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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
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STYLE="white-space:nowrap">FORM&nbsp;8-K</FONT> </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CURRENT
REPORT </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): January&nbsp;23, 2019 </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B>Delaware</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">36-4785571</FONT></B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Commission</B></P>
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<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">code:&nbsp;(857)&nbsp;285-6200</FONT> </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Not Applicable </B></P>
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<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">(17&nbsp;CFR&nbsp;240.14a-12)</FONT> </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Rule&nbsp;13e-4(c)</FONT> under the Exchange Act <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">(17&nbsp;CFR&nbsp;240.13e-4(c))</FONT> </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule&nbsp;405 of the Securities Act of 1933 or <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Rule&nbsp;12b-2</FONT> of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Emerging growth company&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P>
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revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a) of the Exchange Act.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P> <P STYLE="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Item&nbsp;5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain
Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On January&nbsp;23, 2019, the Company elected Fred Cohen,&nbsp;M.D., D.Phil, as a
Class&nbsp;II director, with a term expiring at the 2021 annual meeting of stockholders. Dr.&nbsp;Cohen was also elected to the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the &#147;Board&#148;) on January&nbsp;23, 2019. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Dr.&nbsp;Cohen was a professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Medicine, Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF) from 1980 through 2014. He currently serves on the board of directors of Genomic Health Inc., CareDx, Inc., Veracyte, Inc., Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., and UroGen Pharma LTD., as well as various other private companies. Dr.&nbsp;Cohen served
on the board of directors of Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc. from 2007 through 2014. He also is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr.&nbsp;Cohen received his bachelor&#146;s degree in
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, his D.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, his Doctor of Medicine from Stanford University and his postdoctoral training and postgraduate
medical training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at UCSF. Dr.&nbsp;Cohen also serves as a Senior Managing Director at Vida Ventures, a venture capital firm that he <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">co-founded</FONT> in 2017. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Dr.&nbsp;Cohen does not have any family relationships with any of the executive officers or directors of the Company. There are no arrangements or
understandings between Dr.&nbsp;Cohen and any other person pursuant to which he was elected as a director of the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As a <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-employee</FONT> director, Dr.&nbsp;Cohen will receive cash compensation paid by the Company pursuant to its <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-employee</FONT> director compensation program. In addition, under the
Company&#146;s director compensation program, upon his election as a director, Dr.&nbsp;Cohen was granted an option on January&nbsp;23, 2019 to purchase 38,000&nbsp;shares of the Company&#146;s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, at an
exercise price per share of $13.78. This option vests as to 33&nbsp;1/3% of the total award one year after the date of grant and thereafter in substantially equal quarterly installments during the three years following the grant date, subject to
continued service through such date, and becomes exercisable in full upon the occurrence of a change in control of the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Also in connection with
his election to the Board, Dr.&nbsp;Cohen will enter in to the Company&#146;s standard form of indemnification agreement, a copy of which was filed as Exhibit&nbsp;10.6 to Amendment No.&nbsp;3 to the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Form&nbsp;S-1</FONT> <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">(File&nbsp;No.&nbsp;333-210689)</FONT> filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April&nbsp;27, 2016. Pursuant to the terms of this agreement, the Company
may be required, among other things, to indemnify Dr.&nbsp;Cohen for some expenses, including attorneys&#146; fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts respectively incurred by him in any action or proceeding arising out of his respective
service as one of our directors. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Item&nbsp;9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) The following exhibits are included in this report: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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8-K
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): January 23, 2019
INTELLIA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
001-37766
36-4785571
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
(Commission
File Number)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
40 Erie Street, Suite 130
Cambridge, Massachusetts
02139
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area
code: (857) 285-6200
Not Applicable
Former name or former address, if changed since last report
Check the appropriate box below if
the Form 8-K
filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing
obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
☐
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
☐
Soliciting material pursuant to
Rule 14a-12
under the Exchange Act
(17 CFR 240.14a-12)
☐
Pre-commencement communications pursuant
to
Rule 14d-2(b)
under the Exchange Act
(17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
☐
Pre-commencement communications pursuant
to
Rule 13e-4(c)
under the Exchange Act
(17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 or
Rule 12b-2
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Emerging growth company  ☐
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.  ☐
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain
Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On January 23, 2019, the Company elected Fred Cohen, M.D., D.Phil, as a
Class II director, with a term expiring at the 2021 annual meeting of stockholders. Dr. Cohen was also elected to the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the "Board") on January 23, 2019.
Dr. Cohen was a professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Medicine, Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF) from 1980 through 2014. He currently serves on the board of directors of Genomic Health Inc., CareDx, Inc., Veracyte, Inc., Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., and UroGen Pharma LTD., as well as various other private companies. Dr. Cohen served
on the board of directors of Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc. from 2007 through 2014. He also is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Cohen received his bachelor's degree in
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, his D.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, his Doctor of Medicine from Stanford University and his postdoctoral training and postgraduate
medical training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at UCSF. Dr. Cohen also serves as a Senior Managing Director at Vida Ventures, a venture capital firm that he
co-founded
in 2017.
Dr. Cohen does not have any family relationships with any of the executive officers or directors of the Company. There are no arrangements or
understandings between Dr. Cohen and any other person pursuant to which he was elected as a director of the Company.
As a
non-employee
director, Dr. Cohen will receive cash compensation paid by the Company pursuant to its
non-employee
director compensation program. In addition, under the
Company's director compensation program, upon his election as a director, Dr. Cohen was granted an option on January 23, 2019 to purchase 38,000 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, at an
exercise price per share of $13.78. This option vests as to 33 1/3% of the total award one year after the date of grant and thereafter in substantially equal quarterly installments during the three years following the grant date, subject to
continued service through such date, and becomes exercisable in full upon the occurrence of a change in control of the Company.
Also in connection with
his election to the Board, Dr. Cohen will enter in to the Company's standard form of indemnification agreement, a copy of which was filed as Exhibit 10.6 to Amendment No. 3 to the Company's Registration Statement on
Form S-1
(File No. 333-210689)
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2016. Pursuant to the terms of this agreement, the Company
may be required, among other things, to indemnify Dr. Cohen for some expenses, including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts respectively incurred by him in any action or proceeding arising out of his respective
service as one of our directors.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) The following exhibits are included in this report:
Exhibit No.
Description
99.1
Press release dated January 24, 2019.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has caused this Report to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
Date: January 24, 2019
By:
/s/ John M. Leonard
Name:
John M. Leonard
Title:
Chief Executive Officer and President