As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 9, 2020

Registration No. 333-                    

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

PLURISTEM THERAPEUTICS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. 2019 Equity Compensation Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Nevada Agency and Transfer Company

50 West Liberty Street, Suite 880

Reno, NV 89501

(Name and address of agent for service)

(775) 322-0626

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

Copy to:

Oded Har-Even

Howard E. Berkenblit

Ron Ben-Bassat

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

One Post Office Square

Boston, Massachusetts 02110

Telephone: (617) 338-2800

Fax: (617) 338-2880

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See 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 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The documents containing the information required in Part I of this registration statement have been or will be sent or given to participating employees as specified in Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act in accordance with the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or the Commission. Such documents are not being filed with the Commission either as part of this registration statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference into this registration statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this registration statement, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference. 

The following additional documents, which have been filed by Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., or the  Company, with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, are incorporated by reference in and made a part of this registration statement, as of their respective dates:

(a) Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2019 filed with the SEC on September 12, 2019;

(b) Our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2019, December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2020, as filed with the SEC on November 7, 2019, February 6, 2020 and May 11, 2020, respectively;

(c) Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 2, 2019, July 25, 2019, August 12, 2019, March 3, 2020, March 12, 2020, March 26, 2020, March 30, 2020, April 7, 2020, April 13, 2020, April 24, 2020, April 30, 2020, May 5, 2020, May 8, 2020, May 14, 2020, June 11, 2020, July 1, 2020, July 16, 2020, July 21, 2020, August 10, 2020 and August 27, 2020; and

(d) The description of the Company’s Common Stock contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on December 10, 2007, under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed or to be filed for the purpose of updating such description.

In addition to the foregoing, all documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequently filed by the Company prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereunder have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents and reports.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration statement to the extent that a statement herein, or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference, 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.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not Applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Under the Nevada Revised Statutes, director immunity from liability to a company or its shareholders for monetary liabilities applies automatically unless it is specifically limited by a company's Articles of Incorporation. The Company’s Articles of Incorporation provide that the Company shall indemnify its officers, directors, employees and agents to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Nevada. In addition, the Company’s Articles of Incorporation provide that a director or officer of the Company shall not be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, but such statement shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director or officer for (i) acts or omissions which involve intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of the law or (ii) the unlawful payment of dividends. Any repeal or modification of the provisions described in this paragraph by stockholders of the Company will be prospective only, and will not adversely affect any limitation on the personal liability of a director or officer of the Company for acts or omissions prior to such repeal or modification.

Further, the Company’s Articles of Incorporation provide that every person who was or is a party to, or is threatened to be made a party to, or is involved in any such action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by the reason of the fact that he or she, or a person with whom he or she is a legal representative, is or was a director of the Company, or who is serving at the request of the Company as a director or officer of another company, or is a representative in a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall be indemnified and held harmless to the fullest extent legally permissible under the laws of the State of Nevada from time to time against all expenses, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, and amounts paid or to be paid in a settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by him or her in connection therewith. Such right of indemnification will be a contract right which may be enforced in any manner desired by such person. The expenses of officers and directors incurred in defending a civil suit or proceeding must be paid by the Company as incurred and in advance of the final disposition of the action, suit, or proceeding, under receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay the amount if it is ultimately determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that he or she is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company. Such right of indemnification will not be exclusive of any other right of such directors, officers or representatives may have or hereafter acquire, and, without limiting the generality of such statement, they shall be entitled to their respective rights of indemnification under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders, provision of law, or otherwise, as well as their rights under this paragraph above.

The Company has obtained directors and officers insurance for the benefit of its directors and officers.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not Applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits. 

Item 9.  Undertakings.

provided, however, that subparagraphs (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 the periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this registration statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, 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 Haifa, Israel, on September 9, 2020.

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

We, the undersigned officers and directors of Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., hereby constitute and appoint Yaky Yanay and Chen Franco-Yehuda and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power to them in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this registration statement on Form S-8 (including any post-effective amendments thereto), and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

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Exhibit 5.1

September 9, 2020

Pluristem Therapeutics Inc.

MATAM Advanced Technology Park,

Building No. 5, Haifa

Israel 31905

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:

In connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), by Pluristem Therapeutic Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), of 4,675,000 shares of its common stock, par value $0.00001 per share (“Common Stock”), that are to be issued under the Company’s 2019 Equity Compensation Plan (the “2019 Plan”), including shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options and vesting and exercise of restricted stock units (“RSUs”) to be granted pursuant to the provisions of the 2019 Plan (all such shares to be issued thereunder referred to herein as, the “Registered Shares”), the following opinion is furnished to you to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as Exhibit 5.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) under the Act.

We have acted as counsel to the Company in connection with the Registration Statement and we have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of the Registration Statement, the Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as currently in effect, the Amended and Restated By-laws of the Company, as currently in effect, the minute books and corporate records of the Company, and such other documents as we have considered necessary and appropriate in order to furnish the opinion hereinafter set forth.

In our examination of the foregoing documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies, the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents and the legal competence of all signatories to such documents.  For purposes of our opinion, we have examined an official compilation of “Title 7 – Business Associations; Securities; Commodities, Chapter – 78 – Private Corporations” of the Nevada Revised Statutes.  Such examination was limited to the provisions of such statute only, and did not include any annotations or commentary related thereto.  Other than such examination and our examination of the documents indicated above, we have made no other examination in connection with this opinion.

Based on and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that, when issued in accordance with the terms of 2019 Plan and the options, RSUs or other rights granted thereunder, the Registered Shares will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable by the Company.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm in the Prospectus forming a part of the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the 2019 Equity Compensation Plan of Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. (the Company), of our reports dated September 12, 2019, with respect to the Company's consolidated financial statements and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of the Company included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended June 30, 2019, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.