DBTX Decibel Therapeutics Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 25, 2023

Registration No. 333-263671

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-263671

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Decibel Therapeutics, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

1325 Boylston Street, Suite 500

Boston, Massachusetts 02215

(617) 370-8701

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

Nouhad Husseini

Managing Director

Decibel Therapeutics, Inc.

1325 Boylston Street, Suite 500

Boston, Massachusetts 02215

(617) 370-8701

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

Copy to:

Andrew R. Brownstein, Esq.

Victor Goldfeld, Esq.

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

51 West 52nd Street

New York, NY 10019

(212) 403-1000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-263671) (the “Registration Statement”), originally filed by Decibel Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Decibel”), with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on March 18, 2022, and declared effective by the Commission on May 17, 2022, registering the issuance and sale by Decibel of up to $200,000,000 in aggregate offering price of any combination of Decibel’s debt securities, common stock, preferred stock, units and/or warrants.

On September 25, 2023, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 8, 2023 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Decibel, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a New York corporation (“Regeneron”), and Symphony Acquisition Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Regeneron (“Purchaser”), Purchaser merged with and into Decibel, with Decibel surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Regeneron.

As a result of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, Decibel has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Decibel, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration any and all securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities. After giving effect to this Post-Effective Amendment, there will be no securities registered by Decibel pursuant to the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Tarrytown, New York, on this 25th day of September, 2023.

Pursuant to Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment.