As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 30, 2020.

Registration No. 333-      

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE

SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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COMPUGEN LTD.

 Compugen USA, Inc.

250 E. Grand Ave, Suite 65

South San Francisco CA, 90480

415-373-0556

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Compugen Ltd. 2010 Share Incentive Plan

 (Full title of the plan)

Anat Cohen-Dayag, Ph.D.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Compugen Ltd.

Azrieli Center, 26 Harokmim Street, Building D

Holon, 5885849 Israel

Phone: +972-3-765-8585

Fax: +972-3-765-8555

 

 (Name, address, including Zip Code, and Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

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

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
Ordinary Shares, nominal (par) value NIS 0.01 per share			5,000,000	(2)		$	14.23	(3)		$	71,125,000.00	(3)		$	9,232.03

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement relates to an increase of an additional 5,000,000 Ordinary Shares of Compugen Ltd. (the “Registrant”) that are being issued and sold, or may be issued and sold, upon exercise of options or other awards granted by the Registrant to participants in the 2010 Plan, where an increase of 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares was approved by the Board of Directors on May 5, 2020 and additional increase of 3,000,000 Ordinary Shares was previously approved by the Board of Directors.

Reference is made to the Registrant’s Registration Statements on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on September 7, 2010 (Registration No. 333-169239), June 11, 2015 (Registration No. 333-204869) and March 27, 2018 (Registration No. 333- 223937) (together, the “Prior Registration Statements”), pursuant to which a total of 13,345,436 Ordinary Shares issuable under the 2010 Plan were registered under the Securities Act.  Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety, except as otherwise updated or modified by this Registration Statement.

PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

 

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) are hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof:

 

 

 

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date of this Registration Statement and 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, and all Reports of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K submitted by the Registrant to the Commission during such period, or portions thereof that are identified in such forms as being incorporated into this Registration Statement, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents. Any document, or 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 document or statement contained herein, or in any other subsequently filed document that also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, modifies or supersedes such document or 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. Subject to the foregoing, all information appearing in this Registration Statement is qualified in its entirety by the information appearing in the documents incorporated by reference.

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.

The following is a list of exhibits filed as a part of this Registration Statement which are incorporated herein:

 

SIGNATURES

The Registrant.  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 City of Holon, State of Israel, on July 30, 2020.

Compugen Ltd. By: /s/ Anat Cohen-Dayag, Ph.D.       Anat Cohen-Dayag, Ph.D.       Chief Executive Officer and President

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Anat Cohen-Dayag, Ph.D., Ari Krashin and Eran Ben Dor, and each of them singly, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution in each of them singly, for him and in his name, place and stead, and in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement of Compugen Ltd. and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to the attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in or about the premises, as full to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that the attorneys-in-fact and agents or any or each of them or their substitute 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 persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.