S-1MEF

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 26, 2018

Registration No. 333-                

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

ARVINAS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)

 

2834

(Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)

 

47-2566120

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

5 Science Park

395 Winchester Ave.

New Haven, Connecticut 06511

(203) 535-1456

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

 

 

John Houston, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Arvinas, Inc.

5 Science Park

395 Winchester Ave.

New Haven, Connecticut 06511

(203) 535-1456

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

 

 

 

Copies to:

Steven D. Singer

Brian A. Johnson

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

7 World Trade Center

250 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10007

Telephone: (212) 230-8800

Fax: (212) 230-8888

 

Robert E. Puopolo

Seo Salimi

Goodwin Procter LLP

100 Northern Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02210

Telephone: (617) 570-1000

Fax: (617) 523-1231

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☒ 333-227112

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer ☐   Accelerated filer ☐    Non-accelerated filer ☒   Smaller reporting company ☐
     (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)   Emerging growth company ☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☒

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of each class of securities

to be registered

 

Amount to be

registered (1)

 

Proposed maximum

offering price

per share (2)

 

Proposed maximum

aggregate

offering price (2)

 

Amount of

registration fee

Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share

  958,333   $16.00   $15,333,328.00   $1,909.00

(1) Includes 125,000 shares of common stock the underwriters have the option to purchase.

(2) Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 solely on the basis of $16.00, the initial public offering price as set forth on the cover page of the Registrant’s final Prospectus relating to its initial public offering pursuant to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-227112).

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

This registration statement is being filed with respect to the registration of additional shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of Arvinas, Inc., a Delaware corporation, pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The contents of the earlier registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-227112), which was declared effective by the Commission on September 26, 2018, including the exhibits thereto, are incorporated in this registration statement by reference.

The required opinions and consents are listed on an Exhibit Index attached hereto and filed herewith.


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

5.1    Opinion of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
23.1    Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered public accounting firm
23.2    Consent of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1    Power of Attorney (incorporated by reference to the signature page to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-227112) filed with the Commission on August 30, 2018)


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New Haven, State of Connecticut, on this 26th day of September, 2018.

 

ARVINAS, INC.
By:   /s/ John Houston, Ph.D.
 

John Houston, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer

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

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ John Houston, Ph.D.

John Houston, Ph.D.

  

President, Chief Executive Officer and

Director

(principal executive officer)

  September 26, 2018

/s/ Sean Cassidy

Sean Cassidy

  

Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial and accounting officer)

  September 26, 2018

*

Timothy Shannon, M.D.

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 26, 2018

*

Edward Kennedy, Jr.

  

Director

  September 26, 2018

*

Jakob Loven, Ph.D.

  

Director

  September 26, 2018

*

Bradley Margus

  

Director

  September 26, 2018

*

Briggs Morrison, M.D.

  

Director

  September 26, 2018

*

Kush Parmar, M.D., Ph.D.

  

Director

  September 26, 2018

*

Liam Ratcliffe, M.D., Ph.D.

  

Director

  September 26, 2018

 

By:   /s/ John Houston, Ph.D.
 

John Houston, Ph.D.

Attorney-in-fact

 

EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

 

 

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wilmerhale.com

September 26, 2018

Arvinas, Inc.

5 Science Park

395 Winchester Ave.

New Haven, CT 06511

 

  Re:

Arvinas, Inc. – Registration Statement on Form S-1

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This opinion is furnished to you in connection with a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act, for the registration of 958,333 shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Shares”), of Arvinas, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), including 125,000 Shares issuable upon exercise of an over-allotment option granted by the Company.

The Shares are to be sold by the Company pursuant to an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) to be entered into by and among the Company and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Piper Jaffray & Co., as representatives of the several underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement, the form of which has been incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement.

We are acting as counsel for the Company in connection with the issue and sale by the Company of the Shares. We have examined signed copies of the Registration Statement as filed with the Commission. We have also examined and relied upon the Underwriting Agreement, minutes of meetings and actions of the stockholders and the Board of Directors of the Company as provided to us by the Company, stock record books of the Company as provided to us by the Company, the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company, each as restated and/or amended to date, and such other documents as we have deemed necessary for purposes of rendering the opinions hereinafter set forth.

In our examination of the foregoing documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies, the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents and the legal competence of all signatories to such documents.

 

 

 

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We express no opinion herein as to the laws of any state or jurisdiction other than the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the federal laws of the United States of America.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized for issuance and, when the Shares are issued and paid for in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Underwriting Agreement, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

Please note that we are opining only as to the matters expressly set forth herein, and no opinion should be inferred as to any other matters. This opinion is based upon currently existing statutes, rules, regulations and judicial decisions, and we disclaim any obligation to advise you of any change in any of these sources of law or subsequent legal or factual developments which might affect any matters or opinions set forth herein.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act and to the use of our name therein and in the related Prospectus under the caption “Legal Matters.” In giving such consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.

 

Very truly yours,

 

WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP

By:   /s/ Brian A. Johnson
  Brian A. Johnson, a Partner
EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-1 of our report dated June 22, 2018 (September 14, 2018 as to the effects of the reverse unit split described in Note 15), relating to the financial statements of Arvinas Holding Company, LLC included in Registration Statement No. 333-227112, and to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.

/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Hartford, Connecticut

September 26, 2018