# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001699350
**File Stem:** 0001628280-25-036021
**Filing Date:** 2025-7
**Character Count:** 4798
**Document Hash:** 962a01a5748d0bd4098355b8c238013a
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001628280-25-036021.hdr.sgml**: 20250923

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001628280-25-036021

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250725

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** SHOULDER INNOVATIONS, INC.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001699350
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SURGICAL & MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS & APPARATUS [3841]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 08 Industrial Applications and Services
- **EIN:** 270538764
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** CORRESP

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 13827 PORT SHELDON STREET
- **CITY:** HOLLAND
- **STATE:** MI
- **ZIP:** 49424
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 616-566-0286

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 13827 PORT SHELDON STREET
- **CITY:** HOLLAND
- **STATE:** MI
- **ZIP:** 49424

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|  | 650 Town Center Drive, 20th Floor | 650 Town Center Drive, 20th Floor |
| | Costa Mesa, California 92626-1925 | Costa Mesa, California 92626-1925 |
| | Tel: +1.714.540.1235 Fax: +1.714.755.8290 | Tel: +1.714.540.1235 Fax: +1.714.755.8290 |
| | www.lw.com | www.lw.com |
| ![image_1.jpg](image_1.jpg) | FIRM / AFFILIATE OFFICES | FIRM / AFFILIATE OFFICES |
| ![image_1.jpg](image_1.jpg) | Austin | Milan  |
| ![image_1.jpg](image_1.jpg) | Beijing | Munich |
|  | Boston | New York |
|  | Brussels | Orange County |
|  | Century City | Paris |
|  | Chicago | Riyadh |
|  | Dubai | San Diego |
|  | Düsseldorf | San Francisco |
|  | Frankfurt | Seoul |
|  | Hamburg | Silicon Valley |
|  | Hong Kong | Singapore |
|  | Houston | Tel Aviv |
|  | London | Tokyo |
|  | Los Angeles | Washington, D.C. |
|  | Madrid |  |

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July 25, 2025

***<u>VIA EDGAR AND ELECTRONIC MAIL</u>***

Division of Corporation Finance

Office of Industrial Applications and Services

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549-6010

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| Attention: | Al Pavot | Al Pavot |
| | Li Xiao | Li Xiao |
| | Juan Grana | Juan Grana |
| | Jane Park | Jane Park |
| | **Re:** | **Shoulder Innovations, Inc.** |
| | | **Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1** |
| | | **Submitted July 24, 2025** |
| | | **CIK No. 0001699350** |

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To the addressees set forth above:

On behalf of our client, Shoulder Innovations, Inc. (the "***Company***"), set forth below is the Company's response to the comment of the Staff (the "***Staff***") of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "***Commission***") in its letter dated July 24, 2025, relating to the Company's Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 publicly filed on July 24, 2025 ("***Amendment No. 2***"). Simultaneously with the submission of this letter, the Company is publicly filing via EDGAR Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the "***Amendment No. 3***") responding to the Staff's comment and updating its disclosures in Amendment No. 3.

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**July 25, 2025**<br>**Page 2**<br>

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All terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in Amendment No. 3. For ease of reference, we have set forth the Staff's comment and the Company's response below.

**<u>Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1</u>**

**<u>Underwriting, page 194</u>**

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**1.*We note your disclosure that "[you] have requested that the underwriters make issuer directed allocations in the aggregate of shares of [y]our common stock to certain investors." Please advise whether any specific investors have been identified, and if so, revise your disclosure to identify these investors and to note the number of shares of common stock to be allocated to each.***

**Response:** In response to the Staff's comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on page 194 of Amendment No. 3.

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**July 25, 2025**<br>**Page 3**<br>

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We hope that the foregoing has been responsive to the Staff's comment and look forward to resolving any outstanding issues as quickly as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact me at (714) 755-8051 with any questions or further comments you may have regarding this filing or if you wish to discuss the above.

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| Sincerely, |
| /s/ Ross McAloon  |
| Ross McAloon |
| of LATHAM & WATKINS LLP |

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Enclosures

cc: (via e-mail)

Robert Ball, Chief Executive Officer, Shoulder Innovations, Inc.

B. Shayne Kennedy, Latham & Watkins LLP

J. Ross McAloon, Latham & Watkins LLP

Denny Won, Cooley LLP

Charles S. Kim, Cooley LLP

Kristin VanderPas, Cooley LLP

Dave Peinsipp, Cooley LLP

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