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    <TD STYLE="width: 72%; font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2012&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 28%; font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right">&nbsp;Registration No. __________</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>FORM S-8</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">PEAPACK-GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">22-3537895</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">500 Hills Drive, Suite 300</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">Bedminster, New Jersey 07921</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in">(Address of principal executive office with
zip code)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: -0.15pt">PEAPACK-GLADSTONE
FINANCIAL CORPORATION</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: -0.15pt">2012
Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Frank A. Kissel, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">500 Hills Drive, Suite 300</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">Bedminster, New Jersey 07921</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in">(908) 234-0700</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of agent for service)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">Copies to:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">Ronald H. Janis, Esq.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">Day Pitney LLP</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">7 Times Square</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">New York, New York 10036</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center">(212) 297-5800</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0">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 definitions of &ldquo;large accelerated filer,&rdquo; &ldquo;accelerated
filer,&rdquo; and &ldquo;smaller reporting company&rdquo; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</P>

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        </FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings 2">&#163;</FONT></P>
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        filer </FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings 2">&#83;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</P>

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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Proposed Maximum</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Offering Price</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Per Share (2)</P></TD>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Proposed Maximum</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Aggregate Offering</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Price (2)</P></TD>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Amount of</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Registration Fee</P></TD></TR>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">Common Stock,</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">no par value</P></TD>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">200,000 shares</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P></TD>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0">(1)</TD><TD STYLE="padding-right: 0.15in">In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the &ldquo;Securities Act&rdquo;),
this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issuable pursuant to anti-dilution
provisions contained in the Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2012 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan (the &ldquo;Plan&rdquo;).</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0">(2)</TD><TD STYLE="padding-right: 0.15in">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. Such estimate has been
computed in accordance with Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act based on the average of the high and low prices of
the Common Stock as reported on NASDAQ on April 24, 2012.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/24pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>PART I</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/24pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</B></P>

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    <TD><B><U>Plan Information</U></B>*</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Not filed with this Registration Statement.</P>

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    <TD><B><U>Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information</U></B>*</TD></TR>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">*</TD><TD>All information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement
in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the &ldquo;Securities Act&rdquo;) and the Note to Part I of Form
S-8.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/24pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0"><B>ITEM 3.&#9;<U>Documents Incorporated By Reference</U></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in">The following documents filed by Peapack-Gladstone
Financial Corporation (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;Commission&rdquo;) are
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.2in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.3in">1.</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">The Company&rsquo;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011;</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.2in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.3in">2.</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the &ldquo;Exchange Act&rdquo;), since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Company&rsquo;s latest
Annual Report on Form 10-K;</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.2in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.3in">3.</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">The description of the Company&rsquo;s Common Stock contained in the Registration Statement on
Form 8-A filed by the Company on August 18, 2008 pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act and all subsequent amendments and reports
filed for the purpose of updating such description.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">Information in Current Reports on Form 8-K
furnished to the Commission, including under Item 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K, prior, on or subsequent to the date hereof is not being
and will not be incorporated herein by reference.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">In addition, all documents hereafter filed
by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, are hereby
incorporated herein by reference and are a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein
or 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 contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document
which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein 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.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 1in"><B>ITEM 4.</B></TD>
    <TD><B><U>Description of Securities</U></B></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Not applicable.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 1in"><B>ITEM 5.</B></TD>
    <TD><B><U>Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</U></B></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">Certain legal matters relating
to the issuance of the shares of the Company&rsquo;s Common Stock offered hereby have been passed upon by <FONT STYLE="font-variant: small-caps">Day
Pitney</FONT> LLP, counsel to the Company. Partners and other attorneys involved in the preparation of the Registration Statement
in the law firm of <FONT STYLE="font-variant: small-caps">Day Pitney</FONT> LLP do not beneficially own any shares of the Company
as of April 30, 2012.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 1in"><B>ITEM 6.</B></TD>
    <TD><B><U>Indemnification of Directors and Officers</U></B></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1in"><U>Limitation of Liability
of Directors and Officers</U>. The Company&rsquo;s certificate of incorporation contains provisions that may limit the liability
of any director or officer of the Company to the Company or its shareholders for damages for an alleged breach of any duty owed
to the Company or its shareholders. This limitation will not relieve an officer or director from liability based on any act or
omission (i) in breach of such person&rsquo;s duty of loyalty to the Company or its shareholders; (ii) not in good faith or involving
a knowing violation of law; or (iii) resulting in receipt by such officer or director of an improper personal benefit. These provisions
are explicitly permitted by Section 14A:2-7(3) of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1in"><FONT STYLE="color: black"><U>Indemnification
of Directors, Officers, Employees and Agents</U>. The Company&rsquo;s certificate of incorporation provides that, </FONT>unless
expressly prohibited by law, the Company will indemnify a director or officer of the Company against his reasonable expenses and
liabilities in connection with any proceeding involving that director or officer of the Company, including a proceeding by or in
the right of the Company unless such breach of duty is based on an act or omission (a) in breach of such person&rsquo;s duty of
loyalty to the Company or its stockholders; (b) not in good faith or involving a knowing violation of law; or (c) resulting in
receipt by such person of an improper personal benefit<FONT STYLE="color: black">. </FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Section
14A:3-5 of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act empowers a corporation to indemnify a corporate agent against its expenses and
liabilities incurred in connection with any proceeding (other than a derivative lawsuit) involving the corporate agent by reason
of his being or having been a corporate agent if (a) the agent acted in good faith and in a manner that the agent reasonably believed
to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and (b) with respect to any criminal proceeding, the corporate
agent had no reasonable cause to believe its conduct was unlawful. For purposes of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act, the
term &ldquo;corporate agent&rdquo; includes any present or former director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation</FONT>
<FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">or of any constituent corporation absorbed by the indemnifying corporation
in a consolidation or merger and a person serving as a &ldquo;corporate agent&rdquo; for any other enterprise at the request of
the corporation.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1in">With respect to any
derivative action, the Company is empowered to indemnify a corporate agent against its expenses (but not its liabilities) incurred
in connection with any proceeding involving the corporate agent by reason of the agent being or having been a corporate agent if
the agent acted in good faith and in a manner that the agent reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests
of the Company. However, only the court in which the proceeding was brought can empower a corporation to indemnify a corporate
agent against expenses with respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which the agent was adjudged liable for negligence or misconduct.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1in">The Company may indemnify
a corporate agent in a specific case if a determination is made by any of the following that the applicable standard of conduct
was met: (i) the board of directors, or a committee thereof, acting by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of disinterested
directors; (ii) by independent legal counsel if there is not a quorum of disinterested directors or if the disinterested quorum
empowers counsel to make the determination; or (iii) by the shareholders.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1in">A corporate agent
is entitled to mandatory indemnification to the extent that the agent is successful on the merits or otherwise in any proceeding,
or in defense of any claim, issue or matter in the proceeding. If a corporation fails or refuses to indemnify a corporate agent,
whether the indemnification is permissive or mandatory, the agent may apply to a court to grant the agent the requested indemnification.
In advance of the final disposition of a proceeding, the corporation may pay an agent&rsquo;s expenses if the agent agrees to repay
the expenses if it is ultimately determined that the agent is not entitled to indemnification.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1in">The Federal Deposit
Insurance Act generally prohibits indemnification of a holding company&rsquo;s directors and officers for any penalty or judgment
resulting from any administrative or civil action instituted by a federal banking agency.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1in"><U>Insurance</U>.
The Company maintains insurance policies insuring the Company&rsquo;s directors and officers against liability for wrongful acts
or omissions arising out of their positions as directors and officers, subject to certain limitations.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 1in"><B>ITEM 7.</B></TD>
    <TD><B><U>Exemption from Registration Claimed</U></B></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-indent: 1in">Not applicable.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 1in"><B>ITEM 8.</B></TD>
    <TD><B><U>Exhibits</U></B></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 9%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">4.1</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 91%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2012 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit A to the Company&rsquo;s definitive proxy statement filed with the Commission on March 23, 2012)</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">5.1</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">Opinion of Day Pitney LLP</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">23.1</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">Consent <FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">of Crowe Horwath LLP</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">23.2</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">Consent of Day Pitney LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">24.1</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto)</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><B>ITEM 9.&#9;<U>Undertakings</U></B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.1in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.4in">(a)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.4in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.6in">(1)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment
to this Registration Statement:</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 1in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">(i)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;</TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0 0 0 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 1in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">(ii)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">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;</TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0 0 0 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 1in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">(iii)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">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;</TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0 0 0 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0 0 0 1in; text-align: justify"><U>provided, however</U>, that paragraphs (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 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.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.4in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.6in">(2)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">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.</TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.4in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.6in">(3)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">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.</TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.1in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.4in">(b)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under
the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant&rsquo;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&rsquo;s annual report pursuant
to Section 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 herein, and the offering of such securities at
that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0 0 0 45pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.1in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.4in">(c)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">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 Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act 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 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.</TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B><U>SIGNATURES</U></B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">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 Township of Bedminster, State of New Jersey, on the 30<SUP>th</SUP> day of April, 2012.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">PEAPACK-GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="width: 52%; padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 4%; padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 44%; padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: left">By:</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">/s/ Frank A. Kissel</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: left">Frank A. Kissel</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: left">Chairman of the Board and</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: -1in; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: left">Chief Executive Officer</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt TmsRmn 12pt; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>POWER OF ATTORNEY</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE
PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Frank A. Kissel and Jeffrey J. Carfora,
and each of them, as attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign on his or her behalf,
individually and in any and all capacities, including the capacities stated below, any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement and any registration statements filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating thereto and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to 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 in and about the premises, as fully to all intents
and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">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 April 30, 2012:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"></P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 49%; vertical-align: top; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: center"><B>Signature</B></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 2%; vertical-align: top; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 49%; vertical-align: top; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: center"><B>Title</B></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: center; vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: center; vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; vertical-align: top">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">/s/ Frank A. Kissel</P>
        Frank A. Kissel
</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-left: 12.2pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -12.2pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; vertical-align: top">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 12.2pt; text-indent: -12.25pt">Chairman of
        the Board,</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 12.2pt; text-indent: -12.25pt">Chief Executive
        Officer and Director</P></TD></TR>
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       Jeffrey J. Carfora</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; vertical-align: top">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 12.2pt; text-indent: -12.25pt">Executive
        Vice President and</P>
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        Officer</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 12.2pt; text-indent: -12.25pt">(Principal
        Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)</P>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">Finn M.W. Caspersen, Jr.</P></TD>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">Director, Executive Vice</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">President and General Counsel</P></TD></TR>
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Anthony J. Consi, II</TD>
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        Pamela Hill</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="padding-left: 12.2pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -12.2pt; vertical-align: top">Director</TD></TR>
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John D. Kissel</TD>
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       Edward A. Merton</TD>
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        F. Duffield Meyercord</TD>
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        John R. Mulcahy</TD>
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        Philip W. Smith III</TD>
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   Craig C. Spengeman</TD>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2012
Registration No. __________
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
________________
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
PEAPACK-GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
New Jersey
22-3537895
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
500 Hills Drive, Suite 300
Bedminster, New Jersey 07921
(Address of principal executive office with
zip code)
PEAPACK-GLADSTONE
FINANCIAL CORPORATION
2012
Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan
(Full title of the Plan)
Frank A. Kissel, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
500 Hills Drive, Suite 300
Bedminster, New Jersey 07921
(908) 234-0700
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of agent for service)
_______
Copies to:
Ronald H. Janis, Esq.
Day Pitney LLP
7 Times Square
New York, New York 10036
(212) 297-5800
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 definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated
filer," and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
£
Accelerated
        filer
S
Non-accelerated filer
£
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Smaller reporting company
£
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities
to be Registered
Amount to be
Registered (1)
Proposed Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share (2)
Proposed Maximum
Aggregate Offering
Price (2)
Amount of
Registration Fee
Common Stock,
no par value
200,000 shares
$15.20
$3,040,000
$348.39
__________________________
(1)
In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"),
this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issuable pursuant to anti-dilution
provisions contained in the Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2012 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan").
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. Such estimate has been
computed in accordance with Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act based on the average of the high and low prices of
the Common Stock as reported on NASDAQ on April 24, 2012.
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
ITEM 1
Plan Information
*
Not filed with this Registration Statement.
ITEM 2
Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information
*
Not filed with this Registration Statement.
*
All information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement
in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") and the Note to Part I of Form
S-8.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3.
Documents Incorporated By Reference
The following documents filed by Peapack-Gladstone
Financial Corporation (the "Company") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:
1.
The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011;
2.
All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Company's latest
Annual Report on Form 10-K;
3.
The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the Registration Statement on
Form 8-A filed by the Company on August 18, 2008 pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act and all subsequent amendments and reports
filed for the purpose of updating such description.
Information in Current Reports on Form 8-K
furnished to the Commission, including under Item 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K, prior, on or subsequent to the date hereof is not being
and will not be incorporated herein by reference.
In addition, all documents hereafter filed
by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, are hereby
incorporated herein by reference and are a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein
or 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 contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document
which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein 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.
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ITEM 4.
Description of Securities
Not applicable.
ITEM 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Certain legal matters relating
to the issuance of the shares of the Company's Common Stock offered hereby have been passed upon by
Day
Pitney
LLP, counsel to the Company. Partners and other attorneys involved in the preparation of the Registration Statement
in the law firm of
Day Pitney
LLP do not beneficially own any shares of the Company
as of April 30, 2012.
ITEM 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Limitation of Liability
of Directors and Officers
. The Company's certificate of incorporation contains provisions that may limit the liability
of any director or officer of the Company to the Company or its shareholders for damages for an alleged breach of any duty owed
to the Company or its shareholders. This limitation will not relieve an officer or director from liability based on any act or
omission (i) in breach of such person's duty of loyalty to the Company or its shareholders; (ii) not in good faith or involving
a knowing violation of law; or (iii) resulting in receipt by such officer or director of an improper personal benefit. These provisions
are explicitly permitted by Section 14A:2-7(3) of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act.
Indemnification
of Directors, Officers, Employees and Agents
. The Company's certificate of incorporation provides that,
unless
expressly prohibited by law, the Company will indemnify a director or officer of the Company against his reasonable expenses and
liabilities in connection with any proceeding involving that director or officer of the Company, including a proceeding by or in
the right of the Company unless such breach of duty is based on an act or omission (a) in breach of such person's duty of
loyalty to the Company or its stockholders; (b) not in good faith or involving a knowing violation of law; or (c) resulting in
receipt by such person of an improper personal benefit
.
Section
14A:3-5 of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act empowers a corporation to indemnify a corporate agent against its expenses and
liabilities incurred in connection with any proceeding (other than a derivative lawsuit) involving the corporate agent by reason
of his being or having been a corporate agent if (a) the agent acted in good faith and in a manner that the agent reasonably believed
to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and (b) with respect to any criminal proceeding, the corporate
agent had no reasonable cause to believe its conduct was unlawful. For purposes of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act, the
term "corporate agent" includes any present or former director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation
or of any constituent corporation absorbed by the indemnifying corporation
in a consolidation or merger and a person serving as a "corporate agent" for any other enterprise at the request of
the corporation.
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With respect to any
derivative action, the Company is empowered to indemnify a corporate agent against its expenses (but not its liabilities) incurred
in connection with any proceeding involving the corporate agent by reason of the agent being or having been a corporate agent if
the agent acted in good faith and in a manner that the agent reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests
of the Company. However, only the court in which the proceeding was brought can empower a corporation to indemnify a corporate
agent against expenses with respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which the agent was adjudged liable for negligence or misconduct.
The Company may indemnify
a corporate agent in a specific case if a determination is made by any of the following that the applicable standard of conduct
was met: (i) the board of directors, or a committee thereof, acting by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of disinterested
directors; (ii) by independent legal counsel if there is not a quorum of disinterested directors or if the disinterested quorum
empowers counsel to make the determination; or (iii) by the shareholders.
A corporate agent
is entitled to mandatory indemnification to the extent that the agent is successful on the merits or otherwise in any proceeding,
or in defense of any claim, issue or matter in the proceeding. If a corporation fails or refuses to indemnify a corporate agent,
whether the indemnification is permissive or mandatory, the agent may apply to a court to grant the agent the requested indemnification.
In advance of the final disposition of a proceeding, the corporation may pay an agent's expenses if the agent agrees to repay
the expenses if it is ultimately determined that the agent is not entitled to indemnification.
The Federal Deposit
Insurance Act generally prohibits indemnification of a holding company's directors and officers for any penalty or judgment
resulting from any administrative or civil action instituted by a federal banking agency.
Insurance
.
The Company maintains insurance policies insuring the Company's directors and officers against liability for wrongful acts
or omissions arising out of their positions as directors and officers, subject to certain limitations.
ITEM 7.
Exemption from Registration Claimed
Not applicable.
ITEM 8.
Exhibits
4.1
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2012 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit A to the Company's definitive proxy statement filed with the Commission on March 23, 2012)
5.1
Opinion of Day Pitney LLP
23.1
Consent
of Crowe Horwath LLP
23.2
Consent of Day Pitney LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto)
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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;
(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) 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.
(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 Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant
to Section 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 herein, 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 Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act 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 Act 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 Township of Bedminster, State of New Jersey, on the 30
th
day of April, 2012.
PEAPACK-GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By:
/s/ Frank A. Kissel
Frank A. Kissel
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE
PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Frank A. Kissel and Jeffrey J. Carfora,
and each of them, as attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign on his or her behalf,
individually and in any and all capacities, including the capacities stated below, any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement and any registration statements filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating thereto and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to 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 in and about the premises, as fully to all intents
and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or their substitutes, 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 indicated
on April 30, 2012:
Signature
Title
/s/ Frank A. Kissel
Frank A. Kissel
Chairman of
        the Board,
Chief Executive
        Officer and Director
/s/ Jeffrey J. Carfora
Jeffrey J. Carfora
Executive
        Vice President and
Chief Financial
        Officer
(Principal
        Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Finn M.W. Caspersen, Jr.
Finn M.W. Caspersen, Jr.
Director, Executive Vice
President and General Counsel
Anthony J. Consi, II
Director
/s/ Pamela Hill
Pamela Hill
Director
John D. Kissel
Director
/s/ James R. Lamb
James R. Lamb
Director
/s/ Edward A. Merton
Edward A. Merton
Director
/s/ F. Duffield Meyercord
F. Duffield Meyercord
Director
/s/ John R. Mulcahy
John R. Mulcahy
Director
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/s/ Robert M. Rogers
Robert M. Rogers
Director, President and
Chief Operating Officer
/s/ Philip W. Smith III
Philip W. Smith III
Director
/s/ Craig C. Spengeman
Craig C. Spengeman
Director, President of
PGB Trust and Investments
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EXHIBIT INDEX
4.1
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2012 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan
(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit A to the Company's definitive proxy statement filed with the Commission on March 23, 2012)
5.1
Opinion of Day Pitney LLP
23.1
Consent of
Crowe Horwath LLP
23.2
Consent of Day Pitney LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto)
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