As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2019.

Registration No. 333-        

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Form S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

INCYTE CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

94-3136539

(State or other jurisdiction of

 

(I.R.S. Employer

incorporation or organization)

 

Identification No.)

 

1801 Augustine Cut-Off
Wilmington, Delaware

 

19803

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

INCYTE CORPORATION AMENDED AND RESTATED

2010 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

(Full title of the plan)

 

HERVÉ HOPPENOT

 

Copy to:

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

STANTON D. WONG

Incyte Corporation

 

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

1801 Augustine Cut-Off
Wilmington, Delaware
(302) 498-6700

 

Four Embarcadero Center, 22nd Floor
San Francisco, California 94111
(415) 983-1000

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

 

 

 

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 “ and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer x

 

Accelerated filer o

 

 

 

Non-accelerated filer o

 

Smaller reporting company o

 

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. o

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of

 

Amount

 

Proposed Maximum

 

Proposed

 

Amount of

 

Securities To

 

To Be

 

Offering Price

 

Maximum Aggregate

 

Registration

 

Be Registered

 

Registered(1)

 

per Share(2)

 

Offering Price(2)

 

Fee

 

Common Stock, $.001 par value per share

 

7,700,000 shares

 

$

73.29

 

$

564,333,000

 

$

68,397.16

 

(1)                                 Calculated pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8.

(2)                                 Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1), based upon the average of the high and low sales prices of the Registrant’s Common Stock on The Nasdaq Stock Market on April 25, 2019.

 

 

 


 

INFORMATION REQUIRED PURSUANT

TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E TO FORM S-8

 

General Instruction E Information

 

This Registration Statement is being filed for the purpose of increasing the number of securities of the same class as other securities for which a Registration Statement of the Registrant on Form S-8 relating to the same employee benefit plan is effective.

 

The Registrant’s Form S-8 Registration Statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2010 (File No. 333-167526), June 15, 2011 (File No. 333-174918), June 19, 2012 (File No. 333-182218), June 18, 2013 (File No. 333-189424), August 6, 2014 (File No. 333-197907), June 17, 2016 (File No. 333-212104), and May 24, 2018 (File No. 333-225181) are hereby incorporated by reference.

 

Part II

 

Information Required in the Registration Statement

 

Item 3.         Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

 

The following documents previously filed by Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

 

(1)                                 Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018;

 

(2)                                 Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2019;

 

(3)                                 Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on January 3, 2019 and April 30, 2019 (filed under Items 5.02 and 5.07); and

 

(4)                                 The description of the Common Stock contained in Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed January 5, 1996.

 

In addition, all documents subsequently filed by Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all 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.  The Registrant is not, however, incorporating, in each case, any documents or information that the Registrant is deemed to furnish and not file in accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission rules.

 

Item 8.         Exhibits

 

Exhibit

 

 

Number

 

Exhibit

5.1

 

 

Opinion of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

 

 

 

 

23.1

 

 

Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

 

 

 

 

23.2

 

 

Consent of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).

 

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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 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 Wilmington, State of Delaware, on April 30, 2019.

 

 

INCYTE CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Hervé Hoppenot

 

 

Hervé Hoppenot

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Hervé Hoppenot, Christiana Stamoulis, and Maria E. Pasquale, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may 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 by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

/s/ Hervé Hoppenot

 

President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Chairman

 

April 30, 2019

Hervé Hoppenot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Christiana Stamoulis

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

 

April 30, 2019

Christiana Stamoulis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Paul Trower

 

Vice President, Finance and Principal Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)

 

April 30, 2019

Paul Trower

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Julian C. Baker

 

Director

 

April 30, 2019

Julian C. Baker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Jean-Jacques Bienaimé

 

Director

 

April 30, 2019

Jean-Jacques Bienaimé

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Paul A. Brooke

 

Director

 

April 30, 2019

Paul A. Brooke

 

 

 

 

 

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/s/ Paul J. Clancy

 

Director

 

April 30, 2019

Paul J. Clancy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Wendy L. Dixon

 

Director

 

April 30, 2019

Wendy L. Dixon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Jacqualyn A. Fouse

 

Director

 

April 30, 2019

Jacqualyn A. Fouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Paul A. Friedman

 

Director

 

April 30, 2019

Paul A. Friedman

 

 

 

 

 

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