Company: GLPG
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-119980
Chunk: 6

Company: GALAPAGOS NV
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form: S-8
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| 4.3(2)  | Form of American Depositary Receipt                       |
| 5.1     | Opinion of Argo Law BV                                    |
| 23.1    | Consent of Deloitte Bedrijfsrevisoren BV                  |
| 23.2    | Consent of BDO Bedrijfsrevisoren BV                       |
| 23.3    | Consent of Argo Law BV (included in Exhibit 5.1)          |
| 24.1    | Power of Attorney (included on the signature page)        |
| 99.1    | Subscription Right Plan 2025 (A) (English translation)    |
| 99.2    | Subscription Right Plan 2025 (B) (English Translation)    |
| 107     | Calculation of Filing Fee Tables                          |

| (1) | Filed as Exhibit 4.1 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-203435), filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2015, and incorporated herein by reference. |
| (2) | Filed as Exhibit A to Registrant’s prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act (File No. 333-203584) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 15, 2018.      |

<div align='center'>SIGNATURES</div>

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in Mechelen, Belgium on December 10, 2025.

| GALAPAGOS NV |                             |
| By:          | s/                          
 Henry Gosebruch             |
| Name:        | Henry Gosebruch             |
| Title:       | Chief Executive Officer and 
 Executive Director          |

<div align='center'>POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>

We, the undersigned directors, officers and/or
authorized representative in the United States of Galapagos NV, hereby severally constitute and appoint Henry Gosebruch and Aaron Cox,
and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power to