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STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
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Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Third Amended and Restated Equity Incentive
Plan</font></div>
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accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company.&#160;&#160;See the definition of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221;
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an additional 6,000,000 shares of the Registrant&#8217;s Common Stock authorized for
issuance under the Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Third Amended and Restated
Equity Incentive Plan (as amended and restated effective February 5, 2009) (the
&#8220;Plan&#8221;). Previously, 5,000,000 shares were registered under the Plan pursuant to
Registration Statement 333-155236, 1,150,000 shares were registered under the
Plan pursuant to Registration Statement 333-145352 and 5,000,000 shares were
registered under the Plan pursuant to Registration Statement 333-131509. In
accordance with Section&#160;E. of the General Instructions to Form S-8,
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the following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
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reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 prior
to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration statement which
indicates that all securities offered 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 their respective
dates of filing (such documents, and the documents enumerated above, being
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statement contained in an Incorporated Document shall be deemed to be modified
or superseded for purposes of this registration statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed Incorporated
Document modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified
or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this registration statement.</font></div>
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indemnify directors and officers as well as other employees and individuals
against expenses (including attorneys&#8217; fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid
in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with
any threatened, pending or completed actions, suits or proceedings in which such
person is made a party by reason of such person being or having been a director,
officer, employee or agent to the Registrant. The Delaware General Corporation
Law provides that Section&#160;145 is not exclusive of other rights to which
those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any by-law, agreement, vote
of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise. Article&#160;Eleven of
the Registrant&#8217;s Certificate of Incorporation provides for indemnification by
the Registrant of its directors, officers and employees to the fullest extent
permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law.</font></div>
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of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation to provide in its
certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be
personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages
for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i)&#160;for
any breach of the director&#8217;s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its
stockholders, (ii)&#160;for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii)&#160;for unlawful
payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases, redemptions or other
distributions, or (iv)&#160;for any transaction from which the director derived
an improper personal benefit. The Registrant&#8217;s Certificate of Incorporation
provides for such limitation of liability to the fullest extent permitted by the
Delaware General Corporation Law.</font></div>
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Registrant maintains standard policies of insurance under which coverage is
provided (a) to its directors and officers against loss rising from claims made
by reason of breach of duty or other wrongful act, while acting in their
capacity as directors and officers of the Registrant, and (b)&#160;to the
Registrant with respect to payments which may be made by the Registrant to such
officers and directors pursuant to any indemnification provision contained in
the Registrant&#8217;s Certificate of Incorporation or otherwise as a matter of
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Registrant has also entered into separate indemnification agreements with each
of its directors and executive officers, substantially in the form filed as
Exhibit&#160;10.5 to the Registrant&#8217;s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File
No.&#160;333-129108), which may be broader than the specific indemnification
provisions contained in the Delaware General Corporation Law.</font></div>
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      paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the
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each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">bona fide</font> offering
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securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
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undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant&#8217;s
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
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be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore,
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or
paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the
successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
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unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
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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 San
Francisco, State of California, on the 25th day of June, 2009.</font></div>
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ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Thomas W. Weisel, Lionel F. Conacher and Mark P.
Fisher, and each of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agents with
full and several power of substitution, for him and in his 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 all documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, 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
agents or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
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      No.&#160;333-129108) filed on October 19, 2005)</font></div>
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shareregistration.htm
Registration
No. 333-
UNITED
STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Thomas
Weisel Partners Group, Inc.
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware
(State
      or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation
      or Organization)
20-3550472
(I.R.S.
      Employer
Identification
      No.)
One
Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California 94104
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
Thomas
Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Third Amended and Restated Equity Incentive
Plan
(Full
Title of the Plan)
Mark
Fisher
Thomas
Weisel Partners Group, Inc.
One
Montgomery Street
San
Francisco, California 94104
(415) 364-2500
(Name,
address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for
service)
Copies to:
Scott D.
Miller
Sullivan
& Cromwell LLP
1870
Embarcadero Road
Palo
Alto, California 94303
(650) 461-5600
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company.  See the definition of "large accelerated filer,"
"accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
¨
Accelerated
filer
þ
Non-accelerated filer
¨
(Do not check if a
smaller reporting company)Smaller reporting company
¨
CALCULATION OF
REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
      Maximum
Proposed
      Maximum
Title
      of Securities to be Registered:
Amount
      to be Registered (1)
Offering
      Price Per Share(2)
Aggregate
      Offering Price (2)
Amount
      of Registration Fee
Common
      Stock, par value $0.01 per share
6,000,000
      shares
$5.16
$30,960,000
$1,727.57
(1)
Covers
      an aggregate of 6,000,000 shares of Common Stock that may be issued under
      the Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Third Amended and Restated Equity
      Incentive Plan. Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of
      1933, this Registration Statement shall also cover additional shares of
      Common Stock which may become issuable by reason of any stock split, stock
      dividend, recapitalization or other similar transactions effected without
      consideration which results in an increase in the number of the
      Registrant's outstanding shares of Common Stock.
(2)
Estimated
      solely for purposes of computing the amount of the registration fee.
      Pursuant to Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933,
      the proposed maximum offering price per share is based on the reported
      average of the high and low prices for the Registrant's Common Stock on
      The Nasdaq National Market on June 22 ,
2009.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
PART
      II - INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION
    STATEMENT
Item
      3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Item
      4. Description of Securities
Item
      5. Interests of Names Experts and Counsel
Item 6.
      Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Item 7.
      Exemption from Registration Claimed
Item 8.
      Exhibits
Item 9.
      Undertakings
SIGNATURES
INDEX
      TO EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT
      5.1
EXHIBIT
      23.1
- 2
-
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This
Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering
an additional 6,000,000 shares of the Registrant's Common Stock authorized for
issuance under the Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Third Amended and Restated
Equity Incentive Plan (as amended and restated effective February 5, 2009) (the
"Plan"). Previously, 5,000,000 shares were registered under the Plan pursuant to
Registration Statement 333-155236, 1,150,000 shares were registered under the
Plan pursuant to Registration Statement 333-145352 and 5,000,000 shares were
registered under the Plan pursuant to Registration Statement 333-131509. In
accordance with Section E. of the General Instructions to Form S-8,
Registration Statements Nos. 333-155236, 333-145352 and 333-131509 are
incorporated herein by reference.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by
Reference.
Thomas
Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (the "Registrant") incorporates herein by reference
the following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission"):
(a) The
      Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
      31, 2008, filed with the Commission on March 16, 2009, and the
      Registrant's Amended Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year
      ended December 31, 2008, filed with the Commission on March 17,
      2009;
(b)
      All other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) and
      15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year referred to in
      (a) above; and
(c) The
      description of the Registrant's Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share,
      contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File
      No. 000-51730) filed January 17, 2006 pursuant to Section 12(g)
      of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.
All
reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 prior
to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration statement which
indicates that all securities offered 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 their respective
dates of filing (such documents, and the documents enumerated above, being
hereinafter referred to as "Incorporated Documents").
Any
statement contained in an Incorporated Document shall be deemed to be modified
or superseded for purposes of this registration statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed Incorporated
Document modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such 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.
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Item 6. Indemnification of
Directors and Officers.
Section 145
of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation may
indemnify directors and officers as well as other employees and individuals
against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid
in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with
any threatened, pending or completed actions, suits or proceedings in which such
person is made a party by reason of such person being or having been a director,
officer, employee or agent to the Registrant. The Delaware General Corporation
Law provides that Section 145 is not exclusive of other rights to which
those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any by-law, agreement, vote
of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise. Article Eleven of
the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides for indemnification by
the Registrant of its directors, officers and employees to the fullest extent
permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Section 102(b)(7)
of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation to provide in its
certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be
personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages
for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for
any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its
stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) for unlawful
payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases, redemptions or other
distributions, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived
an improper personal benefit. The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation
provides for such limitation of liability to the fullest extent permitted by the
Delaware General Corporation Law.
The
Registrant maintains standard policies of insurance under which coverage is
provided (a) to its directors and officers against loss rising from claims made
by reason of breach of duty or other wrongful act, while acting in their
capacity as directors and officers of the Registrant, and (b) to the
Registrant with respect to payments which may be made by the Registrant to such
officers and directors pursuant to any indemnification provision contained in
the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation or otherwise as a matter of
law.
The
Registrant has also entered into separate indemnification agreements with each
of its directors and executive officers, substantially in the form filed as
Exhibit 10.5 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File
No. 333-129108), which may be broader than the specific indemnification
provisions contained in the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Item 7. Exemption from
Registration Claimed.
Not
applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
See
the Index to Exhibits attached hereto.
Item 9.
Undertakings.
(a) The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To
file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) To
      include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
      Act of 1933;
(ii) To
      reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective
      date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
      amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
      fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration
      statement; and
(iii) To
      include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution
      not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material
      change to such information in the registration statement;
Provided
,
however
, that
      paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the
      information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
      paragraphs is contained in 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 the registration statement.
(2) That,
for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933,
each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering
thereof.
(3) To
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.
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(b) The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(c) Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may
be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore,
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or
paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the
successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, the Registrant will,
unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.
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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 San
Francisco, State of California, on the 25th day of June, 2009.
THOMAS
      WEISEL PARTNERS GROUP, INC.
By:
/s/
      Thomas W. Weisel
Name:
Thomas
      W. Weisel
Title:
Chief
      Executive Officer
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POWERS
OF ATTORNEY
KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Thomas W. Weisel, Lionel F. Conacher and Mark P.
Fisher, and each of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agents with
full and several power of substitution, for him and in his 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 all documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, 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
agents or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
done.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement
has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/
      Thomas W. Weisel
Thomas W. Weisel
Director,
      Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive
      officer)
June
      25, 2009
/s/
      Ryan Stroub
Ryan
      Stroub
Chief
      Financial Officer
June
      25, 2009
/s/
      Thomas I.A. Allen
Thomas I.A. Allen
Director
June
      25, 2009
/s/
       Matthew R. Barger
Matthew R. Barger
Director
June
      25, 2009
/s/
      Michael W. Brown
Michael W. Brown
Director
June
      25, 2009
B. Kipling Hagopian
Director
/s/
      Alton F. Irby III
Alton F. Irby III
Director
June
      25, 2009
/s/
      Timothy A. Koogle
Timothy A. Koogle
Director
June
      25,
2009
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INDEX TO
EXHIBITS
Exhibit
Number
Description
4.1
Certificate
      of Incorporation of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to
      Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on
      Form S-1 (File No. 333-129108) filed on October 19,
      2005)
4.2
By-Laws
      of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the
      Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File
      No. 333-129108) filed on October 19, 2005)
4.3
Form
      of Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the
      Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File
      No. 333-129108) filed on October 19, 2005)
4.4
Third
      Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan of the Registrant (incorporated
      by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Registrant's Annual Report on
      Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 (File
      No. 000-51730) filed on March 16, 2009, as amended by the
      Registrant's Amended Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year
      ended December 31, 2008 (File No. 000-51730), filed with the Commission on
      March 17, 2009 )
5.1
Opinion
      of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
23.1
Consent
      of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.2
Consent
      of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1
      hereto)
24.1
Powers
      of Attorney (included on the signature page
  hereof)
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