SEC Form POS AM filed by Freeline Therapeutics Holdings plc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 22, 2024

Registration No. 333-259444

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

Freeline Therapeutics Holdings plc

(Exact Name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Sycamore House

Gunnels Wood Road

Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2BP

United Kingdom

+44 (0)1438 906870

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

Freeline Therapeutics, Inc.

c/o CT Corporation

Corporation Trust Center

1209 Orange Street

Wilmington, DE 19808

(302) 636-5401

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

With copy to:

Matthew J. Gardella, Esq.

Matthew W. Tikonoff, Esq.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

One Financial Center

Boston, Massachusetts 02111

617 542 6000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to this registration statement.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is being filed by Freeline Therapeutics Holdings plc (the “Registrant”) to withdraw and remove from registration all of the Registrant’s ordinary shares, American Depository Shares (“ADSs”), preference shares, purchase contracts, warrants and/or units (together, the “Securities”), remaining unsold under the Registration Statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-259444) (the “Registration Statement”) filed by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 10, 2021.

On November 22, 2023, the Registrant entered into an Implementation Agreement with Bidco 1354 Limited (“Bidco”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Syncona Portfolio Limited, pursuant to which Bidco agreed to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of the Registrant (other than any treasury shares) not already owned by Syncona Portfolio Limited by means of a scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the UK Companies Act 2006 (the “Scheme”). On February 12, 2024, the Registrant held a Court Meeting and a General Meeting at which the Registrant’s shareholders approved the Scheme and on February 19, 2024, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales sanctioned the Scheme, after which the Scheme was registered with the UK Companies House on February 20, 2024 and became effective.

As a result of the Scheme, the offerings pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the Securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all of the Securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof, if any. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

In addition, on February 20, 2024, the Nasdaq Capital Market filed a Form 25 to delist the Registrant’s ADSs.

SIGNATURE

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 No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form F-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in New York, New York, on February 22, 2024.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.