EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Amendment No. 3 (the
Amendment
) to Schedule 13D (the
Schedule 13D
) of Patrick Machado (the
Reporting Person
) relates to the Common Shares, no par value (the
Common Shares
), of Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (the
Issuer
). Pursuant to Rule 13d-2 under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
Exchange Act
), this Amendment No. 3 amends and supplements certain items of the prior report on Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on October 19, 2016 relating to the Common Shares, as amended and restated (the
Original Schedule 13D
). The Reporting Person previously reported beneficial ownership of Common Shares directly owned by Roivant Sciences Ltd. (
Roivant
) as a result of his status as a director of Roivant who meets certain independence criteria (an
Independent Director
). The Reporting Person is filing this amended Schedule 13D to report that, based on changes in the internal governance of Roivant, the Reporting Person is no longer deemed to beneficially own the Common Shares of the Issuer directly owned by Roivant. This Amendment thus constitutes an exit filing for the Reporting Person. Roivants ownership of the Issuers Common Shares remains unchanged and this filing is not being made as a result of the purchase or sale of Common Shares of the Issuer by any party, including the Reporting Person. All capitalized terms contained herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Original Schedule 13D.
Item 2. Identity and Background
Item 2(c) of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:
(c) The Reporting Person serves on the board of directors of Chimerix, Inc., SCYNEXIS, Inc., Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc. and Principia Biopharma Inc., which are all publicly traded biopharmaceutical companies, and on the board of directors of Turnstone Biologics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company. The Reporting Person also serves on the board of Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company, and of Therachon AG and Auransa, Inc., which are both privately held biotechnology companies. The Reporting Person is the chair of the board of directors of Armaron Bio Pty. Ltd., a privately held biotechnology company. The address of Chimerix, Inc. is 505 Meridian Parkway, Suite 100, Durham, North Carolina. The address of SCYNEXIS, Inc. is 101 Hudson Street, Suite 3610, Jersey City, New Jersey. The address of Armaron Bio Pty. Ltd. is Level 1/120 Jolimont Road, East Melbourne 3002 VIC Australia. The address of Therachon AG is Aeschenvorstadt 36, Basel, Switzerland. The address of Auransa, Inc. is 550 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, California. The address of Turnstone Biologics is 787 Bank Street, 2nd Floor, Ottawa, ON K1S 3V5, Canada. The address of Turning Point Therapeutics is 10628 Science Center Drive, Ste. 225, San Diego, California. The address of Principia Biopharma 220 East Grand Avenue, South San Francisco, California.
Item 4. Purpose of Transaction
Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:
The Reporting Person previously reported beneficial ownership of Common Shares on the Original Schedule 13D as a result of his appointment as an Independent Director and Roivants internal governance documents pursuant to which dispositions of the Common Shares required the approval of a majority of Roivants board of directors, including (i) at least two Independent Directors, or, (ii) if there is only one Independent Director, that sole Independent Director and, absent the approval of at least two Independent Directors (or if only one Independent Director at such time the approval of that sole Independent Director), the unanimous approval of all Roivant principal shareholders. The Reporting Person is filing this Amendment as a result of an amendment to the bye-laws of Roivant of directors, pursuant to which dispositions of the Common Shares by Roivant require the approval of a majority of Roivants board of directors, including (i) at least one Independent Director, or (ii) if there is only one Independent Director that sole Independent Director, the approval of majority of Roivants shareholders. The Reporting Person is currently an Independent Director of Roivant. However, following such amendments, the vote of a majority of Roivants shareholders holding 5% or more of Roivants shares may override certain decisions of Roivants board of directors, including with respect to dispositions of Common Shares. As a result of these changes, the Reporting Person is no longer deemed to beneficially own the Common Shares of the Issuer directly owned by Roivant.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer
Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:
The information contained on each of the cover pages of this Schedule 13D and set forth or incorporated in Items 2, 3, 4 and 6 are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
(a) - (b)
As reported in Item 4 above, the Reporting Person is no longer deemed to have beneficial ownership of the Common Shares owned directly by Roivant. The Reporting Person does not own any Common Shares directly. Roivant continues to own the 16,013,540 Common Shares previously reported directly owned by Roivant.
(c) Except as described in this Schedule 13D, the Reporting Person has not effected any transactions in the Common Shares during the last 60 days.
(d) To the best knowledge of the Reporting Person, no person other than Roivant has the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the Common Shares beneficially owned by the Reporting Person.
(e) On July 10, 2019, the Reporting Person ceased to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Issuers Common Shares.
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