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| CUSIP No. 15678U128 |
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This Amendment No. 5 to Schedule 13D relates to shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the
“Common Stock”), of Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), and amends the initial statement on Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on November 4, 2020, as amended by Amendment
No. 1 filed on July 9, 2021, Amendment No. 2 filed on March 3, 2022, Amendment No. 3 filed on August 18, 2022 and Amendment No. 4 filed on October 18, 2023 (the “Initial Statement” and, as further
amended by this Amendment No. 5, the “Schedule 13D”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Initial Statement.
| Item 5. |
Interest in Securities of the Issuer |
Item 5 of the Initial Statement is hereby amended and restated as follows:
The information set forth in Items 2 and 3 and on the cover pages of this Schedule 13D is incorporated by reference in its entirety into this Item 5.
(a) – (c) As of the date hereof, the Reporting Person holds 65,679,781 shares of Common Stock, representing approximately 36.4% of the outstanding shares
of Common Stock. The percentage of the outstanding shares of Common Stock held by the Reporting Person is based on 180,278,078 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding, as reported by the Issuer in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2023.
As a result of the voting arrangements contained in the
Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement described under Item 6 of this Schedule 13D, the Reporting Person and Pfizer Inc. (“Pfizer”) may be deemed to be a group for purposes of Section 13(d) under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended. As of the date hereof, based on publicly available information, Pfizer owns 27,349,211 shares of Common Stock, or approximately 15.2% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock. The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership of
the shares of Common Stock held by Pfizer.
(d) Except as otherwise described in this Item 5, no one other than the Reporting Person has the right to
receive, or the power to direct the receipt of, dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, any of the Common Stock beneficially owned by the Reporting Person as described in this Item 5.
(e) Not applicable.
| Item 6. |
Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer
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Item 6 of the Initial Statement is hereby amended and supplemented to add the following:
Support Agreement
As disclosed by the Issuer in its
Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 7, 2023, on December 6, 2023 the Issuer entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger
Agreement”) with AbbVie Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Symphony Harlan LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Intermediate Holdco”), and Symphony Harlan Merger Sub Inc.,
a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Intermediate Holdco (“Merger Sub”), pursuant to which, and on the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, Merger Sub will merge with and into the Issuer, with the Issuer
surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”).
In connection with the entry into the Merger Agreement, the Reporting Person
entered into a Support Agreement, dated as of December 6, 2023, with Parent, Intermediate Holdco and Merger Sub (the “Support Agreement”), pursuant to which the Reporting Person agreed, among other things, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth therein, to vote all shares of Common Stock held by the Reporting Person in favor of the adoption and approval of the Merger Agreement and the approval of the Merger.
The foregoing summary of the Support Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Support Agreement, which
is filed as an exhibit hereto and incorporated by reference herein.