Post-effective Amendment to Registration Statement (pos Am)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 4, 2023

Registration No. 333-223518

Registration No. 333-255760

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-223518

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-255760

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

JOUNCE THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Delaware						45-4870634
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)						(IRS Employer Identification No.)

780 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)

Michael Hearne

Chief Financial Officer

Jounce Therapeutics, Inc.

4747 Executive Drive, Suite 210

San Diego, California 92121

[phone]

(Name, Address and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

Ryan A. Murr

James J. Moloney

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

555 Mission Street, 30th Floor

San Francisco, California 94105

[phone]

Christopher Comeau

Ropes & Gray LLP

Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02199

[phone]

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

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

These Post-Effective Amendments (the “Post-Effective Amendments”) filed by Jounce Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), relate to the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 (together, the “Registration Statements”):

1.Registration Statement No. 333-223518, registering the sale of up to (a) $250,000,000 of (i) senior or subordinated debt securities (“Debt Securities”), (ii) shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Registrant (the “Common Stock”), (iii) shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Registrant (the “Preferred Stock”), (iv) fractional shares of Preferred Stock (“Depositary Shares”), (v) purchase contracts, including contracts obligating holders to purchase from or sell to the Registrant, and obligating the Registrant to sell to or purchase from the holders, a specified number of shares of Common Stock, Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares at a future date or dates (“Purchase Contracts”), (vi) units consisting of one or more Purchase Contracts and beneficial interests in Debt Securities or any other securities described in the applicable prospectus supplement or any combination of the foregoing, securing the holders’ obligations to purchase the Common Stock, Preferred Stock or Depositary Shares under the Purchase Contracts (“Units”), (vii) warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares or Debt Securities (“Warrants”) and (viii) rights to purchase shares of Common Stock, Preferred Stock or the other securities described therein (“Rights”), or any combination thereof, in each case offered by the Registrant, and (b) 13,279,129 shares of Common Stock offered by the Selling Stockholders (as defined therein), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 8, 2018, and amended on April 9, 2018.

2.Registration Statement No. 333-255760, registering the sale of up to (a) $250,000,000 of (i) Debt Securities, (ii) shares of Common Stock, (iii) shares of Preferred Stock, (iv) Depositary Shares, (v) Purchase Contracts, (vi) Units, (vii) Warrants and (viii) Rights, or any combination thereof, in each case offered by the Registrant, and (b) 9,549,129 shares of Common Stock offered by the Selling Stockholders

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(as defined therein), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 4, 2021.

On March 26, 2023, the Registrant entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Concentra Biosciences, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), and Concentra Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, on May 3, 2023, Merger Sub was merged with and into the Registrant with the Registrant surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”). In the Merger, each share of Common Stock (other than Excluded Shares or Dissenting Shares, each as defined in the Merger Agreement) (the “Shares”) was cancelled and converted into the right to receive (i) $1.85 per Share, net to the seller, without interest and subject to any withholding of taxes, plus (ii) one non-transferrable contractual contingent value right per Share.

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in each of the Registration Statements 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 the offerings, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all such securities registered under the Registration Statements that remain unsold as of the date hereof and terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 478 thereunder, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements and has duly caused these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Diego, State of California, on May 4, 2023.

JOUNCE THERAPEUTICS, INC.
By: /s/ Michael Hearne
Name: Michael Hearne Title: Chief Financial Officer