RVNC Revance Therapeutics Inc

Registration No. 333-275548

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-3ASR

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

NO. 333-275548

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

REVANCE THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

1222 Demonbreun Street, Suite 2000

Nashville, Tennessee, 37203

(615) 724-7755

(Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Shellie Hammock

General Counsel

Revance Therapeutics, Inc.

1222 Demonbreun Street, Suite 2000

Nashville, Tennessee, 37203

(615) 724-7755

(Name, Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

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

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3ASR (the “Registration Statement”) filed by Revance Therapeutics, Inc. (“Revance” or the “Company”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”):

On February 6, 2025, pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 7, 2024 (as amended from time to time, and as amended by that certain Amendment to the Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 11, 2024, and that certain Amendment No. 2 to the Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of January 17, 2025, the “A&R Merger Agreement”), by and among Crown Laboratories, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Reba Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and the Company, Parent completed its acquisition of the Company through a cash tender offer by Merger Sub (the “Offer”) to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company, followed by the merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation (the “Merger”), on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the A&R Merger Agreement.

As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings and sales of securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of such offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all of such securities registered but remaining unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof, and hereby terminates the effectiveness of each of the Registration Statement.

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 this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Nashville, State of Tennessee, on February 12, 2025.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933.