As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1, 2021

Registration No. 333-230102

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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 PRA Health Sciences, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

  

  

4130 ParkLake Avenue

Suite 400

Raleigh, NC 27612

(919) 786-8200

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

PRA Health Sciences, Inc.
4130 ParkLake Avenue, Suite 400
Raleigh, North Carolina 27612
(919) 786-8200

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

 

 Copies to:

 

William M. Hartnett
Kimberly C. Petillo-Décossard
Ross E. Sturman
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
32 Old Slip
New York, NY 10005

(212) 701-3000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not Applicable

 

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-230102), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2019 (the “Registration Statement”), of PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (the “Company”), to deregister any and all securities, registered but unsold or otherwise unissued as of the date hereof under the Registration Statement, which registered shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”).

  

On February 24, 2021, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as it may be amended from time to time) (the “Merger Agreement”) with ICON plc (“ICON”), ICON US Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ICON (“US HoldCo”), and Indigo Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ICON and US HoldCo (“Merger Sub”), providing for, among other things, the merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a subsidiary of ICON and US HoldCo. The Merger became effective on July 1, 2021, upon the filing of the certificate of merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of the Common Stock pursuant to the 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 registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all of the Common Stock registered under the Registration Statement as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1.

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant, PRA Health Sciences, Inc., 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 Raleigh, North Carolina, as of July 1, 2021.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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