RARX Ra Pharmaceuticals Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 2, 2020

Registration No. 333-231320

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT (REG. NO. 333-231320)

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Douglas A. Treco, Ph.D.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Ra Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

87 Cambridgepark Drive

Cambridge, MA 02140

(Name and address of agent for service)

(617) 401-4060

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by Ra Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”):

·                  Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-231320), filed with the SEC on May 9, 2019.

The Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to deregister all securities that remain unsold under the above-referenced Registration Statement.

On April 2, 2020, pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of October 9, 2019, by and among UCB S.A., a société anonyme formed under the Laws of Belgium (“Parent”), Franq Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger Sub”), and the Registrant, Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant surviving the merger as an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”).

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.  In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unissued at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all securities registered but unsold under such Registration Statement, if any, as of the date hereof.

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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 the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused the Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Cambridge, State of Massachusetts on April 2, 2020.

Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement, in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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