VTAE Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (MM)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 25, 2016.

Registration No. 333-207290

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

502 West Office Center Drive

Fort Washington, PA 19034

(215) 461-2000

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

A. Robert D. Bailey, Esq.

President

Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

c/o Allergan, Inc.

Morris Corporate Center III

400 Interpace Parkway

Parsippany, NJ 07054

(862) 261-7000

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

Copies to:

Andrew L. Bab, Esq.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

919 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

(212) 909-6323

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: This post-effective amendment deregisters those shares of common stock that remain unsold hereunder as of the effective date hereof.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-207290) previously filed by Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on October 5, 2015, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 filed with the Commission on October 30, 2015 (as amended, the “Registration Statement”), pertaining to the registration of the Registrant’s common stock or preferred stock, debt securities, warrants to purchase common stock, preferred stock or debt securities, subscription rights to purchase common stock, preferred stock or debt securities, and/or units consisting of some or all of these securities, in any combination, with aggregate offering price not more than $200,000,000 (the “Shares”).

On October 25, 2016, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of September 13, 2016, by and among the Company, Allergan Holdco US, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and Augusta Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”).

In connection with the Merger, the offering pursuant to the Registration Statement has been terminated. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any Shares registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all Shares registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

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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 this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Parsippany, State of New Jersey, on October 25, 2016.

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

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