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:
• | 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.
COGENT BIOSCIENCES, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Andrew Robbins | |
Andrew Robbins | ||
President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) |