As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2021
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 20-5258327 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
800 Saginaw Drive
Redwood City, California 94063
(Address, including zip code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
2014 Equity Incentive Award Plan, as amended and restated
2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated
2017 Inducement Plan, as amended and restated
(Full title of the plans)
Peter Soparkar
Chief Legal Officer
Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc.
800 Saginaw Drive
Redwood City, California 94063
(650) 656-9323
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Kenneth Guernsey
CooleyLLP
101 California Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-5800
(415) 693-2000
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 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 | ☒ | Accelerated filer | ☐ | |||
Non-accelerated filer | ☐ | Smaller reporting company | ☐ | |||
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. ☐
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Securities to be Registered | Amount to be Registered(1) | Proposed Maximum Offering Price | Proposed Maximum | Amount of Registration Fee | ||||
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share | ||||||||
2014 Equity Incentive Award Plan, as amended and restated | 3,901,953 shares (2) | $12.64 | ||||||
2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated | 94,301 shares (3) | $12.64 | ||||||
2017 Inducement Plan, as amended and restated | 1,500,000 shares (4) | $12.64 | ||||||
TOTAL | 5,496,254 shares | $12.64 | $69,472,650.56 | $7,579.47 | ||||
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(1) | Pursuant to Rule 416 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock that become issuable under the plans set forth herein by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration that increases the number of outstanding shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock. |
(2) | Represents shares of Common Stock that were added to the shares reserved for issuance under the Registrant’s 2014 Equity Incentive Award Plan, as amended and restated, on January 1, 2021, pursuant to an “evergreen” provision contained in such plan. |
(3) | Represents shares of Common Stock that were added to the shares reserved for issuance under the Registrant’s 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated, on January 1, 2021, pursuant to an “evergreen” provision contained in such plan. |
(4) | Represents shares of Common Stock that were added to the shares reserved for issuance under the Registrant’s 2017 Inducement Plan, as amended and restated, on February 19, 2021. |
(5) | Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) and Rule 457(c) promulgated under the Securities Act. The offering price per share and the aggregate offering price are based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s Common Stock as reported on The Nasdaq Global Market on February 22, 2021. |
Explanatory Note
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) registers: 3,901,953 shares of the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. (“Common Stock”) that may be issued and sold under the Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. 2014 Equity Incentive Award Plan, as amended and restated (“2014 EIAP”), 94,301 shares of the Common Stock that may be issued and sold under the Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated (“2014 ESPP”) and 1,500,000 shares of the Common Stock that may be issued and sold under the Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. 2017 Inducement Plan, as amended and restated (the “2017 Plan” and, together with the 2014 EIAP and the 2014 ESPP, the “Plans”).
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this registration statement incorporates by reference the contents of the registration statements on Form S-8 relating to the Plans filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on October 14, 2014 (File No. 333-199296), April 14, 2015 (File No. 333-203398), May 18, 2016 (File No. 333-211439), June 2, 2017 (File No. 333-218465), October 11, 2017 (File No. 333-220894), March 23, 2018 (File No. 333-223894), and March 7, 2019 (as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto filed on March 12, 2019, File No. 333-230138), August 8, 2019 (File No. 333-233135), March 12, 2020 (File No. 333-237136) and August 10, 2020 (File No. 333-243761).
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents have been filed by us with the SEC and are incorporated herein by reference:
• | The contents of the earlier registration statements on Form S-8 relating to the Plans, previously filed with the SEC on October 14, 2014 (File No. 333-199296), April 14, 2015 (File No. 333-203398), May 18, 2016 (File No. 333-211439), June 2, 2017 (File No. 333-218465), October 11, 2017 (File No. 333-220894), March 23, 2018 (File No. 333-223894), and March 7, 2019 (as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto filed on March 12, 2019, File No. 333-230138), August 8, 2019 (File No. 333-233135), March 12, 2020 (File No. 333-237136) and August 10, 2020 (File No. 333-243761); |
• | our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, which was filed with the SEC on March 1, 2021 (our “Annual Report”), including the information to be incorporated by reference in the Form 10-K by our proxy statement for our 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders; |
• | our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 11, 2021, February 2, 2021 and February 22, 2021; and |
• | the description of our common stock contained in our Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the SEC on July 28, 2014, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description, including Exhibit 4.2 to our Annual Report. |
All documents subsequently filed by the us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), other than current reports furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and exhibits furnished on such form that relate to such items, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all of the shares of Common Stock offered have been sold or which deregisters all of such shares 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 the filing of such documents.
For purposes of this Registration Statement, any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is 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 8. Exhibits.
Exhibit Index
Incorporated by Reference | ||||||||||||||||
Exhibit | Exhibit Description | Form | SEC File No. | Exhibit | Date | Filed | ||||||||||
4.1 | Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. | 10-K | 001-36579 | 3.1 | March 9, 2017 | |||||||||||
4.2 | Amended and Restated Bylaws. | 8-K | 001-36579 | 3.1 | June 29, 2020 | |||||||||||
5.1 | Opinion of Cooley LLP. | X | ||||||||||||||
23.1 | Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. | X | ||||||||||||||
23.2 | Consent of Cooley LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1). | X | ||||||||||||||
24.1 | Power of Attorney (included on signature page hereto). | X | ||||||||||||||
99.1 | 2014 Equity Incentive Award Plan, as amended and restated. | 10-K | 001-36579 | 10.12 | March 6, 2019 | |||||||||||
99.2 | 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated. | 10-K | 001-36579 | 10.16 | March 6, 2019 | |||||||||||
99.3 | 2017 Inducement Plan, as amended and restated. | X |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Redwood City, State of California on March 1, 2021.
Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. | ||
By: | /s/ Laurent Fischer, M.D. | |
Laurent Fischer, M.D. | ||
Chief Executive Officer |
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Laurent Fischer and Leone Patterson, and each one of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, 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 on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and generally to do all such things in their names and behalf in their capacities as officers and directors to enable the registrant to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the SEC, 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 in connection therewith, 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 any of them, or their or his substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
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 indicated.
Signature | Title | Date | ||
/s/ Laurent Fischer, M.D. | Chief Executive Officer and Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Laurent Fischer, M.D. | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||
/s/ Leone Patterson | President and Chief Financial Officer | March 1, 2021 | ||
Leone Patterson | (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) | |||
/s/ Patrick Machado | Board Chair, Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Patrick Machado | ||||
/s/ Eric G. Carter, M.D., Ph.D. | Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Eric G. Carter, M.D., Ph.D. | ||||
/s/ Mehdi Gasmi, Ph.D. | Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Mehdi Gasmi, Ph.D. | ||||
/s/ Rekha Hemrajani | Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Rekha Hemrajani | ||||
/s/ Mark Lupher, Ph.D. | Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Mark Lupher, Ph.D. | ||||
/s/ James Scopa | Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
James Scopa |
/s/ Dawn Svoronos | Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Dawn Svoronos | ||||
/s/ Reed V. Tuckson, M.D. | Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Reed V. Tuckson, M.D. | ||||
/s/ Scott Whitcup, M.D. | Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Scott Whitcup, M.D. | ||||
/s/ Thomas Woiwode, Ph.D. | Director | March 1, 2021 | ||
Thomas Woiwode, Ph.D. |