Acceleration Request

KALVISTA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

One Kendall Square,

Bld 200, Ste 2203

Cambridge, MA 02139

December 29, 2016

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

 

Attention:        

Jeffrey Gabor

Division of Corporation Finance

 
Re:    

KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Registration Statement on Form S-3

Filed December 20, 2016

File No. 333-215185

 

Via EDGAR—Acceleration Request

 

  Requested Date:     January 3, 2017
  Requested Time:     4:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Ladies and Gentlemen:

KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Registrant”) hereby requests that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) take appropriate action to make the above-captioned Registration Statement on Form S-3 effective at the “Requested Date” and “Requested Time” set forth above or as soon thereafter as practicable.

The Registrant hereby authorizes Robert A. Freedman or Effie Toshav, both of whom are attorneys with the Registrant’s outside legal counsel, Fenwick & West LLP, to orally modify or withdraw this request for acceleration.

 

Sincerely,
KALVISTA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
By:   /s/ Benjamin L. Palleiko
 

Benjamin L. Palleiko

Chief Financial Officer

 

cc:

   

Thomas Andrew Crockett, Chief Executive Officer

KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

 

Robert A. Freedman, Esq.

Effie Toshav, Esq.

Fenwick & West LLP