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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 9, 2023
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
The Securities Act of 1933
Prime Medicine, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
   
Delaware 84-3097762
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
21 Erie Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 564-0013
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Prime Medicine, Inc. 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan
Prime Medicine, Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full Title of the Plans)
Keith Gottesdiener, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Prime Medicine, Inc.
21 Erie Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 564-0013
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Kingsley L. Taft, Esq.
Marishka DeToy, Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP
100 Northern Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02210
(617) 570-1000
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.
            
Large accelerated filer ☐Accelerated filer☐Non-accelerated filer ☒Smaller reporting company☒Emerging growth company☒
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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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering (i) an additional 4,860,461 shares of common stock, par value $0.00001 per share (“Common Stock”) of Prime Medicine, Inc. (the “Registrant”) to be issued under the Registrant’s 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2022 Plan”) and (ii) an additional 971,350 shares of Common Stock of the Registrant to be issued under the Registrant’s 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2022 ESPP”), for which a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-267953) relating to the same employee benefit plans is effective.
These additional shares are of the same class as other securities relating to the 2022 Plan and 2022 ESPP for which the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-267953) filed with the Commission on October 19, 2022 is effective.
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-267953) filed with the Commission on October 19, 2022 are incorporated by reference except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information set forth herein. Only those items of Form S-8 containing new information not contained in the earlier registration statement is presented herein.

 
 Part II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 8. Exhibits.
The exhibits to this Registration Statement are listed in the Exhibit Index attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein.


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EXHIBIT INDEX
   
Exhibit
No.		 Description
  
4.1 
  
4.2 
  
4.3 
  
5.1* 
  
23.1* 
  
23.2* 
  
24.1* 
Power of Attorney (included on signature page)
  
99.1 
  
99.2 
   
107* 
 
*Filed herewith.
 

 

 
 

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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 the 9th day of March, 2023.
PRIME MEDICINE, INC.
By:/s/ Keith Gottesdiener
Name: Keith Gottesdiener
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES
KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENT, that each individual whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints each of Keith Gottesdiener and Carman Alenson as such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that any said attorney-in-fact and agent, or any substitute or substitutes of any of them, 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.
     
Name Title Date
   
/s/ Keith Gottesdiener President, Chief Executive Officer and Director March 9, 2023
Keith Gottesdiener (Principal Executive Officer)  
 C 
/s/ Carman Alenson Interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer March 9, 2023
Carman Alenson 
(Principal Accounting Officer and
Principal Financial Officer)
  
   
/s/ Robert Nelsen Director March 9, 2023
Robert Nelsen    
   
/s/ David Schenkein Director March 9, 2023
David Schenkein    
   
/s/ Thomas Cahill Director March 9, 2023
Thomas Cahill    
   
/s/ Michael Kelly Director March 9, 2023
Michael Kelly    
   
/s/ Wendy Chung Director March 9, 2023
Wendy Chung    
   
/s/ Kaye Foster Director March 9, 2023
Kaye Foster    
 
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Exhibit 107
Calculation of Filing Fee Table
Form S-8
(Form Type)
Prime Medicine, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Table 1: Newly Registered Securities
Security
Type
Security
Class
Title
Fee
Calculation
Rule
Amount
to be
Registered(1)
Proposed
Maximum
Offering
Price per
Share
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering
Price
Fee Rate
Amount of
Registration
Fee
EquityCommon Stock, $0.00001 par value per shareOther (2)4,860,461 shares (3)
$15.64 (2)
$76,017,610.04 (2)
$0.0001102
$8,377.15
EquityCommon Stock, $0.00001 par value per shareOther (4)971,350 shares (5)
$13.30 (4)
$12,918,955.00 (4)
$0.0001102
$1,423.67
Total Offering Amounts
$88,936,565.04
-
Total Fees Previously Paid-
Total Fee Offsets-
Net Fee Due
$9,800.82

(1)Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this registration statement shall be deemed to cover any additional shares of common stock, $0.00001 par value per share (“Common Stock”) which become issuable under the Registrant’s 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the “2022 Plan”) and the Registrant’s 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2022 ESPP”), by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the Registrant’s outstanding shares of Common Stock.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457 (c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act, and based upon the average of the high and low prices reported for the Common Stock on the Nasdaq Global Market on March 7, 2023.
(3)Represents shares of Common Stock that were added to the shares authorized for issuance under the 2022 Plan, effective as of January 1, 2023 pursuant to an “evergreen” provision contained in the 2022 Plan. Pursuant to such provision, an additional number of shares will automatically be added to the shares authorized for issuance under the 2022 Plan on January 1 of each year. Shares available for issuance under the 2022 Plan were previously registered on registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19, 2022 (File No. 333-267953).
(4)
The price of $13.30 per share, which is 85% of the average of the high and low sale prices of the Common Stock of the Registrant as quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market on March 7, 2023, is set forth solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has been used as these shares are without a fixed price. Pursuant to the 2022 ESPP, the purchase price of the shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance thereunder will be 85% of the fair market value of a share of Common Stock on the first trading day of the offering period or on the exercise date, whichever is less.
(5)Represents shares of Common Stock that were added to the shares authorized for issuance under the 2022 ESPP, effective as of January 1, 2023 pursuant to an “evergreen” provision contained in the 2022 ESPP. Pursuant to such provision, an additional number of shares will automatically be added to the shares authorized for issuance under the 2022 ESPP on January 1 of each year. Shares available for issuance under the 2022 ESPP were previously registered on registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19, 2022 (File No. 333-267953).
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Exhibit 5.1
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Goodwin Procter llp
100 Northern Avenue
Boston, MA 02210
goodwinlaw.com
+1 617 570 1000

March 9, 2023

Prime Medicine, Inc.
21 Erie Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Re: Securities Being Registered under Registration Statement on Form S-8

We have acted as counsel to you in connection with your filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), on or about the date hereof relating to an aggregate of 5,831,811 shares (the “Shares”) of Common Stock, $0.00001 par value per share (“Common Stock”), of Prime Medicine, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), that may be issued pursuant to the Company’s 2022 Stock Option and Incentive Plan and 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (collectively, the “Plans”).

We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinions set forth below. We have relied, without independent verification, on certificates of public officials and, as to matters of fact material to the opinion set forth below, on certificates of officers of the Company.

The opinion set forth below is limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

For purposes of the opinion set forth below, we have assumed that no event occurs that causes the number of authorized shares of Common Stock available for issuance by the Company to be less than the number of then unissued Shares.

Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, upon issuance and delivery against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Plans, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

This opinion letter and the opinion it contains shall be interpreted in accordance with the Core Opinion Principles as published in 74 Business Lawyer 815 (Summer 2019).

We hereby consent to the inclusion of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving our consent, we do not 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 thereunder.
Very truly yours,

/s/ GOODWIN PROCTER LLP

GOODWIN PROCTER LLP

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Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Prime Medicine, Inc. of our report dated March 9, 2023 relating to the financial statements, which appears in Prime Medicine, Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.


/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
March 9, 2023