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June 24, 2021
Faraz Ali
Chief Executive Officer
Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc.
171 Oyster Point Boulevard, 5th Floor
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Re: Tenaya
Therapeutics, Inc.
Amended Draft
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted June 16,
2021
CIK No. 0001858848
Dear Mr. Ali:
We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and
have the following
comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with
information so we
may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by providing the requested
information and either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your
registration statement on
EDGAR. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not
believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
After reviewing the information you provide in response to these
comments and your
amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we
may have additional
comments.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 Amendment No. 1
Prospectus Summary
Our Pipeline, page 4
1. Please explain in the
meaning of the information in the column titled USA Epl."
2. The table includes
three separate programs with the general description New Targets
that are all in the
early stages of discovery. Please limit your table to product candidates
that are sufficiently
material to your business to warrant inclusion in your table. If these
New Targets are
material, identify the indications and expand your disclosure elsewhere
to identify more
specifically these programs or candidates.
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3. We note your revised disclosure and response to comment 4. For the
product candidates
TN-201 in your MYBPC3 program and TYA-11631 in your HDAC6i program,
please
disclose if the proceeds will be sufficient to fund all three phases
of clinical development.
If not, disclose the phase of development you reasonable expect to
complete with the
proceeds from this offering.
Business
Our Management Team and Investors, page 124
4. Your response to comment 6 provides that the names of these investors
are disclosed in
the prospectus because they are holders in the Company s preferred
stock and are named
as investors in the Company s press releases. As noted in your
response, these investors
are currently not required to be disclosed in the principal
stockholders section and you
have not undertaken to provide updated information with respect to
these investments. For
these reasons, the identity of these parties does not provide
meaningful information upon
which to make an investment decision. Please remove the disclosure
from your prospectus
as highlighting these investors without undertaking to provide updated
information is not
appropriate.
8. Common Stock, page F-20
5. We note your disclosure in response to comment 8. Please tell us how
you determined
that the shares of common stock issued for the early exercise of
options and restricted
stock that are subject to repurchase are to be reflected as
outstanding, since the transaction
is not considered substantive for accounting purposes. Refer to ASC
718-10-55-31.a. for
guidance.
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, page F-35
6. Please disclose your consideration of ASU 2020-06, including whether
you adopted this
accounting pronouncement on January 1, 2021 and the impact adoption
has had or may
have on your consolidated financial statements. In this regard, we
note your outstanding
convertible preferred stock that could be subject to beneficial
conversion feature
accounting. Refer to SAB Topic 11:M for guidance.
You may contact Tracey Houser at 202-551-3736 or Brian Cascio at
202-5513676 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please
contact Tom Kluck at 202-551-3233 or Suzanne Hayes at 202-551-3675 with any
other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of
Corporation Finance
Faraz Ali
Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc.
June 24, 2021
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