IMS Ims Health Holdings, Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 3, 2016

Registration No. 333-203836

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

83 Wooster Heights Road

Danbury, CT 06810

(203) 448-4600

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (ZIP Code)

Ari Bousbib

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President

IMS Health Holdings, Inc.

83 Wooster Heights Road

Danbury, CT 06810

(203) 448-4600

(Name, address and telephone number 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 this registration statement.

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

EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

IMS Health Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Registrant ”), is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to deregister certain securities originally registered pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on May 4, 2015 (file no. 333-203836) (the “ Registration Statement ”) by the Registrant with respect to an indeterminate number of shares of common stock (par value $0.01) and shares of undesignated preferred stock.

On May 3, 2016, Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc., a North Carolina corporation (“ Quintiles ”), and the Registrant, entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement ”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Registrant will merge with and into Quintiles, with Quintiles continuing as the surviving corporation (the “ Surviving Corporation ”), and the separate corporate existence of the Registrant will cease (the “ Merger ”). Immediately prior to the completion of the Merger, Quintiles will convert to a Delaware corporation. In connection with the Merger, the offerings pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. The Registrant hereby removes from registration any of the securities of the Registrant registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold under the Registration Statement as of the filing date of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1.

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 be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Westlake Village, State of California, on the 3 ^rd day of October, 2016.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

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