As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 15, 2024.
Registration No. 333-271663
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-271663
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Axonics, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 45-4744083 | ||||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||||
26 Technology Drive Irvine, California 92618
(949) 396-6322
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Vance R. Brown
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Axonics, Inc.
26 Technology Drive
Irvine, California 92618
(949) 396-6322
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Clare O’Brien Richard Alsop Derrick Lott Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP 599 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10022-6069 Telephone: (212) 848-4000 | ||
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statement.
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Automatic Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-271663) (the “Registration Statement”) previously filed by Axonics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 2023, pertaining to the registration of an indeterminate number of (a) shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), (b) shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share, (c) debt securities, (d) warrants, (e) units, (f) rights, and (g) shares of Common Stock offered by selling stockholders from time to time, and removes from registration all securities previously registered under the Registration Statement that have not been sold or otherwise issued as of the date hereof.
On November 15, 2024, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of January 8, 2024, by and among the Registrant, Boston Scientific Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and Sadie Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”).
As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with undertakings made by Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the Registrant’s securities that had been registered under the Registration Statement which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes and withdraws from registration any and all such securities of the Registrant registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities, and the Registrant terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.
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 on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Marlborough, State of Massachusetts on November 15, 2024.
| AXONICS, INC. | ||||||||
| By: | /s/ Susan Thompson | |||||||
| Name: | Susan Thompson | |||||||
| Title: | Vice President and | |||||||
| Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.