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    <div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-_________</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-size: 10pt;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2020</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Washington, D.C.&#160; 20549</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">FORM S-8</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">UNDER<br>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"> THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">New Jersey</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">22-3537895</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(State or Other Jurisdiction of</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">500 Hills Drive, Suite 300</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Bedminster, New Jersey 07921</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 8pt;">(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(Full Title of the Plan)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center;">Copies to:</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Jeffrey J. Carfora</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Lawrence M.F. Spaccasi, Esq.</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Chief Financial Officer</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Jeffrey M. Cardone, Esq.</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Scott A. Brown, Esq.</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">500 Hills Drive, Suite 300</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Luse Gorman, PC</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Bedminster, New Jersey 07291</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">5335 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Suite 780</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">(908) 234-0700</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Washington, DC 20015-2035</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">(Name, Address and Telephone</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">(202) 274-2000</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Number of Agent for Service)</div>
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      <div>Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated
        filer,&#8221; &#8220;smaller reporting company&#8221; and &#8220;emerging growth company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:</div>
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            <div>Large accelerated filer&#160;&#9723;</div>
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            <div>Accelerated filer&#160;&#8999;</div>
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            <div>Non-accelerated filer&#160;&#9723;&#160;&#160;</div>
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            <div>Smaller reporting company&#160;&#9723;</div>
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            <div>Emerging growth company&#160;&#9723;</div>
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            <div>&#160;</div>
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      <div>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 7(a)(2)(B) of the
        Securities Act.&#160;&#9723;</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Title of</div>
            <div style="text-align: center;">Securities</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Registered</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Amount</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Proposed</div>
            <div style="text-align: center;">Maximum</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Per Share</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Proposed</div>
            <div style="text-align: center;">Maximum</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Offering Price</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Amount of</div>
            <div style="text-align: center;">Registration</div>
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            <div>Common stock, no par value per share</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">200,000</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">$16.74<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;">(2)</sup></div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">$3,348,000</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">$435</div>
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    <div>_________________________</div>
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                <div>Together with an indeterminate number of additional shares that may be necessary to adjust the number of shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the &#8220;Stock
                  Purchase Plan&#8221;) as a result of a stock split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of the outstanding common stock of Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) pursuant to 17 C.F.R. Section&#160;230.416(a) under the Securities
                  Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;).</div>
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                <div>Determined pursuant to 17 C.F.R. Sections 230.457(c) and&#160; 230.457(h)(1) of the Securities Act.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; text-indent: -36pt; margin-left: 36pt;">________________________</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">This Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and 17 C.F.R. &#167; 230.462.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">PART I.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Items 1 and 2.&#160;&#160;Plan Information and Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 have been or will be sent or given to participants in the Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated
      by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) under the Securities Act.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Such documents are not being filed with the Commission, but constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of
      Part II hereof) a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">PART II.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 3.&#160;&#160;Incorporation of Documents by Reference</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">The following documents previously or concurrently filed with the Commission are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(a)<font id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab" style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt">&#160;</font>The Company&#8217;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
      December 31, 2019 (File No. 001-16197), filed with the Commission on March 13, 2020 pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;);</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(b)<font id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab" style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt">&#160;</font>All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section
      13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the year covered by the Annual Report on Form 10-K referred to in (a) above; and</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(c)<font id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab" style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt">&#160;</font>The description of the Company&#8217;s common stock contained in the
      Company&#8217;s Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A (Amendment No. 1) filed with the Commission on August 8, 2008 (File No. 001-161197), as updated by Exhibit 4.E to the Company&#8217;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 (File No.
      001-16197), filed with the Commission on March 13, 2020, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such information.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">All documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date hereof, and prior to the
      filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a
      part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.&#160; Any statement contained in the documents incorporated, or deemed to be incorporated, by reference herein or therein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
      Registration Statement and the prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or therein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference herein or therein modifies or supersedes
      such statement.&#160; 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 and the prospectus.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">All information appearing in this Registration Statement and the prospectus is qualified in its entirety by the detailed information, including financial statements, appearing in
      the documents incorporated herein or therein by reference.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 4.&#160;&#160;Description of Securities</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Not applicable.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 5.&#160;&#160;Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">None.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 6.&#160;&#160;Indemnification of Directors and Officers</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="font-style: italic;">Indemnification</font>. Article VI of the Company&#8217;s certificate of incorporation provides that the Company shall indemnify a director or officer of the Company or of
      a subsidiary of the Company against his reasonable expenses and all liabilities in connection with any proceeding involving that director or officer of the Company or a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, including a proceeding by or in the right
      of the Company or its wholly-owned subsidiary, unless such breach of duty is based on an act or omission (a) in breach of such person&#8217;s duty of loyalty to the Company or its shareholders; (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. The Company shall advance or pay those reasonable expenses incurred by such director or officer in a proceeding as and when incurred, provided, however, that the director or
      officer shall, as a condition to receipt of such advances, undertake to repay all amounts advanced if it shall finally be adjudicated that the breach of duty by the director or officer was based upon an act or omission (a) in breach of such person&#8217;s
      duty of loyalty to the Company (and/or its subsidiary) or its shareholders; (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.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">The New Jersey Business Corporation Act empowers a corporation to indemnify a corporate agent against his 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 he 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 his conduct was unlawful. For purposes of the Act, the term &#8220;corporate agent&#8221; includes any present or former director, officer, employee or agent of the
      corporation, and a person serving as a &#8220;corporate agent&#8221; at the request of the corporation for any other enterprise.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">With respect to any derivative action, the corporation is empowered to indemnify a corporate agent against his expenses (but not his liabilities) incurred in connection with any proceeding involving
      the corporate agent by reason of his being or having been a corporate agent if the agent acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation. 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.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">The corporation 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.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">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 him the requested indemnification. In advance of the final disposition of a
      proceeding, the corporation may pay an agent&#8217;s expenses if the agent agrees to repay the expenses unless it is ultimately determined he is entitled to indemnification.</div>
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Registration No. 333-_________
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2020
UNITED STATES
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 Offices)
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Copies to:
Jeffrey J. Carfora
Lawrence M.F. Spaccasi, Esq.
Chief Financial Officer
Jeffrey M. Cardone, Esq.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation
Scott A. Brown, Esq.
500 Hills Drive, Suite 300
Luse Gorman, PC
Bedminster, New Jersey 07291
5335 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Suite 780
(908) 234-0700
Washington, DC 20015-2035
(Name, Address and Telephone
(202) 274-2000
Number of Agent for Service)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated
        filer," "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
Large accelerated filer ◻
Accelerated filer ⌧
Non-accelerated filer ◻
Smaller reporting company ◻
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 7(a)(2)(B) of the
        Securities Act. ◻
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of
Securities
to be
Registered
Amount
to be
Registered
(1)
Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share
Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
Amount of
Registration
Fee
Common stock, no par value per share
200,000
$16.74
(2)
$3,348,000
$435
_________________________
(1)
Together with an indeterminate number of additional shares that may be necessary to adjust the number of shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Stock
                  Purchase Plan") as a result of a stock split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of the outstanding common stock of Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (the "Company") pursuant to 17 C.F.R. Section 230.416(a) under the Securities
                  Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
(2)
Determined pursuant to 17 C.F.R. Sections 230.457(c) and  230.457(h)(1) of the Securities Act.
________________________
This Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and 17 C.F.R. § 230.462.
PART I.
Items 1 and 2.  Plan Information and Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information
The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 have been or will be sent or given to participants in the Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated
      by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities Act.
Such documents are not being filed with the Commission, but constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of
      Part II hereof) a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II.
Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The following documents previously or concurrently filed with the Commission are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:
(a)
The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
      December 31, 2019 (File No. 001-16197), filed with the Commission on March 13, 2020 pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act");
(b)
All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section
      13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the year covered by the Annual Report on Form 10-K referred to in (a) above; and
(c)
The description of the Company's common stock contained in the
      Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A (Amendment No. 1) filed with the Commission on August 8, 2008 (File No. 001-161197), as updated by Exhibit 4.E to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 (File No.
      001-16197), filed with the Commission on March 13, 2020, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such information.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date hereof, and prior to the
      filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a
      part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.  Any statement contained in the documents incorporated, or deemed to be incorporated, by reference herein or therein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
      Registration Statement and the prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or therein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference herein or therein 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 and the prospectus.
All information appearing in this Registration Statement and the prospectus is qualified in its entirety by the detailed information, including financial statements, appearing in
      the documents incorporated herein or therein by reference.
Item 4.  Description of Securities
Not applicable.
Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
None.
Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Indemnification
. Article VI of the Company's certificate of incorporation provides that the Company shall indemnify a director or officer of the Company or of
      a subsidiary of the Company against his reasonable expenses and all liabilities in connection with any proceeding involving that director or officer of the Company or a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, including a proceeding by or in the right
      of the Company or its wholly-owned subsidiary, 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 shareholders; (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. The Company shall advance or pay those reasonable expenses incurred by such director or officer in a proceeding as and when incurred, provided, however, that the director or
      officer shall, as a condition to receipt of such advances, undertake to repay all amounts advanced if it shall finally be adjudicated that the breach of duty by the director or officer was based upon an act or omission (a) in breach of such person's
      duty of loyalty to the Company (and/or its subsidiary) or its shareholders; (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.
The New Jersey Business Corporation Act empowers a corporation to indemnify a corporate agent against his 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 he 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 his conduct was unlawful. For purposes of the Act, the term "corporate agent" includes any present or former director, officer, employee or agent of the
      corporation, and a person serving as a "corporate agent" at the request of the corporation for any other enterprise.
With respect to any derivative action, the corporation is empowered to indemnify a corporate agent against his expenses (but not his liabilities) incurred in connection with any proceeding involving
      the corporate agent by reason of his being or having been a corporate agent if the agent acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation. 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 corporation 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 him 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 unless it is ultimately determined he is entitled to indemnification.
Exculpation.
Article VI of the Company's certificate of incorporation provides that no director or officer of the Company, or of a subsidiary of the Company,
      shall be personally liable to the Company or to its shareholders for damages for breach of any duty owed to the Company or its shareholders 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 (and/or its subsidiary) or its shareholders; (b) not in good faith or involving a knowing violation of law; or (c) resulting in receipt by such person of an improper benefit.
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.
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Item 8.
Exhibits.
Regulation S-K
Exhibit Number
Document
Reference to Prior Filing or
Exhibit No. Attached Hereto
5
Opinion of Luse Gorman, PC
Attached as Exhibit 5
10.1
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
*
23.1
Consent of Luse Gorman, PC
Contained in Exhibit 5
23.2
Consent of Crowe, LLP
Attached as Exhibit 23.2
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Power of Attorney
Contained on Signature Page
_________________________
*
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit B to the Company's definitive proxy statement (File No. 001-16197), filed by the Company under the Exchange Act on March 21, 2014.
Item 9.  Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
1.
To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
      made, a post-effective amendment to the 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.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the
      estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering
      price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement;
(iii)
to include any material information with respect to the plan
      of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;
provided, however
, that paragraphs 1(i) and 1(ii) above 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 Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this 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;
4.
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 (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
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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; and
5.
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 Securities 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
      Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
The Registrant.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 14
th
day of May, 2020
PEAPACK-GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By:
/s/ Douglas Kennedy
Douglas L. Kennedy
President and Chief Executive Officer
(Duly Authorized Representative)
POWER OF ATTORNEY
We, the undersigned directors and officers of Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (the "Company") hereby severally constitute and appoint Douglas L. Kennedy and Jeffrey J.
      Carfora, and each of them, as our true and lawful attorneys and agents, to do any and all things in our names in the capacities indicated below which said Douglas L. Kennedy and Jeffrey J. Carfora may deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company
      to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with the registration of shares of common stock to be issued under the Peapack-Gladstone
      Financial Corporation 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, including specifically, but not limited to, power and authority to sign for us in our names in the capacities indicated below the registration statement and any and all amendments (including
      post-effective amendments) thereto; and we hereby approve, ratify and confirm all that said Douglas L. Kennedy and Jeffrey J. Carfora shall do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date
      indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Douglas L. Kennedy
President and Chief Executive Officer and Director
May 14, 2020
Douglas L. Kennedy
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Jeffrey J. Carfora
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
May 14, 2020
Jeffrey J. Carfora
(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Francessco S. Rossi
Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
May 14, 2020
Francessco S. Rossi
(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ F. Duffield Meyercord
Chairman of the Board
May 14, 2020
F. Duffield Meyercord
/s/ Carmen M. Bowswer
Director
May 14, 2020
Carmen M. Bowser
/s/ Susan A. Cole
Director
May 14, 2020
Susan A. Cole
/s/ Anthony J. Consi II
Director
May 14, 2020
Anthony J. Consi II
/s/ Richard Daingerfield
Director
May 14, 2020
Richard Daingerfield
/s/ Edward A. Grampigna
Director
May 14, 2020
Edward A. Gramigna
/s/ Peter D. Horst
Director
May 14, 2020
Peter D. Horst
/s/ Steven A. Kass
Director
May 14, 2020
Steven A. Kass
/s/ Patrick J. Mullen
Director
May 14, 2020
Patrick J. Mullen
/s/ Philip W. Smith III
Director
May 14, 2020
Philip W. Smith III
/s/ Tony Spinelli
Director
May 14, 2020
Tony Spinelli
/s/ Beth Welsh
Director
May 14, 2020
Beth Welsh