May 13, 2019
VIA EDGAR AND FEDERAL EXPRESS
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Mail Stop 4561
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention: Chris Edwards and Liz Walsh
Re: Bicycle Therapeutics Ltd.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed April 26, 2019
CIK 0001761612
Dear Mr. Edwards and Ms. Walsh:
This letter is submitted on behalf of Bicycle Therapeutics Ltd (the Company) in response to the comments of the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the Staff) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) with respect to the Companys Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on April 26, 2019 (the Registration Statement), as set forth in the Staffs letter dated May 7, 2019 addressed to Lee Kalowski, Chief Financial Officer of the Company (the Comment Letter). The Company is concurrently filing Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement (Amendment No. 1), which includes changes to reflect responses to the Staffs comments.
For reference purposes, the text of the Comment Letter has been reproduced herein with responses below each numbered comment. For your convenience, we have italicized the reproduced Staff comments from the Comment Letter. Unless otherwise indicated, page references in the descriptions of the Staffs comments refer to the Registration Statement, and page references in the responses refer to Amendment No. 1. All capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Amendment No. 1.
The responses provided herein are based upon information provided to Goodwin Procter LLP by the Company. In addition to submitting this letter via EDGAR, we are sending via Federal Express four (4) copies of each of this letter and Amendment No. 1 (marked to show changes from the Registration Statement).
Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on April 26, 2019
Description of American Depositary Shares, page 212
1. We note the revised disclosure regarding the waiver of jury trial provision in page 223 of your registration statement. Please further revise your disclosure to address any questions as to enforceability of such waiver and to state that, by agreeing to the terms of the deposit agreement, investors will not be deemed to have waived our or the
depositarys compliance with U.S. federal securities laws and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
RESPONSE: The Company respectfully advises the Staff that it has revised the disclosure on pages 69 and 235 of Amendment No. 1 in response to the Staffs comment.
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If you should have any questions concerning the enclosed matters, please contact the undersigned at (617) 570-1483.
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/s/ James Xu |
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James Xu, Esq. |
cc: Kevin Lee, Bicycle Therapeutics Limited
Lee Kalowski, Bicycle Therapeutics Limited
Kristopher D. Brown, Goodwin Procter LLP
Jonathan A. Schur, Goodwin Procter LLP
Divakar Gupta, Cooley LLP
Ryan Sansom, Cooley LLP
Richard Segal, Cooley LLP