As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 12, 2016

Registration No. 333-210339

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-210339

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Celator Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   20-2680869

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(IRS employer

identification no.)

200 PrincetonSouth Corporate Center, Suite 180

Ewing, New Jersey 08628

(609) 243-0123

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

 

 

Scott T. Jackson

Chief Executive Officer

Celator Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

200 PrincetonSouth Corporate Center, Suite 180

Ewing, New Jersey 08628

(609) 243-0123

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

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not Applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statement.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement No. 333-210339, originally filed by Celator Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “ Company ”) on Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 23, 2016 registering a proposed maximum offering price of $7,400,000 of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “ Registration Statement ”).

The Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to its Registration Statement to withdraw and remove from registration the unissued and unsold securities issuable by the Company pursuant to the above referenced Registration Statement.

On July 12, 2016, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 27, 2016 (the “ Merger Agreement ”), by and among Plex Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Purchaser ”) and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc, an Irish public limited company (“ Parent ”), Parent and the Company, Purchaser merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and as an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent.

As a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the above referenced Registration Statement. 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 securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes and withdraws from registration all securities of the Company registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or 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 Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Township of Ewing, State of New Jersey, on July 12, 2016.

 

CELATOR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

By:

 

/s/ Scott T. Jackson

  Scott T. Jackson
  Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

   Date

/s/ Scott T. Jackson

Scott T. Jackson

  

Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

   July 12, 2016

/s/ Fred M. Powell

Fred M. Powell

  

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

   July 12, 2016
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