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Galapagos Receives Transparency Notification from Bank of America

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GLPG Galapagos NV received a transparency notification from Bank of America regarding an increase in voting rights and financial instruments, crossing a 5% threshold. This is a regulatory disclosure and does not inherently indicate a positive or negative outlook for Galapagos. BAC Bank of America Corporation made a transparency notification to Galapagos NV, indicating it crossed a 5% threshold of voting rights and financial instruments. This is a routine disclosure of shareholding and does not provide insight into BAC's performance or strategy.

Mechelen, Belgium; February 16, 2026, 22:01 CET; regulated information – Galapagos NV (Euronext & NASDAQ: GLPG) received a transparency notification from Bank of America.

Pursuant to Belgian transparency legislation 1, Galapagos received a transparency notification on February 11, 2026, from Bank of America Corporation. The notification indicates that Bank of America Corporation, as controlling entity, crossed above the threshold of 5% of Galapagos’ voting rights on February 9, 2026, including the threshold of 5% for equivalent financial instruments was exceeded, as a result of an acquisition of Galapagos’ voting rights and equivalent financial instruments.

On February 11, 2026, the Bank of America Corporation (taking into account the holding of its affiliates) owned 104,522 voting rights and 3,415,894 equivalent financial instruments, representing together 5.34% of Galapagos’ currently outstanding 65,897,071 shares.

Summary of the transaction:

Content of the notifications from Bank of America Corporation:

The notification dated February 11, 2026, contains the following information:

The chain of control has been described at the end of the notification (section 11) and can be found here.

For further information, contact Galapagos:

Investor Relations

Glenn Schulman

+1 412 522 6239

ir@glpg.com

Media

Media

Katie Morris

+1 952 288 6821

katiemorris@ententeinc.com

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1 Belgian Act of 2 May 2007 on the disclosure of major shareholdings in issuers whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market and regarding miscellaneous provisions, as amended from time to time.

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