Galapagos NV — Major Shareholding Notification 2022

Aug 8, 2022

2) Issuer

1) Status of the notification

Final

	Name GALAPAGOS
ldentification number 0466-460-429

3) Reason for the notification

4) Notification by

A parent undertaking or a controlling person

5) Persons subject to the notification requirement

Name	Address (for legal entities)
FMR LLC	The Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, 19801.

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

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

5

9) Denominator

65,728,511 Please enter the denominator before filling in the data

10) Notified details

Previous notification A) Voting rights		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
FMR LLC	O	0		0.00%
FIAM LLC	16,547	16,547		0.03%
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC	2,877,062	3,268,282		4.97%
Fidelity Management Trust Company	399,117	411,085		0.63%
Strategic Advisers LLC	15,453	11,231		0.02%
Subtotal	3,308,179	3,707,145		5.64%

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1

TOTAL	3,707,145	0	5.64%	0.00%
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. 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
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC	Stock Loan			32,500	0.05%	physical	+
	TOTAL			32,500	0.05%
The totals will be updated once you have clicked on 60 100
	TOTAL (A & B)				# of voting rights % of voting rights
			CALCULATE	3,739,645	5.69%

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

12) In case of proxy voting for only one GM

Holder	will cease to hold / will hold again	voting rights as of	(DD/MM/YYYY)
13) Additional information

The holdings attributed b the entilies nentioned in holdings of various untertakings for collective investment that are managed by FIM L.C, Fidelty Maragenent & Research Company L.C, Fideliy Maragement Trust Company, and Strates that are substitions of and controled by FMR LLC. The entities mentioned in heading 10 reading 10 reading 10 readin discretionary investment managers and exercise the voting rights at their discretion in the absence of specific instructions. 5% Threshold crossed by a Controlled Undertaking.

	Done at Dublin, Ireland
On		03/08/2022 (DD/MMYYYY)
	Name & capacity Aaron Watson, Manager, Regulatory Reporting	Signature