As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13, 2023.

Registration No. 333–

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

SAGIMET BIOSCIENCES INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   2834   20-5991472
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

Sagimet Biosciences Inc.

155 Bovet Road, Suite 303

San Mateo, California 94402

(650) 561-8600

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

 

David Happel
President and Chief Executive Officer
155 Bovet Road, Suite 303
San Mateo, California 94402
(650) 561-8600

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

 

Copies to:

 

Rachael Bushey
Marianne Sarrazin
Alicia Tschirhart
Goodwin Procter LLP
Three Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor
San Francisco, California 94111
(415) 733-6000
  Dennis Hom
Chief Financial Officer
155 Bovet Road, Suite 303
San Mateo, California 94402
(650) 561-8600
  John T. McKenna
Natalie Y. Karam
Denny Won
Cooley LLP
3175 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 843-5000

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.

 

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 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, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. x - 333-272901

 

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 post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) 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. ¨

 

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

 

Large accelerated filer  ¨ Accelerated filer  ¨
Non-accelerated filer  x Smaller reporting company  x
    Emerging growth company  x

 

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. ¨

 

The Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing in accordance with Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

This Registration Statement is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for the sole purpose of increasing the aggregate number of shares of Series A common stock offered by Sagimet Biosciences Inc. (the “Registrant”) by 718,750 shares, 93,750 of which are subject to purchase upon exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares of the Registrant’s Series A common stock. The contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333–272901), filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the Securities Act, including all amendments and exhibits thereto (the “Prior Registration Statement”), which was declared effective by the Commission on July 13, 2023, are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.

 

The additional shares of Series A common stock that are being registered for issuance and sale are in an amount and at a price that together represent no more than 20% of the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in Exhibit 107 of the Prior Registration Statement.

 

The required opinion and consents are listed on an Exhibit Index attached hereto and filed herewith or incorporated by reference herein.

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
No.
  Exhibit Index
   
5.1   Opinion of Goodwin Procter LLP
   
23.1   Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered public accounting firm
   
23.2   Consent of Goodwin Procter LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
   
24.1*   Power of Attorney
     
107   Filing Fee Table

 

* Previously included on the signature page to the Prior Registration Statement, originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 23, 2023 and incorporated by reference herein.

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Mateo, State of California, on the 13th day of July, 2023.

 

  SAGIMET BIOSCIENCES INC.
   
  By: /s/ David Happel
  Name: David Happel
  Title: President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in their capacities and on the date indicated.

 

NAME   TITLE   DATE
         
/s/ David Happel   President, Chief Executive Officer and Director   July 13, 2023
David Happel   Principal Executive Officer    
         
/s/ Dennis Hom   Chief Financial Officer   July 13, 2023
Dennis Hom   Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer    
         
*   Executive Chairman of the Board   July 13, 2023
George Kemble, Ph.D.        
         
*   Director   July 13, 2023
Elizabeth Grammer, Esq.        
         
*   Director   July 13, 2023
Merdad Parsey, M.D., Ph.D.        

 

*   Director   July 13, 2023
Richard Rodgers        
         
*   Director   July 13, 2023
Beth Seidenberg, M.D.        
         
*   Director   July 13, 2023
Jinzi J. Wu, Ph.D.        

 

*By: /s/ David Happel  
  David Happel  
  Attorney-in-Fact  

 

 

 

Exhibit 5.1

 

July 13, 2023

 

Sagimet Biosciences Inc.

155 Bovet Road, Suite 303

San Mateo, California 94402

 

  Re: Securities Registered under Registration Statement on Form S-1

 

We have acted as counsel to you in connection with your filing of (i) a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-272901) (as amended or supplemented, the “Initial Registration Statement”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and (ii) a second registration statement on Form S-1 filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act (the “462(b) Registration Statement,” and together with the Initial Registration Statement, the “Registration Statement”). This opinion letter is being furnished to you in connection with your filing of the 462(b) Registration Statement, relating to the registration of the offering by Sagimet Biosciences Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), of up to 718,750 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s Series A Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share, including 93,750 shares purchasable by the underwriters upon their exercise of an over-allotment option granted to the underwriters by the Company. The Shares are being sold to the several underwriters named in, and pursuant to, an underwriting agreement among the Company and such underwriters (the “Underwriting Agreement”).

 

We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinions set forth below. We have relied, without independent verification, on certificates of public officials and, as to matters of fact material to the opinions set forth below, on certificates of officers of the Company.

 

The opinion set forth below is limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, when delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

This opinion letter and the opinion it contains shall be interpreted in accordance with the Core Opinion Principles as published in 74 Business Lawyer 815 (Summer 2019).

 

We hereby consent to the inclusion of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement and to the references to our firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Registration Statement. In giving our consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  /s/ Goodwin Procter LLP
   
  GOODWIN PROCTER LLP

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.1

 

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-1 MEF of our report dated March 24, 2023 (July 9, 2023, as to the effects of the reverse stock split described in Note 14) relating to the financial statements of Sagimet Biosciences Inc, included in Registration Statement No. 333-272901 on Form S-1 of Sagimet Biosciences Inc. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading "Experts" in such Registration Statement.

 

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

 

San Francisco, California
July 13, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 107

 

Calculation of Filing Fee Tables

 

Form S-1

(Form Type)

 

Sagimet Biosciences Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Table 1: Newly Registered Securities

 

                 
    Security
Type
  Security
Class
Title
  Fee
Calculation
or Carry
Forward
Rule
  Amount
Registered(1)
  Proposed
Maximum
Offering
Price Per
Unit
  Maximum
Aggregate
Offering
Price(1)(2)
  Fee Rate   Amount of
Registration
Fee
                 
Fees
to
Be
Paid
  Equity   Series A common stock,
$0.0001 par value per share
  457(o)   718,750   $16.00   $11,500,000   0.0001102   $1267.30
    Total Offering Amounts       $11,500,000       $1267.30
    Total Fees Previously Paid              
    Total Fee Offsets              
    Net Fee Due               $1267.30(3)

 

 

(1) Represents only the additional number of shares being registered and includes 93,750 shares of Series A common stock that the underwriters have the option to purchase. Does not include the securities that the Registrant previously registered on the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-272901), as amended (the “Prior Registration Statement”).

(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

(3) The registration fee is calculated in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act based on the proposed maximum aggregate offering price. The registrant previously registered securities on the Prior Registration Statement having a proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $91,640,625, which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13, 2023. In accordance with Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, an additional amount of securities having a proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $11,500,000 is hereby registered, which includes shares issuable upon the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.