As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2019

Registration No. 333-                 

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

SIERRA ONCOLOGY, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   2834   20-0138994

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

c/o 2150-885 West Georgia Street

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6C 3E8

(604) 558-6536

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

 

 

Nick Glover

Chief Executive Officer

c/o 2150 – 885 West Georgia Street

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6C 3E8

(604) 558-6536

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

 

 

Copies to:

 

Stephen M. Graham, Esq.

Robert A. Freedman, Esq.

Amanda L. Rose, Esq.

Fenwick & West LLP

1191 Second Avenue, 10th Floor

Seattle, Washington 98101

(206) 389-4510

 

Sukhi Jagpal

Chief Financial Officer

c/o 2150 – 885 West Georgia Street

Vancouver, British Columbia

Canada V6C 3E8

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  ☐

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, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to 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.  ☒ 333-225650

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 registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company or emerging growth company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:

 

Large accelerated filer      Accelerated filer  
Non-accelerated filer      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

 

Proposed

Maximum
Aggregate Offering
Price(1)

  Amount of
Registration Fee(2)

Common stock, $0.001 par value per share

   

Preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share

   

Warrants

   

Total(3)

  $40,000,000   $5,192

 

 

(1) 

The registrant previously registered the offer and sale of certain securities, including its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”), and warrants to purchase shares of its Common Stock and Preferred Stock, having a proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $200,000,000 pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-225650), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 21, 2018 (the “Related Registration Statement”). As of the date hereof, a balance of $200,000,000 of such securities remains to be offered and sold under the Related Registration Statement. In accordance with Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act, an additional amount of the registrant’s Common Stock, Preferred Stock, and warrants to purchase Common Stock and Preferred Stock having a proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $40,000,000 is hereby registered, representing no more than 20% of the maximum aggregate offering price of unsold securities under the Prior Registration. The securities registered hereunder also include such indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock as may be issued upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any securities that provide for such issuance or pursuant to the antidilution provisions of any of such securities.

(2) 

Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

(3) 

Consisting of some or all of the securities listed above, in any combination, including common stock, preferred stock, and warrants.

 

 

 

This Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.


EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION OF

CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE

This Registration Statement is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and General Instruction IV(A) to Form S-3 to register an additional $40,000,000 of the Registrant’s securities. In accordance with Rule 462(b), this Registration Statement incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-225650), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2018 and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 21, 2018, including all exhibits thereto and all information incorporated by reference therein, other than the exhibits included herein.

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


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number
  

Description of the Document

5.1   

Opinion of Fenwick & West LLP.

23.1   

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

23.2   

Consent of Fenwick & West LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).

24.1*    Power of Attorney.

 

*

Previously filed on the signature page of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-225650), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2018, and incorporated by reference herein.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of 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 Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Vancouver, Province of British Columbia, on this 7th day of November, 2019.

 

  SIERRA ONCOLOGY, INC.
By:  

/s/ Nick Glover

  Dr. Nick Glover
 

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement on Form S-3 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Nick Glover

Nick Glover

   President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)   November 7, 2019

/s/ Sukhi Jagpal

Sukhi Jagpal

   Chief Financial Officer (Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)   November 7, 2019

*

Donald Parfet

  

Chairman of the Board

  November 7, 2019

*

Andrew Allen

  

Director

  November 7, 2019

*

Jeffrey H. Cooper

  

Director

  November 7, 2019

*

Daniel Estes

  

Director

  November 7, 2019

*

Tran Nguyen

  

Director

  November 7, 2019

*

Nicole Onetto

  

Director

  November 7, 2019

*

Robert Pelzer

  

Director

  November 7, 2019

 

*By:  

/s/ Nick Glover

  Nick Glover
  Attorney-in-fact
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