As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 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

Provention Bio, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

55 Broad Street, 2nd Floor

Red Bank, New Jersey 07701

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Provention Bio, Inc. Amended and Restated 2017 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Ashleigh Palmer

Chief Executive Officer

Provention Bio, Inc.

55 Broad Street, 2nd Floor

Red Bank, New Jersey 07701

(908) 336-0360

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

with copies to:

Thomas J. Danielski

Ropes & Gray LLP

800 Boylston Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02199

(617) 951-7000

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. ☐
 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement is being filed to register an additional 7,186,283 shares of the registrant’s common stock for issuance under the Amended and Restated Provention Bio, Inc. 2017 Equity Incentive Plan. Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the registrant incorporates by reference, except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information set forth herein, into this Registration Statement the entire contents of its Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-226814) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 13, 2018, its Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-230400) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2019, its Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-237113) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 12, 2020, its Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-253657) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2021 and its Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-262945) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 24, 2022.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

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 Red Bank, State of New Jersey, on March 29, 2023.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Ashleigh Palmer, Thierry Chauche and Heidy King-Jones, and each of them acting individually, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents 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 to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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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 date indicated.