Galapagos NV — Major Shareholding Notification 2021

Feb 9, 2021

2) Issuer

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1) Status of the notification

Final
Name GALAPAGOS

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

5) Persons subject to the notification requirement

Identification number 0466-460-429

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)

Name	Address (for legal entities)
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Please continue entering the information in part II concerning the persons referred to in Sections 5 and 6	Part II

7) Date on which the threshold is crossed

8) Threshold that is crossed (in %)

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
	# of voting rights		# of voting rights % of voting rights
Holders of voting rights		Linked to securities	Not linked to the securities	Linked to securities	Not linked to the securities
CGC	0	0		0.00%
Capital Research and Management Company	2,772,024	5,848,065		8.94%
Capital International, Inc.	0	572,617		0.88%
Capital Bank and Trust Company	0	116,472		0.18%
Capital International Limited	0	15,654		0.02%

	TOTAL	6,559,874	0	10.03%	0.00%
Subtotal	2,772,024	6,559,874		10.03%		S	+
Capital International Sarl	0	7,066		0.01%		1	-

Start with "groups" of holders. Add subtotals with S, and then finish with the persons who are "alone". For groups, start with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity.

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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
Capital Research and Management Company	Rights to recall lent shares of Depository Receipt			3,446	0.01%		+
TOTAL			3,446	0.01%
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	TOTAL (A & B)				# of voting rights % of voting rights
			CALCULATE	6,563,320	10.03%

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.

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

13) Additional information

	Done at Los Angeles, CA, USA
On		28/01/2021 (DD/MM/YYYY)
	Name & capacity Donald H. Rolfe, Senior Counsel		Signature