As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 25, 2020

Registration Statement No. 333-          

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

Allakos Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

975 Island Drive, Suite 201

Redwood City, California 94065

(Address of principal executive offices)

2018 Equity Incentive Plan

2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Robert Alexander, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Allakos Inc.

975 Island Drive, Suite 201

Redwood City, California 94065

(Name and address of agent for service)

(650) 597-5002

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

 

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. ☐

 

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

 

 

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STATEMENT OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 2,433,390 shares of Common Stock issuable under the 2018 Plan and 486,678 shares of Common Stock issuable under the 2018 ESPP pursuant to the provisions of those plans providing for an automatic increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance under such plans. In accordance with Section E of the General Instructions to Form S-8, the contents of the registration statements on Form S-8 previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) relating to the 2018 Plan and 2018 ESPP on July 19, 2018 (File No. 333-226247) and May 8, 2019 (File No. 333-231276) are incorporated by reference herein. In accordance with the instructional note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the Commission, the information specified by Part I of Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3.Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

 

The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by the Registrant are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference:

 

All reports and other documents filed by the Registrant with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, 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 (other than information deemed to have been “furnished” rather than “filed” in accordance with the SEC’s rules) shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in and to be a part of this Registration Statement from the date of filing of such documents.

 

Any statement contained in a document incorporated by reference herein shall 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 also is incorporated by reference herein) modifies or supersedes such 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.

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Item 8.Exhibits.

 

 

*Filed herewith

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Redwood City, State of California, on the 25th day of February 2020.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Robert Alexander, Ph.D. and Leo Redmond, and each of them, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this registration statement on Form S-8 (including post-effective amendments), 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, proxy and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully for all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact, proxy and agent, or his 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 on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

 

 

Exhibit 5.1

 

 

February 25, 2020

Allakos Inc.

975 Island Drive, Suite 201

Redwood City, California 94065

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as counsel to Allakos Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to the issuance by the Company of an aggregate of up to (1) 2,433,390 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”), of the Company (the “2018 Plan Shares”) pursuant to the Company’s 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2018 Plan”) and (2) 486,678 shares of Common Stock (together with the 2018 Plan Shares, the “Shares”) pursuant to the Company’s 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (together with the 2018 Plan, the “Plans”).

 

We have examined the Registration Statement, a form of common stock certificate and the Plans. In addition, we have examined, and have relied as to matters of fact upon, originals, or duplicates or certified or conformed copies, of such records, agreements, documents and other instruments and such certificates or comparable documents of public officials and of officers and representatives of the Company and have made such other investigations as we have deemed relevant and necessary in connection with the opinion hereinafter set forth.

 

In rendering the opinion set forth below, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as duplicates or certified or conformed copies and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents.

 

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications, assumptions and limitations stated herein, we are of the opinion that when the Shares are issued and delivered in accordance with the Plans, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 

We do not express any opinion herein concerning any law other than the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett llp

 

 

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement.

 

Very truly yours,

/s/ Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP

 

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the 2018 Equity Incentive Plan and the 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan of Allakos Inc. of our report dated February 25, 2020, with respect to the financial statements of Allakos Inc., included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Redwood City, California

February 25, 2020