As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2016

Registration No. 333-         

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   26-3931704

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

85 Wells Avenue, 2nd Floor

Newton, MA

  02459
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

2013 Stock Incentive Plan

2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Michael G. Kauffman

Chief Executive Officer

Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.

85 Wells Avenue, 2nd Floor

Newton, MA 02459

(Name and address of agent for service)

(617) 658-0600

(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 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer   ¨    Accelerated filer   x
Non-accelerated filer   ¨   (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company   ¨

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of Securities

to be Registered

 

Amount

to be

Registered(1)

 

Proposed

Maximum

Offering Price

Per Share

 

Proposed

Maximum

Aggregate

Offering Price

 

Amount of

Registration Fee

Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share

  1,761,597 shares(2)   $7.59(3)   $13,370,522(3)   $1,347

 

 

(1) In accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement shall be deemed to cover any additional securities that may from time to time be offered or issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
(2) Consists of (i) 1,434,490 shares issuable under the 2013 Stock Incentive Plan and (ii) 327,107 shares issuable under the 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
(3) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s Common Stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on March 9, 2016.

 

 

 


STATEMENT OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed to register (a) an additional 1,434,490 shares of Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share, of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (the “Registrant”) issuable under the Registrant’s 2013 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2013 Plan”) and (b) an additional 327,107 shares of Common Stock issuable under the Registrant’s 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (together with the 2013 Plan, the “Plans”). Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, except as otherwise set forth below, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 incorporates by reference the contents of Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-194746, filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 21, 2014 relating to the Plans and the Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-202742, filed by the Registrant with the SEC on March 13, 2015 relating to the 2013 Plan.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 8. Exhibits.

The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is incorporated herein by reference.


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 Newton, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on this 15 th day of March, 2016.

 

KARYOPHARM THERAPEUTICS INC.
By:  

/s/ Michael G. Kauffman

Name:   Michael G. Kauffman, M.D., Ph.D.
Title:   Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

We, the undersigned officers and directors of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Michael G. Kauffman and Justin A. Renz, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the registration statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said registration statement, and generally to do all such things in our names and on our behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said registration statement and any and all amendments thereto.

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 dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Michael G. Kauffman

Michael G. Kauffman, M.D., Ph.D.

   Chief Executive Officer and Director (principal executive officer)   March 15, 2016

/s/ Justin A. Renz

Justin A. Renz

   Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)   March 15, 2016

/s/ Garen G. Bohlin

Garen G. Bohlin

   Director   March 15, 2016

/s/ Mikael Dolsten

Mikael Dolsten, M.D., Ph.D.

   Director   March 15, 2016

/s/ J. Scott Garland

J. Scott Garland

   Director   March 15, 2016

/s/ Barry E. Greene

Barry E. Greene

   Director   March 15, 2016

/s/ Deepa R. Pakianathan

Deepa R. Pakianathan, Ph.D.

   Director   March 15, 2016

/s/ Mansoor Raza Mirza

Mansoor Raza Mirza, M.D.

   Director   March 15, 2016

/s/ Kenneth E. Weg

Kenneth E. Weg

   Director   March 15, 2016


INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Number

 

Description

  4.1(1)   Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant
  4.2(2)   Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant
  5.1   Opinion of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, counsel to the Registrant
23.1  

Consent of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

(included in Exhibit 5.1)

23.2   Consent of RSM US LLP
23.3   Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
24.1   Power of attorney (included on the signature pages of this registration statement)
99.1(3)   2013 Stock Incentive Plan
99.2(4)   2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

 

(1) Previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-36167) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 18, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(2) Previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-36167) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 18, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(3) Previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-191584) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 28, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(4) Previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Exhibit 10.6 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-191584) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 28, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference.

Exhibit 5.1

 

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wilmerhale.com

March 15, 2016

Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.

85 Wells Avenue, 2 nd Floor

Newton, MA 02459

 

Re: 2013 Stock Incentive Plan

2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have assisted in the preparation of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to an aggregate of 1,761,597 shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Shares”), of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), issuable under the Company’s 2013 Stock Incentive Plan and 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (collectively, the “Plans”).

We have examined the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Company, each as amended and restated to date, and originals, or copies certified to our satisfaction, of all pertinent records of the meetings of the directors and stockholders of the Company, the Registration Statement and such other documents relating to the Company as we have deemed material for the purposes of this opinion.

In our examination of the foregoing documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified, photostatic or other copies, the authenticity of the originals of any such documents and the legal competence of all signatories to such documents.

We assume that the appropriate action will be taken, prior to the offer and sale of the Shares in accordance with the Plans, to register and qualify the Shares for sale under all applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws.

We express no opinion herein as to the laws of any state or jurisdiction other than the state laws of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

It is understood that this opinion is to be used only in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares while the Registration Statement is in effect.

Please note that we are opining only as to the matters expressly set forth herein, and no opinion should be inferred as to any other matters.

 

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Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized for issuance and, when the Shares are issued and paid for in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plans, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission in connection with the Registration Statement in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act. In giving such consent, we do not hereby 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 of the Commission.

Very truly yours,

WILMER CUTLER PICKERING

HALE AND DORR LLP

 

By:   /s/ Jason L. Kropp
  Jason L. Kropp, a Partner
 

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. of our report dated March 21, 2014, relating to our audit of the consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2013, which appears in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2015.

/s/ RSM US LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

March 15, 2016

Exhibit 23.3

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the 2013 Stock Incentive Plan and 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. of our report dated March 15, 2016, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2015, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

March 15, 2016