As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 7, 2021
Registration No. 333-238058
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
PTC THERAPEUTICS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 04-3153858 | |
| (State of incorporation) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
100 Corporate Court
South Plainfield, NJ 07080
(908) 222-7000
(Address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
Stuart W. Peltz, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
PTC Therapeutics, Inc.
100 Corporate Court
South Plainfield, New Jersey 07080
(908) 222-7000
(Name, address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
| Brian A. Johnson Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 7 World Trade Center 250 Greenwich Street New York, New York 10007 Telephone: (212) 230-8800 Fax: (212) 526-8888 |
Mark E. Boulding Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer PTC Therapeutics, Inc. 100 Corporate Court South Plainfield, New Jersey 07080-2449 Telephone: (908) 222-7000 Fax: (908) 222-1128 |
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.
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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Automatic Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-238058) (the “Registration Statement”) of PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) pertaining to the resale of shares of the Company’s common stock held by selling stockholders listed therein (the “Selling Stockholders”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and became effective on May 7, 2020.
The Company’s contractual obligation to maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement with respect to the shares of common stock held by the Selling Stockholders has terminated, and the Company wishes to discontinue the effectiveness of the Registration Statement. As a result and pursuant to the Company’s undertaking in Item 17 of Part II of the Registration Statement, the Company hereby removes from registration any and all unsold securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended to reflect the deregistration of such unsold securities, and the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is hereby terminated.
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-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Borough of South Plainfield, State of New Jersey, on this 7th day of January, 2021.
| PTC THERAPEUTICS, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Stuart W. Peltz, Ph.D. | |
| Stuart W. Peltz, Ph.D. | ||
| Chief Executive Officer | ||
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
| Signature | Title | Date | ||
| /s/ Stuart W. Peltz, Ph.D. | Chief Executive Officer and Director | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Stuart W. Peltz, Ph.D. | (principal executive officer) | |||
| * | Chief Financial Officer | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Emily Hill | (principal financial officer) | |||
| * | Chief Accounting Officer | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Christine Utter | (principal accounting officer) | |||
| * | Chairman of the Board and Director | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Michael Schmertzler | ||||
| * | Director | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Allan Jacobson, Ph.D. | ||||
| * | Director | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Stephanie S. Okey, M.S. | ||||
| * | Director | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Emma Reeve | ||||
| * | Director | January 7, 2021 | ||
| David P. Southwell | ||||
| * | Director | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Glenn D. Steele, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. | ||||
| * | Director | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Dawn Svoronos | ||||
| * | Director | January 7, 2021 | ||
| Jerome B. Zeldis, M.D., Ph.D. | ||||
| *By: | /s/ Stuart W. Peltz, Ph.D. | |
| Stuart W. Peltz, Ph.D. | ||
| Attorney-in-Fact |