This Amendment No. 4 (this “Amendment”) amends and supplements the Tender Offer
Statement on Schedule TO filed by (i) Thunder Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Purchaser”) and a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Sanofi, a French société anonyme (“Parent”),
(ii) Parent, and (iii) Aventis Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Parent and direct parent of Purchaser (“Aventis”) on December 23, 2019 (together with any subsequent amendments or
supplements thereto, including this Amendment, the “Schedule TO”), relating to the offer by Purchaser to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock, par value, $0.001 per share (the “Shares”), of
Synthorx, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), at a purchase price of $68.00 per Share (the “Offer Price”) net to the seller in cash, without any interest thereon and net of any applicable withholding
taxes, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase and in the related Letter of Transmittal, copies of which are attached as Exhibits (a)(1)(A) and (a)(1)(B) to the Schedule TO, respectively.
All information set forth in the Offer to Purchase, including Schedule I thereto, is incorporated by reference herein in response to Items 1 through 9 and
Item 11 of the Schedule TO and is supplemented by the information specifically provided in this Amendment.
Items 1 through 9 and Item 11.
The Offer to Purchase and Items 1 through 9 and Item 11 of the Schedule TO, to the extent such Items incorporate by reference the information contained in
the Offer to Purchase, are hereby amended and supplemented as follows:
“The Offer and withdrawal rights expired as scheduled at one minute past
11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on January 22, 2020 (such date and time, the “Expiration Time”), and the Offer was not extended. Purchaser was advised by the Depositary that, as of the Expiration Time, a total of 27,443,994 Shares
(not including 1,135,448 Shares tendered by notice of guaranteed delivery for which Shares have not yet been delivered in satisfaction of such guarantee) had been validly tendered into and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Offer, representing
approximately 83.7% of the aggregate number of Shares then outstanding. Accordingly, the number of Shares validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Offer satisfied the Minimum Condition.
Purchaser has accepted for payment, and has stated it will promptly pay for, all Shares validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Offer.
As a result of its acceptance of the Shares tendered pursuant to the Offer and in accordance with Section 251(h) of the DGCL, Purchaser owns a
number of Shares that is greater than the percentage of Shares that would be required to adopt the Merger Agreement by a vote of the stockholders of the Company. Pursuant to Section 251(h) of the DGCL, subject to the satisfaction of the
remaining conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, Parent and Purchaser intend to complete the acquisition of the Company through the Merger, as promptly as practicable and without a meeting of stockholders of the Company. At the Effective Time
and as a result of the Merger, each Share issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will be converted into the right to receive the Offer Price, in cash, without any interest thereon and net of any applicable withholding taxes,
other than (i) Shares owned by Purchaser, Parent, or any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent immediately prior to the Effective Time, (ii) Shares owned by the Company (or held in the Company’s treasury), (iii) Shares
irrevocably accepted for purchase in the Offer or (iv) Shares held by any stockholder who is entitled to demand appraisal and who has properly exercised and perfected a demand for appraisal of such Shares pursuant to, and who has complied in
all respects with, Section 262 of the DGCL and who, as of the Effective Time, has neither effectively withdrawn nor lost such stockholder’s rights to such appraisal and payment under the DGCL with respect to such Shares.
Following the Merger, the Shares will no longer be listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market and will be deregistered under the Exchange Act.”
