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October 10, 2014
Jeffrey P. Riedler
Assistant Director
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Jaguar Animal Health, Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed September 9, 2014
File No. 333-198383
Dear Mr. Riedler:
On behalf of our client, Jaguar Animal Health, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company), we hereby provide responses to comments (the Comments) of the Staff (the Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) issued in a letter dated September 23, 2014 (the Letter) regarding the Companys above-referenced Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the Registration Statement), as filed with the Commission on September 9, 2014. Contemporaneous with this filing, the Company is filing on the EDGAR system an Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the Form S-1/A) reflecting the responses of the Company below.
The Companys responses are numbered to correspond to the Comments as numbered in the Letter. For your convenience, each of the Comments contained in the Letter have been restated in bold below in their entirety, with the Companys corresponding response set forth immediately under such comment. In the responses below, page number references are to the Form S-1/A.
Capitalization, page 46
1. We acknowledge your response to previous comment 9. Please revise your disclosure, when you establish your anticipated offering price range, to disclose the amount of the contingent beneficial conversion feature charge to loss applicable to common shareholders that will be recorded upon the completion of your offering related to your Series A redeemable convertible preferred stock.
Response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staffs Comment and will revise the disclosure on page 46 of the Form S-1/A as requested when it establishes the anticipated offering price range.
Business, page 62
2. We note your response to comment 6. Please amend your disclosure to briefly describe the material terms of this non-disturbance agreement when available. Additionally, please file this agreement as an exhibit pursuant to Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K.
Response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staffs Comment and has revised the disclosure on page 100 of the Form S-1/A accordingly. The non-disturbance agreement is filed as Exhibit 10.23 to the Form S-1/A.
Next Steps and Commercialization Plans, page 70
3. We note on page 70 that you expect to meet with the FDA in late August or early September 2014. Please update your disclosure regarding this meeting and the status of your rolling NADA process for Canalevia for the treatment of CID in dogs.
Response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staffs Comment and has revised the disclosure on page 69 of the Form S-1/A accordingly.
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Should you have any questions concerning any of the foregoing, please contact me by telephone at (415) 659-5936.
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Sincerely, |
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/s/ Marianne C. Sarrazin |
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Marianne C. Sarrazin |
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Reed Smith LLP |
Cc: |
Lisa A. Conte, Jaguar Animal Health, Inc., by e-mail |
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Bryan Gendron, BDO USA, LLP, by e-mail |
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Donald C. Reinke, Reed Smith LLP, by e-mail |
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Divakar Gupta, Cooley LLP, by e-mail |
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John T. McKenna, Cooley LLP, by e-mail |