SEC Form POS AM filed by Poseida Therapeutics Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 8, 2025

Registration No. 333-278559

Registration No. 333-281248

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-278559

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-281248

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

POSEIDA THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1 DNA Way

South San Francisco, California 94080

(650) 225-1000

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

Roger Brown

Roche Holdings, Inc.

1 DNA Way

South San Francisco, California 94080

Telephone: (650) 225-1000

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

Copies to:

Sharon R. Flanagan

John H. Butler

Sally Wagner Partin

Sidley Austin LLP

555 California Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, California 94104

Telephone: (415) 772-1200

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

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

Poseida Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), is filing these post-effective amendments (these “Post-Effective Amendments”) to the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statements”), which were previously filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), to deregister any and all securities registered but unsold under such Registration Statements as of the date hereof:

On November 25, 2024, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Roche Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and Blue Giant Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Offeror”). On January 8, 2025, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Offeror merged with and into the Company, with the Company surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”).

In connection with the Merger, the Company is terminating all offerings of its securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statements. The Company is filing these Post-Effective Amendments to hereby terminate the effectiveness of the Registration Statements and remove from registration any and all securities registered under the Registration Statements but that remain unsold as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statements to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings.

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 these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of South San Francisco, State of California, on this 8th day of January, 2025. No other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.