SEC Form POS AM filed by Orchard Therapeutics plc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 24, 2024

Registration No. 333-263967

Registration No. 333-273891

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-263967

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-273891

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ORCHARD THERAPEUTICS PLC

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

245 Hammersmith Road

London W6 8PW

United Kingdom

+44 (0) 203 808 8286

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Cogency Global Inc.

122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor

New York, New York 10168

+1 212 947 7200

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

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. The Registrant is filing this post-effective amendment to remove from registration any securities registered hereunder that remain unsold.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

Orchard Therapeutics plc, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales (the “Registrant”), is filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) this post-effective amendment no. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) to deregister all ordinary shares, nominal value £0.10 per share (“Ordinary Shares”), of the Registrant previously registered under the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 (collectively, the “Registration Statements”), together with any other securities registered thereunder:

On January 24, 2024, pursuant to the Transaction Agreement, dated October 5, 2023 (the “Transaction Agreement”), by and between the Registrant and Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd., a Japanese joint stock company (kabushiki kaisha) (“Kyowa Kirin”), Kyowa Kirin International plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyowa Kirin, acquired the entire issued and to be issued share capital of the Registrant pursuant to a scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the U.K. Companies Act 2006 (the “Scheme of Arrangement”, and such acquisition, the “Transaction”), whereby the Registrant became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kyowa Kirin.

As a result of the Transaction, the Registrant has terminated, as of the date hereof, all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that had been registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes and withdraws from registration all of such securities, if any, as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities, and the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of 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 S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statements described above to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of London, United Kingdom, on January 24, 2024.

Pursuant to Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statements.

SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED U.S. REPRESENTATIVE OF REGISTRANT

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of Orchard Therapeutics plc has signed this registration statement on January 24, 2024.