As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 5, 2011

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

The Securities Act of 1933

 

 

CYTOKINETICS, INCORPORATED

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		94-3291317
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

280 East Grand Avenue

South San Francisco, CA 94080

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

 

2004 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN, AS AMENDED

(Full title of the plan)

 

 

 

Robert I. Blum

President and Chief Executive Officer

Cytokinetics, Incorporated

280 East Grand Avenue

South San Francisco, CA 94080

(650) 624-3000

(Name, address, and 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. (Check one):

 

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		Maximum Amount to be Registered (1)		Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share (2)		Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price		Amount of Registration Fee
2004 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, Common Stock $0.001 par value		3,000,000 shares		$1.24		$3,720,000		$431.89

(1)

Represents an additional 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the Company’s 2004 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, as approved by the Company’s board of directors on February 10, 2011 and by the Company’s stockholders at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on May 18, 2011 in South San Francisco, California.

(2)

Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of calculating the total registration fee. No options have been granted with respect to such shares. The computation is based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock as reported on The NASDAQ Global Market on July 29, 2011.

 

 

 

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PART II

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 3,000,000 shares of Cytokinetics, Incorporated’s (the “Company” or the “Registrant”) Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the Company’s 2004 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended.

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

The contents of the Registration Statements on Form S-8 previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 4, 2004 (File No. 333-115146), June 20, 2005 (File No. 333-125973), April 14, 2006 (File No. 333-133323), August 11, 2006 (File No. 333-136524), February 28, 2007 (File No. 333-140963), March 14, 2008 (File No. 333-149713), August 7, 2008 (File No. 333-152850), August 6, 2009 (File No. 333-161116), August 4, 2010 (File No. 333-168520) are incorporated by reference herein.

All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (except in each case the information contained in such documents to the extent “furnished” and not “filed”) on or 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 shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant, Cytokinetics, Incorporated, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, 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 South San Francisco, State of California, on this 5th day of August 2011.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Robert I. Blum and Sharon A. Barbari, jointly and severally, as his or her attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution in each, for him or her in any and all capacities to sign any 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, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his or her substitutes, may 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 below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature		Title		Date
/s/ Robert I. Blum Robert I. Blum		President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)		August 5, 2011
/s/ Sharon A. Barbari Sharon A. Barbari		Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)		August 5, 2011
/s/ L. Patrick Gage L. Patrick Gage, Ph.D.		Chairman of the Board of Directors		August 5, 2011
/s/ Santo J. Costa Santo J. Costa		Director		August 5, 2011
/s/ Stephen Dow Stephen Dow		Director		August 5, 2011
/s/ Denise M. Gilbert Denise M. Gilbert, Ph.D.		Director		August 5, 2011
/s/ John T. Henderson John T. Henderson, M.B., Ch.B.		Director		August 5, 2011
/s/ James A. Spudich James A. Spudich, Ph.D.		Director		August 5, 2011
/s/ Wendell Wierenga Wendell Wierenga, Ph. D.		Director		August 5, 2011

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit Number		Description
3.1 (1)		Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
3.2 (2)		Certificate of Amendment of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
3.3 (3)		Amended and Restated Bylaws.
3.4 (4)		Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.
4.1 (5)		Specimen Common Stock Certificate.
4.2 (6)		Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 29, 2006, by and between the Company and Amgen Inc.
4.3 (4)		Form of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of Cytokinetics, Inc.
10.2 (2)		2004 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended.
10.67 (4)		Security Purchase Agreement, dated April 18, 2011, between the Company and Deerfield Private Design Fund II, L.P., Deerfield Private Design International II, L.P., Deerfield Special Situations Fund, L.P., and Deerfield Special Situations Fund International Limited.
10.68 (7)		At the Market Issuance Sales Agreement, dated June 10, 2011, between the Company and McNicoll, Lewis & Vlak LLC.
5.1		Opinion of Cooley LLP.
23.1		Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

 

(1)	Incorporated by reference from the Company’s registration statement on Form S-3, registration number 333-174869, declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 23, 2011.

(2)	Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 4, 2011.

(3)	Incorporated by reference from the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1, registration number 333-112261, declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2004.

(4)	Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 18, 2011.

(5)	Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 9, 2007.

(6)	Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 3, 2007.

(7)	Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 13, 2011.