POSASR 1 ef20024324_posasr.htm POSASR

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2024

Registration No. 333-272813

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

KARUNA THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		27-0605902
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

99 High Street, Floor 26

Boston, Massachusetts 02110

(857) 449-2244

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

Kimberly M. Jablonski

Vice President and Secretary

Karuna Therapeutics, Inc.

99 High Street, Floor 26

Boston, Massachusetts 02110

(857) 449-2244

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

Copies to:

Catherine J. Dargan, Esq.

Michael J. Riella, Esq.

Kerry S. Burke, Esq.

Andrew Fischer, Esq.

Covington & Burling LLP

One CityCenter

850 Tenth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001-4956

+1 (202) 662-6000

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

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Deregistration of Unsold Securities

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-272813) (the “Registration Statement”) originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) on June 21, 2023.

As of March 18, 2024, the Company, has been acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (“Bristol-Myers Squibb”) pursuant to a certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of December 22, 2023, by and among the Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Miramar Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Bristol-Myers Squibb (“Merger Sub”). On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation in the Merger and a wholly owned subsidiary of Bristol-Myers Squibb.

As a result of the Merger, the Company is terminating all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement by filing this Post-Effective Amendment. 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 of the Company’s securities registered under the Registration Statement which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration any securities registered under the Registration Statement which remained unsold as of the date hereof, and the Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

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 this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Princeton, New Jersey, on March 18, 2024. No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

	KARUNA THERAPEUTICS, INC.

	By:	/s/ Kimberly M. Jablonski
		Name: Kimberly M. Jablonski
		Title: Vice President and Secretary