Registration No. 333-

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 9, 2023

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(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

500 Hills Drive, Suite 300

Bedminster, New Jersey 07921

(Full Title of the Plan)

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REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES

Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (the “Company”) is filing this Registration Statement pursuant to General Instruction E on Form S-8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to register an additional 600,000 shares of its common stock, no par value per share, under the Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). Such additional shares are of the same class as other securities for which a registration statement relating to the Plan has previously been filed and is effective.

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8 regarding Registration of Additional Securities, the contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on July 1, 2021 (File No. 333-257594) is hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

PART II.

Item 8.  Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

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 9^th day of June, 2023.

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 Frank A. Cavallaro, 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 Frank A. Cavallaro 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 2021 Long-Term Incentive 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 Frank A. Cavallaro 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 on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.