SEC Form S-8 filed by Lantern Pharma Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 24, 2024

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Lantern Pharma Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Amended and Restated 2018 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Panna Sharma
Chief Executive Officer

Lantern Pharma Inc.

1920 McKinney Avenue, 7^th Floor

Dallas, Texas 75201
(Name and address of agent for service)

(972) 277-1136

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

Copy to:

Daniel K. Donahue

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

18565 Jamboree Road, Suite 500

Irvine, California 92612

(949) 732-6500

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. ☒

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

On August 29, 2018, Lantern Pharma Inc. (the “Company”) adopted its 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (as subsequently amended and restated, the “Plan”). The maximum number of shares of common stock of the Company that are available for issuance under the Plan is 1,864,680, provided that as of the date of this filing 125,000 shares are subject to the approval of the stockholders of the Company. This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) for the purposes of registering the 1,864,680 shares of the Company’s common stock issuable under the Plan.

The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants in the Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Such documents are not being filed with the Commission, but constitute, along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement, a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

The Company will furnish without charge to each person to whom the prospectus is delivered, upon the written or oral request of such person, a copy of any and all of the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement and incorporated by reference in the Section 10(a) prospectus, other than exhibits to such documents (unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference to the information that is incorporated). Written requests should be made to Investor Relations of Lantern Pharma Inc. at 1920 McKinney Avenue, 7th Floor, Dallas, Texas 75201; telephone number (972) 277-1136 or to the email address at [email protected].

Part II

INFORMATION REQUIRED

IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents filed by the Company with the Commission are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

Not applicable.

The validity of the issuance of the shares of the Company’s common stock offered by this Registration Statement has been passed upon by Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Irvine, California.

The Company’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws provides that the Company’s directors and officers will be indemnified by us to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware law against all expenses incurred in connection with their service for or on behalf of the Company.

In addition, the Company’s certificate of incorporation provides that the personal liability of the Company’s directors and officers for monetary damages will be eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.

The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with the members of the Company’s board of directors and officers, each an “indemnitee.” Each indemnification agreement requires the Company to indemnify each indemnitee as described above. The Company also, among other things, agreed to advance costs and expenses subject to the condition that an indemnitee will reimburse the indemnitor for all amounts paid if a final judicial determination is made that the indemnitee is not entitled to be so indemnified under applicable law.

The indemnification provisions in the Company’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws and the indemnification agreements may be sufficiently broad to permit indemnification of the Company’s directors and officers for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act.

The Company has procured directors’ and officers’ liability insurance.

Not applicable.

Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference 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 of 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 Dallas, Texas on May 24, 2024.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Panna Sharma and David R. Margrave,, and each of them, as such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each with full powers of substitution and re-substitution, for such person and in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or 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 attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or 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 said attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed on May 24, 2024 by the following persons in the capacities indicated.