Company: GLPG
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-119980
Chunk: 2

Company: GALAPAGOS NV
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form: S-8
Chunk 2
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expressly excluded from incorporation by reference) (File No. 001-37384).

(c) The description of the Registrant’s
Ordinary Shares and American Depositary Shares contained in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with
the Commission under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act”)
on May 8, 2015 (File No. 001-37384), including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All other reports and documents subsequently filed
by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act on or after the date of this Registration Statement
and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be
a part of this Registration Statement from the date of the filing of such reports and documents. Any report on Form 6-K furnished
by the Registrant to the Commission after the date of this Registration Statement (or a portion thereof) is incorporated by reference
in this Registration Statement only to the extent that the report expressly states that the Registrant incorporates it (or such portions)
by reference in this Registration Statement and it is not subsequently superseded. Any statement contained in a document incorporated
or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document that also is deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

| ITEM 4. | DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES |

Not applicable.

| ITEM 5. | INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL |

Not applicable.

| ITEM 6. | INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS |

Under Belgian law, the directors of a company
may be liable for damages to the company in case of improper performance of their duties. The Registrant’s directors may be liable
to the Registrant and to third parties for infringement of the Registrant’s articles of association or Belgian company law. Under
c