Galapagos NV — Major Shareholding Notification 2021

Mar 3, 2021

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1) Status of the notification

Final

3) Reason for the notification

Acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights
Acquisition or disposal of financial instruments that are treated as voting securities

4) Notification by

A parent undertaking or a controlling person
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5) Persons subject to the notification requirement

Name	Address (for legal entities)
The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CGC")	333 South Hope Street, 55th Fl, Los Angeles, CA 90071

6) Persons that dispose of voting rights (only to be filled in if art. 7 of the Law applies)

8) Threshold that is crossed (in %)

65,411,767
Please enter the denominator before filling in the data

10) Notified details

	Name
	Please continue entering the information in persons referred to in Sections 5 and 6	part II concerning the	Part II
7) Date on which the threshold is crossed
		22/02/2021 (DD/MM/YYYY)
8) Threshold that is crossed (in %)
	10
	If the holding has fallen below the lowest threshold, you have the option of not entering any numbers in Section 10
9) Denominator
	65,411,767
	Please enter the denominator before filling in the data
10) Notified details
A) Voting rights	Previous notification		After the transaction
Holders of voting rights	# of voting rights	Linked to securities	# of voting rights Not linked to the securities	Linked to securities	% of voting rights Not linked to the securities
CGC	0	0		0.00%
Capital Research and Management Company	5,848,065	5,848,365		8.94%
Capital International, Inc.	572,617	532,875		0.81%
Capital Bank and Trust Company	116,472	82,851		0.13%

	Capital International Sarl	7,066	4,477		0.01%
	Subtotal	6,559,874	6,483,973		9.91%
		TOTAL	6,483,973	0	9.91%	0.00%
Start with "groups" of holders. Add subtotals with , and then finish with the persons who are "alone". For groups, start with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity. The totals, subtotals and % will be updated once you have clicked on .

B) Equivalent financial instruments			After the transaction
Holders of equivalent financial instruments	Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise period or date	# of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised	% of voting rights	Settlement
	TOTAL			0	0.00%
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	TOTAL (A & B)			# of voting rights	% of voting rights
			CALCULATE	6,483,973	9.91%
	11) Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held, if applicable

11) Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held, if applicable

CGC is the parent company of Capital Research and Management Company ("CRMC") and Capital Bank & Trust Company ("CB&T"). CRMC is a U.S.-based investment management company that serves as investment manager to the American Funds family of mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles, as well as individual and institutional clients. CRMC and its investment manager affiliates manage equity assets for various investment companies through three divisions, Capital Research Global Investors, Capital International Investors and Capital World Investors. CRMC is the parent company of Capital Group International, Inc. ("CGII"), which in turn is the parent company of four investment management companies ("CGII management companies"): Capital International, Inc., Capital International Limited, Capital International Sàrl and Capital International K.K. CGII management companies and CB&T primarily serve as investment managers to institutional and high net worth clients. CB&T is a U.S.-based investment management company that is a registered investment adviser and an affiliated federally chartered bank.

12) In case of proxy voting for only one GM

13) Additional information

	Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of the Issuer for its own account. Rather, the shares reported on this Notification are owned by accounts under the discretionary investment management of one or more of the investment management companies described above.
12) In case of proxy voting for only one GM
Holder		will cease to hold / will hold again	0	voting rights as of	(DD/MM/YYYY)
13) Additional information
Done at	Los Angeles, CA, USA
On	24/02/2021	(DD/MM/YYYY)
Name & capacity	Donald H. Rolfe, Senior Counsel		Signature

Done at	Los Angeles, CA, USA
Name & capacity	Donald H. Rolfe, Senior Counsel	Signature