RKLYQ Rockley Photonics Holdings Ltd (PK)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 23, 2023

Registration No. 333-267300

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

3^rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road

Altrincham, Cheshire, United Kingdom, WA14 2DT

+44 (0) 1865 292017

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Tom Adams, Esq.

General Counsel

Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited

3rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road

Altrincham, Cheshire, United Kingdom, WA14 2DT

+44 (0) 1865 292017

Copies to:

James J. Masetti, Esq.

Davina K. Kaile, Esq.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

2550 Hanover Street

Palo Alto, CA 94304

Tel: (650) 233-4500

Fax: (650) 233-4545

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: This post-effective amendment is being filed to deregister the unsold securities previously registered under this Registration Statement.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-267300) of Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited (the “Registrant”), which was initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 6, 2022 and declared effective on September 16, 2022 (the “Registration Statement”). This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed to deregister, as of the effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment, all unissued and unsold securities of the Registrant previously registered under the Registration Statement.

As previously disclosed, on January 23, 2023, the Registrant filed a voluntary petition for relief under chapter 11 of title 11 (the “Chapter 11 Case”) of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Bankruptcy Court”). As a result of the Chapter 11 Case, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.

Pursuant to the undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment to terminate the effectiveness of such Registration Statement and to deregister, as of the effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment, any and all securities registered thereunder that remain unsold as of the effectiveness date. As a result of this deregistration and upon the effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment, no securities will remain registered for sale pursuant to the Registration Statement.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, 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 London, United Kingdom, on February 23, 2023.

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

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