UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 3 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f)of the Investment Company Act of 1940 1. Name and Address 2.Date of Event 4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Of Reporting Person Requiring Statement Trading Symbol (Month/Day/Year) (Last, First, Middle) Shells Seafood Restaurants, Inc. Shells Investment 12/02/02 ("SHLL.OB") Partners, LLC c/o John N. Giordano, Esq Bush Ross Gardner Warren & Rudy, P.A. 220 South Franklin St Tampa, FL 33602 3.IRS ID Number 5. Relationship of Reporting 6.If Amendment, Of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Date of Original Person, if an (Month/Day/Year) entity (voluntary) __Director __Officer NA x_10% owner __Other 7.Individual or Joint Group Reporting Co-Managing (Check Applicable Line) Member of Security Holder _x_Form Filed by One Reporting Person Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned 1. Title of Security 2.Amount of Securites 3. Ownership Form: 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Beneficially Owned Direct (D) or Ownership (Instr. 4) Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) NONE (Instr. 5) Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) 1.Title of 2.Date Exer- 3.Title and Amount of Sec- 4.Conver- 5. Owner- 6. Nature of Indirect Derivative cisable and urities Underlying Deriv- sion or ship Beneficial Ownership Security Expiration ative Security (Instr. 4) Exercise Form of (Instr. 5) (Instr. 4) Date (Month/ Deri- Deriv- Date/Year) vative ative Security Securities: Date Expir- Title Amount Direct Exer- ation or (D) or cisable Date Number Indirect of (I) Shares (Instr. 5) Warrant 2/1/03 1/31/05 Warrant to 4,454,015 $0.16 D (1) purchase shares (2) of common stock Explanation of Responses: (1) This warrant was issued to Shells Investment Partners, LLC on February 11, 2002 in connection with the Company's private financing transaction in which Shells Investment Partners, LLC and another investor each invested $1,000,000. The Company issued to each investor (i) a secured promissory note and (ii) a warrant to purchase 4,454,015 shares of its Common Stock. (2) This warrant provides for certain anti-dilution adjustments including upon stock dividends, reclassifications and subdivisions and in the event of sales of equity securities at below then fair market value. /s/ John N. Giordano December 4, 2002 ------------------------------------ By: John N. Giordano, Co-Managing Member