As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2022.

Registration No. 333- 252873

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-3

(Post-Effective Amendment No. 1)

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

COGENT BIOSCIENCES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		2834		46-5308248
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

200 Cambridge Park Drive, Suite 2500

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140

(617) 945-5576

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of principal executive offices)

 

 

Andrew Robbins

President and Chief Executive Officer

Cogent Biosciences, Inc.

200 Cambridge Park Drive, Suite 2500

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140

(617) 945-5576

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

Ryan A. Murr

Branden C. Berns

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

555 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

(415) 393-8373

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: This post-effective amendment No. 1 deregisters those securities that remain unsold hereunder as of the effective date hereof.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment”) relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), filed by Cogent Biosciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission:

 

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Registration Statement No. 333-252873, initially filed on February 9, 2021 and declared effective on March 18, 2021, utilizing a “shelf” registration process to offer and sell in one or more offerings from time to time up to a maximum aggregate offering price of $200,000,000 in securities and to register for issuance and sale, up to a maximum aggregate offering price of $75,000,000 of common stock that may be issued and sold under a sales agreement, dated February 8, 2021, with SVB Leerink LLC (“SVB Leerink”).

The Company has terminated all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with the undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of such offering, the Company hereby removes from registration by means of this Amendment, all of such securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

In reliance upon Rule 478, under the Securities Act no other person is required to sign this Amendment.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Cambridge, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on May 6, 2022.