Shareholders

Major shareholders of Galapagos NV

Based on the transparency notifications received by Galapagos NV under Belgian law and the statements of acquisition of beneficial ownership filed on Schedule 13G with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under U.S. securities law, the shareholders owning 5% or more of Galapagos NV’s shares on 31 December 2017 were Gilead Therapeutics A1 Unlimited Company (6,760,701 shares or 13.27%), and Van Herk Investments B.V. (4,457,147 shares or 8.75%).

Major shareholders on 31 December 2017

At the end of 2017, our CEO owned 478,289 shares of Galapagos NV and 746,874 warrants. The other members of our executive committee held an aggregate of 52,502 shares and 1,292,500 warrants. The other members of our board held an aggregate of 33,594 shares and 216,060 warrants. Each warrant entitles its holder to subscribe to one share of Galapagos NV.

Agreements between Galapagos NV shareholders

On the date of this report, Galapagos NV had no knowledge of the existence of any shareholders’ agreements between its shareholders.

Agreements with major Galapagos NV shareholders

On 16 December 2015, we signed an exclusive license and collaboration agreement to develop and commercialize filgotinib in multiple indications with Gilead Biopharmaceutics Ireland Unlimited Company. This agreement was assigned to another affiliate of Gilead on 7 December 2017. Under the terms of the collaboration, Gilead is primarily responsible for development and for seeking regulatory approval of the licensed product. We are required to use commercially reasonable efforts as requested by Gilead to assist Gilead with certain development activities. In addition, we agreed on a 20‑80 cost split for development costs of the licensed product, i.e. we will bear 20% of all development costs.

In the framework of the closing of the transaction on 19 January 2016, Gilead paid a license fee of $300 million (or €275.6 million) and made a $425 million (or €392 million) equity investment in Galapagos NV by subscribing to new shares at a price of €58 per share, including issuance premium. This resulted in Gilead owning 6,760,701 ordinary shares of Galapagos NV, representing 14.75% of the then outstanding share capital of Galapagos. In the framework of this transaction, the parties agreed to a lock-up arrangement and a standstill arrangement, both of which expired on 31 December 2017.