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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September&nbsp;14, 2007
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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 3pt">Registration No.&nbsp;333-_____
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8<BR>
REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt"><B>UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>PHARMION CORPORATION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Delaware</B><BR>
(State or other jurisdiction <BR>
of incorporation or organization)
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>84-1521333</B><BR>
(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">2525 28<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">th</SUP> Street<BR>
Boulder, Colorado 80301<BR>
(Address of principal executive offices)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Pharmion Corporation 2000 Stock Incentive Plan<BR>
Pharmion Corporation 2001 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Full title of the plans)</DIV>



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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">Patrick J. Mahaffy<BR>
President and Chief Executive Officer<BR>
Pharmion Corporation<BR>
2525 28<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">th</SUP> Street<BR>
Boulder, Colorado 80301<BR>
(720)&nbsp;564-9100<BR>
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><I>Copies to</I><BR>
Peter H. Jakes, Esq.<BR>
Willkie Farr &#038; Gallagher LLP<BR>
787 Seventh Avenue<BR>
New York, NY 10019<BR>
(212)&nbsp;728-8000
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                    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock,
$0.001 par value
per share</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">1,100,000</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">45,034,000</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">1,382.54</TD>
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    <TD>This Registration Statement covers 1,000,000 shares of the common stock of Pharmion
Corporation, $0.001 par value per share (the &#147;Common Stock&#148;), issuable pursuant to the Pharmion
Corporation 2000 Stock Incentive Plan and 100,000 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the
Pharmion Corporation 2001 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (collectively, the &#147;Plans&#148;). In
addition, this Registration Statement covers an indeterminable number of additional shares of
Common Stock as may hereafter be offered or issued pursuant to the Plans, to prevent dilution
resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions effected without receipt of
consideration and pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
&#147;Securities Act&#148;).</TD>
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    <TD>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule
457(h) under the Securities Act based on the average of the high and low reported sales price per
share of our common stock on September&nbsp;11, 2007, as reported on the Nasdaq Global Market.</TD>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#000">Explanatory Note</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#001">PART II</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#002">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE<BR> REGISTRATION STATEMENT</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#003">Item&nbsp;3. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#004">Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#005">SIGNATURES</A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="d47334exv5w1.htm">Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="d47334exv23w1.htm">Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm</A></TD></TR>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Registration Statement on Form S-8, which incorporates by reference the Registrant&#146;s
previous Registration Statements on Form S-8 (File No.&nbsp;333-130200, File No.&nbsp;333-122474 and File No.
333-111158), is being filed by the Registrant solely to register additional securities issuable
pursuant to its 2000 Stock Incentive Plan and 2001 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan.
Accordingly, this Registration Statement consists only of those items required by General
Instruction E to Form S-8.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;)
by Pharmion Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;), are incorporated by reference into
the Registration Statement:
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;The
Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2006,
filed pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;);
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;The
Company&#146;s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters
ended March&nbsp;31, 2007 and June&nbsp;30, 2007,
filed pursuant to the Exchange Act;
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;The Company&#146;s Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on February&nbsp;9, 2007, May&nbsp;16, 2007, May
31, 2007, June&nbsp;4, 2007 and August&nbsp;21, 2007, respectively, pursuant to the Exchange Act;
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(d)&nbsp;The Company&#146;s Registration Statements on Form S-8, Registration No.&nbsp;333-130200 filed on
December&nbsp;8, 2005, Registration No.&nbsp;333-122474 filed on February&nbsp;2, 2005 and Registration No.
333-11158 filed on December&nbsp;12, 2003, pursuant to the Exchange Act; and
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(e)&nbsp;The description of the Common Stock, which is incorporated by reference into the Company&#146;s
Registration Statement on Form 8-A12G, filed on October&nbsp;30, 2003, pursuant to the Exchange Act, and
contained in the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on Form S-3, under the caption &#147;DESCRIPTION OF
COMMON STOCK&#148;, Registration No.&nbsp;333-142567, filed on May&nbsp;2, 2007, pursuant to the Securities Act.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In addition, all documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all the securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining
unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a
part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents with the Commission. Any statement
contained in a document incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes hereof 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 to constitute a part
hereof except as so modified or superseded.
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to be issued pursuant to the Plans.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company 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 Boulder, Colorado, on the 14th day of
September, 2007.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">Pharmion Corporation<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Patrick J. Mahaffy
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    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Patrick J. Mahaffy&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the undersigned officers and directors of Pharmion Corporation hereby severally
constitutes and appoints Patrick J. Mahaffy and Erle T. Mast, and each of them, as the
attorneys-in-fact for the undersigned, in any and all capacities, with full power of substitution,
to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith) 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 each of them, 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 he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, may lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue hereof.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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.
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Patrick J. Mahaffy</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
President and Chief
Executive Officer;
Director (Principal
Executive Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top" nowrap>September 14, 2007</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Erle T. Mast
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Erle T. Mast</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Chief Financial
Officer (Principal
Financial Officer and
Principal Accounting
Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">September 14, 2007</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Brian Atwood
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Brian Atwood</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">September 14, 2007</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ James Blair
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
James Blair</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">September 14, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ James Barrett
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
James Barrett</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top" nowrap>September 14, 2007</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Cam L. Garner
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Cam L. Garner</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">September 14, 2007</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Edward J. McKinley
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Edward J. McKinley</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">September 14, 2007</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ John C. Reed
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
John C. Reed</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">September 14, 2007</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Thorlef Spickschen
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Thorlef Spickschen</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">September 14, 2007</TD>
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As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 14, 2007
Registration No. 333-_____
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
PHARMION CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
84-1521333
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
2525 28
th
Street
Boulder, Colorado 80301
(Address of principal executive offices)
Pharmion Corporation 2000 Stock Incentive Plan
Pharmion Corporation 2001 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan
(Full title of the plans)
Patrick J. Mahaffy
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pharmion Corporation
2525 28
th
Street
Boulder, Colorado 80301
(720) 564-9100
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to
Peter H. Jakes, Esq.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
787 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
(212) 728-8000
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed maximum
Proposed maximum
Title of securities to
Amount to be
offering price per
aggregate offering
Amount of
be registered
registered (1)
share (2)
price (2)
registration fee
Common Stock,
$0.001 par value
per share
1,100,000
$
40.94
$
45,034,000
$
1,382.54
(1)
This Registration Statement covers 1,000,000 shares of the common stock of Pharmion
Corporation, $0.001 par value per share (the "Common Stock"), issuable pursuant to the Pharmion
Corporation 2000 Stock Incentive Plan and 100,000 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the
Pharmion Corporation 2001 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (collectively, the "Plans"). In
addition, this Registration Statement covers an indeterminable number of additional shares of
Common Stock as may hereafter be offered or issued pursuant to the Plans, to prevent dilution
resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions effected without receipt of
consideration and pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act").
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule
457(h) under the Securities Act based on the average of the high and low reported sales price per
share of our common stock on September 11, 2007, as reported on the Nasdaq Global Market.
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Explanatory Note
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference
Item 8. Exhibits
SIGNATURES
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
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Explanatory Note
This Registration Statement on Form S-8, which incorporates by reference the Registrant's
previous Registration Statements on Form S-8 (File No. 333-130200, File No. 333-122474 and File No.
333-111158), is being filed by the Registrant solely to register additional securities issuable
pursuant to its 2000 Stock Incentive Plan and 2001 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan.
Accordingly, this Registration Statement consists only of those items required by General
Instruction E to Form S-8.
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference
The following documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission")
by Pharmion Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), are incorporated by reference into
the Registration Statement:
(a) The
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006,
filed pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act");
(b) The
Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters
ended March 31, 2007 and June 30, 2007,
filed pursuant to the Exchange Act;
(c) The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on February 9, 2007, May 16, 2007, May
31, 2007, June 4, 2007 and August 21, 2007, respectively, pursuant to the Exchange Act;
(d) The Company's Registration Statements on Form S-8, Registration No. 333-130200 filed on
December 8, 2005, Registration No. 333-122474 filed on February 2, 2005 and Registration No.
333-11158 filed on December 12, 2003, pursuant to the Exchange Act; and
(e) The description of the Common Stock, which is incorporated by reference into the Company's
Registration Statement on Form 8-A12G, filed on October 30, 2003, pursuant to the Exchange Act, and
contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3, under the caption "DESCRIPTION OF
COMMON STOCK", Registration No. 333-142567, filed on May 2, 2007, pursuant to the Securities Act.
In addition, all documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all the securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining
unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a
part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents with the Commission. Any statement
contained in a document incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes hereof 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 to constitute a part
hereof except as so modified or superseded.
Item 8. Exhibits
Exhibit No.
5.1
Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP with respect to the legality of the securities
to be issued pursuant to the Plans.
23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2
Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (reference is made to the signature page hereto).
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company 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 Boulder, Colorado, on the 14th day of
September, 2007.
Pharmion Corporation
By:
/s/ Patrick J. Mahaffy
Patrick J. Mahaffy
President and Chief Executive Officer
Each of the undersigned officers and directors of Pharmion Corporation hereby severally
constitutes and appoints Patrick J. Mahaffy and Erle T. Mast, and each of them, as the
attorneys-in-fact for the undersigned, in any and all capacities, with full power of substitution,
to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith) 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 each of them, 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 he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact, and each 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.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Patrick Mahaffy
Patrick J. Mahaffy
President and Chief
Executive Officer;
Director (Principal
Executive Officer)
September 14, 2007
/s/ Erle T. Mast
Erle T. Mast
Chief Financial
Officer (Principal
Financial Officer and
Principal Accounting
Officer)
September 14, 2007
/s/ Brian Atwood
Brian Atwood
Director
September 14, 2007
/s/ James Blair
James Blair
Director
September 14, 2007
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Signature
Title
Date
/s/ James Barrett
James Barrett
Director
September 14, 2007
/s/ Cam L. Garner
Cam L. Garner
Director
September 14, 2007
/s/ Edward J. McKinley
Edward J. McKinley
Director
September 14, 2007
/s/ John C. Reed
John C. Reed
Director
September 14, 2007
/s/ Thorlef Spickschen
Thorlef Spickschen
Director
September 14, 2007
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit No.
Description of Exhibit
5.1
Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2
Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (reference is made to the signature page hereto).