Blueprint
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 25,
2018
File No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
TG THERAPEUTICS, INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
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36-3898269
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(State
or other jurisdiction of incorporation ororganization)
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(IRS
Employer Identification No.)
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2 Gansevoort Street, 9th Floor
New York, New York 10014
(Address,
including zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)
TG Therapeutics, Inc. Amended and Restated 2012 Incentive
Plan
(Full
title of the plan)
Sean Power
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Copy to:
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Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary
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Mark McElreath
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TG Therapeutics, Inc.
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Alston &
Bird LLP
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2 Gansevoort Street, 9th Floor
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90 Park
Avenue
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New York, New York 10014
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New
York, New York 10016-1387
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(212) 554-4484
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(212)
210-9595
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(Name,
address and telephone number of agent for service)
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Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer,
an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, 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
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Accelerated filer
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Non-accelerated
filer
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(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
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Smaller reporting company
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Emerging
growth company
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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 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of securities
to be registered
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Proposed
maximum offering price per share
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Proposed
maximum aggregate offering price
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Amount of
registration fee
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Common Stock,
$0.001 par value
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6,000,000(1)
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$13.70 (2)
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$82,200,000 (2)
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$10,234
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(1)
Represents shares
issuable pursuant to the TG Therapeutics, Inc. Amended and
Restated 2012 Incentive Plan (the “2012 Plan”),
including any additional shares that may become issuable in
accordance with the adjustment and anti-dilution provisions of the
2012 Plan. The Company previously registered an aggregate of
6,000,000 shares on a Form S-8 filed on May 15, 2012 (File No.
333-181439) and an aggregate of 6,000,000 shares on a Form S-8
filed on March 15, 2016 (File No. 333-210227) for issuance
under the 2012 Plan.
(2)
Determined pursuant
to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Securities Act”), solely for the purpose
of calculating the registration fee, based on the average of the
high and low prices of the Company’s Common Stock on the
Nasdaq Capital Market on June 22, 2018.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
(a)
The documents
constituting Part I of this registration statement on Form S-8
(this “Registration Statement”) will be delivered to
participants in the 2012 Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under
the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated
by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of
Part II of this form, taken together, constitute a prospectus that
meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities
Act.
(b)
Upon written or
oral request, TG Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”)
will provide, without charge, the documents incorporated by
reference in Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement. The
documents are incorporated by reference in the Section 10(a)
prospectus. The Company will also provide, without charge, upon
written or oral request, other documents required to be delivered
to employees pursuant to Rule 428(b). Requests for the above
mentioned information should be directed to Sean Power, the
Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary,
at the address and telephone number on the cover of this
Registration Statement.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
3.
Incorporation
of Documents by Reference.
The
following documents, filed by the Company with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
Act”), are incorporated herein by reference and deemed to be a part hereof
(excluding any portions of such documents that are deemed to be
“furnished” but not “filed” for purposes of
the Exchange Act):
(a)
The Company’s
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017,
filed March 15, 2018;
(b)
The Company’s
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2018,
filed May 10, 2018;
(c)
The Company’s
Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed January 8, 2018; February 2,
2018; March 8, 2018; April 24, 2018; May 8, 2018; June 4, 2018;
June 7, 2018; June 13, 2018; June 15, 2018; June 18, 2018; and June
20, 2018 and
(c)
The description of
the Common Stock contained in the Company’s registration
statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on May 28, 2013
(File No. 001-32639), and any amendment or report filed for the
purpose of further updating such description.
All
documents filed by the Company subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and
15(d) of the Exchange Act, and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities
offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such
securities 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 filing of such
documents.
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 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 4. Description of Securities.
Not
applicable.
Item 5. Interests
of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not
applicable.
Item
6.
Indemnification
of Directors and Officers.
Under
the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or DGCL, a
corporation may include provisions in its certificate of
incorporation that will relieve its directors of monetary liability
for breaches of their fiduciary duty to the corporation, except
under certain circumstances, including a breach of the
director’s duty of loyalty, acts or omissions of the director
not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, the approval of an improper payment of a
dividend or an improper purchase by the corporation of stock or any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal
benefit. The Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation eliminates the personal liability of directors to the
Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as a director with certain limited exceptions set
forth in the DGCL.
Section
145 of the DGCL grants to corporations the power to indemnify each
officer and director against liabilities and expenses incurred by
reason of the fact that he or she is or was an officer or director
of the corporation if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner
he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
interests of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal
action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her
conduct was unlawful. The Company’s Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation and Restated Bylaws provide for
indemnification of each officer and director of the Company to the
fullest extent permitted by the DGCL. Section 145 of the DGCL also
empowers corporations to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf
of any person who is or was an officer or director of the
corporation against liability asserted against or incurred by him
in any such capacity, whether or not the corporation would have the
power to indemnify such officer or director against such liability
under the provisions of Section 145 of the DGCL.
Item 7. Exemption
from Registration Claimed.
Not
applicable.
See the
Exhibit Index, which is incorporated herein by
reference.
(a) The
Company 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 this 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 this Registration Statement; and
(iii) To
include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration
Statement or any material change to such information in this
Registration Statement;
Provided, however, that paragraphs
(a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) above 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 paragraphs is
contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by
the Company pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference
in this Registration Statement.
(2) That,
for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities
Act of 1933, 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 Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each
filing of the Company’s annual report pursuant to Section
13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934) 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
of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or
otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of the
Securities and Exchange Commission 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 Company of
expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the Company 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
Company 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 of 1933, as amended, the Company
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 New York,
state of New York, on this 25th day of June,
2018.
TG THERAPEUTICS, INC.
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By: /s/ Michael S. Weiss
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Michael S.
Weiss
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Chief Executive Officer
and President
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POWER
OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that
each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints
each of Michael S. Weiss and Sean A. Power, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him
and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to
sign any 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 and necessary to be
done and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or any of his substitutes,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in
the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
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Title
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Date
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/s/
Michael S. Weiss
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Executive
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
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Michael
S. Weiss
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President
(Principal Executive Officer)
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June
25, 2018
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/s/
Sean A. Power
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Chief
Financial Officer, Treasurer and Corporate
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Sean A.
Power
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Secretary
(Principal Financial Officer)
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June
25, 2018
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/s/
Laurence N. Charney
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Director
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Laurence
N. Charney
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June
25, 2018
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/s/
Yann Echelard
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Director
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Yann
Echelard
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June
25, 2018
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/s/
Kenneth Hoberman
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Director
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Kenneth
Hoberman
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June
25, 2018
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/s/
Daniel Hume
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Director
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Daniel
Hume
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June
25, 2018
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/s/
William J. Kennedy
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Director
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William
J. Kennedy
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June
25, 2018
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/s/
Mark Schoenebaum, M.D.
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Director
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Mark
Schoenebaum, M.D.
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June
25, 2018
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EXHIBIT INDEX
TO
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8
Exhibit
Number
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Description
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Opinion
of Alston & Bird LLP
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Consent
of Alston & Bird LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
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Consent
of CohnReznick LLP
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24.1
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Power
of Attorney (included on the signature page of this Registration
Statement)
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TG
Therapeutics, Inc. Amended and Restated 2012 Incentive Plan, dated
May 14, 2012 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
Registrant’s Form 10-Q/A for the quarter ended March 31,
2012)
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First
Amendment to TG Therapeutics, Inc. Amended and Restated 2012
Incentive Plan, filed with the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy
Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders on June 4, 2015,
filed on April 24, 2015, and incorporated herein by
reference
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Amendment
to TG Therapeutics, Inc. Amended and Restated 2012 Incentive Plan,
filed with the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement for
the Annual Meeting of Stockholders on June 13, 2018, filed on April
30, 2018, and incorporated herein by reference
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