As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 9, 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
Adicet Bio, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware |
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200 Berkeley Street, 19th Floor
Boston, MA 02116
(650) 503-9095
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Adicet Bio, Inc. Inducement Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement
(Full Title of the Plans)
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Chen Schor
President and Chief Executive Officer
Adicet Bio, Inc.
200 Berkeley Street, 19th Floor
Boston, MA 02116
(650) 503-9095
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Danielle Lauzon, Esq.
Gabriela Morales-Rivera, Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP
100 Northern Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02210
(617) 570-1000
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.
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Accelerated filer ☐ |
Non-accelerated filer ☒ |
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Smaller reporting company ☒ |
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Emerging growth company ☒ |
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 for the purpose of registering 136,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Adicet Bio, Inc. (the “Registrant”) issuable pursuant to the Adicet Bio, Inc. Inducement Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement (the “Inducement Award”).
On November 25, 2022, the Registrant’s compensation committee of the board of directors approved the Inducement Award as an inducement material to Nancy Boman’s entry into employment with the Registrant within the meaning of Rule 5635(c)(4) of the Marketplace Rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Part I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1. Plan Information.
The documents containing the information specified in this Item 1 will be sent or given to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) and the instructions to Form S-8, such documents are not being filed with the Commission either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act.
Item 2 .Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.
The documents containing the information specified in this Item 2 will be sent or given to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. In accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission and the instructions to Form S-8, such documents are not being filed with the Commission either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act.
Part II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents have been previously filed by the Registrant with the Commission and are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and shall be deemed a part hereof:
All reports and other documents subsequently filed with the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered herein 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, excluding any information furnished under Item 7.01 or Item 2.02 of any Current Report on Form 8-K (and corresponding information furnished under Item 9.01 or included as an exhibit thereto). Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or replaces such statement. Any 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.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or the DGCL, authorizes a corporation to indemnify its directors and officers against liabilities arising out of actions, suits and proceedings to which they are made or threatened to be made a party by reason of the fact that they have served or are currently serving as a director or officer to a corporation. The indemnity may cover expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the director or officer in connection with any such action, suit or proceeding. Section 145 permits corporations to pay expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by directors and officers in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding. In addition, Section 145 provides that a corporation has the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of its directors and officers against any liability asserted against them and incurred by them in their capacity as a director or officer, or arising out of their status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify the director or officer against such liability under Section 145.
We have adopted provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws that limit or eliminate the personal liability of our directors to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as it now exists or may in the future be amended. Consequently, a director will not be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages or breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability for:
These limitations of liability do not alter director liability under the federal securities laws and do not affect the availability of equitable remedies such as an injunction or rescission.
In addition, our bylaws provide that:
We have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and with certain of our executive officers. These agreements provide that we will indemnify each of our directors, certain of our executive officers and, at times, their affiliates to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. We will advance expenses, including attorneys’ fees (but excluding judgments, fines and settlement amounts), to each indemnified director, executive officer or affiliate in connection with any proceeding in which indemnification is available and we will indemnify our directors and officers for any action or proceeding arising out of that person’s services as a director or officer brought on behalf of the Company and/or in furtherance of our rights. Additionally, each of our directors may have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance provided by their affiliates, which indemnification relates to and might apply to the same proceedings arising out of such director’s services as a director referenced herein. Nonetheless, we have agreed in the indemnification agreements that our obligations to those same directors are primary and any obligation of the affiliates of those directors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the expenses or liabilities incurred by those directors are secondary.
We also maintain general liability insurance which covers certain liabilities of our directors and officers arising out of claims based on acts or omissions in their capacities as directors or officers, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
The exhibits to this Registration Statement are listed in the Exhibit Index attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein.
Item 9. Undertakings.
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 Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.
EXHIBIT INDEX
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5.1* |
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Consent of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. |
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24.1* |
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99.1* |
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Adicet Bio, Inc. Inducement Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement. |
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Filed herewith. |
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 Boston, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 9th day of August, 2023.
ADICET BIO, INC. |
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/s/ Chen Schor |
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Chen Schor |
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President, Chief Executive Officer and Principal Executive Officer |
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES
KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENT, that each individual whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints each of Chen Schor and Nick Harvey as such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto each 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 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 any said attorney-in-fact and agent, or any substitute or substitutes of any of them, 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 by the following person in the capacities and on the date indicated.
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/s/ Chen Schor |
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Director, President, Chief Executive Officer |
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August 9, 2023 |
Chen Schor |
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(Principal Executive Officer) |
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/s/ Nick Harvey |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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August 9, 2023 |
Nick Harvey |
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(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
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/s/ Jeffrey Chodakewitz |
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Director |
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August 9, 2023 |
Jeffrey Chodakewitz, M.D. |
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/s/ Steve Dubin |
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Director |
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August 9, 2023 |
Steve Dubin |
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/s/ Carl Gordon |
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Director |
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August 9, 2023 |
Carl Gordon, Ph.D. |
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/s/ Aya Jakobovits |
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Director |
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August 9, 2023 |
Aya Jakobovits, Ph.D. |
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/s/ Michael Kauffman |
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Director |
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August 9, 2023 |
Michael Kauffman, M.D., Ph.D. |
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/s/ Katie Peng |
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Director |
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August 9, 2023 |
Katie Peng |
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/s/ Bastiano Sanna |
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Director |
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August 9, 2023 |
Bastiano Sanna, Ph.D. |
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/s/ Andrew Sinclair |
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Director |
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August 9, 2023 |
Andrew Sinclair, Ph.D. |
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Goodwin Procter LLP 100 Northern Avenue goodwinlaw.com +1 617 570 1000 |
August 9, 2023
Adicet Bio, Inc.
200 Berkeley Street, 19th Floor
Boston, MA 02116
Re: Securities Being Registered under Registration Statement on Form S-8
We have acted as counsel to you in connection with your filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), on or about the date hereof relating to an aggregate of 136,000 shares (the “Shares”) of Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“Common Stock”), of Adicet Bio, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), that may be issued pursuant to an Inducement Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement (the “Agreement”).
We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinions set forth below. We have relied, without independent verification, on certificates of public officials and, as to matters of fact material to the opinion set forth below, on certificates of officers of the Company.
The opinion set forth below is limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law.
For purposes of the opinion set forth below, we have assumed that no event occurs that causes the number of authorized shares of Common Stock available for issuance by the Company to be less than the number of then unissued Shares.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, upon issuance and delivery against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
This opinion letter and the opinion it contains shall be interpreted in accordance with the Core Opinion Principles as published in 74 Business Lawyer 815 (Summer 2019).
We hereby consent to the inclusion of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving our consent, we do not 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.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Goodwin Procter LLP
GOODWIN PROCTER LLP
KPMG LLP
Two Financial Center 60 South Street
Boston, MA 02111
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
We consent to the use of our report dated March 15, 2023, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Adicet Bio, Inc., incorporated herein by reference.
/s/ KPMG
Boston, Massachusetts
August 9, 2023
KPMG LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership and a member firm of the KPMG global organization of independent member firms affiliated with
KPMG International Limited, a private English company limited by guarantee.
NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
Adicet Bio, INC.
INDUCEMENT NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
Name of Optionee: Nancy Boman, M.D., Ph.D.
No. of Option Shares: 136,000
Option Exercise Price per Share: $18.18
Grant Date: November 30, 2022
Vesting Start Date: November 28, 2022
Expiration Date: November 29, 2032
Adicet Bio, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby grants to the Optionee named above an option (the “Stock Option”) to purchase on or prior to the Expiration Date specified above all or part of the number of shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Stock”) of the Company specified above at the Option Exercise Price per Share specified above subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the 2018 Plan (as defined below). This Stock Option is not issued under the Adicet Bio, Inc. 2018 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, as amended through the date hereof (the “2018 Plan”), or the Adicet Bio, Inc. 2022 Inducement Plan (the “Inducement Plan”) and does not reduce the share reserves under the 2018 Plan or Inducement Plan. However, for purposes of interpreting the applicable provisions of this stock Option, the terms and conditions of the 2018 Plan (other than those applicable to the share reserve) shall govern and apply to this Stock Option as if this Stock Option had actually been issued under the 2018 Plan. This Stock Option has been granted as an inducement pursuant to Rule 5635(c)(4) of the Marketplace Rules of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, and consequently is intended to be exempt from the NASDAQ rules regarding stockholder approval of equity compensation plans. This Agreement and the terms and conditions of this Stock Option shall be interpreted in accordance with and consistent with such exemption. This Stock Option is not intended to be an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The 2018 Plan is discretionary in nature and may be amended, cancelled, or terminated at any time.
The Stock Option will vest over a period of four years, with 25% of the shares underlying such option vesting on the first anniversary of the Vesting Start Date and the remaining
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75% vesting in thirty-six equal monthly installments thereafter, subject to the Optionee’s continued service with the Company through each such vesting date.
Once exercisable, this Stock Option shall continue to be exercisable at any time or times prior to the close of business on the Expiration Date, subject to the provisions hereof and of the 2018 Plan.
Payment of the purchase price for the Option Shares may be made by one or more of the following methods: (i) in cash, by certified or bank check or other instrument acceptable to the Administrator; (ii) through the delivery (or attestation to the ownership) of shares of Stock that have been purchased by the Optionee on the open market or that are beneficially owned by the Optionee and are not then subject to any restrictions under any Company plan and that otherwise satisfy any holding periods as may be required by the Administrator; (iii) by the Optionee delivering to the Company a properly executed exercise notice together with irrevocable instructions to a broker to promptly deliver to the Company cash or a check payable and acceptable to the Company to pay the option purchase price, provided that in the event the Optionee chooses to pay the option purchase price as so provided, the Optionee and the broker shall comply with such procedures and enter into such agreements of indemnity and other agreements as the Administrator shall prescribe as a condition of such payment procedure; (iv) by a “net exercise” arrangement pursuant to which the Company will reduce the number of shares of Stock issuable upon exercise by the largest whole number of shares with a Fair Market Value that does not exceed the aggregate exercise price; or (v) a combination of (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above. Payment instruments will be received subject to collection.
The transfer to the Optionee on the records of the Company or of the transfer agent of the Option Shares will be contingent upon (i) the Company’s receipt from the Optionee of the full purchase price for the Option Shares, as set forth above, (ii) the fulfillment of any other requirements contained herein or in the 2018 Plan or in any other agreement or provision of laws, and (iii) the receipt by the Company of any agreement, statement or other evidence that the Company may require to satisfy itself that the issuance of Stock to be purchased pursuant to the exercise of Stock Options under the 2018 Plan and any subsequent resale of the shares of Stock will be in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. In the event the Optionee chooses to pay the purchase price by previously-owned shares of Stock through the attestation method, the number of shares of Stock transferred to the Optionee upon the exercise of the Stock Option shall be net of the Shares attested to.
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The Administrator’s determination of the reason for termination of the Optionee’s employment shall be conclusive and binding on the Optionee and his or her representatives or legatees.
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ADICET BIO, INC.
By: /s/ Chen Schor
Name: Chen Schor
Title: Chief Executive Officer
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted and the terms and conditions thereof hereby agreed to by the undersigned. Electronic acceptance of this Agreement pursuant to the Company’s instructions to the Optionee (including through an online acceptance process) is acceptable.
Dated: November 30, 2022 By: /s/ Nancy Boman
Optionee’s Signature
Optionee’s name and address:
Nancy Boman, M.D., Ph.D.
c/o Adicet Bio, Inc.
200 Berkeley Street, 19th Floor
Boston, MA 02116
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Exhibit 107
Calculation of Filing Fee Tables
Form S-8
(Form Type)
Adicet Bio, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Table 1: Newly Registered Securities
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Security Class Title |
Fee Calculation Rule |
Amount to be Registered (1) |
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share |
Maximum Aggregate Offering Price |
Fee Rate |
Amount of Registration Fee |
Equity |
Inducement Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share |
Other (2) |
136,000 shares (3) |
$2.4150 (2) |
$328,440.00 (2) |
0.00011020 |
$36.1941 |
Total Offering Amounts |
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$328,440.00 |
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$36.1941 |
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Total Fee Offsets |
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Net Fee Due |
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$36.1941 |