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      to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Act&#8221;), this
      Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of
      shares&#160;&#160;(the &#8220;Common Shares&#8221;) as may be issued as a result of
      the anti-dilution and similar provisions of the Manulife Financial
      Corporation Stock Plan For Non-Employee Directors, the Executive Stock
      Option Plan and the Global Share Ownership Plan and the options issued
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      Stock Plan For Non-Employee Directors and Executive Stock Option Plan, the
      offer and sale of which was previously registered pursuant to this
      Registration Statement and (ii) 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock issuable
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      Executive Stock Option Plan with respect to shares to be registered
      hereunder, converted from Canadian dollars to US dollars at an exchange
      rate of 1.2383, and, with respect to the remaining shares under the Plans
      registered hereunder, based on $14.68, the average of the high and low
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      Corporation, a Canadian corporation (the &#8220;Registrant&#8221;), issued or issuable
      pursuant to the Manulife Financial Corporation Stock Plan For Non-Employee
      Directors, the Executive Stock Option Plan and the Global Share Ownership
      Plan (hereinafter, the &#8220;Plans&#8221;).&#160;&#160;The contents of the
      Registration Statements on Forms S-8 (File No. 333-12610 and File No.
      333-13072), filed with the Commission on September 26, 2000 and January
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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 Toronto,
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6(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Authorized Representative
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed, solely in his capacity
as the duly authorized representative of Manulife Financial Corporation in the
United States, in the City of Boston, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 13th
day of February 2009.</font></div>
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Jonathan Chiel</font></font></div>
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5.1</font></div>
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13, 2009</font></div>
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Street East</font></div>
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Ontario,</font></div>
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M4W 1E5</font></div>
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Ladies and Gentlemen:</font></div>
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Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Manulife Financial
Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of Canada (the
&#8220;Company&#8221;).&#160;&#160;A Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the &#8220;Registration
Statement&#8221;), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities
Act&#8221;), is being filed concurrently herewith by the Company with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;SEC&#8221;).&#160;&#160;The Registration Statement
relates to the registration of 30,000,000 shares of authorized and unissued or
issued Common Shares (the &#8220;Shares&#8221;) to be offered from time to time pursuant to
the Company&#8217;s Stock Plan for Non-Employee Directors (the &#8220;Director&#8217;s Plan&#8221;),
Executive Stock Option Plan (the ESOP&#8221;) and Global Share Ownership Plan (the
&#8220;GSOP&#8221;) to residents of the United States.</font></div>
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connection, I or members of my staff have examined or relied upon originals or
copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such
documents, corporate records, certificates and instruments relating to the
Company as I have deemed relevant and necessary to the formation of the opinion
hereinafter set forth.&#160;&#160;In such examination, I have assumed the
genuineness and authenticity of all documents examined by me or members of my
staff and all signatures thereon, the legal capacity of all persons executing
such documents, the conformity to originals of all copies of documents submitted
to us and the truth and correctness of any representations and warranties
contained therein.</font></div>
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opinions expressed below are based upon and limited to the laws of the Province
of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein and I am expressing no
opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction.</font></div>
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the directors of the Company granting rights to acquire common shares in
accordance with the ESOP and applicable law and upon the exercise of such a
right in accordance with the ESOP, the common share issuable pursuant to such
right will have been validly issued as a fully paid and non-assessable common
share of the Company.</font></div>
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the directors of the Company receiving a common share in accordance with the
Directors&#8217; Plan and applicable law, the common share issuable pursuant to such
Directors&#8217; Plan will have been validly issued as a fully paid and non-assessable
common share of the Company.</font></div>
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consent to the filing of this opinion (and this consent) as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement.&#160;&#160;In giving such consent, I do not thereby
admit that I am within the category of persons whose consent is required under
Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC issued
thereunder.</font></div>
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truly yours,</font></div>
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Lococo</font></font></div>
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Lococo</font></div>
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consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement on Form
S-8&#160;&#160;of Manulife Financial Corporation pertaining to the Manulife
Financial Corporation Stock Plan For Non-Employee Directors, the Executive Stock
Option Plan, and the Global Share Ownership Plan of our reports dated March 18,
2008, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Manulife
Financial Corporation as at December 31, 2007 and 2006 and for the years then
ended and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of
Manulife Financial Corporation as at December 31, 2007 filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.</font></div>
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below constitutes and appoints Angela Shaffer and David Kerr and each of them,
any of whom may act without the joinder of the other, as his or her true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, to
execute on his or her behalf, as an officer and/or director of Manulife
Financial Corporation&#8217;s (the &#8220;Corporation&#8221;), the Registration Statement on Form
S-8 (the &#8220;Registration Statement&#8221;) and any or all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to the Registration Statement, for the purpose of
registering the Corporation&#8217;s Common Stock (the &#8220;Common Stock&#8221;) to be offered
and issued pursuant to the Manulife Financial Corporation Stock Plan for
Non-Employee Directors, the Executive Stock Option Plan and the Global Share
Ownership Plan (the &#8220;Plans&#8221;) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
&#8220;Act&#8221;), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in
connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
&#8220;SEC&#8221;), and any and all other instruments which said attorney-in-fact and agent
deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company to comply with the Act, the
rules, regulations and requirements of the SEC in respect thereof, and the
securities or Blue Sky laws of any State or governmental subdivision, 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, as
fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, with
full power of substitution and resubstitution, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or their substitute or substitutes
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</font></div>
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                                                  <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">February
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forms-8.htm
Registration
No. 333-
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C.  20549
______________
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
UNDER
THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
_______________
MANULIFE
FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Canada
None
(State
      or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization )
(I.R.S.
      Employer Identification No.)
200
Bloor Street East, North Tower 10
Toronto,
Ontario, Canada M4W 1E5
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices including Zip Code)
MANULIFE
FINANCIAL CORPORATION
STOCK
PLAN FOR NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS,
EXECUTIVE
STOCK OPTION PLAN AND
GLOBAL
SHARE OWNERSHIP PLAN
(Full
title of the Plans)
Richard
A. Lococo, Esq.
Manulife
Corporation
200
Bloor Street East
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
M4W 1E5
(Name,
address of agent for service)
(416)
926-3000
(Telephone
number including area code, of agent for service)
Copy
to:
Alan H. Paley,
Esq.
Debevoise
& Plimpton
919
Third Avenue
New
York, New York 10022
Large
      accelerated filer
þ
Non-accelerated
      filer
¨
Accelerated
      filer
¨
Smaller
      reporting company
¨
CALCULATION
OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
      of
Securities
to
      be
Registered
Amount
      to be Registered
(1)
      (2)
Proposed
Maximum
Offering
      Price
Per
      Share (3)
Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering
      Price (3)
Amount
      of
Registration
      Fee (3)
Common
      Shares
30,000,000
$16.836
$505,084,927.56
$19,849.84
(1)Pursuant
      to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), this
      Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of
      shares  (the "Common Shares") as may be issued as a result of
      the anti-dilution and similar provisions of the Manulife Financial
      Corporation Stock Plan For Non-Employee Directors, the Executive Stock
      Option Plan and the Global Share Ownership Plan and the options issued
      thereunder.
(2)The
      securities registered hereby represent an addition to the (i) 2,400,000
      shares of Common Shares issuable under the Manulife Financial Corporation
      Stock Plan For Non-Employee Directors and Executive Stock Option Plan, the
      offer and sale of which was previously registered pursuant to this
      Registration Statement and (ii) 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock issuable
      under the Manulife Financial Corporation Global Share Ownership Plan the
      offer and sale of which was previously registered pursuant to this
      Registration Statement.
(3)Estimated
      in accordance with Rule 457(c) and (h) of the Act, solely for the purpose
      of calculation of the registration fee.  The proposed maximum
      aggregate offering price was calculated with respect to 7,171,278
      outstanding options based on $23.70 which is the weighted average exercise
      price of options granted under the Manulife Financial Corporation
      Executive Stock Option Plan with respect to shares to be registered
      hereunder, converted from Canadian dollars to US dollars at an exchange
      rate of 1.2383, and, with respect to the remaining shares under the Plans
      registered hereunder, based on $14.68, the average of the high and low
      prices of the Registrant's common stock reported on the New York Stock
      Exchange on February 12, 2009.
EXPLANATORY
      NOTES
This
      Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed to register an
      additional 30,000,000 shares (the "Common Shares"), of Manulife Financial
      Corporation, a Canadian corporation (the "Registrant"), issued or issuable
      pursuant to the Manulife Financial Corporation Stock Plan For Non-Employee
      Directors, the Executive Stock Option Plan and the Global Share Ownership
      Plan (hereinafter, the "Plans").  The contents of the
      Registration Statements on Forms S-8 (File No. 333-12610 and File No.
      333-13072), filed with the Commission on September 26, 2000 and January
      17, 2001, respectively are hereby incorporated herein by
      reference.
2
PART
II.                      INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
8.
Exhibits.
Exhibit No.
Description of Exhibit
5.1
Opinion
      of Richard A. Lococo (filed herewith).
23.1
Consent
      of Ernst & Young LLP (filed herewith).
23.2
Consent
      of Richard A. Lococo (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Powers
      of Attorney (filed herewith).
3
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, Manulife Financial Corporation 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 Toronto,
Province of Ontario, Canada, on February 13, 2009.
MANULIFE
FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By:
/s/
Angela K. Shaffer
Name: Angela K.
Shaffer
Title:  Corporate
Secretary
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the
following persons in the capacities indicated on February 13, 2009.
Signature
*
Dominic
      D'Alessandro
Title
President,
      Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive
      Officer)
Date
February
      13, 2009
*
Peter
      H. Rubenovitch
Senior
      Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial
      and Accounting Officer)
February
      13, 2009
*
Gail
      C.A. Cook-Bennett
Chair
February
      13, 2009
*
John
      M. Cassaday
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Lino
      J. Celeste
Director
February
      13, 2009
4
*
Thomas
      P. d'Aquino
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Richard
      B. DeWolfe
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Robert
      E. Dineen, Jr.
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Pierre
      Y. Ducros
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Scott
      M. Hand
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Robert
      J. Harding
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Luther
      S. Helms
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Thomas
      E. Kierans
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Lorna
      R. Marsden
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Hugh
      W. Sloan, Jr.
Director
February
      13, 2009
*
Gordon
      G. Thiessen
Director
February
      13, 2009
*By
:
/s/
Angela K. Shaffer
Name: 
Angela K. Shaffer
Attorney-in-Fact
5
AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE
Pursuant to the requirements of Section
6(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Authorized Representative
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed, solely in his capacity
as the duly authorized representative of Manulife Financial Corporation in the
United States, in the City of Boston, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 13th
day of February 2009.
JOHN
HANCOCK FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
By:
/s/
Jonathan Chiel
Name:  Jonathan
Chiel
Title: Executive Vice
President and General
Counsel – John
Hancock
6
Index to Exhibits
Exhibit No.
Description of Exhibit
5.1
Opinion
      and Consent of Richard A. Lococo (filed herewith).
23.1
Consent
      of Ernst & Young LLP (filed herewith).
23.2
Consent
      of Richard A. Lococo (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1
Powers
      of Attorney (filed herewith).
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Exhibit
5.1
February
13, 2009
Manulife
Financial Corporation
200 Bloor
Street East
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
M4W 1E5
Dear
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am
Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Manulife Financial
Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of Canada (the
"Company").  A Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration
Statement"), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act"), is being filed concurrently herewith by the Company with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").  The Registration Statement
relates to the registration of 30,000,000 shares of authorized and unissued or
issued Common Shares (the "Shares") to be offered from time to time pursuant to
the Company's Stock Plan for Non-Employee Directors (the "Director's Plan"),
Executive Stock Option Plan (the ESOP") and Global Share Ownership Plan (the
"GSOP") to residents of the United States.
In that
connection, I or members of my staff have examined or relied upon originals or
copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such
documents, corporate records, certificates and instruments relating to the
Company as I have deemed relevant and necessary to the formation of the opinion
hereinafter set forth.  In such examination, I have assumed the
genuineness and authenticity of all documents examined by me or members of my
staff and all signatures thereon, the legal capacity of all persons executing
such documents, the conformity to originals of all copies of documents submitted
to us and the truth and correctness of any representations and warranties
contained therein.
The
opinions expressed below are based upon and limited to the laws of the Province
of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein and I am expressing no
opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction.
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Based
upon the foregoing, I am of the opinion that:
1.           Upon
the directors of the Company granting rights to acquire common shares in
accordance with the ESOP and applicable law and upon the exercise of such a
right in accordance with the ESOP, the common share issuable pursuant to such
right will have been validly issued as a fully paid and non-assessable common
share of the Company.
2.           Upon
the directors of the Company receiving a common share in accordance with the
Directors' Plan and applicable law, the common share issuable pursuant to such
Directors' Plan will have been validly issued as a fully paid and non-assessable
common share of the Company.
I herby
consent to the filing of this opinion (and this consent) as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement.  In giving such consent, I do not thereby
admit that I am within the category of persons whose consent is required under
Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC issued
thereunder.
Very
truly yours,
/s/ Richard A.
Lococo
Richard A.
Lococo
Senior Vice President
and Deputy General Counsel
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Exhibit
23.1
CONSENT
OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We
consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement on Form
S-8  of Manulife Financial Corporation pertaining to the Manulife
Financial Corporation Stock Plan For Non-Employee Directors, the Executive Stock
Option Plan, and the Global Share Ownership Plan of our reports dated March 18,
2008, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Manulife
Financial Corporation as at December 31, 2007 and 2006 and for the years then
ended and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of
Manulife Financial Corporation as at December 31, 2007 filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
Toronto,
      Canada
February
      13, 2009
/s/
      Ernst & Young LLP
Chartered
      Accountants
Licensed
      Public
Accountants
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Exhibit
24.1
POWERS
OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Angela Shaffer and David Kerr and each of them,
any of whom may act without the joinder of the other, as his or her true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, to
execute on his or her behalf, as an officer and/or director of Manulife
Financial Corporation's (the "Corporation"), the Registration Statement on Form
S-8 (the "Registration Statement") and any or all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to the Registration Statement, for the purpose of
registering the Corporation's Common Stock (the "Common Stock") to be offered
and issued pursuant to the Manulife Financial Corporation Stock Plan for
Non-Employee Directors, the Executive Stock Option Plan and the Global Share
Ownership Plan (the "Plans") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Act"), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in
connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC"), and any and all other instruments which said attorney-in-fact and agent
deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company to comply with the Act, the
rules, regulations and requirements of the SEC in respect thereof, and the
securities or Blue Sky laws of any State or governmental subdivision, 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, as
fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, with
full power of substitution and resubstitution, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or their substitute or substitutes
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Signature
/s/
Dominic
      D'Alessandro
Dominic
      D'Alessandro
Title
President,
      Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive
      Officer)
Date
February
      3, 2009
/s/ Peter H. Rubenovitch
Peter
      H. Rubenovitch
Senior
      Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial
      and Accounting Officer)
February
      3, 2009
/
s/ Gail C.A.
      Cook-Bennett
Gail
      C.A. Cook-Bennett
Chair
February
      11, 2009
/s/ John M. Cassaday
John
      M. Cassaday
Director
February
      10,
2009
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s/ Lino J. Celeste
Lino
      J. Celeste
Director
February
      11, 2009
/s/ Thomas P. d'Aquino
Thomas
      P. d'Aquino
Director
February
      11, 2009
/s/ Richard B. DeWolfe
Richard
      B. DeWolfe
Director
February
      10, 2009
/s/
      Robert E. Dineen, Jr
.
Robert
      E. Dineen, Jr.
Director
February
      11, 2009
/s/ Pierre Y. Ducros
Pierre
      Y. Ducros
Director
February
      11, 2009
/s/ Robert J. Harding
Robert
      J. Harding
Director
February
      11, 2009
/s/ Scott M. Hand
Scott
      M. Hand
Director
February
      11, 2009
/s/ Luther S. Helms
Luther
      S. Helms
Director
February
      11, 2009
/s/ Thomas E. Kierans
Thomas
      E. Kierans
Director
February
      10, 2009
/s/ Lorna R. Marsden
Lorna
      R. Marsden
Director
February
      11, 2009
/s/ Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
Hugh
      W. Sloan, Jr.
Director
February
      10, 2009
/s/ Gordon G. Thiessen
Gordon
      G. Thiessen
Director
February
      10, 2009
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