As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 9, 2023
Registration No. 333-269972
Registration No. 333-269973
Registration No. 333-261786
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-269972
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-269973
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-261786
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
EQRX, INC.
(EQRx, LLC, as successor to EQRx, Inc.)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 86-1691173 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
50 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
(617) 315-2255
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Mark A. Goldsmith, M.D., Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Revolution Medicines, Inc.
700 Saginaw Drive
Redwood City, California 94063
(650) 481-6801
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
With copies to:
Mark V. Roeder
Joshua M. Dubofsky
Ian Nussbaum
John C. Williams
Latham & Watkins LLP
140 Scott Drive
Menlo Park, California 94025
(650) 328-4600
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
These Post-Effective Amendments (these “Post-Effective Amendments”) relate to the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 (collectively, the “Registration Statements”) filed by EQRx, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”):
• | Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-261786) initially filed on Form S-1 with the SEC on December 20, 2021, as amended March 23, 2022 and February 23, 2023, pertaining to the registration of (A) up to 19,733,333 shares of common stock of the Registrant, $0.0001 par value per share (“Common Stock”), which consists of (i) up to 8,693,333 shares of Common Stock that are issuable upon the exercise of 8,693,333 warrants (the “Placement Warrants”) originally issued in a private placement in connection with the initial public offering of CM Life Sciences III Inc. (“CMLS”) by the holders thereof and (ii) up to 11,040,000 shares of Common Stock that are issuable upon the exercise of 11,040,000 warrants (the “Public Warrants” and, together with the Placement Warrants, the “Warrants”) originally issued in the initial public offering of CMLS by the holders thereof, and (B) the registration of the offer and sale from time to time by the selling securityholders named therein of (i) up to an aggregate of 209,267,414 shares of Common Stock, including up to 8,693,333 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of 8,693,333 Placement Warrants (as defined therein), and (ii) up to 8,693,333 Placement Warrants. |
• | Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-269972) filed with the SEC on February 23, 2023, pertaining to the registration of the offer and sale from time to time by the selling securityholders named therein of up to 131,652,219 shares of Common Stock. |
• | Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-269973) filed with the SEC on February 23, 2023, pertaining to the registration of up to $300,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of an indeterminate amount of Common Stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants and/or units. |
On November 9, 2023, pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 31, 2023 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Registrant, Revolution Medicines, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Revolution Medicines”), Equinox Merger Sub I, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Revolution Medicines (“Merger Sub I”), and Equinox Merger Sub II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Revolution Medicines (“Merger Sub II”), Merger Sub I merged with and into the Registrant (the “First Merger”), with the Registrant surviving the First Merger as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Revolution Medicines (the “First Merger Surviving Corporation”), and following the First Merger, the First Merger Surviving Corporation merged with and into Merger Sub II, with Merger Sub II surviving as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Revolution Medicines (together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”).
As a result of the Mergers, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statements that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statements, if any, as of the date hereof.
The foregoing description of the Mergers, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 31, 2023.
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 S-3 and has duly caused these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements described above to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Cambridge, Commonwealth of Massachusetts on November 9, 2023.
EQRx, LLC (as successor by merger to EQRx, Inc.) | ||
By: | /s/ Jack Anders | |
Name: | Jack Anders | |
Title: | Chief Financial Officer |
No other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933.