CERE Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 1, 2024

Registration No. 333-268235

Registration No. 333-264812

Registration No. 333-260945

Registration No. 333-250964

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-268235

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-264812

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-260945

Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-250964

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CEREVEL THERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

85-3911080

(I.R.S Employer Identification Number)

c/o AbbVie, Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

(847) 932-7900

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

Perry C. Siatis

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

c/o AbbVie, Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

(847) 932-7900

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

Copies to:

Eric L. Schiele, P.C.

Carlo Zenkner, P.C.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

(212) 446-4800

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statements.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

These Post-Effective Amendments (these “Post-Effective Amendments”) relate to the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 (each, a “Registration Statement,” and collectively, the “Registration Statements”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), and are being filed to deregister any and all securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued as of the date hereof under the Registration Statements:

On August 1, 2024, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of December 6, 2023, by and among AbbVie Inc., a Delaware corporation (“AbbVie”), Symphony Harlan LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of AbbVie (“Intermediate Holdco”), Symphony Harlan Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Intermediate Holdco (“Merger Sub”), and the Registrant, Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of AbbVie (the “Merger”).

As a result of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statements that remain unissued at the termination of the offerings, by filing these Post-Effective Amendments, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statements, if any, as of the date hereof, and the Registration Statements are hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

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 these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of North Chicago, State of Illinois, on August 1, 2024.

No other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements on Form S-3 in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.