As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 30, 2015

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		26-0662915
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
38 Sidney Street, 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA		02139
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

2013 Stock Incentive Plan

(Full Title of the Plan)

David P. Schenkein, M.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

38 Sidney Street, 2nd Floor

Cambridge, MA 02139

(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

(617) 649-8600

(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		¨
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, $0.001 par value per share		1,484,020 shares		$121.68 (2)		$180,575,554 (2)		$20,983

(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)

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 sale prices of the Registrant’s Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on January 28, 2015.

 

 

 

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Statement of Incorporation by Reference

This Registration Statement on Form S-8, relating to the 2013 Stock Incentive Plan of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Registrant”), is being filed for the purpose of registering additional securities of the same class as other securities for which a Registration Statement on Form S-8 has previously been filed and is effective. Accordingly, this Registration Statement incorporates by reference the contents of (i) the Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-190101, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 24, 2013 by the Registrant, relating to the Registrant’s 2007 Stock Incentive Plan, 2013 Stock Incentive Plan and 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and (ii) the Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-193802, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 7, 2014, relating to the Registrant’s 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, in each case except for Item 8, Exhibits, with respect to which the Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits attached hereto is incorporated herein by reference.

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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 Cambridge, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on this 30th day of January, 2015.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

We, the undersigned officers and directors of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint David P. Schenkein, M.D., J. Duncan Higgons and Glenn Goddard 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 Agios Pharmaceuticals, 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/ David P. Schenkein		Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal executive officer)		January 30, 2015
David P. Schenkein, M.D.
/s/ Glenn Goddard		Senior Vice President, Finance (Principal financial and accounting officer)		January 30, 2015
Glenn Goddard
/s/ Lewis C. Cantley		Director		January 30, 2015
Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D.
/s/ Kaye Foster-Cheek		Director		January 30, 2015
Kaye Foster-Cheek
/s/ Paul J. Clancy		Director		January 30, 2015
Paul J. Clancy
/s/ Douglas G. Cole		Director		January 30, 2015
Douglas G. Cole, M.D.

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/s/ Perry Karsen		Director		January 30, 2015
Perry Karsen
/s/ John M. Maraganore		Director		January 30, 2015
John M. Maraganore, Ph.D.
/s/ Robert T. Nelsen		Director		January 30, 2015
Robert T. Nelsen
/s/ Kevin P. Starr		Director		January 30, 2015
Kevin P. Starr
/s/ Marc Tessier-Lavigne		Director		January 30, 2015
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number

Description of Exhibit

Incorporated by Reference

Form

File Number

Date of Filing

Exhibit Number

Filed Herewith

4.1

Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant

8-K

001-36014

July 29, 2013

3.1

4.2

Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant

8-K

001-36014

July 29, 2013

3.2

5.1

Opinion of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, counsel to the Registrant

X

23.1

Consent of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

X

23.2

Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm

X

24.1

Power of attorney (included on the signature pages of this registration statement)

X

99.1

2013 Stock Incentive Plan

S-1

333-189216

June 24, 2013

10.4

Exhibit 5.1

 

+1 617 526 6000 (t)

+1 617 526 5000 (f)

www.wilmerhale.com

January 30, 2015

Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

38 Sidney Street, 2nd Floor

Cambridge, MA 02139

 

Re:	Registration Statement on Form S-8: 2013 Stock Incentive 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 1,484,020 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Shares”), of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), issuable under the Company’s 2013 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

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 Plan, 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, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the federal laws of the United States of America.

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.

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 Plan, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, 60 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

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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/ Steven D. Singer
Re:		Steven D. Singer, a Partner

Exhibit 23.2

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 of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. of our report dated March 18, 2014, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2013, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

January 28, 2015