Company: GLPG
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001558370-25-003806
Chunk: 282

Company: GALAPAGOS NV
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 10
Chunk 282
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Item 10    Additional information

A.     Share capital
Not applicable.

B.     Memorandum and Articles of Association
The information set forth in our Registration Statement on Form F-3ASR (File No. 333-230639), automatically effective upon filing with the SEC on March 29, 2019, under the heading “Description of Share Capital”, as further supplemented by Exhibit 2.3 to this Annual Report (“Description of Securities”), is deemed incorporated by simple reference.

C.     Material contracts
For information on our material contracts, please see the sections of this annual report titled “Item 4—Information on the Company” and “Item 7— Major shareholders and related party transactions.”

D.     Exchange controls
There are no Belgian exchange control regulations that impose limitations on our ability to make, or the amount of, cash payments to residents of the United States. 
We are in principle under an obligation to report to the National Bank of Belgium certain cross-border payments, transfers of funds, investments and other transactions in accordance with applicable balance-of-payments statistical reporting obligations. Where a cross-border transaction is carried out by a Belgian credit institution on our behalf, the credit institution will in certain circumstances be responsible for the reporting obligations.

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E.     Taxation
Certain material U.S. federal income tax considerations to U.S. holders 
The following is a summary of certain material U.S. federal income tax considerations relating to the proposed separation and ownership and disposition of ADSs by a U.S. holder (as defined below). This summary addresses only the U.S. federal income tax considerations for U.S. holders of the ADSs and that will hold such ADSs as capital assets for U.S. federal income tax purposes. This summary does not address all U.S. federal income tax matters that may be relevant to a particular U.S. holder. This summary does not address all tax considerations that may be applicable to a holder of ADSs that may be subject to special tax rules including, without limitation, the following: 

●   banks, financial institutions or insurance companies;
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●   brokers, dealers or traders in securities, currencies, commodities, or notional principal contracts;
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●   tax-exempt entities or organizations, including an “individual retirement account” or “Roth IRA” as defined in Section 408 or 408A of the Code (as defined below), respectively;
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●   real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies or grantor trusts;