APEN Apollo Endosurgery Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4, 2023

Registration No. 333-178352

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 to

Form S-1

Registration Statement No. 333-178352

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

1120 S. Capital of Texas Highway

Building 1, Suite #300

Austin, Texas 78746

(512) 279-5100

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

Vance R. Brown

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Apollo Endosurgery, Inc.

1120 S. Capital of Texas Highway

Building 1, Suite #300

Austin, Texas 78746

(512) 279-5100

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

Copies to:

Clare O’Brien

Richard Alsop

Derrick Lott

Shearman & Sterling LLP

599 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10022-6069

Telephone: (212) 848-4000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statement.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by Apollo Endosurgery, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”):

On April 4, 2023, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 29, 2022 (the “Merger Agreement”), among the Company, Boston Scientific Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and Textile Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

As a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company has terminated all offerings of its 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 securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes and withdraws from registration any and all securities of the Company registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold or otherwise unissued as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities, and the Company hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-1 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Marlborough, State of Massachusetts, on April 4, 2023.

Pursuant to Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 to the Registration Statement.