As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2019

 

Registration No. 333-222042

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM F-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

  

Motif Bio plc

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

   

Not Applicable

(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)

 

United Kingdom   98-1332437
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (IRS Employer
Identification No.)

  

125 Park Avenue
25th Floor
New York, NY 10011
United States
(646) 880-3050

(Address and telephone number of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

 

Graham Lumsden, CEO
Motif Bio plc
125 Park Avenue
25th Floor
New York, NY 10011
United States
(646) 880-3050

(Name, address, and telephone number of agent for service)

 

 

 

Copies to:

James Wilkinson
Reed Smith LLP

The Broadgate Tower

20 Primrose Street

London EC2A 2RS

T: +44 (0)20 3116 3000

F: +44 (0)20 3116 3999

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not Applicable

 

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ☐

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. ☐

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

 

 

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.C. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ☐

 

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.

 

  Emerging growth company x

 

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, 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 Securities Act . ☐

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

 

This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed to deregister unsold securities of Motif Bio plc, a company organized as a U.K. public limited company (the “Registrant”), that were registered on the Registration Statement on Form F-3, SEC File No. 333-222042 (the “Registration Statement”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 13, 2017, under which the Registrant registered the resale by certain selling shareholders named therein of up to 11,099,220 ordinary shares, consisting of (a) 73,452 ADSs issuable upon the exercise of a warrant issued on November 14, 2017 in connection with the Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of November 14, 2017, by and between Motif BioSciences Inc. and Hercules Capital, Inc., (b) 9,213,535 ordinary shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants that were issued by the Registrant in a private placement transaction on April 2, 2015, and (iii) 416,645 ordinary shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants that were issued by the Registrant in a private placement transaction on December 31, 2010.

 

The Registrant intends to file a Form 15 to terminate its duty to file reports under Section 13(a) and 15(d) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In accordance with the undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby amends the Registration Statement to remove from registration all securities that were registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement described above to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in in New York, New York, on December 23, 2019.

 

 

MOTIF BIO PLC

 
     
  By: /s/ Graham Lumsden  
    Name: Graham Lumsden  
    Title: Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) and Director

 

 

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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