POS AM

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 25, 2016

Registration No. 333-162430

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 2

to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-162430

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   86-0883978

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

  

(IRS employer

identification no.)

7 Hamilton Landing, Suite 100

Novato, CA 94949

(415) 408-6200

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

 

 

Julie Anne Smith

President and Chief Executive Officer

Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp.

7 Hamilton Landing, Suite 100

Novato, California 94949

(415) 408-6200

(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. 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. 2 relates to the Registration Statement No. 333-162430, originally filed by Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp. (the “Company”) on Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on October 13, 2009 as amended by (i) Pre-Effective Amendment No.1 to Form S-3 on Form S-3/A, filed with, and declared effective by, the Commission on November 12, 2009, (ii) Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 on Form S-1, filed with the Commission on November 24, 2010, (iii) Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-3 on Form S-1, filed with, and declared effective by, the Commission on December 1, 2010, and (iv) Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1 on Form S-3, filed with the Commission on October 21, 2011 and declared effective by the Commission on October 21, 2011 (collectively, the “Registration Statement”), registering an aggregate of 5,557,865 shares of Company common stock, par value $0.001 per share, including 1,764,226 shares of Company common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants held Company stockholders.

The Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to its Registration Statement to withdraw and remove from registration the unissued and unsold securities issuable by the Company pursuant to the above referenced Registration Statement.

On October 25, 2016, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 12, 2016 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Horizon Pharma plc, a public limited company organized under the laws of Ireland (“Parent”), Misneach Corporation, a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Purchaser”) and the Company, Purchaser merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and as an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

As a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the above referenced Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes and withdraws from registration all securities of the Company registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, 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 Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Novato, State of California on October 25, 2016.

 

RAPTOR PHARMACEUTICAL CORP.
By:   /s/ Timothy P. Walbert
  Timothy P. Walbert
  President, Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

   

Title

  

Date

/s/ Timothy P. Walbert

Timothy P. Walbert

   

President, Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

   October 25, 2016

/s/ Paul W. Hoelscher

Paul W. Hoelscher

   

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

   October 25, 2016