AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JUNE 23, 1997 REGISTRATION NO.333-_____ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 ------------------ FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT Under The Securities Act of 1933 ------------------ ALGOS PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) DELAWARE 22-3142274 (State of other jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer of incorporation or organization) Identification No.) COLLINGWOOD PLAZA 4900 ROUTE 33 NEPTUNE, NEW JERSEY 07753-6804 (Address of principal (Zip Code) executive offices) ------------------ ALGOS PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION 1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN ALGOS PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION 1996 STOCK OPTION PLAN ALGOS PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION 1996 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN (Full title of the Plans) ------------------ JOHN W. LYLE ALGOS PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION COLLINGWOOD PLAZA 4900 ROUTE 33 NEPTUNE, NEW JERSEY 07753-6804 (908) 938-5959 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) Copy to: RAYMOND Y. LIN LATHAM & WATKINS 885 THIRD AVENUE SUITE 1000 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022 (212) 906-1200 CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amount Proposed Proposed of Shares Maximum Maximum Amount of Title of Securities to be Offering Price Aggregate Registration to be Registered Registered Per Share (1) Offering Price (1) Fee - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common Stock 887,270 $0.12; $0.13; $5,344,087 $1,619.42 $.01 par value $11.25; $12.00; $12.25; $12.88; $13.50; $13.63; $14.00; $15.00; $16.00; $16.25; $16.50; $17.50; $17.75; $18.25; $16.37 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) For purposes of computing the registration fee only. Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share is based upon (a) the exercise price per share ($0.12) of outstanding options for 176,375 shares, (b) the exercise price per share ($.013) of outstanding options for 369,350 shares, (c) the exercise price per share ($11.25) of outstanding options for 10,000 shares, (d) the exercise price per share ($12.00) of outstanding options for 10,000 shares, (e) the exercise price per share ($12.25) of outstanding options for 2,000 shares, (f) the exercise price per share ($12.88) of outstanding options for 10,000 shares, (g) the exercise price per share ($13.50) of outstanding options for 10,500 shares, (h) the exercise price per share ($13.63) of outstanding options for 3,000 shares, (i) the exercise price per share ($14.00) of outstanding options for 30,000 shares, (j) the exercise price per share ($15.00) of outstanding options for 85,000 shares, (k) the exercise price per share ($16.00) of outstanding options for 6,000 shares, (l) the exercise price per share ($16.25) of outstanding options for 500 shares, (m) the exercise price per share ($16.50) of outstanding options for 24,000 shares, (n) the exercise price per share ($17.50) of outstanding options for 20,000 shares, (o) the exercise price per share ($17.75) of outstanding options for 4,000 shares, (p) the exercise price per share ($18.25) of outstanding options for 10,000 shares, and (q) for the remaining 116,545 shares, $16.37, the average of the high and low prices for the Company's Common Stock reported on the composite tape for the NASDAQ National Market System on June 17, 1997. PART I Item 1. Plan Information Not required to be filed with this Registration Statement. Item 2. Registration Information and Employee Plan Annual Information Not required to be filed with this Registration Statement. PART II Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Algos Pharmaceutical Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), are incorporated as of their respective dates in this Registration Statement by reference: A. The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1996. B. All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), since December 31, 1996. C. Description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-04313) of the Registrant. All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act 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 are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and are a part hereof from the date of filing 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 is also 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. 3 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 (the "DGCL") and Article SEVENTH of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provide for indemnification of the Company's directors and officers in a variety of circumstances, which may include liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). Article SEVENTH provides that unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, the Company shall indemnify, to the full extent permitted by the laws of Delaware as from time to time in effect, the persons described in Section 145 of DGCL. The general effect of the provisions in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the DGCL is to provide that the company shall indemnify its directors and officers against all liabilities and expenses actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of any judicial of administrative proceedings in which they have become involved by reason of their status as corporate directors or officers, if they acted in good faith and in the reasonable belief that their conduct was neither unlawful (in the case of criminal proceedings) nor inconsistent with the best interests of the Company. With respect to legal proceedings by or in the right of the Company in which a director or officer is adjudged liable for improper performance of his duty to the Company or another enterprise for which such person served in a similar capacity at the request of the Company, indemnification is limited by such provisions to that amount which is permitted by the Court. Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed Not applicable. 4 Item 8. Exhibits 4(a) Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(b) Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(c) Form of Stock Certificate of Common Stock. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(d) 1994 Stock Option Plan. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(e) 1996 Stock Option Plan. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(f) 1996 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313 and the Registrant's Form 10-K, filed March 31, 1997, File No. 000-28844.) 5(a) Opinion of Latham & Watkins as to the legality of the Common Stock being registered. 23(a) Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. 23(b) Consent of Latham & Watkins (included in Exhibit 5(a)). 24(a) Power of Attorney (included on signature page). Item 9. Undertakings (a) The undersigned Registrant 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 of 1933 (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, 5 individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement; (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement; provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) shall not apply to information contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement. (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Act, 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 that remain unsold at the termination of the offering. (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's Annual Report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act 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 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant 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 Registrant 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 Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. 6 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 Neptune, State of New Jersey, on June 19, 1997. ALGOS PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION By: /s/ John W. Lyle ---------------------------- John W. Lyle Chief Executive Officer POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below, hereby constitutes and appoints John W. Lyle his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and reimbursement, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments or supplements 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 necessary or appropriate to be done with respect to this Registration Statement or any amendments or supplements hereto in 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 his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 7 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 Signed --------- ----- ----------- /s/ John W. Lyle President, Chief Executive June 19, 1997 --------------------------- Officer and Director John W. Lyle (Principal Executive Officer) /s/ Gary R. Anthony Chief Financial Officer June 19, 1997 --------------------------- (Principal Financial and Gary R. Anthony Accounting Officer) /s/ James R. Ledley Assistant Secretary and June 17, 1997 --------------------------- Director James R. Ledley Director June --, 1997 --------------------------- Donald G. Drapkin /s/ Roger H. Kimmel Director June 19, 1997 --------------------------- Roger H. Kimmel /s/ Dieter A. Sulser Director June 19, 1997 --------------------------- Dieter A. Sulser /s/ Michael Hyatt Director June 18, 1997 --------------------------- Michael Hyatt 8 EXHIBIT INDEX 4(a) Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(b) Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(c) Form of Stock Certificate of Common Stock. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(d) 1994 Stock Option Plan. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(e) 1996 Stock Option Plan. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313.) 4(f) 1996 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan. (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, declared effective on September 25, 1996, File No. 333-04313 and the Registrant's Form 10-K, filed March 31, 1997, File No. 000-28844.) 5(a) Opinion of Latham & Watkins as to the legality of the Common Stock being registered. 23(a) Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. 23(b) Consent of Latham & Watkins (included in Exhibit 5(a)). 24(a) Power of Attorney (included on signature page). 9