and Carry Forward Securities