As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 24, 2015 Registration No. 333-200418

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to

 

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

LION BIOTECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Nevada 75-3254381
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or (I.R.S. Employer
organization) Identification Number)

 

21900 Burbank Blvd, Third Floor

Woodland Hills, CA 91367

(818) 992-3126

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

 

Dr. Elma Hawkins

Lion Biotechnologies, Inc.

21900 Burbank Boulevard, Third Floor

Woodland Hills, CA 91367

(818) 992-3126

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

 

Copy to:

Istvan Benko

TroyGould PC

1801 Century Park East, 16th Floor

Los Angeles, California 90067

(310) 553-4441

________________

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed to deregister all of the unsold securities previously registered under the Registration Statement.

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE: DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (“Post-Effective Amendment”) is filed by Lion Biotechnologies, Inc. (the “Company”) and amends the registration statement initially filed on Form S-3 (File No. 333-200418) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on November 20, 2014, as amended by that certain Registration Statement on Form S-3MEF (Reg. No. 333-202297) which was filed by the Company and became effective with the Commission on February 26, 2015(collectively, the “Registration Statement”), registering securities of the Company to be sold using the “shelf registration” process under Rule 415 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

The offering of securities pursuant to the Registration Statement has been completed. Accordingly, pursuant to the undertaking contained in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold, the Company hereby amends the Registration Statement to remove from registration the securities covered by the Registration Statement which remain unsold.

 

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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 Woodland Hills, California, on July 24, 2015.

 

  LION BIOTECHNOLOGIES, INC.
     
     
  By: /s/ Molly Henderson
    Molly Henderson
    Chief Financial Officer

 

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

  

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