Correspondence 0001493152-24-041337 from Curanex Pharmaceuticals Inc (CURX)
Curanex Pharmaceuticals Inc
Date: Oct. 16, 2024 · CIK: 0002025942 · Accession: 0001493152-24-041337
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Referenced dates: September 23, 2024
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Mark
Crone
Managing
Partner
mcrone@cronelawgroup.com
Eleanor
Osmanoff
Partner
eosmanoff@cronelawgroup.com
VIA
EDGAR
October
16, 2024
THE
UNITED STATES SECURITIES
AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Division
of Corporation Finance
Office
of Life Sciences
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attn:
Doris
Stacey Gama, Chris Edwards, Christine Torney and Daniel Gordon
Re:
Re:
Curanex Pharmaceuticals Inc
Amendment
No. 2 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted
September 16, 2024
CIK
No. 0002025942
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
On
behalf of our client, Curanex Pharmaceuticals Inc (the “Company”), we are responding to the comments of the staff (the “Staff”)
of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) contained in the letter dated September 23, 2024 (the “Comment
Letter”), relating to the above-referenced Amendment No. 2 to the Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 (“DRS”).
Concurrently with the submission of this letter, the Company is hereby filing with the Commission a Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (the “Form S-1”). In this Form S-1, the Company revised and updated its statements and, among other things,
added the resale prospectus, to register the shares of common stock of the Company held by the selling stockholder identified in the
resale prospectus.
Set
forth below are the Company’s responses to the Staff’s comments related to the prospectus for the underwritten primary offering
in this Form S-1. The Staff’s comments are repeated below in bold and are followed by the Company’s responses. All
references in this response letter include the references to Form S-1. Page references in the text
of this response letter correspond to the page numbers stated in the Comment Letter.
Amendment
No. 2 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
The
Offering, page 4
1.
We note that your directors, officers, and holders of more than 5% of your company’s outstanding ordinary shares are expected to
enter into lock-up agreements with the underwriter for a period of up to six months from the closing of this offering. Please amend to
clarify if those identified have entered into the lock-up agreement or will enter prior to the closing of this offering and clarify the
lock-up period. Further, if these will be stand-alone agreements, separate from your underwriting agreement, please revise your exhibit
index and file these as exhibits.
Response:
In response to this Staff’s comment, the Company reiterated in its statements on Form S-1 that its directors, officers and holders
that will beneficially own more than 5% of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock as of the effective date of this registration
statement on Form S-1 agreed to enter into and execute their lock-up agreements on the date this registration statement on Form S-1 is
declared effective by the Commission. The lock-up period under these lock-up agreements will be 180 days starting on the effective date
of this registration statement on Form S-1. A form of a lock-up agreement will be included as an exhibit to the underwriting agreement.
The underwriting agreement will be filed as an exhibit to Form S-1 by an amendment.
Use
of Proceeds, page 21
2.
We note your response to prior comment 3. Please also disclose what your full business plan is, quantify the amount of funding you require
to execute your full business plan, and how you plan to fund the remaining stages of your full business plan here as you do on page 5.
Response:
In response to this Staff’s comment, the Company revised the statements throughout Form S-1, disclosing its full business plan
and clearly identifying the stages of its full business plan, the approximate period and the amount of funds needed to implement each
stage of the Company’s full business plan.
3.
Please reconcile the disclosure that you will prioritize your use of proceeds if you receive less than $8 million from this offering,
with your disclosure elsewhere in the prospectus that this is a firm-commitment offering. Please ensure that your disclosure throughout
the prospectus is consistent with the type of offering that you disclose on the cover page of the prospectus and in the Underwriting
section.
Response:
The Company revised and updated its statements throughout Form S-1, among other things, estimating that the price per share in this firm
commitment primary offering will be between $4.00 and $6.00 per share and estimating the amount of the underwriting discounts and commissions
and offering expenses payable by the Company based on the assumed price of $5.00 per share, the midpoint of this range. In response to
this Staff’s comment, the Company reconciled its disclosure in the Net of Proceeds section with disclosures contained in other
sections of Form S-1.
Please
feel free to contact me should you require additional information at (917) 679-5931 or eosmanoff@cronelawgroup.com.
THE
CRONE LAW GROUP, P.C.
By:
/s/
Eleanor Osmanoff
Eleanor
Osmanoff