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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000943374-23-000240
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	S-8
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		4
FILED AS OF DATE:		20230609
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20230609
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20230609

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			PEAPACK GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001050743
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	COMMERCIAL BANKS, NEC [6029]
		IRS NUMBER:				223537895
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NJ
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		S-8
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-272544
		FILM NUMBER:		231005102

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 HILLS DRIVE
		CITY:			BEDMINSTER
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07921
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9082340700

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 HILLS DRIVE
		CITY:			BEDMINSTER
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07921
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    <div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June&#160;<u></u>9, 2023</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation</font></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: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">500 Hills Drive, Suite 300</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2021 Long-Term Incentive 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;">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation</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
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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
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    <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) is filing this Registration Statement pursuant to General Instruction E on Form S-8 with the Securities and Exchange
      Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) 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 &#8220;Plan&#8221;). Such additional shares are of the same
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">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
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">PART II.</div>
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            <div><a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050743/000091431709002063/form10q-103827_pgf.htm">Certificate of Incorporation of Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3 of the Company&#8217;s Form 10-Q
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            <div><a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050743/000156459020010802/pgc-ex4e_392.htm">Description of Registrant&#8217;s Securities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.E. of the Registrant&#8217;s Form 10-K Annual Report for the year ended
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">SIGNATURES</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">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<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;">th</sup> day of June, 2023.</div>
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            <div style="font-weight: bold;">PEAPACK-GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION</div>
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<TYPE>EX-5
<SEQUENCE>2
<FILENAME>ex5_s8-060823.htm
<DESCRIPTION>OPINION OF LUSE GORMAN, PC
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    <div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">EXHIBIT 5</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">LUSE GORMAN, PC</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">ATTORNEYS AT LAW</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">5335 WISCONSIN AVENUE, N.W., SUITE 780</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">WASHINGTON, D.C. 20015</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">TELEPHONE (202) 274-2000</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">FACSIMILE (202) 362-2902</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">www.luselaw.com</div>
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    <div>June 9, 2023</div>
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    <div>Board of Directors</div>
    <div>Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation</div>
    <div>500 Hills Drive, Suite 300</div>
    <div>Bedminster, New Jersey 07921</div>
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          <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;">Re:</td>
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            <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation</font>&#160;<font style="font-weight: bold;">2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan</font></div>
            <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Registration Statement on Form S-8 </font></div>
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    <div>Ladies and Gentlemen:</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">You have requested the opinion of this firm as to certain matters in connection with the registration of 600,000 shares of common stock, no par value (the &#8220;Shares&#8221;), of Peapack-Gladstone Financial
      Corporation (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) to be issued pursuant to the Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;).</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">In rendering the opinion expressed herein, we have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction of the following: (i) the Company&#8217;s Registration Statement on
      Form S-8 (the &#8220;Registration Statement&#8221;) to be filed with the Securities Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Act&#8221;), on the date hereof; (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as amended to date and
      currently in effect; (iii) the Bylaws of the Company, as amended to date and currently in effect; (iv) the Plan; (v) certain resolutions of the board of directors of the Company relating to the approval of the Plan, the filing of the Registration
      Statement, and certain related matters; and (vi) applicable statutes and regulations governing the Company.&#160; We have assumed the authenticity, accuracy and completeness of all documents in connection with the opinion expressed herein.&#160; We have also
      assumed the legal capacity and genuineness of the signatures of persons signing all documents in connection with which the opinions expressed herein are rendered.&#160; This opinion is limited to matters of New Jersey corporate law.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">Based on the foregoing, we are of the following opinion:</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">Following the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, the Shares of the Company, when issued in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan, will be legally issued, fully paid and
      non-assessable.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">This opinion has been prepared solely for the use of the Company in connection with the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, and shall not be used for any other purpose or relied
      upon by any other person without the prior express written consent of this firm.&#160; We hereby consent to the use of this opinion in the Registration Statement.&#160; By giving such consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose
      consent is required under Section&#160;7 of the Act.</div>
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          <td style="width: 50.14%; vertical-align: top;"><u>&#160;/s/ Luse Gorman, PC</u><br>
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            <div>LUSE GORMAN, PC</div>
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<DOCUMENT>
<TYPE>EX-23.2
<SEQUENCE>3
<FILENAME>ex232_s8-060823.htm
<DESCRIPTION>CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
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    <div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">EXHIBIT 23.2</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center;">&#160;</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify;">We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation of our report dated March 13, 2023, relating to the consolidated financial statements
      and effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2022.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 252pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><u>/s/ Crowe LLP</u><br>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 252pt; margin-left: 36pt;">Crowe LLP</div>
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    <div>&#160;</div>
    <div>Livingston, New Jersey</div>
    <div>June&#160; <u>9</u>, 2023</div>
    <div>&#160;</div>
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<TYPE>EX-FILING FEES
<SEQUENCE>4
<FILENAME>ex107_s8-060823.htm
<DESCRIPTION>FILING FEES TABLE
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      <div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Form S-8</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">$1,827.56</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">$0.00</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Net Fee Due</div>
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          <td style="width: 10.76%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">&#160;</td>
          <td style="width: 15.47%; vertical-align: top; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">&#160;</td>
          <td style="width: 11.06%; vertical-align: top; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">&#160;</td>
          <td style="width: 15.38%; vertical-align: top; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">
            <div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">$1,827.56</div>
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              <div style="text-align: left;">(1)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify;">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 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan 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).</div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify;">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
                  in accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act, based on the average of the high and low prices of the Company&#8217;s common stock as
                  reported on the Nasdaq Stock Market on June 5, 2023.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center;"><u>Table 2: Fee Offset Claims and Sources</u></div>
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