Clarus Therapeutics (CRXTQ) POS AMProspectus update (post-effective amendment)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2023

Registration No. 333-261743

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2

TO

FORM S-1 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Clarus Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

355 S. Grand Avenue, Suite 1450

Los Angeles, CA 90071

(847) 562-4300 

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

Lawrence R. Perkins

Chief Restructuring Officer

355 S. Grand Avenue, Suite 1450

Clarus Therapeutics Holdings, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA 90071

(847) 562-4300 

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

Copies to:

Mitchell S. Bloom, Esq.

Marianne Sarrazin, Esq.

Goodwin Procter LLP

100 Northern Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02210

Tel: (617) 570-1000

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. 2, filed by Clarus Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or the Registrant, relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-261743), originally filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by the Registrant on December 17, 2021, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed on April 1, 2022, or the Registration Statement, pertaining to the registration for resale from time to time by the selling securityholder named therein of up to an aggregate of 6,048,388 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, which consists of (i) up to 2,300,000 shares of common stock, (ii) up to 724,194 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of 724,194 pre-funded warrants, and (iii) up to 3,024,194 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of 3,024,194 common warrants, held by the selling securityholder named therein.

On September 5, 2022, the Registrant, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Clarus Therapeutics, Inc., filed voluntary petitions for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The filing was made in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (Case No. 22-10845), or the Chapter 11 Case.

In connection with the Chapter 11 Case, any and all offerings pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of post-effective amendment, any of the shares that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all shares of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Los Angeles, in the State of California on March 1, 2023.