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2019 Annual Report on Form 10-K
2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K

  
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)
☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021
OR

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from

to

Commission file number: 001-37686

BEIGENE, LTD.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Cayman Islands
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)

98-1209416
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

c/o Mourant Governance Services (Cayman) Limited
94 Solaris Avenue, Camana Bay
Grand Cayman
Cayman Islands KY1-1108
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
+1 (345) 949 4123
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class
American Depositary Shares, each representing 13
Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share
Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share*

Trading Symbol(s)
BGNE

Name of each exchange on which registered
The NASDAQ Global Select Market

06160

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx)

*

Included in connection with the registration of the American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The ordinary
shares are not listed for trading in the United States but are listed for trading on the HKEx.
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: The RMB shares are ordinary shares of the company issued to permitted investors in the
People’s Republic of China and listed and traded on the STAR Market in Renminbi. The RMB shares are not listed for trading in the United States or on the
HKEx and are not fungible with the ordinary shares listed on the HKEx or the ADSs representing the ordinary shares listed on NASDAQ, and in no event will
any RMB shares be able to be converted into the ordinary shares listed on the HKEx or the ADSs listed on NASDAQ, or vice versa.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Yes ☐ No ☒
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements
for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of

Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an

emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in
Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. :

Large accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer

☒
☐

Accelerated filer
Smaller reporting company
Emerging growth company

☐
☐
☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new

or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal

control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or
issued its audit report. ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒
As of June 30, 2021, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the ordinary
shares, including in the form of ADSs, each representing 13 ordinary shares, held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $14.7 billion, based upon
the closing price of the registrant’s ADSs on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on June 30, 2021.

As of February 14, 2022, 1,334,804,281 ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, were outstanding, of which 973,604,879 ordinary shares were held in

the form of 74,892,683 ADSs, and 115,055,260 were RMB shares.

The registrant intends to file a definitive proxy statement pursuant to Regulation 14A within 120 days of the end of the fiscal year ended December 31,

2021. Portions of such definitive proxy statement are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

BeiGene, Ltd.

Annual Report on Form 10-K

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

Item 1.

Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Item 1A.

Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Item 1B.

Unresolved Staff Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Item 2.

Item 3.

Item 4.

PART II

Item 5.

Item 6.

Item 7.

Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Legal Proceedings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mine Safety Disclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer
Purchases of Equity Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Item 7A.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Item 8.

Item 9.

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial
Disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Item 9A.

Controls and Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Item 9B.

Item 9C.

PART III

Item 10.

Item 11.

Item 12.

Item 13.

Item 14.

PART IV
Item 15.

Other Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Executive Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related
Stockholder Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence . . . . . . .

Principal Accounting Fees and Services

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Item 16.

Form 10-K Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Forward-Looking Statements and Market Data

This Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Annual Report”), contains forward-looking statements that
involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained
in this Annual Report, including statements regarding our strategy, future operations, future financial
position, future revenue, projected costs, prospects, plans, objectives of management and expected growth,
are forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different
from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking
statements.

Forward looking statements are often identified by the use of words such as, but not limited to, “aim,”
“anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “goal,” “intend,” “may,” “ongoing,”
“plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would” or the negative of
these terms or similar expressions or variations intended to identify forward-looking statements, although
not all forward-looking statements contain those identifying words. These forward-looking statements include,
among other things, statements about:

• our ability to successfully commercialize our approved medicines and to obtain approvals in

additional indications and territories for our medicines;

• our ability to successfully develop and commercialize our in-licensed medicines and drug candidates

and any other medicines and drug candidates we may in-license;

• our ability to further develop sales and marketing capabilities and launch and commercialize new

medicines, if approved;

• our ability to maintain and expand regulatory approvals for our medicines and drug candidates, if

approved;

• the pricing and reimbursement of our medicines and drug candidates, if approved;

• the initiation, timing, progress and results of our preclinical studies and clinical trials and our

research and development programs;

• our ability to advance our drug candidates into, and successfully complete, clinical trials and obtain

regulatory approvals;

• our reliance on the success of our clinical stage drug candidates;

• our plans, expected milestones and the timing or likelihood of regulatory filings and approvals;

• the implementation of our business model, strategic plans for our business, medicines, drug candidates

and technology;

• the scope of protection we (or our licensors) are able to establish and maintain for intellectual

property rights covering our medicines, drug candidates and technology;

• our ability to operate our business without infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating the

intellectual property rights and proprietary technology of third parties;

• costs associated with enforcing or defending against intellectual property infringement,

misappropriation or violation, product liability and other claims;

• the regulatory environment and regulatory developments in the United States, China, the United
Kingdom, Switzerland, the European Union (EU) and other jurisdictions in which we operate;

• the accuracy of our estimates regarding expenses, revenues, capital requirements and our need for

additional financing;

• the potential benefits of strategic collaboration and licensing agreements and our ability to enter into

strategic arrangements;

• our ability to maintain and establish collaborations or licensing agreements;

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• our plans and expectations to build significant technical operations and independent production

capabilities for small molecule medicines and large molecule biologics to support the global demand
for both commercial and clinical supply;

• our reliance on third parties to conduct drug development, manufacturing and other services;

• our ability to manufacture and supply, or have manufactured and supplied, drug candidates for

clinical development and medicines for commercial sale;

• the rate and degree of market access and acceptance and the pricing and reimbursement of our

medicines and drug candidates, if approved;

• developments relating to our competitors and our industry, including competing therapies;

• the size of the potential markets for our medicines and drug candidates and our ability to serve those

markets;

• our ability to effectively manage our growth;

• our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel;

• statements regarding future revenue, hiring plans, key milestones, expenses, capital expenditures,

capital requirements and share performance;

• the future trading price of our American Depositary Shares (ADS) listed on NASDAQ, our

ordinary shares listed on HKEx, and our ordinary shares issued to permitted investors in China and
listed and traded on the STAR in Renminbi (RMB Shares), as well as the impact of securities
analysts’ reports on these prices;

• the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our clinical development, regulatory, commercial,

manufacturing, and other operations; and

• other risks and uncertainties, including those listed under “Part I — Item 1A — Risk Factors.”

These statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, levels of
activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied
by these forward-looking statements. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and
expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements we make. We have based these forward-looking
statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and trends that we believe
may affect our business, financial condition and operating results. We have included important factors in
the cautionary statements included in this Annual Report, particularly in “Part I — Item 1A — Risk Factors,”
that could cause actual future results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements
that we make. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions,
mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or investments we may make.

You should read this Annual Report and the documents that we have filed as exhibits to the Annual

Report with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we
expect. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.

This Annual Report includes statistical and other industry and market data that we obtained from

industry publications and research, surveys and studies conducted by third parties. Industry publications
and third-party research, surveys and studies generally indicate that their information has been obtained from
sources believed to be reliable, although they do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such
information. While we believe these industry publications and third-party research, surveys and studies are
reliable, you are cautioned not to give undue weight to this information.

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Summary of Risk Factors

Below is a summary of the principal factors that make an investment in our ADSs, ordinary shares or

RMB shares speculative or risky. This summary does not address all of the risks that we face. Additional
discussion of the risks summarized in this risk factor summary, and other risks that we face, are summarized in
“Part I — Item 1A — Risk Factors” and should be carefully considered, together with other information in
this Form 10-K and our other filings with the SEC, before making an investment decision regarding our ADSs,
ordinary shares or RMB shares.

• Our medicines may fail to achieve and maintain the degree of market acceptance by physicians,

patients, third-party payors, and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.

• We have limited experience in launching and marketing our internally developed and in-licensed

medicines. If we are unable to further develop marketing and sales capabilities or enter into agreements
with third parties to market and sell our medicines, we may not be able to generate substantial
product sales revenue.

• If we are not able to continue to obtain, or experience delays in obtaining, required regulatory

approvals, we will not be able to commercialize our medicines and drug candidates, and our ability to
generate revenue will be materially impaired.

• We face substantial competition, which may result in others discovering, developing, or

commercializing competing medicines before or more successfully than we do.

• The market opportunities for our medicines may be limited to those patients who are ineligible for or

have failed prior treatments and may be small.

• We have limited manufacturing capability and must rely on third-party manufacturers to manufacture
some of our commercial products and clinical supplies, and if they fail to meet their obligations, the
development and commercialization of our medicines and drug candidates could be adversely affected.

• If we or any third parties with which we may collaborate to market and sell our medicines are unable

to achieve and maintain coverage and adequate level of reimbursement, our commercial success
and business operations could be adversely affected.

• We depend substantially on the success of the clinical development of our medicines and drug

candidates. If we are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain regulatory approvals
and commercialize our medicines and drug candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so,
our business will be materially harmed.

• Clinical development involves a lengthy and expensive process with an uncertain outcome, and

results of earlier studies and trials may not be predictive of future trial results.

• If clinical trials of our drug candidates fail to demonstrate safety and efficacy to the satisfaction of

regulatory authorities or do not otherwise produce positive results, we may incur additional costs or
experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and
commercialization of our drug candidates.

• If we encounter difficulties enrolling patients in our clinical trials, our clinical development activities

could be delayed or otherwise adversely affected.

• All material aspects of the research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of

pharmaceutical products are heavily regulated, and we may face difficulties in complying with or be
unable to comply with such regulations, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

• The approval processes of regulatory authorities in the United States, China, Europe and other

comparable regulatory authorities are lengthy, time consuming and inherently unpredictable. If we
are ultimately unable to obtain regulatory approval for our drug candidates, our business will be
substantially harmed.

• Our medicines and any future approved drug candidates will be subject to ongoing regulatory

obligations and continued regulatory review, which may result in significant additional expense and
we may be subject to penalties if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or experience
unanticipated problems with our medicines and drug candidates.

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• Even if we are able to commercialize our medicines and any approved drug candidates, the medicines
may become subject to unfavorable pricing regulations or third-party reimbursement practices or
healthcare reform initiatives, which could harm our business.

• We have incurred significant net losses since our inception and anticipate that we will continue to

incur net losses for the foreseeable future and may not become profitable.

• We have limited experience in obtaining regulatory approvals and commercializing pharmaceutical

products, which may make it difficult to evaluate our current business and predict our future
performance.

• We may need to obtain additional financing to fund our operations, and if we are unable to obtain
such financing, we may be unable to complete the development of our drug candidates or achieve
profitability.

• If we are unable to obtain and maintain patent protection for our medicines and drug candidates

through intellectual property rights, or if the scope of such intellectual property rights is not sufficiently
broad, third parties may compete against us.

• If we fail to maintain an effective distribution channel for our medicines, our business and sales

could be adversely affected.

• We rely on third parties to manufacture some of our commercial and clinical drug supplies. Our

business could be harmed if those third parties fail to provide us with sufficient quantities of product
or fail to do so at acceptable quality levels or prices.

• If third-party manufacturers fail to comply with manufacturing regulations, our financial results and

financial condition could be adversely affected.

• We have entered into licensing and collaboration arrangements and may enter into additional

collaborations, licensing arrangements, or strategic alliances in the future, and we may not realize the
benefits of such arrangements.

• If we are not able to successfully develop and/or commercialize Amgen’s oncology products, the

expected benefits of the collaboration will not materialize.

• We have significantly increased and expect to continue to increase our research, development,

manufacturing, and commercial capabilities, and we may experience difficulties in managing our
growth.

• Our future success depends on our ability to retain key executives and to attract, retain and motivate

qualified personnel.

• Our business is subject to complex and evolving industry-specific laws and regulations regarding the
collection and transfer of personal data. These laws and regulations can be complex and stringent,
and many are subject to change and uncertain interpretation, which could result in claims, changes to
our data and other business practices, significant penalties, increased cost of operations, or otherwise
adversely impact our business.

• We manufacture some of our medicines and intend to manufacture some of our drug candidates, if

approved. Delays in completing and receiving regulatory approvals for our manufacturing facilities, or
damage to, destruction of or interruption of production at such facilities, could delay our
development plans or commercialization efforts.

• Changes in the political and economic policies of the PRC government or in relations between China

and the United States or other governments may materially and adversely affect our business,
financial condition, and results of operations and may result in our inability to sustain our growth
and expansion strategies.

• The audit report included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC is prepared by
auditors who are not inspected fully by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and as
such, investors are deprived of the benefits of such inspection.

• The trading prices of our ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB shares can be volatile, which could

result in substantial losses to you.

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Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this report to “BeiGene,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,”

and “our” refer to BeiGene, Ltd. and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis.

PART I

Item 1. Business

Overview

We are a global, commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing,
manufacturing, and commercializing innovative medicines to improve treatment outcomes and expand
access for patients worldwide.

We currently have three approved medicines that were discovered and developed in our own labs,
including BRUKINSA®, a small molecule inhibitor of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) for the treatment of
various blood cancers; tislelizumab, an anti-PD-1 antibody immunotherapy for the treatment of various
solid tumor and blood cancers; and pamiparib, a selective small molecule inhibitor of PARP1 and PARP2.
We have obtained approvals to market BRUKINSA® in the United States, the People’s Republic of China
(China or the PRC), the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (U.K.), Canada, Australia and
additional international markets, and tislelizumab and pamiparib in China. By leveraging our China
commercial capabilities, we have in-licensed the rights to distribute 13 approved medicines for the China
market. Supported by our global clinical development and commercial capabilities, we have entered into
collaborations with world-leading biopharmaceutical companies such as Amgen and Novartis Pharma AG
(Novartis) to develop and commercialize innovative medicines.

We are committed to advancing best and first-in-class clinical candidates internally or with like-minded

partners to develop impactful and affordable medicines for patients across the globe. Our internal clinical
development capabilities are deep, including a more than 2,200-person global clinical development team that
is running more than 90 ongoing or planned clinical trials in over 30 medicines and drug candidates. This
includes more than 30 pivotal or potentially registration-enabling trials across our portfolio, including our
three internally discovered, approved medicines. We have enrolled in our clinical trials more than 14,500
subjects, of which approximately one-half have been outside of China.

We have built, and are expanding, our internal manufacturing capabilities through our state-of-the-art

biologic and small molecule manufacturing facilities in China to support current and potential future demand
of our medicines, and plan to build a commercial-stage biologics manufacturing and clinical R&D center
in New Jersey. We also work with high quality contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) to manufacture
our internally developed clinical and commercial products.

Since our inception in 2010, we have become a fully integrated global organization of over 8,000

employees in 23 countries and regions, including the United States, China, Europe, and Australia.

Our Strategy

We were founded to fight cancer with a belief that millions of people around the world still have
limited or no access to high-quality, innovative, and affordable medicines. We also believe that the industry
is in a time of fundamental change driven by regulatory policy updates, scientific progress, and globalization.
To seize this opportunity, we have built key competitive advantages in research, clinical development,
commercialization, and manufacturing that are designed to drive our business into the future. We intend to
continue to expand our competitive advantages and become a global leader by focusing on the following key
strategic imperatives:

1. Research and innovation focus. We have built significant oncology research capabilities with a team of
more than 700 scientists with a proven track record of discovering innovative medicines. Our approach
is to leverage our deep internal capabilities and technology platforms to develop medicines that are
expected to be highly impactful and have a clear differentiation hypothesis. The strength of our
research has been validated by our global clinical trial results, regulatory approvals, and collaborations.
From our internal discovery engine, we have successfully developed three approved medicines:
BRUKINSA®, tislelizumab, and pamiparib. We are also developing ociperlimab (TIGIT antibody),

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which is in pivotal stage trials and was recently entered into an option, collaboration and license
agreement with Novartis for North America, Europe and Japan; BGB-11417 (BCL2 inhibitor), which
is expected to start pivotal trials in 2022; multiple early-stage clinical assets, including OX40, TIM3, and
PI3K delta, HPK-1, that are expected to have initial clinical data readouts in 2022 and 2023; and have
over 50 additional pre-clinical programs, approximately one-half of which may potentially be first-in-
class or best-in-class. Going forward, we plan to continue to invest in research and innovation with
the aim of discovering additional first-in-class or best-in-class innovative medicines for patients.

2. World-class clinical development. We believe that global clinical development capabilities are essential

to succeed in the current and future environment. We have built an internal clinical development and
medical affairs team of over 2,200 people worldwide that develops our product candidates largely without
the assistance of third-party contract research organizations (CROs). We believe this approach has
several benefits: first, we can be more inclusive in the location and number of clinical sites to help improve
enrollment speed and the diversity of patients in our trials; second, we have control over our own
technology systems and can focus on improved operational excellence; and third, we believe there are
cost advantages through large scale and China-inclusive multi-regional clinical trials that have a broad
patient population. We aim to improve the speed and cost-efficiency of clinical development while
maintaining the highest global quality standards. We believe that our demonstrated ability to successfully
complete large-scale, multi-regional clinical trials is one of our most important strategic competitive
advantages and addresses a large challenge in the pharmaceutical industry — clinical development,
which accounts for the majority of time and cost required to bring most oncology medicines to patients.

3. China commercial leadership. We have built a strong, science-based commercial team in China, with
over 3,100 colleagues spread across the country for broad and deep coverage and organized under
experienced executive leadership. We have built a commercial portfolio of oncology medicines through
our internal discovery and in-licensing efforts, striving to be a partner of choice and creating mutual
benefits with our partners wherever possible. We believe that our commercial capabilities in China,
coupled with our China-inclusive clinical development capabilities conducted at global-quality standards,
enable us to attract favorable in-licensing opportunities. We plan to further leverage our China
commercial organization and create advantages in scale, speed, and quality to continue to establish
ourselves as a commercial leader in China.

4. Global leadership, access, and reputation.

In the United States, we market BRUKINSA® and have a

targeted commercial team focused on medical thought leaders in blood cancer treatments. This
competitive foothold is based on the differentiated clinical profile of BRUKINSA®. BRUKINSA®
sales have continued to grow in the U.S. as we expand our label in multiple new indications. Our strategy
is to commercialize our medicines broadly throughout the world. In Europe, we recently received
approval for BRUKINSA® in Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM), and we are launching the
product across European countries. Our commercial capabilities have also expanded into Canada
through our own affiliate and into Latin America through a distribution partner. In the Asia Pacific
region, we have launched, or are planning to launch our products, including in China, Australia and
other key countries. All together, BRUKINSA® has been approved in 45 countries, with additional filings
pending or planned. We aspire to establish our reputation globally as a leading biotechnology company
by continuing to deliver highly effective and differentiated medicines in the United States, China,
Europe, and other international markets.

5. Broad accessibility. We believe that our commercial scale in China, potentially lower costs and faster

speed in clinical development, sizeable portfolio of innovative product candidates, and overall commercial
expertise in serving large, underserved populations give us a unique competitive advantage and create
an opportunity for us to be an early mover in providing innovative medicines at more affordable prices to
many geographies that are not traditionally the focus for international pharmaceutical or biotechnology
companies. We plan to focus our long-term strategy on seeking approvals of our portfolio compounds
globally and building clinical development and commercial capabilities in these markets, either alone or
through our collaborators.

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Our Commercial and Registration Stage Products

The following table summarizes the status of our commercial products and new products that are

pending approval as of February 28, 2022:

PRODUCT 

LEAD INDICATIONS  MECHANISM 
OF ACTION 

REGULATORY 
STATUS 

BEIGENE 
COMMERCIAL 
RIGHTS 

PARTNER  

tislelizumab 

pamiparib 

U.S.: R/R MCL1, WM & R/R 
MZL1; China: R/R MCL2, 
R/R CLL/SLL2 & R/R WM2; 
EU3: WM 

1L Squamous and Non-
Squamous NSCLC/ 2/3 L 
NSCLC/ R/R classical 
Hodgkin’s lymphoma2 / 2/3 L 
HCC2/ R/R PD-L1+ UC2 

3L BRCA-mutated ovarian 
cancer2 

Giant cell tumor of bone2 / 
Skeletal Related Events 
(SREs)2 

R/R Acute lymphocytic 
leukemia2 

R/R Multiple myeloma2 

R/R adult multiple myeloma, 
newly diagnosed multiple 
myeloma, previously treated 
follicular lymphoma 
Myelodysplastic syndromes, 
acute myeloid leukemia, 
chronic myelomonocytic 
leukemia 

BTK inhibitor 

Approved in the 
U.S., China, EU 
and other markets 

Global 

N/A 

Anti-PD-1 
antibody 

Approved in China; 
BLA accepted in 
U.S.4 

Outside North 
America, Japan, 
EU and six other 
European countries 

PARP inhibitor  Approved in China 

Global 

N/A 

Anti-RANK 
ligand antibody  Approved in China  Mainland China 

Anti-CD19 x 
anti-CD3 
bispecific T-cell 
engager (BiTE)  

Proteasome 
inhibitor 

Anti-
angiogenesis, 
immuno-
modulation 

Approved in China  Mainland China 

Approved in China  Mainland China 

Approved in China  Mainland China 

DNA 

hypomethylation  Approved in China  Mainland China 

Idiopathic multicentric 
Castleman disease 

IL-6 antagonist  Approved in China 

Greater China 

High-risk neuroblastoma2 

POBEVCY® (Avastin 
biosimilar) 

Colorectal and lung cancers 

Anti-GD2 
antibody 

Anti-VEGF 
antibody 

Approved in China  Mainland China 

Approved in China 

Greater China 

TAFINLAR® (dabrafenib) 

Melanoma5 

BRAF inhibitor  Approved in China 

MEKINIST® (trametinib) 

Melanoma5 

MEK inhibitor  Approved in China 

VOTRIENT® (pazopanib)  Advance renal cell carcinoma  VEGFR inhibitor  Approved in China 

AFINITOR® (everolimus) 

Advanced renal cell 
carcinoma6 

mTOR inhibitor  Approved in China 

ZYKADIA® (ceritinib) 

ALK + NSCLC 

ALK inhibitor  Approved in China 

China Broad 
Markets7 

China Broad 
Markets7 

China Broad 
Markets7 

China Broad 
Markets7 

China Broad 
Markets7 

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1. Approved under accelerated approval. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent
upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial. 2. Conditionally approved. Full
approval for these indications is contingent upon results from ongoing randomized, controlled confirmatory
clinical trials. 3. The approval is applicable to all 27 EU member states, plus Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway.
4. For patients with unresectable recurrent locally advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell
carcinoma (ESCC) after prior systemic therapy. 5. TAFINLAR and MEKINIST are being investigated in
combination by Novartis for NSCLC indications. 6. Following progression on or after vascular endothelial
growth factor (VEGF)-targeted therapy. 7. Rights to promote and market in China’s broad markets
pursuant to a Market Development Agreement with an affiliate of Novartis Pharma AG dated December 19,
2021, subject to transfer of responsibilities pursuant to the terms of the agreement.

Abbreviations: ALK = anaplastic lymphoma kinase; BLA = Biologics License Application;

BRAF = B-rapidly accelerated fibrosarcoma; CLL = chronic lymphocytic leukemia; HCC = hepatocellular
carcinoma; MCL = mantle cell lymphoma; MEK = mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) /
Extracellular-signal regulated kinase (ERK); mTOR = Mammalian target of rapamycin; MZL = marginal
zone lymphoma; NSCLC = non-small cell lung cancer; R/R = relapsed / refractory; SLL = small lymphocytic
lymphoma; UC = urothelial carcinoma; VEGFR = vascular endothelial growth factor receptor;
WM = Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia

We commercialize the following internally developed cancer medicines:

BRUKINSA

BRUKINSA® is a second-generation small molecule inhibitor of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK)
designed to maximize BTK occupancy and minimize off-target binding effects. BTK is a key component of
the B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling pathway and is an important regulator of cell proliferation and cell
survival in various lymphomas. BTK inhibitors block BCR-induced BTK activation and its downstream
signaling, leading to growth inhibition and cell death in certain malignant white blood cells called B-cells.
Zanubrutinib is an orally active inhibitor that covalently binds to BTK, resulting in irreversible inactivation
of the enzyme.

We are marketing BRUKINSA® in the United States, China, Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada,

Australia and other markets.

In the United States, BRUKINSA® received accelerated approval as a treatment for mantle cell
lymphoma (MCL) in adult patients who have received at least one prior therapy (November 2019), and has
since also been approved for patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM) and relapsed or
refractory (R/R) marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) who have received at least one anti-CD20-based regimen.
The MCL and MZL indications were approved under accelerated approval based on overall response rate.
Continued approval for these indications may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical
benefit in a confirmatory trial. In addition, a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) has been accepted
for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult patients with chronic
lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), with a PDUFA date of October 22,
2022.

In Europe, BRUKINSA® received approval from the European Commission (EC) for the treatment of
adult patients with WM who have received at least one prior therapy or for the first-line treatment of patients
unsuitable for chemo-immunotherapy. The approval is applicable to all 27 European Union (EU) member
states, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. BRUKINSA® has also been approved in the U.K. and
Switzerland. In addition, two marketing authorization applications have been accepted for review by the
European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of patients with MZL and for the treatment of patients
with CLL.

In China, BRUKINSA has received conditional approval for adult patients with MCL who have
received at least one prior therapy and adult patients with CLL or SLL who have received at least one prior
therapy and for the treatment of patients with R/R WM. In addition, an sNDA has been accepted for
review by the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for the treatment of adult patients
with treatment-naïve CLL or SLL. In December 2021, we announced the inclusion of BRUKINSA® for

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WM in the updated National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL) by the China National Healthcare
Security Administration (NHSA). Currently, all three approved indications for BRUKINSA® are included
in the NRDL.

BRUKINSA® is also approved in Australia for WM and MCL, in Canada for WM, MCL and R/R
MZL, and in South Korea for R/R MCL and R/R WM and numerous other markets (a total of 45 countries
as of February 28, 2022).

Market Opportunity

Lymphomas are blood-borne cancers involving lymphatic cells of the immune system. They can be
broadly categorized into non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) and Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL). Depending on
the origin of the cancer cells, lymphomas can also be characterized as B-cell or T-cell lymphomas. B-cell
lymphomas make up approximately 85% of NHLs and comprise a variety of specific diseases involving
B-cells at differing stages of maturation or differentiation. In 2021, global revenues for BTK inhibitors were
approximately $8 billion according to published reports, including approximately $5.5 billion in the
United States. Global revenues are projected to be more than $15 billion in 2026 according to published
reports.

Tislelizumab

Tislelizumab is a humanized IgG4 monoclonal antibody against the immune checkpoint receptor
programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) that we specifically designed to minimize binding to Fc receptor
gamma (FcγR), which is believed to play an essential role in activating phagocytosis in macrophages, to
minimize its negative impact on T effector cells.

Tislelizumab is approved in China in six indications, including full approval for first-line treatment of

patients with advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in combination with chemotherapy,
for first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-squamous NSCLC in combination with chemotherapy,
and for second- or third-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC who progressed
on prior platinum-based chemotherapy. The China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA)
also granted conditional approval for the treatment of patients with classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL) who
received at least two prior therapies, for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic
urothelial carcinoma (UC) with PD-L1 high expression whose disease progressed during or following
platinum-containing chemotherapy or within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment with platinum-
containing chemotherapy, and for the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who
have received at least one systemic therapy. Full approval for these indications is contingent upon results
from ongoing randomized, controlled, confirmatory clinical trials. Tislelizumab was included in the NRDL
in 2020 for cHL and UC and in 2021 for non-squamous NSCLC, squamous NSCLC and HCC, covering
all of its five eligible approved indications.

In addition, we have submitted three supplemental Biologics License Applications (BLAs) for
tislelizumab that are under review by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the NMPA, including for
patients with previously treated, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic microsatellite instability-high
(MSI-H) or mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR) solid tumors, for the treatment of patients with locally
advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) who have disease progression following
or are intolerant to first-line standard chemotherapy, and for first-line treatment of patients with recurrent
or metastatic nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC).

We are evaluating tislelizumab in a broad pivotal clinical program for both solid tumor and hematological

indications, both globally and in China. We have initiated or completed 17 potentially registration-enabling
clinical trials in China and globally, including 13 Phase 3 trials and four pivotal Phase 2 trials.

In January 2021, we announced a collaboration and license agreement with Novartis to develop,
manufacture and commercialize tislelizumab in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the EU, UK, Norway,
Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Russia and Japan (the “Novartis Territory”). We retained worldwide
rights to commercialize outside of the Novartis Territory and with our proprietary products in combination
with tislelizumab.

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In the United States, we have filed a BLA with the FDA for tislelizumab as a treatment for patients
with unresectable recurrent locally advanced or metastatic ESCC after prior systemic therapy. This BLA
has a PDUFA target action date of July 12, 2022. In addition, Novartis has disclosed plans to submit
additional marketing applications in its territory.

Market Opportunity

Globally, the top four PD-1/PD-L1 antibody medicines had revenues of approximately $30.5 billion in

2021 based on public reports. We estimate 2022 China PD1/L1 market (net revenue) will amount to
approximately $2.4 billion.

Global revenues are projected to be more than $50 billion by 2025 according to published reports,

driven by multiple factors including indication expansion, approvals and adoptions in earlier lines of
therapies, further market penetration, and extension of duration of therapy.

Pamiparib

Pamiparib is a, selective small molecule inhibitor of poly ADP-ribose polymerase 1 (PARP1) and
PARP2 enzymes. Pamiparib has demonstrated pharmacological properties such as brain penetration and
PARP-DNA complex trapping in preclinical models. Pamiparib is currently in global clinical development as
a monotherapy or in combination with other agents for a variety of solid tumor malignancies. To date,
more than 1,300 patients have been enrolled in clinical trials of pamiparib.

In China, pamiparib received conditional approval for treatment of patients with germline BRCA
(gBRCA) mutation-associated recurrent advanced ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer
who have been treated with two or more lines of chemotherapy in May 2021. Full approval for this indication
is contingent upon results from ongoing corroborative trials confirming the clinical benefit of pamiparib
in this population. Pamiparib was included in the 2021 NRDL in its approved indication.

Market Opportunity

Many tumor types have been shown to be responsive to PARP inhibitors, including ovarian cancer

(OC), breast cancer, prostate cancer, and gastric cancer (GC). PARP inhibitors have demonstrated
encouraging activity both in R/R patients as well as in the maintenance setting.

We are currently commercializing, or plan to commercialize, the following cancer medicines in China

under an exclusive license from Amgen:

XGEVA

XGEVA® (denosumab) is an antibody-based RANK ligand (RANKL) inhibitor that was approved
globally for the prevention of skeletal-related events (SREs) in patients with bone metastases from solid
tumors and in patients with multiple myeloma, and for the treatment of adults and skeletally mature
adolescents with giant cell tumor of bone (GCTB). XGEVA® is approved in over 70 countries worldwide. In
China, XGEVA® received conditional approval in the GCTB indication in May 2019 and received
conditional approval for the SRE indications in November 2020. We began marketing XGEVA® in China in
July 2020. In December 2020, we announced the inclusion of XGEVA® in the NRDL for the treatment of
GCTB.

GCTB is a relatively rare, benign, but locally aggressive osteolytic skeletal neoplasm of young adults.
The patients experience pain, swelling, and limitation of joint movement at the primary site. In China, there
were 2,086 new cases of GCTB in 2019, according to the China NCCR, IARC, and Frost & Sullivan
research. To date, XGEVA® is the only approved therapy for the treatment of GCTB. For patients with
aggressive forms of GCTB, who are not candidates for locoregional therapy, e.g., therapy or radiotherapy,
XGEVA® is the preferred treatment option over bisphosphonate, chemotherapy, or interferon.

Metastases to bone are a common site of cancer recurrence for many solid tumors. Bone metastases
cause pain, compromised quality of life, and SREs, which include pathologic fracture, the need for radiation
or surgery to bone, hypercalcemia of malignancy, and spinal cord compression. XGEVA® and

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bisphosphonates, two different classes of anti-resorptive, can reduce the morbidity of metastatic bone
disease, mainly by decreasing SREs through different mechanisms of actions. Similar to bone metastases in
patients with solid tumors, multiple myeloma has a major feature of osteolytic bone disease that can lead
to severe disability and morbidity, including SREs. XGEVA® is also indicated for the prevention of SREs in
patients with multiple myeloma.

BLINCYTO

BLINCYTO® (blinatumomab), a bispecific CD-19 directed CD3 T-cell engager, is the first and only
approved bi-specific T-cell engager (BiTE) immunotherapy. It has been approved in 60 countries for use in
patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). In China, BLINCYTO® received conditional approval as
a treatment for adult patients with R/R ALL in December 2020. We began commercializing BLINCYTO®
in the August 2021.

ALL is the most common childhood malignancy and accounts for approximately one-quarter of all
childhood malignancies. It is estimated that there are 0.69 cases of ALL in 100,000 people in China, according
to the China NCCR, IARC, and F&S research. Approximately 15 percent of children fail initial treatment
and advance to R/R stage, and BLINCYTO is indicated for the treatment of patients with R/R B-cell precursor
ALL. There are CAR-T therapies being developed for this indication, and tisagenlecleucel from Novartis
has been approved by the FDA for treatment of patients including and under 25 years of age with B-cell
precursor ALL that is refractory or in second or later relapse. Clofarabine from Sanofi is also approved in this
indication by the FDA. Neither of these two agents have been approved in China.

KYPROLIS

KYPROLIS® (carfilzomib), a proteasome inhibitor, has been approved in over 60 countries for use in
patients with R/R multiple myeloma (MM). It was approved in China as a treatment for patients with R/R
MM in July 2021 and we began commercializing KYPROLIS® in January 2022. In the class of proteasome
inhibitors, VELCADE® has been marketed by Johnson & Johnson in China since 2006 and NINLARO®
(ixazomib) has been marketed by Takeda in China since 2018. There are a number of generic forms of
carfilzomib being developed in China by local manufacturers, including Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical
Group Co., Ltd., Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., and Yangtze River Pharmaceutical
Group Co., Ltd.

We commercialize the following cancer medicines in China under an exclusive license from BMS:

REVLIMID

REVLIMID® (lenalidomide) is an oral immunomodulatory medicine that was approved in China in
2013 for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) in combination with dexamethasone in adult patients
who have received at least one prior therapy. In February 2018, REVLIMID® received NMPA approval of
a new indication for the treatment of MM in combination with dexamethasone in adult patients with
previously untreated MM who are not eligible for transplant.

In 2019, there were approximately 20,700 new cases of MM in China in 2019, according to the China
NCCR, IARC, and Frost & Sullivan research. With a growing aging population and improving diagnosis,
China has seen a steady increase in MM incidence. The main treatments for MM in China include
VELCADE®, which is a proteasome inhibitor marketed by Johnson & Johnson in China since 2006,
REVLIMID®, NINLARO® (ixazomib), an oral proteasome inhibitor developed by Takeda, DARZALEX®
(daratumumab), an infusion CD38 monoclonal antibody marketed by Johnson & Johnson since 2019, and
a number of generic forms of VELCADE® and REVLIMID®, including generic lenalidomide from Shuanglu
Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., Qilu Pharmaceutical Co.,
Ltd., and Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO)
guidelines recommend lenalidomide as a standard of care for the treatment of R/R and newly diagnosed MM
as well as in the maintenance setting.

REVLIMID® was listed on the NRDL in June 2017. In November 2019, we announced that

REVLIMID® received formal inclusion on the NRDL in China for R/R multiple myeloma. In November 2020

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our sNDA for the use of REVLIMID® in combination with rituximab in adult patients with previously
treated follicular lymphoma was approved by the NMPA.

VIDAZA

VIDAZA® (azacitidine for injection) is a pyrimidine nucleoside analog that has been shown to reverse

the effects of DNA hypermethylation and promote subsequent gene re-expression. VIDAZA® was approved
in China in April 2017 for the treatment of intermediate-2 and high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes
(MDS), chronic myelomonocyte leukemia (CMML) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with 20% to 30%
blasts and multi-lineage dysplasia. In January 2018, VIDAZA® became commercially available in China.

MDSs are among the most common hematological malignant diseases. In 2019, there were
approximately 22,100 new cases of MDS in China in 2019, according to the China NCCR, IARC, and
Frost & Sullivan research. The typical age of onset is 70 years. The higher-risk MDS (intermediate-2 and high-
risk MDS) is considered fatal because the median overall survival is only 0.4-1.1 years, and nearly 30% of
these patients progress to AML. In China, the main treatments for intermediate-2 and high-risk MDS are
conventional care regimen (CCR) (best supportive care, low-dose cytarabine and intensive chemotherapy),
and hypomethylating agents (HMAs). DACOGEN® (decitabine), marketed by Johnson & Johnson, was
the first HMA agent approved in China in 2009. In the past several years, at least nine decitabine generics
have become available. There are also two approved generic forms of azacitidine from manufacturers Chia Tai
Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. and Sichuan Huiyu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Nevertheless,
there are still over 50% of higher-risk MDS patients treated with CCR, and the unmet need remains large.
VIDAZA® is a first-line recommended treatment in the Chinese MDS treatment guidelines. VIDAZA® was
listed in the NRDL in October 2018.

In addition to REVLIMID® and VIDAZA®, we previously commercialized ABRAXANE® (paclitaxel
albumin-bound particles for injectable suspension), a solvent-free chemotherapy approved for use in certain
patients with metastatic breast cancer, in China until March 2020. On March 25, 2020, the NMPA
suspended the importation, sales and use of ABRAXANE® in China supplied to us by BMS, and the drug
was subsequently recalled by BMS and is not currently available for sale in China. This suspension was based
on inspection findings at BMS’s contract manufacturing facility in the United States. Additionally, in
October 2021, BMS provided 180-days’ notice to us, which we dispute, purporting to terminate our license
to market ABRAXANE® in China. We have not had any sales of ABRAXANE® since the suspension and do
not expect future revenue from ABRAXANE®. We have initiated an arbitration proceeding against BMS
asserting that it has breached and continues to breach the terms and conditions of the license and supply
agreement. For additional information, please see the section of this report titled “Legal Proceedings”.

We are commercializing or planning to commercialize the following medicines in China under an

exclusive license from EUSA Pharma:

SYLVANT

SYLVANT® (siltuximab), an interleukin-6 (IL-6) antagonist, was approved as a treatment for patients

with idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
negative and human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) negative. SYLVANT® was approved in China in December 2021
for the treatment of adult patients with multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) who are human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) negative and human herpes virus-8 (HHV-8) negative, also known as
idiopathic MCD (iMCD). It is estimated that approximately 6,500 to 7,700 new cases of Castleman disease
(CD) are diagnosed each year in the United States, of which approximately 75% are estimated to be
unicentric and the remaining 25% are estimated to be HHV-8-associated multicentric Castleman disease
(MCD) or HHV-8-negative/idiopathic MCD. In Japan, the incidence appears to be similar to that seen in
the United States; however, in contrast, MCD appears to be more common than unicentric CD, and HHV-8-
associated MCD is rare. There are few published data regarding the epidemiology in China, but there are
no clear associations between epidemiology and particular ethnicities.

QARZIBA

QARZIBA® ▼ (dinutuximab beta), a mouse-human chimeric monoclonal GD2 antibody, was granted
conditional approval by the NMPA for the treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma in patients aged 12 months

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and above who have previously received induction chemotherapy and achieved at least a partial response,
followed by myeloablative therapy and stem cell transplantation, as well as patients with a history of relapsed
or refractory (R/R) neuroblastoma with or without residual disease. Neuroblastoma is almost exclusively a
disease of children. It is the third most common childhood cancer, after leukemia and brain tumors, and is the
most common solid extracranial tumor in children. There are limited publications on the epidemiology of
the disease, and it is estimated there are 5-9 cases of neuroblastoma in one million children under the age of
19. High-risk neuroblastoma patients are managed with induction chemotherapy, surgical resection,
tandem autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, radiotherapy, and maintenance with biologic/
immunologic therapy, e.g., dinutuximab beta. We began commercializing QARZIBA® ▼ in December 2021.

We commercialize the following product in China under an exclusive license from Bio-Thera:

POBEVCY (BAT1706)

POBEVCY® is a biosimilar to Avastin® (bevacizumab) developed by Bio-Thera Solutions, Ltd., a

commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company located in Guangzhou, China. In China, Avastin® is
approved for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, liver cancer and NSCLC.

POBEVCY® was approved by the NMPA in China in November 2021 and launched in late 2021 for

the treatment of patients with advanced, metastatic or recurrent NSCLC and metastatic colorectal cancer.

We have acquired the right to develop, manufacture and commercialize POBEVCY® in China,

including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Bio-Thera submitted a marketing application to the EMA and
a BLA to the FDA in November 2020. In China, three bevacizumab biosimilars have been approved,
marked by Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Innovent Biologics, Inc., and Shanghai Henlius Biotech Inc.,
and there are also a number of bevacizumab biosimilars in development, including by Sunshine Guojian
Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Reimbursement and Market Access

Our sales are largely dependent on the availability and extent of coverage and reimbursement by third
party payors. In many markets these third parties are government health systems and in some markets such
as the United States there are also private payors such as private health insurers and health systems. In
2021 we commercialized our products in 43 markets.

In China there is one main payor, the government’s national health care coverage system, which

provides Basic Medical Insurance (BMI) to the majority (greater than 95%) of China’s approximately
1.4 billion people. There are three types of coverage plans in China at the national level that depend on if a
resident lives in an urban or rural setting and if they are employed. The different plans have different
characteristics in terms of how the plan is paid for and what it covers. Coverage and reimbursement of
pharmaceuticals in China comes under the purview of the NHSA, the National Healthcare Security
Administration, which oversees the NRDL. The NRDL is composed of three lists. The ‘A’ and ‘B’ list are
commonly referred to as the ‘regular’ lists. The A list generally includes older, off-patent medicines, while the
B list generally includes newer medicines, some with remaining patent protection, which are reimbursed at
a lower rate compared to the A list. In 2017, a third list was added to the system, often referred to as the ‘C’
list or the ‘negotiation’ list. This list generally includes newer innovative medicines which are accepted on
the list after successful negotiation between the NHSA and the company. Typically, inclusion on the C list is
accompanied by a discount to the prevailing list price in China for the medicine at the time of inclusion.
The NRDL price for a medicine is its prevailing price in China, but the actual reimbursement rate that is used
can be modified at the provincial level. In addition to the NRDL, there are provincial reimbursement drug
lists, or PRDLs. Provinces have been allowed to omit reimbursement for 10-15% of the products and
indications on the NRDL in order to direct resources to other products to better serve their specific
populations. This ability is being phased out by 2022 in principle according to a July 2019 NHSA policy
memo. The PRDLs are thus, at this time, the official list of what is available to China’s citizens. In addition
to insurance reimbursement, patients can elect to self-pay for needed medicines.

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Several of our medicines are listed on the NRDL. In the most recent NRDL list announced in

December 2021, the following medicines were included in the NRDL, effective January 1, 2022:

• Tislelizumab in all five of its eligible approved indications — three new indications in 2021 and two

indications included last year:

• For use in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy as a first-line treatment in
patients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung
cancer (NSCLC), with EGFR genomic tumor aberrations negative and ALK genomic tumor
negative (approved in June 2021 and included in the NRDL in 2021);

• For the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have been previously
treated with at least one systemic therapy (conditionally approved in June 2021 and included in
the NRDL in 2021);

• For use in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin as a first-line treatment in patients with
unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic squamous NSCLC (approved in January 2021 and
included in the NRDL in 2021);

• For the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC)

with PD-L1 high expression whose disease progressed during or following platinum-containing
chemotherapy or within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment with platinum-
containing chemotherapy (conditionally approved in April 2020 and included in NRDL in 2020);
and

• For the treatment of patients with classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL) who have received at

least two prior therapies (conditionally approved in December 2019 and included in the NRDL
in 2020).

• BRUKINSA in all three of its approved indications — one new indication in November 2021 and

two indications included last year:

• For the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM) who have
received at least one prior therapy (conditionally approved in June 2021 and included in the
NRDL in 2021);

• For the treatment of adult patients with MCL who have received at least one prior therapy

(conditionally approved in June 2020 and included in the NRDL in 2020); and

• For the treatment of adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) /small lymphocytic

lymphoma (SLL) who have received at least one prior therapy (conditionally approved in
June 2020 and included in the NRDL in 2020).

• Pamiparib was initially included in the NRDL in its approved indication:

• For the treatment of patients with germline BRCA (gBRCA) mutation-associated recurrent

advanced ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who have been treated with two
or more lines of chemotherapy (conditionally approved in May and included in the NRDL in
2021).

Additionally, two of our medicines were listed in past NRDLs: REVLIMID® was included in the 2017
NRDL negotiation list and later received formal inclusion in the 2019 B list, while VIDAZA® was listed in
the 2018 NRDL negotiation list and later received formal inclusion to the 2020 B list.

In 2018, China started a new program to centrally purchase generic medicines for the nation’s health

care system called “volume-based procurement” (VBP), or GPO (group purchasing organization) or “4+7”
(4 municipalities and 7 provincial cities) when the program was first piloted in 11 major cities. After the
2018 pilot program, it was implemented nationally in 2019. It is a tender-based system that provides guaranteed
volume for lowered pricing. Participation in the program requires a product to have passed a quality
consistency evaluation (QCE), which in turn requires passing a bioequivalence (BE) comparison often to
the originator product. The system offers a major portion of a market’s volume to winning bidders. More than
one company can win a given tender, and more guaranteed volume is awarded as more bidders win. The

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system is still evolving and, as such, the exact terms of how many bidders win and what amount of volume
are won and at what price is also evolving.

It is common in China for pharmaceutical companies to employ patient assistance programs to help
patients afford their innovative medicines. Usually these programs have been offered to patients who are self-
paying. A typical program provides a certain number of free doses to patients after a certain number of
doses have been paid for. Usually these programs end when a medicine is included in the NRDL. We offer
these types of patient assistance programs to our patients.

In the United States most health insurance coverage is provided by private insurers, often accessed via
employer-sponsored plans, and the two main public insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid. All three
types of programs usually have some type of coverage for pharmaceutical products. Often this is through
a PBM, or pharmacy benefit manager. The structure of the pharmacy benefit can be quite different for
different beneficiaries depending on the negotiations between plan sponsors and plan purchasers. There is no
central list of covered pharmaceuticals in the United States, as there is no single payer system. As such, the
prices paid for pharmaceuticals in the United States can vary.

We offer patient assistance programs in the United States under our myBeiGene program. This

program seeks to enhance access to BRUKINSA® by assisting with obtaining reimbursement, co-pay
assistance when allowed, temporary supply of free product for insurance delays, and free product assistance
for some uninsured and underinsured patients. The programs also seek to support patients and caregivers
by providing education and information about BRUKINSA® and its approved indications, nurse advocates,
and connecting patients to sources of support such as support groups and transportation/lodging assistance.

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Our Pipeline Products

The following table summarizes the status of our internally-discovered drug candidates as of

February 28, 2022:

DRUG 
CANDIDATES

PROGRAMS

DOSE ESC.

DOSE EXPANSION

PIVOTAL

Phase 1a

Phase 1b

Phase 2*

Phase 2**

Phase 3

FILED MARKETED

R/R MCL (approved in multiple geographies) 
WM (approved by FDA in the U.S. 9/1/2021)
R/R MZL (accelerated approval by FDA in the U.S. 9/15/2021, approved by Health Canada 
2/18/2022)
WM † 1
R/R MCL, R/R CLL/SLL (conditionally approved by NMPA in China 6/3/2020)

monotherapy

R/R WM (conditionally approved by NMPA in China 6/18/2021)

CLL/SLL (filing accepted by the FDA in the U.S., PDUFA date 10/22/2022)

CLL, MZL (filing accepted by the EMA in the EU)

zanubrutinib 
(BTK)

WM, CLL/SLL

Lupus nephritis

Previously treated CLL/SLL (ibrutinib 
acalabrutinib intolerant)
+rituximab 1L MCL

combination

monotherapy

+obinutuzumab R/R FL
+ lenalidomide +/-
rituximab R/R DLBCL
R/R cHL (conditionally approved 12/26/2019), 2L + UC (conditionally approved 4/10/2020), 2L/3L 
HCC (conditionally approved 6/23/2021), 2L/3L NSCLC (approved 1/6/2022)
2L/3L MSI-H or dMMR solid tumors, 2L ESCC
2L ESCC (filing accepted by the FDA in the U.S.; PDUFA date 7/12/2022)

1L HCC

R/R NK/T-cell lymphoma

tislelizumab 
(PD-1)

+ chemo

1L Sq. NSCLC (approved 1/13/2021), 1L non-Sq. NSCLC (approved 6/23/2021)

1L NPC

1L SCLC, Stage II/IIIA NSCLC, Localized ESCC, 1L UC

+ pamiparib 
(PARP)
+ zanubrutinib 
(BTK)

1L GC, 1L ESCC

Solid tumors

B-cell malignancies

3L gBRCA+ OC (approved 5/7/2021)

2L platinum-sensitive OC maintenance 

monotherapy

1L platinum-sensitive GC maintenance

HER2-BRCA mutated breast cancer

Solid tumors

+ TMZ (chemo) Solid tumors

+RT/TMZ 
(RT/chemo)

Glioblastoma

pamiparib 
(PARP)

+ tislelizumab

+ tislelizumab + 
cCRT

+ tislelizumab + 
chemo
+ tislelizumab + 
BAT1706

+ mirdametinib

1L NSCLC
R/M Cervical Cancer, R/M ESCC ^
Solid tumors
1L SCLC
Stage III unresectable NSCLC

1L NSCLC

1L HCC

B-Raf- or K-RAS/N-RAS-
mutated solid tumors

ociperlimab 
(TIGIT)

lifirafenib 
(BRAF Dimer)

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DRUG 
CANDIDATES

PROGRAMS

DOSE ESC.

DOSE EXPANSION

PIVOTAL

Phase 1a

Phase 1b

Phase 2*

Phase 2**

Phase 3

FILED MARKETED

monotherapy & 
+ tislelizumab
monotherapy & 
+ tislelizumab

Solid tumors

Solid tumors

+ tislelizumab

Solid tumors

monotherapy & 
+ zanubrutinib
+ dexamethasone 
& + carfilzomib
+ azacytidine
mono; + 
tislelizumab; + 
zanubrutinib
monotherapy & 
+ tislelizumab

B-cell 
malignancies

R/R Multiple Myeloma

AML, MDS

B-cell malignancies; Solid tumors

Advanced solid tumors

monotherapy

Inflammation 
and Immunity

BGB-A425 
(TIM-3)
BGB-A333 
(PD-L1)
BGB-A445 
(OX40)

BGB-11417 
(Bcl-2)

BGB-10188 
(PI3K Delta)

BGB-15025 
(HPK1)
BGB-23339 
(TYK2)

Global
China

* Some indications will not require a non-pivotal Phase 2 clinical trial prior to beginning pivotal
Phase 2 or Phase 3 clinical trials. **Confirmatory clinical trials post approval are required for accelerated or
conditional approvals. †R/R or not suitable for chemo-immunotherapy. ^R/M: recurrent/metastatic

(1) Approved in Canada (3/1/2021); Australia (10/7/2021); EU (27 member states) plus Iceland,

Lichtenstein, and Norway (11/23/2021); UK (12/14/2021); Switzerland (2/17/2022); South Korea (2/24/2022)

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The following table summarizes the status of our in-licensed drug candidates as of February 28, 2022:

(TARGET) / 
PROGRAM

(KRAS G12C)
(DLL3)
(BCMA)

DOSE ESC.

DOSE EXPANSION

PIVOTAL

Phase 1a

Phase 1b

Phase 2* Phase 2** Phase 3

COMM. 
RIGHTS

PARTNER

Solid tumors, NSCLC, CRC
SCLC
MM

COMPOUND

sotorasib
tarlatamab ^^ 
pavurutamab ^^

AMG 176

AMG 330 ^

AMG 427 ^^

acapatamab ^^

AMG 509 ^

AMG 199 ^^

AMG 650

AMG 506

AMG 994

AMG 256

Sitravatinib †

zanidatamab ††

(Mcl-1, SM)

Hematologic malignancies

(CD33)

(FLT3)

(PSMA)

Myeloid malignancies

AML

Prostate cancer

(STEAPI XmAb)

Prostate cancer

(MUC17)

GC/GEJC

(oral small molecule) Solid tumors

(FAP x 4-1BB, 
DARPin®)
Bispecific antibody
(Anti-PD-1 x IL21 
mutein)
(multi-kinase inhibitor)
+ tislelizumab

Solid tumors

Solid tumors

Solid tumors

NSCLC, RCC, OC, MEL

Mono + tislelizumab HCC, GC/GEJC

(HER2, bispecific 
antibody) + chemo + 
tislelizumab
Monotherapy
+ chemo, +/-
tislelizumab

GEA

Bilary tract cancers

Breast cancer, GC, GEA

ZW49

(HER2, bispecific 
ADC)

HER2-expressing cancers

BGB-3245 1

(B-RAF)

Solid tumors

SEA-CD70

(anti-CD70)

MDS, AML

DKN-01

(DKK1) + tislelizumab 
+/- chemo

GC/GEJC

LBL-007

(LAG-3) + tislelizumab Advanced solid tumors

(HBV core inhibitor) Chronic Hepatitis B Virus

(HBV core inhibitor) Chronic Hepatitis B virus

vebicorvir†††
(ABI-H0731)®
ABI-H3733

Global
China

China

Asia ex-
Japan, AU, 
NZ

Asia ex-
Japan, AU, 
NZ

Asia ex-
Japan, AU, 
NZ

Asia ex-Japan

Asia ex-
Japan, AU, 
NZ
Asia ex-
Japan, AU, 
NZ

ex-China

China

* Some indications will not require a non-pivotal Phase 2 clinical trial prior to beginning pivotal
Phase 2 or Phase 3 clinical trials. **Confirmatory clinical trials post approval are required for accelerated or
conditional approvals. ^BiTE, ^^HLE BiTE (Global trials are being conducted outside of China.), † Mirati
is also conducting its own clinical studies with sitravatinib, including the Phase 3 SAPPHIRE trial in non-sq
NSCLC. †† ZW25, ††† Assembly is conducting Phase 2 triple combination studies with VBR and a Ph1
study of ABI-H3733.

Abbreviations: AML: acute myeloid leukemia, HLE BiTE: Half-life extended Bi-specific T-cell
engagers, GC/GEJ: gastric cancer/gastroesophageal junction, HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma, IND:
Investigational New Drug, MEL: melanoma, MM: multiple myeloma, NHL: non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,
N/SCLC: non-small cell lung cancer, OC: ovarian cancer, RCC: renal cell carcinoma, SM: small molecule;
(1) By MapKure, a joint venture with SpringWorks Therapeutics

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Our Commercial- and Clinical-Stage Drug Candidates

A description of our commercial- and clinical-stage drug candidates and clinical data from selected
clinical trials is set forth below. Historically, we have made available, and we intend to continue to make
available, clinical data and/or topline results from clinical trials of our drug candidates in our press releases
and/or filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
Limited (HKEx), and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), copies of which are available on the Investors
section of our website.

BRUKINSA (zanubrutinib), a BTK Inhibitor

We are currently evaluating zanubrutinib in a broad pivotal clinical program globally and in China as a

monotherapy and in combination with other therapies to treat various lymphomas. Zanubrutinib has
demonstrated higher selectivity against BTK than IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib), an approved BTK inhibitor,
based on our biochemical assays; higher exposure than ibrutinib based on their respective Phase 1 experience
in separate studies; and sustained 24-hour BTK occupancy in both the peripheral blood and lymph node
compartments in patients.

Overview of Clinical Development Program and Regulatory Status

We have announced BRUKINSA® approvals around the world, including in the United States, China,

the EU, the U.K., Canada, and Australia. As of February 2022, 43 additional marketing authorization
applications for BRUKINSA® have been submitted, including by BeiGene and with support from our five
distribution partners: Adium Pharma in Latin America and the Caribbean, NewBridge Pharmaceuticals in
the Middle East and North Africa, Erkim in Turkey, Nanolek in Russia, and Medison in Israel.

Based on the clinical data to date, we believe that BRUKINSA® has a potentially best-in-class profile,

and we are running a broad global pivotal program in multiple indications, including nine registration or
registration-enabling clinical trials. Four of the nine studies are Phase 3 and five are designed to be registration-
enabling Phase 2 trials.

We have reported results from the monotherapy head-to-head Phase 3 trial versus ibrutinib in WM
(ASPEN, NCT03053440), which are being included in several filings globally. We are also conducting an
ongoing Phase 3 trial comparing BRUKINSA® to bendamustine and rituximab in patients with treatment-
naïve (TN) CLL/SLL (SEQUOIA, NCT03336333) and a head-to-head Phase 3 trial in R/R CLL/SLL versus
ibrutinib (ALPINE, NCT03734016). We have completed patient enrollment in SEQUOIA and ALPINE.
Our fourth Phase 3 trial is an ongoing Phase 3 confirmatory trial in patients with treatment-naive (TN) MCL
(NCT04002297). Additionally, we have five filed or ongoing Phase 2 trials that are designed to be registration-
enabling, including four monotherapy studies in R/R MCL, R/R WM, R/R CLL/SLL (NCT03206970,
NCT03332173, NCT03206918), and R/R MZL (MAGNOLIA, NCT03846427) and an ongoing pivotal
Phase 2 trial in combination with GAZYVA® (obinutuzumab) in patients with R/R FL (ROSEWOOD,
NCT03332017). Finally, we are also investigating zanubrutinib in several combination studies in DLBCL and
CLL/SLL, including two studies in CLL/SLL investigating venetoclax combinations.

We continue to pursue regulatory approvals for BRUKINSA® globally. In February 2022, we announced
that the FDA accepted for review a sNDA for CLL/SLL, with a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA)
target action date of October 22, 2022, and that the EMA accepted for review two marketing authorization
applications for MZL and CLL. We expect continued regulatory decisions for some of our global filings this
year, including potential additional approvals in more than 10 markets We expect topline results to be
available from the ALPINE trial comparing BRUKINSA® versus ibrutinib in second line CLL/SLL in the
first half 2022. Finally, we expect to announce clinical data on the fully enrolled pivotal Phase 2 ROSEWOOD
trial comparing BRUKINSA® plus obinutuzumab to obinutuzumab alone in R/R follicular lymphoma
patients in 2022.

Tislelizumab, an anti-PD-1 Antibody

Tislelizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody against the immune checkpoint receptor PD-1 that

is currently being evaluated in pivotal clinical trials globally and in China and for which we plan to commence

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additional pivotal trials as a monotherapy and in combination with standard of care to treat various solid
and hematological cancers.

Overview of Clinical Development Program and Regulatory Status

BeiGene has initiated or completed 17 potentially registration-enabling clinical trials in China and
globally, including 13 Phase 3 trials and four pivotal Phase 2 trials intended to support regulatory submissions
globally and in China.

Our trials in lung cancer include:

• A global Phase 3 trial evaluating tislelizumab as a second- or third-line treatment compared to

docetaxel in patients with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC (NCT03358875);

• Two Phase 3 trials in China evaluating tislelizumab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy in

squamous and non-squamous NSCLC (NCT03594747 and NCT03663205, respectively);

• A Phase 3 trial in China in 1L SCLC evaluating tislelizumab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy

(NCT04005716); and

• A Phase 3 trial in China of tislelizumab in combination with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy

as neoadjuvant treatment for patients with NSCLC (NCT04379635).

Our trials in liver cancer include:

• A global Phase 3 trial comparing tislelizumab with sorafenib as first-line treatment for patients with

HCC (NCT03412773); and

• A global single-arm pivotal Phase 2 trial in second or third line unresectable HCC (NCT03419897).

Our trials in gastric cancer include:

• A global Phase 3 trial of tislelizumab combined with chemotherapy versus placebo combined with

chemotherapy as first-line treatment for patients with gastric cancer (NCT03777657).

Our trials in lymphoma include:

• A Phase 3 trial in China comparing tislelizumab to salvage chemotherapy in patients with relapsed

or refractory classical Hodgkin Lymphoma (cHL; NCT04486391); and

• A Phase 2 trial in China in patients with relapsed or refractory cHL (NCT03209973).

Our trials in urothelial carcinoma include:

• A Phase 3 trial in China in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma

(NCT03967977); and

• Phase 2 trial in China in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial bladder cancer

(NCT04004221).

Our trials in ESCC include:

• A global Phase 3 trial comparing tislelizumab with chemotherapy as second-line treatment for

patients with advanced ESCC (NCT03430843);

• A global Phase 3 trial of tislelizumab in combination with chemotherapy as first-line treatment for

patients with ESCC (NCT03783442); and

• A Phase 3 trial in China of tislelizumab versus placebo in combination with chemoradiotherapy in

patients with localized ESCC (NCT03957590).

Finally, our trials in solid tumors and nasopharyngeal cancer include:

• A Phase 2 trial in China in patients with MSI-H/dMMR solid tumors (NCT03736889); and

• A Phase 3 trial in China and Thailand of tislelizumab combined with chemotherapy versus placebo

combined with chemotherapy as first-line treatment in patients with nasopharyngeal cancer
(NCT03924986).

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As of January 2022, we had enrolled over 9,000 subjects in clinical trials of tislelizumab in 35 countries,
including close to 3,000 subjects outside of China. These studies include 11 multi-regional registrational trials
that are designed for global regulatory approvals. Data from our trials thus far suggested that tislelizumab
was generally well-tolerated and exhibited anti-tumor activity in a variety of tumor types.

Pamiparib, a PARP1 and PARP2 Inhibitor

Pamiparib is a selective small molecule inhibitor of poly ADP-ribose polymerase 1 (PARP1) and
PARP2 enzymes that is being evaluated as a potential monotherapy and in combinations for the treatment
of various solid tumors. We believe that pamiparib has the potential to be differentiated from other PARP
inhibitors because of its brain penetration, greater selectivity, strong DNA-trapping activity, and good
oral bioavailability demonstrated in preclinical models.

Overview of Clinical Development Program and Regulatory Status

In China, pamiparib received conditional approval in May 2021 for treatment of patients with germline

BRCA (gBRCA) mutation-associated recurrent advanced ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal
cancer who have been treated with two or more lines of chemotherapy. Full approval for this indication is
contingent upon results from ongoing corroborative trials confirming the clinical benefit of pamiparib in this
population.

In addition, our clinical development program includes a Phase 3 trial as a maintenance therapy in

patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent OC (NCT03519230), a Phase 2 trial in BRCA-mutated HER2-
negative breast cancer (NCT03575065), a Phase 2 trial in first-line platinum-sensitive GC maintenance
(NCT03427814), and a Phase 1b/2 trial in combination with temozolomide in glioblastoma multiforme
(NCT03150862).

We expect to announce top-line results from the Phase 3 maintenance study in patients with platinum-

sensitive recurrent OC in the first half of 2022.

Ociperlimab (BGB-A1217), a TIGIT Inhibitor

Ociperlimab (BGB-A1217) is an investigational humanized IgG1-variant monoclonal antibody

directed against TIGIT. An immune checkpoint molecule, ociperlimab is currently being investigated in two
global Phase 3 clinical trials, the AdvanTIG-301 (NCT04866017) and AdvanTIG-302 (NCT04746924)
trials, in combination with tislelizumab in NSCLC. To date, approximately 800 subjects have been enrolled
across the ociperlimab development program, which includes six global trials in patients with lung cancers,
esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, and cervical cancer.

In December 2021 we announced an option, collaboration and license agreement with Novartis to
develop, manufacture and commercialize ociperlimab in North America, Europe, and Japan, as discussed
further below under “Novartis Collaboration — Option Collaboration and License Agreement for
Ociperlimab”.

We have completed patient enrollment in the AdvanTIG-202 trial (NCT04693234) in patients with
previously treated recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer. We expect to initiate additional pivotal clinical
trials and announce data from Phase 2 trial expansion cohorts in 2022.

Lifirafenib (BGB-283) and BGB-3245, Inhibitors of RAF

Lifirafenib is an investigational novel small molecule inhibitor with RAF monomer and dimer

inhibition activities. Lifirafenib has shown antitumor activities in preclinical models and in cancer patients
with tumors harboring BRAF V600E mutations, non-V600E BRAF mutations or KRAS/NRAS mutations.
We have been developing lifirafenib for the treatment of cancers with aberrations in the mitogen-activated
protein kinase (MAPK), pathway, including BRAF gene mutations and KRAS/NRAS gene mutations where
first generation BRAF inhibitors are not effective. We believe that lifirafenib as monotherapy or in
combination with other agents may have potential for treating various malignancies such as melanoma,
NSCLC, and endometrial cancer.

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BeiGene is working together with SpringWorks Therapeutics, Inc. (SpringWorks) in a global clinical
collaboration and has initiated a Phase 1b clinical trial (NCT03905148) to evaluate the safety, tolerability,
and preliminary efficacy of lifirafenib in combination with SpringWorks’ investigational MEK inhibitor,
mirdametinib (PD-0325901), in patients with advanced solid tumors.

In addition to the collaboration, BeiGene and SpringWorks formed a separate company, MapKure,

LLC, to develop BGB-3245, an investigational, selective next-generation RAF kinase inhibitor discovered
by BeiGene scientists. MapKure has an ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of BGB-3245 (NCT04249843) in patients
with advanced or refractory tumors harboring specific v-RAF murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B
(B-RAF) genetic mutations.

Sitravatinib, a Multi-Kinase Inhibitor

In January 2018, we entered into an exclusive license agreement with Mirati Therapeutics, Inc. (Mirati)
for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of Mirati’s sitravatinib in Asia (excluding Japan
and certain other countries), Australia and New Zealand. Sitravatinib is an investigational spectrum-
selective kinase inhibitor, which potently inhibits receptor tyrosine kinases, including RET, TAM family
receptors (TYRO3, Axl, MER), and split family receptors (VEGFR2, KIT). Sitravatinib is being evaluated
by Mirati in multiple clinical trials to treat patients who are refractory to prior immune checkpoint inhibitor
therapy, including a Phase 3 SAPPHIRE trial of sitravatinib in NSCLC initiated in 2019. In data readouts
at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2021, two cohorts from BeiGene’s
Phase 1b trial (NCT03666143) of sitravatinib in combination with tislelizumab in unresectable or metastatic
melanoma who were R/R to PD-1/LI inhibitors and in patients with advanced platinum-resistant ovarian
cancer (PROC) were presented. Sitravatinib is being evaluated by BeiGene in multiple clinical trials including
a Phase 3 trial combining sitravatinib with tislelizumab in NSCLC.

BGB-11417, a Small Molecule Bcl-2 Inhibitor

BGB-11417 is an investigational small molecule Bcl-2 inhibitor. We have completed preclinical and

investigational new drug (IND)-enabling studies of BGB-11417, which demonstrated potent activity and
high selectivity against the pro-apoptotic protein Bcl-2. The molecule appears to be more potent than
venetoclax and shows the potential to overcome resistance to venetoclax. Further, it is more selective than
venetoclax for Bcl-2 relative to Bcl-xL. Finally, we believe that it is well-positioned to be combined with
BRUKINSA®. We have an ongoing Phase 1 trial (NCT04277637) in Australia and the United States to
investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary antitumor activity of BGB-11417
and its combination with zanubrutinib in patients with mature B-cell malignancies. We expect to start pivotal
trials for BGB-11417 in 2022.

BGB-A445, an OX40 Agonist Antibody

BGB-A445 is an investigational agonistic antibody directed to the OX40 antigen. BGB-A445 is a non-
ligand competing antibody that does not disrupt OX40 to OX40 ligand engagement. Preclinical experiments
showed that BGB-A445 has increasing effectiveness at higher doses versus an antibody that was ligand-
competing, which showed falling effectiveness at higher doses. BGB-A445 has also showed in preclinical tests
the potential to be combined with several agents, such as tislelizumab, as well as a TLR9 agonist, a PI3Kδ
inhibitor, sitravatinib, and chemotherapy. We have an ongoing Phase 1 trial (NCT04215978) of BGB-A445 in
combination with tislelizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors and expect to initiate dose expansion
for BGB-A445 (OX-40) in the first half of 2022.

ZW25 (Zanidatamab), a bispecific HER2-targeted antibody

Zanidatamab, a novel investigational Azymetric™ bispecific antibody targeting HER2, is currently in

late-stage clinical development with Zymeworks Inc. BeiGene has development and commercial rights to
zanidatamab in Asia (excluding Japan), Australia, and New Zealand. We are participating in three ongoing
clinical studies with zanidatamab. The first is a Phase 1/2 study (NCT04215978) in HER2-positive breast and
gastric cancer. The breast cancer arm combines zanidatamab with docetaxel, and the gastric cancer arm
combines zanidatamab with our PD-1 inhibitor tislelizumab and chemotherapy. The second study
(NCT04466891) is a Phase 2b study in patients with advanced or metastatic HER2-amplified biliary tract

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cancers (BTC) in which zanidatamab is being used as monotherapy. We initiated a global Phase 3 clinical
trial (NCT05152147) examining zanidatamab in combination with chemotherapy with and without
tislelizumab in HER2-positive gastroesophageal cancer in late 2021. We expect to complete enrollment in
2L biliary tract cancer in 2022.

BGB-A425, a TIM-3 Inhibitor

BGB-A425 is an investigational humanized IgG1-variant monoclonal antibody against T-cell

immunoglobulin and mucin-domain containing-3 (TIM-3). We have an ongoing Phase 1/2 trial
(NCT03744468) of BGB-A425 in combination with tislelizumab in various solid tumors.

BGB-15025, a Small Molecule HPK1 Inhibitor

BGB-15025 is an investigational small molecule inhibitor of HPK1, which is a key negative feedback

regulator of TCR signaling. Inhibition of HPK1 leads to enhanced T-cell activation pre-clinically. In
addition, preclinical studies showed that BGB-15025 exhibits combination activity with tislelizumab and
has a wide therapeutic window. We initiated a Phase 1 trial (NCT04649385) of BGB-15025 alone and in
combination with tislelizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors in 2021. This trial is being conducted
in multiple countries globally. We expect to initiate dose-expansion for BGB-15025 in the second half of
2022.

Our Preclinical Programs

We have a proprietary biology research platform that has allowed us to research and develop both
small molecules and biologic molecules. In the last decade, this platform has generated more than 10 clinical
stage assets, including three internally-developed molecules that have been approved by regulatory bodies
in the United States, China, EU and other markets, with other filings pending globally and planned to be
submitted. The platform is a full-process technology system spanning from early discovery to
commercialization of oncology medicines based on multiple drug technology platforms that can be applied
to oncology and other fields. We have core technology platforms for the development of small molecule and
antibody medicines and the manufacturing of our own and potentially other medicines. Currently, we have
over 50 pre-clinical programs and we believe that half of them have best-in-class or first-in-class potential.

We anticipate advancing multiple our preclinical drug candidates into the clinic in the next 12 months.

We believe that we have the opportunity to combine tislelizumab with our preclinical candidates to target
multiple points in the cancer immunity cycle. We also may seek to develop companion diagnostics that will
help identify patients who are most likely to benefit from the use of our medicines and drug candidates.

Manufacturing and Supply

We manufacture our medicines and drug candidates internally and in some cases with the help of
third-party contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs). The manufacturing of our medicines and drug
candidates is subject to extensive regulations that impose various procedural and documentation requirements
governing recordkeeping, manufacturing processes and controls, personnel, quality control, and quality
assurance, among others. Our manufacturing facilities and the facilities of the CMOs we use to manufacture
our medicines and drug candidates operate under current good manufacturing practice regulations (GMP)
conditions. GMP regulations are requirements for the production of pharmaceuticals that will be used in
humans.

Our Manufacturing Facilities

We have manufacturing facilities for small molecule drugs and large molecule biologics in Suzhou and

Guangzhou, China, respectively, to support the commercialization and potential future demand of our
internally developed or in-licensed products.

Our manufacturing facility in Suzhou is over 13,000 square meters and consists of a manufacturing
base for small molecule drug products with an annual production capacity of about 100 million tablets and
capsules and a biologics clinical development production facility with 2 x 500 liters capacity to produce

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biologics candidates for clinical supply. The facility meets or exceeds design criteria of the United States,
EU, and China regulatory requirements. The facility has received a manufacturing license to produce
commercial volumes of BRUKINSA and pamiparib for the China market. As a result of our growing
commercial and clinical demands, we have broken ground on a new small molecule manufacturing facility
nearby in Suzhou that will have the capability to produce up to 600 million solid oral dosages annually. This
approximately 50,000 square meter facility is expected to replace our current Suzhou site and support our
growing pipeline of small molecule medicines and drug candidates.

We continue to invest in our state-of-the-art commercial-scale manufacturing facility in Guangzhou of
approximately 100,000 square meters for the manufacturing of large molecule biologics. Phases 1 and 2 of
the facility were completed in September 2019 and December 2020, respectively, with 24,000 liters of single
use disposable capacity, while Phase 3 completed construction in December 2021 that will add an additional
40,000 liters of capacity. Phase 1 is currently approved for the end to end commercial production of
tislelizumab for the China market. Upon completion, the facility will have a total capacity of 64,000 liters.
We have purchased an adjacent tract of land to the south of the current site and are currently evaluating a
fourth phase of expansion to support our growing pipeline of large molecule medicines and drug
candidates.

We are also planning to expand our biologics manufacturing capabilities to include a future

manufacturing facility in the United States and have closed on a 42-acre site at the Princeton West Innovation
Park in Hopewell, New Jersey to be developed as a new commercial-stage manufacturing and clinical
R&D campus. Construction of the initial phase is expected to commence in 2022. The property, located
strategically in the Interstate 95 corridor of New Jersey, with a deep and rich talent pool, has more than one
million square feet of developable real estate for potential future expansion to cover our existing medicines
and pipeline.

Contract Manufacturing Organizations

We currently rely on, and expect to continue to rely on, a limited number of third-party CMOs and
CROs for the production of some drug products and drug substances and the supply of raw materials to
meet the commercial, clinical, and preclinical needs of our medicines and drug candidates. We have adopted
procedures to ensure that the production qualifications, facilities, and processes of the third-party suppliers
engaged by us comply with relevant regulatory requirements and our internal quality and operational
guidelines. We select our third-party suppliers carefully by considering a number of factors, including their
qualifications, relevant expertise, production capacity, geographic proximity, reputation, track record, product
quality, reliability in meeting delivery schedules, and business terms.

We have commercial supply and related agreements with most of our manufacturing service providers.

For example, we entered into a commercial supply agreement with Catalent Pharma Solutions, LLC
(Catalent) to produce BRUKINSA® at Catalent’s Kansas City, Missouri site for clinical and commercial use
in the United States and other countries outside of China. We currently source the active pharmaceutical
ingredient (API) for BRUKINSA® from a supplier in China and are in the process of bringing online an
additional source of supply outside of China. In addition, we entered into a commercial supply agreement
with Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals (China) Ltd. (Boehringer Ingelheim) for tislelizumab,
which is being manufactured at Boehringer Ingelheim’s facility in Shanghai, China. Additionally, our
collaboration agreements with Novartis include the right for Novartis to manufacture tislelizumab and
ociperlimab for its territory, to be managed by Novartis following tech transfer, and our right to conduct a
specified percentage of production at our planned U.S. manufacturing site, subject to the terms of the
agreements. For our commercial and clinical stage products in-licensed from Amgen, BMS and others, we
rely on the licensors and their manufacturing facilities or their CMOs for the supply of those medicines and
drug candidates.

Our agreements with the outsourced suppliers engaged by us generally set out terms, including product

quality or service details, technical standards or methods, delivery terms, agreed price and payment, and
product inspection and acceptance criteria. We are generally allowed to return any products that fail to meet
specified quality standards. Our outsourced suppliers procure raw materials themselves. Typically,
outsourced suppliers request settlement of payment within 30 days from the date of invoice. Either party
may terminate the agreements by serving notice to the other party under certain circumstances.

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We generally obtain raw materials for our manufacturing activities from various suppliers who we
believe have sufficient capacity to meet our demands. Raw materials and starting materials used at our
facilities in Beijing and Suzhou include active pharmaceutical ingredients custom-made by our third-party
CROs and excipients, which are commercially available from well-known vendors that meet the requirements
of the relevant regulatory agencies. The core raw materials used in manufacturing at our Guangzhou
facility are genetically modified cell lines that we have co-developed and licensed from Boehringer Ingelheim
and other third parties.

We typically order raw materials on a purchase order basis and do not enter into long-term, dedicated

capacity or minimum supply arrangements. We pay for our purchases of raw materials on credit. Credit
periods granted to us by our suppliers generally range from 30 to 60 days. Our suppliers are generally not
responsible for any defects in our finished products.

Amgen Collaboration

Collaboration Agreement

On October 31, 2019, our wholly-owned subsidiary, BeiGene Switzerland GmbH (BeiGene
Switzerland), entered into a Collaboration Agreement with Amgen, which became effective on January 2,
2020 (the “Amgen Collaboration Agreement”). Pursuant to the terms of the Amgen Collaboration Agreement,
we are responsible for commercializing Amgen’s oncology products XGEVA®, BLINCYTO® and
KYPROLIS® in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) for a period of five or seven years
following each product’s regulatory approval in China, as specified in the Amgen Collaboration Agreement,
with the commercialization period for XGEVA® commencing following the transition of operational
responsibilities for the product. In addition, as specified in the agreement, we have the option to retain one
of the three products to commercialize for as long as the product is sold in China. The parties have agreed to
equally share profits and losses for the products in China during each product’s commercialization period.
After expiration of the commercialization period for each product, the products not retained will be
transitioned back to Amgen and we will be eligible to receive tiered mid-single to low-double digit royalties
on net sales in China of each product for an additional five years.

Additionally, pursuant to the terms of the Amgen Collaboration Agreement, we and Amgen have

agreed to collaborate on the global clinical development and commercialization of a portfolio of Amgen
clinical- and late-preclinical-stage oncology pipeline products. Starting from the commencement of the
Amgen Collaboration Agreement, we and Amgen will co-fund global development costs, with BeiGene
contributing up to $1.25 billion worth of development services and cash over the term of the collaboration.
We will be eligible to receive tiered mid-single digit royalties on net sales of each product globally outside
of China, other than sotorasib (AMG 510), on a product-by-product and country-by-country basis, until the
latest of the expiration of the last valid patent claim, the expiration of regulatory exclusivity, or the earlier
of eight years after the first commercial sale of such product in the country of sale and 20 years from the date
of first commercial sale of such product anywhere in the world.

For each pipeline product that is approved in China, we will have the right to commercialize the

product for seven years, with the parties sharing profits and losses for the product in China equally. In
addition, we will have the right to retain approximately one of every three approved products, up to a total
of six, other than sotorasib (AMG 510), to commercialize for as long as each such product is sold in China.
After the expiration of the seven-year commercialization period, each product will be transitioned back to
Amgen and we will be eligible to received tiered mid-single to low-double digit royalties on net sales in China
for an additional five years. The parties are subject to specified exclusivity requirements in China and the
rest of the world.

BeiGene, Ltd. has guaranteed certain obligations of BeiGene Switzerland under the Amgen

Collaboration Agreement pursuant to the terms of a separate Guarantee Agreement.

The Amgen Collaboration Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants

by the parties. The agreement will continue in effect on a product-by-product basis unless terminated by
either party pursuant to its terms. The agreement may be terminated by mutual written consent of the parties,
or by either party upon the other party’s uncured material breach, insolvency, failure to comply with

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specified compliance provisions, or subject to a specified negotiation mechanism, certain adverse economic
impacts or the failure to meet commercial objectives. In addition, Amgen may terminate the agreement with
respect to a pipeline product in the event it suspends development of such pipeline product on specified
terms, subject to the parties determining whether to continue development of the pipeline product in China.

Share Purchase Agreement

In connection with the Amgen Collaboration Agreement, pursuant to a share purchase agreement
dated October 31, 2019, as amended, by and between BeiGene, Ltd. and Amgen (the “Share Purchase
Agreement”), we issued to Amgen 206,635,013 ordinary shares in the form of 15,895,001 American
Depositary Shares (ADSs) of BeiGene, Ltd. on January 2, 2020, representing approximately 20.5% of our
then outstanding shares, for an aggregate purchase price of $2.78 billion, or $13.45 per ordinary share, or
$174.85 per ADS.

Pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement, Amgen has agreed to (i) a lock-up on sales of its shares

until the earliest of (a) the fourth anniversary of the closing, (b) the expiration or termination of the
Collaboration Agreement and (c) a change of control of BeiGene, Ltd., (ii) a standstill until the later of
(a) the first anniversary of the date as of which it ceases to have the right to appoint a director and (b) the
date on which it holds less than 5% of our then outstanding shares, and (iii) a voting agreement to vote its
shares on certain matters presented for shareholder approval until the later of (a) the fifth anniversary of
the closing and (b) the expiration of the standstill period, all under specified circumstances and as set forth
in the agreement. Following the later of (i) the expiration of the lock-up period and (ii) the expiration of the
standstill period, Amgen has agreed not to sell shares representing more than 5% of our then outstanding
shares in any rolling 12-month period, subject to specified exceptions. In addition, Amgen will have the right
to designate an independent director to serve on our board of directors until the earlier of (a) the date on
which Amgen holds less than 10% of our then outstanding shares as a result of Amgen’s sale of ordinary
shares or Amgen’s failure to participate in future offerings and (b) the third anniversary of the date of the
expiration or termination of the Amgen Collaboration Agreement. Under the terms of the Share Purchase
Agreement, Amgen will also have specified registration rights upon expiration of the lock-up. Additionally,
we have agreed to use reasonable best efforts to provide Amgen with an opportunity to participate in
subsequent new securities offerings upon the same terms and conditions as other purchasers in the offering
in an amount needed to allow Amgen to hold up to 20.6% of our shares, subject to applicable law and HKEx
rules and other specified conditions.

On March 17, 2020, BeiGene, Ltd. and Amgen entered into an Amendment No. 2 (the “Second
Amendment”) to the Share Purchase Agreement in order to account for periodic dilution from the issuance
of shares by us, which agreement was restated in its entirety on September 24, 2020 (the “Restated Second
Amendment”). Pursuant to the Restated Second Amendment, Amgen has an option (the “Direct Purchase
Option”) to subscribe for additional ADSs in an amount necessary to enable it to increase (and
subsequently maintain) its ownership at approximately 20.6% of our outstanding shares. The Direct
Purchase Option is exercisable on a monthly basis, but only if Amgen’s interest in our outstanding shares at
the monthly reference date is less than 20.4%. The Direct Purchase Option (i) is exercisable by Amgen
solely as a result of dilution arising from issuance of new shares by us under our equity incentive plans from
time to time, and (ii) is subject to annual approval by our independent shareholders each year during the
term of the Restated Second Amendment. The exercise period of the Direct Purchase Option commenced
on December 1, 2020 and will terminate on the earliest of: (a) the date on which Amgen and its affiliates
collectively own less than 20% of the outstanding share capital of the Company as a result of Amgen’s
sale of shares; (b) at least 60-day advance written notice from either Amgen or the Company that such party
wishes to terminate the Direct Purchase Option; or (c) December 1, 2023. The Direct Purchase Option has
no vesting period.

Novartis Collaboration

Collaboration and License Agreement for Tislelizumab

On January 11, 2021, our wholly-owned subsidiary, BeiGene Switzerland GmbH, entered into a
Collaboration and License Agreement, which became effective on February 26, 2021 (the “Novartis

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Collaboration and License Agreement”) with Novartis, pursuant to which Novartis will have the right to
develop, manufacture and commercialize tislelizumab in the United States, Canada, Mexico, member countries
of the European Union, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Russia, and
Japan (the “Licensed Territory”).

Under the Novartis Collaboration and License Agreement, we received an upfront cash payment of
$650 million from Novartis. Additionally, we are eligible to receive up to $1.3 billion upon the achievement
of regulatory milestones, $250 million upon the achievement of sales milestones, and tiered royalties based
on percentages of annual net sales of tislelizumab in the Licensed Territory ranging from the high-teens to
high-twenties, with customary reductions in specified circumstances. Royalties are payable on a country-by-
country basis from the time of the first commercial sale until the latest of the expiration of the last valid
patent claim, the expiration of regulatory exclusivity, or 10 years after the first commercial sale of tislelizumab
in the country of sale.

Under the Novartis Collaboration and License Agreement, we and Novartis have agreed to jointly
develop tislelizumab in the Licensed Territory, with Novartis responsible for regulatory submissions after a
transition period and for commercialization upon regulatory approvals. In addition, both companies may
conduct clinical trials to explore potential combinations of tislelizumab with other cancer treatments. We
will be responsible for funding the ongoing clinical trials of tislelizumab, and Novartis has agreed to fund any
new registrational, bridging, or post-marketing studies in the Licensed Territory. Subject to specified
conditions, both parties have agreed to jointly fund other new clinical trials in the Licensed Territory agreed
by the parties, provided that each party will be responsible for funding clinical trials evaluating tislelizumab
in combination with its own- or third-party cancer treatments. We will initially be responsible for supplying
tislelizumab to Novartis, with Novartis having the right to conduct manufacturing for its use in the
Licensed Territory after successful transfer of the manufacturing process. In addition, we have an option to co-
detail the product in the United States, Canada and Mexico, on an indication-by-indication basis, funded
in part by Novartis. Each party retains the worldwide right to commercialize its propriety products in
combination with tislelizumab. We retain the rights to manufacture and supply a specified percentage of
commercial supply of tislelizumab from our planned U.S. manufacturing facility to be built in Hopewell, New
Jersey, subject to the terms of the agreement.

The Novartis Collaboration and License Agreement contains customary representations, warranties

and covenants by the parties. Unless earlier terminated, the agreement will expire on a country-by-country
basis upon expiration of the royalty term in such country and in its entirety upon the expiration of all
applicable royalty terms in all countries in the Licensed Territory. We may terminate the agreement in its
entirety upon written notice (i) if Novartis challenges the licensed BeiGene patents, or (ii) if Novartis files a
biologics license application for its anti-PD-1 antibody, spartalizumab, in the Licensed Territory, and we
do not elect to include spartalizumab as a licensed product under the agreement or Novartis does not divest
the product candidate, in which case Novartis would pay us a specified termination fee. The agreement
may be terminated by Novartis upon 120 days’ prior written notice if delivered before first commercial sale
or 180 days’ prior written notice if delivered following first commercial sale of tislelizumab in the Licensed
Territory, or by either party upon the other party’s bankruptcy or uncured material breach.

Option, Collaboration and License Agreement for Ociperlimab

On December 19, 2021, BeiGene Switzerland GmbH entered into an Option, Collaboration and
License Agreement (the “Novartis Option, Collaboration and License Agreement”) with Novartis, pursuant
to which we have granted Novartis an exclusive time-based option to receive an exclusive license to develop,
manufacture and commercialize our investigational TIGIT inhibitor ociperlimab in the Licensed Territory.

Under the Novartis Option, Collaboration and License Agreement, we received an upfront cash
payment of $300 million from Novartis and are eligible to receive an additional payment of $600 million or
$700 million upon exercise by Novartis of an exclusive time-based option prior to mid-2023 or late-2023,
respectively, subject to receipt of required antitrust approval. Additionally, following option exercise, we are
eligible to receive up to $745 million upon the achievement of regulatory approval milestones, $1.15 billion
upon the achievement of sales milestones, and tiered royalties based on percentages of annual net sales of
ociperlimab in the Licensed Territory ranging from the high-teens to mid-twenties, with customary
reductions in specified circumstances. Royalties are payable on a country-by-country basis from the time of

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the first commercial sale until the latest of the expiration of the last valid patent claim, the expiration of
regulatory exclusivity, or 10 years after the first commercial sale of ociperlimab in the country of sale.

Under the Novartis Option, Collaboration and License Agreement, during the option period, Novartis
has agreed to initiate, conduct and fund additional global clinical trials of ociperlimab in combination with
tislelizumab in selected tumor types and we have agreed to expand enrollment in two ongoing trials.
Additionally, following the option exercise, the companies have agreed to jointly develop ociperlimab in the
Licensed Territory, with Novartis sharing development costs of global trials and responsible for regulatory
submissions after a transition period and for commercialization upon regulatory approvals in the Licensed
Territory. In addition, both companies may conduct clinical trials globally to explore potential combinations
of ociperlimab with other cancer treatments. We will initially be responsible for supplying ociperlimab to
Novartis, with Novartis having the right to conduct manufacturing for its use in the Licensed Territory after
successful transfer of the manufacturing process. Following approval, we have agreed to provide 50% of
the co-detailing and co-field medical efforts in the United States and have an option to co-detail up to 25%
in Canada and Mexico, in each case funded in part by Novartis. Each party retains the worldwide right to
commercialize its proprietary products in combination with ociperlimab, as is the case with tislelizumab
under the parties’ existing collaboration agreement. We retain the rights to manufacture and supply a
specified percentage of commercial supply of ociperlimab from our planned U.S. manufacturing facility to
be built in Hopewell, New Jersey, subject to the terms of the agreement.

The Novartis Option, Collaboration and License Agreement contains customary representations,
warranties and covenants by BeiGene and Novartis. Unless earlier terminated, the agreement will expire on
a country-by-country basis upon the expiration of the royalty term in such country. The Novartis Option,
Collaboration and License Agreement will expire in its entirety upon the expiration of all applicable royalty
terms under the agreement in all countries in the Licensed Territory. The agreement may be terminated by
Novartis upon 120 days’ prior written notice if delivered before first commercial sale or 180 days’ prior written
notice if delivered following first commercial sale of ociperlimab in the Licensed Territory, or by either
party upon the other party’s bankruptcy or uncured material breach. BeiGene may terminate the agreement
in its entirety upon written notice if Novartis challenges the licensed BeiGene patents. Either party may
terminate the agreement in its entirety effective immediately upon written notice to the other party (i) if the
option terminates or expires, or (ii) in the event that the license effective date has not occurred within
six months after the date of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act filing, subject to extension.

Celgene License and Supply Agreement

On July 5, 2017, we and Celgene Logistics Sàrl, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMS, entered into a

License and Supply Agreement, which we refer to as the China License Agreement and which became
effective on August 31, 2017, pursuant to which we were granted the right to exclusively distribute and
promote BMS’s approved cancer therapies, REVLIMID®, VIDAZA® and ABRAXANE® in China, excluding
Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. In addition, if Celgene decides to commercialize a new oncology product
through a third party in the licensed territory during the first five years of the term, we have a right of first
negotiation to obtain the right to commercialize the product, subject to certain conditions. We subsequently
assigned the agreement to our wholly-owned subsidiary, BeiGene Switzerland.

On March 25, 2020, the NMPA suspended the importation, sales and use of ABRAXANE® in China

supplied to us by BMS, and the drug was subsequently recalled by BMS and is not currently available for
sale in China. This suspension was based on inspection findings at BMS’s contract manufacturing facility in
the United States. Additionally, in October 2021, BMS provided 180-days’ notice to us, which we dispute,
purporting to terminate our license to market ABRAXANE® in China. We have not had any sales of
ABRAXANE® since the suspension and do not expect future revenue from ABRAXANE®. We have initiated
an arbitration proceeding against BMS asserting that it has breached and continues to breach the terms
and conditions of the license and supply agreement. For additional information, please see the section of this
report titled “Legal Proceedings”.

The term of the China License Agreement is 10 years and may be terminated by either party upon
written notice in the event of uncured material breach or bankruptcy of the other party, or if the underlying
regulatory approvals for the covered products are revoked. BMS also has the right to terminate the
agreement with respect to REVLIMID® at any time upon written notice to us under certain circumstances.

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The China License Agreement contains customary representations and warranties and confidentiality

and mutual indemnification provisions.

Intellectual Property

The proprietary nature of, and protection for, our medicines, drug candidates, and their methods of
use are an important part of our strategy to develop and commercialize novel medicines, as described in
more detail below. We have filed patent applications and obtained patents in the United States and other
countries and regions, such as China and Europe, relating to our medicines and certain of our drug candidates,
and are pursuing additional patent protection for them and for our other drug candidates and technologies.
We rely on trade secrets to protect aspects of our business that are not amenable to, or that we do not
consider appropriate for, patent protection, including our manufacturing processes. We also rely on know-
how, continuing technological innovation and in-licensing opportunities to develop, strengthen, and support
our development programs.

As of January 22, 2022, we owned 40 issued U.S. patents, 24 issued China patents, a number of
pending U.S. and China patent applications, and corresponding patents and patent applications
internationally. In addition, we owned pending international patent applications under the Patent
Cooperation Treaty (PCT), which we plan to file nationally in the United States and other jurisdictions, as
well as additional priority PCT applications. With respect to any issued patents in the United States and
Europe, we may be entitled to obtain a patent term extension to extend the patent expiration date, provided
that we meet the applicable requirements for obtaining such patent term extensions. For example, in the
United States, we can apply for a patent term extension of up to five years for one of the patents covering
a drug product once the product is approved by the FDA. The exact duration of the extension depends on the
time that we spend in clinical studies as well as getting approval from the FDA. In China, the Amended
PRC Patent Law, which became effective on June 1, 2021, provides a patent term extension of up to five years,
similar to the United States.

The key patents for our medicines and late-stage clinical drug candidates as of January 31, 2022, are

summarized below:

Molecule
BRUKINSA®
(Zanubrutinib)

Tislelizumab

Pamiparib

Territory

General Subject Matter

Expiration(1)

U.S.

U.S.

U.S.

U.S.

Compound and composition

Use for the treatment of autoimmune diseases

Use for the treatment of B-cell proliferative disorder

Crystalline forms

China

Compound and composition

U.S.

U.S.
U.S.

U.S.

U.S.
China

China
China

China
U.S.

U.S.

U.S.

U.S.

U.S.

Antibodies

Use for the treatment of cancer
Antibodies and use for the treatment of cancer

Antibodies

Antibodies
Antibodies

Antibodies
Antibodies

Antibodies
Compound and composition

Compound and composition

Use for the treatment of cancer

Compositions

Crystalline forms

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2034

2034

2034

2037

2034

2033

2033
2033

2033

2033
2033

2033
2033

2033
2031

2031

2031

2031

2036

Molecule

Ociperlimab

Territory

U.S.

China

China

China

U.S.

General Subject Matter

Expiration(1)

Crystalline forms

Compound and composition

Use for the treatment of cancer

Crystalline forms

Antibodies

2038

2031

2031

2036

2038

(1) The expected expiration does not include any additional term for patent term extensions

We currently have two in-licensed medicines in China from BMS. The key patents for them in China as

of January 31, 2022 are summarized below:

‘Product
REVLIMID® (lenalidomide)

VIDAZA® (azacitidine)

Territory

China

China

China

China
China

General Subject Matter

Expiration

Use for the treatment of multiple myeloma

Use for the treatment of multiple myeloma

Use for the treatment of multiple myeloma

Use for the treatment of multiple myeloma
No patent

2023

2023

2023

2023
N/A

Under our collaboration with Amgen, we have the right to commercialize three medicines in China.

The key patents for them in China as of January 31, 2022 are summarized below:

Product
XGEVA® (denosumab)
BLINCYTO® (blinatumomab)
KYPROLIS® (carfilzomib)

Territory

China
China
China

General Subject Matter

Expiration

Antibodies
No patent
Compound and Composition

2022
N/A
2025

Although various extensions may be available, the life of a patent and the protection it affords, is
limited. REVLIMID® and VIDAZA® face competition from generic medications, and we may face similar
competition for our medicines and any approved drug candidates even if we successfully obtain patent
protection. The scope, validity or enforceability of our or our collaborators’ patents may be challenged in
court or other authorities, and we or they may not be successful in enforcing or defending those intellectual
property rights and, as a result, may not be able to develop or market the relevant product exclusively,
which would have a material adverse effect on any potential sales of that product. Additionally, in China,
the NMPA may approve a generic version of a brand-name medicine that still has patent protection, such as
has occurred with REVLIMID®. Under our license agreements with BMS and Amgen, they retain the
responsibility for, but are not obligated, to prosecute, defend and enforce the patents for these in-licensed
products. As such, any issued patents may not protect us from generic or biosimilar competition for these
medicines.

The term of individual patents may vary based on the countries in which they are obtained. In most

countries in which we file, including the United States and China, the term of an issued patent is generally
20 years from the earliest claimed filing date of a non-provisional patent application in the applicable country.
In the United States, a patent’s term may be lengthened in some cases by a patent term adjustment, which
extends the term of a patent to account for administrative delays by the United States Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO), in excess of a patent applicant’s own delays during the prosecution process, or may be
shortened if a patent is terminally disclaimed over a commonly owned patent having an earlier expiration
date. In addition, in certain instances, a patent term can be extended to recapture a portion of the term
effectively lost in obtaining FDA regulatory approval. However, the restoration period cannot be longer than
five years and the total patent term including the restoration period must not exceed 14 years following
FDA approval. In China, the Amended PRC Patent Law, which became effective on June 1, 2021, provides
both patent term adjustment and patent term extension, similar to the United States.

In certain foreign jurisdictions similar extensions as compensation for regulatory delays are also
available. The actual protection afforded by a patent varies on a claim by claim and country by country

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basis and depends upon many factors, including the type of patent, the scope of its coverage, the availability
of any patent term extensions or adjustments, the availability of legal remedies in a particular country and
the validity and enforceability of the patent.

We may rely, in some circumstances, on trade secrets and unpatented know-how to protect aspects of

our technology. We seek to protect our proprietary technology and processes, in part, by entering into
confidentiality agreements with employees, consultants, scientific advisors and contractors and invention
assignment agreements with our employees. We also seek to preserve the integrity and confidentiality of our
data and trade secrets by maintaining physical security of our premises and physical and electronic security
of our information technology systems.

Additionally, we currently own a number of registered trademarks and pending trademark applications.

We currently have registered trademarks for BeiGene, our corporate logo and product names and logos in
the United States, China, the EU and other jurisdictions, and we are seeking further trademark protection for
BeiGene, our corporate logo, product names and logos, and other marks in jurisdictions where available
and appropriate.

Competition

We operate in a highly competitive environment and our marketed products face intense competition in

regulated markets around the world. Our main competitors include other global research-based
biopharmaceutical companies as well as smaller regional and local companies. These companies participate
in one or more activities including the development, production, and promotion of products that are
intended to treat diseases or indications that are like products we currently market or are in the process of
developing to market. For example:

BRUKINSA® — Conventional methods of treating lymphomas vary according to the specific disease
or histology, but generally include chemotherapy, antibodies directed at CD20, a molecular marker found
on the surface of B-cells, and, less frequently, radiation. Recently, significant progress has been made in the
development of new therapies for lymphomas, including BTK inhibitors. The BTK inhibitor IMBRUVICA®
(ibrutinib), marketed by AbbVie and Janssen, was first approved by the FDA in 2013 for the treatment of
patients with MCL who have received at least one prior therapy. Since that time, ibrutinib has been
approved in over 90 countries and regions and has expanded its indications. Another BTK inhibitor,
AstraZeneca’s CALQUENCE® (acalabrutinib), was approved by the FDA in 2017 under accelerated
approval for the treatment of patients with MCL who have received at least one prior therapy, and in
November 2019 for use in adults with CLL/SLL as a single agent or in combination with obinutuzumab. In
China, BRUKINSA® competes with IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib), which received approval in 2017, and
YINUOKAI® (orelabrutinib) from Innocare, which was approved in 2020.

Tislelizumab — A number of PD-1 or PD-L1 antibody medicines have been approved by the FDA.

These include Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), BMS’s OPDIVO® (nivolumab), Roche’s
TECENTRIQ® (atezolizumab), AstraZeneca’s IMFINZI® (durvalumab), Pfizer and Merck Sereno’s
BAVENCIO® (avelumab), Regeneron and Sanofi’s LIBTAYO® (cemiplimab), and GSK’s JEMPERLI®
(dostarlimab). In the global setting, several PD-1 or PD-L1 antibody agents are in late-stage clinical
development in addition to tislelizumab. In China, as of February 1, 2022, there are seven other approved
PD-1 antibodies: OPDIVO® (nivolumab) and KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), Junshi’s TUOYI®
(toripalimab), Innovent’s TYVYT® (sintilimab), Hengrui’s AIRUIKA® (camrelizumab), Akeso’s ANNIKE®
(penpulimab) and Gloria’s YUTUO® (zimberelimab). There are four approved PD-L1 antibody agents:
AstraZeneca’s IMFINZI® (durvalumab), Roche’s TECENTRIQ® (atezolizomab), CStone’s ZEJIEMEI®
(sugemalimab) and Alphamab’s ENWEIDA® (envafolimab). There are approximately 40 more PD-1 and
PD-L1 agents in clinical development in China.

Pamiparib — We are competing with multiple PARP inhibitors in China. AstraZeneca received
approval for olaparib in August 2018. Zai Labs obtained development and commercial rights for niraparib
in China, and its NDA was approved by the NMPA in December 2019. Fluzoparib from Hengrui/Hansoh was
approved in December 2020.

Ociperlimab — We are aware of several pharmaceutical companies developing TIGIT antibodies,

including Agenus, Arcus, BMS, Compugen, Roche/Genentech, Innovent, iTeos Therapeutics, Merck

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KGaA, Mereo BioPharma, Seagen, Junshi, Bio-Thera and Akeso. To our knowledge, there are currently no
approved anti-TIGIT antibodies and the most advanced agent is in Phase 3 development.

Many of the larger companies we compete with are well-capitalized and dedicate a significant number

of financial resources to support their research and development, while using business development to
supplement their internal pipelines. As a result, we must continuously invest and gain experience in the
development, acquisition, and marketing of innovative and branded medicines and drug candidates to
compete effectively in both current and future markets. This requires us to devote substantial funds and
resources to R&D to prevent or slow the erosion of the sales of our existing products and potential sales of
products in development.

The main forms of competition include efficacy, safety, and cost. The long-term success of our
products depends on our ability to effectively demonstrate the value that each one of them offers to
physicians, patients, and third-party payers. This requires a much greater use of a direct sales force to realize
significant revenues. We also have and will continue to enter into co-promotion, contract sales force or
other such arrangements with third parties, for example, where our own direct sales force is not large enough
or sufficiently well-aligned to achieve maximum market penetration.

Government Regulation

Government authorities in the United States, China, Europe and other jurisdictions extensively
regulate, among other things, the research and clinical development, testing, manufacture, quality control,
approval, labeling, packaging, storage, record-keeping, promotion, advertising, distribution, post-approval
monitoring and reporting, marketing, and export and import of drugs like those we are developing and
commercializing. Some jurisdictions also regulate drug pricing. Generally, for a new drug to be marketed,
considerable data demonstrating its quality, safety and efficacy must be obtained, organized into a format
specific to each regulatory authority, submitted for review and approved by the regulatory authority.

U.S. Regulation

U.S. Government Regulation and Product Approval

In the United States, the FDA regulates drugs under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
(FDCA), and its implementing regulations, and biologics under the FDCA, its implementing regulations,
and the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), and its implementing regulations.

Cancer therapies are sometimes characterized according to line of therapy, and the FDA often

approves new therapies initially only for second or third-line use. When cancer is detected early enough, first
line therapy may be adequate to cure the cancer or prolong life without a cure. Whenever first line therapy,
usually chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation, surgery or a combination of these, proves unsuccessful,
second line therapy may be administered. Second line therapies often consist of more chemotherapy,
radiation, antibody drugs, tumor targeted small molecule drugs or a combination of these. Third line
therapies can include bone marrow transplantation, antibody and small molecule targeted therapies, more
invasive forms of surgery. In some cases, new technologies and investigational medicines, as part of a clinical
trial, may be used as any line of therapy.

U.S. Drug Development Process

The process required by the FDA before a drug or biologic may be marketed in the United States

generally involves the following:

• completion of preclinical laboratory tests, animal studies and chemistry, manufacture and control

(CMC) studies according to Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) guidance;

• submission to the FDA of an investigational new drug (IND) application, which must become

effective before human clinical trials may begin;

• performance of adequate and well-controlled human clinical trials according to Good Clinical

Practice (GCP), to establish the safety and efficacy of the proposed drug or safety, purity and potency
of the proposed biologic, for the intended use;

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• preparation and submission to the FDA of an NDA for a small molecule drug or a Biologics License

Application (BLA) for a biologic;

• a determination by the FDA within 60 days of its receipt of an NDA or BLA to file the application

for review;

• satisfactory completion of an FDA inspection of the manufacturing facility or facilities at which the

product, or components thereof, are produced to assess compliance with cGMP;

• review of the product candidate by an FDA advisory committee, where appropriate and if applicable;

• payment of user fees for FDA review of the NDA or BLA (unless a fee waiver applies);

• FDA audits of some clinical trial sites to ensure compliance with GCPs; and

• FDA review and approval of the NDA or licensing of the BLA.

Preclinical Studies and Clinical Trials

Once a product candidate is identified for development, it enters the preclinical testing stage. Preclinical
tests include laboratory evaluations of product chemistry, toxicity, formulation and stability, as well as in vitro
and animal studies. The conduct of the preclinical tests must comply with federal regulations and
requirements, including GLP. An IND sponsor must submit the results of the preclinical tests, together with
manufacturing information, analytical data and any available clinical data or literature, to the FDA as part
of the IND. The sponsor must also include a protocol detailing, among other things, the objectives of the
initial clinical trial, dosing procedures, subject selection and exclusion criteria, the parameters to be used
in monitoring safety and the effectiveness criteria to be evaluated if the initial clinical trial lends itself to an
efficacy evaluation. Some preclinical testing may continue even after the IND is submitted. The IND
automatically becomes effective 30 days after receipt by the FDA, unless the FDA raises concerns or questions
related to the proposed clinical trial and places the trial on a clinical hold within that 30-day time period.
In such a case, the IND sponsor and the FDA must resolve any outstanding concerns before the clinical trial
can begin. The FDA may also impose clinical holds at any time before or during clinical trials due to safety
concerns or noncompliance and may be imposed on all products within a certain class of products. The FDA
also can impose partial clinical holds, for example, prohibiting the initiation of clinical trials of a certain
duration or for a certain dose.

All clinical trials must be conducted under the supervision of one or more qualified investigators in
accordance with GCP regulations. These regulations require that all research subjects provide informed
consent in writing before their participation in any clinical trial. Further, an institutional review board (IRB)
must review and approve the plan for any clinical trial before it commences at any institution, and the IRB
must conduct continuing review and reapprove the study at least annually. An IRB considers, among other
things, whether the risks to individuals participating in the clinical trial are minimized and are reasonable
in relation to anticipated benefits. The IRB also approves the information regarding the clinical trial and the
consent form that must be provided to each clinical trial subject or his or her legal representative and must
monitor the clinical trial until completed. Some trials are overseen by an independent group of qualified
experts organized by the trial sponsor, known as a data safety monitoring board or committee. This
group provides authorization as to whether or not a trial may move forward at designated check points
based on access that only the group maintains to available data from the trial and may recommend halting
the clinical trial if it determines that there is an unacceptable safety risk for subjects or other grounds, such as
no demonstration of efficacy.

Each new clinical protocol and any amendments to the protocol must be filed with the FDA as an IND

amendment and submitted to the IRBs for approval.

A sponsor who wishes to conduct a clinical trial outside of the United States may, but need not, obtain
FDA authorization to conduct the clinical trial under an IND. If a foreign clinical trial is not conducted under
an IND, the sponsor may submit data from the clinical trial to the FDA in support of an NDA or BLA.
The FDA will accept a well-designed and well-conducted foreign clinical study not conducted under an IND
if the study was conducted in accordance with GCP requirements, and the FDA is able to validate the data
through an onsite inspection if deemed necessary.

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Human clinical trials are typically conducted in three sequential phases that may overlap or be

combined:

• Phase 1. The product is initially introduced into a small number of healthy human subjects or

patients and tested for safety, dosage tolerance, absorption, metabolism, distribution and excretion
and, if possible, to gain early evidence on effectiveness. In the case of some products for severe or life-
threatening diseases, especially when the product is suspected or known to be unavoidably toxic, the
initial human testing may be conducted in patients with the target disease or condition.

• Phase 2.

Involves clinical trials in a limited patient population to identify possible adverse effects

and safety risks, to preliminarily evaluate the efficacy of the product for specific targeted diseases and
to determine dosage tolerance and optimal dosage and schedule.

• Phase 3. Clinical trials are undertaken to further evaluate dosage, clinical efficacy and safety in an
expanded patient population. These clinical trials are intended to evaluate the overall risk/benefit
relationship of the product and provide an adequate basis for product labeling.

Post-approval trials, sometimes referred to as Phase 4 clinical trials, may be conducted after initial
marketing approval. These trials are used to gain additional experience from the treatment of patients in the
intended therapeutic indication and are commonly intended to generate additional safety data regarding
use of the product in a clinical setting. In certain instances, the FDA may mandate the performance of Phase 4
clinical trials as a condition of approval of an NDA or BLA. Failure to exhibit due diligence with regard
to conducting required Phase 4 clinical trials could result in withdrawal of approval for products.

We refer to our Phase 1 programs as dose-escalation and dose-expansion trials. In addition, we refer to
some of our Phase 2 programs as pivotal or registrational programs, where the results may be used to support
regulatory approval in specific jurisdictions without the need to conduct a Phase 3 trial.

Progress reports detailing the results of the clinical trials must be submitted at least annually to the
FDA and safety reports must be submitted to the FDA and the investigators for serious and unexpected
suspected AEs, any clinically important increase in the rate of a serious suspected adverse reaction over that
listed in the protocol or investigator’s brochure, or any findings from other studies or animal or in vitro
testing that suggest a significant risk in humans exposed to the product. The sponsor must submit an IND
safety report within 15 calendar days after the sponsor determines that the information qualifies for reporting.
The sponsor also must notify the FDA of any unexpected fatal or life-threatening suspected adverse
reaction within seven calendar days after the sponsor’s initial receipt of the information. Phase 1, Phase 2,
and Phase 3 studies may not be completed successfully within any specified period, or at all. The FDA or the
sponsor may suspend or terminate, or a data safety monitoring board may recommend the suspension or
termination of, a clinical trial at any time on various grounds, including a finding that the research subjects
or patients are being exposed to an unacceptable health risk. Similarly, an IRB can suspend or terminate
approval of a clinical trial at its institution if the clinical trial is not being conducted in accordance with
the IRB’s requirements or if the product has been associated with unexpected serious harm to subjects.

Concurrent with clinical trials, companies usually complete additional animal studies and must also
develop additional information about the chemistry and physical characteristics of the product and finalize
a process for manufacturing the product in commercial quantities in accordance with cGMP requirements.
The manufacturing process must be capable of consistently producing quality batches of the product and,
among other things, the manufacturer must develop methods for testing the identity, strength, quality and
purity of the final product. Additionally, appropriate packaging must be selected and tested, and stability
studies must be conducted to demonstrate that the product does not undergo unacceptable deterioration over
its shelf life.

U.S. Expanded Access

Expanded access, sometimes called “compassionate use,” is the use of investigational products outside

of clinical trials to treat patients with serious or immediately life-threatening diseases or conditions when
there are no comparable or satisfactory alternative treatment options. There is no requirement for a company
to provide expanded access to its investigational products. However, if a company decides to make one of
its investigational products available for expanded access, the FDA reviews each request for expanded access

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and determines if treatment may proceed. A sponsor of an investigational drug for a serious disease or
condition is required to make available, such as by posting on its website, its policy on evaluating and
responding to requests for individual patient access to such investigational drug. This requirement applies
on the earlier of the first initiation of a Phase 2 or Phase 3 trial of the investigational drug or, as applicable,
15 days after the drug receives a designation as a breakthrough therapy, fast track product, or regenerative
advanced therapy.

U.S. Review and Approval Processes

The results of product development, preclinical studies and clinical trials, along with descriptions of

the CMC, analytical tests conducted on the product, proposed labeling and other relevant information, are
submitted to the FDA as part of an NDA for a new small molecule drug or a BLA for a biologic, requesting
approval to market the product. The submission of an NDA or BLA is subject to the payment of a
substantial user fee, although a waiver of such fee may be obtained under certain limited circumstances. The
sponsor of an approved NDA or BLA is also subject to an annual prescription drug product program fee.

The FDA reviews all NDAs and BLAs submitted to ensure that they are sufficiently complete for

substantive review before it accepts them for filing. The FDA may request additional information rather
than accept an NDA or BLA for filing. In this event, the NDA or BLA must be re-submitted with the
additional information. The re-submitted application also is subject to review before the FDA accepts it for
filing. Once the submission is accepted for filing, the FDA begins an in-depth substantive review. The
FDA reviews an NDA to determine, among other things, whether a product is safe and effective for its
intended use, and a BLA to determine whether the biologic is safe, pure, and potent for its intended use.
The FDA also evaluates whether the product’s manufacturing is cGMP-compliant to assure the product’s
identity, strength, quality and purity. Before approving an NDA or BLA, the FDA typically will inspect the
facility or facilities where the product is or will be manufactured. The FDA will not approve an application
unless it determines that the manufacturing processes and facilities are in compliance with cGMP requirements
and adequate to assure consistent production of the product within required specifications. Additionally,
before approving an NDA or BLA, the FDA may inspect one or more clinical trial sites to assure compliance
with GCP and other requirements and the integrity of the clinical data submitted to the FDA.

The approval process can be lengthy and difficult, and the FDA may refuse to approve an NDA or

BLA if the applicable regulatory criteria are not satisfied or may require additional clinical data or other
data and information. Even if such data and information are submitted, the FDA may ultimately decide that
the NDA or BLA does not satisfy the criteria for approval. Data obtained from clinical trials are not
always conclusive, and the FDA may interpret data differently than we interpret the same data. The FDA
will issue a complete response letter if the agency decides not to approve the NDA or BLA in its present form.
The complete response letter usually describes all of the specific deficiencies that the FDA identified in the
NDA or BLA that must be satisfactorily addressed before it can be approved. The deficiencies identified may
be minor, for example, requiring labeling changes, or major, for example, requiring additional clinical trials.
Additionally, the complete response letter may include recommended actions that the applicant might take to
place the application in a condition for approval. If a complete response letter is issued, the applicant may
either resubmit the NDA or BLA, addressing all of the deficiencies identified in the letter, or withdraw the
application or request an opportunity for a hearing.

If a product receives regulatory approval, the approval may be significantly limited to specific diseases
and dosages or the indications for use may otherwise be limited, which could restrict the commercial value
of the product. Further, the FDA may require that certain contraindications, warnings or precautions be
included in the product labeling. In addition, the FDA may require post-approval studies, including
Phase 4 clinical trials, to further assess a product’s safety and effectiveness after NDA or BLA approval and
may require testing and surveillance programs to monitor the safety of approved products that have been
commercialized. The FDA may also approve an NDA or BLA with a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy
(REMS) program to mitigate risks, which could include medication guides, physician communication
plans, or elements to assure safe use, such as restricted distribution methods, patient registries and other
risk minimization tools.

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Regulation of Combination Products in the United States

Certain products may be comprised of components that would normally be regulated under different
types of regulatory authorities in certain jurisdictions, and in the United States by different centers at the
FDA. These products are known as combination products. Under the FDCA, the FDA is charged with
assigning a center with primary jurisdiction, or a lead center, for review of a combination product. That
determination is based on the “primary mode of action” of the combination product. We are developing
combination products using our own drug candidates and third-party drugs.

Regulation of Companion Diagnostics in the United States

If safe and effective use of a therapeutic depends on an in vitro diagnostic, then the FDA generally will

require approval or clearance of that diagnostic, known as a companion diagnostic, at the same time that
the FDA approves the therapeutic product. In August 2014, the FDA issued final guidance clarifying the
requirements that will apply to approval of therapeutic products and in vitro companion diagnostics.
According to the guidance, for novel drugs, a companion diagnostic device and its corresponding therapeutic
should be approved or cleared contemporaneously by the FDA for the use indicated in the therapeutic
product’s labeling. Once cleared or approved, the companion diagnostic must adhere to post-marketing
requirements including the requirements of FDA’s quality system regulation, medical device reporting, recalls
and corrections along with product marketing requirements and limitations. Companion diagnostic
manufacturers are subject to unannounced FDA inspections at any time during which the FDA will conduct
an audit of the product(s) and the company’s facilities for compliance with its authorities.

Expedited Programs

Fast Track Designation

The FDA has a fast track program that is intended to expedite or facilitate the process for reviewing
new drugs, including biologics that meet certain criteria. Specifically, new drugs are eligible for Fast Track
designation if they are intended to treat a serious or life-threatening disease or condition for which there is no
effective treatment and demonstrate the potential to address unmet medical needs for the disease or
condition. Fast track designation applies to the combination of the product and the specific indication for
which it is being studied. The sponsor of a new drug or biologic product candidate may request the FDA to
designate the product candidate as a fast track product concurrently with, or at any time after, submission
of an IND, and the FDA must determine if the product candidate qualifies for fast track designation within
60 days of receipt of the sponsor’s request.

In addition to other benefits, such as the ability to engage in more frequent interactions with the FDA,

the FDA may initiate review of sections of a fast track product’s NDA or BLA before the application is
complete. This rolling review is available if the applicant provides, and the FDA approves, a schedule for the
submission of each portion of the NDA or BLA and the applicant pays the applicable user fee. However,
the FDA’s time period goal for reviewing an application does not begin until the last section of the NDA or
BLA is submitted. Additionally, the fast track designation may be withdrawn by the FDA if the FDA
believes that the designation is no longer supported by data emerging in the clinical trial process.

Zanubrutinib was granted fast track designation by the FDA for the treatment of WM and MZL.

Tislelizumab was granted fast track designation by the FDA for the treatment of 1L HCC.

Accelerated Approval

Under FDA’s accelerated approval regulations, the FDA may approve a drug, including a biologic,

intended to treat a serious or life-threatening disease or condition that generally provides meaningful
therapeutic benefit to patients over available treatments and demonstrates an effect on a surrogate endpoint
that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit, or on a clinical endpoint that can be measured earlier
than irreversible morbidity or mortality, that is reasonably likely to predict an effect on irreversible morbidity
or mortality or other clinical benefit, taking into account the severity, rarity, or prevalence of the condition
and the availability or lack of alternative treatments. In clinical trials, a surrogate endpoint is a marker, such as
a laboratory measurement or clinical signs of a disease or condition that is thought to predict clinical

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benefit but is not itself a measure of clinical benefit. Surrogate endpoints can often be measured more easily
or more rapidly than clinical endpoints. A product candidate approved on this basis is subject to rigorous
post-marketing compliance requirements, including the completion of post-approval clinical trials to confirm
the effect on irreversible morbidity or mortality or other clinical benefit. Failure to conduct required post-
approval studies, or to confirm a clinical benefit during post-marketing studies, will allow the FDA to withdraw
the drug from the market. All promotional materials for drug candidates approved under accelerated
regulations are subject to prior review by the FDA unless otherwise informed by the agency.

Zanubrutinib was granted accelerated approval by FDA for the treatment of adult patients with MCL

who have received at least one prior therapy and for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory
MZL who have received at least one anti-CD20-based regimen.

Breakthrough Designation

Breakthrough therapy designation is intended to expedite the development and review of a breakthrough
therapy. A drug or biologic product candidate can be designated as a breakthrough therapy if it is intended
to treat a serious or life-threatening disease or condition and preliminary clinical evidence indicates that
the drug or biologic, alone or in combination with one or more other drugs or biologics, may demonstrate
substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints. A sponsor
may request that a product candidate be designated as a breakthrough therapy concurrently with, or at
any time after, the submission of an IND, and the FDA must determine if the candidate qualifies for
breakthrough therapy designation within 60 days of receipt of the sponsor’s request. If so designated, the
FDA shall act to expedite the development and review of the product candidate’s marketing application,
including by meeting with the sponsor throughout the product candidate’s development, providing timely
advice to the sponsor to ensure that the development program to gather preclinical and clinical data is as
efficient as practicable, involving senior managers and experienced review staff in a cross-disciplinary review,
and assigning a cross-disciplinary project lead for the FDA review team to facilitate an efficient review of
the development program and to serve as a scientific liaison between the review team and the sponsor. The
designation may be rescinded if the product candidate does not continue to meet the criteria for breakthrough
therapy designation.

Zanubrutinib was granted breakthrough therapy designation by the FDA for the treatment of adult

patients with MCL who have received at least one prior therapy.

Priority Review

The FDA may grant an NDA or BLA a priority review designation, which sets the target date for FDA

action on the application at six months after the FDA accepts the application for filing. Priority review is
granted where there is evidence that the proposed product would be a significant improvement in the safety
or effectiveness of the treatment, diagnosis, or prevention of a serious condition. If criteria are not met
for priority review, the application is subject to the standard FDA review period of ten months after FDA
accepts the application for filing. Priority review designation does not change the scientific/medical standard
for approval or the quality of evidence necessary to support approval.

The NDA for zanubrutinib was granted priority review by the FDA for the treatment of adult patients

with MCL who have received at least one prior therapy.

Pediatric Information

Under the Pediatric Research Equity Act, as amended (PREA), certain NDAs and BLAs and certain

NDA and BLA supplements must contain data that can be used to assess the safety and efficacy of the
product candidate for the claimed indications in all relevant pediatric subpopulations and to support dosing
and administration for each pediatric subpopulation for which the product is safe and effective. The FDA
may grant deferrals for submission of pediatric data or full or partial waivers. The FDCA requires that a
sponsor who is planning to submit a marketing application for a product candidate that includes a new active
ingredient, new indication, new dosage form, new dosing regimen or new route of administration submit
an initial Pediatric Study Plan, or PSP, within 60 days of an end-of-Phase 2 meeting or, if there is no such
meeting, as early as practicable before the initiation of the Phase 3 or Phase 2/3 study. The initial PSP must

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include an outline of the pediatric study or studies that the sponsor plans to conduct, including study
objectives and design, age groups, relevant endpoints and statistical approach, or a justification for not
including such detailed information, and any request for a deferral of pediatric assessments or a full or partial
waiver of the requirement to provide data from pediatric studies along with supporting information. The
FDA and the sponsor must reach an agreement on the PSP. A sponsor can submit amendments to an
agreed-upon initial PSP at any time if changes to the pediatric plan need to be considered based on data
collected from preclinical studies, early phase clinical trials and/or other clinical development programs.
Unless otherwise required by regulation, PREA does not apply to a drug or biologic for an indication for
which orphan designation has been granted except that PREA will apply to an original NDA or BLA for a
new active ingredient that is orphan-designated if the drug or biologic is a molecularly targeted cancer product
intended for the treatment of an adult cancer and is directed at a molecular target that FDA determines to
be substantially relevant to the growth or progression of a pediatric cancer

Post-Approval Requirements

Any products for which we receive FDA approval are subject to continuing regulation by the FDA,

including, among other things, record-keeping requirements, reporting of adverse experiences with the
product, providing the FDA with updated safety and efficacy information, product sampling and distribution
requirements, complying with certain electronic records and signature requirements and complying with
FDA promotion and advertising requirements. The FDA strictly regulates labeling, advertising, promotion
and other types of information on products that are placed on the market. Products may be promoted only for
the approved indications and in accordance with the provisions of the approved label. Further, manufacturers
must continue to comply with cGMP requirements, which are extensive and require considerable time,
resources and ongoing investment to ensure compliance. In addition, changes to the manufacturing process
generally require prior FDA approval before being implemented and other types of changes to the approved
product, such as adding new indications and additional labeling claims, are also subject to further FDA review
and approval.

The Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) was enacted in 2013 with the aim of building an
electronic system to identify and trace certain prescription drugs distributed in the United States. The
DSCSA mandates phased-in and resource-intensive obligations for pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesale
distributors, and dispensers over a 10-year period that is expected to culminate in November 2023. The
law’s requirements include the quarantine and prompt investigation of a suspect product to determine if it
is illegitimate, and notifying trading partners and FDA of any illegitimate product. Drug manufacturers and
other parties involved in the supply chain must also meet chain of distribution requirements for product
tracking and tracing, including a requirement to place a unique product identifier on prescription drug
packages. This identifier consists of the National Drug Code, serial number, lot number and expiration date,
in the form of a 2 dimensional data matrix barcode that can be read by humans and machines.

Manufacturers and other entities involved in the manufacturing and distribution of approved products

are required to register their establishments with the FDA and certain state agencies and are subject to
periodic unannounced inspections by the FDA and certain state agencies for compliance with cGMP and
other laws. The cGMP requirements apply to all stages of the manufacturing process, including the production,
processing, sterilization, packaging, labeling, storage and shipment of the product. Manufacturers must
establish validated systems to ensure that products meet specifications and regulatory requirements and test
each product batch or lot prior to its release.

The FDA may withdraw a product approval or revoke a biologics license if compliance with regulatory

requirements is not maintained or if problems occur after the product reaches the market. Later discovery
of previously unknown problems with a product may result in restrictions on the product or even complete
withdrawal of the product from the market. Further, the failure to maintain compliance with regulatory
requirements may result in administrative or judicial actions, such as fines, untitled or warning letters, holds
on clinical trials, product seizures, product detention or refusal to permit the import or export of products,
refusal to approve pending applications or supplements, restrictions on marketing or manufacturing,
injunctions or civil or criminal penalties. We may undertake or be required to undertake a product recall.

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Patent Term Restoration and Regulatory Exclusivity

Depending upon the timing, duration and specifics of FDA approval of the use of our drug candidates,
some of our U.S. patents may be eligible for limited patent term extension under the Drug Price Competition
and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, commonly referred to as the Hatch-Waxman Amendments. The
Hatch-Waxman Amendments permit a patent restoration term of up to five years as compensation for patent
term lost during product development and the FDA regulatory review process. However, patent term
restoration cannot extend the remaining term of a patent beyond a total of 14 years from the product’s
approval date. The patent term restoration period is generally one-half the time between the effective date of
an IND and the submission date of an NDA or BLA plus the time between the submission date of an
NDA or BLA and the approval of that application, except that this review period is reduced by any time
during which the applicant failed to exercise due diligence. Only one patent applicable to an approved product
is eligible for the extension and the application for the extension must be submitted prior to the expiration
of the patent. The USPTO, in consultation with the FDA, reviews and approves the application for any patent
term extension or restoration. In the future, if available, we intend to apply for restorations of patent term
for some of our currently owned patents beyond their current expiration dates, depending on the expected
length of the clinical trials and other factors involved in the filing of the relevant NDA or BLA; however,
there can be no assurance that any such extension will be granted to us.

Data exclusivity provisions under the FDCA can also delay the submission or the approval of certain

applications. The FDCA provides a five-year period of non-patent data exclusivity within the United States
to the first applicant to gain approval of an NDA for a new chemical entity. A drug is a new chemical
entity if the FDA has not previously approved any other new drug containing the same active moiety, which
is the molecule or ion responsible for the action of the drug substance. During the exclusivity period, the
FDA may not accept for review an abbreviated NDA, or ANDA, or a 505(b)(2) NDA submitted by another
company for another version of such drug where the applicant does not own or have a legal right of
reference to all the data required for approval. However, such an application may be submitted after four years
if it contains a certification of patent invalidity or non-infringement. The FDCA also provides three years
of data exclusivity for an NDA, 505(b)(2) NDA or supplement to an existing NDA if new clinical
investigations, other than bioavailability studies, that were conducted or sponsored by the applicant are
deemed by the FDA to be essential to the approval of the application, for example, for new indications,
dosages or strengths of an existing drug. This three-year exclusivity covers only the conditions of use
associated with the new clinical investigations and does not prohibit the FDA from approving ANDAs for
drugs containing the original active agent. Five-year and three-year exclusivity will not delay the submission
or approval of a full NDA. However, an applicant submitting a full NDA would be required to conduct or
obtain a right of reference to all of the preclinical studies and adequate and well-controlled clinical trials
necessary to demonstrate safety and effectiveness.

Regulatory exclusivity in the United States can also include pediatric exclusivity and orphan drug

exclusivity. Pediatric exclusivity, if granted, provides an additional six months of exclusivity, which runs
from the end of other regulatory exclusivity or patent periods. This six-month exclusivity may be granted
based on the voluntary completion of a pediatric trial in accordance with an FDA-issued “Written Request”
for such a trial. Orphan drug exclusivity is described below under “Orphan Drugs.”

Biosimilars and Exclusivity

The PHSA includes an abbreviated approval pathway for biological products shown to be similar to, or
interchangeable with, an FDA-licensed reference biological product. Biosimilarity, which requires that there
be no clinically meaningful differences between the biological product and the reference product in terms
of safety, purity and potency, can be shown through analytical studies, animal studies, and a clinical trial or
trials. Interchangeability requires that a product is biosimilar to the reference product and the product
must demonstrate that it can be expected to produce the same clinical results as the reference product and,
for products administered multiple times, the biologic and the reference biologic may be switched after one
has been previously administered without increasing safety risks or risks of diminished efficacy relative to
exclusive use of the reference biologic.

A reference biologic is granted 12 years of exclusivity from the time of first licensure of the reference

product. The first biologic product submitted under the abbreviated approval pathway that is determined to

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be interchangeable with the reference product has exclusivity against other biologics submitting under the
abbreviated approval pathway for the lesser of (i) one year after the first commercial marketing, (ii) 18 months
after approval if there is no legal challenge, (iii) 18 months after the resolution in the applicant’s favor of a
lawsuit challenging the biologic’s patents if an application has been submitted, or (iv) 42 months after the
application has been approved if a lawsuit is ongoing within the 42-month period.

Orphan Drugs

Under the Orphan Drug Act, the FDA may grant orphan drug designation to drugs, including
biologics, intended to treat a rare disease or condition-generally a disease or condition that affects fewer
than 200,000 individuals in the United States or that affects more than 200,000 individuals in the United
States and for which there is no reasonable expectation that costs of research and development of the product
for the indication can be recovered by sales of the product in the United States. Orphan drug designation
must be requested before submitting an NDA or BLA.

After the FDA grants orphan drug designation, the generic identity of the drug or biologic and its
potential orphan use are disclosed publicly by the FDA. Orphan drug designation does not convey any
advantage in, or shorten the duration of, the regulatory review and approval process. The first NDA or BLA
applicant to receive FDA approval for a particular active ingredient to treat a particular disease or condition
with FDA orphan drug designation is entitled to a seven-year exclusive marketing period in the United
States for that product, for that indication. Among the other benefits of orphan drug designation are tax
credits for certain research and a waiver of the NDA or BLA application user fee.

During the exclusivity period, the FDA may not approve any other applications to market the same

drug for the same disease or condition, except in limited circumstances, such as if the second applicant
demonstrates the clinical superiority of its product to the product with orphan drug exclusivity through a
demonstration of superior safety, superior efficacy, or a major contribution to patient care. “Same drug”
means a drug that contains the same active moiety if it is a drug composed of small molecules, or the same
principal molecular structural features if it is composed of macromolecules and is intended for the same
use as a previously approved drug, except that if the subsequent drug can be shown to be clinically superior
to the first drug, it will not be considered to be the same drug. Orphan drug exclusivity does not prevent
the FDA from approving a different drug for the same disease or condition, or the same drug for a different
disease or condition.

Zanubrutinib was granted orphan drug designation status by the FDA for the treatment of WM, CLL,
MCL and MZL (3 subtypes). Tislelizumab was granted orphan drug designation status by the FDA for the
treatment of ESCC, HCC and GC.

Disclosure of Clinical Trial Information

Sponsors of clinical trials of FDA-regulated products, including drugs and biologics, are required to
register and disclose certain clinical trial information, which is publicly available at www.clinicaltrials.gov.
Information related to the product, patient population, phase of investigation, study sites and investigators,
and other aspects of the clinical trial is then made public as part of the registration. Sponsors are also
obligated to disclose the results of their clinical trials after completion. Disclosure of the results of these
trials can be delayed until the new product or new indication being studied has been approved. Competitors
may use this publicly available information to gain knowledge regarding the progress of development
programs.

Pharmaceutical Coverage, Pricing, and Reimbursement

In the United States and in other countries, sales of any products for which we receive regulatory
approval for commercial sale will depend in part on the availability of coverage and reimbursement from
third-party payors, including government authorities, managed care providers, private health insurers and
other organizations. Patients generally rely on third-party payors to reimburse all or part of the associated
healthcare costs and no uniform policy of coverage and reimbursement for drug products exists among
third-party payors. Therefore, coverage and reimbursement for drug products can differ significantly from
payor to payor.

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Additionally, the process for determining whether a payor will provide coverage for a product may be

separate from the process for setting the reimbursement rate that the payor will pay for the product.
Third-party payors may limit coverage to specific products on an approved list which might not include all
of the FDA-approved products for a particular indication. Moreover, a payor’s decision to provide coverage
for a product does not imply that an adequate reimbursement rate will be approved. Adequate third-party
reimbursement may not be available to enable us to maintain price levels sufficient to realize an appropriate
return on our investment in product development.

Third-party payors are increasingly challenging the price and examining the medical necessity and
cost-effectiveness of medical products and services, in addition to their safety and efficacy. In order to
obtain coverage and reimbursement for any product that might be approved for sale, we may need to conduct
expensive pharmacoeconomic studies in order to demonstrate the medical necessity and cost-effectiveness
of any products, in addition to the costs required to obtain regulatory approvals. If third-party payors do not
consider a product to be cost-effective or medically-necessary compared to other available therapies, they
may not cover the product after approval as a benefit under their plans or, if they do, the level of payment may
not be sufficient to allow a company to sell its products at a profit.

Healthcare Reform

The U.S. government and state legislatures have shown significant interest in implementing cost
containment programs to limit the growth of government-paid health care costs, including price controls,
restrictions on reimbursement and requirements for substitution of generic products for branded prescription
drugs. For example, the Affordable Care Act (the ACA) contains provisions that may reduce the profitability
of drug products, including, for example, increased rebates for drugs reimbursed by Medicaid programs,
extension of Medicaid rebates to Medicaid managed care plans, mandatory discounts for certain Medicare
Part D beneficiaries and annual fees based on pharmaceutical companies’ share of sales to federal health care
programs. Adoption of government controls and measures and tightening of restrictive policies in
jurisdictions with existing controls and measures, could limit payments for pharmaceuticals.

Since its enactment, some of the provisions of the ACA have yet to be fully implemented, while certain
provisions have been subject to judicial, Congressional, and Executive challenges. On June 17, 2021, the U.S.
Supreme Court dismissed the most recent judicial challenge to the ACA brought by several states without
specifically ruling on the constitutionality of the ACA. Prior to the Supreme Court’s decision, President Biden
issued an Executive Order to initiate a special enrollment period from February 15, 2021 through August 15,
2021 for purposes of obtaining health insurance coverage through the ACA marketplace. The Executive
Order also instructed certain governmental agencies to review and reconsider their existing policies and rules
that limit access to healthcare, including among others, reexamining Medicaid demonstration projects and
waiver programs that include work requirements, and policies that create unnecessary barriers to obtaining
access to health insurance coverage through Medicaid or the ACA. It is unclear how other healthcare
reform measures of the Biden administrations or other efforts, if any, to challenge repeal or replace the
ACA, will impact our business.

Other legislative changes have been proposed and adopted in the United States since the ACA was
enacted. For example, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 also amended the ACA, effective January 1, 2019,
by increasing the point-of-sale discount that is owed by pharmaceutical manufacturers who participate in
Medicare Part D from 50% to 70%, effective January 1, 2019, and closing the coverage gap in most Medicare
drug plans, commonly referred to as the “donut hole.”

In addition, the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 led to aggregate

reductions of Medicare payments to providers of up to 2% per fiscal year that will remain in effect through
2030 unless additional Congressional action is taken. Pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, and subsequent legislation, these reductions have
been suspended from May 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed
legislation, if passed, would extend this suspension until the end of the pandemic. Further, on January 2,
2013, the American Taxpayer Relief Act was signed into law, which, among other things, reduced Medicare
payments to several types of providers, including hospitals, imaging centers and cancer treatment centers, and
increased the statute of limitations period for the government to recover overpayments to providers from
three to five years.

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On April 13, 2017, CMS published a final rule that gives states greater flexibility in setting benchmarks
for insurers in the individual and small group marketplaces, which may have the effect of relaxing the essential
health benefits required under the ACA for plans sold through such marketplaces. On May 23, 2019, CMS
published a final rule to allow Medicare Advantage Plans the option of using step therapy for Part B drugs
beginning January 1, 2020. On December 20, 2019, former President Trump signed into law the Further
Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1865), which repealed the Cadillac tax, the health insurance provider
tax, and the medical device excise tax. It is impossible to determine whether similar taxes could be instated
in the future.

There has been heightened governmental scrutiny over the manner in which manufacturers set prices
for their marketed products, which has resulted in several Congressional inquiries and proposed bills designed
to, among other things, bring more transparency to product pricing, review the relationship between
pricing and manufacturer patient programs, and reform government program reimbursement methodologies
for pharmaceutical products. It is unclear whether the Biden administration will challenge, reverse, revoke
or otherwise modify the former Trump Administration’s executive and administrative actions after January 20,
2021.

Further, on July 24, 2020 and September 13, 2020, former President Trump announced several
executive orders related to prescription drug pricing that seek to implement several of the administration’s
proposals. In response, the FDA released a final rule on September 24, 2020, which went into effect on
November 30, 2020, providing guidance for states to build and submit importation plans for drugs from
Canada. Further, on November 20, 2020 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the CMS) issued
an Interim Final Rule implementing the Most Favored Nation (MFN) Model under which Medicare
Part B reimbursement rates will be calculated for certain drugs and biologics based on the lowest price drug
manufacturers receive in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries with a
similar gross domestic product per capita. The MFN Model regulations mandate participation by identified
Part B providers and would have applied in all U.S. states and territories for a seven-year period beginning
January 1, 2021, and ending December 31, 2027. However, in response to a lawsuit filed by several industry
groups, on December 28, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a
nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining government defendants from implementing the MFN Rule
pending completion of notice-and-comment procedures under the Administrative Procedure Act. On
January 13, 2021, in a separate lawsuit brought by industry groups in the U.S. District of Maryland, the
government defendants entered a joint motion to stay litigation on the condition that the government would
not appeal the preliminary injunction granted in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
California and that performance for any final regulation stemming from the MFN Interim Final Rule shall
not commence earlier than 60 days after publication of that regulation in the Federal Register. Further,
authorities in Canada have passed rules designed to safeguard the Canadian drug supply from shortages.
If implemented, importation of drugs from Canada and the MFN Model may materially and adversely affect
the price we receive for our medicines. Additionally, on November 30, 2020, the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (the HHS) finalized a regulation removing safe harbor protection for price
reductions from pharmaceutical manufacturers to plan sponsors under Part D, either directly or through
pharmacy benefit managers, unless the price reduction is required by law. The rule also creates a new safe
harbor for price reductions reflected at the point-of-sale, as well as a safe harbor for certain fixed fee
arrangements between pharmacy benefit managers and manufacturers. Pursuant to court order, the removal
and addition of the aforementioned safe harbors were delayed and recent legislation imposed a moratorium
on implementation of the rule until January 1, 2026. Further, implementation of this change and new
safe harbors for point-of-sale reductions in price for prescription pharmaceutical products and pharmacy
benefit manager service fees are currently under review by the Biden administration and may be amended or
repealed. Although a number of these and other proposed measures may require authorization through
additional legislation to become effective, and the Biden administration may reverse or otherwise change these
measures, Congress has each indicated that it will continue to seek new legislative and/or administrative
measures to control drug costs.

At the state level, legislatures have increasingly passed legislation and implemented regulations
designed to control pharmaceutical product pricing, including price or patient reimbursement constraints,
discounts, restrictions on certain product access and marketing cost disclosure and transparency measures,
and, in some cases, designed to encourage importation from other countries and bulk purchasing. Presently,

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the State Medicaid combined represent less than 5% of our overall business in the U.S. While much of the
focus of state pricing policies is limited to Medicaid, we cannot assess the impact that these and other measures
such as state transparency policies will have on our business.

Moreover, on May 30, 2018, the Right to Try Act, was signed into law. The law, among other things,
provides a federal framework for certain patients to access certain investigational new drug products that
have completed a Phase I clinical trial and that are undergoing investigation for FDA approval. Under certain
circumstances, eligible patients can seek treatment without enrolling in clinical trials and without obtaining
FDA permission under the FDA expanded access program. There is no obligation for a drug manufacturer to
make its drug products available to eligible patients as a result of the Right to Try Act or FDA’s expanded
access program authorities, but the manufacturer must develop and make publicly available its policy on
expanded access availability and respond to patient requests according to that policy. We make available on
our website the BeiGene contact information for requesting access to our investigational drugs and
expected timeline for us to acknowledge receiving such requests.

Other U.S. Healthcare Laws and Compliance Requirements

We are subject to various federal and state laws targeting fraud and abuse in the healthcare industry.

These laws may impact, among other things, our sales, marketing and education programs. In addition, we
may be subject to patient privacy regulation by both the federal government and the states in which we conduct
our business prior to and after receiving regulatory approval of our product candidates. The laws that may
affect our ability to operate include:

• the federal healthcare Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), which prohibits, among other things, knowingly

and willfully soliciting, receiving, providing, offering or paying any remuneration (including any
kickback, bribe, or rebate), directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in kind, to induce or
reward, or in return for, either the referral of an individual, or the purchase, lease, order or
recommendation or arrangement of any good, facility, item or service for which payment may be
made, in whole or in part, under a federal healthcare program, such as the Medicare and Medicaid
programs. This statute has been interpreted to apply to arrangements between pharmaceutical
manufacturers on the one hand and prescribers, purchasers and formulary managers on the other.
Although there are several statutory exceptions and regulatory safe harbors protecting certain common
activities from prosecution, they are drawn narrowly, and practices that involve remuneration
intended to induce prescribing, purchasing or recommending may be subject to scrutiny if they do
not qualify for an exception or safe harbor. A person or entity can be found guilty of violating the AKS
without actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it. In addition, the government
may assert that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the AKS constitutes
a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) or federal civil
money penalties statute. Violations of the AKS carry potentially significant civil fines and criminal
penalties, including imprisonment, fines, administrative federal civil monetary penalties, and exclusion
from participation in federal healthcare programs. This law applies to our marketing practices,
educational programs, pricing policies and relationships with healthcare providers, by prohibiting,
among other things, soliciting, receiving, offering or providing remuneration intended to induce the
purchase or recommendation of an item or service reimbursable under a federal healthcare program,
such as the Medicare or Medicaid programs. On November 20, 2020, the Office of Inspector
General (OIG) finalized further modifications to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. Under the final
rules, OIG added safe harbor protections under the Anti-Kickback Statute for certain coordinated
care and value-based arrangements among clinicians, providers, and others. These rule (with
exceptions) became effective January 19, 2021. We continue to evaluate what effect, if any, these rules
will have on our business;

• the federal civil and criminal false claims and civil monetary penalty laws, such as the federal FCA,

which impose criminal and civil penalties and authorize civil whistleblower or qui tam actions, against
individuals or entities for, among other things: knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, to
the federal government, claims for payment that are false, fictitious or fraudulent; knowingly making
or causing a false statement or record material to a false or fraudulent claim or obligation to pay or
transmit money or property to the federal government; or knowingly concealing or knowingly and
improperly avoiding or decreasing an obligation to pay money to the federal government. In

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addition, the government may assert that a claim including items and services resulting from a
violation of the federal AKS constitutes a false of fraudulent claim for purposes of the FCA. The
government may deem manufacturers to have “caused” the submission of false or fraudulent claims
by, for example, providing inaccurate billing or coding information to customers or promoting a
product off-label. Companies that submit claims directly to payors may also be liable under the
FCA for the direct submission of such claims. The FCA also permits a private individual acting as a
“whistleblower” to bring actions on behalf of the federal government alleging violations of the
FCA and to share in any monetary recovery. When an entity is determined to have violated the federal
civil FCA, the government may impose civil fines and penalties for each false claim, plus treble
damages, and exclude the entity from participation in Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare
programs. Our marketing and activities relating to the reporting of wholesaler or estimated retail
prices for our products, the reporting of prices used to calculate Medicaid rebate information and
other information affecting federal, state and third-party reimbursement for our products, and the sale
and marketing of our products and any future product candidates are subject to scrutiny under this
law;

• the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which prohibits, among
other things, knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud any
healthcare benefit program or obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or
promises, any of the money or property owned by, or under the custody or control of, any healthcare
benefit program, regardless of the payor (e.g., public or private) and knowingly and willfully
falsifying, concealing or covering up by any trick or device a material fact or making any materially
false statements in connection with the delivery of, or payment for, healthcare benefits, items or services
relating to healthcare matters. Similar to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, a person or entity can
be found guilty of violating HIPAA without actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to
violate it;

• HIPAA, as further amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical

Health Act of 2009 (HITECH), and their respective implementing regulations, including the Final
Omnibus Rule published in January 2013, which impose certain requirements on certain covered
healthcare providers, health plans and healthcare clearinghouses as well as their respective business
associates who perform services for them that involve the creation, maintenance, receipt, use, or
disclosure of, individually identifiable health information, relating to the privacy, security and
transmission of individually identifiable health information. HITECH also created new tiers of civil
monetary penalties, amended HIPAA to make civil and criminal penalties directly applicable to business
associates, and gave state attorneys general new authority to file civil actions for damages or
injunctions in federal courts to enforce the federal HIPAA laws and seek attorneys’ fees and costs. In
addition, there may be additional federal, state and non-U.S. laws which govern the privacy and
security of health and other personal information in certain circumstances, many of which differ from
each other in significant ways and may not have the same effect, thus complicating compliance
efforts;

• the federal transparency requirements under the ACA, including the provision commonly referred to
as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which require manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologics
and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s
Health Insurance Program, with specific exceptions, to report annually to Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services information related to payments or other transfers of value made to physicians,
nurse practitioners, certified nurse anesthetists, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists, and
certified nurse midwives as well as teaching hospitals. Manufacturers are also required to disclose
ownership and investment interest held by physicians and their immediate family members;

• federal price reporting laws, which require manufacturers to calculate and report complex pricing

metrics in an accurate and timely manner to government programs;

• federal consumer protection and unfair competition laws, which broadly regulate marketplace

activities and activities that potentially harm consumers; and

• the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which prohibits companies and their intermediaries from
making, or offering or promising to make, improper payments to non-U.S. officials for the purpose
of obtaining or retaining business or otherwise seeking favorable treatment.

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Similarly, state privacy laws may be broader and require greater protections than HIPAA. These data
privacy and security laws may differ from each other in significant ways and often are not pre-empted by
HIPAA, which may complicate compliance efforts. For example, in June 2018, the State of California enacted
the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), which came into effect on January 1, 2020 and
provides new data privacy rights for consumers and new operational requirements for companies. The CCPA
gives California residents expanded rights to access and delete their personal information, opt out of
certain personal information sharing, and receive detailed information about how their personal information
is used. CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches
that is expected to increase data breach litigation. Further, a new California privacy law, the California
Privacy Rights Act, or CPRA, was passed by California voters on November 3, 2020. The CPRA will create
additional obligations with respect to processing and storing personal information that are scheduled to
take effect on January 1, 2023 (with certain provisions having retroactive effect to January 1, 2022). We will
continue to monitor developments related to the CPRA and anticipate additional costs and expenses
associated with CPRA compliance. Other U.S. states also are considering omnibus privacy legislation and
industry organizations regularly adopt and advocate for new standards in these areas. While the legislation
and proposed regulations including the CCPA and CPRA contain an exception for certain activities that
involve PHI subject to HIPAA, we cannot yet determine the impact the CCPA, CPRA or other such
future laws, regulations and standards may have on our business.

Additionally, we are subject to state equivalents of each of the healthcare laws described above, among

others, some of which may be broader in scope and may apply to healthcare services reimbursed by any
third-party payor, not just governmental payors, but also private insurers. These laws are enforced by various
state agencies and through private actions. Some states have passed laws that require pharmaceutical
companies to comply with the April 2003 Office of Inspector General Compliance Program Guidance for
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and/or other voluntary industry codes of conduct that restrict the payments
made to healthcare providers and other potential referral sources. Several states and local laws also impose
other marketing restrictions or require pharmaceutical companies to make marketing or price disclosures to
the state, require drug manufacturers to report information related to payments and other transfers of
value to physicians and other healthcare providers, and require the registration of pharmaceutical sales
representatives. State and foreign laws, including for example the European Union General Data Protection
Regulation, which became effective May 2018 also govern the privacy and security of health information
in some circumstances, many of which differ from each other in significant ways and often are not preempted
by HIPAA, thus complicating compliance efforts. There are ambiguities as to what is required to comply
with these state requirements and if we fail to comply with an applicable state law requirement we could be
subject to penalties. Finally, there are state and foreign laws governing the privacy and security of health
information, many of which differ from each other in significant ways and often are not preempted by
HIPAA, thus complicating compliance efforts.

The scope and enforcement of these laws is uncertain and subject to rapid change in the current
environment of healthcare reform, especially in light of the lack of applicable precedent and regulations.
Federal and state enforcement has led to a number of investigations, prosecutions, convictions and settlements
in the healthcare industry. Ensuring that our internal operations and future business arrangements with
third parties comply with applicable healthcare laws and regulations will involve substantial costs. It is
possible that governmental authorities will conclude that our business practices do not comply with current
or future statutes, regulations, agency guidance or case law involving applicable fraud and abuse or other
healthcare laws and regulations.

EU and UK Data Protection Laws

In the European Union (EU), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) governs the processing

of personal data. The GDPR imposes a broad range of strict requirements on companies subject to the
GDPR, such as including requirements relating to having legal bases for processing personal data relating to
identifiable individuals and transferring such information outside the European Economic Area, or EEA,
including to the U.S. (see below), providing details to those individuals regarding the processing of their
personal data, implementing safeguards to keep personal data secure, having data processing agreements with
third parties who process personal data, providing information to individuals regarding data processing
activities, responding to individuals’ requests to exercise their rights in respect of their personal data,

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obtaining consent of the individuals to whom the personal data relates, reporting security and privacy
breaches involving personal data to the competent national data protection authority and affected individuals,
appointing data protection officers, conducting data protection impact assessments, and record-keeping.
The GDPR substantially increases the penalties to which we could be subject in the event of any
non-compliance, including fines of up to €20,000,000 or 4% of total annual global revenue, whichever is
greater. The GDPR increases the responsibility and liability of pharmaceutical companies in relation to
processing personal data, and companies may be required to put in place additional mechanisms to ensure
compliance with the new EU data protection rules. In addition, further to the UK’s exit from the EU on
January 31, 2020, the GDPR ceased to apply in the UK at the end of the transition period on December 31,
2020. However, as of January 1, 2021, the UK’s European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 incorporated the
GDPR (as it existed on December 31, 2020 but subject to certain UK specific amendments) into UK law,
referred to as the UK GDPR. The UK GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 set out the UK’s data
protection regime, which is independent from but aligned to the EU’s data protection regime. Non-compliance
with the UK GDPR may result in monetary penalties of up to £17.5 million or 4% of worldwide revenue,
whichever is higher. Although the UK is regarded as a third country under the EU’s GDPR, the European
Commission (EC) has now issued a decision recognizing the UK as providing adequate protection under the
EU GDPR and, therefore, transfers of personal data originating in the EU to the UK remain unrestricted.
Like the EU GDPR, the UK GDPR restricts personal data transfers outside the UK to countries not regarded
by the UK as providing adequate protection. The UK government has confirmed that personal data
transfers from the UK to the EEA remain free flowing.

To enable the transfer of personal data outside of the EEA or the UK, adequate safeguards must be
implemented in compliance with European and UK data protection laws. On June 4, 2021, the EC issued
new forms of standard contractual clauses for data transfers from controllers or processors in the EU/EEA
(or otherwise subject to the GDPR) to controllers or processors established outside the EU/EEA (and
not subject to the GDPR). The new standard contractual clauses replace the standard contractual clauses
that were adopted previously under the EU Data Protection Directive. The UK is not subject to the EC’s new
standard contractual clauses but has published a draft version of a UK-specific transfer mechanism,
which, once finalized, will enable transfers from the UK. We will be required to implement these new
safeguards when conducting restricted data transfers under the EU and UK GDPR and doing so will require
significant effort and cost.

PRC Regulation

In the PRC, we operate in an increasingly complex legal and regulatory environment. We are subject to
a variety of PRC laws, rules and regulations affecting many aspects of our business. This section summarizes
the principal PRC laws, rules and regulations that we believe are relevant to our business and operations.

PRC Drug Regulation

Introduction

China heavily regulates the development, approval, manufacturing and distribution of drugs, including
biologics. The legal framework for the administration of pharmaceutical products in China was established
by the Drug Administration Law of the PRC (the DAL). The DAL applies to entities and individuals engaged
in the development, production, trade, clinical use, as well as supervision and administration of
pharmaceutical products by regulatory agencies. It provides for a framework for regulating pharmaceutical
manufacturers, pharmaceutical trading companies, medical institutions, and the research, development,
manufacturing, distribution, packaging, pricing, and advertisement activities related to pharmaceutical
products. The Implementing Measures of the Drug Administration Law as amended in 2019 provides detailed
implementation regulations for the DAL.

The Revised DAL

The DAL, revised in 2019 (the rDAL), embodies an expected regulatory trend to strengthen the life-

cycle management of drugs, to balance the development of innovative drugs and generic drugs, and to

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enhance drug review and enforcement. It also reflects legislative efforts to address prominent problems of
the pharmaceutical industry, such as counterfeit and substandard drugs and high drug prices.

The rDAL contains a dedicated chapter on the Marketing Authorization Holder (MAH) system.
Subject to approval by the NMPA, MAHs will be allowed to transfer their marketing authorizations. It is
uncertain whether the transferability of MAH will offer more flexibility in structuring cross-border
transactions. In addition, the implementation of the MAH system was accompanied by a range of new
requirements for the MAHs. For example, a MAH must establish a quality assurance system and be
responsible for the whole process and all aspects of preclinical research, clinical trials, manufacturing and
distribution, post-marketing research, adverse drug reaction monitoring and reporting. A foreign MAH is
required to engage a local agent to fulfill the MAH’s obligations and the foreign MAH is subject to joint and
several liability in the event of any wrongdoing. It is unclear how the scope of such joint liability will be
defined.

The rDAL no longer requires the certification for good clinical practice (GCP), good supply practice

(GSP), and GMP. However, drug manufacturers and drug distributors must still comply with current GMP
and GSP requirements. Pursuant to the rDAL, NMPA and its local counterparts are directed to strengthen
their surveillance of drug manufacturers and distributors, including through regular and continuous site
inspections, to ensure their compliance. It remains to be seen how clinical trial institutions will ensure self-
compliance with GCP requirements and whether there will be more inspections of clinical trial institutions.

The rDAL also requires MAHs, manufacturers, distributors, and medical institutions to establish and
implement drug track and trace systems. The NMPA will issue related standards and regulations regarding
drug track and trace system. A drug pharmacovigilance system will also be established to monitor, identify,
evaluate and control adverse drug reactions and other possible drug-related problems.

The rDAL creates an expanded access pathway for investigational drugs under which a company
sponsor of a clinical trial in China can apply to establish an expanded access treatment program for patients
with life-threatening disease who otherwise do not satisfy the inclusion criteria of a clinical trial. To
quality for expanded access: (1) the drug must be used for life-threatening diseases that lack effective
treatment; (2) the drug must have demonstrated its potential efficacy based on medical observations; (3) such
use is in line with ethical principles; (4) such expanded use has been reviewed and approved (although the
approval pathway not clear), and has obtained patients’ informed consent; and (5) the drug must be used
within the clinical trial institution and used on patients with similar conditions.

The rDAL also significantly increases and expands penalties for violations. Depending on various types

of violations, the rDAL imposes different penalties, including warnings, confiscation of illegal gains, fines
of up to RMB5 million (about $725,000) or up to 30 times of illegal gains, revocation of required business and
operating licenses, certificates or approval documents for drugs, suspension of business, temporary
(10 years) or permanent debarment of companies, institutions and responsible persons, and criminal
liabilities in the case of serious violations.

There are still uncertainties with respect to the interpretation and implementation of the rDAL. We

plan to closely monitor the implementation of the rDAL and its impact on our operations in China.

Regulatory Authorities and Government Reorganization

In China, the NMPA is the primary regulator for pharmaceutical products and businesses. The agency

was formed from the prior China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) in 2018 as part of a complete
government reorganization. The NMPA is no longer an independent agency. Its parent agency is the State
Administration of Market Regulation (the SAMR), into which agencies responsible for, among other areas,
consumer protection, advertising, anticorruption, antitrust, fair competition and intellectual property
have been merged.

Like the CFDA, the NMPA is still the chief drug regulatory agency and implements the same laws,
regulations, rules, and guidelines as the CFDA, and it regulates almost all of the key stages of the life-cycle
of pharmaceutical products, including nonclinical studies, clinical trials, marketing approvals, manufacturing,
advertising and promotion, distribution, and pharmacovigilance (i.e., post-marketing safety reporting

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obligations). The Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE), which remains under the NMPA, conducts the
technical evaluation of each drug and biologic application for safety and efficacy.

The National Health Commission (NHC) (formerly known by the names Ministry of Health (MOH)

and National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC)), is China’s chief healthcare regulator. It
is primarily responsible for overseeing the operation of medical institutions, which also serve as clinical
trial sites, and regulating the licensure of hospitals and other medical personnel. The NHC plays a significant
role in drug reimbursement. Furthermore, the NHC and its local counterparts at or below the provincial-
level of local government also oversee and organize public medical institutions’ centralized bidding and
procurement programs for pharmaceutical products. This is the primary way that public hospitals and their
internal pharmacies procure drugs.

Also, as part of the 2018 reorganization, the PRC government formed the State Medical Insurance

Bureau which focuses on regulating reimbursement under state-sponsored insurance plans.

Preclinical and Clinical Development

The NMPA requires preclinical data to support registration applications for new drugs. Preclinical

work, including safety assessment studies, must meet the GLP standards, issued in 2003 and amended in
2017. The rDAL requires the NMPA to accredit GLP labs, and that nonclinical studies of chemical drug
substances and preparations and biologics that are not yet marketed in China be conducted in GLP-certified
labs. There are no approvals required from the NMPA to conduct preclinical studies.

A Certificate for Use of Laboratory Animals is required for performing experimentation on animals

under the Regulations for the Administration of Affairs Concerning Experimental Animals issued in 1988
and last amended in 2017, the Administrative Measures on Good Practice of Experimental Animals issued in
1997, and the Administrative Measures on the Certificate for Experimental Animals (Trial) issued in 2001.
Applicants for this certificate must satisfy a number of conditions, including (1) the environment and facilities
for lab animals’ living and propagating must satisfy national requirements; (2) lab animals must be qualified
and sourced from institutions with Certificates for Production of Lab Animals; and (3) the animals’
feeding and experimentation must be conducted by professionals, specialized and skilled workers, or other
trained personnel.

Registration Categories

Prior to engaging with the NMPA on research and development and approval, an applicant will need

to determine the registration category for its drug candidate (which will ultimately need to be confirmed
with the NMPA), which will determine the requirements for its clinical trial and marketing application. There
are five categories for small molecule drugs: Category 1 (innovative drugs) refers to drugs that have a new
chemical entity that has not been marketed anywhere in the world, Category 2 (improved new drugs) refers
to drugs with a new indication, dosage form, route of administration, combination, or certain formulation
changes not approved in the world, Categories 3 and 4 are for generics that reference an innovator drug
(or certain well-known generic drugs) marketed either abroad or in China, respectively, and Category 5 refers
to innovative or generic drugs that have already been marketed abroad but are not yet approved in China
(i.e., imported drugs).

Therapeutic biologics follow a similar categorization, with Category 1 being new to the world. Like

with small molecule drugs, Category 1 is for innovative biologics that have not been approved inside or
outside of China. Biosimilars are under Category 3. Each of zanubrutinib, tislelizumab, pamiparib and
lifirafenib is classified as Category 1 based on the defined registration category by the NMPA. Zanubrutinib,
pamiparib and tislelizumab have been approved by the NMPA as Category 1 drugs.

Expedited Programs

Priority Evaluation and Approval Programs to Encourage Innovation

The NMPA has adopted several expedited review and approval mechanisms since 2009 and created

additional expedited programs in recent years that are intended to encourage innovation. Applications for

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these expedited programs can be submitted after the CTA is admitted for review by the CDE. The NMPA’s
Drug Registration Rules effective from July 1, 2020 (DRR) provides certain categories of drugs that may be
eligible for priority status, among which, the following may be particularly relevant for us: (1) drugs that
are clinically and urgently needed but insufficient in supply; (2) innovative drugs and improved new drugs
for prevention and treatment of major contagious diseases and rare diseases; (3) new pediatric drugs, (4) drugs
designated as breakthrough therapies, and (5) drugs that satisfy the conditional approval criteria.

If admitted to one of these expedited programs, an applicant will be entitled to more frequent and
timely communication with reviewers at the CDE, expedited review and approval, and more agency resources
throughout the approval process.

Amgen’s sBLA for BLINCYTO® has been accepted by the CDE and granted priority status. Our
sNDA for tislelizumab for MSI-H/dMMR solid tumor has been accepted by the CDE and granted priority
status.

Conditional Approval

NMPA also permits conditional approval of certain medicines based on early phase data. The agency

has done this for medicines that meet unmet medical needs for life-threatening illnesses and also for medicines
that treat orphan indications. Under the DRR, drugs that meet one of the three criteria might be eligible
for conditional approval: (1) drugs that treat life threatening illnesses for which there are no effective treatment
or preventive methods, but their clinical trials already have the data to prove efficacy and their clinical
value is predictable, (2) drugs that are urgently needed for public health reasons, and their clinical trials already
have the data to prove efficacy and their clinical value is predictable; or (3) vaccines that are urgently
needed for major public health emergencies or otherwise deemed by the National Health Commission to be
urgently needed, and it is concluded upon evaluation that their benefits outweigh their risks. Following
approval, the MAH is required to take risk mitigation measures and complete a post-market study as required
by the NMPA within a prescribed timeline.

BRUKINSA® received conditional approval for the treatment of MCL in adult patients who have

received at least one prior therapy, CLL or SLL in adult patients who have received at least one prior
therapy, and for adult patients with WM who have received at least one prior therapy. Tislelizumab received
conditional approval as a treatment for patients with cHL who have received at least two prior therapies
and as a treatment for patients with locally advanced or metastatic UC, a form of bladder cancer, with PD-L1
high expression whose disease progressed during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy or
within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment with platinum-containing chemotherapy, and for
the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have been previously treated with at least
one systemic therapy. Pamiparib received conditional approval for the treatment of patients with germline
BRCA (gBRCA) mutation-associated recurrent advanced ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer
who have been treated with two or more lines of chemotherapy. XGEVA® received conditional approval
for the treatment of adults and skeletally mature adolescents with giant cell tumor of the bone (GCTB) that
is unresectable or where surgical resection is likely to result in severe morbidity and for the prevention of
skeletal-related events (SREs) in patients with bone metastases from solid tumors and in patients with
multiple myeloma. BLINCYTO® received conditional approval for the treatment of adult patients with R/R
B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. KYPROLIS® received conditional approval for the
treatment of adult patients with R/R multiple myeloma. QARZIBA® received conditional approval for high-
risk neuroblastoma.

Breakthrough Therapy Designation

Breakthrough therapy designation (BTD) is a process designed to expedite the development and review
of clinical stage, innovative or improved new drugs that meet the following criteria: (1) they are intended to
treat life threatening conditions or conditions that have serious negative impact on the quality of life, and
(2) there are no effective treatment or preventive methods available, or there is preliminary clinical evidence
indicating that they may demonstrate substantial improvement over available therapies. Applicants of drugs
designated as breakthrough therapies will be entitled to direct communications with CDE at key states
during the clinical trials, and may seek CDE’s opinion on study progress.

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Amgen’s KRASG12C inhibitor sotorasib was granted BTD in China for patients with KRAS p.G12C-

mutated locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC who have received at least one prior systemic therapy.
BRUKINSA® as a treatment for adult patients with CLL/SLL was granted BTD in China. ZW25
(zanidatamab) as a treatment for R/R HER2-expressing biliary tract cancer was granted BTD.

New Policies on Expediting Approval of Imported Oncology Drugs

The PRC government continues to establish measures and incentives to promote the development and

swifter approval of marketing for oncology and other innovative drugs. Beginning in May 2018, the PRC
eliminated tariffs on a significant number of imported innovative drugs, including oncology drugs, making
the importation process more efficient. The PRC government has also stated that it will explore ways to
expand access to reimbursement under the state health plans for innovative drugs (particularly for urgently
needed oncology drugs).

Clinical Trials and Marketing Approval

Upon completion of preclinical studies and preliminary CMC studies, a sponsor typically needs to

conduct clinical trials in China for registering a new drug. The materials required for this application and
the data requirements are determined by the registration category. The NMPA has taken a number of steps
to increase efficiency for approving CTAs, and it has also significantly increased monitoring and
enforcement of GCP to ensure data integrity.

Clinical Trial Approval

All clinical trials conducted in China for the purpose of seeking marketing approvals must be approved

by the NMPA and conducted at hospitals satisfying GCP requirements. In addition to a standalone China
trial to support development, imported drug applicants may include Chinese clinical sites as part of an
international multicenter trial (IMCT). Domestically manufactured drugs are not subject to foreign
approval requirements, and in contrast to prior practice, the NMPA has decided to permit those drugs to
conduct development via an IMCT as well.

The rDAL has now also adopted an implied approval system for clinical trials of new drugs. Trials can
proceed if after 60 business days, the applicant has not received any objections from the CDE, as opposed
to the lengthier previous clinical trial pre-approval process in which the applicant had to wait for affirmative
approval. The rDAL also expands the number of trial sites by abolishing the GCP accreditation system
and requiring trial sites to follow a more simplified notification procedure.

New Policies on Clinical Value-Oriented R&D for Oncology Drugs

The NMPA finalized in November 2011 the Guideline on Clinical Value-Oriented Research and

Development for Oncology Drugs, as part of its policies intended to encourage the research and development
of innovative oncology drugs with significant clinical value, and discourage repeated research and
development of “me-too” drugs with minimal or no clinical value to patients.

Clinical Trial Register

Clinical trials conducted in China must be registered and published through the Drug Clinical Trial
Information Platform (http://www.chinadrugtrials.org.cn). Applicant are required to pre-register the trial
information within one month after obtaining the clinical trial approval to obtain the trial’s unique registration
number and to complete registration of certain follow-up information before the first subject’s enrollment
in the trial. If the foregoing pre-registration and registration is not obtained within one year after obtaining
the clinical trial approval, the applicant shall submit an explanation, and if the procedure is not completed
within three years, the clinical trial approval automatically expires.

Human Genetic Resources Regulation

The Regulation on the Administration of Human Genetic Resources (HGR Regulation) became
effective on July 1, 2019. The HGR Regulation applies to all human genetic resources (HGR)-related

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activities for R&D purposes, including sampling, biobanking, use of HGR materials and associated data in
China, and the provision or sharing of such materials or data with foreign parties.

The HGR Regulation applies to foreign parties, including foreign entities and entities established or

actually controlled by foreign entities and individuals. As BeiGene, Ltd. is a Cayman Islands company, we
and our activities in China are subject to the HGR Regulation. Such foreign parties seeking access to China’s
HGRs for scientific research, including clinical trials intended to support marketing approval of drugs and
medical devices in China, must do so only through collaborations with Chinese parties, such as Chinese
hospitals. The HGR Regulation prohibits foreign parties from independently sampling or biobanking any
China HGR in China and requires approval for the sampling of certain HGR and biobanking of all HGR by
Chinese parties. Any cross-border transfer of the HGR materials, either under an international collaboration
or as a direct export, must be on an as-needed basis and requires approval. In addition, providing HGR
data to foreign parties requires a record filing.

Another significant change is the HGR Regulation replaced the advance approval requirement with a

record-filing procedure for international collaborations on clinical trials intended to support marketing
approval of drugs in China that do not transfer HGR materials abroad, while the advance approval
requirement still applies if such trials involve export of HGR materials or the collection, testing, analysis or
disposals of HGR samples during the trials are not solely conducted at the clinical trial sites. Companies
conducting global clinical trials may benefit little from this record filing procedure because those trials would
often require cross-border transfer of HGR materials and the advance approval requirement would still
apply.

The HGR Regulation retains the provision in the Interim Measures for the Administration of Human

Genetic Resources issued in 1998 (the “Interim Measures”) that parties should jointly apply for and own
the patent rights arising from the results generated from international collaborations that utilize China HGR.
Subject to approval, the parties may contractually agree on how to dispose of their patent rights and non-
patent proprietary rights arising from the collaboration. As the joint ownership requirement is rather broad,
it is unclear how this requirement will be implemented in practice.

The HGR Regulation also significantly increases and expands penalties for various violations, including
warnings, disgorgement of illegal gains, confiscation of illegal HGR, fines up to RMB10 million ($1,450,000)
or 5-10 times of illegal gains in the event such illegal gains exceed RMB1 million ($145,000), and temporary
(1-5 years) or permanent debarment of companies, institutions and responsible persons from future
HGR projects regulated by the HGR Regulation.

We expect that HGR-related activities will receive greater attention and focus from regulators going

forward.

Trial Exemptions and Acceptance of Foreign Data

The NMPA may be flexible on the requirements of trials and data generated in China, depending on
the drug and the existing data. The NMPA has granted waivers for all or part of trials, and has stated that it
will accept data generated abroad (even if not part of a global study), including early phase data, that
meets its requirements. In 2018, the NMPA issued the Technical Guidance Principles on Accepting Foreign
Drug Clinical Trial Data (the “Guidance Principles”), as one of the implementing rules for the Opinions
on Deepening the Reform of the Evaluation and Approval Systems and Encouraging Innovation on Drugs
and Medical Devices (the “Innovation Opinion”). According to the Guidance Principles, data from foreign
clinical trials must meet authenticity, completeness and accuracy requirements and such data must be
obtained in compliance with the relevant requirements under the GCP of the International Conference on
Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (the ICH).
Sponsors must be attentive to potentially meaningful ethnic differences in the subject population.

The NMPA now permits, and its predecessor agencies have permitted on a case-by-case basis in the
past, drugs approved outside of China to be approved in China on a conditional basis without the need for
pre-approval clinical trials in China. Specifically, in 2018, the NMPA established a program permitting drugs
that have been approved within the last ten years in the United States, EU or Japan to be approved in

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China without local clinical trials if they (1) prevent or treat orphan diseases, (2) prevent or treat serious life-
threatening illnesses for which there is either no effective therapy in China, or for which the foreign-
approved drug would have clear clinical advantages. Applicants for such conditional approvals will be
required to establish a risk mitigation plan and may be required to complete trials in China after the drug is
approved. The CDE has developed a list of drugs that meet these criteria.

Clinical Trial Process and Good Clinical Practices

As in other parts of the world, clinical trials in China typically have three phases. Phase 1 refers to the

initial clinical pharmacology and human safety evaluation studies. Phase 2 refers to the preliminary evaluation
of a drug candidate’s therapeutic efficacy and safety for target indication(s) in patients. Phase 3 (often the
pivotal study) refers to clinical trials to further verify the drug candidate’s therapeutic efficacy and safety on
patients with target indication(s) and ultimately provide sufficient evidence for the review of a drug
registration application. The NMPA requires that the different phases of clinical trials in China receive
ethics committee approval and comply with GCP. The NMPA conducts inspections on clinical trials conducted
in China to assess GCP compliance and may refuse to approve the drug if it finds substantial issues in the
trials. In addition, upon granting the drug registration certificate, NMPA may, at its sole discretion, require
a Phase 4 trial to be conducted by MAH within a specified period of time so as to further monitor and
obtain safety and efficacy data of the drug.

Generic small molecule drugs are required to conduct a bioequivalence trial, in vitro studies or in some

cases a clinical trial to demonstrate therapeutic equivalence to an innovator drug marketed either in China
or abroad or an internationally accepted generic drug. The NMPA has released catalogues of reference
products, and it released first installment of a Marketed Drug List (China’s “Orange Book”) with
information about drugs that may serve as reference products.

Pursuant to GCP, sponsors of clinical trials are responsible for proper packaging and labeling of drugs
used for clinical trials, and in double-blinded clinical trials, the investigational drugs shall be consistent with
the control drug or placebo in appearance, odor, packaging, labeling, and certain other features.
Pharmaceutical packaging must comply with national and professional standards. If there is no national or
professional standard available, companies may formulate and implement its own standards after obtaining
the approval of the provincial administration for medical products or bureau of standards. Changes in
such approved packaging standards need to be re-approved. Drugs of which the packaging standards are
not approved shall not be released or marketed in China, except for those specifically supplied to the military.

New Drug Application (NDA) and Approval

Upon completion of clinical trials, a sponsor may submit clinical trial data to support marketing

approval for the drug.

For domestically manufactured drugs, NDA sponsors must submit data derived from the submitted

drugs in support of their approval. Under the rDAL, upon approval of the registration application, the
NMPA will issue a drug registration certificate to the applicant which is in fact the marketing approval of
the drug, and the applicant is no longer required to be equipped with relevant manufacturing capability.

Manufacturing and Distribution

All facilities that manufacture drugs in China must receive a drug manufacturing license with an
appropriate “scope of manufacturing” from the local drug regulatory authority. This license must be
renewed every five years, and the manufacturing facility is also required to be in compliance with GMP.

Similarly, to conduct sales, importation, shipping and storage, a company must obtain a Drug

Distribution License (DDL) from the local drug regulatory authority, subject to renewal every five years. As
with GMPs, companies are required to be in compliance with GSP. One exception is that the rDAL and
relevant implementation rules allow the MAH to conduct wholesales of its drugs directly without holding a
separate DDL for wholesale, however, a retail DDL would still be required if the MHA intends to conduct
direct retail to patients.

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China has developed a “Two-Invoice System” to control distribution of prescription drugs. The “Two-
Invoice System” generally requires that no more than two invoices may be issued throughout the distribution
chain, with one from the manufacturer to a distributor and another from the distributor to the end-user
hospital. This excludes the sale of products invoiced from the manufacturer to its wholly owned or controlled
distributors, or for imported drugs, to their exclusive distributor, or from a distributor to its wholly owned
or controlled subsidiary (or between the wholly owned or controlled subsidiaries). However, the system still
significantly limits the options for companies to use multiple distributors to reach a larger geographic
area in China. Compliance with the Two-Invoice System is a prerequisite for pharmaceutical companies to
participate in procurement processes with public hospitals, which currently provide most of China’s healthcare.
Manufacturers and distributors that fail to implement the Two-Invoice System may lose their qualifications
to participate in the bidding process. Non-compliant manufacturers may also be blacklisted from engaging
in drug sales to public hospitals in a locality.

Post-Marketing Surveillance

Under the rDAL, the MAH of a drug is ultimately responsible for pharmacovigilance, including
quality assurance, adverse reaction reporting and monitoring, and product recalls. Distributors and user
entities (e.g., hospitals) are also required to report, in their respective roles, adverse reactions of the products
they sell or use, and assist the MAH with any product recalls. An MAH for a drug that is currently under
the new drug monitoring period has to report all adverse drug reactions (as opposed to just serious adverse
reactions) for that period.

Advertising and Promotion of Pharmaceutical Products

China has a strict regime for the advertising of approved medicines. No unapproved medicines may be

advertised. The definition of an advertisement is very broad, and does not expressly exclude scientific
exchange. It can be any media that directly or indirectly introduces the product to end users. There is no clear
line between advertising and any other type of promotion.

An enterprise seeking to advertise a prescription drug may do so only in medical journals jointly
approved by NMPA and the NHC, and each advertisement requires approval from a local drug regulatory
authority. The content of an approved advertisement may not be altered without filing a new application for
approval.

Prescription drug advertisements are subject to strict content restrictions, which prohibit

recommendations by doctors and hospitals and guarantees of effectiveness. Advertising that includes
content that is outside of the drug’s approval documentation (off-label content) is prohibited. False
advertising can result in civil suits from end users and administrative liability, including fines. In addition to
advertisements, non-promotional websites that convey information about a drug must go through a
separate approval process by a local drug regulatory authority.

Regulatory Intellectual Property Protections

The amendments to the PRC Patent Law (the “Amended PRC Patent Law”) became effective on
June 1, 2021. The Amended PRC Patent Law contains both patent term extension and a mechanism for
early resolution of patent disputes, which may be comparable to patent linkage in the United States. However,
the provisions for patent term extension are unclear and/or remain subject to the approval of implementing
regulations that are still in draft form or have not yet been proposed, leading to uncertainty about its
scope and implementation.

Non-Patent Exclusivities

Regulatory Data Protection

The Innovation Opinion provided a foundation to improve and implement a system for regulatory data

protection to protect innovative drugs. This protection will be available for undisclosed clinical trial data of
drugs falling into the following categories: innovative drugs, innovative therapeutic biologics, drugs that treat
orphan diseases, pediatric drugs, and drugs for which there has been a successful patent challenge. In the

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Trade Agreement, China has committed to providing for effective protection of undisclosed clinical trial or
other data submitted as a condition of marketing approval.

The NMPA has published draft regulations for public comment that would set regulatory data

protection for innovative small molecule drugs at six years and for innovative therapeutic biologics at
12 years; pediatric and orphan drugs would receive six years to run concurrently from their approval dates.
Full terms of protection would require reliance on local trials or sites of multi-center trials in China and
simultaneous submissions of marketing applications in China and other countries. Submissions in China
that are up to six years later than those abroad would result in the term being reduced to 1-5 years. Submissions
over six years later in China may not receive protection.

The proposed regulations also call for a reduction in exclusivity if the marketing application is filed in

China based solely on overseas clinical data with no Chinese subjects (75% reduction) or based on
supplemental “China clinical trial data” (50% reduction). Information about the exclusivity term will be
included in a Marketed Drug List (similar to the Orange Book in the US) at the time of approval. Some
mechanics of these proposed rules are not yet clear, and it is not certain when the proposed rules will be
finalized.

Patent-Related Protections

Patent Linkage

The Amended PRC Patent Law provides a cause of action to allow a patent holder to initiate a

declarative action during the regulatory review process of a drug to determine whether the drug falls within
the patent scope, which may be comparable to the patent linkage system in the United States. The system
requires that the NMPA continue to review the potentially infringing follow-on application during any lawsuit
by the innovator. However, the NMPA may not approve the follow-on application pending resolution of
the patent litigation in favor of the follow-on application or for a specified period of time, whichever is
shorter.

Patent Term Extension

The Amended PRC Patent Law provides patent term extension, similar to the United States, for the

patent term lost during the regulatory review process of a new drug upon the patent holder’s request. The
extended term shall not exceed five years, and the total patent term after market entry of the new drug shall
not exceed 14 years. However, the provisions for patent term extension are unclear and/or remain subject
to the approval of implementing regulations that are still in draft form, leading to uncertainty about the scope
of implementation.

Reimbursement and Pricing

China’s national medical insurance program currently consists of two fundamental sub-programs:
(1) the basic medical insurance program for urban employees, under which urban employers are required to
enroll their employees in the program and the insurance premium is jointly contributed by the employers
and employees; and (2) the basic medical insurance program for urban and rural residents, which allows urban
and rural residents who do not have employers to voluntarily participate in the basic medical insurance
program and the insurance premium is jointly contributed by the participants and the government.
Participants of the national medical insurance program and their employers, if any, are required to contribute
to the payment of insurance premiums on a monthly basis. Program participants are eligible for full or
partial reimbursement of the cost of medicines included in the National Reimbursement Drug List (the
NRDL). A pharmaceutical product listed in the NRDL must be clinically needed, safe, effective, reasonably
priced, easy to use, and available in sufficient quantity.

Factors that affect the inclusion of a pharmaceutical product in the NRDL include whether the
product is used in large volumes and commonly prescribed for clinical use in the PRC and whether it is
considered to be important in meeting the basic healthcare needs of the general public. Since 2016, special
consideration has been given to, among others, innovative drugs with high clinical value and drugs for serious
diseases. In addition, the government has also been negotiating with manufacturers of expensive drugs

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with high clinical demands and proven effectiveness for price cuts in exchange for inclusion into the NRDL.
The version of the NRDL released in 2021 covers approximately 2,800 drugs in total, including 221 drugs
for which the prices were determined through negotiations between the drug companies and government.
China has been pursuing a policy of expediting the addition of innovative oncology drugs to this list.
REVLIMID® has been included in the NRDL since 2017. VIDAZA® has been included in the NRDL since
2018. BRUKINSA®(zanubrutinib), tislelizumab, and XGEVA® (120-mg denosumab) have been included
in the NRDL in March 2021. PARP inhibitor pamiparib has been included in the NRDL in 2021, which
became effective as of January 1, 2022.

Government Price Controls

China has abolished its previous government-led pricing system for drugs, and lifted the maximum

retail price for most drugs, including drugs reimbursed by government medical insurance funds, patented
drugs, and some other drugs. The government now regulates prices mainly by establishing a consolidated
procurement mechanism, restructuring medical insurance reimbursement standards and strengthening
regulation of medical and pricing practices, as discussed below.

Centralized Procurement and Tenders

Under current regulations, public medical institutions owned by the government or owned by state-

owned or controlled enterprises are required to purchase pharmaceutical products through centralized
online procurement processes. There are exceptions for drugs on the National List of Essential Drugs, which
must comply with their own procurement rules, and for certain drugs subject to the central government’s
special control, such as toxic, radioactive and narcotic drugs, and traditional Chinese medicines.

The centralized procurement process takes the form of public tenders that are typically conducted once

every year by provincial or municipal-level government agencies. The bids are assessed by a committee
randomly selected from a database of experts. The committee members assess the bids based on a number
of factors, including bid price, product quality, clinical effectiveness, product safety, level of technology, the
manufacturer’s qualifications and reputation, after-sale services and innovation.

Over the last decade, the government has employed various methods to improve the affordability of
drugs. In 2009, the central government announced a campaign to implement a “zero markup” policy on
essential drugs among basic healthcare institutions, which has been fully implemented nationwide. In addition,
some local governments have begun to allow medical institutions to collectively negotiate with manufacturers
for a second price to further lower the already agreed bid price. The Two-Invoice System, described above,
is also designed to reduce price mark-ups brought about by multi-tier distribution chains.

In 2019, the government approved a volume-based, centralized drug procurement program in an effort
to deepen the reform of the medical and health sector and optimize the pricing of drugs. Drugs are selected
from generic brands for volume-based, centralized drug procurement. The selected drugs must pass the
equivalence evaluation on quality and efficacy. The program is aimed at further lowering drug costs for
patients, reducing transaction costs for enterprises, regulating drug use by institutions, and improving the
centralized drug procurement and pricing system. All approved enterprises that produce drugs on the
procurement list in China may participate. Clinical effects, adverse reactions, and batch stability of the drugs
will be considered, and their consistency will be the main criteria for evaluation, while production capacity
and stability of the supplier will also be considered.

Other PRC National and Provincial Laws and Regulations

Pharmaceutical companies operating in China are subject to changing regulations under many other

laws and regulations administered by governmental authorities at the national, provincial and municipal
levels, some of which are or may become applicable to our business. For example, regulations control the
confidentiality of patient medical information and the circumstances under which patient medical information
may be released for inclusion in our information systems or released by us to third parties. The privacy of
human subjects in clinical trials is also protected under regulations. For example, clinical trial case report
forms must avoid disclosing names of human subjects.

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These laws and regulations governing both the disclosure and the use of confidential patient medical
information may become more restrictive in the future, including restrictions on transfer of healthcare data.
The Cybersecurity Law that took effect in 2017 designates healthcare as a priority area that is part of
critical information infrastructure, and China’s cyberspace administration is working to finalize a draft rule
on cross-border transfer of personal information.

PRC Regulation of Foreign Investment

The Foreign Investment Law of the PRC (the “Foreign Investment Law”) and its implementing rules
(the “Implementing Rules”) took effect in 2020 and replaced previous laws and regulations governing foreign
investment in China. The Foreign Investment Law and Implementing Rules establish a basic framework
for access to, and the promotion and administration of foreign investments in China. They reflected China’s
legislative efforts to rationalize China’s foreign investment regulatory regime in line with prevailing
international practice and to unify legal requirements for both foreign and domestic investments. The
Implementing Rules further clarified that China would encourage and promote foreign investment, protect
the lawful rights and interests of foreign investors, and continue to improve the foreign investment environment
in China.

The Foreign Investment Law establishes a pre-entry national treatment and negative list system for the
administration of foreign investments. “Pre-entry national treatment” means that the treatment afforded to
foreign investors at the market access stage shall be no less favorable than that afforded to domestic investors.
“Negative list” refers to the special administrative measures for foreign investors’ access to specific fields or
industries. Foreign investments outside of the negative list will be granted national treatment. Foreign investors
shall not invest in the prohibited fields as specified in the negative list, and foreign investors who invest in
the restricted fields shall comply with certain special requirements including the shareholding percentage and
citizenship of senior executives. The current industry entry clearance requirements governing foreign
investment activities in the PRC are set out in two categories, namely the Special Entry Management
Measures for the Access of Foreign Investment (Negative List) (2021 version), and the Encouraged Industry
Catalogue for Foreign Investment (2020 version) (the “2020 Encouraged Industry Catalogue”). Industries
not listed in these two categories are generally deemed “permitted” for foreign investments unless specifically
restricted by other applicable PRC laws or regulations. Pursuant to the 2020 Encouraged Industry
Catalogue, the research, development and manufacture of innovative oncology drugs and certain other
types of pharmaceutical products belongs to the encouraged industries for foreign investment.

Regulations Relating to Product Liability

Under a law which took effect in 2021, a defective product which causes property damage or physical
injury to any person may subject the manufacturer or vendor of such product to civil liability for such damage
or injury. Additionally, China’s Product Quality Law, first adopted in 1993 and amended in 2018, governs
the supervision and administration of product quality, aiming to protect the rights end-users and consumers.
According to the Product Quality Law, manufacturers is liable for the quality of products produced by
them, and sellers are required take measures to ensure the quality of the products sold by them. A
manufacturer is liable for compensating for any bodily injury or property damage resulting from product
defects unless the manufacturer is able to prove that: (1) the product was not distributed; (2) the defects
causing injury or damage did not exist at the time that the product was distributed; or (3) science and
technology at the time that the product was distributed was at a level incapable of detecting the defects. A
seller is liable for compensating for any bodily injury or property damage of others caused by the defects in
the product if such defects are attributable to the seller. A seller is required to pay compensation if it fails to
indicate either the manufacturer or the supplier of the defective product. A person who is injured or whose
property is damaged by the defects in the product may claim compensation from the manufacturer or the
seller.

Regulations Relating to Commercial Bribery

Pharmaceutical companies involved in a criminal investigation or administrative proceeding related to
bribery are listed in the Adverse Records of Commercial Briberies by the provincial health commissions. If
a pharmaceutical company or its agent is listed, public medical institutions located in the local provincial level

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region are prohibited from making any purchase from the company for two years. Where a pharmaceutical
company or its agent is listed in the adverse records on two or more occasions within five years, all public
medical institutions in China are not permitted to purchase any products from that company for two years.

Regulations Relating to Foreign Exchange

The Foreign Exchange Administration Regulations are the principal regulations governing foreign
currency exchange in China. Under the PRC foreign exchange regulations, payments of current account
items, such as profit distributions and trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, may be made
in foreign currencies without prior approval from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)
by complying with certain procedural requirements. In contrast, approval from or registration with appropriate
government authorities or designated banks is required when RMB is to be converted into a foreign
currency and remitted out of China to pay capital expenses such as the repayment of foreign currency-
denominated loans.

Under current regulations, the capital of a foreign-invested enterprise and capital in RMB obtained by
the foreign-invested enterprise from foreign exchange settlement must not be used for the following purposes:
directly or indirectly for payment beyond the business scope of the enterprises or the payment prohibited
by relevant laws and regulations; directly or indirectly for investment in securities, unless otherwise provided
by relevant laws and regulations; extending loans to non-related parties, unless permitted by the scope of
business; or paying expenses related to the purchase of real estate that is not for self-use, except for real estate
enterprises.

In 2017, new regulations were adopted which, among other things, relax the restrictions on foreign
exchange inflow to further enhance trade and investment facilitation and tighten genuineness and compliance
verification of cross-border transactions and cross-border capital flows.

In 2019, SAFE issued the Circular of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Further
Promoting the Facilitation of Cross-border Trade and Investment (Circular 28). Circular 28 allows non-
investment foreign-invested enterprises to use their capital funds to make equity investments in China,
provided that such investments do not violate the effective Special Entry Management Measures for Foreign
Investment (Negative List) and the target investment projects are genuine and in compliance with laws.
The interpretation and implementation of Circular 28 in practice are subject to substantial uncertainty.

Regulations Relating to Dividend Distributions

Foreign-invested companies may pay dividends only out of their accumulated profit, if any, as

determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. Both PRC domestic companies
and foreign invested PRC companies are required to allocate at least 10% of their respective accumulated
after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund certain capital reserve funds until the aggregate amount of these
reserve funds have reached 50% of the registered capital of the companies. A PRC company is not permitted
to distribute any profits until any losses from prior fiscal years have been offset. Profits retained from prior
fiscal years may be distributed together with distributable profits from the current fiscal year.

Labor Laws and Social Insurance

Under Chinese law, employers must execute written labor contracts with their full-time employees and
must comply with local minimum wage standards. Employers must establish a comprehensive management
system to protect the rights of their employees, including a system governing occupational health and safety,
and to truthfully inform prospective employees of the job description, working conditions, location,
occupational hazards and status of safe production as well as remuneration and other conditions. Violations
of these requirements may result in the imposition of fines and other administrative and criminal liability
in the case of serious violations.

In addition, employers must provide employees with welfare schemes covering pension insurance,

unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, work-related injury insurance, medical insurance and
housing funds. These payments are made to local administrative authorities, and any employer who fails to
contribute may be fined and ordered to pay the deficit amount within a stipulated time limit.

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Rest of World Regulation

For other countries outside of the United States and the PRC, the requirements governing the conduct
of clinical trials, drug licensing, pricing and reimbursement, and other matters impacting our business vary
from country to country. In all cases, clinical trials must be conducted in accordance with GCP requirements,
applicable regulatory requirements, and the ethical principles having their origin in the Declaration of
Helsinki.

Human Capital Resources

We are committed to attracting and retaining exceptional, passionate people to work with a clear
purpose: creating impactful, affordable and accessible medicines to help more patients around the world to
live better. To this end, we support a team-oriented culture based on excellence that allows all colleagues to feel
valued and challenged. We provide opportunities for employees to grow and develop in their careers,
supported by competitive compensation, benefits and health and wellness programs, and by programs that
build connections among our employees worldwide.

We believe that the success of our business is fundamentally connected to the well-being of our
employees. Accordingly, we are committed to their health, safety and wellness. We offer our employees and
their families innovative, flexible and convenient health and wellness programs, including benefits that confer
peace of mind around events that may require time away from work or impact their financial well-being;
that support their physical and mental health with tools and resources to help them improve or maintain their
health status and encourage healthy behaviors; and that offer choice where possible so they can customize
benefits to meet their needs and the needs of their families.

In order to support our employees during the COVID-19 pandemic, we implemented significant
changes that we determined were in the best interest of our employees, as well as the communities in which
we operate, and which comply with government regulations. This included initiating a number of mental-
health programs and offering supplemental resources that are available to all of our employees, having our
employees work from home and implementing additional safety measures for employees continuing critical
work at our offices or in the field, as well as encouraging employees to adhere to preventative measures
recommended by the World Health Organization, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and
similar public health authorities.

Our worldwide teams are united by a common mission. We are committed to encouraging a culture of
open communication where employees can ask questions, raise concerns and contribute creative solutions.
Our management team routinely makes themselves available to all employees, including in regular town hall
events that encourage open dialogue. Fostering a culture of accountability and compliance is also central
to our human resource management. All of our employees complete trainings on applicable corporate policies
including our global Code of Conduct; Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation Policy; Conflicts of
Interest Policy; Insider Trading Policy; and Anti-Corruption Policy.

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs to help meet the needs of our

employees. In addition to base salaries, these programs include potential annual discretionary bonuses,
equity awards, a 401(k) plan in the United States and pension plans in other jurisdictions, healthcare and
insurance benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, paid time off, family leave, and flexible work
schedules, among others. In addition to our broad-based equity award programs, we have used targeted
equity-based grants with vesting conditions to facilitate retention of personnel. In addition to compensation
and benefits, we provide our employees opportunities for growth through challenging job assignments,
performance management and training opportunities. We seek to remain competitive in our compensation
and benefits by routinely benchmarking against industry peers.

As part of our mission to create the innovative medicines to serve the patients, we continue to advance
our environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts, including enhancing the diversity and inclusiveness
of our workplace. We believe that diversity of backgrounds and ideas inspires creativity and helps us
create the innovative medicines patients need. We appreciate one another’s differences and strengths, and
are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. BeiGene does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion,
color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national

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origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment is decided on the basis
of qualifications, merit, and business need. Further, we have policies in place that prohibit harassment of all
kinds. We maintain an inclusive culture where all voices are welcomed, heard, and respected.

As of January 31, 2022, we had approximately 8,200 full-time employees worldwide, with approximately

1,200 employees in the United States and approximately 7,000 employees outside of the United States. We
have also engaged and may continue to engage independent contractors to assist us with our operations. None
of our employees are represented by a labor union or covered by a collective bargaining agreement, except
as required by local laws such as in some European countries. We have never experienced any employment-
related work stoppages, we also track voluntary and involuntary turnover rates and we consider our
relations with our employees to be good.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Strategy

BeiGene’s mission is to expand access to high-quality, affordable medicines to billions more people
globally. We are driven to deliver affordable medicines to all and create a more equitable and sustainable
world for our patients, employees, and our communities. In 2021, we formalized our ESG function, led by a
new Senior Director, Global Reputation and ESG Lead who has led the development of a new global
ESG strategy and framework which will be announced in our 2021 ESG Report, published in late April 2022.
We expect to use this new framework to guide the development of goals and targets for our most material
issues, and it will center around five key focus areas that are designed to speak to the needs of our diverse
stakeholders. Within each focus area, we have identified two strategic priorities against which we will set
concrete targets and report our progress.

While we are at the start of our ESG journey, we are proud of the progress we have made to date. We

have conducted our first global greenhouse gas inventory for scopes 1 and 2 emissions and plan to announce
new measures to understand and further mitigate our climate impacts in 2022. We have implemented a
new Supplier Code of Conduct which outlines our expectations related to good governance, labor practices,
environment, health and safety (EHS), and transparency. In 2021, we refined our company values to four
that encapsulate what it means to be a part of BeiGene. These values are: Patients First; Collaborative Spirit;
Bold Ingenuity; and Driving Excellence.

We believe that our people are critical to our success and, as a global company, we know that sharing
diverse ideas and perspectives spurs greater innovation and enhances our ability to deliver results. Our culture
celebrates and encourages the voices of all our employees and promotes a respectful, collaborative
environment. In 2020, we formed the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Awareness (IDEA) Council to
provide a forum for U.S. employees to explore issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. In 2021,
we hired a Vice President to lead diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and will expand the IDEA Council to
have representation beyond the U.S.

In addition to directly supporting patients through the delivery of cutting-edge therapies, we strive to

support our communities through research, education, and sponsorships. We support patient advocacy
organizations, charitable foundations, and hospitals through cash and in-kind donations.

More details about our ESG strategy, goals and progress to date will be available in our 2021 ESG
Report, which will be developed with reference to the Global Reporting Initiative Standards and published
in late April 2022. Our previous ESG Reports can be found online at: https://hkexir.beigene.com/governance/
esg-report/.

Financial Information

The financial information required under this Item 1 is incorporated herein by reference to the section
of this Annual Report titled “Part II-Item 8-Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.” For financial
information regarding our business, see “Part II-Item 7-Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations” of this Annual Report and our consolidated audited financial
statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report.

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Corporate Information

We are an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability on October 28,

2010. Any company that is registered in the Cayman Islands but conducts business mainly outside of the
Cayman Islands may apply to be registered as an exempted company. Our current registered office in the
Cayman Islands is located at the offices of Mourant Governance Services (Cayman) Limited, 94 Solaris
Avenue, Camana Bay, Grand Cayman KY1-1108, Cayman Islands. Our website address is www.beigene.com.
We do not incorporate the information on or accessible through our website into this Annual Report, and
you should not consider any information on, or that can be accessed through, our website as part of this
Annual Report.

We own various registered trademarks, trademark applications and unregistered trademarks and
service marks, including the name “BeiGene” and our corporate logo. All other trade names, trademarks
and service marks of other companies appearing in this Annual Report are the property of their respective
holders. Solely for convenience, some of the trademarks and trade names in this document are referred to
without the ® and ™ symbols, but such references should not be construed as any indicator that their
respective owners will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, their rights thereto. We do not
intend our use or display of other companies’ trademarks and trade names to imply a relationship with, or
endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any other companies.

Available Information

We make available on or through our website certain reports and amendments to those reports that we

file with or furnish to the SEC, in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”). These include our annual reports on Form 10-K, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and
our current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to
Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. We also make available, free of charge on our website, the
reports filed with the SEC by our executive officers, directors and 10% shareholders pursuant to Section 16
under the Exchange Act. Additionally, we make available on our website our securities filings with the HKEx
and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE). We make this information available on or through our website
free of charge as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file the information with, or furnish
it to, the SEC, the HKEx, and the SSE. We use our website as a means of disclosing material non-public
information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

This section includes the most significant factors that we believe may adversely affect our business and

operations. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below and all information
contained in this Annual Report, including our financial statements and the related notes and
“Part II-Item 7-Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,”
before deciding to invest in our ADSs, ordinary shares, or RMB Shares. The occurrence of any of the events or
developments described below could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth
prospects. In such an event, the market price of our ADSs, ordinary shares, and RMB Shares could decline, and
you may lose all or part of your investment. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or
that we currently deem immaterial also may impair our business operations.

Risks Related to Commercialization of Our Medicines and Drug Candidates

Our medicines may fail to achieve and maintain the degree of market acceptance by physicians, patients,
third-party payors, and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.

Our medicines may fail to achieve and maintain sufficient market acceptance by physicians, patients,

third-party payors and others in the medical community. For example, current cancer treatments like
chemotherapy and radiation therapy are well established in the medical community, and doctors may continue
to rely on these treatments to the exclusion of our medicines. In addition, physicians, patients and third-party
payors may prefer other novel or generic products to ours. If our medicines do not achieve and maintain
an adequate level of acceptance, the sales of our medicines may be limited and we may not generate significant
product revenues and we may not become profitable. The degree of market acceptance of our medicines
will depend on a number of factors, including:

• the clinical indications for which our medicines are approved;

• physicians, hospitals, cancer treatment centers, and patients considering our medicines as safe and

effective treatments;

• government agencies, professional societies, practice management groups, insurance carriers,

physicians’ groups, private health and science foundations, and organizations publishing guidelines
and recommendations recommending our medicines and reimbursement;

• the potential and perceived advantages of our medicines over alternative treatments;

• the prevalence and severity of any side effects;

• product labeling or product insert requirements of regulatory authorities;

• limitations or warnings contained in the labeling approved by regulatory authorities;

• the timing of market introduction of our medicines as well as competitive medicines;

• the cost of treatment in relation to alternative treatments;

• the availability of adequate coverage, reimbursement and pricing by third-party payors and

government authorities;

• the willingness of patients to pay out-of-pocket in the absence of coverage and reimbursement by

third-party payors and government authorities; and

• the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts.

If any medicines that we commercialize fail to achieve and maintain market acceptance among
physicians, patients, hospitals, third-party payors, cancer treatment centers or others in the medical
community, we will not be able to generate significant revenue. Even if our medicines achieve market
acceptance, we may not be able to maintain that market acceptance over time if new products or technologies
are introduced that are more favorably received than our medicines, are more cost effective or render our
medicines obsolete.

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We have limited experience in launching and marketing our internally developed and in-licensed medicines. If
we are unable to further develop marketing and sales capabilities or enter into agreements with third parties to
market and sell our medicines, we may not be able to generate substantial product sales revenue.

We first became a commercial-stage company in 2017, when we entered into a license and supply

agreement with Celgene Logistics Sàrl, now a Bristol Myers Squibb company (BMS), to commercialize
BMS’s approved cancer therapies, REVLIMID®, VIDAZA® and ABRAXANE® in the People’s Republic
of China (PRC or China), excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and acquired BMS’s commercial
operations in China, excluding certain functions.

In October 2019, we entered into a strategic collaboration with Amgen for its commercial-stage

oncology products XGEVA®, BLINCYTO®, KYPROLIS®, and a portfolio of clinical- and late-preclinical-
stage oncology pipeline products, which became effective on January 2, 2020. XGEVA®, BLINCYTO®
and KYPROLIS® were first approved in China in May 2019, December 2020 and July 2021, respectively.

We received the first new drug approval for one of our internally developed medicines in November 2019,
for our BTK inhibitor BRUKINSA® (zanubrutinib), in the United States for the treatment of certain patients
with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). We have also received approvals for BRUKINSA® in China for the
treatment of certain patients with MCL, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic
lymphoma (SLL) in June 2020, and in the European Union for the treatment of certain patients with WM
in November 2021. We have subsequently received approvals in these markets for additional indications.
Additionally, we have received approvals for BRUKINSA® in Canada, Australia, the U.K., Switzerland
and other markets for certain indications.

For tislelizumab, we first received approval in China in December 2019 for the treatment of certain
patients with classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (cHL) and have received approvals in China for several more
indications since. For pamiparib, we received approval in China for the treatment of certain patients with
ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer in May 2021.

We continue to build our salesforce in the United States, China, Europe, and other countries and
regions to commercialize our internally developed and in-licensed medicines and any additional medicines
or drug candidates that we may develop or in-license, which will require significant capital expenditures,
management resources and time.

We have limited experience in commercializing our internally developed and in-licensed medicines. We
have limited experience in building and managing a commercial team, conducting a comprehensive market
analysis, obtaining state licenses and reimbursement, or managing distributors and a sales force for our
medicines. We will be competing with many companies that currently have extensive and well-funded sales
and marketing operations. As a result, our ability to successfully commercialize our medicines may involve
more inherent risk, take longer, and cost more than it would if we were a company with substantial
experience in launching medicines.

We will have to compete with other pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to recruit, hire, train
and retain marketing and sales personnel. If we are unable to, or decide not to, further develop internal sales,
marketing, and commercial distribution capabilities for any or all of our medicines in any country or
region, we will likely pursue collaborative arrangements regarding the sales and marketing of our medicines.
However, there can be no assurance that we will be able to establish or maintain such collaborative
arrangements, or if we are able to do so, that they will have effective sales forces. Any revenue we receive will
depend upon the efforts of such third parties. We would have little or no control over the marketing and
sales efforts of such third parties, and our revenue from product sales may be lower than if we had
commercialized our medicines ourselves. We also face competition in our search for third parties to assist us
with the sales and marketing efforts for our medicines.

There can be no assurance that we will be able to further develop and successfully maintain internal

sales and commercial distribution capabilities or establish or maintain relationships with third-party
collaborators to successfully commercialize any medicine, and as a result, we may not be able to generate
substantial product sales revenue.

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If we are not able to continue to obtain, or experience delays in obtaining, required regulatory approvals, we
will not be able to commercialize our medicines and drug candidates, and our ability to generate revenue will be
materially impaired.

Before obtaining regulatory approvals for the commercial sale of any drug candidate for a target
indication, we must demonstrate in preclinical studies and well-controlled clinical trials, and, with respect to
approval in the United States, to the satisfaction of the FDA, that the drug candidate is safe and effective,
or the biologic drug candidate is safe, pure, and potent, for use for that target indication and that the
manufacturing facilities, processes and controls are adequate. In addition to preclinical and clinical data, the
new drug application (NDA) or biologics license application (BLA) must include comprehensive
information regarding the chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) for the drug candidate. Obtaining
approval of an NDA or BLA is a lengthy, expensive and uncertain process, and approval may not be
obtained. If we submit an NDA or BLA to the FDA, the FDA decides whether to accept or reject the
submission for filing. We cannot be certain that a submission will be accepted for filing and review by the
FDA.

We have limited experience in obtaining regulatory approvals for our drug candidates. For example, we

have limited experience in preparing the required materials for regulatory submission and navigating the
regulatory approval process. As a result, our ability to successfully submit an NDA or BLA and obtain
regulatory approval for our drug candidates may involve more inherent risk, take longer, and cost more than
it would if we were a company with substantial experience in obtaining regulatory approvals.

Regulatory authorities outside of the United States, such as the China National Medical Products
Administration (NMPA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA), also have requirements for approval of
medicines for commercial sale with which we must comply prior to marketing in those areas. Regulatory
requirements can vary from country to country and could delay or prevent the introduction of our drug
candidates. Clinical trials conducted in one country may not be accepted by regulatory authorities in other
countries, and obtaining regulatory approval in one country does not mean that regulatory approval will be
obtained in any other country. Approval processes vary among countries and can involve additional
product testing and validation and additional administrative review periods. Seeking regulatory approvals
outside of the United States could require additional nonclinical studies or clinical trials, which could be
costly and time consuming. The regulatory approval process outside of the United States may include all of
the risks associated with obtaining FDA approval. For all of these reasons, we may not obtain regulatory
approvals on a timely basis, if at all.

The process to develop, obtain regulatory approval for and commercialize drug candidates is long,
complex and costly in the United States, China, Europe and other regions, and approval is never guaranteed.
Even if our drug candidates were to successfully obtain approval from regulatory authorities, any approval
might significantly limit the approved indications for use, or require that precautions, contraindications or
warnings be included on the product labeling, or require expensive and time-consuming post-approval
clinical trials or surveillance as conditions of approval. Following any approval for commercial sale of our
drug candidates, certain changes to the medicine, such as changes in manufacturing processes and additional
labeling claims, may be subject to additional review and approval by regulatory authorities. Also, regulatory
approval for any of our drug candidates may be withdrawn. If we are unable to obtain regulatory approval
for our drug candidates in one or more jurisdictions, or any approval contains significant limitations, our
target market will be reduced and our ability to realize the full market potential of our drug candidates
will be harmed.

We face substantial competition, which may result in others discovering, developing, or commercializing
competing medicines before or more successfully than we do.

The development and commercialization of new medicines is highly competitive. We face competition
from major pharmaceutical companies, specialty pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies
worldwide. There are a number of large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that currently market
and sell drugs or are pursuing the development of medicines for the treatment of cancer for which we are
commercializing our medicines or developing our drug candidates. For example, BRUKINSA®, tislelizumab
and pamiparib face substantial competition, and some of our products face or are expected to face
competition from generic therapies. Potential competitors also include academic institutions, government

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agencies and other public and private research organizations that conduct research, seek patent protection
and establish collaborative arrangements for research, development, manufacturing and commercialization.

Our commercial opportunity could be reduced or eliminated if our competitors develop and

commercialize medicines that are safer, more effective, have fewer or less severe side effects, are more
convenient or are less expensive than our medicines. Our competitors also may obtain approval from the
FDA, NMPA, EMA or other comparable regulatory authorities for their medicines more rapidly than we
may obtain approval for ours, which could result in our competitors establishing a strong market position
before we are able to enter the market and or slow our regulatory approval.

Many of the companies against which we are competing or against which we may compete in the
future have significantly greater financial resources and expertise in research and development, manufacturing,
preclinical testing, conducting clinical trials, obtaining regulatory approvals and marketing approved
medicines than we do. Mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries may
result in even more resources being concentrated among a smaller number of our competitors. Smaller and
other early-stage companies may also prove to be significant competitors, particularly through collaborative
arrangements with large and established companies. These third parties compete with us in recruiting and
retaining qualified scientific and management personnel, establishing clinical trial sites and patient registration
for clinical trials, as well as in acquiring technologies complementary to, or necessary for, our programs.

The market opportunities for our medicines may be limited to those patients who are ineligible for or have failed
prior treatments and may be small.

In markets with approved therapies, we have and expect to initially seek approval of our drug candidates

as a later stage therapy for patients who have failed other approved treatments. Subsequently, for those
medicines that prove to be sufficiently beneficial, if any, we would expect to seek approval as a second line
therapy and potentially as a first-line therapy, but there is no guarantee that our medicines and drug candidates,
even if approved, would be approved for second-line or first-line therapy.

Our projections of both the number of people who have the diseases we are targeting, as well as the

subset of people with these diseases in a position to receive later stage therapy and who have the potential
to benefit from treatment with our medicines and drug candidates, are based on our beliefs and estimates and
may prove to be inaccurate or based on imprecise data. Further, new studies may change the estimated
incidence or prevalence of these cancers. The number of patients may turn out to be lower than expected.
Additionally, the potentially addressable patient population for our medicines and drug candidates may be
limited or may not be amenable to treatment with our medicines and drug candidates. Even if we obtain
significant market share for our medicines and drug candidates, because the potential target populations
are small, we may never achieve profitability without obtaining regulatory approval for additional indications,
including use as a first- or second-line therapy.

We have limited manufacturing capability and must rely on third-party manufacturers to manufacture some of
our commercial products and clinical supplies, and if they fail to meet their obligations, the development and
commercialization of our medicines and drug candidates could be adversely affected.

We have limited manufacturing capabilities and experience. Our medicines and drug candidates are
composed of multiple components and require specialized formulations for which scale-up and manufacturing
can be difficult. We have limited experience in such scale-up and manufacturing, requiring us to depend on
a limited number of third parties, who may not be able to deliver in a timely manner, or at all. In order to
develop medicines and drug candidates, apply for regulatory approvals, and commercialize our medicines
and drug candidates, we will need to develop, contract for, or otherwise arrange for the necessary
manufacturing capabilities. There are risks inherent in pharmaceutical manufacturing that could affect the
ability of our contract manufacturers to meet our delivery time requirements or provide adequate amounts of
material to meet our needs.

Although we are manufacturing commercial supply of tislelizumab, zanubrutinib and pamiparib at our

own manufacturing facilities in China, and we are planning to build a commercial-stage biologics
manufacturing and clinical R&D center in New Jersey and we are constructing a new small molecule
manufacturing campus in Suzhou, China, we continue to rely on third-party manufacturers to produce

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some of the commercial quantities of the internally developed and in-licensed medicines we are marketing.
In addition, if any of our other drug candidates or in-licensed medicines or drug candidates become approved
for commercial sale, we will need to expand our internal capacity or establish additional third-party
manufacturing capacity. Manufacturing partner requirements may require us to fund capital improvements,
perhaps on behalf of third parties, to support the scale-up of manufacturing and related activities. We
may not be able to establish scaled manufacturing capacity for an approved medicine in a timely or economic
manner, if at all. If we or our third-party manufacturers are unable to provide commercial quantities of
such an approved medicine, we will have to successfully transfer manufacturing technology to a different
manufacturer. Engaging a new manufacturer or modifying manufacturing processes and procedures for such
an approved medicine could require us to conduct comparative studies or utilize other means to determine
bioequivalence of the new and prior manufacturers’ products or of products manufactured by the old and
new processes and procedures, which could delay or prevent our ability to commercialize such an approved
medicine. If we or any of these manufacturers is unable or unwilling to increase its manufacturing capacity or
if we are unable to establish alternative arrangements on a timely basis or on acceptable terms, the
development and commercialization of such an approved medicine may be delayed or there may be a
shortage in supply. Any inability to manufacture our medicines, drug candidates, in-licensed medicines and
drug candidates or future approved medicines in sufficient quantities when needed could seriously harm our
business and our financial results.

Manufacturers of our medicines must comply with good manufacturing practice (GMP) requirements

enforced by the FDA, NMPA, EMA and other comparable foreign health authorities through facilities
inspection programs. These requirements include quality control, quality assurance, and the maintenance of
records and documentation. Manufacturers of our approved medicines may be unable to comply with
these GMP requirements and with other FDA, NMPA, EMA, state, and foreign regulatory requirements. A
failure to comply with these requirements may result in fines and civil penalties, suspension of production,
suspension or delay in product approval, product seizure or recall, or withdrawal of product approval. If the
safety of any quantities supplied is compromised due to a manufacturer’s failure to adhere to applicable
laws or for other reasons, we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval for or successfully commercialize
our medicines, which would seriously harm our business. For example, on March 25, 2020, the NMPA
suspended the importation, sales and use of ABRAXANE® in China supplied to us by BMS, and the drug
was subsequently recalled by BMS and is not currently available for sale in China. This suspension was based
on inspection findings at BMS’s contract manufacturing facility in the United States. Additionally, in
October 2021, BMS provided 180-days’ notice to us, which we dispute, purporting to terminate our license
to market ABRAXANE® in China. We have not had any sales of ABRAXANE® since the suspension and do
not expect future revenue from ABRAXANE®. We have initiated an arbitration proceeding against BMS
asserting that it has breached and continues to breach the terms and conditions of the license and supply
agreement. For additional information, please see the section of this report titled “Legal Proceedings”.

If we or any third parties with which we may collaborate to market and sell our medicines are unable to achieve
and maintain coverage and adequate level of reimbursement, our commercial success and business operations
could be adversely affected.

Our ability or the ability of any third parties with which we collaborate to commercialize our medicines

successfully will depend in part on the extent to which reimbursement for these medicines is available on
adequate terms, or at all, from government health administration authorities, private health insurers and other
organizations. In the United States and markets in other countries, patients generally rely on third-party
payors to reimburse all or part of the costs associated with their treatment. Adequate coverage and
reimbursement from governmental healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, and commercial
payors is critical to new product acceptance. Sales of our medicines will depend substantially, both domestically
and abroad, on the extent to which the costs of our medicines will be paid by health maintenance, managed
care, pharmacy benefit and similar healthcare management organizations, or reimbursed by government
health administration authorities, private health coverage insurers and other third-party payors. Without
third-party payor reimbursement, patients may not be able to obtain or afford prescribed medications.
Third-party payors also are seeking to encourage the use of generic or biosimilar products or entering into
sole source contracts with healthcare providers, which could effectively limit the coverage and level of
reimbursement for our medicines and have an adverse impact on the market access or acceptance of our

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medicines. In addition, reimbursement guidelines and incentives provided to prescribing physicians by third
party payors may have a significant impact on the prescribing physicians’ willingness and ability to prescribe
our products.

A primary trend in the global healthcare industry is cost containment. Government authorities and

these third-party payors have attempted to control costs by limiting coverage and the amount of
reimbursement for particular medications.

In the United States, no uniform policy of coverage and reimbursement for drugs exists among

third-party payors. As a result, obtaining coverage and reimbursement approval of a drug from a government
or other third-party payor is a time-consuming and costly process that could require us to provide to each
payor supporting scientific, clinical and cost- effectiveness data for the use of our medicines on a payor-by-
payor basis, with no assurance that coverage and adequate reimbursement will be obtained. The principal
decisions about reimbursement for new medicines are typically made by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (the CMS). They decide whether and to what extent a new medicine will be covered and
reimbursed under Medicare and private payors tend to follow CMS to a substantial degree. Factors payors
consider in determining reimbursement are based on whether the product is: a covered benefit under its
health plan; safe, effective and medically necessary; appropriate for the specific patient; cost-effective; and
neither experimental nor investigational.

Coverage may be more limited than the purposes for which the medicine is approved by the FDA or
comparable regulatory authorities in other countries. Even if we obtain coverage for a given medicine, the
resulting reimbursement rates might not be adequate for us to achieve or sustain profitability or may require
co-payments that patients find unacceptably high. Additionally, third-party payors may not cover, or
provide adequate reimbursement for, long-term follow-up evaluations required following the use of our
medicines. Patients are unlikely to use our medicines unless coverage is provided and reimbursement is
adequate to cover a significant portion of the cost of the medicine. Because some of our medicines and drug
candidates have a higher cost of goods than conventional therapies and may require long-term follow-up
evaluations, the risk that coverage and reimbursement rates may be inadequate for us to achieve profitability
may be greater.

Net prices for drugs may be reduced by mandatory discounts or rebates required by government
healthcare programs or private payors and by any future relaxation of laws that presently restrict imports of
drugs from countries where they may be sold at lower prices than in the United States. Increasingly,
third-party payors are requiring that drug companies provide them with predetermined discounts from list
prices and are challenging the prices charged for medical products. We cannot be sure that reimbursement will
be available for any product candidate that we commercialize and, if reimbursement is available, the level
of reimbursement. In addition, many pharmaceutical manufacturers must calculate and report certain price
reporting metrics to the government, such as average sales price (ASP) and best price. Penalties may apply
in some cases when such metrics are not submitted accurately and timely. Further, these prices for medicines
may be reduced by mandatory discounts or rebates required by government healthcare programs.

In China, drug prices are typically lower than in the United States and Europe, and until recently, the

market has been dominated by generic drugs. Government authorities regularly review the inclusion or
removal of medicines from China’s National Drug Catalog for Basic Medical Insurance, Work-related Injury
Insurance and Maternity Insurance, or the National Reimbursement Drug List (the NRDL), or provincial
or local medical insurance catalogues for the National Medical Insurance Program, and the tier under which
a medicine will be classified, both of which affect the amounts reimbursable to program participants for
their purchases of those medicines. There can be no assurance that our medicines and any approved drug
candidates will be included in the NRDL or provincial reimbursements lists, or if they are, that they will be
included at a price that allows us to be commercially successful. Products included in the NRDL have typically
been generic and essential drugs. Innovative drugs similar to our medicines and drug candidates have
historically been more limited on their inclusion in the NRDL due to the affordability of the government’s
Basic Medical Insurance, although this has been changing in recent years. For example, BRUKINSA®,
tislelizumab, pamiparib and XGEVA® have been included in the NRDL, While the demand for these
medicines has generally increased after inclusion in the NDRL, there can be no assurance that demand will
continue to increase and such increases will be sufficient to offset the reduction in the prices and our
margins, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of

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operations. We prepare for the NRDL negotiations in China for our eligible medicines/indications annually.
If any of these medicines/indications are not included in the NRDL, the revenues for such medicines
could be limited, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results
of operations. Even if such medicines are included in the NRDL, they may be included at prices that are
significantly lower than our current prices, reducing our margins, which could have a material adverse effect
on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Increasingly, third-party payors are requiring that companies provide them with predetermined
discounts from list prices and are challenging the prices charged for medical products. We cannot be sure
that reimbursement will be available for any medicine that we commercialize and, if reimbursement is available,
what the level of reimbursement will be. Reimbursement may impact the demand for, or the price of, any
medicine which we commercialize. Obtaining or maintaining reimbursement for our medicines may be
particularly difficult because of the higher prices often associated with medicines administered under the
supervision of a physician. If reimbursement is not available or is available only to limited levels, we may not
be able to successfully commercialize any medicine and drug candidate that we in-license or successfully
develop.

There may be significant delays in obtaining reimbursement for approved medicines, and coverage may
be more limited than the purposes for which the medicine is approved by regulatory authorities. Moreover,
eligibility for reimbursement does not imply that any medicine will be paid for in all cases or at a rate that
covers our costs, including research, development, manufacture, sale and distribution. Interim payments
for new medicines, if applicable, may also not be sufficient to cover our costs and may not be made permanent.
Payment rates may vary according to the use of the medicine and the clinical setting in which it is used,
may be based on payments allowed for lower cost medicines that are already reimbursed, and may be
incorporated into existing payments for other services. Net prices for medicines may be reduced by mandatory
discounts or rebates required by government healthcare programs or private payors and by any future
weakening of laws that presently restrict imports of medicines from countries where they may be sold at
lower prices than in the United States. Our inability to promptly obtain coverage and profitable payment rates
from both government-funded and private payors for our medicines and any new medicines that we
develop could have a material adverse effect on our business, our operating results, and our overall financial
condition.

We intend to seek approval to market our medicines and drug candidates in the United States, China,

Europe and in other jurisdictions. In some countries, such as those in Europe, the pricing of drugs and
biologics is subject to governmental control, which can take considerable time even after obtaining regulatory
approval. Market acceptance and sales of our medicines will depend significantly on the availability of
adequate coverage and reimbursement from third-party payors for our medicines and may be affected by
existing and future health care reform measures.

We may be subject to anti-kickback, false claims laws, physician payment transparency laws, fraud and abuse
laws or similar healthcare and security laws and regulations in the United States and other jurisdictions, which
could expose us to criminal sanctions, civil penalties, contractual damages, reputational harm and diminished
sales.

Healthcare providers, physicians and others play a primary role in the recommendation and prescription
of any products for which we obtain regulatory approval. Our operations are subject to various federal and
state fraud and abuse laws, including, without limitation, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the federal False
Claims Act (FCA), and physician payment sunshine laws and regulations. These laws may impact, among
other things, our proposed sales, marketing and education programs. In addition, we are subject to patient
privacy regulation by both the federal government and the states in which we conduct our business.

Additionally, we are subject to state equivalents of each of the healthcare laws described above, among

others, some of which may be broader in scope and may apply to healthcare services reimbursed by any
third-party payor, not just governmental payors, but also private insurers. These laws are enforced by various
state agencies and through private actions. Some states have passed laws that require pharmaceutical
companies to comply with the April 2003 Office of Inspector General Compliance Program Guidance for
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and/or other voluntary industry codes of conduct that restrict the payments
made to healthcare providers and other potential referral sources. Several states and local laws also impose

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other marketing restrictions or require pharmaceutical companies to make marketing or price disclosures to
the state, require drug manufacturers to report information related to payments and other transfers of
value to physicians and other healthcare providers, and require the registration of pharmaceutical sales
representatives. State laws also govern the privacy and security of health information in some circumstances.
These data privacy and security laws may differ from each other in significant ways and often are not pre-
empted by HIPAA, which may complicate compliance efforts. There are ambiguities as to what is required to
comply with these state requirements, and if we fail to comply with an applicable state law requirement, we
could be subject to penalties.

Violations of fraud and abuse laws may be punishable by criminal and/or civil sanctions, including
penalties, fines and/or exclusion or suspension from federal and state healthcare programs such as Medicare
and Medicaid and debarment from contracting with the U.S. government. In addition, private individuals
have the ability to bring actions on behalf of the U.S. government under the federal FCA as well as under the
false claims laws of several states. Neither the U.S. government nor the U.S. courts have provided definitive
guidance on the applicability of fraud and abuse laws to our business. Law enforcement authorities are
increasingly focused on enforcing these laws, and it is possible that some of our practices may be challenged
under these laws. Efforts to ensure that our business arrangements with third parties will comply with
applicable healthcare laws and regulations will involve substantial costs. It is possible that governmental
authorities will conclude that our business practices may not comply with current or future statutes, regulations
or case law involving applicable fraud and abuse or other healthcare laws and regulations. If any such
actions are instituted against us, and we are not successful in defending ourselves or asserting our rights,
those actions could have a significant impact on our business, including the imposition of civil, criminal and
administrative penalties, damages, disgorgement, monetary fines, possible exclusion from participation in
Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs, contractual damages, individual imprisonment,
reputational harm, diminished profits and future earnings, and curtailment or restructuring of our
operations, as well as additional reporting obligations and oversight if we become subject to a corporate
integrity agreement or other agreement to resolve allegations of non-compliance with these laws.

In addition, the approval, commercialization, and other activities for our medicines and drug candidates
outside the United States subjects us to non-U.S. equivalents of the healthcare laws such as those mentioned
above, among other non-U.S. laws. As with the state equivalents mentioned above, some of these non-U.S.
laws may be broader in scope. Data privacy and security laws and regulations in non-U.S. jurisdictions may
also be more stringent than those in the United States, such as the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR), the Data Security Law of the PRC, and the Personal Information Protection Law of the PRC.

If any of the physicians or other providers or entities with whom we do business are found to be not in
compliance with applicable laws, they may be subject to criminal, civil or administrative sanctions, including
exclusions from government funded healthcare programs, which may adversely affect our business.

We have operations in the United States, China, Europe, and other markets and plan to expand in these and
new markets on our own or with collaborators, which exposes us to risks of conducting business in international
markets.

We are currently developing and commercializing or plan to commercialize our medicines in
international markets, including China, Europe and other markets outside of the United States, either on
our own or with third party collaborators or distributors. Our international business relationships subject us
to additional risks that may materially adversely affect our ability to attain or sustain profitable operations,
including:

• efforts to enter into collaboration or licensing arrangements with third parties in connection with
our international sales, marketing and distribution efforts may increase our expenses or divert our
management’s attention from the acquisition or development of drug candidates;

• difficulty of effective enforcement of contractual provisions in local jurisdictions;

• potential third-party patent rights or potentially reduced protection for intellectual property rights;

• unexpected changes in tariffs, trade barriers and regulatory requirements, including the loss of
normal trade status between China and the United States or actions taken by U.S. or China
governmental authorities on companies with significant operations in the U.S. and China, such as
us;

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• economic weakness, including inflation;

• compliance with tax, employment, immigration and labor laws for employees traveling abroad;

• the effects of applicable non-U.S. tax structures and potentially adverse tax consequences;

• currency fluctuations, which could result in increased operating expenses and reduced revenue;

• workforce uncertainty and labor unrest;

• failure of our employees and contracted third parties to comply with Office of Foreign Asset

Control rules and regulations and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-bribery and
corruption laws; and

• business interruptions resulting from geo-political actions, including trade disputes, war and

terrorism, disease or public health pandemics, such as COVID-19, or natural disasters, including
earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons, floods, hurricanes and fires.

These and other risks may materially adversely affect our ability to attain or sustain revenue in

international markets.

The illegal distribution and sale by third parties of counterfeit versions of our medicines or stolen products
could have a negative impact on our reputation and business.

Third parties might illegally distribute and sell counterfeit or unfit versions of our medicines, which do
not meet our or our collaborators’ rigorous manufacturing and testing standards. A patient who receives a
counterfeit or unfit medicine may be at risk for a number of dangerous health consequences. Our reputation
and business could suffer harm as a result of counterfeit or unfit medicines sold under our or our
collaborators’ brand name(s). In addition, thefts of inventory at warehouses, plants or while in- transit,
which are not properly stored and which are sold through unauthorized channels, could adversely impact
patient safety, our reputation and our business.

Risks Related to Clinical Development and Regulatory Approval of Our Medicines and Drug Candidates

We depend substantially on the success of the clinical development of our medicines and drug candidates. If we
are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain regulatory approvals and commercialize our
medicines and drug candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially
harmed.

Our business depends on the successful development, regulatory approval and commercialization of
our medicines and other drug candidates we may develop. We have invested a significant portion of our
efforts and financial resources in the development of our medicines and drug candidates. The success of our
medicines and drug candidates depends on several factors, including:

• successful enrollment in, and completion of, clinical trials, as well as completion of preclinical

studies;

• favorable safety and efficacy data from our clinical trials and other studies;

• receipt of regulatory approvals;

• the performance by contract research organizations (CROs) or other third parties we may retain of

their duties to us in a manner that complies with our protocols and applicable laws and that protects
the integrity of the resulting data;

• obtaining and maintaining patent, trade secret and other intellectual property protection and

regulatory exclusivity;

• ensuring that we do not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate the valid patent, trade secret or

other intellectual property rights of third parties;

• successfully launching our medicines and drug candidates, if and when approved;

• obtaining favorable reimbursement from third-party payors for our medicines and drug candidates,

if and when approved;

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• competition with other products;

• continued acceptable safety profile following regulatory approval; and

• manufacturing or obtaining sufficient supplies of our medicines, drug candidates and any competitor
drug products that may be necessary for use in clinical trials for evaluation of our drug candidates
and commercialization of our medicines.

If we do not achieve and maintain one or more of these factors in a timely manner or at all, we could

experience significant delays in our ability or be unable to obtain additional regulatory approvals for and/or
to successfully commercialize our medicines and drug candidates, which would materially harm our
business and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows to continue our operations.

Clinical development involves a lengthy and expensive process with an uncertain outcome, and results of earlier
studies and trials may not be predictive of future trial results.

Clinical development is expensive and can take many years to complete, and its outcome is inherently

uncertain. Failure can occur at any time during the clinical trial process. The results of preclinical studies
and early clinical trials of our drug candidates may not be predictive of the results of later-stage clinical trials,
and initial or interim results of a trial may not be predictive of the final results. Drug candidates in later
stages of clinical trials may fail to show the desired safety and efficacy traits despite having progressed through
preclinical studies and initial clinical trials. In some instances, there can be significant variability in safety
and/or efficacy results between different trials of the same drug candidate due to numerous factors, including
changes in trial procedures set forth in protocols, differences in the size and type of the patient populations,
including genetic differences, patient adherence to the dosing regimen and other trial protocol elements
and the rate of dropout among clinical trial participants. In the case of any trials we conduct, results may
differ from earlier trials due to the larger number of clinical trial sites and additional countries involved in such
trials. A number of companies in our industry have suffered significant setbacks in advanced clinical trials
due to lack of efficacy or adverse safety profiles, notwithstanding promising results in earlier trials. Our future
clinical trial results may not be favorable.

Even if our future clinical trial results show favorable efficacy and durability of anti-tumor responses,

not all patients may benefit. For certain drugs, including checkpoint inhibitors, and in certain indications, it
is likely that the majority of patients may not respond to the agents at all, some responders may relapse
after a period of response, and certain tumor types may appear particularly resistant.

If clinical trials of our drug candidates fail to demonstrate safety and efficacy to the satisfaction of regulatory
authorities or do not otherwise produce positive results, we may incur additional costs or experience delays in
completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our drug candidates.

Before obtaining regulatory approval for the sale of our drug candidates, we must conduct extensive

clinical trials to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of our drug candidates in humans. We may experience
numerous unexpected events during, or as a result of, clinical trials that could delay or prevent our ability to
receive regulatory approval or commercialize our drug candidates, including but not limited to: regulators,
institutional review boards (IRBs), or ethics committees may not authorize us or our investigators to
commence a clinical trial or conduct a clinical trial at a prospective trial site; our inability to reach agreements
on acceptable terms with CROs and trial sites, the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation
and may vary significantly; manufacturing issues, including problems with manufacturing, supply quality,
compliance with GMP, or obtaining sufficient quantities of a drug candidate for use in a clinical trial or for
commercialization; clinical trials of our drug candidates may produce negative or inconclusive results, and
we may decide, or regulators may require us, to conduct additional clinical trials or abandon drug development
programs; the number of patients required for clinical trials of our drug candidates may be larger than we
anticipate, enrollment may be insufficient or slower than we anticipate or patients may drop out at a higher
rate than we anticipate; our third-party contractors, including clinical investigators, may fail to comply with
regulatory requirements or meet their contractual obligations to us in a timely manner, or at all; we might
have to suspend or terminate clinical trials of our drug candidates for various reasons, including a finding of
a lack of clinical response or other unexpected characteristics or a finding that participants are being
exposed to unacceptable health risks; regulators, IRBs or ethics committees may require that we or our

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investigators suspend or terminate clinical research or not rely on the results of clinical research for various
reasons, including noncompliance with regulatory requirements; the cost of clinical trials of our drug
candidates may be greater than we anticipate; and the supply or quality of our medicines and drug candidates,
companion diagnostics or other materials necessary to conduct clinical trials of our drug candidates or
commercialization of our medicines may be insufficient or inadequate.

If we are required to conduct additional clinical trials or other testing of our drug candidates beyond

those that we currently contemplate, if we are unable to successfully complete clinical trials of our drug
candidates or other testing, if the results of these trials or tests are not positive or are only modestly positive
or if they raise safety concerns, we may:

• be delayed in obtaining regulatory approval for our drug candidates;

• not obtain regulatory approval at all;

• obtain approval for indications that are not as broad as intended;

• have the drug removed from the market after obtaining regulatory approval;

• be subject to additional post-marketing testing requirements;

• be subject to warning labels or restrictions on how the drug is distributed or used; or

• be unable to obtain reimbursement or obtain reimbursement at a commercially viable level for use of

the drug.

Significant clinical trial, manufacturing or regulatory delays may also increase our development costs
and could shorten any periods during which we have the exclusive right to commercialize our drug candidates
or allow our competitors to bring drugs to market before we do. This could impair our ability to
commercialize our drug candidates and may harm our business and results of operations.

If we encounter difficulties enrolling patients in our clinical trials, our clinical development activities could be
delayed or otherwise adversely affected.

The timely completion of clinical trials in accordance with their protocols depends, among other
things, on our ability to enroll a sufficient number of patients who remain in the trial until its conclusion.
We have and may continue to experience difficulties in patient enrollment in our clinical trials for a variety of
reasons, including the size and nature of the patient population and the patient eligibility criteria defined
in the protocol, competition from competing companies, and natural disasters or public health epidemics,
such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our clinical trials will likely compete with other clinical trials for drug candidates that are in the same

therapeutic areas as our drug candidates, and this competition will reduce the number and types of patients
available to us, because some patients who might have opted to enroll in our trials may instead opt to
enroll in a trial being conducted by one of our competitors. Because the number of qualified clinical
investigators and clinical trial sites is limited, we expect to conduct some of our clinical trials at the same
clinical trial sites that some of our competitors use, which will reduce the number of patients who are available
for our clinical trials at such clinical trial sites. Even if we are able to enroll a sufficient number of patients
in our clinical trials, delays in patient enrollment may result in increased costs or may affect the timing or
outcome of the planned clinical trials, which could delay or prevent completion of these trials and adversely
affect our ability to advance the development of our drug candidates.

Risks Related to Extensive Government Regulation

All material aspects of the research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of pharmaceutical
products are heavily regulated, and we may face difficulties in complying with or be unable to comply with such
regulations, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

All jurisdictions in which we conduct or intend to conduct our pharmaceutical-industry activities
regulate these activities in great depth and detail. We are currently focusing our activities in the major
markets of the United States, China, Europe, and other select countries. These geopolitical areas all strictly

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regulate the pharmaceutical industry, and in doing so they employ broadly similar regulatory strategies,
including regulation of product development and approval, manufacturing, and marketing, sales and
distribution of products. However, there are differences in the regulatory regimes-some minor, some
significant-that make for a more complex and costly regulatory compliance burden for a company like ours
that plans to operate in each of these regions. Additionally, the NMPA’s reform of the medicine and
approval system may face implementation challenges. The timing and full impact of such reforms is uncertain
and could prevent us from commercializing our medicines and drug candidates in a timely manner.

The process of obtaining regulatory approvals and compliance with appropriate laws and regulations
require the expenditure of substantial time and financial resources. Failure to comply with the applicable
requirements at any time during the product development process, approval process, or after approval, may
subject us to administrative or judicial sanctions. These sanctions could include a regulator’s refusal to approve
pending applications, withdrawal of an approval, license revocation, a clinical hold, voluntary or mandatory
product recalls, product seizures, total or partial suspension of production or distribution, injunctions,
fines, refusals of government contracts, restitution, disgorgement, or civil or criminal penalties. The failure
to comply with these regulations could have a material adverse effect on our business. For example, on
March 25, 2020,the NMPA suspended the importation, sales and use of ABRAXANE® in China supplied
to us by BMS, and the drug was subsequently recalled by BMS and is not currently available for sale in China.
This suspension was based on inspection findings at BMS’s contract manufacturing facility in the United
States. Additionally, in October 2021, BMS provided 180-days’ notice to us, which we dispute, purporting to
terminate our license to market ABRAXANE® in China. We have not had any sales of ABRAXANE®
since the suspension and do not expect future revenue from ABRAXANE®. We have initiated an arbitration
proceeding against BMS asserting that it has breached and continues to breach the terms and conditions
of the license and supply agreement. For additional information, please see the section of this report titled
“Legal Proceedings”. Additionally, although we have obtained regulatory approvals of our medicines,
regulatory authorities could suspend or withdraw these approvals. In order to market approved products in
any given jurisdiction, we must comply with numerous and varying regulatory requirements of such
jurisdiction regarding safety, efficacy and quality. In any event, the receipt of regulatory approval does not
assure the success of our commercialization efforts for our medicines.

The approval processes of regulatory authorities in the United States, China, Europe and other comparable
regulatory authorities are lengthy, time consuming and inherently unpredictable. If we are ultimately unable to
obtain regulatory approval for our drug candidates, our business will be substantially harmed.

The time required to obtain approval by the FDA, the NMPA, the EMA, and other comparable

regulatory authorities is unpredictable and typically takes many years following the commencement of
preclinical studies and clinical trials and depends on numerous factors, including the substantial discretion
of the regulatory authorities.

Our drug candidates could be delayed or fail to receive regulatory approval for many reasons, including:

• failure to begin or complete clinical trials due to disagreements with regulatory authorities;

• failure to demonstrate that a drug candidate is safe and effective or that a biologic candidate is safe,

pure, and potent for its proposed indication;

• failure of clinical trial results to meet the level of statistical significance required for approval;

• reporting or data integrity issues related to our clinical trials;

• disagreement with our interpretation of data from preclinical studies or clinical trials;

• changes in approval policies or regulations that render our preclinical and clinical data insufficient

for approval or require us to amend our clinical trial protocols;

• regulatory requests for additional analyses, reports, data, nonclinical studies and clinical trials, or
questions regarding interpretations of data and results and the emergence of new information
regarding our drug candidates or other products;

• failure to satisfy regulatory conditions regarding endpoints, patient population, available therapies

and other requirements for our clinical trials in order to support marketing approval on an accelerated
basis or at all;

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• a delay in or the inability of health authorities to complete regulatory inspections of our development

activities, regulatory filings or manufacturing operations, whether as a result of the COVID-19
pandemic or other reasons, or our failure to satisfactorily complete such inspections;

• our failure to conduct a clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical trial

protocols; and

• clinical sites, investigators or other participants in our clinical trials deviating from a trial protocol,
failing to conduct the trial in accordance with regulatory requirements, or dropping out of a trial.

The FDA, NMPA, EMA or a comparable regulatory authority may require more information, including
additional preclinical, CMC, and/or clinical data, to support approval, which may delay or prevent approval
and our commercialization plans, or we may decide to abandon the development program.

Changes in regulatory requirements and guidance may also occur, and we may need to amend clinical

trial protocols submitted to applicable regulatory authorities to reflect these changes. Amendments may
require us to resubmit clinical trial protocols to IRBs or ethics committees for re-examination, which may
impact the costs, timing or successful completion of a clinical trial.

If we experience delays in the completion of, or the termination of, a clinical trial of any of our drug

candidates, the commercial prospects of that drug candidate will be harmed, and our ability to generate
product revenues from that drug candidate will be delayed. In addition, any delays in completing our clinical
trials will increase our costs, slow down our drug development and approval process, and jeopardize our
ability to commence product sales and generate revenues for that candidate. Any of these occurrences may
harm our business, financial condition and prospects significantly. In addition, many of the factors that cause,
or lead to, a delay in the commencement or completion of clinical trials may also ultimately lead to the
denial of regulatory approval of our drug candidates.

Our development activities, regulatory filings and manufacturing operations also could be harmed or

delayed by a shutdown of the U.S. government, including the FDA, or governments and regulatory
authorities in other jurisdictions. As of May 2021, the FDA noted it is continuing to ensure timely reviews
of applications for medical products during the COVID-19 pandemic in line with its user fee performance
goals. In July 2020, the FDA noted that it is continuing to expedite oncology product development with
its staff teleworking full-time. However, the FDA may not be able to continue its current pace and approval
timelines could be extended, including where a pre-approval inspection or an inspection of clinical sites is
required and due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions FDA is unable to complete such required
inspections during the review period. The FDA has developed a rating system to assist in determining
when and where it is safest to conduct prioritized domestic inspections. In May 2021, certain inspections,
such as foreign preapproval, surveillance, and for-cause inspections that are not deemed mission-critical,
remain temporarily suspended. In April 2021, the FDA issued guidance for industry formally announcing
plans to employ remote interactive evaluations, using risk management methods, to meet user fee
commitments and goal dates and in May 2021, announced plans to continue progress toward resuming
standard operation levels. Should the FDA determine that an inspection is necessary for approval and an
inspection cannot be completed during the review cycle due to restrictions on travel, and the FDA does not
determine a remote interactive evaluation to be adequate, the agency has stated that it generally intends to
issue a complete response letter or defer action on the application until an inspection can be completed. In
July 2021, the FDA issued a Q&A to further illustrate the actions that it may take when it cannot inspect
a facility due to factors including travel restrictions. In 2020 and 2021, a number of companies announced
receipt of complete response letters due to the FDA’s inability to complete required inspections for their
applications. Regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may adopt similar restrictions or other policy
measures in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and may experience delays in their regulatory
activities. If the FDA or other health authorities are delayed or unable to complete required regulatory
inspections of our development activities, regulatory filings or manufacturing operations, or we do not
satisfactorily complete such inspections, our business could be materially harmed.

We are currently conducting and may in the future conduct clinical trials for our drug candidates outside the
U.S., and the FDA and comparable foreign regulatory authorities may not accept data from such trials.

We are currently conducting and may in the future conduct clinical trials for our drug candidates outside
the U.S., including in China. The acceptance of data from clinical trials conducted outside the U.S. or another

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jurisdiction by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authority may be subject to certain conditions or
may not be accepted at all. The FDA will generally not consider the data from a foreign clinical trial not
conducted under an IND unless (i) the trial was well-designed and well-conducted in accordance with GCP
requirements, including requirements for the design, conduct, performance, monitoring, auditing,
recording, analysis, and reporting of clinical trials in a way that provides assurance that the data and
reported results are credible and accurate and that the rights, safety, and well-being of trial subjects are
protected, and (ii) the FDA is able to validate the data from the trial through an onsite inspection, if necessary.
In cases where data from foreign clinical trials are intended to serve as the sole basis for marketing approval
in the U.S., the FDA will generally not approve the application on the basis of foreign data alone unless
(i) the data are applicable to the U.S. population and U.S. medical practice; (ii) the trials were performed by
clinical investigators of recognized competence; and (iii) the data may be considered valid without the
need for an on-site inspection by the FDA or, if the FDA considers such as inspection to be necessary, the
FDA is able to validate the data through an on-site inspection or other appropriate means. Additionally, the
FDA’s clinical trial requirements, including sufficient size of patient populations and statistical powering
must be met. Many foreign regulatory authorities have similar approval requirements. In addition, such
foreign trials would be subject to the applicable local laws of the foreign jurisdictions where the trials are
conducted. There can be no assurance that the FDA or any comparable foreign regulatory authority will
accept data from trials conducted outside of the U.S. or the applicable jurisdiction. If the FDA or any
comparable foreign regulatory authority does not accept such data, it would result in the need for additional
trials, which could be costly and time-consuming, and which may result in drug candidates that we may
develop not receiving approval for commercialization in the applicable jurisdiction.

Our medicines and any future approved drug candidates will be subject to ongoing regulatory obligations and
continued regulatory review, which may result in significant additional expense and we may be subject to penalties
if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or experience unanticipated problems with our medicines
and drug candidates.

Our medicines and any additional drug candidates that are approved will be subject to ongoing

regulatory requirements for manufacturing, labeling, packaging, storage, advertising, promotion, sampling,
record-keeping, conduct of post-marketing studies, and submission of safety, efficacy, and other post-
marketing information, including both federal and state requirements in the United States and requirements
of comparable regulatory authorities in China, Europe and other regions. As such, we and our collaborators
will be subject to ongoing review and periodic inspections to assess compliance with applicable post-approval
regulations. Additionally, to the extent we want to make certain changes to the approved medicines,
product labeling, or manufacturing processes, we will need to submit new applications or supplements to
regulatory authorities for approval.

Manufacturers and manufacturers’ facilities are required to comply with extensive FDA, NMPA, EMA

and comparable regulatory authority requirements, including, in the United States, ensuring that quality
control and manufacturing procedures conform to GMP regulations. As such, we and our contract
manufacturers are and will be subject to continual review and inspections to assess compliance with GMP
and adherence to commitments made in any NDA or BLA, other marketing application, and previous
responses to any inspection observations. Accordingly, we and others with whom we work must continue to
expend time, money and effort in all areas of regulatory compliance, including manufacturing, production
and quality control. The failure to comply with these requirements could have a material adverse effect on our
business. For example, on March 25, 2020, the NMPA suspended the importation, sales and use of
ABRAXANE® in China supplied to us by BMS, and the drug was subsequently recalled by BMS and is not
currently available for sale in China. This suspension was based on inspection findings at BMS’s contract
manufacturing facility in the United States. Additionally, in October 2021, BMS provided 180-days’ notice
to us, which we dispute, purporting to terminate our license to market ABRAXANE® in China. We have not
had any sales of ABRAXANE® since the suspension and do not expect future revenue from ABRAXANE®.
We have initiated an arbitration proceeding against BMS asserting that it has breached and continues to
breach the terms and conditions of the license and supply agreement. For additional information, please see
the section of this report titled “Legal Proceedings”.

The regulatory approvals for our medicines and any approvals that we receive for our drug candidates

are and may be subject to limitations on the approved indicated uses for which the medicine may be marketed

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or to the conditions of approval, which could adversely affect the medicine’s commercial potential or
contain requirements for potentially costly post-marketing testing and surveillance to monitor the safety
and efficacy of the medicine or drug candidate. The FDA, NMPA, EMA or comparable regulatory authorities
may also require a REMS program or comparable program as a condition of approval of our drug
candidates or following approval, as is the case with REVLIMID®. In addition, if the FDA, NMPA, EMA
or a comparable regulatory authority approves our drug candidates, we will have to comply with
requirements including, for example, submissions of safety and other post-marketing information and
reports, establishment registration, as well as continued compliance with GMP and good clinical practice
(GCP) for any clinical trials that we conduct post-approval.

The FDA, NMPA, EMA or comparable regulatory authorities may seek to impose a consent decree or
withdraw marketing approval if compliance with regulatory requirements is not maintained or if problems
occur after the drug reaches the market. Later discovery of previously unknown problems with our medicines
or drug candidates or with our drug’s manufacturing processes, or failure to comply with regulatory
requirements, may result in revisions to the approved labeling to add new safety information; imposition of
post-market studies or clinical studies to assess new safety risks; or imposition of distribution restrictions or
other restrictions under a REMS program. Other potential consequences include, among other things:

• restrictions on the marketing or manufacturing of our medicines, withdrawal of the product from

the market, or voluntary or mandatory product recalls;

• fines, untitled or warning letters, or holds on clinical trials;

• refusal by the FDA, NMPA, EMA or comparable regulatory authorities to approve pending

applications or supplements to approved applications filed by us or suspension or revocation of
license approvals or withdrawal of approvals;

• product seizure or detention, or refusal to permit the import or export of our medicines and drug

candidates; and

• injunctions or the imposition of civil or criminal penalties.

The FDA, NMPA, EMA and other regulatory authorities strictly regulate the marketing, labeling,
advertising and promotion of products that are placed on the market. Drugs may be promoted only for
their approved indications and for use in accordance with the provisions of the approved label. The FDA,
NMPA, EMA and other regulatory authorities actively enforce the laws and regulations prohibiting the
promotion of off-label uses, and a company that is found to have improperly promoted off-label uses may be
subject to significant liability. The policies of the FDA, NMPA, EMA and of other regulatory authorities
may change and additional government regulations may be enacted that could prevent, limit or delay
regulatory approval of our drug candidates. We cannot predict the likelihood, nature or extent of government
regulation that may arise from future legislation or administrative action, either in the United States or
abroad, particularly in China, where the regulatory environment is constantly evolving. If we are slow or
unable to adapt to changes in existing requirements or the adoption of new requirements or policies, or if we
are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, we may lose any regulatory approval that we may have
obtained and we may not achieve or sustain profitability.

In addition, if we obtain accelerated approval or conditional approval of any of our drug candidates,

as we have done with the accelerated approval of BRUKINSA® in the United States and China and certain
approvals of tislelizumab, pamiparib, XGEVA®, BLINCYTO®, KYPROLIS® and QARZIBA® in China,
we will be required to conduct a confirmatory study to verify the predicted clinical benefit and may also be
required to conduct post-marketing safety studies. Other comparable regulatory authorities may have similar
requirements. The results from the confirmatory study may not support the clinical benefit, which could
result in the approval being withdrawn. While operating under accelerated approval, we will be subject to
certain restrictions that we would not be subject to upon receiving regular approval.

Even if we are able to commercialize our medicines and any approved drug candidates, the medicines may
become subject to unfavorable pricing regulations or third-party reimbursement practices or healthcare reform
initiatives, which could harm our business.

The regulations that govern regulatory approvals, pricing and reimbursement for new therapeutic
products vary widely from country to country. Historically, products launched in Europe do not follow

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price structures of the U.S. and generally prices tend to be significantly lower. Countries in Europe provide
options to restrict the range of medicinal products for which their national health insurance systems provide
reimbursement and to control the prices of medicinal products for human use. To obtain reimbursement
or pricing approval, some of these countries may require the completion of clinical trials that compare the
cost effectiveness of a particular product candidate to currently available therapies. Countries may approve a
specific price for the medicinal product or it may instead adopt a system of direct or indirect controls on
the profitability of the company placing the medicinal product on the market.

Some countries require approval of the sale price of a drug before it can be marketed. In many
countries, the pricing review period begins after marketing or licensing approval is granted. In some
non-U.S. markets, prescription pharmaceutical pricing remains subject to continuing governmental control
even after initial approval is granted. As a result, we might obtain regulatory approval for a drug in a particular
country, but then be subject to price regulations that delay our commercial launch of the drug and negatively
impact our revenues and results of operations.

Our ability to commercialize our medicines successfully also will depend in part on the extent to which
reimbursement for these medicines and related treatments will be available on adequate terms, or at all, from
government health administration authorities, private health insurers and other organizations. See “— Risks
Related to Commercialization of Our Medicines and Drug Candidates — If we or any third parties with
which we may collaborate to market and sell our medicines are unable to achieve and maintain coverage and
adequate level of reimbursement, our commercial success and business operations could be adversely
affected.”

Net prices for drugs may be reduced by mandatory discounts or rebates required by government
healthcare programs or private payors and by any future relaxation of laws that presently restrict imports of
drugs from countries where they may be sold at lower prices than in the United States. Increasingly,
third-party payors are requiring that drug companies provide them with predetermined discounts from list
prices and are challenging the prices charged for medical products. We cannot be sure that reimbursement will
be available for any medicine that we commercialize and, if reimbursement is available, the level of
reimbursement. In addition, many pharmaceutical manufacturers must calculate and report certain price
reporting metrics to the government, such as ASP and best price. Penalties may apply in some cases when such
metrics are not submitted accurately and timely. Further, these prices for drugs may be reduced by
mandatory discounts or rebates required by government healthcare programs.

Furthermore, there continues to be scrutiny from federal and state governments over the way drug

manufacturers set prices for their marketed products. For example, there are ongoing Congressional
investigations, legislation, and regulations to, among other things, bring more transparency to drug pricing,
set patient spending caps for Medicare beneficiaries , reduce the cost of prescription drugs under Medicare,
review the relationship between pricing and manufacturer’s patient programs, reform federal and state
government program reimbursement methodologies for drug products, allow importation of lower-priced
drugs from Canada, and set prices based on international reference pricing in other countries. While some of
these measures can be done through agency rulemaking, most will require statutory changes by Congress.
While addressing drug pricing and patient affordability remains a top priority for Congress, it remains to be
seen if any agreement can be reached on a legislative solution. It is therefore unclear if any regulations or
legislation will be enacted to implement changes to drug pricing or federal and state government
reimbursement programs or what the impact of such changes on the marketing approvals of our drug
candidates, if any, may be.

In China, the government launched a national program for volume-based, centralized drug procurement
with minimum quantity commitments in an attempt to negotiate lower prices from drug manufacturers and
reduce the price of drugs. Under the program, one of the key determining factors for a successful bid is
the price. The government will award a contract to the lowest bidders who are able to satisfy the quality and
quantity requirements. The successful bidders will be guaranteed a sale volume for at least a year. A
volume guarantee gives the winner an opportunity to gain or increase market share. The volume guarantee
is intended to make manufacturers more willing to cut their prices to win a bid. It may also enable
manufacturers to lower their distribution and commercial costs. Many types of drugs are covered under the
program, including drugs made by international pharmaceutical companies and generics made by domestic
Chinese manufacturers. For example, in January 2020, ABRAXANE® and its generic forms were included in

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the program. We won the bid and became one of the three companies who were awarded a government
contract, with a price for sales of ABRAXANE® under the government contract that would have been
significantly lower than the price that we had been charging. On March 25, 2020, the NHSA removed
ABRAXANE® from the volume-based procurement list due to the NMPA’s decision to suspend the
importation, sales and use of ABRAXANE®, which has adversely impacted our business and results of
operations. In August 2020, VIDAZA® and its generic forms were included for bidding in the program. We
did not win the bid for VIDAZA®, which has resulted in the drug being restricted from use in public hospitals,
which account for a large portion of the market, and a decline in sales revenue. Moreover, the program
may change how generic drugs are priced and procured in China and is likely to accelerate the replacement
of originator drugs with generics. We cannot be sure whether there will be any changes to the program in the
future. The implementation of the program may negatively impact our existing commercial operations in
China as well as our strategies on how to commercialize our drugs in China, which could have a material
adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Increasingly, third-party payors are requiring that companies provide them with predetermined
discounts from list prices and are challenging the prices charged for medical products. We cannot be sure
that reimbursement will be available for any medicine that we commercialize and, if reimbursement is available,
what the level of reimbursement will be. Reimbursement may impact the demand for, or the price of, any
medicine which we commercialize. Obtaining or maintaining reimbursement for our medicines may be
particularly difficult because of the higher prices often associated with drugs administered under the
supervision of a physician. If reimbursement is not available or is available only to limited levels, we may not
be able to successfully commercialize any drug and drug candidate that we in-license or successfully
develop.

We intend to seek approval to market our drug candidates in the United States, China, Europe and in

other jurisdictions. In some non-U.S. countries, for example those in Europe, the pricing of drugs and
biologics is subject to governmental control, which can take considerable time even after obtaining regulatory
approval. Market acceptance and sales of our medicines will depend significantly on the availability of
adequate coverage and reimbursement from third-party payors for drugs and may be affected by existing
and future health care reform measures.

Although China adopted changes to its patent law to include patent term extension and an early resolution
mechanism for pharmaceutical patent disputes starting in June 2021, key provisions of the law remain unclear
and/or subject to implementing regulations. The absence of effective regulatory exclusivity for pharmaceutical
products in China could further increase the risk of early generic or biosimilar competition with our medicines
in China.

In the United States, a law commonly referred to as “Hatch-Waxman” provides the opportunity for
patent-term restoration of up to five years to reflect patent term lost during certain portions of product
development and the FDA regulatory review process. The Hatch-Waxman law also provides for patent
linkage, pursuant to which FDA will stay approval of certain follow-on new drug applications during the
pendency of litigation between the follow-on applicant and the patent holder or licensee, for a period of up to
30 months. Finally, the Hatch-Waxman law provides for regulatory exclusivity that can prevent submission
or approval of certain follow-on marketing applications. For example, U.S. law provides a five-year period of
exclusivity to the first applicant to obtain approval of a new chemical entity and three years of exclusivity
protecting certain innovations to previously approved active ingredients where the applicant was required to
conduct new clinical trials to obtain approval for the modification. Similarly, the Orphan Drug Act
provides seven years of market exclusivity for certain drugs to treat rare diseases. These provisions, which
are designed to promote innovation, can prevent competing products from entering the market for a certain
period of time after marketing approval for the innovative product.

In China, however, laws on data exclusivity (referred to as regulatory data protection) are still developing.

The PRC Patent Law (as amended in 2020, the “Amended PRC Patent Law”), which became effective on
June 1, 2021, contains both patent term extension and a mechanism for early resolution of patent disputes.
Accordingly, NMPA and NIPA jointly issued the Implementation Measures for the Early Settlement
Mechanism of Drug Patent Disputes (for Trial Implementation), which became effective on July 4, 2021.
However, the provisions for patent term extension are unclear and/or remain subject to the approval of

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implementing regulations that are still in draft form or have not yet been proposed, leading to uncertainty
about their scope and implementation.

Until the relevant implementing regulations for patent term extension in the Amended PRC Patent
Law are implemented, and until data exclusivity is adopted and implemented, we may be subject to earlier
generic or biosimilar competition in China than in the United States and other jurisdictions with stronger
regulatory data protection for pharmaceutical products.

The manufacturing facilities for our medicines and drug candidates are subject to rigorous regulations and
failure to obtain or maintain regulatory approvals or operate in line with established GMPs and international
best practices could delay or impair our ability to commercialize our medicines or drug candidates.

We and the third-party manufacturers of our medicines and drug candidates are subject to applicable
GMPs prescribed by the FDA and other rules and regulations prescribed by the NMPA, EMA and other
regulatory authorities. To obtain FDA, NMPA and EMA approval for our drug candidates in the United
States, China and Europe, we need to undergo strict pre-approval inspections of our or our third-party
manufacturing facilities located in China and elsewhere. Historically, some manufacturing facilities in
China have had difficulty meeting the FDA’s, NMPA’s or EMA’s standards. When inspecting our or our
contractors’ manufacturing facilities, the FDA, NMPA or EMA might cite GMP deficiencies, both minor
and significant, which we may not be required to disclose. Remediating deficiencies can be laborious and
costly and consume significant periods of time. Moreover, if the FDA, NMPA or EMA notes deficiencies as
a result of its inspection, it will generally reinspect the facility to determine if the deficiency has been
remediated to its satisfaction. The FDA, NMPA or EMA may note further deficiencies as a result of its
reinspection, either related to the previously identified deficiency or otherwise. If we or the manufacturers
of our drug candidates cannot satisfy the FDA, NMPA and EMA as to compliance with GMP on a timely
basis, marketing approval for our drug candidates could be seriously delayed, which in turn would delay
commercialization of our drug candidates, or we may not be able to commercialize our medicines or drug
candidates.

Undesirable adverse events caused by our medicines and drug candidates could interrupt, delay or halt clinical
trials, delay or prevent regulatory approval, limit the commercial profile of an approved label, or result in
significant negative consequences following any regulatory approval.

Undesirable adverse events (AEs) caused by our medicines and drug candidates could cause us or
regulatory authorities to interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials and could result in a more restrictive label or
the delay or denial of regulatory approval, or could result in limitations or withdrawal following approvals. If
the conduct or results of our trials or patient experience following approval reveal a high and unacceptable
severity or prevalence of AEs, our trials could be suspended or terminated and regulatory authorities could
order us to cease further development of, or deny approval of, our drug candidates or require us to cease
commercialization following approval.

As is typical in the development of pharmaceutical products, drug-related AEs and serious AEs (SAEs)

have been reported in our clinical trials. Some of these events have led to patient deaths. Drug-related AEs
or SAEs could affect patient recruitment or the ability of enrolled subjects to complete the trial and could
result in product liability claims. Any of these occurrences may harm our reputation, business, financial
condition and prospects significantly. In our periodic and current reports filed with the SEC and our press
releases and scientific and medical presentations released from time to time we disclose clinical results for our
drug candidates, including the occurrence of AEs and SAEs. Each such disclosure speaks only as of the
date of the data cutoff used in such report, and we undertake no duty to update such information unless
required by applicable law. Also, a number of immune-related adverse events (IRAEs) have been associated
with treatment with checkpoint inhibitors such as tislelizumab, including immune-mediated pneumonitis,
colitis, hepatitis, endocrinopathies, nephritis and renal dysfunction, skin adverse reactions, and encephalitis.
These IRAEs may be more common in certain patient populations (potentially including elderly patients)
and may be exacerbated when checkpoint inhibitors are combined with other therapies.

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Additionally, undesirable side effects caused by our medicines and drug candidates, or caused by our
medicines and drug candidates when used in combination with other drugs, could potentially cause significant
negative consequences, including:

• regulatory authorities could delay or halt pending clinical trials;

• we may suspend, delay or alter development of the drug candidate or marketing of the medicine;

• regulatory authorities may withdraw approvals or revoke licenses of the medicine, or we may

determine to do so even if not required;

• regulatory authorities may require additional warnings on the label;

• we may be required to implement a Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for the drug, as is

the case with REVLIMID®, or, if a REMS is already in place, to incorporate additional requirements
under the REMS, or to develop a similar strategy as required by a regulatory authority;

• we may be required to conduct post-marketing studies; and

• we could be sued and held liable for harm caused to subjects or patients.

Any of these events could prevent us from achieving or maintaining market acceptance of the particular
drug or drug candidate, and could significantly harm our business, results of operations, financial condition,
and prospects.

If safety, efficacy, or other issues arise with any medical product that is used in combination with our medicines,
we may be unable to market such medicine or may experience significant regulatory delays or supply shortages,
and our business could be materially harmed.

We plan to develop certain of our medicines and drug candidates for use as a combination therapy. If a

regulatory authority revokes its approval of the other therapeutic that we use in combination with our
medicines or drug candidates, we will not be able to market our medicines or drug candidates in combination
with such revoked therapeutic. If safety or efficacy issues arise with these or other therapeutics that we
seek to combine with our medicines and drug candidates in the future, we may experience significant
regulatory delays, and we may be required to redesign or terminate the applicable clinical trials. In addition,
if manufacturing or other issues result in a supply shortage of any component of our combination
medicines or drug candidates, we may not be able to complete clinical development of our drug candidates
on our current timeline or at all, or we may experience disruptions in the commercialization of our approved
medicines. For example, we have in-licensed drug candidates from third parties to conduct clinical trials in
combination with our drug candidates. We may rely on those third parties to manufacture the in-licensed drug
candidates and may not have control over their manufacturing process. If these third parties encounter any
manufacturing difficulties, disruptions or delays and are not able to supply sufficient quantities of drug
candidates, our drug combination study program may be delayed.

Recently enacted and future legislation may increase the difficulty and cost for us to obtain regulatory
approval of and commercialize our medicines and drug candidates and affect the prices we may obtain.

In the United States, China, Europe and some other jurisdictions, there have been a number of legislative

and regulatory changes and proposed changes regarding healthcare that could prevent or delay regulatory
approval of our drug candidates, restrict or regulate post-approval activities and affect our ability to profitably
sell our medicines and any drug candidates for which we obtain regulatory approval. We expect that
healthcare reform measures may result in more rigorous coverage criteria and in additional downward
pressure on the price that we receive for any approved medicine. Any reduction in reimbursement from
Medicare or other government programs may result in a similar reduction in payments from private payors.
The implementation of cost containment measures or other healthcare reforms may prevent us from
being able to generate revenue, attain profitability, or commercialize our medicines and drug candidates.

Legislative and regulatory proposals have been made to expand post-approval requirements and
restrict sales and promotional activities for pharmaceutical products. We cannot be sure whether additional
legislative changes will be enacted, or whether any regulations, guidance or interpretations will be changed,
or what the impact of such changes on the regulatory approvals of our medicines and drug candidates may be.

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For example, in the United States, there have been numerous judicial, administrative, executive, and
legislative challenges to certain aspects of the Affordable Care Act (the ACA), and there could be additional
challenges and amendments to the ACA in the future, which could have a material adverse impact on our
business, results of operations and financial condition.

Risks Related to Our Financial Position and Need for Additional Capital

We have incurred significant net losses since our inception and anticipate that we will continue to incur net
losses for the foreseeable future and may not become profitable.

Investment in pharmaceutical drug development is highly capital-intensive and speculative. It entails
substantial upfront capital expenditures and significant risk that a drug candidate will fail to gain regulatory
approval or become commercially viable. We continue to incur significant expenses related to our ongoing
operations. As a result, we have incurred losses in each period since our inception, except in the third quarter
of 2017 and the first quarter of 2021, when we were profitable due to revenue recognized from an up-front
license fee from collaboration agreements. As of December 31, 2021, we had an accumulated deficit of
$5.0 billion. Substantially all of our operating losses have resulted from costs incurred in connection with
our research and development programs and from selling, general and administrative expenses associated
with our operations.

We expect to continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future, and we expect these losses to increase

in the near term as we continue and expand our development of, and seek regulatory approvals for, our
drug candidates, and our manufacturing facilities, commercialize our medicines and launch new medicines,
if approved, maintain and expand regulatory approvals, contribute up to $1.25 billion to the global
development of a portfolio of Amgen pipeline assets under our collaboration agreement, and commercialize
the medicines that we have licensed from Amgen, BMS and other parties and any other medicines that we
may successfully develop or license. Typically, it takes many years to develop one new drug from the time it is
discovered to when it is available for treating patients. In addition, we will continue to incur costs associated
with operating as a public company. We will also incur costs in support of our growth as a commercial-
stage global biotechnology company. The size of our future net losses will depend, in part, on the number
and scope of our drug development programs and the associated costs of those programs, the cost of our
manufacturing activities, the cost of commercializing our approved products, our ability to generate revenues
and the timing and amount of milestones and other payments we make or receive with arrangements with
third parties. If we fail to achieve market acceptance for our medicines or any of our drug candidates fail in
clinical trials or do not gain regulatory approval, or if approved, fail to achieve market acceptance, we
may never become profitable. Even if we achieve profitability in the future, we may not be able to sustain
profitability in subsequent periods. Our failure to become and remain profitable would decrease the value of
our company and could impair our ability to raise capital, maintain our research, development,
manufacturing and commercialization efforts, expand our business or continue our operations.

We have limited experience in obtaining regulatory approvals and commercializing pharmaceutical products,
which may make it difficult to evaluate our current business and predict our future performance.

We have limited experience in completing large-scale, pivotal or registrational clinical trials and
obtaining, maintaining or expanding regulatory approvals for our medicines and drug candidates.
Additionally, we have limited experience in manufacturing, sales, marketing or distribution of pharmaceutical
products. We became a commercial-stage company in 2017, with the in-license of medicines in China from
BMS, and received the first approvals for our internally developed drug candidates in late 2019 in the United
States, in 2020 in China, and in 2021 in Europe. Our limited experience operating as a commercial-stage
company may make it difficult to evaluate our current business and reliably predict our future performance.
We may encounter unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other known and unknown
factors. If we do not address these risks and difficulties successfully, our business will suffer.

We may need to obtain additional financing to fund our operations, and if we are unable to obtain such
financing, we may be unable to complete the development of our drug candidates or achieve profitability.

Our portfolio of drug candidates will require the completion of clinical development, regulatory review,
scale up and availability of manufacturing resources, significant marketing efforts and substantial investment

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before they can provide us with product sales revenue. Additionally, we are investing in the manufacturing
and commercialization of our approved medicines. Our operations have consumed substantial amounts of
cash since inception. Our operating activities used $1.3 billion, $1.3 billion and $750.3 million of net cash
during the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. We recorded negative net cash
flows from operating activities in 2021, 2020 and 2019 primarily due to our net losses of $1.4 billion,
$1.6 billion and $950.6 million, respectively. Although we recorded positive net cash flows from operating
activities in 2017, primarily due to the upfront fees received from the BMS collaboration, we cannot assure
you that we will be able to generate positive cash flows from operating activities in the future.

Our liquidity and financial condition may be materially and adversely affected by the negative net cash
flows, and we cannot assure you that we will have sufficient cash from other sources to fund our operations.
If we resort to other financing activities to generate additional cash, we will incur financing costs and we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to obtain the financing on terms acceptable to us, or at all, and if we
raise financing by issuing further equity securities your interest in our company may be diluted. If we have
negative operating cash flows in the future, our liquidity and financial condition may be materially and
adversely affected.

We expect to continue to spend substantial amounts on drug discovery, advancing the clinical
development of our drug candidates, contributing to the global development of a portfolio of Amgen
pipeline assets, developing our manufacturing capabilities and securing drug supply, and launching and
commercializing our and our collaborators’ medicines and any additional drug candidates for which we
receive regulatory approval, including building and maintaining a commercial organization to address markets
in China, the United States and other countries.

Since September 2017, we have generated revenues from the sale of medicines in China licensed from

BMS, and since the fourth quarter of 2019, we have generated revenues from our internally developed
medicines. These revenues are not sufficient to support our operations. Although it is difficult to predict our
liquidity requirements, based upon our current operating plan, we believe that we have sufficient cash,
cash equivalents and short-term investments to meet our projected operating requirements for at least the
next 12 months. However, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments may
not be sufficient to enable us to complete all global development or launch all of our current medicines
and drug candidates for the currently anticipated indications and to invest in additional programs.
Accordingly, we may require further funding through public or private offerings, debt financing, collaboration
and licensing arrangements or other sources. Our forecast of the period of time through which our
financial resources will be adequate to support our operations is a forward- looking statement and involves
risks and uncertainties, and actual results could vary as a result of a number of factors, including the factors
discussed elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section. We have based this estimate on assumptions that may
prove to be wrong, and we could exhaust our available capital resources sooner than we currently expect. Our
future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including:

• our ability to successfully market our approved medicines;

• the progress, timing, scope and costs of our clinical trials, including the ability to timely enroll

patients in our planned and potential future clinical trials;

• the outcome, timing and cost of regulatory approvals of our drug candidates;

• the number and characteristics of medicines and drug candidates that we may in-license and

develop;

• the amount and timing of the development, milestone and royalty payments we receive from our

collaborators;

• the cost of filing, prosecuting, defending and enforcing any patent claims and other intellectual

property rights;

• selling and marketing costs associated with our medicines and any future drug candidates that may

be approved, including the cost and timing of expanding our marketing and sales capabilities;

• the terms and timing of any potential future collaborations, licensing or other arrangements that we

may establish;

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• cash requirements of any future acquisitions, licensing and/or the development of other medicines

and drug candidates;

• the cost and timing of development and completion of commercial-scale internal or outsourced

manufacturing activities; and

• our headcount growth and associated costs.

Adequate additional funding may not be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all. If we are unable

to raise capital when needed or on attractive terms, we would be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate our
research and development programs or commercialization efforts. Our inability to obtain additional funding
when we need it could seriously harm our business.

Raising additional capital may cause dilution to our shareholders, restrict our operations or require us to
relinquish rights to our technologies or drug candidates.

We may seek additional funding through a combination of equity offerings, debt financings,

collaborations and licensing arrangements. To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of
equity or convertible debt securities, your ownership interest will be diluted, and the terms may include
liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect your rights as a holder of our shares. The incurrence of
additional indebtedness or the issuance of certain equity securities could result in increased fixed payment
obligations and could also result in certain additional restrictive covenants, such as limitations on our ability
to incur additional debt or issue additional equity, limitations on our ability to acquire or license intellectual
property rights and other operating restrictions that could adversely impact our ability to conduct our
business. In addition, issuance of additional equity securities, or the possibility of such issuance, may cause
the market price of our shares to decline. In the event that we enter into collaborations or licensing
arrangements in order to raise capital, we may be required to accept unfavorable terms, including
relinquishing or licensing to a third party on unfavorable terms our rights to technologies or drug candidates
that we otherwise would seek to develop or commercialize ourselves or potentially reserve for future
potential arrangements when we might be able to achieve more favorable terms.

Fluctuations in exchange rates could result in foreign currency exchange losses and could materially reduce the
value of your investment.

We incur portions of our expenses, and derive revenues, in currencies other than the U.S. dollar or
Hong Kong dollar, in particular, the RMB, the Euro, and Australian dollar. As a result, we are exposed to
foreign currency exchange risk as our results of operations and cash flows are subject to fluctuations in
foreign currency exchange rates. We do not regularly engage in hedging transactions to protect against
uncertainty in future exchange rates between particular foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar. A decline in
the value of the U.S. dollar against currencies in countries in which we operate could have a negative impact
on our results of operations. We cannot predict the impact of foreign currency fluctuations, and foreign
currency fluctuations in the future may adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, and
cash flows.

The value of the RMB against the U.S. dollar and other currencies may fluctuate and is affected by,
among other things, changes in political and economic conditions and the foreign exchange policy proposed
or adopted by the PRC, Australia and other governments. It is difficult to predict how market forces or
PRC, Australia, other governments outside the U.S. and U.S. government policies may impact the exchange
rate of RMB and the U.S. dollar or any other currencies in the future. There remains significant
international pressure on the China to adopt a more flexible currency policy, including from the U.S.
government, which has threatened to label China as a “currency manipulator,” which could result in greater
fluctuation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar.

Substantially all of our revenues are denominated in U.S. dollars and RMB, our costs are denominated

in U.S. dollars, Australian dollars and RMB, and a large portion of our financial assets and a significant
portion of our debt is denominated in U.S. dollars and RMB. To the extent that we need to convert U.S.
dollars into RMB for our operations, appreciation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar would have an adverse
effect on the RMB amount we would receive. Conversely, if we decide to convert RMB into U.S. dollars

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for the purpose of making payments for dividends or for other business purposes, appreciation of the U.S.
dollar against the RMB would have a negative effect on the U.S. dollar amount we would receive.

In addition, there are limited instruments available for us to reduce our foreign currency risk exposure
at reasonable costs. Furthermore, we are also currently required to obtain the Chinese government approval
before converting significant sums of foreign currencies into RMB. All of these factors could materially
and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects, and could reduce
the value of, and any dividends payable on, our shares in foreign currency terms.

Our business, profitability and liquidity may be adversely affected by deterioration in the credit quality of, or
defaults by, our distributors and customers, and an impairment in the carrying value of our short-term investments
could negatively affect our consolidated results of operations.

We are exposed to the risk that our distributors and customers may default on their obligations to us as
a result of bankruptcy, lack of liquidity, operational failure or other reasons. As we continue to expand our
business, the amount and duration of our credit exposure will be expected to increase, as will the breadth
of the entities to which we have credit exposure. Although we regularly review our credit exposure to specific
distributors and customers that we believe may present credit concerns, default risks may arise from events
or circumstances that are difficult to detect or foresee.

Also, the carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash and short-term investments
represent the maximum amount of loss due to credit risk. We had cash and cash equivalents of $4.4 billion,
restricted cash of $7.2 million and short-term investments of $2.2 billion at December 31, 2021, most of
which are deposited in financial institutions outside of China. As required by the PRC securities laws, the
net proceeds from the STAR Offering must be used in strict compliance with the planned uses as disclosed in
the PRC prospectus for the STAR Offering as well as our proceeds management policy for the STAR
Offering approved by our board of directors. Although our cash and cash equivalents in China are deposited
with various major reputable financial institutions, the deposits placed with these financial institutions are
not protected by statutory or commercial insurance. In the event of bankruptcy of one of these financial
institutions, we may be unlikely to claim our deposits back in full. As of December 31, 2021, our short-term
investments consisted of U.S. Treasury securities.

Although we believe that the U.S. Treasury securities are of high credit quality and continually monitor
the credit worthiness of these institutions, concerns about, or a default by, one institution in the U.S. market,
could lead to significant liquidity problems, losses or defaults by other institutions, which in turn could
adversely affect us.

Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property

If we are unable to obtain and maintain patent protection for our medicines and drug candidates through
intellectual property rights, or if the scope of such intellectual property rights is not sufficiently broad, third
parties may compete against us.

Our success depends in large part on our ability to protect our medicines, drug candidates and

proprietary technology from competition by obtaining, maintaining and enforcing our intellectual property
rights, including patent rights. We seek to protect the medicines, drug candidates and technology that we
consider commercially important by filing patent applications in the United States, the PRC, Europe and
other territories, relying on trade secrets or pharmaceutical regulatory protection or employing a combination
of these methods. This process is expensive and time-consuming, and we may not be able to file, prosecute,
maintain, enforce or license all necessary or desirable patents and/or patent applications at a reasonable cost
or in a timely manner. As a result, we may not be able to prevent competitors from developing and
commercializing competitive drugs in all such fields and territories.

Patents may be invalidated and patent applications may not be granted for a number of reasons,
including known or unknown prior art, deficiencies in the patent applications or the lack of novelty of the
underlying invention or technology. It is also possible that we will fail to identify patentable aspects of our
research and development output in time to obtain patent protection. Although we enter into non-
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of our research and development output, such as our employees, corporate collaborators, outside scientific
collaborators, contract manufacturers, consultants, advisors and any other third parties, any of these parties
may breach such agreements and disclose such output before a patent application is filed, thereby
jeopardizing our ability to seek patent protection. In addition, publications of discoveries in the scientific
literature often lag behind the actual discoveries, and patent applications in the United States and other
jurisdictions are typically not published until 18 months after filing, or in some cases, not at all. Therefore, we
cannot be certain that we were the first to make the inventions claimed in our patents or pending patent
applications or that we were the first to file for patent protection of such inventions. Furthermore, the PRC
and the United States have adopted the “first-to-file” system under which whoever first files a patent
application will be awarded the patent if all other patentability requirements are met. Under the first-to-file
system, third parties may be granted a patent relating to a technology which we invented.

In addition, under the PRC Patent Law, any organization or individual that applies for a patent in a
foreign country for an invention or utility model accomplished in China is required to report to the National
Intellectual Property Administration, or NIPA, for security examination. Otherwise, if an application is
later filed in China, the patent right will not be granted.

The coverage claimed in a patent application can be significantly reduced before the patent is issued,

and its scope can be reinterpreted after issuance. Even if patent applications we license or own currently or
in the future issue as patents, they may not issue in a form that will provide us with any meaningful protection,
prevent competitors or other third parties from competing with us, or otherwise provide us with any
competitive advantage. In addition, the patent position of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies
generally is highly uncertain, involves complex legal and factual questions, and has been the subject of much
litigation in recent years. As a result, the issuance, scope, validity, enforceability and commercial value of
our patent rights are highly uncertain.

The issuance of a patent is not conclusive as to its inventorship, scope, validity or enforceability, and
our patents may be challenged in the courts or patent offices in the United States, PRC and other countries.
We may be subject to a third-party preissuance submission of prior art to the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (the USPTO) or become involved in opposition, derivation, revocation, re-examination,
post-grant and inter partes review, or interference proceedings or similar proceedings in foreign jurisdictions
challenging our patent rights or the patent rights of others. An adverse determination in any such
submission, proceeding or litigation could reduce the scope of, or invalidate, our patent rights, allow third
parties to commercialize our medicines or drug candidates and compete directly with us without payment to
us, or result in our inability to manufacture or commercialize medicines or drug candidates without
infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating third-party patent rights. Moreover, we may have to
participate in interference proceedings declared by the USPTO to determine priority of invention or in post-
grant challenge proceedings, such as oppositions in a foreign patent office, that challenge the priority of
our invention or other features of patentability of our patents and patent applications. Such challenges may
result in loss of patent rights, loss of exclusivity, or in patent claims being narrowed, invalidated, or held
unenforceable, which could limit our ability to stop others from using or commercializing similar or identical
technology and products, or limit the duration of the patent protection of our technology, medicines, and
drug candidates. Such proceedings also may result in substantial costs and require significant time from our
scientists and management, even if the eventual outcome is favorable to us. Consequently, we do not
know whether any of our medicines or drug candidates will be protectable or remain protected by valid and
enforceable patents. Our competitors or other third parties may be able to circumvent our patents by
developing similar or alternative technologies or products in a non-infringing manner.

Furthermore, although various extensions may be available, the life of a patent and the protection it
affords, is limited. For example, the approved cancer therapies we have licensed from BMS in China face
competition from generic medications, and we may face similar competition for our approved medicines even
if we successfully obtain patent protection. Manufacturers of generic drugs may challenge the scope,
validity or enforceability of our patents, and we may not be successful in enforcing or defending those
intellectual property rights and, as a result, may not be able to develop or market the relevant product
exclusively, which would have a material adverse effect on any potential sales of that product. The issued
patents and pending patent applications, if issued, for our medicines and drug candidates are expected to
expire on various dates as described in “Part I-Item 1-Business-Intellectual Property” of our Annual Report.

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Upon the expiration of our issued patents or patents that may issue from our pending patent applications,
we will not be able to assert such patent rights against potential competitors and our business and results of
operations may be adversely affected.

Given the amount of time required for the development, testing and regulatory review of new drug
candidates, patents protecting such drug candidates might expire before or shortly after such drug candidates
are commercialized. As a result, our patents and patent applications may not provide us with sufficient
rights to exclude others from commercializing products similar or identical to ours. Moreover, some of our
patents and patent applications are, and may in the future be, co-owned with or licensed from third parties. If
we are unable to obtain an exclusive license to any such third-party co-owners’ interest in such patents or
patent applications, such co-owners may be able to license their rights to other third parties, including our
competitors, and our competitors could market competing products and technology. In addition, we may
need the cooperation of any such co-owners or the licensors of our patents in order to enforce such
patents against third parties, and such cooperation may not be provided to us. Any of the foregoing could
have a material adverse effect on our competitive position, business, financial conditions, results of operations,
and prospects.

We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights throughout the world. If we fail to adequately
protect our intellectual property rights, our competitive position could be impaired and our business could be
materially harmed.

Filing, prosecuting, maintaining and defending patents on drugs or drug candidates in all countries
throughout the world could be prohibitively expensive for us, and our intellectual property rights in some
countries can have a different scope and strength than in the United States. In addition, the laws of certain
countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as U.S. laws do. Consequently, we may
not be able to prevent third parties from practicing our inventions in all countries outside the United
States, or from selling or importing drugs made using our inventions in and into the United States or other
jurisdictions. Competitors may use our technologies in jurisdictions where we have not obtained patent
protection to develop their own drugs and further, may export otherwise infringing drugs to non-U.S.
jurisdictions where we have patent protection, but where enforcement rights are not as strong as those in the
United States. These drugs may compete with our medicines and drug candidates and our patent rights or
other intellectual property rights may not be effective or adequate to prevent them from competing. In
addition, we may not be able to enforce patents that we in-license from third parties, who may delay or decline
to enforce patents in the licensed territory.

We currently hold issued trademark registrations and have trademark applications pending, any of
which may be the subject of a governmental or third-party objection, which could prevent the maintenance
or issuance of the same. If we are unsuccessful in obtaining trademark protection for our primary brands,
we may be required to change our brand names, which could materially adversely affect our business.
Moreover, as our products mature, our reliance on our trademarks to differentiate us from our competitors
will increase, and as a result, if we are unable to prevent third parties from adopting, registering or using
trademarks and trade dress that infringe, dilute or otherwise violate our trademark rights, our business could
be materially adversely affected.

Many companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual
property rights in certain jurisdictions, including China. The legal systems of some countries do not favor
the enforcement of patents, trade secrets and other intellectual property, particularly those relating to
biopharmaceutical products, which could make it difficult in those jurisdictions for us to stop the infringement
or misappropriation of our patents or other intellectual property rights, or the marketing of competing
drugs in violation of our proprietary rights.

We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate and the damages or other remedies awarded, if any,

may not be commercially meaningful. Accordingly, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights
around the world may be inadequate to obtain a significant commercial advantage from the intellectual
property that we develop.

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We may become involved in lawsuits to protect or enforce our intellectual property, which could be expensive,
time consuming and unsuccessful. Our patent rights relating to our medicines and drug candidates could be found
invalid or unenforceable if challenged in court or before government patent authorities.

Competitors may infringe our patent rights or misappropriate or otherwise violate our intellectual

property rights. To counter infringement or unauthorized use, litigation may be necessary in the future to
enforce or defend our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets or to determine the validity and
scope of our own intellectual property rights or the proprietary rights of others. This can be expensive and
time consuming. Any claims that we assert against perceived infringers could also provoke these parties to
assert counterclaims against us challenging the validity or enforceability of our patents or alleging that we
infringe their intellectual property rights.

Many of our current and potential competitors have the ability to dedicate substantially greater
resources to enforce and/or defend their intellectual property rights than we can. Accordingly, despite our
efforts, we may not be able to prevent third parties from infringing upon or misappropriating our intellectual
property. An adverse result in any litigation proceeding could put our patent, as well as any patents that
may issue in the future from our pending patent applications, at risk of being invalidated, held unenforceable
or interpreted narrowly. Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in
connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential information
could be compromised by disclosure during this type of litigation.

In patent litigation in the United States, defendant counterclaims alleging invalidity or unenforceability

are commonplace, and there are numerous grounds upon which a third party can assert invalidity or
unenforceability of a patent. Third parties may also raise similar claims before administrative bodies in the
United States or abroad, even outside the context of litigation. Such mechanisms include ex parte
re-examination, inter partes review, post-grant review, derivation and equivalent proceedings in non-U.S.
jurisdictions, such as opposition proceedings. Such proceedings could result in revocation or amendment to
our patents in such a way that they no longer cover and protect our medicines or drug candidates. The
outcome following legal assertions of invalidity and unenforceability is unpredictable. With respect to the
validity of our patents, for example, we cannot be certain that there is no invalidating prior art of which we,
our patent counsel, and the patent examiner were unaware during prosecution. If a defendant were to
prevail on a legal assertion of invalidity and/or unenforceability, we would lose at least part, and perhaps all,
of the patent protection on our medicines or drug candidates. Such a loss of patent protection could have
a material adverse impact on our business.

We may not be able to prevent misappropriation of our trade secrets or confidential information,

particularly in countries where the laws may not protect those rights as fully as in the United States.

If we are sued for infringing intellectual property rights of third parties, such litigation could be costly and time
consuming and could prevent or delay us from developing or commercializing our medicines or drug candidates.

Our commercial success depends in part on our avoiding infringement of the valid patents and other
intellectual property rights of third parties. We are aware of numerous issued patents and pending patent
applications belonging to third parties that exist in fields of our medicines and drug candidates. There may
also be third-party patents or patent applications of which we are currently unaware, and given the dynamic
area in which we operate, additional patents are likely to issue that relate to aspects of our business. There
is a substantial amount of litigation and other claims and proceedings involving patent and other intellectual
property rights in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries generally. As the biotechnology and
pharmaceutical industries expand and more patents are issued, the risk increases that our medicines and drug
candidates may give rise to claims of infringement of the patent rights of others.

Third parties may assert that we are using technology in violation of their patent or other proprietary

rights. Defense of these claims, regardless of their merit, could involve substantial litigation expense and
divert our technical personnel, management personnel, or both from their normal responsibilities. Even in
the absence of litigation, we may seek to obtain licenses from third parties to avoid the risks of litigation, and
if a license is available, it could impose costly royalty and other fees and expenses on us.

If third parties bring successful claims against us for infringement of their intellectual property rights,

we may be subject to injunctive or other equitable relief, which could prevent us from developing and

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commercializing one or more of our medicines and drug candidates. In the event of a successful claim
against us of infringement or misappropriation, or a settlement by us of any such claims, we may have to
pay substantial damages, including treble damages and attorneys’ fees in the case of willful infringement, pay
royalties or redesign our infringing medicines and drug candidates, which may be impossible or require
substantial time and cost. In the event of an adverse result in any such litigation, or even in the absence of
litigation, we may need to obtain licenses from third parties to advance our research or allow
commercialization of our medicines or drug candidates. Any such license might not be available on
reasonable terms or at all. In the event that we are unable to obtain such a license, we would be unable to
further develop and commercialize one or more of our medicines and drug candidates, which could harm our
business significantly. We may also elect to enter into license agreements in order to settle patent
infringement claims or to resolve disputes prior to litigation, and any such license agreements may require
us to pay royalties and other fees that could significantly harm our business.

We are aware of patents in the U.S. and some other jurisdictions with claims covering certain antibodies

that are relevant to tislelizumab for which patents are expected to expire in 2023 or 2024; complexes of
irreversible BTK inhibitors that are relevant to BRUKINSA® for which the patent is expected to expire in
2027; the use of PARP inhibitors to treat certain cancers that are relevant to pamiparib for which patents are
expected to expire between 2027 and 2031; and the use of TIGIT antagonist in combination with PD-1
binding antagonist to treat cancers that are relevant to the use of ociperlimab in combination with tislelizumab
for which patents are expected to expire in 2034. Although we believe that the relevant claims of these
patents would likely be held invalid, we can provide no assurance that a court or an administrative agency
would agree with our assessment. If the validity of the relevant claims of one or more of these patents were
to be upheld upon a validity challenge, and our related medicine was approved for sale in the United
States before the expiration of the relevant patents, we would need a license to commercialize the medicine
in the United States before the expiration of the relevant patents. In addition, depending upon the
circumstances, we may need licenses for jurisdictions outside of the United States where we wish to
commercialize a particular medicine before the expiration of corresponding patents covering that medicine.
In such cases, we can provide no assurance that we would be able to obtain a license or licenses on
commercially reasonable terms or at all, which could materially and adversely affect our business.

Even if litigation or other proceedings are resolved in our favor, there could be public announcements
of the results of hearings, motions or other interim proceedings or developments, and if securities analysts
or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could have a substantial adverse effect on the market price
of our shares. Such litigation or proceedings could substantially increase our operating losses and reduce
the resources available for development activities or any future sales, marketing or distribution activities. We
may not have sufficient financial or other resources to adequately conduct such litigation or proceedings.
Some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs of such litigation or proceedings more effectively
than we can because of their greater financial resources. Uncertainties resulting from the initiation and
continuation of patent litigation or other proceedings could have a material adverse effect on our ability to
compete in the marketplace.

Obtaining and maintaining our patent protection depends on compliance with various procedural, document
submission, fee payment, and other requirements imposed by governmental patent agencies, and our patent
protection could be reduced or eliminated for noncompliance with these requirements.

Periodic maintenance fees on any issued patent are due to be paid to the USPTO and other patent
agencies in several stages over the lifetime of the patent. The USPTO and other patent agencies require
compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment, and other similar provisions during
the patent application process. Although an inadvertent lapse can in many cases be cured by payment of a late
fee or by other means in accordance with the applicable rules, there are situations in which noncompliance
can result in abandonment or lapse of the patent or patent application, resulting in partial or complete loss of
patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction. Noncompliance events that could result in abandonment or lapse
of a patent or patent application include failure to respond to official actions within prescribed time limits,
non-payment of fees, and failure to properly legalize and submit formal documents. In any such event,
our competitors might be able to enter the market, which would have a material adverse effect on our business.

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If we do not obtain patent term extension and regulatory exclusivity for our medicines, our business may be
materially harmed.

Depending upon the timing, duration and specifics of FDA marketing approval of our medicines and

drug candidates, one or more of our U.S. patents may be eligible for limited patent term extension under
the Hatch-Waxman law. However, we may not be granted an extension because of, for example, failing to
exercise due diligence during the testing phase or regulatory review process, failing to apply within applicable
deadlines, failing to apply prior to expiration of relevant patents, or otherwise failing to satisfy applicable
requirements. Moreover, the applicable time period or the scope of patent protection afforded could be less
than we request. In addition, although the Amended PRC Patent Law, effective on June 1, 2021, includes
patent term extension, the patent term extension provision of the law is unclear and/or remains subject to
the approval of implementing regulations that are still in draft form or have not yet been proposed, leading
to uncertainty about its scope and implementation. As a result, the patents we have in the PRC are not yet
eligible to be extended for patent term lost during clinical trials and the regulatory review process. If we are
unable to obtain patent term extension or term of any such extension is less than we request, our competitors
may obtain approval of competing products following our patent expiration, and our business, financial
condition, results of operations, and prospects could be materially harmed.

Changes in patent law could diminish the value of patents in general, thereby impairing our ability to protect
our medicines or drug candidates.

The laws and regulations governing patents could change in unpredictable ways that would weaken our
ability to obtain new patents or to enforce our existing patents and patents that we might obtain in the future.
There could be changes in the laws of foreign jurisdictions that may impact the value of our patent rights
or our other intellectual property rights.

If we are unable to protect the confidentiality of our trade secrets, our business and competitive position would
be harmed. We may be subject to claims that our employees have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade
secrets of their former employers.

In addition to our issued patent and pending patent applications, we rely on trade secrets, including
unpatented know-how, technology and other proprietary information, to maintain our competitive position
and to protect our medicines and drug candidates. We seek to protect these trade secrets, in part, by
entering into non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements with parties that have access to them, such as
our employees, corporate collaborators, outside scientific collaborators, sponsored researchers, contract
manufacturers, consultants, advisors and other third parties. We also enter into confidentiality and invention
or patent assignment agreements with our employees and consultants. However, any of these parties may
breach such agreements and disclose our proprietary information, and we may not be able to obtain adequate
remedies for such breaches. Enforcing a claim that a party illegally disclosed or misappropriated a trade
secret can be difficult, expensive and time- consuming, and the outcome is unpredictable. If any of our trade
secrets were to be lawfully obtained or independently developed by a competitor, we would have no right
to prevent them from using that technology or information to compete with us and our competitive position
would be harmed.

Furthermore, many of our employees, including our senior management, were previously employed at

other biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies, including our competitors or potential competitors. Some
of these employees, including members of our senior management, executed proprietary rights, non-
disclosure and in some cases non-competition agreements in connection with their previous employment.
Although we try to ensure that our employees do not use the proprietary information or know- how of others
in their work for us, we may be subject to claims that we or these employees have used or disclosed intellectual
property, including trade secrets or other proprietary information, of any such employee’s former employer.
If we fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable
intellectual property rights or personnel. Even if we are successful in defending against such claims,
litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management.

In addition, while we typically require our employees, consultants and contractors who may be

involved in the development of intellectual property to execute agreements assigning such intellectual
property to us, we may be unsuccessful in executing such an agreement with each party who in fact develops

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intellectual property that we regard as our own, which may result in claims by or against us related to the
ownership of such intellectual property. If we fail in prosecuting or defending any such claims, in addition to
paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights. Even if we are successful in
prosecuting or defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction
to our management and scientific personnel.

If we fail to comply with our obligations in the agreements under which we license intellectual property rights
from third parties or otherwise experience disruptions to our business relationships with our licensors, we could
be required to pay monetary damages or could lose license rights that are important to our business.

We have entered into license agreements with third parties providing us with rights under various
third-party patents and patent applications. These license agreements impose diligence, development or
commercialization timelines and milestone payment, royalty, insurance and other obligations on us. If we
fail to comply with our obligations under our current or future license agreements, our counterparties may
have the right to terminate these agreements, in which event we might not be able to develop, manufacture or
market any medicine or drug candidate that is covered by the licenses provided for under these agreements
or we may face claims for monetary damages or other penalties under these agreements. Such an occurrence
could diminish the value of these products and our company. Termination of the licenses provided for
under these agreements or reduction or elimination of our rights under these agreements may result in our
having to negotiate new or reinstated agreements with less favorable terms, or cause us to lose our rights under
these agreements.

Risks Related to Our Reliance on Third Parties

If we fail to maintain an effective distribution channel for our medicines, our business and sales could be
adversely affected.

We rely on third-party distributors to distribute our approved medicines. For example, we rely on sole

third-party distributors to distribute some of our in-licensed approved medicines in China and multiple
third-party distributors for the distribution of our internally developed medicines. We also expect to rely on
third-party distributors to distribute our other internally developed and in-licensed medicines, if approved.
Our ability to maintain and grow our business will depend on our ability to maintain an effective distribution
channel that ensures the timely delivery of our medicines. However, we have relatively limited control over
our distributors, who may fail to distribute our medicines in the manner we contemplate. For example, while
we have long-standing business relationship with our sole distributor for the in-licensed products from
BMS, the agreement we entered into with our sole distributor can be terminated by either party upon
six months’ written notice. If price controls or other factors substantially reduce the margins our distributors
can obtain through the resale of our medicines to hospitals, medical institutions and sub-distributors, they
may terminate their relationship with us. While we believe alternative distributors are readily available, there
is a risk that, if the distribution of our medicines is interrupted, our sales volumes and business prospects
could be adversely affected.

We rely on third parties to manufacture some of our commercial and clinical drug supplies. Our business could
be harmed if those third parties fail to provide us with sufficient quantities of product or fail to do so at acceptable
quality levels or prices.

We currently have manufacturing facilities that are used for clinical-scale and commercial-scale
manufacturing and processing, we plan to build a commercial-stage biologics manufacturing and clinical
R&D center in New Jersey, and we are also constructing a new small molecule manufacturing campus in
Suzhou, China. However, we continue to rely on outside vendors to manufacture supplies and process some
of our medicines and drug candidates. For example, we have entered into a commercial supply agreement
for tislelizumab with Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals (China) Ltd. (Boehringer Ingelheim) and
entered into a commercial supply agreement for BRUKINSA® with Catalent Pharma Solutions, LLC
(Catalent). In addition, we generally rely on our collaboration partners and their third-party manufacturers
for supply of in-licensed medicines in China. We have limited experience in manufacturing or processing
our medicines and drug candidates on a commercial scale. Additionally, we have limited experience in
managing the manufacturing process, and our process may be more difficult or expensive than the approaches
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Although we intend to use our own manufacturing facilities, we also intend to use third parties as part

of our manufacturing process and for the clinical and commercial supply of our medicines and drug
candidates. Our anticipated reliance on a limited number of third-party manufacturers exposes us to the
following risks:

• we may be unable to identify manufacturers on acceptable terms or at all because the number of
potential manufacturers is limited and regulatory authorities must evaluate and/or approve any
manufacturers as part of their regulatory oversight of our medicines and drug candidates. This
evaluation would require new testing and GMP-compliance inspections by regulatory authorities;

• our manufacturers may have little or no experience with manufacturing our medicines and drug

candidates, and therefore may require a significant amount of support from us in order to implement
and maintain the infrastructure and processes required to manufacture our medicines and drug
candidates;

• our third-party manufacturers might be unable to timely manufacture our medicines and drug

candidates or produce the quantity and quality required to meet our clinical and commercial needs,
if any. For example, we encountered supply disruptions of ABRAXANE® in 2018 and 2019, and in
2020 the NMPA suspended the importation, sales and use of ABRAXANE® in China supplied to
us by BMS, as further described below;

• manufacturers are subject to ongoing periodic unannounced inspection by the FDA and

corresponding state agencies in the United States to ensure strict compliance with GMPs and other
government regulations and by other comparable regulatory authorities for corresponding non-U.S.
requirements. We do not have control over third-party manufacturers’ compliance with these
regulations and requirements. For example, in 2020, based on inspection findings at BMS’s contract
manufacturing facility in the United States, the NMPA suspended the importation, sales and use of
ABRAXANE® in China supplied to us by BMS, as further described below;

• we may not own, or may have to share, the intellectual property rights to some of the technology

used and improvements made by our third-party manufacturers in the manufacturing process for our
medicines and drug candidates;

• raw materials and components used in the manufacturing process, particularly those for which we

have no other source or supplier, may not be available or may not be suitable or acceptable for use due
to material or component defects; and

• our contract manufacturers and drug component suppliers may be subject to disruptions in their

business, including unexpected demand for or shortage of raw materials or components, cyber-attacks
on supplier systems, labor disputes or shortage and inclement weather, as well as natural or man-
made disasters or pandemics.

Each of these risks could delay or prevent the completion of our clinical trials or the approval of any
of our drug candidates, result in higher costs or adversely impact development of our drug candidates or
commercialization of our medicines. In addition, we will rely on third parties to perform certain specification
tests on our medicines and drug candidates prior to delivery to patients. If these tests are not appropriately
done and test data are not reliable, patients could be put at risk of serious harm and regulatory authorities
could place significant restrictions on our company until deficiencies are remedied.

For example, on March 25, 2020, the NMPA suspended the importation, sales and use of ABRAXANE®
in China supplied to us by BMS, and the drug was subsequently recalled by BMS and is not currently available
for sale in China. This suspension was based on inspection findings at BMS’s contract manufacturing
facility in the United States. Additionally, in October 2021, BMS provided 180-days’ notice to us, which we
dispute, purporting to terminate our license to market ABRAXANE® in China. We have not had any sales of
ABRAXANE® since the suspension and do not expect future revenue from ABRAXANE®. We have
initiated an arbitration proceeding against BMS asserting that it has breached and continues to breach the
terms and conditions of the license and supply agreement. For additional information, please see the section
of this report titled “Legal Proceedings”.

Currently, the raw materials for our manufacturing activities are supplied by multiple source suppliers,
although portions of our supply chain may rely on sole source suppliers. We have agreements for the supply

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of drug materials with manufacturers or suppliers that we believe have sufficient capacity to meet our
demands. In addition, we believe that adequate alternative sources for such supplies exist. However, there is
a risk that, if supplies are interrupted, it would materially harm our business.

Manufacturers of drug and biological products often encounter difficulties in production, particularly

in scaling up or out, validating the production process, and assuring high reliability of the manufacturing
process (including the absence of contamination). These problems include logistics and shipping, difficulties
with production costs and yields, quality control, including stability of the product, product testing,
operator error, availability of qualified personnel, as well as compliance with strictly enforced federal, state
and non-U.S. regulations. Furthermore, if contaminants are discovered in the supply of our medicines and
drug candidates or in the manufacturing facilities, such manufacturing facilities may need to be closed for
an extended period of time to investigate and remedy the contamination. We cannot assure you that any
stability failures or other issues relating to the manufacture of our medicines and drug candidates will not
occur in the future. Additionally, our manufacturers may experience manufacturing difficulties due to
resource constraints or as a result of labor disputes or unstable political environments. If our manufacturers
were to encounter any of these difficulties, or otherwise fail to comply with their contractual obligations,
our ability to provide our medicines for commercial sale and our drug candidates to patients in clinical trials
would be jeopardized. Any delay or interruption in the supply of clinical trial supplies could delay the
completion of clinical trials, increase the costs associated with maintaining clinical trial programs and,
depending upon the period of delay, require us to begin new clinical trials at additional expense or terminate
clinical trials completely.

If third-party manufacturers fail to comply with manufacturing regulations, our financial results and financial
condition could be adversely affected.

Before a third party can begin commercial manufacture of our medicines, they are subject to regulatory

inspections of their manufacturing facilities, processes and quality systems. Due to the complexity of the
processes used to manufacture drug and biological products, any potential third-party manufacturer may be
unable to initially pass regulatory inspections in a timely or cost-effective manner in order for us to obtain
regulatory approval. If contract manufacturers do not pass their inspections by the relevant regulatory
authorities, our commercial supply of drug product or substance will be significantly delayed and may result
in significant additional costs, including the delay or denial of any marketing application for our drug
candidates or disruption in sales. In addition, drug and biological manufacturing facilities are continuously
subject to inspection by regulatory authorities, before and after drug approval, and must comply with GMPs.
Our or our collaborators’ contract manufacturers may encounter difficulties in achieving quality control
and quality assurance and may experience shortages in qualified personnel. In addition, contract
manufacturers’ failure to achieve and maintain high manufacturing standards in accordance with applicable
regulatory requirements, or the incidence of manufacturing errors, could result in patient injury, product
liability claims, product shortages, product recalls or withdrawals, delays or failures in product testing or
delivery, cost overruns or other problems that could seriously harm our business. If a third-party manufacturer
with whom we or our collaborators’ contract is unable to comply with manufacturing regulations, we may
also be subject to fines, unanticipated compliance expenses, recall or seizure of our drugs, product liability
claims, total or partial suspension of production and/or enforcement actions, including injunctions, and
criminal or civil prosecution. These possible sanctions could materially adversely affect our financial
results and financial condition. On March 25, 2020, the NMPA suspended the importation, sales and use of
ABRAXANE® in China supplied to us by BMS, and the drug was subsequently recalled by BMS and is
not currently available for sale in China. This suspension was based on inspection findings at BMS’s contract
manufacturing facility in the United States. Additionally, in October 2021, BMS provided 180-days’ notice
to us, which we dispute, purporting to terminate our license to market ABRAXANE® in China. We have not
had any sales of ABRAXANE® since the suspension and do not expect future revenue from ABRAXANE®.
We have initiated an arbitration proceeding against BMS asserting that it has breached and continues to
breach the terms and conditions of the license and supply agreement. For additional information, please see
the section of this report titled “Legal Proceedings”.

Furthermore, changes in the manufacturing process or procedure, including a change in the location
where the product is manufactured or a change of a third-party manufacturer, could require prior review by
regulatory authorities and/or approval of the manufacturing process and procedures in accordance with

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applicable requirements. This review may be costly and time consuming and could delay or prevent the
launch of a product or impact commercialization or continuous supply of approved drugs. The new facility
will also be subject to pre-approval inspection. In addition, we have to demonstrate that the product made
at the new facility is equivalent to the product made at the former facility by physical and chemical methods,
which are costly and time consuming. It is also possible that regulatory authorities may require clinical
testing as a way to prove equivalency, which would result in additional costs and delay.

We have entered into licensing and collaboration arrangements and may enter into additional collaborations,
licensing arrangements, or strategic alliances in the future, and we may not realize the benefits of such
arrangements.

We have entered into licensing and collaboration agreements and may enter into additional

collaboration, licensing arrangements, or strategic alliances with third parties that we believe will complement
or augment our research, development and commercialization efforts. Any of these relationships may
require us to incur non-recurring and other charges, increase our near and long-term expenditures, issue
securities that dilute our existing shareholders, or disrupt our management and business.

In August 2017, we acquired Celgene’s commercial operations in China and an exclusive license to
Celgene’s (now BMS’s) commercial cancer portfolio in China, REVLIMID®, VIDAZA® and ABRAXANE®.
On March 25, 2020, the NMPA suspended the importation, sales and use of ABRAXANE® in China
supplied to us by BMS, and the drug was subsequently recalled by BMS and is not currently available for
sale in China. This suspension was based on inspection findings at BMS’s contract manufacturing facility in
the United States. Additionally, in October 2021, BMS provided 180-days’ notice to us, which we dispute,
purporting to terminate our license to market ABRAXANE® in China. We have not had any sales of
ABRAXANE® since the suspension and do not expect future revenue from ABRAXANE®. We have initiated
an arbitration proceeding against BMS asserting that it has breached and continues to breach the terms
and conditions of the license and supply agreement. For additional information, please see the section of this
report titled “Legal Proceedings”.

In 2019, we entered into a strategic collaboration with Amgen with respect to its commercial-stage
oncology products XGEVA®, BLINCYTO® and KYPROLIS® and a portfolio of clinical- and late-preclinical-
stage oncology pipeline products. In January 2021, we entered into a collaboration and license agreement
with Novartis Pharma AG (Novartis), granting Novartis rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize
our anti-PD-1 antibody tislelizumab in North America, Japan, the EU, and six other European countries.
In December 2021, we entered into an option, collaboration and license agreement with Novartis to develop,
manufacture and commercialize our investigational TIGIT inhibitor, ociperlimab, in North America,
Europe, and Japan.

Our strategic collaborations with Amgen, Novartis and BMS involve numerous risks. We cannot be

certain that we will achieve the financial and other benefits that led us to enter into the collaborations.
Moreover, we may not achieve the revenue and cost synergies expected from our collaborations for their
commercial products in China, and our management’s attention may be diverted from our drug discovery
and development business. These synergies are inherently uncertain, and are subject to significant business,
economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are difficult to predict and are
beyond our control. If we achieve the expected benefits, they may not be achieved within the anticipated
time frame. Lastly, strategic collaborations can be terminated for various reasons. For example, our strategic
collaboration with Celgene for the development and commercialization of tislelizumab, which we entered
into in connection with the license agreement in 2017, was terminated in June 2019 in advance of the
acquisition of Celgene by BMS, and we received a termination notice in October 2021 to terminate our
license agreement for ABRAXANE® in China.

Additionally, from time to time, we may enter into joint ventures with other companies. Establishment
of a joint venture involves significant risks and uncertainties, including (i) our ability to cooperate with our
strategic partner, (ii) our strategic partner having economic, business, or legal interests or goals that are
inconsistent with ours, and (iii) the potential that our strategic partner may be unable to meet its economic
or other obligations, which may require us to fulfill those obligations alone.

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We face significant competition in seeking appropriate strategic partners, and the negotiation process is

time-consuming and complex. Moreover, we may not be successful in our efforts to establish a strategic
collaboration or other alternative arrangements for our medicines and drug candidates because they may be
deemed to be at too early of a stage of development for collaborative effort and third parties may not view
our medicines and drug candidates as having the requisite potential to demonstrate safety and efficacy or
commercial viability. If and when we collaborate with a third party for development and commercialization
of a medicine or drug candidate, we can expect to relinquish some or all of the control over the future success
of that medicine or drug candidate to the third party. For any medicines or drug candidates that we may
seek to in-license from third parties, we may face significant competition from other pharmaceutical or
biotechnology companies with greater resources or capabilities than us, and any agreement that we do enter
may not result in the anticipated benefits.

Collaborations involving our medicines and drug candidates are subject to numerous risks, which may

include the following:

• collaborators have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply

to a collaboration;

• collaborators may not pursue development and commercialization of our drug candidates and

medicines or may elect not to continue or renew development or commercialization programs based
on clinical trial results, changes in their strategic focus due to the acquisition of competitive drugs,
availability of funding, or other external factors, such as a business combination that diverts
resources or creates competing priorities;

• collaborators may delay clinical trials, provide insufficient funding for a clinical trial, stop a clinical

trial, abandon a drug candidate, repeat or conduct new clinical trials, or require a new formulation of
a drug candidate for clinical testing;

• collaborators could independently develop, or develop with third parties, drugs that compete directly

or indirectly with our medicines or drug candidates;

• a collaborator with marketing and distribution rights to one or more medicines may not commit

sufficient resources to their marketing and distribution or may set prices that reduce the profitability
of the medicines;

• collaborators may not properly maintain or defend our intellectual property rights or may use our

intellectual property or proprietary information in a way that gives rise to actual or threatened litigation
that could jeopardize or invalidate our intellectual property or proprietary information or expose us
to potential liability;

• disputes may arise between us and a collaborator that cause the delay or termination of the research,
development or commercialization of our medicines and drug candidates, or that result in costly
litigation or arbitration that diverts management attention and resources;

• collaborations may be terminated and, if terminated, may result in a need for additional capital to

pursue further development or commercialization of the applicable medicines and drug candidates;
and

• collaborators may own or co-own intellectual property covering our medicines and drug candidates

that results from our collaborating with them, and in such cases, we would not have the exclusive right
to commercialize such intellectual property.

As a result, we may not be able to realize the benefit of current or future collaborations, licensing
arrangements or strategic alliances for our medicines and drug candidates if we are unable to successfully
integrate such products with our existing operations and company culture, which could delay our timelines
or otherwise adversely affect our business. We also cannot be certain that, following a strategic transaction or
license, we will be able to fulfill all of our contractual obligations in a timely manner or achieve the revenue,
specific net income or other goals that justify such transaction. If we are unable to reach agreements with
suitable collaborators on a timely basis, on acceptable terms, or at all, we may have to curtail the development
of a drug candidate, reduce or delay its development program or one or more of our other development
programs, delay its potential commercialization or reduce the scope of any sales or marketing activities, or

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increase our expenditures and undertake development or commercialization activities at our own expense. If
we elect to fund and undertake development or commercialization activities on our own, we may need to
obtain additional expertise and additional capital, which may not be available to us on acceptable terms or
at all. If we fail to enter into collaborations and do not have sufficient funds or expertise to undertake the
necessary development and commercialization activities, we may not be able to further develop our
medicines and drug candidates or bring them to market and generate product revenue, which would harm
our business prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

If we are not able to successfully develop and/or commercialize Amgen’s oncology products, the expected
benefits of the collaboration will not materialize.

We have a collaboration agreement with Amgen pursuant to which we and Amgen have agreed to

collaborate on the commercialization of Amgen’s oncology products XGEVA®, BLINCYTO® and
KYPROLIS® in China, and the global development and commercialization in China of a portfolio of
Amgen’s clinical- and late-preclinical-stage pipeline products. Amgen has paused or stopped development of
some of the pipeline assets due to portfolio prioritization, and the parties expect that the development
plan for the pipeline assets will continue to evolve over time. Additionally, Amgen has advised us that its
applications to the Human Genetic Resources Administration of China (HGRAC) to obtain approval to
conduct clinical studies in China for the pipeline assets, including its application for LUMAKRAS®
(sotorasib), a first-in-class KRAS G12C inhibitor, are currently delayed. Approval from the HGRAC is
required for the initiation of clinical trials involving the collection of human genetic materials in China. We
do not expect this to affect the conduct of the clinical trials in China for our drug candidates, other than
assets that are part of the collaboration. The Amgen collaboration involves numerous risks, including
unanticipated costs and diversion of our management’s attention from our other drug discovery and
development business. There can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully develop and
commercialize Amgen’s oncology products in China, which could disrupt our business and harm our
financial results.

We rely on third parties to conduct our preclinical studies and clinical trials. If these third parties do not
successfully carry out their contractual duties or meet expected deadlines, we may not be able to obtain
regulatory approval for or commercialize our medicines and drug candidates and our business could be
substantially harmed.

We have relied upon and plan to continue to rely to some extent upon third-party CROs to monitor
and manage data and provide other services for our ongoing preclinical and clinical programs. We rely on
these parties for execution of our preclinical studies and clinical trials, and control only certain aspects of their
activities. Nevertheless, we are responsible for ensuring that each of our studies is conducted in accordance
with the applicable protocol, legal and regulatory requirements and scientific standards, and our reliance on
the CROs does not relieve us of our regulatory responsibilities. We, our CROs for our clinical programs
and our clinical investigators are required to comply with GCPs, which are regulations and guidelines
enforced by regulatory authorities for all of our drug candidates in clinical development. If we or any of our
CROs or clinical investigators fail to comply with applicable GCPs and other regulatory requirements, the
clinical data generated in our clinical trials may be deemed unreliable and regulatory authorities may require
us to perform additional clinical trials before approving our marketing applications. In addition, our
pivotal clinical trials must be conducted with drug product produced under GMP regulations. Our failure to
comply with these regulations may require us to repeat clinical trials, which would delay the regulatory
approval process. We could also be subject to government investigations and enforcement actions.

If any of our relationships with these third-party CROs terminate, we may not be able to enter into
arrangements with alternative CROs or to do so on commercially reasonable terms. In addition, our CROs
are not our employees, and except for remedies available to us under our agreements with such CROs, we
cannot control whether or not they devote sufficient time and resources to our ongoing clinical and
nonclinical programs. If CROs do not successfully carry out their contractual duties or obligations or meet
expected deadlines, if they need to be replaced or if the quality or accuracy of the clinical data they or our
clinical investigators obtain is compromised due to the failure to adhere to our clinical protocols, regulatory
requirements or for other reasons, our clinical trials may be extended, delayed or terminated and we may not
be able to obtain regulatory approval for or successfully commercialize our drug candidates. As a result,

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our results of operations and the commercial prospects for our drug candidates would be harmed, our costs
could increase and our ability to generate revenues could be delayed.

Switching or adding additional CROs involves additional cost and delays, which can materially
influence our ability to meet our desired clinical development timelines. There can be no assurance that we
will not encounter similar challenges or delays in the future or that these delays or challenges will not have a
material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and prospects.

Risks Related to Our Industry, Business and Operations

We have significantly increased and expect to continue to increase our research, development, manufacturing,
and commercial capabilities, and we may experience difficulties in managing our growth.

At the beginning of 2021, we had approximately 5,100 employees, and we ended the year with

approximately 8,000 employees, an increase of 57%. We expect to continue our growth. Most of our
employees are full-time. As our research, development, manufacturing and commercialization plans and
strategies evolve, we must add a significant number of additional managerial, operational, drug development,
clinical, regulatory affairs, manufacturing, sales, marketing, financial and other personnel in the United
States, China, Europe and other regions. Our recent growth and any anticipated future growth will impose
significant added responsibilities on members of management, including:

• identifying, recruiting, integrating, maintaining, and motivating additional employees;

• managing the growth in our research, clinical operations, commercial, and supporting functions;

• managing our internal development efforts effectively, including the clinical and regulatory review

process for our drug candidates, while complying with our contractual obligations to third parties; and

• improving our operational, financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures.

Our future financial performance and our ability to develop and commercialize our medicines and drug
candidates will depend, in part, on our ability to effectively manage our recent growth and any future growth,
and our management may also have to divert a disproportionate amount of its attention away from
day-to-day activities in order to devote a substantial amount of time to managing these growth activities.

We currently rely, and for the foreseeable future will continue to rely, on certain independent
organizations, advisors and consultants to provide certain services. There can be no assurance that the
services of these independent organizations, advisors and consultants will continue to be available to us on
a timely basis when needed, or that we can find qualified replacements. There can be no assurance that we will
be able to manage our existing consultants or find other competent outside contractors and consultants on
economically reasonable terms, if at all.

If we are not able to effectively manage our growth and further expand our organization by hiring new

employees and expanding our groups of consultants and contractors as needed, we may not be able to
successfully implement the tasks necessary to further develop, manufacture and commercialize our medicines
and drug candidates and, accordingly, may not achieve our research, development, manufacturing and
commercialization goals.

Our future success depends on our ability to retain key executives and to attract, retain and motivate qualified
personnel.

Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D., our Co-Founder, Chairman of our scientific advisory board, and director;

John V. Oyler, our Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors; Xiaobin
Wu, Ph.D., our President, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of China; and the other principal
members of our management and scientific teams play a critical role in the Company’s operation and
development. Although we have employment agreements or offer letters with each of our executive officers,
these agreements do not prevent our executives from terminating their employment with us at any time.
We do not maintain “key person” insurance for any of our executives or other employees. The loss of the
services of any of these persons could impede the achievement of our research, development and
commercialization objectives.

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To induce valuable employees to remain at our company, in addition to salary and cash incentives, we
have provided share option, restricted share unit and restricted share grants that vest over time or based on
performance conditions. The value to employees of these equity grants that may be significantly affected by
movements in our share price that are beyond our control and may be insufficient to counteract more
lucrative offers from other companies. Although we have employment agreements or offer letters with our
key employees, any of our employees could leave our employment at any time, with or without notice.

Recruiting and retaining qualified scientific, clinical, manufacturing and sales and marketing personnel
will also be critical to our success. In addition, we rely on consultants and advisors, including scientific and
clinical advisors, to assist us in formulating and executing our discovery, clinical development, manufacturing
and commercialization strategy. The loss of the services of our executive officers or other key employees
and consultants could impede the achievement of our research, development, manufacturing and
commercialization objectives and seriously harm our ability to successfully implement our business strategy.

Furthermore, replacing executives, key employees or consultants may be difficult and may take an
extended period of time because of the limited number of individuals in our industry with the breadth of
skills and experience required to successfully develop, gain regulatory approval of and commercialize products.
Competition to hire from this limited pool is intense, and we may be unable to hire, train, retain or motivate
these key personnel or consultants on acceptable terms, given the competition among numerous
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for similar personnel.

We also experience competition for the hiring of scientific and clinical personnel from universities and
research institutions. Our consultants and advisors may be employed by employers other than us and may
have commitments under consulting or advisory contracts with other entities that may limit their availability
to us. If we are unable to continue to attract and retain high quality personnel, our ability to pursue our
growth strategy will be limited.

Our business is subject to complex and evolving industry-specific laws and regulations regarding the collection
and transfer of personal data. These laws and regulations can be complex and stringent, and many are subject to
change and uncertain interpretation, which could result in claims, changes to our data and other business
practices, significant penalties, increased cost of operations, or otherwise adversely impact our business.

Regulatory authorities around the world have implemented industry-specific laws and regulations that

affect the collection and transfer of personal data. For example, in China, the Regulation on the
Administration of Human Genetic Resources promulgated by the State Council (the “HGR Regulation”),
which became effective in 2019, applies to activities that involve sampling, biobanking, use of HGR materials
and associated data, in China, and provision of such to foreign parties. The HGR Regulation prohibits
both onshore or offshore entities established or actually controlled by foreign entities and individuals from
sampling or biobanking any China HGR in China and require approval for the sampling of certain HGR and
biobanking of all HGR by Chinese parties. Approval for any export or cross-border transfer of the HGR
material is required, and transfer of China HGR data by Chinese parties to foreign parties or entities
established or actually controlled by them also requires the Chinese parties to file, before the transfer, a copy
of the data to the HGR administration for record. The HGR Regulation also requires that foreign parties
ensure the full participation of Chinese parties in international collaborations and all records and data must
be shared with the Chinese parties. For information about applications under the HGR Regulation for
clinical studies in China that are part of the Amgen- BeiGene Collaboration, see the risk factor entitled “If
we are not able to successfully develop and/or commercialize Amgen’s oncology products, the expected benefits
of the collaboration will not materialize.”

If the Chinese parties fail to comply with data protection laws, regulations and practice standards, and

our research data is obtained by unauthorized persons, used or disclosed inappropriately or destroyed, it
could result in a loss of our confidential information and subject us to litigation and government enforcement
actions. It is possible that these laws may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with
our or our collaborators’ practices, potentially resulting in suspension of relevant ongoing clinical trials or the
initiation of new trials, confiscation of HGR samples and associated data and administrative fines,
disgorgement of illegal gains, or temporary or permanent debarment of our or our collaborators’ entities
and responsible persons from further HGR projects and, consequently, a de-facto ban on the debarred entities
from initiating new clinical trials in China. So far, the HGR administration has disclosed a number of

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HGR violation cases. In one case, the sanctioned party was the Chinese subsidiary of a multinational
pharmaceutical company that was found to have illegally transferred certain HGR materials to CROs for
conducting certain unapproved research. In addition to a written warning and confiscation of relevant HGR
materials, the Chinese subsidiary of the multinational pharmaceutical company was requested by the
HGR administration to take rectification measures and at the same time banned from submitting any HGR
applications until the HGR administration was satisfied with the rectification results, which rendered it
unable to initiate new clinical trials in China until the ban was lifted. In another case, a public hospital was
found to have illegally transferred certain HGR data to a university in Europe, and that hospital was eventually
subject to the same ban.

To further tighten the control of China HGR, the government adopted amendments to the criminal

code, which became effective on March 1, 2021, which criminalize the illegal collection of China HGR, the
illegal transfer of China HGR materials outside of China, and the transfer of China HGR data to foreign
parties or entities established or actually controlled by them without going through security review and
assessment. An individual who is convicted of any of these violations may be subject to public surveillance,
criminal detention, a fixed-term imprisonment of up to 7 years, and/or a criminal fine. On April 15, 2021,
the Biosecurity Law became effective. The Biosecurity Law establishes an integrated system to regulate
biosecurity-related activities in China, including the security regulation of HGR and biological resources.
The Biosecurity Law for the first time expressly declares that China has sovereignty over its HGR and further
endorsed the HGR Regulation by recognizing the fundamental regulatory principles and systems established
by it over the utilization of Chinese HGR by foreign entities in China. Although the Biosecurity Law
does not provide any specific new regulatory requirements on HGR, as it is a law adopted by China’s highest
legislative authority, it gives China’s major regulatory authority of HGR, i.e., the Ministry of Science and
Technology, significantly more power and discretion to regulate HGR and it is expected that the overall
regulatory landscape for Chinese HGR will evolve and become even more rigorous. In addition, the
interpretation and application of data protection laws in China and elsewhere are often uncertain and in
flux.

We expect that these areas will receive greater and continued attention and scrutiny from regulators
and the public going forward, which could increase our compliance costs and subject us to heightened risks
and challenges associated with data security and protection. If we are unable to manage these risks, we
could become subject to significant penalties, including fines, suspension of business and revocation of
required licenses, and our reputation and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

We manufacture some of our medicines and intend to manufacture some of our drug candidates, if approved.
Delays in completing and receiving regulatory approvals for our manufacturing facilities, or damage to,
destruction of or interruption of production at such facilities, could delay our development plans or
commercialization efforts.

We currently have manufacturing facilities in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Suzhou, China and plan to

build a commercial-stage biologics manufacturing and clinical R&D center in New Jersey, United States.
We are also constructing a new small molecule manufacturing campus in Suzhou, China. These facilities may
encounter unanticipated delays and expenses due to a number of factors, including regulatory requirements.
If construction or expansion, regulatory evaluation and/or approval of our facilities are delayed, we may
not be able to manufacture sufficient quantities of our medicines and drug candidates, which would limit our
development and commercialization activities and our opportunities for growth. Cost overruns associated
with constructing or maintaining our facilities could require us to raise additional funds from other sources.
For example, we may not be able to complete the construction and validation of and obtain regulatory
approval for the new manufacturing and clinical R&D center in New Jersey, the new manufacturing campus
in Suzhou and manufacturing facility expansion in Guangzhou in a timely or economic manner.

In addition to the similar manufacturing risks described in “Risks Related to Our Reliance on Third

Parties,” our manufacturing facilities are subject to inspection in connection with clinical development and
new drug approvals and ongoing, periodic inspection by the FDA, NMPA, EMA or other comparable
regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with GMP and other regulatory requirements. Our failure to follow
and document our adherence to such GMP regulations or other regulatory requirements may lead to
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of or a hold on a clinical trial, or may delay or prevent filing or approval of marketing applications for our
drug candidates or the commercialization of our medicines. We also may encounter problems with the
following:

• achieving adequate or clinical-grade materials that meet FDA, NMPA, EMA or other comparable
regulatory agency standards or specifications with consistent and acceptable production yield and
costs;

• shortages of qualified personnel, raw materials or key contractors; and

• ongoing compliance with GMP regulations and other requirements of the FDA, NMPA, EMA or

other comparable regulatory agencies.

Failure to comply with applicable regulations could also result in sanctions being imposed on us,

including fines, injunctions, civil penalties, a requirement to suspend or put on hold one or more of our
clinical trials, failure of regulatory authorities to grant marketing approval of our drug candidates, delays,
suspension or withdrawal of approvals, supply disruptions, license revocation, seizures or recalls of drug
candidates or medicines, operating restrictions and criminal prosecutions, any of which could harm our
business.

Developing advanced manufacturing techniques and process controls is required to fully utilize our
facilities. Advances in manufacturing techniques may render our facilities and equipment inadequate or
obsolete.

To supply commercial quantities for our marketed products, produce our medicines in the quantities

that we believe will be required to meet anticipated market demand, and to supply clinical drug material to
support the continued growth of our clinical programs, we will need to increase, or “scale up,” the production
process by a significant factor over the initial level of production, which will require substantial additional
expenditures and various regulatory approvals and permits. If we are unable to do so, are delayed, or if the
cost of this scale up is not economically feasible for us or we cannot find a third-party supplier, we may
not be able to produce our medicines in a sufficient quantity to meet future demand.

In addition to the similar manufacturing risks described in “Risks Related to Our Reliance on Third
Parties,” if our manufacturing facilities or the equipment in them is damaged or destroyed, we may not be
able to quickly or inexpensively replace our manufacturing capacity or replace it at all. In the event of a
temporary or protracted loss of the facilities or equipment, we might not be able to transfer manufacturing to
a third party. Even if we could transfer manufacturing to a third party, the shift would likely be expensive
and time-consuming, particularly since the new facility would need to comply with the necessary regulatory
requirements and we would need regulatory agency approval before selling any medicines manufactured at
that facility. Such an event could delay our clinical trials or reduce our product sales. Any interruption in
manufacturing operations at our manufacturing facilities could result in our inability to satisfy the demands
of our clinical trials or commercialization. Any disruption that impedes our ability to manufacture our drug
candidates or medicines in a timely manner could materially harm our business, financial condition and
operating results.

Currently, we maintain insurance coverage against damage to our property, plant and equipment in

amounts we believe are reasonable. However, our insurance coverage may not reimburse us, or may not be
sufficient to reimburse us, for any expenses or losses we may suffer. We may be unable to meet our requirements
for our drug candidates and medicines if there were a catastrophic event or interruption or failure of our
manufacturing facilities or processes.

We incur significant costs as a result of operating as a public company, and our management is required to
devote substantial time to compliance requirements, including establishing and maintaining internal controls
over financial reporting. We may be exposed to potential risks if we are unable to comply with these requirements.

As a public company listed in the United States, Hong Kong and Shanghai, we are subject to the
reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the
listing rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq), The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the HKEx)
and the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (the SSE), and incur significant legal, accounting

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and other expenses to comply with applicable requirements. These rules impose various requirements on
public companies, including requiring certain corporate governance practices. Our management and other
personnel devote a substantial amount of time to these requirements. Moreover, these rules and regulations
increase our legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities more time-consuming and
costly.

For example, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”) requires, among other
things, that we maintain effective internal controls for financial reporting and disclosure controls and
procedures. In particular, we must perform system and process evaluations and testing of our internal controls
over financial reporting to allow management to report on the effectiveness of our internal controls over
financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Such compliance may require that
we incur substantial accounting expenses and expend significant management efforts. Our testing may
reveal deficiencies in our internal controls over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses.
In the event we identify significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in our internal controls that we
cannot remediate in a timely manner, the market price of our shares could decline if investors and others
lose confidence in the reliability of our financial statements, we could be subject to sanctions or investigations
by the SEC, HKEx, China Securities Regulatory Commission (the CSRC), SSE or other applicable
regulatory authorities, and our business could be harmed.

If we engage in acquisitions or strategic collaborations, this may increase our capital requirements, dilute our
shareholders, cause us to incur debt or assume contingent liabilities, and subject us to other risks.

From time to time, we may evaluate various acquisitions and strategic collaborations, including

licensing or acquiring complementary products, intellectual property rights, technologies or businesses. Any
completed, in-process or potential acquisition or strategic collaboration may entail numerous risks,
including:

• increased operating expenses and cash requirements;

• the assumption of additional indebtedness or contingent or unforeseen liabilities;

• the issuance of our equity securities;

• assimilation of operations, intellectual property and products of an acquired company, including

difficulties associated with integrating new personnel;

• the diversion of our management’s attention from our existing product programs and initiatives in

pursuing such a strategic merger or acquisition;

• retention of key employees, the loss of key personnel, and uncertainties in our ability to maintain

key business relationships;

• risks and uncertainties associated with the other party to such a transaction, including the prospects

of that party and their existing drugs or drug candidates and regulatory approvals; and

• our inability to generate revenue from acquired technology and/or products sufficient to meet our

objectives in undertaking the acquisition or even to offset the associated acquisition and maintenance
costs.

In addition, if we undertake acquisitions or strategic collaborations, we may issue dilutive securities,

assume or incur debt obligations, incur large one-time expenses and acquire intangible assets that could
result in significant future amortization expense. For example, in connection with the Amgen transaction,
we issued to Amgen a total of 206,635,013 ordinary shares in the form of ADSs, representing 20.5% of the
issued share capital of the Company after giving effect to the share issuance, which resulted in Amgen
becoming our largest shareholder and the ownership of our existing shareholders being diluted.

PRC regulations and rules concerning mergers and acquisitions, including the Regulations on Mergers
and Acquisitions of Domestic Companies by Foreign Investors (the “M&A Rules”), and other regulations
and rules with respect to mergers and acquisitions established additional procedures and requirements that
could make merger and acquisition activities by foreign investors more time consuming and complex. For
example, the M&A Rules require that the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC (the MOFCOM) be notified in

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advance of any change-of-control transaction in which a foreign investor takes control of a PRC domestic
enterprise, if (i) any important industry is concerned, (ii) such transaction involves factors that have or may
have impact on the national economic security, or (iii) such transaction will lead to a change in control of
a domestic enterprise which holds a famous trademark or PRC time-honored brand. Moreover, according to
the Anti-Monopoly Law of the PRC and the Provisions on Thresholds for Prior Notification of
Concentrations of Undertakings (the “Prior Notification Rules”) issued by the State Council, the
concentration of business undertakings by way of mergers, acquisitions or contractual arrangements that
allow one market player to take control of or to exert decisive impact on another market player must also be
notified in advance to the State Administration of Market Regulation (the SAMR) when the threshold is
crossed and such concentration shall not be implemented without the clearance of prior notification. In
addition, the Measures for Security Review of Foreign Investment jointly issued by the National Development
and Reform Commission and MOFCOM and the Regulations on Implementation of Security Review
System for the Merger and Acquisition of Domestic Enterprise by Foreign Investors (the “Security Review
Rules”) issued by the MOFCOM specify that mergers and acquisitions by foreign investors that raise “national
defense and security” concerns and mergers and acquisitions through which foreign investors may acquire
the de facto control over domestic enterprises that raise “national security” concerns are subject to strict
review by the MOFCOM, and the rules prohibit any activities attempting to bypass a security review by
structuring the transaction through, among other things, trusts, entrustment or contractual control
arrangements.

We may also be subject to similar review and regulations in other jurisdictions, such as the laws and

regulations on foreign investment in the United States under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign
Investment in the United States (the CFIUS) and other agencies, including the Foreign Investment Risk
Review Modernization Act (the FIRRMA), which became effective in February 2020.

Furthermore, according to the Draft Overseas Listing Regulations, if a Chinese overseas listed
company issues overseas listed securities to acquire assets, such issuance would be subject to certain filing
requirements with the CSRC.

In the future, we may grow our business by acquiring complementary businesses. Complying with the

requirements of the above-mentioned regulations and other relevant rules to complete such transactions
could be time consuming, and any required approval or filing processes, including obtaining approval from
or filing with CFIUS, the SAMR, the MOFCOM, the CSRC or other agencies may delay or inhibit our ability
to complete such transactions. It is unclear whether those complementary businesses we may acquire in the
future would be deemed to be in an industry that raises “national defense and security” or “national security”
concerns.

However, CFIUS, SAMR, MOFCOM, CSRC or other government agencies may publish explanations
in the future determining that certain of the complementary business is in an industry subject to the security
review, in which case our future acquisitions in the United States and the PRC, including those by way of
entering into contractual control arrangements with target entities, may be closely scrutinized or prohibited.
Our ability to expand our business or maintain or expand our market share through future acquisitions
would as such be materially and adversely affected.

If we fail to comply with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or other anti-bribery and corruption laws, our
reputation may be harmed and we could be subject to penalties and significant expenses that have a material
adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We are subject to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the FCPA). The FCPA generally prohibits us

from making improper payments to non-U.S. officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business.
We are also subject to the anti-bribery and corruption laws of other jurisdictions, particularly China. The anti-
bribery laws in China generally prohibit companies and their intermediaries from making payments to
government officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business or securing any other improper
advantage. As our business has expanded, the applicability of the FCPA and other anti-bribery and corruption
laws to our operations has increased.

We do not fully control the interactions our employees, distributors and third-party promoters have
with hospitals, medical institutions and doctors, and they may try to increase sales volumes of our products

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through means that constitute violations of United States, PRC or other countries’ anti-corruption and
related laws. If our employees, distributors or third-party promoters engage in corrupt or other improper
conduct that results in violation of applicable anti-corruption laws, our reputation could be harmed.
Furthermore, we could be held liable for actions taken by our employees, distributors or third-party
promoters, which could expose us to regulatory investigations and penalties.

Although we have policies and procedures designed to ensure that we, our employees and our agents
comply with anti- bribery laws, there is no assurance that such policies or procedures will prevent our agents,
employees and intermediaries from engaging in bribery activities. Our procedures and controls to monitor
anti-bribery and corruption compliance may fail to protect us from reckless or criminal acts committed by our
employees or agents. If we, due to either our own deliberate or inadvertent acts or those of others, fail to
comply with applicable anti-bribery and corruption laws, our reputation could be harmed and we could incur
criminal or civil penalties, including but not limited to imprisonment, criminal and civil fines, suspension
of our ability to do business with the government, denial of government reimbursement for our products
and/or exclusion from participation in government healthcare programs, other sanctions and/or significant
expenses, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

If we or our CROs or contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) fail to comply with environmental,
health and safety laws and regulations, we could become subject to fines or penalties or incur costs that could
have a material adverse effect on our business.

We and third parties, such as our CROs or CMOs, are subject to numerous environmental, health and

safety laws and regulations, including those governing laboratory procedures and the handling, use, storage,
treatment and disposal of hazardous materials and waste. In addition, our construction projects can only
be put into operation after certain regulatory procedures with the relevant administrative authorities in charge
of environmental protection, health and safety have been completed. Our operations involve the use of
hazardous and flammable materials, including chemicals and biological materials. Our operations also
produce hazardous waste products. We generally contract with third parties for the disposal of these materials
and waste. We cannot eliminate the risk of contamination or injury from these materials. In the event of
contamination or injury resulting from our use of hazardous materials, we could be held liable for any
resulting damages, and any liability could exceed our insurance coverage. We also could incur significant costs
associated with civil or criminal fines and penalties.

Although we maintain workers’ compensation insurance to cover us for costs and expenses that we
may incur due to injuries to our employees resulting from the use of or exposure to hazardous materials,
this insurance may not provide adequate coverage against potential liabilities. We do not maintain insurance
for environmental liability or toxic tort claims that may be asserted against us in connection with our
storage, use or disposal of biological or hazardous materials.

In addition, we may be required to incur substantial costs to comply with current or future
environmental, health and safety laws and regulations. These current or future laws and regulations may
impair our research, development, manufacturing or commercialization efforts. Failure to comply with these
laws and regulations also may result in substantial fines, penalties or other sanctions.

Our information technology systems, or those used by our contractors or collaborators, may fail or suffer
security breaches, which could result in a material disruption of our product development and commercialization
efforts.

Despite the implementation of security measures, our information technology systems and those of

our contractors and collaborators, are vulnerable to damage from internal or external events, such as
computer viruses, unauthorized access, natural disasters, terrorism, war, and telecommunication and electrical
failures, which can compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the systems. Although to
our knowledge we have not experienced any material system failure or security breach to date, if such an event
were to occur and cause interruptions in our operations, it could result in a material disruption of our
research, development, manufacturing, regulatory and commercialization efforts and our business operations.

In the ordinary course of our business, we collect and store sensitive data, including, among other
things, legally protected patient health information, personally identifiable information about our employees,

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intellectual property, and proprietary business information. We manage and maintain our applications and
data utilizing on-site systems and outsourced vendors. These applications and data encompass a wide variety
of business-critical information, including research and development information, commercial information
and business and financial information. Because information systems, networks and other technologies are
critical to many of our operating activities, shutdowns or service disruptions at our company or vendors
that provide information systems, networks, or other services to us pose increasing risks. Such disruptions
may be caused by events such as computer hacking, phishing attacks, ransomware, dissemination of computer
viruses, worms and other destructive or disruptive software, denial of service attacks and other malicious
activity, as well as power outages, natural disasters (including extreme weather), terrorist attacks or other
similar events. Such events could cause loss of data, damage to systems and data and leave us unable to utilize
key business systems or access important data needed to operate our business. Our contractors and
collaborators have and in the future may face similar risks, and service disruptions or security breaches of
their systems could adversely affect our security, leave us without access to important systems, products, raw
materials, components, services or information or expose our confidential data. In addition, system
redundancy may be ineffective or inadequate, and our disaster recovery planning may not be sufficient to
cover all eventualities. Significant events could result in a disruption of our operations, damage to our
reputation or a loss of revenues. In addition, we may not have adequate insurance coverage to compensate for
any losses associated with such events.

We could be subject to risks caused by misappropriation, misuse, leakage, falsification or intentional or
accidental release or loss of information maintained in the information systems and networks of our company
and our vendors, including personal information of our employees and patients, and company and vendor
confidential data. In addition, outside parties may attempt to penetrate our systems or those of our vendors
or fraudulently induce our personnel or the personnel of our vendors to disclose sensitive information in
order to gain access to our data and/or systems. Like other companies, we and our third-party vendors have
on occasion experienced, and will continue to experience, threats to our or their data and systems, including
malicious codes and viruses, phishing, business email compromise attacks, ransomware, or other cyber-attacks.
The number and complexity of these threats continue to increase over time. If a material breach of our
information technology systems or those of our vendors occurs, we could be required to expend significant
amounts of money and other resources to respond to these threats or breaches and to repair or replace
information systems or networks and could suffer financial loss or the loss of valuable confidential
information. In addition, we could be subject to regulatory actions and/or claims made by individuals and
groups in private litigation involving privacy issues related to data collection and use practices and other data
privacy laws and regulations, including claims for misuse or inappropriate disclosure of data, as well as
unfair or deceptive practices. Although we develop and maintain systems and controls designed to prevent
these events from occurring, and we have processes to identify and mitigate threats, the development and
maintenance of these systems, controls and processes is costly and requires ongoing monitoring and
updating as technologies change and efforts to overcome security measures become increasingly sophisticated.
Moreover, despite our efforts, the possibility of these events occurring cannot be eliminated entirely. As we
outsource more of our information systems to vendors, engage in more electronic transactions with payors
and patients, and rely more on cloud-based information systems, the related security risks will increase
and we will need to expend additional resources to protect our technology and information systems. In
addition, there can be no assurance that our internal information technology systems or those of our
contractors and collaborators, as well as our and their efforts to implement adequate security and control
measures, will be sufficient to protect us against breakdowns, service disruptions, data deterioration or loss in
the event of a system malfunction, or prevent data from being stolen or corrupted in the event of a
cyberattack, security breach, ransomware, industrial espionage attack or insider threat attack that could
adversely affect our business and operations and/or result in the loss or exposure of critical, proprietary,
private, confidential or otherwise sensitive data, which could result in financial, legal, business or reputational
harm to us.

Our failure to comply with data protection laws and regulations could lead to government enforcement actions
and significant penalties against us, and adversely impact our operating results.

The regulatory framework for the collection, use, safeguarding, sharing, transfer and other processing

of personal information and other regulated data worldwide is complex and is rapidly evolving.

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In the United States, we are subject to laws and regulations that address privacy, personal information
protection and data security at both the federal and state levels. Numerous laws and regulations, including
security breach notification laws, health information privacy laws, and consumer protection laws, govern the
collection, use, disclosure and protection of health-related and other personal information. Given the
variability and evolving state of these laws, we face uncertainty as to the exact interpretation of the new
requirements, and we may be unsuccessful in implementing all measures required by regulators or courts in
their interpretation.

Regulatory authorities in Europe have implemented and are considering a number of legislative and

regulatory proposals concerning data protection. For example, the General Data Protection Regulation
(EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), which became effective in 2018, imposes a broad range of strict requirements on
companies subject to the GDPR. Because the GDPR specifically gives member states flexibility with respect
to certain matters, national laws may partially deviate from the GDPR and impose different obligations
from country to country, leading to additional complexity and uncertainty. Despite our best efforts to comply,
there is a risk that we may be subject to fines and penalties, litigation, and reputational harm in connection
with our European activities. The GDPR may increase our responsibility and liability in relation to personal
data that we process where such processing is subject to the GDPR, and we may be required to put in
place additional mechanisms to ensure compliance with the GDPR, including deviations implemented by
individual countries.

In addition, further to the UK’s exit from the EU on January 31, 2020, the GDPR ceased to apply in
the UK at the end of the transition period on December 31, 2020. However, as of January 1, 2021, the UK’s
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 incorporated the GDPR (as it existed on December 31, 2020 but
subject to certain UK specific amendments) into UK law, referred to as the UK GDPR. Although the UK is
regarded as a third country under the EU’s GDPR, the European Commission (EC) has now issued a
decision recognizing the UK as providing adequate protection under the EU GDPR and, therefore, transfers
of personal data originating in the EU to the UK remain unrestricted. The UK government has confirmed
that personal data transfers from the UK to the EEA remain free flowing.

China has implemented rules and is considering a number of additional proposals concerning data
protection. The Cyber Security Law of the PRC, which became effective in 2017, created China’s first national-
level data protection for “network operators,” which may include all organizations in China that provide
services over the internet or another information network. Numerous related laws, regulations, guidelines and
other measures are expected to be adopted, certain of which may, upon enactment, require security review
before transferring human health-related data out of China. Additionally, the Measures for the Management
of Scientific Data provides a broad definition of scientific data and relevant rules for the management of
scientific data in China and requires that enterprises in China must seek regulatory approval before any
scientific data involving a state secret may be transferred abroad or to foreign parties. Any researcher
conducting research funded at least in part by the Chinese government is required to submit relevant scientific
data for management by the entity to which such researcher is affiliated before such data may be published
in any foreign academic journal. The Data Security Law of the PRC became effective on September 1, 2021.
One of this law’s primary goals is to ensure data security by establishing an overarching regulatory regime
over data processors who process “important data” in China and subjecting such processors to a number of
regulatory obligations, e.g., data localization. Given its broad scope and impact it may have if enforced as
is, it is expected that the State Council and relevant Chinese regulators will enact implementing rules to further
clarify the scope and application of such requirement. In addition, the Personal Information Protection
Law (PIPL) of the PRC became effective on November 1, 2021. The PIPL requires, among others, that (i) the
processing of personal information should have a clear and reasonable purpose which should be directly
related to the processing purpose, in a method that has the least impact on personal rights and interests, and
(ii) the collection of personal information should be limited to the minimum scope necessary to achieve
the processing purpose to avoid the excessive collection of personal information. The PIPL also requires
entities handling personal information to bear responsibilities for their personal information handling
activities, and adopt necessary measures to safeguard the security of the personal information they handle.
Otherwise, such entities could be ordered to correct, or suspend or terminate the provision of services, and
face confiscation of illegal income, fines or other penalties. The PIPL further specifies the conditions for
providing personal information to overseas recipients, including conducting security assessment and personal

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information protection certification as well as entering into contractual arrangements with overseas
information recipients.

In addition, on November 14, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China promulgated the Draft

Cyber Data Security Regulations, for public comments, pursuant to which, data processors processing
important data or listed overseas shall conduct an annual data security self-assessment or entrust a data
security service institution to do so, and submit the data security assessment report of the previous year to
the local branch of the Cyberspace Administration of China before January 31 each year. Since there is no
definite timetable as to when draft will be enacted, substantial uncertainties exist with respect to whether
such annual data security self-assessment and reporting requirement would apply to us.

Furthermore, the PRC regulatory authorities have also enhanced the supervision and regulation on cross-

border data transmission. For example, on October 29, 2021, the Measures for the Security Assessment of
Cross-border Data Transmission (Draft for Comment) were proposed by the Cybersecurity Administration
of China for public comments, which require that any data processor providing important data collected
and generated during operations within the PRC or personal information that should be subject to security
assessment according to law to an overseas recipient shall conduct security assessment. These measures have
not been formally adopted, and substantial uncertainties still exist with respect to the enactment timetable,
final content, interpretation and implementation of these measures and how they will affect our business
operation.

We expect that these data protection and transfer laws and regulations will continue to receive greater
attention and focus from regulators going forward, and we will continue to face uncertainty as to whether
our efforts to comply with evolving obligations under data protection, privacy and security laws will be
sufficient. Any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with applicable laws and regulations could result in
reputational damage or proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities, individuals or others.
These proceedings or actions could subject us to significant administrative, civil or criminal penalties and
negative publicity, result in the delayed or halted transfer or confiscation of certain personal information or
scientific data (such as the results of our preclinical studies or clinical trials conducted within China), or
other regulated data, result in the suspension of research and development of drug candidates, ongoing
clinical trials or ban on initiation of new trials, require us to change our business practices, increase our costs,
or materially harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, our
current and future relationships with customers, vendors, pharmaceutical partners and other third parties
could be negatively affected by any proceedings or actions against us or current or future data protection
obligations imposed on them under applicable law. In addition, a data breach affecting personal information
or other regulated data, including health information, or a failure to comply with applicable requirements
could result in significant management resources, legal and financial exposure and reputational damage
that could potentially have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial
condition.

If we or parties on whom we rely fail to maintain the necessary licenses for the development, manufacture, sale
and distribution of our products, our ability to conduct our business could be materially impaired.

We are required to obtain, maintain and renew various permits, licenses and certificates to develop,
manufacture, promote and sell our products. Third parties, such as distributors, third-party promoters and
third-party manufacturers, on whom we may rely to develop, manufacture, promote, sell and distribute our
products may be subject to similar requirements. We and third parties on whom we rely may be also
subject to regular inspections, examinations, inquiries or audits by the regulatory authorities, and an adverse
outcome of such inspections, examinations, inquiries or audits may result in the loss or non-renewal of the
relevant permits, licenses and certificates. Moreover, the criteria used in reviewing applications for, or renewals
of permits, licenses and certificates may change from time to time, and there can be no assurance that we
or the parties on whom we rely will be able to meet new criteria that may be imposed to obtain or renew the
necessary permits, licenses and certificates. Many of such permits, licenses and certificates are material to
the operation of our business, and if we or parties on whom we rely fail to maintain or renew material permits,
licenses and certificates, our ability to conduct our business could be materially impaired. Furthermore, if
the interpretation or implementation of existing laws and regulations change, or new regulations come into
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were previously not required to operate our business, there can be no assurance that we or parties on whom
we rely will successfully obtain such permits, licenses or certificates.

Business disruptions could seriously harm our future revenue and financial condition and increase our costs and
expenses.

Our operations and those of our third-party contractors and collaborators could be subject to natural

or man-made disasters, public health epidemics or other business interruptions, for which we are
predominantly self-insured. In addition, we partially rely on our third-party research institution collaborators
for conducting research and development of our drug candidates, and they may be affected by such
business interruptions, government shutdowns or withdrawn funding. The occurrence of any of these
business interruptions could seriously harm our operations and financial condition and increase our costs
and expenses. We partially rely on third-party manufacturers to produce and process our medicines and drug
candidates. Our ability to obtain supplies of our medicines and drug candidates could be disrupted if the
operations of these suppliers are affected by man-made or natural disasters, public health epidemics or other
business interruptions. Damage or extended periods of interruption to our or our vendors’ corporate,
development, research or manufacturing facilities due to fire, natural disaster, power loss, communications
failure, unauthorized entry, public health epidemics or other events could cause us to delay or cease
development or commercialization of some or all of our medicines and drug candidates. Although we
maintain insurance coverage on these facilities, our insurance might not cover all losses under such
circumstances and our business may be seriously harmed by such delays and interruption. For example, the
COVID-19 pandemic has impacted and could continue to negatively impact our business and our financial
performance, including causing a delay in or the inability of health authorities to complete regulatory
inspections of our development activities, regulatory filings or manufacturing operations. Our clinical
development and commercial efforts could be delayed or otherwise negatively impacted, as patients may be
reluctant to go to the hospitals to receive treatment, or our regulatory inspections or regulatory filings and
approvals could be delayed. We have already experienced delays in clinical trial recruitment. Additionally,
the commercial or clinical supply of our medicines and drug candidates could be negatively impacted due to
reduced operations or a shutdown of our or our third-party manufacturing facilities, distribution channels
and transportation systems, or shortages of raw materials and drug product.

Our business and results of operations could be adversely affected by public health crises and natural catastrophes
or other disasters outside of our control in the locations in which we and our contractors and collaborators
operate.

Our global operations expose us to risks associated with public health crises, such as epidemics and
pandemics, natural catastrophes, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, or floods, or other disasters
such as fires, explosions and terrorist activity or wars that are outside of our control, including government
reactions due to such events. Our business operations and those of our contractors and collaborators may
potentially suffer interruptions caused by any of these events.

In December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact the population in China and since
January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world. The continued spread of COVID-19,
despite progress in vaccination efforts, has negatively impacted our business and results of operations,
including commercial sales, regulatory interactions, inspections, and filings, and clinical trial recruitment,
participation and data read outs. In addition, COVID-19 has resulted in significant governmental measures
being implemented to control the spread of the virus, including quarantines, travel restrictions, social
distancing and business shutdowns. The extent to which such measures are removed or new measures are
put in place will depend upon how the pandemic evolves, as well as the distribution of available vaccines, the
rates at which they are administered and the emergence of new variants of the virus. We have taken
precautionary measures intended to help minimize the risk of the virus to our employees, including
temporarily requiring many employees to work remotely. We have suspended or limited non-essential travel
worldwide for our employees and are discouraging employee attendance at other gatherings. These measures
could negatively affect our business. For instance, temporarily requiring all employees to work remotely
may induce absenteeism or employee turnover, disrupt our operations or increase the risk of a cybersecurity
incident. COVID-19 has also caused volatility in the global financial markets and threatened a slowdown
in the global economy, which may negatively affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

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The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic may continue to impact our business will depend on

future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, such as the
duration of the pandemic, the severity of COVID-19, including the continued emergence of new variants,
developments or perceptions regarding the safety of vaccines, or any additional preventative and protective
actions taken to contain the pandemic or treat its impact, particularly in the United States, China, Europe and
other geographies where we or our third-party contractors and collaborators operate. We cannot presently
predict the scope and severity of any potential business shutdowns or disruptions and any new wave of
COVID-19 cases could have a widespread impact on our business and results of operations depending on
where infection rates are the highest. If we or any of the third parties with whom we engage, however, were
to experience shutdowns or other business disruptions, our ability to conduct our business in the manner and
on the timelines presently planned could be materially and negatively affected, which could have a material
adverse impact on our business, results of operations, and financial condition. We will continue to monitor
the latest disruptions and uncertainties relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the pace of
vaccinations and the emergence of new and more contagious strains of the virus, and any resulting impact
on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Any resulting financial impact cannot
be reasonably estimated at this time and may have a material adverse impact on our business, financial
condition and results of operations.

Environmental regulation of our business, as a response to climate change, could adversely impact us by
increasing our compliance costs and could have a material adverse effect on our results and financial condition.

There has been a broad range of proposed and promulgated state, national and international regulation

aimed at reducing the effects of climate change. Such regulations apply or could apply in countries where
we have interests or could have interests in the future. Such regulation could result in additional costs in the
form of taxes and investments of capital to maintain compliance with laws and regulations.

Climate change regulations continue to evolve, and while it is not possible to accurately estimate either
a timetable for implementation or our future compliance costs relating to implementation, it is possible that
such regulation could have a material effect in the foreseeable future on our business, results of operations,
capital expenditures or financial position.

Our financial and operating performance may be adversely affected by adverse weather conditions, natural
disasters and other catastrophes.

We have manufacturing facilities in Suzhou and Guangzhou, China. A significant disruption at these
facilities, even on a short-term basis, could impair our ability to timely produce products, which could have
a material adverse effect on our business, financial position and results of operations. Our manufacturing
operations are vulnerable to interruption and damage from natural and other types of disasters, including
earthquake, fire, floods, environmental accidents, power loss, communications failures and similar events. If
any disaster were to occur, our ability to operate our business at our facilities would be seriously impaired.
For example, our Guangzhou manufacturing facility was hit by a typhoon in 2019, but the typhoon did not
cause material damage to the facility. However, the boundary area and the adjacent land were flooded,
causing a power outage for a few days. Afterwards, we built a gutter along the boundary and installed
waterproof electricity cables to fortify the facility and to help prevent future interruptions.

In addition, we do not maintain any insurance other than property insurance for some of our buildings,

vehicles and equipment. Accordingly, unexpected business interruptions resulting from disasters could
disrupt our operations and thereby result in substantial costs and diversion of resources. Our production
process requires a continuous supply of electricity. We have encountered power shortages historically in China
due to restricted power supply to industrial users during summers when the usage of electricity is high and
supply is limited or as a result of damage to the electricity supply network. Because the duration of those
power shortages was brief, they had no material impact on our operations. Longer interruptions of
electricity supply could result in lengthy production shutdowns, increased costs associated with restarting
production and the loss of production in progress. Any major suspension or termination of electricity or other
unexpected business interruptions could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition
and results of operations.

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Climate change manifesting as physical or transition risks could have a material adverse impact on our
business operations, clients and customers.

The long-term effects of climate change are difficult to assess and predict. Our business and the

activities of our clients and customers could be impacted by climate change. Climate change could manifest
as a financial risk either through changes in the physical climate or from the process of transitioning to a low-
carbon economy, including changes in climate policy or in the regulation of companies with respect to risks
posed by climate change.

The physical impacts of climate change may include physical risks (such as rising sea levels or frequency

and severity of extreme weather conditions), social and human effects (such as population dislocations or
harm to health and well-being), compliance costs and transition risks (such as regulatory or technology
changes) and other adverse effects. The effects could impair, for example, the availability and cost of certain
products, commodities and energy (including utilities), which in turn may impact our ability to procure
goods or services required for the operation of our business at the quantities and levels we require. We bear
losses incurred as a result of, for example, physical damage to or destruction of our facilities, loss or
spoilage of inventory, and business interruption due to weather events that may be attributable to climate
change could materially adversely affect our business operations, financial position or results of operation.

Product liability claims or lawsuits could cause us to incur substantial liabilities.

We face an inherent risk of product liability as a result of the commercialization of our medicines in

the United States, China, Europe and other markets, and for the clinical testing and any future
commercialization of our drug candidates globally. For example, we may be sued if our medicines or drug
candidates cause or are perceived to cause injury or are found to be otherwise unsuitable during clinical
testing, manufacturing, marketing or sale. Any such product liability claims may include allegations of defects
in manufacturing, defects in design, a failure to warn of dangers inherent in the medicine, negligence, strict
liability or a breach of warranties. Claims could also be asserted under applicable consumer protection acts. If
we cannot successfully defend ourselves against or obtain indemnification from our collaborators for
product liability claims, we may incur substantial liabilities or be required to limit commercialization of our
medicines and drug candidates. Even successful defense would require significant financial and management
resources. Regardless of the merits or eventual outcome, liability claims may result in: decreased demand for
our medicines; injury to our reputation; withdrawal of clinical trial participants and inability to continue
clinical trials; initiation of investigations by regulators; costs to defend the related litigation; a diversion of
our management’s time and resources; substantial monetary awards to trial participants or patients; product
recalls, withdrawals or labeling, marketing or promotional restrictions; loss of revenue; exhaustion of any
available insurance and our capital resources; the inability to commercialize any medicine or drug candidate;
and a decline in our share price.

Our inability to obtain sufficient product liability insurance at an acceptable cost to protect against
potential product liability claims could prevent or inhibit the commercialization of our medicines and drug
candidates. Although we currently hold product liability coverage which we believe to be sufficient in light of
our current products and clinical programs, the amount of such insurance coverage may not be adequate,
and we may be unable to maintain such insurance at a reasonable cost or in an amount adequate to satisfy any
liability that may arise, or we may not be able to obtain additional or replacement insurance at a reasonable
cost, if at all. Our insurance policies may also have various exclusions, and we may be subject to a product
liability claim for which we have no coverage. We may have to pay any amounts awarded by a court or
negotiated in a settlement that exceed our coverage limitations or that are not covered by our insurance,
and we may not have, or be able to obtain, sufficient capital to pay such amounts. Even if our agreements
with any future collaborators entitle us to indemnification against losses, such indemnification may not be
available or adequate should any claim arise.

We are subject to the risks and challenges of doing business globally, which may adversely affect our business
operations.

Our business is subject to risks and challenges associated with doing business globally. Accordingly, our
business and financial results could be adversely affected due to a variety of factors, including: changes in a
specific country’s or region’s political and cultural climate or economic condition; unexpected changes in

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laws and regulatory requirements in local jurisdictions; challenges in replicating or adapting our company
policies and procedures to operating environments different from that of the United States; difficulty of
effective enforcement of contractual provisions in local jurisdictions; inadequate intellectual property
protection in certain countries; enforcement of anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws, such as the FCPA; trade-
protection measures or disputes, import or export licensing requirements, and fines, penalties or suspension
or revocation of export privileges; laws and regulations on foreign investment in the United States under
the jurisdiction of the CFIUS and other agencies; the effects of applicable local tax regimes and potentially
adverse tax consequences; the impact of public health epidemics on employees, our operations and the
global economy; restrictions on international travel and commerce; and significant adverse changes in local
currency exchange rates. In addition, in 2017 the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which
regulates the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), announced that it will no longer require banks to
submit rates for the calculation of LIBOR to the LIBOR administrator after 2021. On November 30, 2020,
the FCA announced a partial extension of this deadline, indicating its intention to cease the publication
of the one-week and two-month USD LIBOR settings immediately following December 31, 2021, and the
remaining USD LIBOR settings immediately following the LIBOR publication on June 30, 2023. While
various replacement reference rates have been proposed, an alternative reference rate to LIBOR has not
yet been widely adopted. As such, the replacement of LIBOR could have an adverse effect on the market
for, or value of, LIBOR-linked financial instruments. Failure to manage these risks and challenges could
negatively affect our ability to expand our businesses and operations as well as materially and adversely affect
our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Future operating results could be negatively affected by changes in tax rates, the adoption of new tax legislation
in the jurisdictions in which we operate, or exposure to additional tax liabilities.

The nature of our international operations subjects us to local, state, regional and national tax laws in
jurisdictions around the world. Our future tax expense could be affected by changes in the mix of earnings
in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities or
changes in tax laws or their interpretation. Additionally, tax rules governing cross-border activities are
continually subject to modification intended to address concerns over base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS)
and other perceived international tax avoidance techniques as a result of both coordinated actions by
governments, such as the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS, and unilateral measures designed by
individual countries. For example, the Cayman Islands has enacted the International Tax Co-operation
(Economic Substance) Law (2020 Revision) (the “Economic Substance Law”), which originally took effect
on January 1, 2019, and which is accompanied by Guidance on Economic Substance for Geographically
Mobile Activities (Version 2.0; April 30, 2019) published by the Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority.
The Economic Substance Law embraces a global initiative to combat BEPS and demonstrates the continued
commitment of the Cayman Islands to international best practice. The Economic Substance Law provides
that relevant entities that existed before January 1, 2019 and that had been conducting relevant activities by
that date must comply with the economic substance requirements from July 1, 2019, and relevant entities
that are established from January 1, 2019 onwards must comply with the requirements from the date they
commence the relevant activity. Although we believe that we currently are not obliged to meet the economic
substance requirements under the Economic Substance Law, we cannot predict any changes to the
legislation or its interpretation in the future. If we are obliged to meet certain economic substance
requirements in the future, our business and results of operations could be negatively impacted if we are
required to make changes to our business in order to gain compliance or if we fail to comply.

We have received tax rulings from various governments that have jurisdictional authority over our
operations. If we are unable to meet the requirements of such agreements, or if they expire or are renewed
on less favorable terms, the result could negatively impact our future earnings. Additionally, the European
Commission has opened formal investigations into specific tax rulings granted by several countries to
specific taxpayers. While we believe that our rulings are consistent with accepted tax ruling practices, the
ultimate resolution of such activities cannot be predicted and could also have an adverse impact on future
operating results.

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Risks Related to Our Doing Business in the PRC

Changes in the political and economic policies of the PRC government or in relations between China and the
United States or other governments may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and
results of operations and may result in our inability to sustain our growth and expansion strategies.

Due to our operations in China, our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects
may be influenced to a significant degree by economic, political, legal and social conditions in the PRC or
changes in government relations between China and the United States or other governments. There is
significant uncertainty about the future relationship between the United States and China with respect to
trade policies, treaties, government regulations and tariffs. China’s economy differs from the economies of
other countries in many respects, including with respect to the level of development, growth rate, amount of
government involvement, control of foreign exchange and allocation of resources. While China’s economy
has experienced significant growth over the past four decades, growth has been uneven across different regions
and among various economic sectors. The Chinese government has implemented various measures to
encourage economic development and guide the allocation of resources. Some of these measures may benefit
the overall Chinese economy, but may have a negative effect on us. For example, our financial condition
and results of operations may be adversely affected by government control over capital investments or
changes in tax regulations that are currently applicable to us. In addition, in the past the Chinese government
implemented certain measures, including interest rate increases, to manage the pace of economic growth
and prevent the economy from overheating. These measures may cause decreased economic activity in China,
which may adversely affect our business and results of operations.

Additionally, the Chinese government has published new policies that significantly affect certain
industries such as the education and internet industries, and we cannot rule out the possibility that it will in
the future release regulations or policies regarding our industry that could require us to obtain additional
permission from Chinese authorities to continue to operate our business in China, which may adversely affect
our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Furthermore, recent statements made by the Chinese government have indicated an intent to increase

the government’s oversight and control over offerings of companies with significant operations in China
that are to be conducted in foreign markets.

For example, in July 2021, the PRC government provided guidance on China-based companies raising
capital outside of China, including through arrangements called variable interest entities (VIEs). In light of
such developments, the SEC has imposed enhanced disclosure requirements on China-based companies
seeking to register securities with the SEC. On December 24, 2021, the CSRC released the Provisions of the
State Council on the Administration of Domestic Companies Offering Securities for Overseas Listing
(Revision Draft for Comments) (the Draft Provisions) and the Administrative Measures for the Filing of
Domestic Companies Seeking Overseas Securities Offering and Listing (the Filing Measures, or collectively,
the Draft Overseas Listing Regulations) for public comment. According to the Draft Overseas Listing
Regulations, where Chinese companies that have directly or indirectly listed securities in overseas markets
conduct follow-on offering in overseas markets, they shall fulfill the filing procedures with and report relevant
information to the CSRC. If we are deemed as an indirect overseas listed Chinese company but fail to
complete the filing procedures with the CSRC for any of our follow-on offerings or fell within any of the
circumstances where our follow-on offering is prohibited by the State Council, our offering application may
be suspended and we may be subject to penalties, sanctions and fines imposed by the CSRC and relevant
departments of the State Council. The Draft Overseas Listing Regulations were released only for soliciting
public comments at this stage and their provisions and anticipated adoption or effective date are subject to
changes and thus their interpretation and implementation remain substantially uncertain. We are currently
evaluating the implications and potential impact of the Draft Overseas Listing Regulations and will continue
to closely monitor the development and implementation of the Draft Overseas Listing Regulations.
Although we do not have a VIE structure, due to our operations in China and stock listings in and outside
of China, any future PRC, U.S. or other rules and regulations that place restrictions on capital raising or other
activities by companies with extensive operations in China could adversely affect our business and results
of operations. Any such action, once taken by the Chinese government, could significantly limit or completely
hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer our ADSs or ordinary shares to investors, and could cause

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the value of our ADSs or ordinary shares to significantly decline or become worthless. If the business
environment in China deteriorates from the perspective of domestic or international investment, or if
relations between China and the United States or other governments deteriorate, our business in China and
United States may also be adversely affected.

The audit report included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC is prepared by auditors who
are not inspected fully by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the PCAOB), and as such, investors
are deprived of the benefits of such inspection.

Our auditor, Ernst & Young Hua Ming LLP, is required to undergo regular inspections by the PCAOB

as an auditor of companies that are publicly traded in the United States and a firm registered with the
PCAOB. However, because we have substantial operations within the PRC, a jurisdiction where the PCAOB
is currently unable to conduct inspections without the approval of the Chinese government authorities,
our auditor and its audit work that is carried out in the PRC is not currently able to be inspected independently
and fully by the PCAOB.

Inspections of other auditors conducted by the PCAOB outside the PRC have at times identified
deficiencies in those auditors’ audit procedures and quality control procedures, which may be addressed as
part of the inspection process to improve future audit quality. The lack of PCAOB inspections of audit work
undertaken in the PRC prevents the PCAOB from regularly evaluating our auditor’s audits and its quality
control procedures. As a result, investors may be deprived of the benefits of PCAOB inspections and may lose
confidence in our reported financial information and procedures and the quality of our financial statements.

In recent years, U.S. regulatory authorities have continued to express their concerns about challenges in

their oversight of financial statement audits of U.S.-listed companies with significant operations in China.
As part of a continued regulatory focus in the United States on access to audit and other information currently
protected by national law, in particular China’s, the United States enacted the Holding Foreign Companies
Accountable Act (the “HFCA Act”) in December 2020. The HFCA Act includes requirements for the SEC to
identify issuers whose audit work is performed by auditors that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate
completely because of a restriction imposed by a non-U.S. authority in the auditor’s local jurisdiction.
The HFCA Act also requires that, to the extent that the PCAOB has been unable to inspect an issuer’s auditor
for three consecutive years since 2021, the SEC shall prohibit its securities registered in the United States
from being traded on any national securities exchange or over-the-counter markets in the United States.

On March 24, 2021, the SEC adopted an interim final rule to implement the HFCA Act, which
became effective on May 5, 2021. The interim final rule applies to registrants that the SEC identifies as
having filed an annual report with an audit report issued by a registered public accounting firm that is located
in a foreign jurisdiction that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely because of a
position taken by an authority in that jurisdiction. Consistent with the HFCA Act, the interim final rule
requires the submission of documentation to the SEC establishing that such a registrant is not owned or
controlled by a government entity in that foreign jurisdiction and also requires disclosure in a foreign issuer’s
annual report regarding the audit arrangements of, and government influence on, such registrants. On
May 13, 2021, the PCAOB issued proposed PCAOB Rule 6100 Board Determinations Under the Holding
Foreign Companies Accountable Act for public comment. The proposed rule provides a framework for making
determinations as to whether PCAOB is unable to inspect an audit firm in a foreign jurisdiction, including
the timing, factors, bases, publication and revocation or modification of such determinations, and such
determinations will be made on a jurisdiction-wide basis in a consistent manner applicable to all firms
headquartered in the jurisdiction. Furthermore, on June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating
Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the “AHFCA Act”), and on February 4, 2022, the U.S. House
of Representatives passed the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing Pre-Eminence in
Technology and Economic Strength (COMPETES) Act of 2022 (the “America COMPETES Act”). If
either the AHFCA Act or America COMPETES Act is enacted into law, it would amend the HFCA Act
and require the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S. stock exchanges if its auditor
is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years instead of three. As a result, our securities
may be prohibited from trading on Nasdaq or other U.S. stock exchange if our auditor is not inspected by
the PCAOB for three consecutive years as specified in the HFCA Act or two years if the AHFCA Act or
America COMPETES Act is enacted, and this ultimately could result in our ADSs being delisted.

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While there has been dialogue among the CSRC, the SEC and the PCAOB regarding the inspection of
PCAOB-registered accounting firms in China, there can be no assurance that our auditor or us will be able
to comply with requirements imposed by U.S. regulators. Delisting of our ADSs would force holders of our
ADSs to sell their ADSs or convert them into our ordinary shares, which are listed for trading on the
HKEx. Although our ordinary shares are listed in Hong Kong, investors may face difficulties in converting
their ADSs into ordinary shares and migrating the ordinary shares to Hong Kong, or may have to incur
increased costs or suffer losses in order to do so. The market price of our ADSs could be adversely affected
as a result of anticipated negative impacts of these actions upon, as well as negative investor sentiment
towards, companies with significant operations in China that are listed in the United States, regardless of
whether these actions are implemented and regardless of our actual operating performance.

As our global business has expanded, we have built substantial organizational capabilities outside of
China. We have evaluated, designed and are implementing additional business processes and control changes
which we believe will enable us to engage an independent registered public accounting firm that satisfies
the PCAOB inspection requirements for the audit of our consolidated financial statements, subject to
compliance with SEC and other requirements prior to the three-year (or two-year under AHFCA Act or
America COMPETES Act) deadline of the HFCA Act. However, these efforts may not be sufficient, or may
take time for us to implement and ultimately may not be successful. We may also be subject to enforcement
under the HFCA Act, the rules implementing the act that may be adopted by the SEC, and any other similar
legislation that may be enacted into law or executive orders that may be adopted in the future. Although
we are committed to complying with the rules and regulations applicable to listed companies in the United
States, we are currently unable to predict the potential impact on our listed status by the rules that may be
adopted by the SEC under the HFCA Act. If we failed to comply with those rules, it is possible that our
ADSs will be delisted. The risk and uncertainty associated with a potential delisting would have a negative
impact on the price of our ADSs, ordinary shares and RMB Shares. Failure to adopt effective contingency
plans may also have a material adverse impact on our business and the price of our ADSs, ordinary
shares and RMB Shares.

Proceedings instituted by the SEC against five PRC-based accounting firms, including our independent
registered public accounting firm, could result in our inability to find a registered public accounting firm to
audit and issue an opinion on our financial statements, which could result in us not being in compliance with the
requirements of the Exchange Act.

In 2012, the SEC brought administrative proceedings against five accounting firms in China, including

our independent registered public accounting firm, alleging that they had refused to produce audit work
papers and other documents related to certain other PRC-based companies under investigation by the SEC.
In 2014, an initial administrative law decision was issued, censuring these accounting firms and suspending
four of these firms from practicing before the SEC for a period of six months. In 2015, each of the four PRC-
based accounting firms agreed to a censure and to pay a fine to the SEC to settle the dispute and avoid
suspension of their ability to practice before the SEC. These firms’ ability to continue to serve their clients
was not affected by the settlement. The settlement required these firms to follow detailed procedures to seek
to provide the SEC with access to Chinese firms’ audit documents via the CSRC. If these firms do not
follow these procedures, the SEC could impose penalties such as suspensions, or it could restart the
administrative proceedings. Our audit committee is aware of the policy restriction and communicates with
our independent registered public accounting firm to ensure compliance. If additional remedial measures are
imposed on the China-based accounting firms, including our independent registered public accounting
firm, in administrative proceedings brought by the SEC alleging the firms’ failure to meet specific criteria
set by the SEC with respect to requests for the production of documents, we could be unable to timely file
future financial statements in compliance with the requirements of the Exchange Act. The settlement did not
require these firms to admit to any violation of law and preserves these firms’ legal defenses in the event
the administrative proceeding is restarted. In the event that the SEC restarts the administrative proceedings,
depending upon the final outcome, listed companies in the United States with major PRC operations may
find it difficult or impossible to retain auditors in respect of their operations in the PRC, which could result
in financial statements being determined to not be in compliance with the requirements of the Exchange
Act, including possible delisting. Moreover, any negative news about the proceedings against these audit firms
may cause investor uncertainty regarding PRC-based, U.S.-listed companies and the market price of the
ADSs and/or ordinary shares may be adversely affected.

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If our independent registered public accounting firm is denied, even temporarily, the ability to practice
before the SEC and we are unable to timely find another registered public accounting firm to audit and issue
an opinion on our financial statements, our financial statements could be determined to be not in compliance
with the requirements of the Exchange Act. Such a determination could ultimately lead to deregistration
from the SEC, which would substantially reduce or effectively terminate the trading of our ADSs in the
United States. Moreover, any negative news about the proceedings against these audit firms may adversely
affect investor confidence in companies with substantial mainland China-based operations listed in the
United States. All these would materially and adversely affect the market price of the ADSs and substantially
reduce or effectively terminate the trading of our ADSs in the United States, and the market price of our
ordinary shares may be adversely affected.

There are uncertainties regarding the interpretation and enforcement of Chinese laws, rules and regulations.

A large portion of our operations are conducted in China through our Chinese subsidiaries. Our
Chinese subsidiaries are subject to laws, rules and regulations applicable to foreign investment in China.
The Chinese legal system is a civil law system based on written statutes. Unlike the common law system, prior
court decisions may be cited for reference but have limited precedential value.

In 1979, the Chinese government began to promulgate a comprehensive system of laws, rules and
regulations governing economic matters in general. The overall effect of legislation over the past four
decades has significantly enhanced the protections afforded to various forms of foreign investment in China.
However, China has not developed a fully integrated legal system. The laws, rules and regulations are
subject to interpretation and enforcement by PRC regulatory agencies and courts. In particular, because
these laws, rules and regulations are relatively new, because of the limited number of published decisions and
the non-precedential nature of such decisions, and because the laws, rules and regulations often give the
relevant regulator significant discretion in how to enforce them, the interpretation and enforcement of these
laws, rules and regulations involve uncertainties and can be inconsistent and unpredictable. In addition,
the legal system is based in part on government policies and internal rules, some of which are not published
on a timely basis or at all, and which may have a retroactive effect. The regulations in China can change
quickly. As a result, we may not be aware of our violation of these policies and rules until after the occurrence
of the violation.

China’s Foreign Investment Law and its implementing rule came into force in January 2020. The

Foreign Investment Law and its implementing rules embody an expected regulatory trend to rationalize
China’s foreign investment regulatory regime in line with prevailing international practice and the legislative
efforts to unify the legal requirements for both foreign and domestic investments. There are still uncertainties
with respect to the interpretation and implementation of the Foreign Investment Law and its implementing
rules. For example, the Foreign Investment Law and its implementing rules provide that foreign invested
entities established according to the previous laws regulating foreign investment prior to the implementation
of the new law may maintain their structure and corporate governance for a five-year transition period. It
is uncertain whether governmental authorities may require us to adjust the structure and corporate governance
of certain of our Chinese subsidiaries in such transition period. Failure to take timely and appropriate
measures to meet any of these or similar regulatory requirements could materially affect our current corporate
governance practices and business operations and our compliance costs may increase significantly. In
addition, the Measures for the Security Review of Foreign Investment (the “Measures”), effective from
January 18, 2021, embody China’s continued efforts to provide a legal regime for national security review
comparable to similar procedures in other jurisdictions, such as CFIUS review in the United States. There are
still uncertainties with respect to the interpretation, implementation and enforcement of the Measures. For
example, national security remains undefined and there is no clear guidance on whether the biotechnology
industry requires security review and what factors the regulatory authority may consider in determining
whether there are security concerns. It is difficult to evaluate the impact of the Measures on our existing
investments or potential investments in China.

It may be difficult for overseas regulators to conduct investigations or collect evidence within China. In

China, there are significant legal and other obstacles to providing information needed for regulatory
investigations or litigations initiated outside China. Although the authorities in China may establish a
regulatory cooperation mechanism with the securities regulatory authorities of another country or region

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to implement cross-border supervision and administration, such cooperation with the securities regulatory
authorities in the Unities States may not be efficient in the absence of a mutual and practical cooperation
mechanism. According to Article 177 of the PRC Securities Law, which became effective in March 2020,
no overseas securities regulator is allowed to directly conduct investigation or evidence collection activities
within the PRC territory. While detailed interpretation of or implementation rules under Article 177 have yet
to be promulgated, the inability for an overseas securities regulator to directly conduct investigations or
evidence collection activities within China may further increase the difficulties you face in protecting your
interests. For risks associated with investing in us as a Cayman Islands company, see also “— Risks Related
to Our American Depositary Shares and Ordinary Shares — We are a Cayman Islands company. Because
judicial precedent regarding the rights of shareholders is more limited under Cayman Islands law than under
Hong Kong law, Chinese law or U.S. law, our shareholders may have fewer shareholder rights than they
would have under Hong Kong law, Chinese law or U.S. law and may face difficulties in protecting their
interests.”

Any administrative and court proceedings in China may be protracted, resulting in substantial costs

and diversion of resources and management attention. Since administrative and court authorities have
significant discretion in interpreting and implementing statutory and contractual terms, it may be more
difficult to evaluate the outcome of administrative and court proceedings and the level of legal protection
we enjoy than in more developed legal systems. These uncertainties may impede our ability to enforce the
contracts we have entered and could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and
results of operations.

In addition, the PRC government has recently announced its plans to enhance its regulatory oversight
of China-based companies listed overseas and cross-border law enforcement cooperation. The Opinions on
Intensifying Crack Down on Illegal Securities Activities issued on July 6, 2021 called for:

• tightening oversight of data security, cross-border data flow and administration of classified

information, as well as amendments to relevant regulation to specify responsibilities of overseas
listed China-based companies with respect to data security and information security;

• enhanced oversight of overseas listed companies as well as overseas equity fundraising and listing by

China-based companies; and

• extraterritorial application of China’s securities laws.

As the Opinions on Intensifying Crack Down on Illegal Securities Activities were recently issued, there

are great uncertainties with respect to the interpretation and implementation. The PRC government may
promulgate relevant laws, rules and regulations to impose additional and significant obligations and liabilities
on overseas listed China-based companies regarding data security, cross-border data flow, and compliance
with China’s securities laws. As a company with extensive operations in China and stock listings in and
outside of China, it is uncertain whether or how the new laws, rules and regulations and the interpretation
and implementation may affect us. However, among other things, our ability to obtain external financing
through the issuance of equity securities overseas could be adversely affected if restrictions on overseas
fundraising are imposed on companies like us.

We may rely on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by our PRC subsidiaries to fund any cash and
financing requirements we may have, and any limitation on the ability of our PRC subsidiaries to make payments
to us could have a material and adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business.

We are a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and we may rely on dividends and

other distributions on equity paid by our PRC subsidiaries for our cash and financing requirements,
including the funds necessary to pay dividends and other cash distributions to our shareholders or to service
any debt we may incur. If any of our PRC subsidiaries incur debt on their own behalf in the future, the
instruments governing the debt may restrict their ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to us.
Under PRC laws and regulations, our PRC subsidiaries may pay dividends only out of their respective
accumulated profits as determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. In
addition, a wholly foreign- owned enterprise is required to set aside at least 10% of its accumulated after-tax
profits each year, if any, to fund a certain statutory reserve fund, until the aggregate amount of such fund
reaches 50% of its registered capital. Such reserve funds cannot be distributed to us as dividends. At its

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discretion, a wholly foreign-owned enterprise may allocate a portion of its after-tax profits based on PRC
accounting standards to an enterprise expansion fund, or a staff welfare and bonus fund. In addition,
registered share capital and capital reserve accounts are also restricted from withdrawal in the PRC, up to
the amount of net assets held in each operating subsidiary. As of December 31, 2021, these restricted assets
totaled $799.6 million.

Our PRC subsidiaries generate primarily all of their revenue in RMB, which is not freely convertible
into other currencies. As a result, any restriction on currency exchange may limit the ability of our PRC
subsidiaries to use their RMB revenues to pay dividends to us.

In response to the persistent capital outflow in the PRC and RMB’s depreciation against the U.S.
dollar in the fourth quarter of 2016, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and China’s State Administration
of Foreign Currency (SAFE) promulgated a series of capital control measures, including stricter vetting
procedures for domestic companies to remit foreign currency for overseas investments, dividends payments
and shareholder loan repayments.

The PRC government may continue to strengthen its capital controls, and more restrictions and
substantial vetting process may be put forward by the SAFE for cross-border transactions falling under
both the current account and the capital account. Any limitation on the ability of our PRC subsidiaries to
pay dividends or make other kinds of payments to us could materially and adversely limit our ability to grow,
make investments or acquisitions that could be beneficial to our business, pay dividends, or otherwise fund
and conduct our business.

The PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law (the “EIT Law”) and its implementation rules provide that China-
sourced income of foreign enterprises, such as dividends paid by a PRC subsidiary to its equity holders that
are non-PRC resident enterprises, will normally be subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of 10%,
unless any such foreign investor’s jurisdiction of incorporation has a tax treaty with China that provides for
a reduced withholding rate arrangement and such non-PRC resident enterprises constitute the beneficiary
of such income.

Pursuant to an arrangement between Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region (the “Hong Kong Tax Treaty”) and relevant tax regulations of the PRC, subject to certain conditions,
a reduced withholding tax rate of 5% will be available for dividends from PRC entities provided that the
recipient can demonstrate it is a Hong Kong tax resident and it is the beneficial owner of the dividends. The
government adopted regulations in 2018 which stipulate that in determining whether a non-resident
enterprise has the status as a beneficial owner, comprehensive analysis shall be conducted based on the
factors listed therein and the actual circumstances of the specific case shall be taken into consideration.
Specifically, it expressly excludes an agent or a designated payee from being considered as a “beneficial
owner.” We own the PRC subsidiaries through BeiGene HK. BeiGene HK currently does not hold a Hong
Kong tax resident certificate from the Inland Revenue Department of Hong Kong, and there is no assurance
that the reduced withholding tax rate will be available.

We may be treated as a resident enterprise for PRC tax purposes under the EIT Law and we may therefore be
subject to PRC income tax on our worldwide taxable income. Dividends payable to foreign investors and gains on
the sale of our ADSs or ordinary shares by our foreign investors may become subject to PRC tax.

Under the EIT Law, an enterprise established outside the PRC with “de facto management bodies”

within the PRC is considered a “resident enterprise,” meaning that it is treated in a manner similar to a
Chinese enterprise for PRC enterprise income tax purposes. The implementing rules of the EIT Law define
“de facto management bodies” as “management bodies that exercise substantial and overall management and
control over the production and operations, personnel, accounting, and properties” of the enterprise. In
addition, PRC regulations specify that certain Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprises, defined
as enterprises incorporated under the laws of foreign countries or territories and that have PRC enterprises
or enterprise groups as their primary controlling shareholders, will be classified as resident enterprises if all of
the following are located or resident in China: (i) senior management personnel and departments that are
responsible for daily production, operation and management; (ii) financial and personnel decision-making
bodies; (iii) key properties, accounting books, company seal, and minutes of board meetings and shareholders’
meetings; and (iv) half or more of senior management or directors having voting rights.

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Although BeiGene, Ltd. does not have a PRC enterprise or enterprise group as its primary controlling
shareholder and is therefore not a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise within the meaning
of these regulations, in the absence of guidance specifically applicable to us, we have applied the guidance set
forth in the regulations to evaluate the tax residence status of BeiGene, Ltd. and its subsidiaries organized
outside of the PRC.

We are not aware of any offshore holding company with a corporate structure similar to ours that has

been deemed a PRC “resident enterprise” by the PRC tax authorities. Accordingly, we do not believe that
our company or any of our overseas subsidiaries should be treated as a PRC resident enterprise. However, the
tax resident status of an enterprise is subject to determination by the PRC tax authorities and uncertainties
remain with respect to the interpretation of the term “de facto management body.” If the PRC tax
authorities determine that our Cayman Islands holding company is a resident enterprise for PRC enterprise
income tax purposes, a number of unfavorable PRC tax consequences could follow and we may be subject
to enterprise income tax at a rate of 25% on our worldwide taxable income, as well as to PRC enterprise
income tax reporting obligations. If we are deemed a PRC resident enterprise, dividends paid on our
shares and any gain realized from the transfer of our ordinary shares may be treated as income derived
from sources within the PRC. As a result, dividends paid to non-PRC resident enterprise ADS holders or
shareholders may be subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of 10% (or 20% in the case of non-PRC
individual ADS holders or shareholders) and gains realized by non-PRC resident enterprises ADS holders or
shareholders from the transfer of our ordinary shares or ADSs may be subject to PRC tax at a rate of 10%
(or 20% in the case of non-PRC individual ADS holders or shareholders).

We and our shareholders face uncertainties with respect to indirect transfers of equity interests in PRC resident
enterprises or other assets attributed to a PRC establishment of a non-PRC company, or other assets
attributable to a PRC establishment of a non-PRC company.

Pursuant to Chinese regulations, an “indirect transfer” of “PRC taxable assets,” including equity
interests in a PRC resident enterprise, by non-PRC resident enterprises may be recharacterized and treated
as a direct transfer of PRC taxable assets, if such arrangement does not have a reasonable commercial purpose
and was established for the purpose of avoiding payment of PRC enterprise income tax. As a result, gains
derived from such indirect transfer may be subject to PRC enterprise income tax. When determining whether
there is a “reasonable commercial purpose” of the transaction arrangement, factors to be taken into
consideration include: whether the main value of the equity interest of the relevant offshore enterprise
derives from PRC taxable assets; whether the assets of the relevant offshore enterprise mainly consists of
direct or indirect investment in the PRC or if its income mainly derives from the PRC; whether the offshore
enterprise and its subsidiaries directly or indirectly holding PRC taxable assets have real commercial
nature which is evidenced by their actual function and risk exposure; the duration of existence of the business
model and organizational structure; the replicability of the transaction by direct transfer of PRC taxable
assets; and the tax situation of such indirect transfer and applicable tax treaties or similar arrangements. In
respect of an indirect offshore transfer of assets of a PRC establishment, the resulting gain is to be reported
on with the enterprise income tax filing of the PRC establishment or place of business being transferred and
would consequently be subject to PRC enterprise income tax at a rate of 25%. Where the underlying
transfer relates to equity investments in a PRC resident enterprise, which is not related to a PRC establishment
or place of business of a non-resident enterprise, a PRC enterprise income tax at the rate of 10% would
apply, subject to available preferential tax treatment under applicable tax treaties or similar arrangements.
Late payment of applicable tax will subject the transferor to default interest. Gains derived from the sale of
shares by investors through a public stock exchange are not subject to the PRC enterprise income tax
where such shares were acquired in a transaction through a public stock exchange. As such, the sale of the
ADSs or ordinary shares on a public stock exchange will not be subject to PRC enterprise income tax.
However, the sale of our ordinary shares or ADSs by a non-PRC resident enterprise outside a public
stock exchange may be subject to PRC enterprise income tax under these regulations.

There are uncertainties as to the application of these regulations, which may be determined by the tax

authorities to be applicable to sale of the shares of our offshore subsidiaries or investments where PRC
taxable assets are involved. The transferors and transferees may be subject to the tax filing and withholding
or tax payment obligation, while our PRC subsidiaries may be requested to assist in the filing. Furthermore,
we, our non-resident enterprises and PRC subsidiaries may be required to spend valuable resources to comply

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with these regulations or to establish that we and our non-resident enterprises should not be taxed under
these regulations, for our previous and future restructuring or disposal of shares of our offshore subsidiaries,
which may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

The PRC tax authorities have the discretion to make adjustments to the taxable capital gains based on
the difference between the fair value of the taxable assets transferred and the cost of investment. If the PRC
tax authorities make adjustments to the taxable income of the transactions under these regulations, our
income tax costs associated with such potential acquisitions or disposals will increase, which may have an
adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Restrictions on currency exchange may limit our ability to utilize our revenue effectively.

The PRC government imposes controls on the conversion of RMB into foreign currencies and, in
certain cases, the remittance of currency out of the PRC. A portion of our revenue is denominated in RMB.
Shortages in availability of foreign currency may restrict the ability of our PRC subsidiaries to remit
sufficient foreign currency to our offshore entities for our offshore entities to pay dividends or make other
payments or otherwise to satisfy our foreign currency denominated obligations. The RMB is currently
convertible under the “current account,” which includes dividends, trade and service-related foreign exchange
transactions, but not under the “capital account,” which includes foreign direct investment and loans,
including loans we may secure from our onshore subsidiaries. Currently, our PRC subsidiaries may purchase
foreign currency for settlement of “current account transactions,” including payment of dividends to us,
without the approval of SAFE by complying with certain procedural requirements. However, the relevant
PRC governmental authorities may limit or eliminate our ability to purchase foreign currencies in the future
for current account transactions. Since a portion of our revenue is denominated in RMB, any existing and
future restrictions on currency exchange may limit our ability to utilize revenue generated in RMB to fund our
business activities outside of the PRC or pay dividends in foreign currencies to holders of our ordinary
shares and the ADSs. Foreign exchange transactions under the capital account remain subject to limitations
and require approvals from, or registration with, SAFE and other relevant PRC governmental authorities
or designated banks. This could affect our ability to obtain foreign currency through debt or equity financing
for our subsidiaries.

Our business benefits from certain financial incentives and discretionary policies granted by local governments.
Expiration of, or changes to, these incentives or policies would have an adverse effect on our results of
operations.

Local governments in the PRC have granted certain financial incentives from time to time to our PRC
subsidiaries as part of their efforts to encourage the development of local businesses. The timing, amount
and criteria of government financial incentives are determined within the sole discretion of the local
government authorities and cannot be predicted with certainty before we actually receive any financial
incentive. We generally do not have the ability to influence local governments in making these decisions.
Local governments may decide to reduce or eliminate incentives at any time. In addition, some of the
government financial incentives are granted on a project basis and subject to the satisfaction of certain
conditions, including compliance with the applicable financial incentive agreements and completion of the
specific project therein. We cannot guarantee that we will satisfy all relevant conditions, and if we do so we
may be deprived of the relevant incentives. We cannot assure you of the continued availability of the
government incentives currently enjoyed by us. Any reduction or elimination of incentives would have an
adverse effect on our results of operations.

Any failure to comply with PRC regulations regarding our employee equity plans and investments in offshore
companies by PRC residents may subject the PRC plan participants and PRC-resident beneficial owners or us
to fines and other legal or administrative sanctions.

We and our directors, executive officers and other employees who are PRC residents have participated

in our employee equity plans. We are an overseas listed company, and therefore, we and our directors,
executive officers and other employees who are PRC citizens or who have resided in the PRC for a continuous
period of not less than one year and who have been granted restricted share units, restricted shares,
options or other forms of equity incentives or rights to acquire equity are subject to the PRC regulations,

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according to which, employees, directors, supervisors and other management members participating in any
share incentive plan of an overseas publicly listed company who are PRC citizens or who are non-PRC citizens
residing in the PRC for a continuous period of not less than one year, subject to limited exceptions, are
required to register with the SAFE through a domestic qualified agent, which could be a PRC subsidiary of
such overseas listed company, and complete certain other procedures. We also face regulatory uncertainties
that could restrict our ability to adopt additional equity incentive plans for our directors and employees under
PRC law. Moreover, failure to comply with the various foreign exchange registration requirements could
result in liability under PRC law for circumventing applicable foreign exchange restrictions.

The pharmaceutical industry in China is highly regulated, and such regulations are subject to change, which
may affect approval and commercialization of our medicines and drug candidates.

A large portion of our business is conducted in China. The pharmaceutical industry in China is subject

to comprehensive government regulation and supervision, encompassing the approval, registration,
manufacturing, packaging, licensing and marketing of new medicines. In recent years, the regulatory
framework in China for pharmaceutical companies has undergone significant changes, which we expect will
continue. While we believe our strategies regarding research, development, manufacturing and
commercialization in China are aligned with the Chinese government’s policies, they may in the future
diverge, requiring a change in our strategies. Any such change may result in increased compliance costs on
our business or cause delays in or prevent the successful research, development, manufacturing or
commercialization of our drug candidates or medicines in China and reduce the current benefits we believe
are available to us from developing and manufacturing medicines in China.

Chinese authorities have become increasingly vigilant in enforcing laws affecting the pharmaceutical

industry. Any failure by us or our partners to maintain compliance with applicable laws and regulations or
obtain and maintain required licenses and permits may result in the suspension or termination of our business
activities in China. Reports of what have come to be viewed as significant quality-control failures by
Chinese vaccine manufacturers have led to enforcement actions against officials responsible for implementing
national reforms favorable to innovative drugs (such as ours). While not directly affecting us, this macro-
industry event could cause state or private resources to be diverted away from fostering innovation and be
redirected toward regulatory enforcement, which could adversely affect our research, development,
manufacturing and commercialization activities and increase our compliance costs.

Risks Related to Our American Depositary Shares and Ordinary Shares

The trading prices of our ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares can be volatile, which could result in
substantial losses to you.

The trading price of our ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares can be volatile and fluctuate
widely in response to a variety of factors, many of which are beyond our control. In addition, the performance
and fluctuation of the market prices of other companies with significant business operations in China that
have listed their securities in Hong Kong, Shanghai or the United States may affect the volatility in the price
of and trading volumes for our ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares. Some of these companies
have experienced significant volatility.

In addition to market and industry factors, the price and trading volume for our ordinary shares,

ADSs and/or RMB Shares may be highly volatile for various reasons, including: announcements of
regulatory approval or a complete response letter, or specific label indications or patient populations for its
use, or changes or delays in the regulatory review process; announcements of therapeutic innovations, new
products, acquisitions, strategic relationships, joint ventures or capital commitments by us or our
competitors; adverse actions taken by regulatory agencies with respect to our clinical trials, manufacturing
supply chain or sales and marketing activities; any adverse changes to our relationship with manufacturers or
suppliers; the results of our testing and clinical trials; the results of our efforts to acquire or license additional
medicines or drug candidates; variations in the level of expenses related to our existing medicines and
drug candidates or preclinical, clinical development and commercialization programs; any intellectual
property infringement actions in which we may become involved; announcements concerning our competitors
or the pharmaceutical industry in general; fluctuations in product revenue, sales and marketing expenses

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and profitability; manufacture, supply or distribution shortages; variations in our results of operations;
announcements about our results of operations that are not in line with analyst expectations, the risk of which
is enhanced because it is our policy not to give guidance on results of operations; publication of operating
or industry metrics by third parties, including government statistical agencies, that differ from expectations of
industry or financial analysts; changes in financial estimates by securities research analysts; media reports,
whether or not true, about our business, our competitors or our industry; additions to or departures of our
management; fluctuations of exchange rates between the RMB, the U.S. dollar and Hong Kong dollar;
release or expiry of lock-up or other transfer restrictions on our outstanding ordinary shares, ADSs or
RMB Shares; sales or perceived potential sales of additional ordinary shares, ADSs or RMB Shares by us,
our executive officers and directors or our shareholders; general economic and market conditions and overall
fluctuations in the United States, Hong Kong or Shanghai equity markets; changes in accounting principles;
trade disputes or U.S.-China government relations; and changes or developments in the United States,
PRC, EU or global regulatory environment.

In addition, the stock market, in general, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, in
particular, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or
disproportionate to the operating performance of these companies. Broad market and industry factors may
negatively affect the market price of our ordinary shares and/or ADSs, regardless of our actual operating
performance. Further, volatility in the financial markets and related factors beyond our control may cause the
ordinary share, ADS and/or RMB Share price to decline rapidly and unexpectedly.

The characteristics of capital markets in the United States, Hong Kong and Shanghai are different, which may
cause volatility in the market price of the RMB Shares, Offshore Shares and/or ADSs.

Our ADSs are listed on the NASDAQ in the United States under the symbol “BGNE”, our ordinary

shares are listed on the HKEx in Hong Kong under the stock code “06160”, and our RMB Shares are listed
on the STAR Market in the PRC. Under current PRC laws and regulations, our ADSs and ordinary
shares listed on the NASDAQ and the HKEx are not interchangeable or fungible with the RMB Shares
listed on the STAR Market, and there is no trading or settlement between either the NASDAQ or the HKEx
on the one hand, and the STAR Market on the other hand. The three markets have different trading
hours, trading characteristics (including trading volume and liquidity), trading and listing rules, and investor
bases (including different levels of retail and institutional participation). As a result of these major
differences, the trading prices of our ordinary shares, ADSs and RMB Shares might not be the same, even
allowing for currency differences. Fluctuations in the price of our ADSs due to circumstances peculiar to its
home capital market could materially and adversely affect the price of the ordinary shares and/or RMB
Shares, and vice versa. Because of the different characteristics of the U.S., Hong Kong and Shanghai equity
markets, the historic market prices of our ADSs, ordinary shares and RMB Shares may not be indicative
of the performance of our securities going forward.

We may be subject to securities litigation, which is expensive and could divert management attention.

Companies that have experienced volatility in the volume and market price of their shares have been

subject to an increased incidence of securities class action litigation, particularly in our industry in
recent years. We may be the target of this type of litigation in the future. Securities litigation against us
could result in substantial costs and divert our management’s attention from other business concerns, and,
if adversely determined, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results
of operations.

Future sales of our ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares in the public market could cause the ordinary
share, ADS and/or RMB Share price to fall.

The price of our ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares could decline as a result of sales of a large

number of the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares or the perception that these sales could occur.
These sales, or the possibility that these sales may occur, also might make it more difficult for us to sell equity
securities in the future at a time and at a price that we deem appropriate.

As of February 14, 2022, 1,334,804,281 ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, were outstanding,

of which 973,604,879 ordinary shares were held in the form of 74,892,683 ADSs, each representing 13
ordinary shares, and 115,055,260 were RMB Shares.

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We filed a registration statement on Form S-3 with the SEC on behalf of certain shareholders on
May 11, 2020, registering 300,197,772 ordinary shares, including 224,861,338 ordinary shares in the form of
17,297,026 ADSs to be resold by the selling shareholders identified therein and in any related prospectus
supplement from time to time. Furthermore, we have registered or plan to register the offer and sale of all
securities that we have issued and may issue in the future under our equity compensation plans, including
upon the exercise of share options and vesting of restricted share units and under our employee share purchase
plan. If these additional securities are sold, or if it is perceived that they will be sold, in the public market,
the trading price of our ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares could decline. Amgen also has specified
registration rights upon expiration of a lock-up period.

In addition, in the future, we may issue additional ordinary shares, ADSs, RMB Shares or other equity

or debt securities convertible into ordinary shares, ADSs or RMB Shares in connection with a financing,
acquisition, license, litigation settlement, employee arrangements or otherwise. Any such issuance could result
in substantial dilution to our existing shareholders and could cause the ordinary share, ADS and/or
RMB Share price to decline.

We face increased regulatory scrutiny and compliance costs due to our listing on the STAR Market of the
SSE.

We are subject to the applicable laws, rules and regulations governing public companies listed on the

STAR Market in addition to the various laws, rules and regulations that we are subject to in the United
States and Hong Kong. The listing and trading of our equity securities in multiple jurisdictions and multiple
markets will lead to increased compliance obligations and costs for us, and we may face the risk of significant
intervention by regulatory authorities in these jurisdictions and markets, such as inquiries, investigations,
enforcement actions and other regulatory proceedings by regulatory authorities. In addition, we may be
subject to securities litigation filed with the courts in China by the investors with respect to the RMB Shares
traded on the STAR Market.

The triple listing of our ADSs, ordinary shares and RMB Shares may adversely affect the liquidity and value
of our ADSs, ordinary shares and/or RMB Shares.

Our ADSs are traded on the NASDAQ, our existing ordinary shares maintained on our Cayman
register in Cayman Islands and Hong Kong register in Hong Kong, are traded on the HKEx, and our
RMB Shares are traded on the STAR Market. The triple listing of our ADSs, ordinary shares and
RMB Shares may dilute the liquidity of these securities in one or all three markets and may adversely affect
the maintenance of an active trading market for ADSs in the United States, the ordinary shares in
Hong Kong, and/or the RMB Shares in the PRC. The price of our ADSs, ordinary shares and/or RMB Shares
could also be adversely affected by trading of our securities on other markets. We may decide at some
point in the future to delist our RMB Shares from the STAR Market, and our shareholders may approve
such delisting. We cannot predict the effect such delisting of our RMB Shares on the STAR Market would
have on the market price of our ADSs on the NASDAQ or our ordinary shares on the HKEx.

Because we do not expect to pay dividends in the foreseeable future, you must rely on price appreciation of the
ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares for return on your investment.

We intend to retain most, if not all, of our available funds and earnings to fund the development and

growth of our business. As a result, we do not expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
Therefore, you should not rely on an investment in the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares as a source
for any future dividend income.

Our board of directors has significant discretion as to whether to distribute dividends. Even if our
board of directors decides to declare and pay dividends, the timing, amount and form of future dividends,
if any, will depend on, among other things, our future results of operations and cash flow, our capital
requirements and surplus, the amount of distributions, if any, received by us from our subsidiaries, our
financial condition, contractual and regulatory restrictions and other factors deemed relevant by our board
of directors. Accordingly, the return on your investment in the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares
will likely depend entirely upon any future price appreciation of the ordinary shares, ADSs
and/or RMB Shares. There is no guarantee that the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares will

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appreciate in value or even maintain the price at which you purchased the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or
RMB Shares. You may not realize a return on your investment in the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or
RMB Shares and you may even lose your entire investment in the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares.

If securities or industry analysts do not continue to publish research or publish inaccurate or unfavorable
research about our business, the market price for the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares and trading
volume could decline.

The trading market for the ordinary shares, ADSs and RMB Shares relies in part on the research and
reports that equity research analysts publish about us or our business. We do not control these analysts. If
research analysts do not maintain adequate research coverage or if one or more of the analysts who covers us
downgrades the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares or publishes inaccurate or unfavorable
research about our business, the market price for the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares would
likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to publish reports on
us regularly, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which, in turn, could cause the market price or
trading volume for the ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares to decline significantly.

We are a Cayman Islands company. Because judicial precedent regarding the rights of shareholders is more
limited under Cayman Islands law than under Hong Kong law, Chinese law or U.S. law, our shareholders may
have fewer shareholder rights than they would have under Hong Kong law, Chinese law or U.S. law and may face
difficulties in protecting their interests.

We are an exempted company with limited liability incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Our corporate
affairs are governed by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (as may be further
amended from time to time), the Companies Law (as amended) of the Cayman Islands, and the common
law of the Cayman Islands. The rights of shareholders to take action against the directors, actions by minority
shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors are to a large extent governed by the
common law of the Cayman Islands. This common law is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial
precedent in the Cayman Islands as well as from English common law, which has persuasive, but not
binding, authority on courts in the Cayman Islands. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary
responsibilities of our directors under Cayman Islands law are not as clearly established as they would be
under statutes or judicial precedent in some jurisdictions in Hong Kong, mainland China and the United
States. In particular, the Cayman Islands has a less developed body of securities law than Hong Kong,
mainland China or the United States. In addition, some states in the United States, such as Delaware,
have more fully developed and judicially interpreted bodies of corporate law than the Cayman Islands.

In addition, as a Cayman Islands exempted company, our shareholders have no general rights under

Cayman Islands law to inspect corporate records and accounts or to obtain copies of lists of shareholders,
with the exception that shareholders may request a copy of the current amended and restated memorandum
and articles of association. Our directors have discretion under our amended and restated articles of
association to determine whether or not, and under what conditions, our corporate records may be inspected
by our shareholders, but are not obliged to make them available to our shareholders. This may make it
more difficult for shareholders to obtain the information needed to establish facts necessary for a shareholder
action or to solicit proxies from other shareholders in connection with a proxy contest. As a Cayman
Islands company, we may not have standing to initiate a derivative action in a Hong Kong, mainland China
or U.S. federal court. As a result, shareholders may be limited in their ability to protect their interests if
they are harmed in a manner that would otherwise enable them to sue in a United States federal court. In
addition, shareholders of Cayman Islands companies may not have standing to initiate a shareholder
derivative action in Hong Kong, mainland China or U.S. federal courts.

Some of our directors and executive officers reside outside of Hong Kong and the United States and a

substantial portion of their assets are located outside of Hong Kong and the United States. As a result, it
may be difficult or impossible for shareholders to bring an action against us or against these individuals in
Hong Kong or in the United States in the event that shareholders believe that their rights have been infringed
under the securities laws of Hong Kong, the United States or otherwise. In addition, some of our directors
and executive officers reside outside of China. To the extent our directors and executive officers reside outside
of China or their assets are located outside of China, it may not be possible for investors to effect service

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of process upon us or our management inside China. Even if shareholders are successful in bringing an
action, the laws of the Cayman Islands and China may render them unable to enforce a judgment against
our assets or the assets of our directors and officers. There is no statutory recognition in the Cayman Islands
of judgments obtained in the United States, Hong Kong or China, although the courts of the Cayman
Islands will generally recognize and enforce a non-penal judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction
without retrial on the merits.

As a result of the above, shareholders may have more difficulty protecting their interests in the face of

actions taken by management, members of the board of directors or controlling shareholders than they
would as shareholders of a Hong Kong company, a Chinese company or a U.S. company.

Voting rights of our ADS holders are limited by the terms of the deposit agreement. The depositary for the
ADSs will give us a discretionary proxy to vote our ordinary shares underlying our ADS holders ADSs if they
do not vote at shareholders’ meetings, except in limited circumstances, which could adversely affect their interests.

Holders of our ADSs may exercise their voting rights with respect to the ordinary shares underlying

their ADSs only in accordance with the provisions of the deposit agreement. Upon receipt of voting
instructions from ADS holders in the manner set forth in the deposit agreement, the depositary for the
ADSs will endeavor to vote the holder’s underlying ordinary shares in accordance with these instructions.
Under our articles of association, the minimum notice period required for convening an annual general
meeting is 21 calendar days and the minimum notice period required for convening an extraordinary general
meeting is 14 calendar days. When a general meeting is convened, ADS holders may not receive sufficient
notice of a shareholders’ meeting to permit them to withdraw their ordinary shares to allow them to cast your
vote with respect to any specific matter at the meeting. In addition, the depositary and its agents may not
be able to send voting instructions to ADS holders or carry out their voting instructions in a timely manner.
We will make reasonable efforts to cause the depositary to extend voting rights to our ADS holders in a
timely manner, but they may not receive the voting materials in time to ensure that they can instruct the
depositary to vote your shares.

Furthermore, the depositary and its agents will not be responsible for any failure to carry out any
instructions to vote, for the manner in which any vote is cast or for the effect of any such vote. As a result,
ADS holders may not be able to exercise their right to vote and they may lack recourse if the ordinary shares
underlying their ADSs are not voted as they requested.

Under the deposit agreement for the ADSs, the depositary will give us a discretionary proxy to vote the
ordinary shares underlying ADS holders’ ADSs at shareholders’ meetings if such holders do not give voting
instructions to the depositary, unless:

• we have failed to timely provide the depositary with our notice of meeting and related voting

materials;

• we have instructed the depositary that we do not wish a discretionary proxy to be given;

• we have informed the depositary that there is substantial opposition as to a matter to be voted on at

the meeting; or

• a matter to be voted on at the meeting would have a material adverse impact on shareholders.

The effect of this discretionary proxy is that, if ADS holders fail to give voting instructions to the

depositary, they cannot prevent the ordinary shares underlying their ADSs from being voted, absent the
situations described above, and it may make it more difficult for such ADS holders to influence our
management. Holders of our ordinary shares are not subject to this discretionary proxy.

Anti-takeover provisions in our constitutional documents may discourage our acquisition by a third party, which
could limit our shareholders’ opportunity to sell their shares at a premium.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association include provisions that could limit

the ability of others to acquire control of our company, could modify our structure or could cause us to
engage in change-of-control transactions. These provisions could have the effect of depriving our shareholders

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of an opportunity to sell their shares, at a premium over prevailing market prices by discouraging third
parties from seeking to obtain control in a tender offer or similar transaction.

For example, our board of directors has the authority, without further action by our shareholders, to
issue preferred shares in one or more series and to fix the powers and rights of these shares, including dividend
rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption and liquidation preferences, any or all of
which may be greater than the rights associated with our ordinary shares. Preferred shares could thus be
issued quickly with terms calculated to delay or prevent a change in control or make removal of management
more difficult. In addition, if our board of directors authorizes the issuance of preferred shares, the
market price of the ordinary shares and/or ADSs may fall and the voting and other rights of the holders of
our ordinary shares and/or ADSs may be materially and adversely affected.

Furthermore, our amended and restated articles of association permit our directors to vary all or any
of the rights attaching to any class of shares in issue without the consent of shareholders but only if such
variation is considered by the directors not to have a material adverse effect upon such holders. The amended
and restated articles of association provide that the holders must consent to any such material adverse
changes in the manner set out therein.

Because our directors are divided into three classes with staggered terms of three years each,
shareholders can only elect or remove a limited number of our directors in any given year. The length of
these terms could present an obstacle to certain actions, such as a merger or other change of control, which
could be in the interest of our shareholders.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association designate specific courts as the sole and
exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our shareholders, which
could limit our shareholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors,
officers or other employees.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that, unless we consent in
writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the courts of Cayman Islands will be the sole and exclusive
forum for any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of us, any action asserting a claim of breach
of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer or other employee of us to us or our shareholders, any
action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Companies Law of the Cayman Islands as
amended from time to time, or the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, or
any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine (as such concept is recognized under
the U.S. laws). In connection with our offering and listing on the STAR Market, our shareholders approved
the Sixth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, which became effective on
December 15, 2021. The Sixth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provide
that unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the
United States shall be the sole and exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action
arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In addition, the Sixth Amended
and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provide that any person or entity purchasing or
otherwise acquiring any interest in any of our securities is deemed to have notice of and consented to these
provisions; provided, however, that shareholders cannot and will not be deemed to have waived our compliance
with the U.S. federal securities laws and rules and regulations thereunder.

These provisions may limit a shareholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds
favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage such
lawsuits. Alternatively, if a court were to find these provisions of our amended and restated memorandum
and articles of association inapplicable to, or unenforceable in respect of, one or more of the specified types
of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other
jurisdictions.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that any shareholder bringing an
unsuccessful action against us may be obligated to reimburse us for any costs we have incurred in connection with
such unsuccessful action.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that under certain

circumstances the fees, costs, and expenses that we incur in connection with actions or proceedings brought

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by any person or entity, which we refer to as claiming parties, may be shifted to such person or entity. If a
claiming party asserts any claim; initiates any proceeding; or joins, offers substantial assistance to, or has a
direct financial interest in any claim or proceeding against us, and such claiming party or the third party that
received substantial assistance from the claiming party or in whole claim the claiming party had a direct
financial interest is unsuccessful in obtaining a judgment on the merits in which the claiming party prevails,
then such claiming party shall (to the fullest extent permitted by law) be obligated to reimburse us for all
fees, costs, and expenses, including but not limited to all reasonable attorneys’ fees and other litigation
expenses, that we may incur in connection with such claim or proceeding.

Fee-shifting articles are relatively new and untested in the Cayman Islands, the United States, Hong
Kong and mainland China. The case law and potential legislative action on fee-shifting articles are evolving
and there exists considerable uncertainty regarding the validity of, and potential judicial and legislative
responses to, such articles. The application of our fee-shifting article in connection with claims under the
Cayman Islands, the United States, Hong Kong or Chinese securities laws, if any, will depend in part on future
developments of the law. We cannot assure you that we will or will not invoke our fee-shifting article in
any particular dispute. Consistent with our directors’ fiduciary duties to act in the best interests of the
Company, the directors may in their sole discretion from time to time decide whether or not to enforce this
article. In addition, given the unsettled state of the law related to fee-shifting articles, such as ours, we may
incur significant additional costs associated with resolving disputes with respect to such articles, which
could adversely affect our business and financial condition.

If a shareholder that brings any such claim or proceeding is unable to obtain the judgment sought, the

attorneys’ fees and other litigation expenses that might be shifted to a claiming party may be significant.
This fee-shifting article, therefore, may dissuade or discourage current or former shareholders (and their
attorneys) from initiating lawsuits or claims against us. In addition, it may impact the fees, contingency or
otherwise, required by potential plaintiffs’ attorneys to represent our shareholders or otherwise discourage
plaintiffs’ attorneys from representing our shareholders at all. As a result, this article may limit the ability
of shareholders to affect the management and direction of our company, particularly through litigation or
the threat of litigation.

Holders of ADSs may be subject to limitations on transfer of their ADSs.

ADSs are transferable only on the books of the depositary. However, the depositary may close its
books at any time or from time to time when it deems expedient in connection with the performance of its
duties. The depositary may refuse to deliver, transfer or register transfers of ADSs generally when our books
or the books of the depositary are closed, or at any time if we or the depositary think it is advisable to do
so because of any requirement of law, government or governmental body, or under any provision of the
deposit agreement, as amended, or for any other reason, subject to ADS holders’ right to cancel their ADSs
and withdraw the underlying ordinary shares. Temporary delays in the cancellation of ADSs and withdrawal
of the underlying ordinary shares may arise because the depositary has closed its transfer books or we have
closed our transfer books, the transfer of ordinary shares is blocked to permit voting at a shareholders’
meeting or we are paying a dividend on our ordinary shares.

In addition, holders of ADSs may not be able to cancel their ADSs and withdraw the underlying

ordinary shares when they owe money for fees, taxes and similar charges and when it is necessary to
prohibit withdrawals in order to comply with any laws or governmental regulations that apply to ADSs or
to the withdrawal of ordinary shares or other deposited securities.

The depositary for the ADSs is entitled to charge holders fees for various services, including annual service
fees.

The depositary for the ADSs is entitled to charge holders fees for various services, including for the

issuance of ADSs upon deposit of ordinary shares, cancellation of ADSs, distributions of cash dividends
or other cash distributions, distributions of ADSs pursuant to share dividends or other free share distributions,
distributions of securities other than ADSs, and annual service fees. In the case of ADSs issued by the
depositary into The Depository Trust Company (DTC), the fees will be charged by the DTC participant to
the account of the applicable beneficial owner in accordance with the procedures and practices of the DTC
participant as in effect at the time.

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Dealings in ordinary shares registered in our Hong Kong register of members will be subject to Hong Kong
stamp duty. There is uncertainty as to whether Hong Kong stamp duty will apply to the trading or conversion
of the ADSs.

In connection with our Hong Kong public offering in 2018, we established a branch register of
members in Hong Kong (the “Hong Kong share register”). Our ordinary shares that are traded on the
HKEx, including those that may be converted from ADSs, are registered on the Hong Kong share register,
and the trading of these ordinary shares on the HKEx are subject to Hong Kong stamp duty. To facilitate
ADS to ordinary share conversion and trading between the Nasdaq and the HKEx, we moved a portion
of our issued ordinary shares from our Cayman share register to our Hong Kong share register.

Under the Hong Kong Stamp Duty Ordinance, any person who effects a sale or purchase of Hong
Kong stock, defined as stock the transfer of which is required to be registered in Hong Kong, is required to
pay Hong Kong stamp duty. The stamp duty is currently set at a total rate of 0.2% of the greater of the
consideration for, or the value of, shares transferred, with 0.1% payable by each of the buyer and the seller.

To the best of our knowledge, Hong Kong stamp duty has not been levied in practice on the trading or

conversion of ADSs of companies that are listed in both the United States and Hong Kong and that have
maintained all or a portion of their ordinary shares, including ordinary shares underlying ADSs, in their
Hong Kong share registers. However, it is unclear whether, as a matter of Hong Kong law, the trading or
conversion of ADSs of these dual-listed companies constitutes a sale or purchase of the underlying Hong
Kong registered ordinary shares that is subject to Hong Kong stamp duty. We advise investors to consult their
own tax advisors on this matter. If Hong Kong stamp duty is determined by the competent authority to
apply to the trading or conversion of the ADSs, the trading price and the value of your investment in our
ADSs or ordinary shares may be affected.

Holders of ADSs may not receive distributions on our ordinary shares or any value for them if it is illegal or
impractical to make them available.

The depositary of the ADSs has agreed to ADS holders the cash dividends or other distributions it or
the custodian for the ADSs receives on our ordinary shares or other deposited securities after deducting its
fees and expenses. ADS holders will receive these distributions in proportion to the number of our ordinary
shares that their ADSs represent. However, the depositary is not responsible for making such payments or
distributions if it is unlawful or impractical to make a distribution available to any holders of ADSs. For
example, it would be unlawful to make a distribution to a holder of ADSs if it consists of securities that
require registration under the Securities Act, but that are not properly registered or distributed pursuant to
an applicable exemption from registration. The depositary is not responsible for making a distribution available
to any holders of ADSs if any government approval or registration required for such distribution cannot
be obtained after reasonable efforts made by the depositary. We have no obligation to take any other action
to permit the distribution of the ADSs, ordinary shares, rights or anything else to holders of the ADSs.
This means that holders of ADSs may not receive the distributions we make on our ordinary shares or any
value for them if it is illegal or impractical for us to make them available to such holders. These restrictions
may materially reduce the value of our ADSs.

Holders of ADSs may not be able to participate in rights offerings and may experience dilution of their
holdings.

From time to time, we may distribute rights to our shareholders, including rights to acquire securities.

Under the deposit agreement, the depositary will not distribute rights to holders of ADSs unless the
distribution and sale of rights and the securities to which these rights relate are either exempt from registration
under the Securities Act with respect to all holders of ADSs or are registered under the Securities Act. The
depositary may, but is not required to, attempt to sell these undistributed rights to third parties and may allow
the rights to lapse. We may be unable to establish an exemption from registration under the Securities Act,
and we are under no obligation to file a registration statement with respect to these rights or underlying
securities or to try to have a registration statement declared effective. Accordingly, holders of ADSs may
be unable to participate in our rights offerings and may experience dilution of their holdings as a result.

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Our corporate actions are substantially controlled by our directors, executive officers and other principal
shareholders, who can exert significant influence over important corporate matters, which may reduce the price
of our ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares and deprive shareholders of an opportunity to receive a
premium for their ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares.

Our directors, executive officers and principal shareholders beneficially owned approximately 55% of
our outstanding ordinary shares as of February 14, 2022. These shareholders, if acting together, could exert
substantial influence over matters such as electing directors and approving material mergers, acquisitions
or other business combination transactions. This concentration of ownership may also discourage, delay or
prevent a change in control of our company, which could have the dual effect of depriving our shareholders
of an opportunity to receive a premium for their shares as part of a sale of our company and reducing the
price of our ordinary shares, ADSs and/or RMB Shares. These actions may be taken even if they are
opposed by our other shareholders. In addition, these persons could divert business opportunities away
from us to themselves or others.

We may be a passive foreign investment company in future taxable years, which may have adverse U.S. federal
income tax consequences for U.S. shareholders.

A non-U.S. corporation will be classified as a “passive foreign investment company” (PFIC) for any

taxable year if either (1) 75% or more of its gross income consists of certain types of passive income or
(2) 50% or more of the average quarterly value of its assets during such year produce or are held for the
production of passive income. Based upon the composition of our income and assets, we believe that we were
not a PFIC for the taxable year ended December 31, 2021. Nevertheless, because our PFIC status must be
determined annually with respect to each taxable year and will depend on the composition and character of
our assets and income, including our use of proceeds from any equity offerings, and the value of our
assets (which may be determined, in part, by reference to the market value of our ADSs and ordinary shares,
which may be volatile) over the course of such taxable year, we may be a PFIC in any taxable year. The
determination of whether we will be or become a PFIC may also depend, in part, on how, and how quickly,
we use our liquid assets and the cash raised in equity offerings. If we determine not to deploy significant
amounts of cash for active purposes, our risk of being a PFIC may substantially increase. Because there are
uncertainties in the application of the relevant rules and PFIC status is a factual determination made
annually after the close of each taxable year, there can be no assurance that we will not be a PFIC for the
current taxable year or any future taxable year. In addition, it is possible that the Internal Revenue Service may
challenge our classification of certain income and assets as non-passive, which may result in our being or
becoming a PFIC in the current or subsequent years.

If we are a PFIC for any taxable year during a U.S. shareholder’s holding period of the ordinary shares

or ADSs, then such U.S. shareholder may incur significantly increased United States income tax on gain
recognized on the sale or other disposition of the ordinary shares or ADSs and on the receipt of distributions
on the ordinary shares or ADSs to the extent such distribution is treated as an “excess distribution” under
the United States federal income tax rules. In addition, such holders may be subject to burdensome reporting
requirements.

Further, if we are classified as a PFIC for any year during which a U.S. shareholder holds our ordinary
shares or ADSs, we generally will continue to be treated as a PFIC for all succeeding years during which such
U.S. shareholder holds such ordinary shares or ADSs. Each U.S. shareholder should consult its tax advisor
regarding the PFIC rules and the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the acquisition, ownership and
disposition of the ordinary shares and ADSs.

If you are a “Ten Percent Shareholder,” you may be subject to adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences if
we are classified as a Controlled Foreign Corporation.

Each “Ten Percent Shareholder” (as defined below) in a non-U.S. corporation that is classified as a

“controlled foreign corporation” (CFC), for U.S. federal income tax purposes is generally required to
include in income for U.S. federal tax purposes such Ten Percent Shareholder’s pro rata share of the CFC’s
“Subpart F income” and investment of earnings in U.S. property, even if the CFC has made no distributions
to its shareholders. Each Ten Percent Shareholder is also required to include in gross income its “global
intangible low-taxed income,” which is determined by reference to the income of CFCs of which such Ten

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Percent Shareholder is a Ten Percent Shareholder. Ten Percent Shareholders that are corporations may be
entitled to a deduction equal to the foreign portion of any dividend when a dividend is paid. A non-U.S.
corporation will generally be classified as a CFC for U.S federal income tax purposes if Ten Percent
Shareholders own in the aggregate, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of either the total combined voting
power of all classes of stock of such corporation entitled to vote or of the total value of the stock of such
corporation. A “Ten Percent Shareholder” is a U.S. person (as defined by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended), who owns or is considered to own 10% or more of the total combined voting power of all
classes of stock entitled to vote of such corporation or 10% of the value of all classes of stock of such
corporation. The determination of CFC status is complex and includes attribution rules, the application of
which is not entirely certain.

Although we believe we are not a CFC now, we may become one or own interests in one in the future.

Holders are urged to consult their own tax advisors with respect to our potential CFC status and the
consequences thereof.

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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

Not applicable.

Item 2.

Properties

We lease all of our facilities, other than the following facilities that we own: our offices and laboratories

in Changping, Beijing, our manufacturing facility in Guangzhou, China, and the site for our planned
manufacturing facility and clinical R&D center at the Princeton Innovation Park in Hopewell, New Jersey.
We lease an aggregate of approximately 91,000 square meters of office space at approximately 37 other
locations across the United States, China, and Europe, in cities such as Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Ridgefield Park, New Jersey; and Emeryville and San Mateo, California in the United States; Beijing,
Shanghai, Suzhou, and Guangzhou in China; and Basel, Switzerland, primarily for our offices and for our
manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China, pursuant to leases with various expiration dates, with the latest
expiring in 2026. We believe that our facilities are currently suitable and sufficient to meet our needs. We
intend to add new facilities or expand existing facilities as we add employees and enter new locations, and
we believe that suitable additional or substitute space will be available as needed to accommodate any such
expansion of our operations.

Please refer to “Note 8: Leases” in the notes to our consolidated financial statements in this Annual

Report on Form 10-K for further information on our real property leases.

Item 3.

Legal Proceedings

From time to time we may become involved in legal proceedings or be subject to claims arising in the
ordinary course of our business. We are not presently a party to any legal proceedings that, if determined
adversely to us, would individually or taken together have a material adverse effect on our business, results of
operations, financial condition or cash flows. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse
impact on us because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources and other factors.

On June 26, 2020, following the suspension and recall of ABRAXANE® in China supplied to us by
Celgene Logistics Sàrl, a Bristol Myers Squibb company (referred to elsewhere in this report as BMS, but
for this paragraph only, “BMS-Celgene”), we initiated an arbitration proceeding at the International Chamber
of Commerce (the ICC) against BMS-Celgene asserting that it had breached and continues to breach the
terms and conditions of the License and Supply Agreement entered into by BeiGene and BMS-Celgene in
July 2017 and a related quality agreement (collectively, the “BMS-Celgene License”). Under the BMS-Celgene
License, we allege that BMS-Celgene is obligated, among other things, to ensure the continuity and
adequacy of its supply of ABRAXANE® to us. In the arbitration proceeding, we are seeking (i) a declaration
that BMS-Celgene was and is in breach of the BMS-Celgene License, (ii) a declaration that BMS-Celgene
acted with gross negligence and/or willful misconduct, (iii) an award of damages, and (iv) such other relief as
the arbitrators deem appropriate. BMS-Celgene responded in part by submitting a counterclaim against us
seeking to recover approximately $17 million in costs that it incurred as part of the ABRAXANE® recall. We
believe that the allegations contained in the counterclaim are without merit and intend to defend the
counterclaim vigorously. A hearing is scheduled in the matter for June 2022. On October 6, 2021,
BMS-Celgene delivered a notice to us purporting to terminate the BMS-Celgene License with respect to
ABRAXANE® and providing 180-days’ notice that it was withdrawing ABRAXANE® from the range of
products for sale or distribution in China pursuant to Section 2.6 of the BMS-Celgene License. We believe that
the reasons stated in the notice do not provide a valid basis for terminating the BMS-Celgene License with
respect to ABRAXANE®, and that the notice is a tactical maneuver on the part of BMS-Celgene to reduce its
damages in the on-going arbitration proceedings described above. We have amended our claims in the
arbitration proceeding to add a claim for wrongful termination of the BMS-Celgene License with respect to
ABRAXANE®.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of

PART II

Equity Securities

Market Information

Our American Depositary Shares (ADSs) have been publicly traded on the NASDAQ Global Select

Market under the symbol “BGNE” since February 3, 2016. Our ordinary shares have been publicly traded
on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx) under the stock code “06160” since August 8, 2018.
Our ordinary shares traded in Renminbi (the RMB Shares) have been publicly traded on the Science and
Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in China under the stock code “688235” since
December 15, 2021.

Shareholders

As of January 31, 2022, we had approximately 83,741 holders of record of our ordinary shares, 83,585
of which are holders of record of our RMB Shares, and 10 holders of record of our ADSs. These number
do not include beneficial owners whose ordinary shares or ADSs are held by nominees in street name. Because
many ordinary shares and ADSs are held by broker nominees, we are unable to estimate the total number
of beneficial holders represented by these record holders.

Dividend Policy

Our board of directors has adopted a dividend policy which provides that we currently intend to retain

all available funds and earnings, if any, to fund the development and expansion of our business, and we do
not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Subject to applicable law and our amended
and restated articles of association, any future determination to pay dividends will be made at the discretion
of our board of directors and may be based on a number of factors, including our future operations and
earnings, capital requirements and surplus, general financial condition, contractual restrictions and other
factors that our board of directors may deem relevant. This dividend policy reflects our board of directors’
current views on our financial and cash flow position. We intend to continue to review our dividend
policy from time to time, and there can be no assurance that dividends will be paid in any particular amount,
if at all, for any given period.

We have never declared or paid any dividends on our ordinary shares or any other securities. If we pay
dividends in the future, in order for us to distribute dividends to our shareholders and holders of ADSs, we
may rely to some extent on dividends distributed by our PRC subsidiaries. PRC regulations may restrict
the ability of our PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to us, and such distributions will be subject to PRC
withholding tax. In addition, PRC regulations currently permit payment of dividends of a PRC company only
out of accumulated distributable after-tax profits, as determined in accordance with our articles of
association and the accounting standards and regulations in the PRC.

Investors should not purchase our ordinary shares, RMB Shares, or ADSs with the expectation of

receiving cash dividends.

Performance Comparison Graph

This graph is not “soliciting material,” is not deemed “filed” with the SEC and is not to be incorporated
by reference into any of our filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, whether made before or after the date hereof and irrespective of any general
incorporation language in any such filing.

The following graph shows the total shareholder return of an investment of $100 in cash at market
close on December 31, 2016 through December 31, 2021 for our ADSs, the NASDAQ Composite Index
(U.S.), and the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index.

Pursuant to applicable SEC rules, all values assume reinvestment of the full amount of any dividends,

although no dividends have been declared or paid to date. The shareholder return shown on the graph below

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is not necessarily indicative of future performance, and we do not make or endorse any predictions as to
future shareholder returns.

COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN*
Among BeiGene, Ltd., the NASDAQ Composite Index
and the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index

$1,000
$900
$800
$700
$600
$500
$400
$300
$200
$100
$0

12/16

12/17

12/18

12/19

12/20

12/21

BeiGene, Ltd.

NASDAQ Composite

NASDAQ Biotechnology

*$100 invested on 12/31/16 in stock or index, including reinvestment of dividends.
Fiscal year ending December 31.

BeiGene, Ltd.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

100.00

321.87

461.99

545.98

851.09

892.39

NASDAQ Composite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

100.00

129.64

125.96

172.17

249.51

304.85

NASDAQ Biotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

100.00

121.63

110.85

138.69

175.33

175.37

12/31/16

12/31/17

12/31/18

12/13/19

12/31/20

12/31/21

Equity Compensation Plan Information

Our equity compensation plan information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the
information in “Part III — Item 12 — Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
and Related Stockholder Matters” of this Annual Report.

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

None.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

None.

Taxation

Cayman Islands Taxation

The Cayman Islands currently levies no taxes on individuals or corporations based upon profits,
income, gains or appreciation, and there is no taxation in the nature of inheritance tax or estate duty or
withholding tax applicable to us or to any holder of the ADSs, ordinary shares and RMB Shares. There are
no other taxes likely to be material to us levied by the Government of the Cayman Islands except for
stamp duties which may be applicable on instruments executed in, or after execution brought within, the
jurisdiction of the Cayman Islands. No stamp duty is payable in the Cayman Islands on the issue of shares
by, or any transfers of shares of, Cayman Islands companies (except those which hold interests in land in the

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Cayman Islands). The Cayman Islands is not party to any double tax treaties that are applicable to any
payments made to or by our company. There are no exchange control regulations or currency restrictions in
the Cayman Islands.

Payments of dividends and capital in respect of the ADSs, ordinary shares and RMB Shares will not

be subject to taxation in the Cayman Islands and no withholding will be required on the payment of a
dividend or capital to any holder of the ADSs, ordinary shares or RMB Shares, as the case may be, nor will
gains derived from the disposal of the ADSs, ordinary shares or RMB Shares be subject to Cayman
Islands income or corporation tax.

PRC Taxation

Under the Enterprise Income Tax Law (EIT Law), an enterprise established outside the PRC with a
“de facto management body” within the PRC is considered a “resident enterprise,” which means that it is
treated in a manner similar to a Chinese enterprise for PRC enterprise income tax purposes. The
implementation rules of the EIT Law define “de facto management body” as a managing body that exercises
substantial and overall management and control over the production and operations, personnel, accounting
and properties of an enterprise. In addition, the Notice Regarding the Determination of Chinese-Controlled
Offshore Incorporated Enterprise as PRC Tax Resident Enterprises on the Basis of De Facto Management
Bodies, or Circular 82, issued by the State Administration of Taxation, which provides guidance on the
determination of the tax residence status of a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise, defines
Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise as an enterprise that is incorporated under the laws of a
foreign country or territory and that has a PRC enterprise or enterprise group as its primary controlling
shareholder. Although BeiGene, Ltd. does not have a PRC enterprise or enterprise group as our primary
controlling shareholder and is therefore not a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise within the
meaning of Circular 82, in the absence of guidance specifically applicable to us, we have applied the
guidance set forth in Circular 82 to evaluate the tax residence status of BeiGene, Ltd. and its subsidiaries
organized outside the PRC.

According to Circular 82, a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise will be regarded as a
PRC tax resident by virtue of having a “de facto management body” in China and will be subject to PRC
enterprise income tax on its worldwide income only if all of the following criteria are met:

• the primary location of the enterprise’s senior executives of the day-to-day operational management

and senior management departments performing their duties is in the PRC;

• decisions relating to the enterprise’s financial and human resource matters are made or are subject to

approval by organizations or personnel in the PRC;

• the enterprise’s primary assets, accounting books and records, company seals, and board and

shareholder meeting minutes are located or maintained in the PRC; and

• 50% or more of voting board members or senior executives habitually reside in the PRC.

Currently, some of the members of our management team are located in China. However, we do not
believe that we meet all of the conditions outlined in the immediately preceding paragraph. BeiGene, Ltd.
and its offshore subsidiaries are incorporated outside the PRC. As a holding company, our key assets and
records, including the resolutions and meeting minutes of our board of directors and the resolutions and
meeting minutes of our shareholders, are located and maintained outside the PRC. We are not aware of
any offshore holding companies with a corporate structure similar to ours that has been deemed a PRC
“resident enterprise” by the PRC tax authorities. Accordingly, we believe that BeiGene, Ltd. and its offshore
subsidiaries should not be treated as a “resident enterprise” for PRC tax purposes if the criteria for
“de facto management body” as set forth in Circular 82 were deemed applicable to us. However, as the tax
residency status of an enterprise is subject to determination by the PRC tax authorities and uncertainties
remain with respect to the interpretation of the term “de facto management body” as applicable to our
offshore entities, we will continue to monitor our tax status.

The implementation rules of the EIT Law provide that, (1) if the enterprise that distributes dividends is

domiciled in the PRC or (2) if gains are realized from transferring equity interests of enterprises domiciled
in the PRC, then such dividends or capital gains are treated as China-sourced income. It is not clear how

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“domicile” may be interpreted under the EIT Law, and it may be interpreted as the jurisdiction where the
enterprise is a tax resident. Therefore, if we are considered as a PRC tax resident enterprise for PRC tax
purposes, any dividends we pay to our overseas shareholders or ADS holders as well as gains realized by such
shareholders or ADS holders from the transfer of our shares or ADSs may be regarded as China-sourced
income. As a result, dividends paid to non-PRC resident enterprise ADS holders or shareholders may be
subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of up to 10% (or 20% in the case of non-PRC individual ADS holders
or shareholders) and gains realized by non-PRC resident enterprise ADS holders or shareholders from the
transfer of our ordinary shares or ADSs may be subject to PRC tax at a rate of 10% (or 20% in the case of
non-PRC individual ADS holders or shareholders). It is also unclear whether, if we are considered a PRC
resident enterprise, holders of our shares or ADSs would be able to claim the benefit of income tax treaties
or agreements entered into between China and other countries or areas.

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Item 6.

Reserved

Not applicable.

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations

together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report.
In addition to historical information, this discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in
these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors. We discuss factors that we believe could cause or
contribute to these differences below and elsewhere in this report, including those set forth under
“Part I — Item 1A — Risk Factors” and under “Forward-Looking Statements and Market Data” in this
Annual Report.

Overview

We are a global, commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing,
manufacturing, and commercializing innovative medicines to improve treatment outcomes and expand
access for patients worldwide.

We currently have three approved medicines that were discovered and developed in our own labs,
including BRUKINSA®, a small molecule inhibitor of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) for the treatment of
various blood cancers; tislelizumab, an anti-PD-1 antibody immunotherapy for the treatment of various
solid tumor and blood cancers; and pamiparib, a selective small molecule inhibitor of PARP1 and PARP2.
We have obtained approvals to market BRUKINSA® in the United States, the People’s Republic of China
(China or the PRC), the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (U.K.), Canada, Australia and
additional international markets, and tislelizumab and pamiparib in China. By leveraging our China
commercial capabilities, we have in-licensed the rights to distribute 13 approved medicines for the China
market. Supported by our global clinical development and commercial capabilities, we have entered into
collaborations with world-leading biopharmaceutical companies such as Amgen and Novartis Pharma AG
(Novartis) to develop and commercialize innovative medicines.

We are committed to advancing best and first-in-class clinical candidates internally or with like-minded

partners to develop impactful and affordable medicines for patients across the globe. Our internal clinical
development capabilities are deep, including a more than 2,200-person global clinical development team that
is running more than 90 ongoing or planned clinical trials in over 30 medicines and drug candidates. This
includes more than 30 pivotal or potentially registration-enabling trials across our portfolio, including our
three internally discovered, approved medicines. We have enrolled in our clinical trials more than 14,500
subjects, of which approximately one-half have been outside of China.

We have built, and are expanding, our internal manufacturing capabilities through our state-of-the-art

biologic and small molecule manufacturing facilities in China to support current and potential future demand
of our medicines, and plan to build a commercial-stage biologics manufacturing and clinical R&D center
in New Jersey. We also work with high quality contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) to manufacture
our internally developed clinical and commercial products.

Since our inception in 2010, we have become a fully integrated global organization of over 8,000

employees in 23 countries and regions, including the United States, China, Europe, and Australia.

Recent Business Developments

On February 22, 2022, we announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
accepted a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for BRUKINSA® (zanubrutinib) for the treatment
of adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL). CLL is
the most common form of adult leukemia. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action
date is October 22, 2022.

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On February 22, 2022, we announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted for
review two new indication applications for our BTK inhibitor BRUKINSA® (zanubrutinib), for the treatment
of patients with CLL and for the treatment of patients with marginal zone lymphoma (MZL).

On February 17, 2022, we announced that BRUKINSA® (zanubrutinib) received approval from
Swissmedic for the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM) who have
received at least one prior line of therapy, or for treatment-naïve patients who are not suited for standard
chemo-immunotherapy. BRUKINSA® had previously been granted orphan drug status.

On January 28, 2022, we announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National

Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted an sNDA for BRUKINSA® (zanubrutinib) as a
treatment for adult patients with CLL or SLL and granted BRUKINSA® breakthrough therapy designation (BTD).

On January 20, 2022, we announced that the CDE of the NMPA accepted an sNDA for BRUKINSA®

as a treatment for adult patients with WM.

On January 6, 2022, we announced that the NMPA approved our anti-PD-1 antibody tislelizumab as a

second-orthird-linetreatmentforpatientswithlocallyadvancedormetastaticnon-smallcelllungcancer(NSCLC).

On December 20, 2021, we announced an option, collaboration and license agreement with Novartis to
develop, manufacture and commercialize our investigational TIGIT inhibitor ociperlimab in North America,
Europe, and Japan. We granted Novartis an exclusive time-based option under which, upon exercise by
Novartis prior to late 2023, we agreed to jointly develop ociperlimab, with Novartis responsible for regulatory
submissions after a transition period and for commercialization upon regulatory approvals in the licensed
territory. During the option period Novartis will conduct and fund additional global clinical trials of
ociperlimab in combination with tislelizumab in selected tumor types. In addition, following option exercise,
both companies may conduct clinical trials globally to explore combinations of ociperlimab with other
cancer treatments. Following approval, we will co-detail the product in the U.S. In addition, the companies
entered into an agreement granting BeiGene rights to market, promote and detail five approved Novartis
oncology products, TAFINLAR® (dabrafenib), MEKINIST® (trametinib), VOTRIENT® (pazopanib),
AFINITOR® (everolimus), and ZYKADIA® (ceritinib).

On December 20, 2021, we announced the official launch of the BeiGene Bioisland Innovation Center

(BIC) in Guangzhou, China to enable scientists and entrepreneurs to accelerate development of highly
differentiated, cutting-edge medical innovations. The BIC is an innovator-centric incubator built on BeiGene’s
goal of supporting exploration of new paths to meet patient needs around the world.

On December 15, 2021, we announced that the United Kingdom (UK) Medicines and Healthcare
products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted a marketing authorization for BRUKINSA® in Great
Britain, for the treatment of eligible adult patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM) who have
received at least one prior therapy or for the first-line treatment of eligible patients unsuitable for chemo-
immunotherapy.

On December 13, 2021, we announced that we entered into a collaboration agreement with Nanjing
Leads Biolabs, Inc. (Leads Biolabs) granting BeiGene worldwide research, development and manufacturing
rights and exclusive commercialization rights outside of China to LBL-007, a novel investigational antibody
targeting the LAG-3 pathway. Leads Biolabs received an upfront cash payment and is eligible to receive
additional milestone payments and royalties pending successful development, regulatory approval and
commercialization of the licensed candidates.

On December 2, 2021, we announced inclusion in the NRDL of anti-PD-1 antibody tislelizumab in
three new indications, including in lung and liver cancers; BRUKINSA® in one new indication; and the
initial listing for PARP inhibitor pamiparib. The changes to the NRDL were effective on January 1, 2022.

On December 2, 2021, we announced the NMPA approved SYLVANT® (siltuximab for injection),
licensed from EUSA Pharma (EUSA), for the treatment of adult patients with multicentric Castleman
disease (MCD) who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) negative and human herpes virus-8 (HHV-8)
negative, also known as idiopathic MCD (iMCD). Siltuximab is a monoclonal antibody approved in the
United States, European Union, and other countries and regions around the world.

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On November 23, 2021, we announced the commencement of an initial public offering (the “STAR

Offering”) on the Science and Technology Innovation Board (the “STAR Market”) of the Shanghai Stock
Exchange (the SSE). The total number of shares offered in the STAR Offering was 115,055,260 ordinary
shares, par value $0.0001 per share, which represents 8.62% of our total outstanding ordinary shares as of
October 31, 2021, after giving effect to the shares being offered. The shares offered in the STAR Offering
(the RMB Shares) were issued to and subscribed for by permitted investors in the PRC and listed and traded
on the STAR Market in Renminbi. On November 30, 2021, we announced the public offering price of the
RMB Shares was RMB192.60 per ordinary share, which equates to HK$234.89 per ordinary share and
$391.68 per ADS, based on an assumed exchange rate of RMB0.81996 to HK$1.00 and RMB6.3924 to
$1.00. On December 14, 2021, we announced that we completed the STAR Offering and the RMB Shares
began trading on the STAR Market under the stock code “688235” on December 15, 2021. The gross proceeds
from the STAR Offering, before deducting underwriting commissions and other estimated offering
expenses, were approximately RMB22.2 billion, or approximately $3.5 billion.

On November 23, 2021, we announced that the European Commission (EC) approved BRUKINSA®

for the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM) who have received at least
one prior therapy or for the first-line treatment of patients unsuitable for chemo-immunotherapy. The
approval is applicable to all 27 European Union (EU) member states, plus Iceland and Norway.

On November 23, 2021, we announced that we purchased a 42-acre site at the Princeton West Innovation

Park in Hopewell, N.J. to house a new state-of-the-art manufacturing campus and clinical R&D center.

On November 14, 2021, we and NewBridge Pharmaceuticals, a specialty company in the Middle East

and North Africa regions established to bridge the access gap by partnering with global pharma and biotech
companies, announced that BRUKINSA® was approved in Saudi Arabia for the treatment of adult
patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who have received at least one prior therapy.

Components of Operating Results

Revenue

Product Revenue

We generate product revenue through the sale of our three internally developed products and our in-

licensed medicines from our partners.

Revenues from product sales are recognized when there is a transfer of control from the Company to
the customer. The Company determines transfer of control based on when the product is delivered, and title
passes to the customer. Revenues from product sales are recognized net of variable consideration resulting
from rebates, chargebacks, trade discounts and allowances, sales returns allowances and other incentives.
Provisions for estimated reductions to revenue are provided for in the same period the related sales are
recorded and are based on contractual terms, historical experience and trend analysis.

Collaboration Revenue

We recognize collaboration revenue for amounts earned under collaborative and out-licensing

arrangements. In January 2021, we entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Novartis,
granting Novartis rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize tislelizumab in the United States,
Canada, Mexico, member countries of the European Union, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland,
Iceland, Liechtenstein, Russia, and Japan (the “Novartis Territory”). There were two performance obligations
identified at the outset of the agreement: (1) the exclusive license to develop, manufacture, and commercialize
tislelizumab in the Novartis Territory, transfer of know-how and use of the tislelizumab trademark and
(2) conducting and completing ongoing trials of tislelizumab (R&D services). Under this agreement, we
received an upfront cash payment, which was allocated between the two performance obligations identified
in the agreement based on the relative standalone selling prices of the performance obligations. The portion
allocated to the license was recognized upon the delivery of the license right and transfer of know-how.
The portion of the upfront payment allocated to the R&D services was deferred and is being recognized as

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collaboration revenue as the R&D services are performed using a percentage of completion method.
Estimated costs to complete are reassessed on a periodic basis and any updates to the revenue earned are
recognized on a prospective basis.

In December 2021, we expanded our collaboration with Novartis by entering into an option,
collaboration and license agreement with Novartis to develop, manufacture and commercialize our
investigational TIGIT inhibitor ociperlimab in the Novartis Territory. In addition, we entered into an
agreement with Novartis which granted us rights to market, promote and detail five approved Novartis
oncology products, TAFINLAR® (dabrafenib), MEKINIST® (trametinib), VOTRIENT® (pazopanib),
AFINITOR® (everolimus), and ZYKADIA® (ceritinib), across designated regions of China referred to as
“broad markets.” There were three performance obligations identified at the outset of the arrangement: (1) a
material right for the option to the exclusive product license, (2) the right to access ociperlimab in clinical
trials during the option period provided to Novartis, combined with the initial transfer of BeiGene know-how,
and (3) conducting clinical trials of ociperlimab during the option period (R&D services). The market
development activities are considered immaterial in the context of the agreements. Under this agreement,
we received an upfront cash payment, which was allocated between the three performance obligations
identified in the agreement based on the relative standalone selling prices of the performance obligations.
The portion allocated to the material right was deferred and will be recognized at the earlier of when Novartis
exercises the option and the license is delivered or the expiration of the option period. The portion of the
transaction price allocated to Novartis’ right to access ociperlimab in its own clinical trials during the option
period and the initial transfer of BeiGene know-how was deferred and is being recognized over the expected
option period. The portion of the transaction price allocated to the R&D services was deferred and is being
recognized as collaboration revenue as the R&D services are performed over the expected option period.

The option exercise fee under the ociperlimab agreement is contingent upon Novartis exercising its
right, and is considered fully constrained until the option is exercised. The potential milestone payments
that we are eligible to receive under both of the Novartis collaborations were excluded from the initial
transaction prices, as all milestone amounts are variable consideration and were fully constrained due to
uncertainty of achievement. Performance-based milestones will be recognized when the milestone event is
achieved or when the risk of revenue reversal is remote. Sales-based milestones and royalties will be
recognized when the underlying sales occur.

Expenses

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales includes the costs to manufacture our internally developed commercial products, as well

as costs to purchase tislelizumab from Boehringer Ingelheim. Additionally, cost of sales included the cost of
in-licensed products purchased for sale in the PRC. Costs to manufacture inventory in preparation
for commercial launch of a product incurred prior to regulatory approval are expensed to research and
development expense as incurred. Cost of sales for newly launched products will not be recorded until the
initial pre-launch inventory is depleted and additional inventory is manufactured. To date, the Company’s
initial pre-launch inventory for its commercial products has been immaterial and has not had a significant
impact on the Company’s gross margin.

Research and Development Expenses

Research and development expenses consist of the costs associated with our research and development

activities, conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials, and activities related to regulatory filings. Our
research and development expenses consist of:

• expenses incurred under agreements with contract research organizations (CROs), CMOs, and

consultants that conduct and support clinical trials and preclinical studies;

• costs of comparator drugs in certain of our clinical trials;

• manufacturing costs related to pre-commercial activities;

• costs associated with preclinical activities and development activities;

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• costs associated with regulatory operations;

• employee-related expenses, including salaries, benefits, travel and share-based compensation expense

for research and development personnel;

• in-process research and development costs expensed as part of collaboration agreements entered

into; and

• other expenses, which include direct and allocated expenses for rent and maintenance of facilities,

insurance and other supplies used in research and development activities.

Our current research and development activities mainly relate to the clinical advancement of our

internally developed medicines and drug candidates:

• BRUKINSA® (zanubrutinib), a small molecule inhibitor of BTK;

• tislelizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody against PD-1;

• ociperlimab, an investigational humanized monoclonal antibody against TIGIT;

• pamiparib, a selective small molecule inhibitor of PARP1 and PARP2;

• BGB-15025, an investigational hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1 (HPK1) inhibitor;

• BGB-11417, an investigational small molecular inhibitor of Bcl-2;

• BGB-A445, an investigational non-ligand competing OX40 monoclonal antibody;

• BGB-16673, an investigational Chimeric Degradation Activating Compound, or CDAC, targeting

BTK; and

• BGB-A425, an investigational humanized monoclonal antibody against TIM-3.

Research and development activities also include costs associated with in-licensed drug candidates,

including:

• R&D expense related to the co-development of pipeline assets under the Amgen collaboration

agreement. Our total cost share obligation to Amgen is split between R&D expense and a reduction
to the R&D cost share liability;

• sitravatinib, an investigational, spectrum-selective kinase inhibitor, licensed from Mirati Therapeutics,

Inc. (Mirati);

• ZW25 (zanidatamab) and ZW49, two investigational bispecific antibody-based product candidates

targeting HER2, licensed from Zymeworks Inc. (Zymeworks); and

• POBEVCY® (BAT1706), a biosimilar to Avastin® (bevacizumab), licensed from Bio-Thera Solutions,

Ltd. (Bio-Thera).

We expense research and development costs when incurred. We record costs for certain development
activities, such as clinical trials, based on an evaluation of the progress to completion of specific tasks using
data such as subject enrollment, clinical site activations or information our vendors provide to us. We
expense the manufacturing costs of our internally developed products that are used in clinical trials as they
are incurred as research and development expense. We do not allocate employee-related costs, depreciation,
rental and other indirect costs to specific research and development programs because these costs are
deployed across multiple product programs under research and development and, as such, are separately
classified as unallocated research and development expenses.

At this time, it is difficult to estimate or know for certain, the nature, timing and estimated costs of the

efforts that will be necessary to complete the development of our internally developed and in-licensed
medicines and drug candidates. This is due to the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with developing
such medicines and drug candidates, including the uncertainty of:

• successful enrollment in and completion of clinical trials;

• establishing an appropriate safety and efficacy profile;

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• establishing and maintaining commercial manufacturing capabilities or making arrangements with

third-party manufacturers;

• receipt of marketing and other required approvals from applicable regulatory authorities;

• successfully launching and commercializing our medicines and drug candidates, if and when

approved, whether as monotherapies or in combination with our medicines and drug candidates or
third-party products;

• market acceptance, pricing and reimbursement;

• obtaining and maintaining patent and trade secret protection and regulatory exclusivity for our

medicines and drug candidates;

• continued acceptable safety and efficacy profiles of the products following approval;

• sufficient supply of the products following approval;

• competition from competing products; and

• retention of key personnel.

A change in the outcome of any of these variables with respect to the development of any of our
medicines and drug candidates would significantly change the costs, timing and viability associated with the
commercialization or development of that medicine or drug candidate.

Research and development activities are central to our business model. We expect research and

development costs to increase for the foreseeable future as our development programs progress, as we
continue to support the clinical trials of our medicines and drug candidates as treatments for various cancers
and as we move these medicines and drug candidates into additional clinical trials, including potential
pivotal trials. There are numerous factors associated with the successful commercialization of any of our
medicines and drug candidates, including future trial design and various regulatory requirements, many of
which cannot be determined with accuracy at this time based on our stage of development. Additionally,
future commercial and regulatory factors beyond our control may impact our clinical development and
commercial programs and plans.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of product promotion costs, distribution

costs, salaries and related benefit costs, including share-based compensation for selling, general and
administrative personnel. Other selling, general and administrative expenses include professional fees for
legal, consulting, auditing and tax services as well as other direct and allocated expenses for rent and
maintenance of facilities, travel costs, insurance and other supplies used in selling, general and administrative
activities. We anticipate that our selling, general and administrative expenses will increase in future periods
to support planned increases in commercialization activities for our approved medicines, and the preparation
for potential launch and commercialization of additional in-licensed products from our collaborations and
internally developed products, if approved. We also expect selling, general and administrative expenses to
increase in future periods to support our research and development efforts, including the continuation of
the clinical trials of our treatments for various cancers and the initiation of clinical trials for potential new
indications or drug candidates. These cost increases will likely be due to increased promotional costs, increased
headcount, increased share-based compensation expenses, expanded infrastructure and increased costs for
insurance. We also incur significant legal, compliance, accounting, insurance and investor and public relations
expenses associated with being a public company with our ADSs, ordinary shares and RMB Shares listed
for trading on The NASDAQ Global Select Market, The Hong Kong Stock Exchange and The STAR Market
of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, respectively.

Interest Income (Expense), Net

Interest Income

Interest income consists primarily of interest generated from our cash and short-term investments in

money market funds, time deposits, U.S. Treasury securities and U.S. agency securities.

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Interest Expense

Interest expense consists primarily of interest on our bank loans and related party loan.

Other Income (Expense), Net

Other income consists primarily of gains recognized related to equity investments, government grants
and subsidies received that involve no conditions or continuing performance obligations by us, realized and
unrealized gains and losses related to foreign currency exchange rates, unrealized gains and losses on
equity securities, and realized gains and losses on the sale of investments. We hold significant cash in the
form of RMB-denominated deposits, including the cash generated from the STAR Market offering in
December 2021. Other income (expense) includes foreign currency remeasurement gains and losses based on
foreign currency exchange rates.

Results of Operations

Comparison of the Years Ended December 31, 2021 and 2020

The following table summarizes our results of operations for the years ended December 31, 2021 and

2020:

Revenues

Year Ended
December 31,

Change

2021

2020

$

%

(dollars in thousands)

Product revenue, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

633,987

$

308,874

$325,113

105.3%

Collaboration revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

542,296

— 542,296

NM

Total revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,176,283

308,874

867,409

280.8%

Expenses

Cost of sales – product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

164,906

70,657

94,249

133.4%

Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,459,239

1,294,877

Selling, general and administrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

990,123

600,176

164,362

389,947

12.7%

65.0%

Amortization of intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

750

846

(96)

(11.3)%

Total expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,615,018

1,966,556

648,462

33.0%

Loss from operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,438,735)

(1,657,682)

218,947

(13.2)%

Interest (expense) income, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other income, net

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(15,757)

15,904

1,998

(17,755)

(888.6)%

37,490

(21,586)

(57.6)%

Loss before income tax expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Income tax benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,438,588)
(25,234)

(1,618,194)
(17,671)

179,606
(7,563)

(11.1)%
42.8%

Net loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,413,354)

(1,600,523)

187,169

(11.7)%

Less: Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest . . . .

—

(3,617)

3,617

(100.0)%

Net loss attributable to BeiGene, Ltd.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$(1,413,354) $(1,596,906) $183,552

(11.5)%

Revenue

Total revenue increased by $867.4 million to $1.2 billion for the year ended December 31, 2021, from

$308.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to collaboration revenue from the
Novartis arrangement, increased sales of our internally developed products, and increased sales from our in-
licensed products.

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The following table summarizes the components of revenue for the year ended December 31, 2021 and

2020, respectively:

Year Ended
December 31,

Changes

2021

2020

$

%

(dollars in thousands)

Product revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 633,987

$308,874

$325,113

105.3%

Collaboration revenue:

License revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

484,646

— 484,646

Research and development service revenue . . . . . . . . . . . .

Right to access intellectual property revenue . . . . . . . . . . .

53,671

3,979

—

—

53,671

3,979

Total collaboration revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

542,296

— 542,296

NM

NM

NM

NM

Total Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$1,176,283

$308,874

$867,409

280.8%

Net product revenue consisted of the following:

Year Ended
December 31,

Changes

2021

2020

$

%

(dollars in thousands)

Tislelizumab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BRUKINSA® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
REVLIMID® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
VIDAZA® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ABRAXANE® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
XGEVA® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BLINCYTO® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$255,119
217,987
70,065
19,591
—

45,956
12,515

12,754

$163,358
41,702
47,372
29,975
17,770

8,496
—

201

$ 91,761
176,285
22,693
(10,384)
(17,770)

37,460
12,515

56.2%
422.7%
47.9%
(34.6)%
(100.0)%

440.9%
NM

12,553

6,245.3%

Total product revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$633,987

$308,874

$325,113

105.3%

Net product revenue was $634.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to

$308.9 million in the prior year, primarily due to increased sales of BRUKINSA® in the United States and
China and tislelizumab in China and in-licensed sales of Amgen’s XGEVA® and BLINCYTO® in China,
which we began distributing in July 2020 and August 2021, respectively.

Product revenues for the year ended December 31, 2021 were negatively impacted by adjustments of

$57.5 million as a result of compensating distributors for products previously sold at the pre-NRDL price,
which remained in the distribution channel, due to the first inclusion of tislelizumab, BRUKINSA®, and
XGEVA® in the updated NRDL effective March 1, 2021 and additional indications for tislelizumab,
BRUKINSA® and pamiparib effective January 1, 2022. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the
inclusion of tislelizumab, BRUKINSA®, XGEVA®, and pamiparib in the NRDL significantly increased
patient demand that more than offset the net effect of price reductions as a result of NRDL inclusion.

Global sales of BRUKINSA® totaled $218.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021,

representing a 422.7% increase compared to the prior year; U.S. sales of BRUKINSA® totaled $115.7 million
for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $18.2 million in the prior year. U.S. sales accelerated in
the period, driven by continued uptake in MCL and FDA approvals in WM and MZL. BRUKINSA® sales in
China totaled $101.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, representing growth of 331% compared
to the prior year, driven by a significant increase in all approved indications, including CLL/SLL.

Sales of tislelizumab in China totaled $255.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, representing
a 56.2% increase compared to the prior year. During the year ended December 31, 2021, new patient demand

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from broader reimbursement and further expansion of our salesforce and hospital listings continued to
drive increased market penetration and market share for tislelizumab. Full year 2021 sales of tislelizumab
included two negative adjustments totaling $45.6 million for distributor channel inventory compensation as
a result of inclusion in the March 2021 and January 2022 NRDL lists.

Collaboration revenue totaled $542.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. $484.6 million was

recognized upon delivery of the tislelizumab license right and transfer of know-how to Novartis under our
collaboration and license agreement with Novartis, $53.7 million was recognized from deferred revenue for
R&D services performed during the year ended December 31, 2021 under both the tislelizumab and
ociperlimab collaborations, and $4.0 million was recognized from deferred revenue for Novartis’ right to
access ociperlimab over the option period (see Footnote 3). We did not have any collaboration revenue during
the year ended December 31, 2020.

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales increased to $164.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 from $70.7 million for
the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to increased product sales of BRUKINSA®, tislelizumab,
and Amgen products.

Gross Margin

Gross margin on global product sales increased to $469.1 million for the year ended December 31,
2021, compared to $238.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to increased product
revenue in the current year period. Gross margin as a percentage of product sales decreased to 74.0% for
the year ended December 31, 2021, from 77.1% in the prior year. The decrease is primarily due to the impact
of the accrued compensation in the first and fourth quarters of 2021 to customers for sales of tislelizumab,
BRUKINSA®, and XGEVA® that remained in the channel and were sold at the pre-NRDL price, as well as
the ongoing lower prices resulting from the listing on the NRDL. These negative impacts to our gross
margin were partially offset by a proportionally higher sales mix of global BRUKINSA® sales and sales of
tislelizumab in China compared to lower margin sales of in-licensed products. Pre-launch inventory carried at
zero or low cost consumed during the year ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 was immaterial
and did not have a significant impact on our gross margin.

Research and Development Expense

Research and development expense increased by $164.4 million, or 12.7%, to $1.5 billion for the year

ended December 31, 2021, from $1,294.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The following table
summarizes the external cost of development programs, upfront license fees, and internal research and
development expense for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:

Year Ended
December 31,

Changes

2021

2020

$

%

(dollars in thousands)

External research and development expense:

Cost of development programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 477,761

$ 502,399

$ (24,638)

(4.9)%

Upfront license fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Amgen co-development expenses(1)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total external research and development expenses . . . . . . . .
Internal research and development expenses . . . . . . . . . . . .

83,500
115,464

676,725
782,514

109,500
117,005

728,904
565,973

(26,000)
(1,541)

(23.7)%
(1.3)%

(52,179)
216,541

(7.2)%
38.3%

Total research and development expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$1,459,239

$1,294,877

$164,362

12.7%

(1) Our co-funding obligation for the development of the pipeline assets under the Amgen collaboration
for the year ended December 31, 2021 totaled $228.0 million, of which $115.5 million was recorded as
R&D expense. The remaining $112.5 million was recorded as a reduction for the R&D cost share liability.

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The decrease in external research and development expenses for the year ended December 31, 2021 was
primarily attributable to lower upfront license fees under collaboration agreements, lower external spending
related to fees paid to external CROs as we internalize previously outsourced activities, and a decrease in
the expense recognized on co-development fees to Amgen.

Internal research and development expense increased $216.5 million, primarily attributable to the
expansion of our global development organization including the internalization of previously outsourced
activities and the continued development of our clinical and preclinical drug candidates, and included the
following:

• $109.0 million increase of employee salary and benefits, primarily attributable to hiring more

research and development personnel to support our expanding research and development activities;

• $52.4 million increase of facilities, depreciation, office expense, rental fees, and other expenses to

support the growth of our organization;

• $21.4 million increase of share-based compensation expense, primarily attributable to our increased

headcount, resulting in more awards being expensed related to the growing employee population; and

• $17.7 million increase of materials and reagent expenses, primarily in connection with the in-house

manufacturing of drug candidates used for clinical purposes; and

• $16.1 million increase of consulting fees, which was mainly attributable to increased travel and

meeting expense related to scientific, regulatory and development consulting activities, in connection
with the advancement of our drug candidates.

Selling, General and Administrative Expense

Selling, general and administrative expense increased by $389.9 million, or 65.0%, to $990.1 million for
the year ended December 31, 2021, from $600.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase
was primarily attributable to the following:

• $175.7 million increase of employee salary and benefits, which was primarily attributable to the
expansion of our commercial organizations in China, the United States, Canada, Europe and
emerging markets, and the hiring of more personnel to support our growing business;

• $119.1 million increase in external commercial-related expenses, including market research, sales and

marketing, consulting and conference related expenses, related to the growth of our global
commercial organization, as we continue to build our worldwide footprint and capabilities;

• $59.3 million increase of professional fees, consulting, recruiting, information technology, tax,
accounting and audit services, and facility expenses, rental fees, office expenses, and other
administrative expenses, primarily attributable to the global expansion of our business, including the
expansion of our commercial operations in China, the United States and Europe; and

• $35.9 million increase in share-based compensation expense, primarily attributable to our increased

headcount of sales and administrative employees, resulting in more awards being expensed related to
the growing sales and administrative employee population.

Interest (Expense) Income, Net

Interest (expense) income, net decreased by $17.8 million, or 888.6%, to $15.8 million of net interest

expense for the year ended December 31, 2021, from $2.0 million of net interest income for the year ended
December 31, 2020. The decrease in interest income, net, was primarily attributable to decreased interest
income, as a result of lower interest rates, as well as increased interest expense, resulting from higher debt
balances.

Other Income, Net

Other income, net decreased by $21.6 million to $15.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021,

from $37.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The income for the year ended December 31,
2021 was primarily due to the unrealized gain on our investment in Leap Therapeutics, as well as a realized

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foreign exchange loss on the proceeds received from the STAR Market offering. The income for the year
ended December 31, 2020 resulted from unrealized gains on equity investments, as well as a gain recognized
in conjunction with the deconsolidation of MapKure LLC.

Income Tax Benefit

Income tax benefit was $25.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared with income tax

benefit of $17.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The income tax benefit for the year ended
December 31, 2021 was primarily attributable to the deferred tax benefit of U.S. stock-based compensation
deductions in excess of tax expense on income reported in certain China subsidiaries as adjusted for
certain non-deductible expenses.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The following table represents our cash, short-term investments, and debt balances as of December 31,

2021:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

2020

(in thousands)

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$4,382,887

$1,390,005

Short-term investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$2,241,962

$3,268,725

Total debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 629,678

$ 518,652

We have incurred annual net losses and negative cash flows from operations since inception, resulting

from the funding of our research and development programs and selling, general and administrative expenses
associated with our operations, as well as to support the commercialization of our products globally. We
incurred net losses of $1.4 billion and $1.6 billion for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020,
respectively. As of December 31, 2021, we had an accumulated deficit of $5.0 billion.

To date, we have financed our operations principally through proceeds from public and private
offerings of our securities and proceeds from our collaborations, together with product sales since
September 2017. Based on our current operating plan, we expect that our existing cash, cash equivalents
and short-term investments as of December 31, 2021 will enable us to fund our operating expenses and capital
expenditure requirements for at least the next 12 months after the date that the financial statements
included in this report are issued.

On June 28, 2021, the Listing Committee of the Science and Technology Innovation Board (the
“STAR Market”) of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (the SSE) approved the listing application which we
submitted in January 2021 to the SSE for a proposed public offering of our ordinary shares and listing of
such shares on the STAR Market of the SSE (the “STAR Offering”). On December 15, 2021, we completed
the initial public offering on the SSE. The shares offered in the STAR Offering were issued to and subscribed
for by permitted investors in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Renminbi (RMB Shares). The public
offering price of the RMB Shares was RMB192.60 per ordinary share, or $391.68 per ADS. In this
offering, we sold 115,055,260 ordinary shares. Net proceeds after deducting underwriting discounts and
commissions and offering expenses were $3.4 billion. As required by the PRC securities laws, the net proceeds
from the STAR Offering must be used in compliance with the planned uses as disclosed in the PRC
prospectus as well as our proceeds management policy for the STAR Offering approved by our board of
directors.

In January 2021, we entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Novartis, granting
Novartis rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize tislelizumab in North America, Europe, and
Japan. Under the agreement, we received an upfront cash payment of $650 million from Novartis. In
December 2021, we expanded our collaboration with Novartis by entering into an option, collaboration
and license agreement with Novartis to develop, manufacture and commercialize our investigational TIGIT
inhibitor ociperlimab in the Novartis Territory. In addition, we and Novartis entered into an agreement
granting us rights to market, promote and detail five approved Novartis oncology products. Under the terms

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of the agreement, we received an upfront cash payment of $300 million in January 2022, which is not
included in our cash balance at December 31, 2021.

The following table provides information regarding our cash flows for the years ended December 31,

2021 and 2020:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

2020

(in thousands)

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period . . .

$ 1,390,005

$

620,775

Net cash used in operating activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,298,723)

(1,283,461)

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

640,659

(3,168,366)

Net cash provided by financing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3,636,911

5,202,826

Net effect of foreign exchange rate changes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

14,035

Net increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash . . . . . . .

2,992,882

18,231

769,230

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period . . . . . . .

$ 4,382,887

$ 1,390,005

Operating Activities

Cash flows from operating activities is net income adjusted for certain non-cash items and changes in

assets and liabilities.

Operating activities used $1.3 billion of cash for the year ended December 31, 2021, which resulted
principally from our net loss of $1.4 billion and an increase in our net operating assets and liabilities of
$118.3 million, partially offset by non-cash charges and adjustments of $233.0 million. The non-cash charges
and adjustments were primarily driven by share-based compensation expense, charges for acquired in-
process research and development costs, and depreciation and amortization expense, offset by amortization
of the research and development cost share liability and deferred income tax benefits. The increase in
working capital was driven largely by increases in accounts receivable, inventory and prepaid expenses, offset
by increases in accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities and deferred revenue resulting from
the upfront option payment from Novartis.

Operating activities used $1.3 billion of cash for the year ended December 31, 2020, which resulted

principally from our net loss of $1.6 billion, partially offset by non-cash charges and adjustments of
$166.5 million and a decrease in our net operating assets and liabilities of $150.6 million. The non-cash
charges and adjustments were primarily driven by share-based compensation expense, offset by amortization
of the research and development cost share liability. The decrease in working capital was driven largely by
increases in accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities, offset by increases in inventory and
prepaid expenses.

Investing Activities

Cash flows from investing activities consist primarily of capital expenditures, investment purchases,

sales, maturities, and disposals, and upfront payments related to our collaboration agreements.

Investing activities provided $640.7 million of cash for the year ended December 31, 2021, consisting

of $2.1 billion in purchases of short-term investment securities, $262.9 million of capital expenditures,
$43.4 million in purchases of intangible assets, $43.5 million in purchases of long-term investments and
$8.5 million upfront collaboration payments, all of which were offset by sales and maturities of investment
securities of $3.1 billion.

Investing activities used $3.2 billion of cash for the year ended December 31, 2020, consisting of
$5.7 billion in purchases of investment securities, $117.5 million of capital expenditures, and $109.5 million
upfront collaboration payments, all of which were offset by sales and maturities of investment securities
of $2.8 billion.

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Financing Activities

Cash flows from financing activities consist primarily of sale of ordinary shares, RMB Shares, and

ADSs through equity offerings, issuance and repayment of short-term and long-term debt, and proceeds
from the sale of ADSs through employee equity compensation plans.

Financing activities provided $3.6 billion of cash for the year ended December 31, 2021, consisting

primarily of $3.4 billion of net proceeds from our STAR Offering in December 2021, $406.4 million from
proceeds of short-term loans, $92.8 million from the exercise of employee share options and proceeds from
the issuance of shares through our employee share purchase plan, $50.0 million from the sale of our
shares to Amgen, and $16.8 million from proceeds of long-term bank loans. These inflows were partially
offset by $321.8 million of repayment of short-term loans.

Financing activities provided $5.2 billion of cash for the year ended December 31, 2020. This consisted
primarily of $2.8 billion received from our collaboration with Amgen and $2.1 billion from a registered direct
offering of ordinary shares to certain existing investors. Other inflows included $93.1 million from the
exercise of employee share options and proceeds from the issuance of shares through our employee share
purchase plan, and $433.9 million from loan proceeds. These inflows were partially offset by $144.3 million
of repayment of principal under the loan between Guangzhou High-tech Zone Technology Holding Group
Co., Ltd. (GET) BeiGene Biologics (the Shareholder Loan) and $28.7 million of cash consideration paid
for the acquisition of the remaining 5% minority interest in our subsidiary BeiGene Biologics Co.,
Ltd.(BeiGene Biologics).

Effects of Exchange Rates on Cash

We have substantial operations in the PRC, which generate a significant amount of RMB-denominated
cash from product sales and require a significant amount of RMB-denominated cash to pay our obligations.
Additionally, on December 15, 2021, we received RMB21.7 billion in net proceeds from the STAR Offering.
Since the reporting currency of the Company is the U.S. dollar, periods of volatility in exchange rates
may have a significant impact on our consolidated cash balances.

Future Liquidity and Material Cash Requirements

Until such time, if ever, as we can generate substantial product revenue sufficient to cover our costs and
capital investments, we may be required to finance our cash needs through a combination of equity offerings,
debt financings, collaboration agreements, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements, government grants,
and other available sources. Under the rules of the SEC, we currently qualify as a “well-known seasoned
issuer,” which allows us to file shelf registration statements to register an unspecified amount of securities that
are effective upon filing. In May 2020, we filed such a shelf registration statement with the SEC for the
issuance of an unspecified amount of ordinary shares (including in the form of ADSs), preferred shares,
various series of debt securities and/or warrants to purchase any of such securities, either individually or
in units, from time to time at prices and on terms to be determined at the time of any such offering. This
registration statement was effective upon filing and will remain in effect for up to three years from filing, prior
to which time we may file another shelf registration statement that will be effective for up to three years
from filing.

To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities,

the ownership interest of our shareholders will be diluted, and the terms of these securities may include
liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect your rights as a holder of ADSs, ordinary shares, or
RMB Shares. Debt financing, if available, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting
our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures, or
declaring dividends, and may require the issuance of warrants, which could potentially dilute your ownership
interest. If we raise additional funds through collaboration agreements, strategic alliances or licensing
arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish valuable rights to our medicines or drug
candidates, future revenue streams or research programs, or to grant licenses on terms that may not be
favorable to us. If we are unable to raise additional funds through equity or debt financings, collaborations
or other sources when needed, we may be required to delay, limit, reduce or terminate our product development

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or commercialization efforts or grant rights to develop and market products or drug candidates that we
would otherwise prefer to develop and market ourselves.

Our material cash requirements in the short- and long-term consist of the following operational,
capital, and manufacturing expenditures, a portion of which contain contractual or other obligations. We
plan to fund our material cash requirements with our current financial resources together with our anticipated
receipts of accounts receivable, product sales and royalty revenues, and reimbursements we expect to
receive under our existing collaboration and license agreements.

Contractual and Other Obligations

The following table summarizes our significant contractual obligations as of December 31, 2021:

Payments Due by Period

Total

Short-term

Long-term

(in thousands)

Contractual obligations:
Operating lease commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Purchase commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Debt obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Interest on debt

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

70,218

$ 24,225

$ 45,993

168,687

629,678

57,299

110,345

427,565

24,336

58,342

202,113

32,963

Co-development funding commitment

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

791,059

244,800

546,259

Funding commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Research and development commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pension plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Capital commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12,750

27,985

7,814

42,394

4,250

5,659

1,604

42,394

8,500

22,326

6,210

—

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$1,807,884

$885,178

$922,706

Operating Lease Commitments

We lease office or manufacturing facilities in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Guangzhou in China;
office facilities in California, Massachusetts, Maryland, and New Jersey in the United States; and in Basel,
Switzerland under non-cancelable operating leases expiring on various dates. Payments under operating leases
are expensed on a straight-line basis over the respective lease terms. The aggregate future minimum
payments under these non-cancelable operating leases are summarized in the table above.

Purchase Commitments

As of December 31, 2021, purchase commitments amounted to $168.7 million, of which $76.0 million

related to minimum purchase requirements for supply purchased from CMOs and $92.7 million related to
binding purchase order obligations of inventory from BMS and Amgen. We do not have any minimum
purchase requirements for inventory from BMS or Amgen.

Debt Obligations and Interest

Total debt obligations coming due in the next twelve months is $427.6 million. Total long-term debt
obligations are $202.1 million. See Note 13 in the Notes to the Financial Statements for further detail of
our debt obligations.

Interest on bank loans and the Related Party Loan is paid quarterly until the respective loans are fully

settled. For the purpose of contractual obligations calculation, current interest rates on floating rate
obligations were used for the remainder contractual life of the outstanding borrowings.

Co-Development Funding Commitments

Under our collaboration with Amgen, we are responsible for co-funding global clinical development
costs for the licensed oncology pipeline assets, up to a total cap of $1.25 billion. We are funding our portion

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of the co-development costs by contributing cash and/or development services. As of December 31, 2021,
our remaining co-development funding commitment was $0.8 billion.

Funding Commitment

Funding commitment represents our committed capital related to one of our equity method investments
in the amount of $15.0 million. As of December 31, 2021, our remaining capital commitment was $12.8 million
and is expected to be paid from time to time over the investment period.

Research and Development Commitment

We entered into long-term research and development agreements, which includes obligations to make

upfront payments and fixed quarterly payments over the next five years. As of December 31, 2021, the total
research and development commitment amounted to $28.0 million.

Pension Plan

We maintain a defined benefit pension plan in Switzerland. Funding obligations under the defined
benefit pension plan are equivalent to $1.6 million per year based on annual funding contributions in effect
as of December 31, 2021 to achieve fully funded status where the market value of plan assets equals the
projected benefit obligations. Future funding requirements will be subject to change as a result of future
changes in staffing and compensation levels, various actuarial assumptions and actual investment returns on
plan assets.

Capital Commitments

We had capital commitments amounting to $42.4 million for the acquisition of property, plant and

equipment as of December 31, 2021, which were mainly for our biologics manufacturing facility in
Guangzhou, China, small molecule manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China, and research and development
operations at the Changping facility in Beijing, China.

Other Obligations

We expect to make a significant investment in our future manufacturing facility in the United States, a 42-

acre site that will be constructed in Hopewell, NJ, and for which we purchased for $75.2 million. We expect
significant capital expenditures as we build out the Hopewell facility over the next several years.

We also enter into agreements in the ordinary course of business with CROs to provide research and
development services. These contracts are generally cancellable at any time by us with prior written notice.

We also enter into collaboration agreements with institutions and companies to license intellectual
property. We may be obligated to make future development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments
and royalty payments on future sales of specified products associated with these agreements. Payments
under these agreements generally become due and payable upon achievement of such milestones or sales.
These commitments are not recorded on our balance sheet because the achievement and timing of these
milestones are not fixed and determinable. When the achievement of these milestones or sales have occurred,
the corresponding amounts are recognized in our financial statements. Future milestone payments
potentially owed related to in-licensed technology totaled $5.7 billion as of December 31, 2021.

Critical Accounting Estimates

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our
financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted
in the United States of America (GAAP). The preparation of these financial statements requires us to
make estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues,
costs and expenses. We evaluate our estimates and judgments on an ongoing basis, and our actual results may
differ from these estimates. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events,
contractual milestones and other various factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances,

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the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities
that are not readily apparent from other sources.

Certain of these estimates are considered critical as they involve a significant level of estimation
uncertainty and have had or are reasonably likely to have a material impact on our consolidated financial
statements. Our critical accounting estimates are summarized below. See Note 2 to our consolidated financial
statements included in this Annual Report for a description of our significant accounting policies.

Revenue Recognition

We recognize revenue when we transfer control of goods or services to our customers. Revenue is
measured as the amount of consideration we expect to receive in exchange for goods and services. We
generate revenue from product sales and revenue transactions with our collaboration partners.

Product Revenue

To determine the appropriate transaction price for our product sales at the time we recognize a sale to a

direct customer, we estimate any rebates, chargebacks or discounts that ultimately will be due to the direct
customer and other customers in the distribution chain under the terms of our contracts. Significant
judgments are required in making these estimates. We include variable consideration in the transaction price
to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal will not occur and estimate variable consideration
from rebates, chargebacks, trade discounts and allowances, sales returns allowances, and other incentives
using the expected value method.

Estimates for variable consideration for which reserves are established at the time of sale include
government and commercial rebates, provisions for acceptance of NRDL pricing, chargebacks, trade
discounts and allowances, sales returns allowances and other incentives that are offered within contracts
between the Company and our customers, health care providers and other indirect customers. Where
appropriate, these estimates take into consideration a range of possible outcomes that are probability-
weighted for relevant factors such as our historical experience, current contractual and statutory requirements,
channel inventory levels, specific known market events and trends, industry data and forecasted customer
buying and payment patterns.

We base our sales returns allowance on estimated distributor inventories, customer demand as reported
by third-party sources, and actual returns history, as well as other factors, as appropriate. For newly launched
products where actual returns history is not yet available, the sales returns allowance is initially calculated
based on benchmarking data from similar products and industry experience. If the historical or benchmarking
data we use to calculate these estimates do not properly reflect future returns, then a change in the allowance
would be made in the period in which such a determination is made and revenues in that period could be
materially affected. Any changes from the historical trend rates are considered in determining the current sales
return allowance. To date, sales returns have not been significant.

Actual amounts of consideration ultimately received may differ from our estimates. We will reassess

estimates for variable consideration periodically. If actual results in the future vary from our estimates, we
will adjust these estimates, which would affect net product revenue and earnings in the period such variances
become known.

Collaboration Revenue

Our collaborative arrangements may contain more than one unit of account, or performance obligation,
including grants of licenses to intellectual property rights, agreements to provide research and development
services and other deliverables. As part of the accounting for these arrangements, we must develop
assumptions that require significant judgments to determine the standalone selling price for each performance
obligation identified in the contract.

Standalone selling prices for licenses of intellectual property and the right to access and use intellectual

property during an option period performance obligations are determined based on the probability-
weighted present value of forecasted cash flows associated with the intellectual property. Stand-alone selling

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prices for research and development services performance obligations are based on the present value of
estimated clinical trial costs plus a reasonable margin.

The estimates of standalone selling prices involve management’s key assumptions such as revenue
growth rate, estimated clinical trial costs, mark-up rate, probability of technical and regulatory success, and
discount rates. These significant assumptions are forward looking and could be affected by future economic,
regulatory and market conditions.

Research and Development Expenses

Clinical trial costs are a significant component of our research and development expenses. We have a
history of contracting with third parties that perform various clinical trial activities on behalf of us in the
ongoing development of our product candidates. Expenses related to clinical trials are accrued based on our
estimates of the actual services performed by the third parties for the respective period. If the contracted
amounts are modified (for instance, as a result of changes in the clinical trial protocol or scope of work to
be performed), we will modify the related accruals accordingly on a prospective basis. Revisions in the scope
of a contract are charged to expense in the period in which the facts that give rise to the revision become
reasonably certain.

The process of estimating our external research and development expenses involves reviewing open

contracts and purchase orders, communicating with our personnel to identify services that have been
performed on our behalf and estimating the level of service performed and the associated costs incurred for
the services when we have not yet been invoiced or otherwise notified of the actual costs. The majority of
our service providers invoice us in arrears for services performed, on a pre-determined schedule or when
contractual milestones are met; however, some require advanced payments. We make estimates of our expenses
as of each balance sheet date in our financial statements based on facts and circumstances known to us at
that time. Although we do not expect our estimates to be materially different from amounts actually incurred,
our understanding of the status and timing of services performed relative to the actual status and timing
of services performed may vary and may result in us reporting expenses that are too high or too low in any
particular period. To date, we have not made any material adjustments to our prior estimates of research and
development expenses.

Income Taxes

Deferred tax assets represent amounts available to reduce income taxes payable on taxable income in

future years. Such assets arise because of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax
basis of assets and liabilities, as well as from net operating losses and tax credit carryforwards. We evaluate
the recoverability of these future tax deductions and credits by assessing the adequacy of future expected
taxable income from all sources, including reversal of temporary differences, forecasted operating earnings
and available tax planning strategies. These sources of income rely heavily on estimates that are based on a
number of factors, including historical experience and short-range and long-range business forecasts. A
valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not that some portion or all of a deferred tax asset
will not be realized.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report for information

regarding recent accounting pronouncements.

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Interest and Credit Risk

Financial instruments that are potentially subject to credit risk consist of cash and cash equivalents,

restricted cash, short term investments and accounts receivable.

We had cash and cash equivalents of $4.4 billion, $1.4 billion and $618.0 million, restricted cash of
$7.2 million, $8.1 million and $2.8 million, and short-term investments of $2.2 billion, $3.3 billion and

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$0.4 billion, at December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Our cash and cash equivalents are deposited
with various major reputable financial institutions located within or without the PRC. The deposits placed
with these financial institutions are not protected by statutory or commercial insurance. In the event of
bankruptcy of one of these financial institutions, we may be unlikely to claim our deposits back in full.
We believe that these financial institutions are of high credit quality, and we continually monitor the credit
worthiness of these financial institutions. At December 31, 2021, our short-term investments consisted
primarily of U.S. treasury securities. We believe that U.S. treasury securities are of high credit quality and
continually monitor the credit worthiness of these institutions.

The primary objectives of our investment activities are to preserve principal, provide liquidity, and

maximize income without significant increasing risk. Our primary exposure to market risk relates to
fluctuations in the interest rates, which are affected by changes in the general level of PRC and U.S. interest
rates. Given the short-term nature of our cash equivalents, we believe that a sudden change in market
interest rates would not be expected to have a material impact on our financial condition and/or results of
operation. We estimate that a hypothetical 100-basis point increase or decrease in market interest rates would
result in a decrease of $15.1 million or increase of $6.7 million, respectively, in the fair value of our
investment portfolio as of December 31, 2021.

We do not believe that our cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments have significant risk of
default or illiquidity. While we believe our cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments do not contain
excessive risk, we cannot provide absolute assurance that in the future investments will not be subject to
adverse changes in market value.

We had accounts receivable, net of $483,113, $60,403 and $70,878 at December 31, 2021, 2020 and
2019, respectively. Accounts receivable, net represent amounts arising from product sales and amounts due
from the our collaboration partners. We monitor economic conditions to identify facts or circumstances that
may indicate receivables are at risk of collection. To date, we have not experienced any significant losses
with respect to the collection of our accounts receivable.

Currency Convertibility Risk

A significant portion of our expenses, assets, and liabilities are denominated in RMB. In 1994, the
PRC government abolished the dual rate system and introduced a single rate of exchange as quoted daily by
the People’s Bank of China (the PBOC). However, the unification of exchange rates does not imply that
the RMB may be readily convertible into U.S. dollars or other foreign currencies. All foreign exchange
transactions continue to take place either through the PBOC or other banks authorized to buy and sell foreign
currencies at the exchange rates quoted by the PBOC. Approvals of foreign currency payments by the
PBOC or other institutions require submitting a payment application form together with suppliers’ invoices,
shipping documents and signed contracts.

Additionally, the value of the RMB is subject to changes in central government policies and international

economic and political developments affecting supply and demand in the PRC foreign exchange trading
system market.

Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk

We are exposed to foreign exchange risk arising from various currency exposures. Our reporting
currency is the U.S. dollar, but a portion of our operating transactions and assets and liabilities are in other
currencies, such as RMB, Euro, and Australian dollar.

RMB is not freely convertible into foreign currencies for capital account transactions. The value of
RMB against the U.S. dollar and other currencies is affected by, among other things, changes in China’s
political and economic conditions and China’s foreign exchange prices. Since 2005, the RMB has been
permitted to fluctuate within a narrow and managed band against a basket of certain foreign currencies. The
RMB compared to the U.S. dollar appreciated approximately 2.3%, appreciated approximately 6.3%, and
depreciated approximately 1.3% for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. It is
difficult to predict how market forces or PRC or U.S. government policy may impact the exchange rate between
the RMB and the U.S. dollar in the future.

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To the extent that we need to convert U.S. dollars into RMB for capital expenditures, working capital
and other business purposes, appreciation of RMB against the U.S. dollar would have an adverse effect on
the RMB amount we would receive from the conversion. Conversely, if we decide to convert RMB into U.S.
dollars for the purpose of making payments for dividends on our ordinary shares, strategic acquisitions or
investments or other business purposes, appreciation of the U.S. dollar against RMB would have a negative
effect on the U.S. dollar amount available to us.

In addition, a significant depreciation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar may significantly reduce the
U.S. dollar equivalent of our foreign cash balances and trade receivables. Further, volatility in exchange rate
fluctuations may have a significant impact on the foreign currency translation adjustments recorded in
other comprehensive income (loss). We have not used derivative financial instruments to hedge exposure to
foreign exchange risk.

Effects of Inflation

Inflation generally affects us by increasing our cost of labor and clinical development costs. We do not

believe that inflation has had a material effect on our results of operations during the year ended December 31,
2021.

Item 8.

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

The financial statements required to be filed pursuant to this item are appended to this Annual Report.
An index of those financial statements is in “Part IV — Item 15 — Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.”

Item 9.

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Based on their evaluation, required by paragraph (b) of Rules 13a-15 or 15d-15, promulgated under the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), our principal executive officer and
principal financial officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in
Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act are effective, at a reasonable assurance level, as of
December 31, 2021, to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports that we file or submit
under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified
in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include,
without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by
us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our
management, including our principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar
functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating
the disclosure controls and procedures, our management recognized that any controls and procedures, no
matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurances of achieving the desired
control objectives, and management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in designing and evaluating
the controls and procedures.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over

financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Our internal
control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability
of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over
financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of
effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of
changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

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Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive

Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control
over financial reporting based on the framework in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by
the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on our assessment and
those criteria, management concluded that we maintained effective internal control over financial reporting
as of December 31, 2021.

The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021, has been
tested by Ernst & Young Hua Ming LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in
their report which is included in “Item 8 — Financial Statements and Other Supplementary Data” in this
Annual Report.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the

evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the
three months ended December 31, 2021 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially
affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Item 9B. Other Information

None.

Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections

Not applicable.

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PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

The information required under this item is incorporated herein by reference to our definitive proxy

statement pursuant to Regulation 14A, which proxy statement will be filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the close of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.

Item 11.

Executive Compensation

The information required under this item is incorporated herein by reference to our definitive proxy

statement pursuant to Regulation 14A, which proxy statement will be filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the close of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.

Item 12.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder
Matters

The information required under this item is incorporated herein by reference to our definitive proxy

statement pursuant to Regulation 14A, which proxy statement will be filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the close of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

The information required under this item is incorporated herein by reference to our definitive proxy

statement pursuant to Regulation 14A, which proxy statement will be filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the close of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.

Item 14.

Principal Accounting Fees and Services

Our independent public accounting firm is Ernst & Young Hua Ming LLP (PCAOB ID: 1408), located

in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

The information required under this item is incorporated herein by reference to our definitive proxy

statement pursuant to Regulation 14A, which proxy statement will be filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the close of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.

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Item 15.

Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

PART IV

The financial statements listed in the Index to Consolidated Financial Statements beginning on

page F-1 are filed as part of this Annual Report.

No financial statement schedules have been filed as part of this Annual Report because they are not
applicable, not required or the information required is shown in the financial statements or the notes thereto.

The exhibits filed as part of this Annual Report are set forth on the Exhibit Index immediately
following our consolidated financial statements. The Exhibit Index is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 16.

Form 10-K Summary

Not applicable.

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BEIGENE, LTD.

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 . . . .

Consolidated statements of comprehensive loss for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and

2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 . . . .

Page

F-2

F-6

F-7

F-8

F-9

Consolidated statements of shareholders’ equity for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and

2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-10

Notes to consolidated financial statements

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-11

F-1

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of BeiGene, Ltd.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of BeiGene, Ltd. (the Company) as of

December 31, 2021 and 2020, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, cash
flows and shareholders’ equity for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2021, and the
related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the
consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company
at December 31, 2021 and 2020, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years
in the period ended December 31, 2021, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight

Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31,
2021, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of
Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) and our report dated February 28,
2022 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is

to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting
firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in
accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities
and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require

that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements
are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures
to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and
performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis,
evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included
evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as
evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable
basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the

financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and
that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our
especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does
not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are
not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit
matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

F-2

Accrual of research and development expenses

Description of
the Matter

During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recognized $1,459.2 million in
research and development (“R&D”) expenses. The balance of accrued external R&D
activities related expenses as of December 31, 2021 amounted to approximately
$213.9 million. As described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, R&D
expenses include costs related to clinical trials paid to third-party contract research
organizations and contract manufacturing organizations (collectively referred as
“Outsourced Service Providers”).

Auditing the accrual of R&D expenses related to Outsourced Service Providers is
complex because the clinical trial activities with the Outsourced Service Providers are
typically performed over an extended period with several milestones for the services in
each agreement. As a result, R&D expenses are allocated to each financial reporting
period based upon the progress of the clinical trial activities. Determining the progress
of the clinical trial activities requires significant estimates and judgment. These
estimates are based on several factors, including management’s knowledge of the
clinical trial activities associated with timelines, invoicing to date and the provisions in
the contracts. Changes in these estimates can have a material effect on the amount of
R&D expenses recognized during the reporting period.

How We
Addressed the
Matter in Our
Audit

We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating
effectiveness of controls over the accrual of the R&D expenses. For example, we tested
controls over management’s review of the R&D accrual method and the estimates of
the actual services performed by the Outsourced Service Providers.

To test the accrual of R&D expenses, our audit procedures included, among others,
reading the contracts with Outsourced Service Providers on a sample basis and
understanding and testing the estimates on the progress of clinical trial activities
developed by management. Testing management’s estimates involved evaluating
management’s assumptions used in the calculation related to the clinical trial activities
and associated timelines, invoicing to date and the provisions in the contracts. We then
evaluated the accrual of R&D expenses by comparing it to the subsequent progress
billings issued by the Outsourced Service Providers. We also assessed the accrual
methodology used by the Company, including the adequacy of related disclosures in the
consolidated financial statements.

Allocation of transaction price in relation to the Novartis Tislelizumab Agreement

Description of
the Matter

As described in Notes 2 and 3 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements, the
Company entered into a collaboration and license agreement for tislelizumab with
Novartis Pharma AG (“the Novartis Tislelizumab Agreement”), which resulted in the
recognition of $538.1 million of revenue for the year ended December 31, 2021 and
$111.9 million of deferred revenue as of December 31, 2021. The Company evaluated
the Novartis Tislelizumab Agreement under ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with
Customers (“ASC 606”) and identified two performance obligations within the
arrangement: 1) exclusive license for Novartis to develop, manufacture, and
commercialize tislelizumab in the Novartis Territory, transfer of know-how and use of
the tislelizumab trademark (“PD-1 License obligation”); and 2) conducting and
completing ongoing trials of tislelizumab (“R&D services obligation”). The transaction
price of $650.0 million was allocated to each performance obligation based on their
relative standalone selling prices. The standalone selling price of the PD-1 License
obligation is determined using the adjusted market assessment approach based on the
probability-weighted present value of forecasted cash flows associated with out-
licensing tislelizumab in the Novartis Territory. The standalone selling price of R&D
services obligation is determined using an expected cost plus a margin approach based
on the present value of estimated tislelizumab clinical trial costs plus a reasonable

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How We
Addressed the
Matter in Our
Audit

margin. The transaction price allocated to the PD-1 License obligation was recognized
at a point in time when the license was delivered and the transfer of know-how was
completed. The transaction price allocated to the R&D services obligation was deferred
and recognized over time using a percentage-of-completion method.

Auditing the Company’s allocation of the transaction price in relation to the Novartis
Tislelizumab Agreement is complex due to the significant estimates and judgments
involved in determining the standalone selling prices for each performance obligation
identified. The estimates of the standalone selling prices involved management’s key
assumptions such as revenue growth rate, estimated clinical trial costs, mark-up rate,
probability of technical and regulatory success, and discount rates. These significant
assumptions are forward looking and could be affected by future economic, regulatory,
and market conditions, which in turn led to significant auditor judgment, subjectivity
and effort in performing procedures to evaluate audit evidence for these estimates.

We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating
effectiveness of controls over the allocation of the transaction price in relation to the
Novartis Tislelizumab Agreement. For example, we tested controls over management’s
review of the valuation methodologies and significant assumptions used in determining
the estimated standalone selling prices of the identified performance obligations.

To test the allocation of the transaction price in relation to the Novartis Tislelizumab
Agreement, our audit procedures included, among others, evaluating the valuation
methodologies and the discount rates used by management to determine the standalone
selling prices of the identified performance obligations, with the assistance of our
internal valuation specialists. We tested the significant assumptions and the
completeness and accuracy of the underlying data used by the Company in developing
its projected future cashflows, including the revenue growth rate, the estimated clinical
trial costs, mark-up rate and the probability of technical and regulatory success. We
compared these significant assumptions to industry, business and market data and
information available from third-party sources. We evaluated the sensitivity of the
mark-up rate, probability of technical and regulatory success, and discount rates by
assessing the changes to revenue recognition amounts from changes in these
assumptions, both individually and in the aggregate. In addition, we assessed the
adequacy of the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.

/s/ Ernst & Young Hua Ming LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2014
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
February 28, 2022

F-4

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of BeiGene, Ltd.

Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We have audited BeiGene, Ltd.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021,

based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of
Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). In our
opinion, BeiGene, Ltd. (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over
financial reporting as of December 31, 2021, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2021
and 2020, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, cash flows and
shareholders’ equity for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2021, and the related
notes and our report dated February 28, 2022 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial
reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in
the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on
our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent
with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules
and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that
we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over
financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.

Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing

the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of
internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary
in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable

assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for
external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control
over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of
records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets
of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit
preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that
receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of
management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or
timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a
material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect
misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk
that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with
the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/ Ernst & Young Hua Ming LLP

Beijing, People’s Republic of China
February 28, 2022

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BEIGENE, LTD.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollars (“$”), except for number of shares and per share data)

Assets
Current assets:

Cash and cash equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Short-term restricted cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Short-term investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accounts receivable, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
Total current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Long-term restricted cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Property, plant and equipment, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease right-of-use assets
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Intangible assets, net
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred tax assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other non-current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total non-current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Liabilities and shareholders’ equity
Current liabilities:

Accounts payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accrued expenses and other payables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred revenue, current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tax payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease liabilities, current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Research and development cost share liability, current portion . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Short-term debt
Total current liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Non-current liabilities: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Long-term debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred revenue, non-current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease liabilities, non-current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred tax liabilities
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Research and development cost share liability, non-current portion . . . . . . .
Other long-term liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total non-current liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Commitments and contingencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Equity:
Ordinary shares, 0.0001 par value per share; 9,500,000,000 shares authorized;

1,334,804,281 and 1,190,821,941 shares issued and outstanding as of
December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Additional paid-in capital
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accumulated other comprehensive income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accumulated deficit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total liabilities and equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

As of December 31,

Note

2021
$

2020
$

4
5

6
12

4
9
8
10
11
12

12
3
11
8
3
13

13
3
8
11
3
12

21

17

4,375,678
328
2,241,962
483,113
242,626
270,173
7,613,880
6,881
587,605
117,431
46,679
110,424
163,049
1,032,069
8,645,949

262,400
558,055
187,414
21,395
21,925
120,801
427,565
1,599,555

202,113
220,289
43,041
14,169
269,561
54,234
803,407
2,402,962

1,381,950
307
3,268,725
60,403
89,293
160,012
4,960,690
7,748
357,686
90,581
5,000
65,962
113,090
640,067
5,600,757

231,957
346,144
—
20,380
13,895
127,808
335,015
1,075,199

183,637
—
29,417
10,792
375,040
57,429
656,315
1,731,514

133
11,191,007
17,950
(4,966,103)
6,242,987
8,645,949

118
7,414,932
6,942
(3,552,749)
3,869,243
5,600,757

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
F-6

BEIGENE, LTD.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollars (“$”), except for number of shares and per share data)

Revenues

Product revenue, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Collaboration revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Note

14

3

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

633,987

542,296

308,874

—

Total revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,176,283

308,874

Expenses

Cost of sales – product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Selling, general and administrative . . . . . . . . . . .

Amortization of intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . .

10

164,906

1,459,239

990,123

750

70,657

1,294,877

600,176

846

222,596

205,616

428,212

71,190

927,338

388,249

1,326

Total expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,615,018

1,966,556

1,388,103

Loss from operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,438,735)

(1,657,682)

(959,891)

Interest (expense) income, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other income, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5

(15,757)

15,904

1,998

37,490

9,131

7,174

Loss before income taxes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,438,588)

(1,618,194)

(943,586)

Income tax (benefit) expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11

(25,234)

(17,671)

6,992

Net loss

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,413,354)

(1,600,523)

(950,578)

Less: net loss attributable to noncontrolling

interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

—

(3,617)

(1,950)

Net loss attributable to BeiGene, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,413,354)

(1,596,906)

(948,628)

Net loss per share attributable to BeiGene, Ltd.,

basic and diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

15

(1.17)

(1.47)

(1.22)

Weighted-average shares outstanding, basic and

diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

15

1,206,210,049

1,085,131,783

780,701,283

Net loss per American Depositary Share (ADS),

basic and diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(15.23)

(19.13)

(15.80)

Weighted-average ADSs outstanding, basic and

diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

92,785,388

83,471,676

60,053,945

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
F-7

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollars (“$”), except for number of shares and per share data)

BEIGENE, LTD.

Year Ended December 31,

Note

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

Net loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,413,354)

(1,600,523)

(950,578)

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax of nil:

Foreign currency translation adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pension liability adjustments

Unrealized holding loss, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

17
20

17

13,714
1,865

(4,571)

23,603
(8,113)

(419)

(9,424)
—

(448)

Comprehensive loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,402,346)

(1,585,452)

(960,450)

Less: comprehensive loss attributable to noncontrolling

interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

—

(3,489)

(2,295)

Comprehensive loss attributable to BeiGene, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . .

(1,402,346)

(1,581,963)

(958,155)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
F-8

BEIGENE, LTD.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollars (“$”), except for number of shares and per share data)

Year Ended December 31,

Note

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

Cash flows from operating activities:

Net loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,413,354)

(1,600,523)

(950,578)

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

Depreciation and amortization expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Share-based compensation expense
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Acquired in-process research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Amortization of research and development cost share liability . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Unrealized gains on equity investments
Deferred income tax benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other items, net

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

Accounts receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other assets
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accounts payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accrued expenses and other payables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Net cash used in operating activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cash flows from investing activities:

Purchases of property and equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchases of short-term investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proceeds from sale or maturity of short-term investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchase of in-process research and development
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchase of intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchase of long-term investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other investing activities
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cash flows from financing activities: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proceeds from public offering, net of cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proceeds from sale of ordinary shares, net of cost
Proceeds from research and development cost share liability . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Payment to acquire joint venture (JV) minority interest
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proceeds from long-term loan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Repayment of long-term loan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proceeds from short-term loans
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Repayment of short-term loans
Capital contribution from noncontrolling interest
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proceeds from option exercises and employee share purchase plan . . . . . . . . .
Net cash provided by financing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash . . . . . . .
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, beginning of year . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, end of year
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Supplemental cash flow disclosures:

Effect of foreign exchange rate changes, net

Cash and cash equivalents
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Short-term restricted cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Long-term restricted cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Income taxes paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Interest paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Supplemental non-cash activities:

16

3
5

10
5

18
18
3
7
13
13
13
13

46,457
240,712
83,500
(112,486)
(7,632)
(41,085)
23,510

(423,019)
(153,333)
(107,128)
20,008
140,044
407,703
(2,620)
(1,298,723)

(262,942)
(2,147,881)
3,146,891
(8,500)
(43,409)
(43,500)
—
640,659

3,392,616
50,000
—
—
16,838
—
406,449
(321,754)
—
92,762
3,636,911
14,035
2,992,882
1,390,005
4,382,887

4,375,678
328
6,881
15,695
29,967

31,789
183,481
109,500
(113,986)
(11,826)
(27,807)
(4,673)

10,363
(58,906)
(56,217)
95,835
185,012
—
(25,503)
(1,283,461)

(117,508)
(5,663,727)
2,751,075
(109,500)
—
(26,681)
(2,025)
(3,168,366)

—
4,232,017
616,834
(28,723)
110,208
(132,061)
323,697
(12,247)
—
93,101
5,202,826
18,231
769,230
620,775
1,390,005

1,381,950
307
7,748
10,596
44,130

Acquisitions of equipment included in accounts payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchase of in-process research and development included in accounts payable . .

53,197
75,000

42,762
—

18,617
134,154
69,000
—
—
(9,232)
(1,397)

(29,822)
(12,311)
(20,737)
2,224
71,596
(27,982)
6,199
(750,269)

(89,612)
(1,169,300)
1,882,075
(69,000)
—
—
—
554,163

—
—
—
—
67,489
(32,813)
—
—
4,000
47,004
85,680
(9,512)
(119,938)
740,713
620,775

618,011
288
2,476
8,984
4,315

29,086
—

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
F-9

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollars (“$”), except for number of shares and per share data)

BEIGENE, LTD.

Attributable to BeiGene, Ltd.

Ordinary Shares

Shares

Amount

Additional
Paid-In
Capital

Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income/(Loss)

Accumulated
Deficit

Total

Non-
Controlling
Interests

Total

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

Balance at December 31, 2018 .

.

.

Contributions from shareholders .

.

.

.

.

776,263,184

—

Exercise of options, ESPP and release
.
.

of RSUs

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Issuance of shares reserved for share
.

option exercises .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Share-based compensation .

Other comprehensive loss .

Net loss .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Balance at December 31, 2019 .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Proceeds from issuance of ordinary

shares, net of cost .

.

.

.

.

.

.

Issuance of ordinary shares in

connection with collaboration .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Exercise of options, ESPP and release
.
.

of RSUs

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Use of shares reserved for share
option exercises and RSU
.
.
releases .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Share-based compensation .

.

.

.

.

Deconsolidation of a subsidiary .

Acquisition of joint venture (JV)
.

minority interest

.

.

.

.

.

Other comprehensive income

Net loss .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Balance at December 31, 2020 .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Issuance of ordinary shares in

connection with STAR Offering .

Proceeds from issuance of ordinary

shares, net of cost .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Exercise of options, ESPP and release
.
.

of RSUs

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Use of shares reserved for share
.

option exercises .

.

.

.

.

.

Share-based compensation .

Other comprehensive income

Net loss .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Balance at December 31, 2021 .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

77

—

2

—

—

—

—

79

14

21

3

1

—

—

—

—

—

20,571,675

4,505,839

—

—

—

801,340,698

145,838,979

206,635,013

38,020,892

(1,013,641)

—

—

—

—

—

2,069,596

2,162,386

93,098

—

183,481

—

(19,599)

—

—

1,190,821,941

118

7,414,932

115,055,260

2,151,877

28,778,893

(2,003,690)

—

—

—

12

—

3

—

—

—

—

3,392,604

50,000

92,759

—

240,712

—

—

2,744,814

1,526

(1,007,215)

1,739,202

14,445

1,753,647

—

47,002

—

134,154

—

—

—

—

—

—

(9,527)

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

4,000

4,000

47,004

—

134,154

—

—

—

(9,527)

(345)

47,004

—

134,154

(9,872)

(948,628)

(948,628)

(1,950)

(950,578)

2,925,970

(8,001)

(1,955,843)

962,205

16,150

978,355

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

14,943

—

6,942

—

—

—

—

—

11,008

— 2,069,610

— 2,069,610

— 2,162,407

— 2,162,407

—

—

—

—

—

—

93,101

1

183,481

—

—

—

—

(3,545)

93,101

1

183,481

(3,545)

(19,599)

(9,116)

(28,715)

14,943

128

15,071

(1,596,906)

(1,596,906)

(3,617)

(1,600,523)

(3,552,749)

3,869,243

— 3,869,243

— 3,392,616

— 3,392,616

—

—

—

—

—

50,000

92,762

—

240,712

11,008

—

—

—

—

50,000

92,762

—

240,712

11,008

—

(1,413,354)

(1,413,354)

— (1,413,354)

1,334,804,281

133

11,191,007

17,950

(4,966,103)

6,242,987

— 6,242,987

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
F-10

BEIGENE, LTD.

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

1. Organization

BeiGene, Ltd. (the “Company”, “BeiGene”, “it”, “its”) is a global, commercial-stage biotechnology
company focused on discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing innovative medicines to
improve treatment outcomes and expand access for patients worldwide.

The Company currently has three approved medicines that were discovered and developed in its own

labs, including BRUKINSA®, a small molecule inhibitor of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) for the
treatment of various blood cancers, tislelizumab, an anti-PD-1 antibody immunotherapy for the treatment
of various solid tumor and blood cancers, and pamiparib, a selective small molecule inhibitor of PARP1 and
PARP2. The Company has obtained approvals to market BRUKINSA® in the United States, the People’s
Republic of China (China or the PRC), the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (U.K.), Canada,
Australia and additional international markets, and tislelizumab and pamiparib in China. By leveraging its
China commercial capabilities, the Company has in-licensed the rights to distribute 13 approved medicines
for the China market. Supported by its global clinical development and commercial capabilities, the Company
has entered into collaborations with world-leading biopharmaceutical companies such as Amgen and
Novartis Pharma AG (Novartis) to develop and commercialize innovative medicines.

The Company is committed to advancing best and first-in-class clinical candidates internally or with like-

minded partners to develop impactful and affordable medicines for patients across the globe. Its internal
clinical development capabilities are deep, including a more than 2,200-person global clinical development
team that is running more than 90 ongoing or planned clinical trials in over 30 medicines and drug candidates.
This includes more than 30 pivotal or potentially registration-enabling trials across its portfolio, including
its three internally discovered, approved medicines. The Company has enrolled in its clinical trials more than
14,500 subjects, of which approximately one-half have been outside of China.

The Company has built, and is expanding, its internal manufacturing capabilities, through its state-of-

the-art biologic and small molecule manufacturing facilities in China to support current and potential future
demand of its medicines, and plans to build a commercial-stage biologics manufacturing and clinical R&D
center in New Jersey. The Company also works with high quality contract manufacturing organizations
(CMOs) to manufacture its internally developed clinical and commercial products.

Since its inception in 2010, the Company has become a fully integrated global organization of over 8,000

employees in 23 countries and regions, including the United States, China, Europe, and Australia.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The consolidated financial statements include the financial
statements of the Company and its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions and balances
between the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries are eliminated upon consolidation.

Noncontrolling interests are recognized to reflect the portion of the equity of subsidiaries which are

not attributable, directly or indirectly, to the controlling shareholders. Prior to 2020, the Company
consolidated its interests in its joint ventures, BeiGene Biologics Co., Ltd. (BeiGene Biologics) and MapKure,
LLC (MapKure), under the voting model and recognized the minority shareholders’ equity interest as a
noncontrolling interest in its consolidated financial statements. In June 2020, the Company deconsolidated
MapKure and recorded an equity method investment for its remaining ownership interest in the joint venture

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

(see Note 5). In November 2020, the Company acquired the remaining equity interest in BeiGene Biologics.
Subsequent to the share purchase, BeiGene Biologics is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (see
Note 7).

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires
management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities,
and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported
amounts of revenues and expenses during the period. Areas where management uses subjective judgment
include, but are not limited to, estimating the useful lives of long-lived assets, estimating variable
consideration in product sales and collaboration revenue arrangements, identifying separate accounting units
and the standalone selling price of each performance obligation in the Company’s revenue arrangements,
assessing the impairment of long-lived assets, valuation and recognition of share-based compensation
expenses, realizability of deferred tax assets, estimating uncertain tax positions, valuation of inventory,
estimating the allowance for credit losses, determining defined benefit pension plan obligations, measurement
of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities and the fair value of financial instruments. Management bases
the estimates on historical experience, known trends and various other assumptions that are believed to be
reasonable, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and
liabilities. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Functional Currency and Foreign Currency Translation

Functional currency

The Company uses the United States dollar (“$” or U.S. dollar) as its reporting currency. Operations in

subsidiaries are recorded in the functional currency of the respective subsidiary. The determination of
functional currency is based on the criteria of Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) 830, Foreign Currency
Matters.

Foreign currency translation

For subsidiaries whose functional currencies are not the U.S. dollar, the Company uses the average
exchange rate for the year and the exchange rate at the balance sheet date, to translate the operating results
and financial position to U.S. dollar, the reporting currency, respectively. Translation differences are recorded
in accumulated other comprehensive loss, a component of shareholders’ equity. Transactions denominated
in currencies other than the functional currency are translated into the functional currency at the exchange
rates prevailing on the transaction dates. Foreign currency denominated financial assets and liabilities are
remeasured at the exchange rates prevailing at the balance sheet date. Exchange gains and losses are included
in the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.

Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash on hand and bank deposits, which are unrestricted as to
withdrawal and use. The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity date of
three months or less at the date of purchase to be cash equivalents. Cash equivalents which consist primarily
of money market funds are stated at fair value.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Restricted cash

Restricted cash primarily consists of RMB-denominated cash deposits pledged in designated bank
accounts as collateral for bank loans and letters of credit. The Company classifies restricted cash as current
or non-current based on the term of the restriction.

Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Credit Losses

Trade accounts receivable are recorded at their invoiced amounts, net of trade discounts and allowances
as well as an allowance for credit losses. The allowance for credit losses reflects the Company’s current estimate
of credit losses expected to be incurred over the life of the receivables. The Company considers various
factors in establishing, monitoring, and adjusting its allowance for credit losses including the aging of
receivables and aging trends, customer creditworthiness and specific exposures related to particular customers.
The Company also monitors other risk factors and forward-looking information, such as country specific
risks and economic factors that may affect a customer’s ability to pay in establishing and adjusting its allowance
for credit losses. Accounts receivable are written off after all collection efforts have ceased.

Inventory

Prior to the regulatory approval of product candidates, the Company may incur expenses for the
manufacture of drug product to support the commercial launch of those products. Until the date at which
regulatory approval has been received or is otherwise considered probable, all such costs are recorded as
research and development expenses as incurred.

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost and net realizable value, with cost determined in a manner
that approximates the first-in, first-out method. The Company periodically analyzes its inventory levels, and
writes down inventory that has become obsolete, inventory that has a cost basis in excess of its estimated
realizable value and inventory in excess of expected sales requirements as cost of product sales. The
determination of whether inventory costs will be realizable requires estimates by management. If actual
market conditions are less favorable than projected by management, additional write-downs of inventory
may be required, which would be recorded in the consolidated statements of operations.

Investments

The Company’s investments consist of available-for-sale debt securities, public equity securities with
readily determinable fair values, private equity securities without readily determinable fair values, and equity-
method investments. The classification of an investment is determined based on the nature of the investment,
the Company’s ability and intent to hold the investment, and the degree to which the Company may exercise
influence over the investee.

• Available-for-sale debt securities are stated at fair value, with the unrealized gains and losses, net of
tax, reported in other comprehensive loss. The net carrying value of debt securities classified as
available-for-sale is adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts to maturity.
Such amortization is computed using the effective interest method and included in interest income.
Interest and dividends are included in interest income. Available-for-sale debt securities with original
maturities greater than three months at the date of purchase and less than one year from the date
of the balance sheet are classified as short-term. Available-for-sale debt securities with maturities
beyond one year may be classified as short-term marketable securities due to their highly liquid nature
and because they represent the Company’s investments that are available for current operations.

• Public equity securities with readily determinable fair values are recorded at fair value. Subsequent

changes in fair value are recorded in other income, net. Derivative financial instruments to purchase

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

public equity securities are recorded at fair value. The estimated fair value of derivative financial
instruments is determined based on the Black-Scholes valuation model. Changes in fair value of
derivative instruments are recorded in other income, net.

• Private equity securities without readily determinable fair values and where the Company does not
have significant influence are measured at cost minus impairment, if any, plus or minus changes
resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for the identical or a similar investment
of the same issuer. Adjustments to private equity securities are recorded in other income, net.

• Equity investments in common stock or in-substance common stock where the Company has

significant influence over the financial and operating policies of the investee are accounted for as
equity-method investments. Equity-method investments are initially recorded at cost and subsequently
adjusted based on the Company’s percentage ownership in the investee’s income and expenses, as
well as dividends, if any. The Company records its share of the investee’s results of operations in other
income, net. The Company records impairment losses on our equity method investments if it deems
the impairment to be other-than-temporary. The Company deems an impairment to be other-than-
temporary based on various factors, including but not limited to, the length of time the fair value is
below the carrying value and ability to retain the investment to allow for a recovery in fair value.

Realized gains or losses on sales of investments are determined based on the specific identification

method.

The Company regularly evaluates its investments in debt and equity for impairment. The Company

recognizes an allowance on available-for-sale debt securities when a portion of the unrealized loss is
attributable to a credit loss and a corresponding credit loss in net income. No impairment losses or allowance
for credit losses on investments were recorded for any periods presented.

Property, Plant and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation and amortization.
Property, plant and equipment, other than land and construction in progress, are depreciated using the
straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets as follows:

Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

20 years

Manufacturing equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 to 10 years

Laboratory Equipment

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 to 5 years

Useful Lives

Software, Electronic and Office Equipment
Leasehold Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesser of useful life or lease term

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 to 5 years

Leases

Effective January 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASC, Topic 842, Leases (ASC 842) using the effective

date method. The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. The Company has lease
agreements with lease and non-lease components, which are accounted for as a single lease component based
on the Company’s policy election to combine lease and non-lease components for its leases. Leases are
classified as operating or finance leases in accordance with the recognition criteria in ASC 842-20-25. The
Company’s lease portfolio consists entirely of operating leases as of December 31, 2021. The Company’s
leases do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

At the commencement date of a lease, the Company determines the classification of the lease based on
the relevant factors present and records a right-of-use (ROU) asset and lease liability. ROU assets represent

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

the right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent the obligation to make
lease payments arising from the lease. ROU assets and lease liabilities are calculated as the present value of the
lease payments not yet paid. Variable lease payments not dependent on an index or rate are excluded from
the ROU asset and lease liability calculations and are recognized in expense in the period which the obligation
for those payments is incurred. As the rate implicit in the Company’s leases is not typically readily available,
the Company uses an incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease
commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. This incremental borrowing rate
reflects the fixed rate at which the Company could borrow on a collateralized basis the amount of the lease
payments in the same currency, for a similar term, in a similar economic environment. ROU assets include any
lease prepayments and are reduced by lease incentives. Operating lease expense for lease payments is
recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Lease terms are based on the non-cancelable term of
the lease and may contain options to extend the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will
exercise that option.

Operating leases are included in operating lease right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities on the

consolidated balance sheet. Lease liabilities that become due within one year of the balance sheet date are
classified as current liabilities.

Leases with an initial lease term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the consolidated balance

sheet. Lease expense for these leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

Land Use Right, Net

All land in the PRC is owned by the PRC government. The PRC government may sell land use rights
for a specified period of time. Land use rights represent operating leases in accordance with ASC 842. The
purchase price of land use rights represents lease prepayments to the PRC government and is recorded as an
operating lease ROU asset on the balance sheet. The ROU asset is amortized over the remaining lease
term.

In 2017, the Company acquired a land use right from the local Bureau of Land and Resources in
Guangzhou for the purpose of constructing and operating the Company’s biologics manufacturing facility
in Guangzhou. In 2019, the Company acquired a second Guangzhou land use right from the local Bureau of
Land and Resources. In 2021, the Company acquired two land use rights from the local Bureau of Land
and Resources to expand its biologics manufacturing facility in Guangzhou. Guangzhou land use rights are
being amortized over the respective terms of the land use rights, which are each 50 years.

In 2018, the Company acquired a land use right in conjunction with the acquisition of Beijing Innerway
Bio-tech Co., Ltd. The land use right is being amortized over the term of the land use right, which is 36 years.

In 2020, the Company acquired a land use right from the local Bureau of Land and Resources in
Suzhou to construct its research, development and manufacturing facility in Suzhou. The land use right is
being amortized over the term of the land use right, which is 30 years.

Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

Goodwill is an asset representing the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a

business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized. The Company allocates
the cost of an acquired entity to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair
values at the date of acquisition. The excess of the purchase price for acquisitions over the fair value of the
net assets acquired, including other intangible assets, is recorded as goodwill. Goodwill is not amortized, but
is tested for impairment at least annually or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances would
indicate a potential impairment.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

The Company has elected to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than
not that the fair value of the Company’s reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, including goodwill.
The qualitative assessment includes the Company’s evaluation of relevant events and circumstances affecting
the Company’s single reporting unit, including macroeconomic, industry, and market conditions, the
Company’s overall financial performance, and trends in the market price of the Company’s ADSs. If
qualitative factors indicate that it is more likely than not that the Company’s reporting unit’s fair value is
less than its carrying amount, then the Company will perform the quantitative impairment test by comparing
the reporting unit’s carrying amount, including goodwill, to its fair value. If the carrying amount of the
reporting unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment loss will be recognized in an amount equal to that excess.
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 the Company determined that there were no
indicators of impairment of goodwill.

Intangible assets acquired through business combinations are recognized as assets separate from goodwill

and are measured at fair value upon acquisition. Intangible assets acquired in transactions that are not
business combinations are recorded at the allocated portion of total consideration transferred based on their
relative fair value in relation to net assets acquired. Intangible assets associated with milestone payments
made to third parties subsequent to regulatory approval are recorded at cost. Identifiable intangible assets
consist of distribution rights for approved cancer therapies licensed from BMS that are amortized on a
straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets, which is 10 years; post-approval milestone
payments under license and commercialization agreements, that are amortized over the remainder of the
product patent or the term of the commercialization agreements; and trading licenses that are amortized over
the initial license term.

Intangible assets with finite useful lives are tested for impairment when events or circumstances occur
that could indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. When these events occur,
the Company evaluates the recoverability of the intangible assets by comparing the carrying amount of the
assets to the future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of the assets and their eventual
disposition. If the sum of the expected undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying amount of the assets,
the Company recognizes an impairment loss based on the excess of the carrying amount of the assets over
their fair value. Fair value is generally determined by discounting the cash flows expected to be generated by
the assets, when the market prices are not readily available. For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020
and 2019, the Company determined that there were no indicators of impairment of its other intangible assets.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment in accordance with authoritative guidance for impairment
or disposal of long-lived assets. Long-lived assets are reviewed for events or changes in circumstances, which
indicate that their carrying value may not be recoverable. Long-lived assets are reported at the lower of
carrying amount or fair value less cost to sell. For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, there
was no impairment of the value of the Company’s long-lived assets.

Fair Value Measurements

Fair value of financial instruments

The Company applies ASC topic 820 (ASC 820), Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, in measuring
fair value. ASC 820 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and requires disclosures
to be provided on fair value measurement. ASC 820 establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which
prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:

Level 1 — Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in

active markets.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Level 2 — Include other inputs that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace.

Level 3 — Unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity.

ASC 820 describes three main approaches to measuring the fair value of assets and liabilities: (1) market
approach; (2) income approach; and (3) cost approach. The market approach uses prices and other relevant
information generated from market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities. The
income approach uses valuation techniques to convert future amounts to a single present value amount. The
measurement is based on the value indicated by current market expectations about those future amounts.
The cost approach is based on the amount that would currently be required to replace an asset.

Financial instruments measured at fair value on a recurring basis

The following tables set forth assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31,

2021 and 2020:

Quoted Price
in Active
Market for
Identical
Assets
(Level 1)

Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)

Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)

$

$

As of December 31, 2021

Cash equivalents

U.S. treasury securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Money market funds

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

107,855

315,564

Short-term investments (Note 5):

U.S. treasury securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,241,962

Other non-current assets (Note 5):

Equity securities with readily determinable fair values . . .

23,809

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,689,190

—

—

—

10,306

10,306

Quoted Price
in Active
Market for
Identical
Assets
(Level 1)

Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)

Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)

$

$

As of December 31, 2020

Cash equivalents

U.S. treasury securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Money market funds

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

286,072

80,838

Short-term investments (Note 5):

U.S. treasury securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3,268,725

Other non-current assets (Note 5):

Equity securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10,810

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3,646,445

—

—

—

6,669

6,669

The Company’s cash equivalents are highly liquid investments with original maturities of 3 months or
less. Short-term investments represent the Company’s investments in available-for-sale debt securities. The

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$

—

—

—

—

—

$

—

—

—

—

—

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Company determines the fair value of cash equivalents and available-for-sale debt securities using a market
approach based on quoted prices in active markets.

The Company’s equity securities carried at fair value consist of holdings in common stock and warrants

to purchase additional shares of common stock of Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (Leap), which were acquired in
connection with a collaboration and license agreement entered into in January 2020 and in Leap’s underwritten
public offering in September 2021. The common stock investment in Leap, a publicly-traded biotechnology
company, is measured and carried at fair value and classified as Level 1. The warrants to purchase additional
shares of common stock in Leap are classified as a Level 2 investment and are measured using the Black-
Scholes option-pricing valuation model, which utilizes a constant maturity risk-free rate and reflects the
term of the warrants, dividend yield and stock price volatility, that is based on the historical volatility of
similar companies. Refer to Note 5, Investments for details of the determination of the carrying amount of
private equity investments without readily determinable fair values and equity method investments.

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the fair values of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts
receivable, accounts payable, and short-term debt approximated their carrying values due to their short-term
nature. Long-term debt approximates its fair value due to the fact that the related interest rates approximate
the rates currently offered by financial institutions for similar debt instrument of comparable maturities.

Revenue Recognition

Effective January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASC, Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers

(ASC 606) using the modified retrospective method.

Under ASC 606, an entity recognizes revenue when its customer obtains control of promised goods or
services, in an amount that reflects the consideration that the entity expects to receive in exchange for those
goods or services. To determine revenue recognition for arrangements that an entity determines are within
the scope of ASC 606, the entity performs the following five steps: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer;
(ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (iii) determine the transaction price, including
variable consideration, if any; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the
contract; and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation. The Company
only applies the five-step model to contracts when it is probable that the entity will collect the consideration
to which it is entitled in exchange for the goods or services it transfers to the customer.

Once a contract is determined to be within the scope of ASC 606 at contract inception, the Company

reviews the contract to determine which performance obligations it must deliver and which of these
performance obligations are distinct. The Company recognizes as revenue the amount of the transaction
price that is allocated to each performance obligation when that performance obligation is satisfied or as it
is satisfied.

Product Revenue

The Company generates product revenues in China through the sale of its internally developed drugs
tislelizumab, BRUKINSA® and pamiparib, and the sale of in-licensed products through its agreements with
Amgen, BMS, Bio-Thera and EUSA Pharma. Under the commercial profit share arrangement with Amgen,
the Company is the principal for in-licensed product sales to customers in China during the commercialization
period and recognizes 100% of net product revenue on these sales. Amounts due to Amgen for its portion
of net product sales are recorded as cost of sales. In the United States, the Company generates product
revenues from the sale of BRUKINSA®.

In China, the Company sells its internally developed products to multiple distributors, who in turn sell

the product to hospitals or pharmacies within their authorized territories to be sold ultimately to patients. In-
licensed products are sold to a first tier distributor who subsequently resells the products to second tier

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

distributors who ultimately sell the products to health care providers and patients. In the United States, the
Company distributes BRUKINSA® through specialty pharmacies and specialty distributors. The specialty
pharmacies and specialty distributors subsequently resell the product to health care providers and patients.

The Company is the principal under the product sales as the Company controls the products with the

ability to direct the use of, and obtain substantially all the remaining benefits from the products before they
are sold to the customer. For product sales transactions, the Company has a single performance obligation
which is to sell the products to its customer. The Company includes variable consideration in the transaction
price to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal will not occur and estimates variable consideration
from rebates, chargebacks, trade discounts and allowances, sales returns allowances and other incentives using
the expected value method. Revenues for product sales are recognized at a point in time when the single
performance obligation is satisfied upon delivery to the customer. The Company’s payment terms are
approximately 45-90 days. Actual amounts of consideration ultimately received may differ from the Company’s
estimates. The Company will reassess estimates for variable consideration periodically. If actual results in
the future vary from the Company’s estimates, the Company will adjust these estimates, which would affect
net product revenue and earnings in the period such variances become known.

Estimates for variable consideration for which reserves are established at the time of sale include
government and commercial rebates, provisions for acceptance of National Reimbursement Drug List
pricing in the PRC, chargebacks, trade discounts and allowances, sales returns allowances and other incentives
that are offered within contracts between the Company and its customers, health care providers and other
indirect customers. Where appropriate, these estimates take into consideration a range of possible outcomes
that are probability-weighted for relevant factors such as our historical experience, current contractual and
statutory requirements, channel inventory levels, specific known market events and trends, industry data and
forecasted customer buying and payment patterns.

The Company bases its sales returns allowance on estimated distributor inventories, customer demand

as reported by third-party sources, and actual returns history, as well as other factors, as appropriate. For
newly launched products where actual returns history is not yet available, the sales returns allowance is initially
calculated based on benchmarking data from similar products and industry experience. If the historical or
benchmarking data the Company uses to calculate these estimates do not properly reflect future returns, then
a change in the allowance would be made in the period in which such a determination is made and revenues
in that period could be materially affected. Any changes from the historical trend rates are considered in
determining the current sales return allowance. To date, sales returns have not been significant.

Collaboration Revenue

At contract inception, the Company analyzes its collaboration arrangements to assess whether they are

within the scope of ASC 808, Collaborative Arrangements (ASC 808) to determine whether such
arrangements involve joint operating activities performed by parties that are both active participants in the
activities and exposed to significant risks and rewards dependent on the commercial success of such activities.
For collaboration arrangements within the scope of ASC 808 that contain multiple elements, the Company
first determines which elements of the collaboration are deemed to be within the scope of ASC 808 and those
that are more reflective of a vendor-customer relationship and therefore within the scope of ASC 606. For
elements of collaboration arrangements that are accounted for pursuant to ASC 808, an appropriate
recognition method is determined and applied consistently.

In determining the appropriate amount of revenue to be recognized as it fulfills its obligations under

each of its agreements, the Company performs the five-step model under ASC 606 noted above.

The Company’s collaborative arrangements may contain more than one unit of account, or performance

obligation, including grants of licenses to intellectual property rights, agreement to provide research and

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

development services and other deliverables. The collaborative arrangements do not include a right of
return for any deliverable. As part of the accounting for these arrangements, the Company must
develop assumptions that require judgment to determine the stand-alone selling price for each performance
obligation identified in the contract. In developing the stand-alone selling price for a performance
obligation, the Company considers competitor pricing for a similar or identical product, market awareness
of and perception of the product, expected product life and current market trends. In general, the
consideration allocated to each performance obligation is recognized when the respective obligation is
satisfied either by delivering a good or providing a service, limited to the consideration that is not constrained.
Non-refundable payments received before all of the relevant criteria for revenue recognition are satisfied
are recorded as advances from customers.

Licenses of Intellectual Property: Upfront non-refundable payments for licensing the Company’s

intellectual property are evaluated to determine if the license is distinct from the other performance
obligations identified in the arrangement. For licenses determined to be distinct, the Company recognizes
revenues from non-refundable up-front fees allocated to the license at a point in time, when the license is
transferred to the licensee and the licensee is able to use and benefit from the license.

Options to License Intellectual Property: Upfront non-refundable payments for options to license the

Company’s intellectual property are evaluated to determine if the option represents a material right and is
distinct from the other performance obligations identified in the arrangement. For options determined to be
a material right and distinct, the Company defers the non-refundable up-front fees allocated to the option
and recognizes revenues at a point in time, at the earlier of when the option is exercised or the option period
expires.

Right to Access Intellectual Property during the Option Period: The portion of a transaction price
allocated to the other parties right to access the Company’s intellectual property to generate their own data
during an option period is deferred and recognized as collaboration revenue over the option period on a
straight-line basis as the right to use the intellectual property is provided and the data generated.

Research and Development Services: The portion of a transaction price allocated to research and
development services performance obligations is deferred and recognized as collaboration revenue over time
as delivery or performance of such services occurs.

Milestone Payments: At the inception of each arrangement that includes development milestone
payments, the Company evaluates whether the milestones are considered probable of being reached and
estimates the amount to be included in the transaction price using the most likely amount method. If it is
probable that a significant revenue reversal would not occur, the associated milestone value is included in the
transaction price. Milestones related to the Company’s development-based activities may include initiation
of various phases of clinical trials. Due to the uncertainty involved in meeting these development-based targets,
they are generally fully constrained at contract inception. The Company will assess whether the variable
consideration is fully constrained each reporting period based on the facts and circumstances surrounding
the clinical trials. Upon changes to constraint associated with the developmental milestones, variable
consideration will be included in the transaction price when a significant reversal of revenue recognized is
not expected to occur and allocated to the separate performance obligations. Regulatory milestones are fully
constrained until the period in which those regulatory approvals are achieved due to the inherent uncertainty
with the approval process. Regulatory milestones are included in the transaction price in the period
regulatory approval is obtained.

Royalties: For arrangements that include sales-based royalties, including milestone payments based
on the level of sales, and the license is deemed to be the predominant item to which the royalties relate, the
Company recognizes revenue at the later of (i) when the related sales occur, or (ii) when the performance
obligation to which some or all of the royalty has been allocated has been satisfied (or partially satisfied).

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Research and Development Expenses

Research and development expenses consist of the costs associated with our research and development
activities, conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials, and activities related to regulatory filings, which
primarily include (i) payroll and related costs (including share-based compensation) associated with research
and development personnel, (ii) costs related to clinical trials and preclinical testing of the Company’s
technologies under development, (iii) costs to develop the product candidates, including raw materials and
supplies, product testing, depreciation, and facility related expenses, (iv) expenses for research services provided
by universities and contract laboratories, including sponsored research funding, and (v) other research and
development expenses. Research and development expenses are charged to expense as incurred when these
expenditures relate to the Company’s research and development services and have no alternative future uses.

Clinical trial costs are a significant component of the Company’s research and development expenses.
The Company has a history of contracting with third parties that perform various clinical trial activities on
behalf of the Company in the ongoing development of the Company’s product candidates. Expenses related
to clinical trials are accrued based on the Company’s estimates of the actual services performed by the third
parties for the respective period. If the contracted amounts are modified (for instance, as a result of changes
in the clinical trial protocol or scope of work to be performed), the Company will modify the related accruals
accordingly on a prospective basis. Revisions in the scope of a contract are charged to expense in the period
in which the facts that give rise to the revision become reasonably certain.

The process of estimating the Company’s research and development expenses involves reviewing open

contracts and purchase orders, communicating with its personnel to identify services that have been
performed on its behalf and estimating the level of service performed and the associated costs incurred for
the services when the Company has not yet been invoiced or otherwise notified of the actual costs. The
majority of the Company’s service providers invoice it in arrears for services performed, on a pre-determined
schedule or when contractual milestones are met; however, some require advanced payments. The Company
makes estimates of the expenses as of each balance sheet date in its financial statements based on facts and
circumstances known to the Company at that time. Although the Company does not expect its estimates to be
materially different from amounts actually incurred, the understanding of the status and timing of services
performed relative to the actual status and timing of services performed may vary and may result in the
Company reporting expenses that are too high or too low in any particular period. There were no material
adjustments for a change in estimate to research and development expenses in the accompanying consolidated
financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019.

Acquired In-Process Research and Development Expense

The Company has acquired rights to develop and commercialize product candidates. Upfront payments

that relate to the acquisition of a new drug compound, as well as pre-commercial milestone payments, are
immediately expensed as acquired in-process research and development in the period in which they are
incurred, provided that the new drug compound did not also include processes or activities that would
constitute a “business” as defined under GAAP, the drug has not achieved regulatory approval for marketing
and, absent obtaining such approval, has no established alternative future use. Milestone payments made
to third parties subsequent to regulatory approval are capitalized as intangible assets and amortized over the
estimated remaining useful life of the related product. Royalties owed on sales of the products licensed
pursuant to the agreements are expensed in the period the related revenues are recognized.

Government Grants

Government financial incentives that involve no conditions or continuing performance obligations of
the Company are recognized as other non-operating income upon receipt. In the event government grants

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

or incentives involve continuing performance obligations, the Company will capitalize the payment as a
liability and recognize the same financial statement caption as the performance obligation relates over the
performance period.

Comprehensive Loss

Comprehensive loss is defined as the changes in equity of the Company during a period from transactions

and other events and circumstances excluding transactions resulting from investments by owners and
distributions to owners. Among other disclosures, ASC 220, Comprehensive Income, requires that all items
that are required to be recognized under current accounting standards as components of comprehensive loss
be reported in a financial statement that is displayed with the same prominence as other financial statements.
For each of the periods presented, the Company’s comprehensive loss includes net loss, foreign currency
translation adjustments, pension liability adjustments and unrealized holding gains/losses associated with the
available-for-sale debt securities, and is presented in the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.

Share-Based Compensation

Awards granted to employees

The Company applies ASC 718, Compensation — Stock Compensation (ASC 718), to account for its
employee share-based payments. In accordance with ASC 718, the Company determines whether an award
should be classified and accounted for as a liability award or equity award. All the Company’s grants of share-
based awards to employees were classified as equity awards and are recognized in the financial statements
based on their grant date fair values. Specifically, the grant date fair value of share options is calculated using
an option pricing model. The fair value of restricted shares and restricted share units are based on the closing
market price of our ADSs on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on the date of grant. The Company has
elected to recognize compensation expense using the straight-line method for all employee equity awards
granted with graded vesting based on service conditions provided that the amount of compensation cost
recognized at any date is at least equal to the portion of the grant-date value of the options that are vested
at that date. The Company uses the accelerated method for all awards granted with graded vesting based on
performance conditions. To the extent the required vesting conditions are not met resulting in the forfeiture
of the share-based awards, previously recognized compensation expense relating to those awards are reversed.
ASC 718 requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in the subsequent
period if actual forfeitures differ from initial estimates.

Forfeiture rates are estimated based on historical and future expectations of employee turnover rates

and are adjusted to reflect future changes in circumstances and facts, if any. Share-based compensation
expense is recorded net of estimated forfeitures such that expense is recorded only for those share-based
awards that are expected to vest. To the extent the Company revises these estimates in the future, the share-
based payments could be materially impacted in the period of revision, as well as in following periods. The
Company, with the assistance of an independent third-party valuation firm, determined the estimated fair
value of the stock options granted to employees using the binomial option pricing model.

Awards granted to non-employees

The Company has accounted for equity instruments issued to non-employees in accordance with the

provisions of ASC 718 and ASC 505, Equity. All transactions in which goods or services are received in
exchange for equity instruments are accounted for based on the fair value of the consideration received or
the fair value of the equity instrument issued, whichever is more reliably measurable. The grant date is the
measurement date of the fair value of the equity instrument issued. The expense is recognized in the same
manner as if the Company had paid cash for the services provided by the non-employees in accordance with

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

ASC 505-50, Equity-based payments to non-employees. The Company estimated the fair value of share
options granted to non-employees using the same method as employees.

Modification of awards

A change in any of the terms or conditions of the awards is accounted for as a modification of the
award. Incremental compensation cost is measured as the excess, if any, of the fair value of the modified
award over the fair value of the original award immediately before its terms are modified, measured based
on the fair value of the awards and other pertinent factors at the modification date. For vested awards, the
Company recognizes incremental compensation cost in the period the modification occurs. For unvested
awards, the Company recognizes over the remaining requisite service period, the sum of the incremental
compensation cost and the remaining unrecognized compensation cost for the original award on the
modification date. If the fair value of the modified award is lower than the fair value of the original award
immediately before modification, the minimum compensation cost the Company recognizes is the cost of the
original award.

Income Taxes

The Company uses the liability method of accounting for income taxes. Under this method, deferred

tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the differences between the financial reporting and the tax
bases of assets and liabilities and are measured using enacted tax rates that will be in effect when the
differences are expected to reverse. A valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not that
some portion or all of a deferred tax asset will not be realized.

The Company evaluates its uncertain tax positions using the provisions of ASC 740, Income Taxes,

which prescribes a recognition threshold that a tax position is required to meet before being recognized in
the financial statements. The Company recognizes in the financial statements the benefit of a tax position
which is “more likely than not” to be sustained under examination based solely on the technical merits of the
position assuming a review by tax authorities having all relevant information. Tax positions that meet the
recognition threshold are measured using a cumulative probability approach, at the largest amount of tax
benefit that has a greater than fifty percent likelihood of being realized upon settlement. It is the Company’s
policy to recognize interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits, if any, as a component of
income tax expense.

Loss Per Share

Loss per share is calculated in accordance with ASC 260, Earnings per Share. Basic loss per ordinary
share is computed by dividing net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders by the weighted average number
of ordinary shares outstanding during the period using the two-class method. Under the two-class method,
net income is allocated between ordinary shares and participating securities based on dividends declared
(or accumulated) and participating rights in undistributed earnings as if all the earnings for the reporting
period had been distributed. The Company’s restricted shares are participating securities because they have
contractual rights to share in the profits of the Company.

However, the restricted shares do not have contractual rights and obligations to share in the losses of

the Company. For the periods presented herein, the computation of basic loss per share using the two-class
method is not applicable as the Company is in a net loss position.

Diluted loss per share is calculated by dividing net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders as adjusted
for the effect of dilutive ordinary equivalent shares, if any, by the weighted average number of ordinary and
dilutive ordinary equivalent shares outstanding during the period. Ordinary equivalent shares consist of
the ordinary shares issuable upon the conversion of the Company’s convertible preferred shares, if any, using

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

the if-converted method, and ordinary shares issuable upon the conversion of the share options and
unvested restricted shares, using the treasury stock method.

Ordinary share equivalents are excluded from the computation of diluted loss per share if their effects
would be anti-dilutive. Basic and diluted loss per ordinary share is presented in the Company’s consolidated
statements of operations.

Segment Information

In accordance with ASC 280, Segment Reporting, the Company’s chief operating decision maker, the
Chief Executive Officer, reviews the consolidated results when making decisions about allocating resources
and assessing performance of the Company as a whole and hence, the Company has only one reportable
segment: pharmaceutical products.

Concentration of Risks

Concentration of credit risk

Financial instruments that are potentially subject to credit risk consist of cash and cash equivalents

short-term investments, and accounts receivable.

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, $4,375,678 and $1,381,950 were deposited with various major
reputable financial institutions located in the PRC and international financial institutions outside of the
PRC, respectively. The deposits placed with financial institutions are not protected by statutory or commercial
insurance. In the event of bankruptcy of one of these financial institutions, the Company may be unable
to claim its deposits back in full. Management believes that these financial institutions are of high credit
quality and continually monitors the credit worthiness of these financial institutions. As of December 31,
2021 and 2020, the Company had short-term investments amounting to $2,241,962 and $3,268,725,
respectively.

At December 31, 2021, the Company’s short-term investments were comprised of U.S. treasury
securities. The Company believes that U.S. treasury securities are of high credit quality and continually
monitors the credit worthiness of these institutions.

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had accounts receivable, net of $483,113 and
$60,403, respectively. Accounts receivable, net represent amounts arising from product sales and amounts
due from the our collaboration partners. The Company monitors economic conditions to identify facts or
circumstances that may indicate receivables are at risk of collection.

Customer concentration risk

For the year ended December 31, 2021, sales to the Company’s three largest product distributors,
Sinopharm, China Resources, and Shanghai Pharmaceutical represented approximately 26.0%, 19.9% and
16.7% of product revenue, respectively, and collectively, represented approximately 23.4% of trade accounts
receivable as of December 31, 2021. For the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company’s collaboration
revenue consisted entirely of revenue recognized under its out-licensing collaboration agreements with
Novartis. Receivables from Novartis represented approximately 66.4% of trade accounts receivable as of
December 31, 2021, primarily due to the invoicing of the $300,000 upfront fee related to the Ociperlimab
option, collaboration and license agreement.

For the year ended December 31, 2020, sales to the Company’s two largest product distributors, China

Resources and Sinopharm, represented approximately 38.7% and 25.4% of product revenue, respectively,
and collectively, represented approximately 59.6% of trade accounts receivable as of December 31, 2020.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

For the year ended December 31, 2019, substantially all of the Company’s revenue was from BMS and

the Company’s product distributor, China Resources, in China.

Business, customer, political, social and economic risks

The Company participates in a dynamic biopharmaceutical industry and believes that changes in any
of the following areas could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s future financial position, results
of operations, or cash flows: changes in the overall demand for services and products; competitive pressures
due to existing competitors and new entrants; advances and new trends in new drugs and industry standards;
changes in clinical research organizations, contract manufacturers and other key vendors; changes in
certain strategic relationships or customer relationships; regulatory considerations; intellectual property
considerations; and risks associated with the Company’s ability to attract and retain employees necessary to
support its growth. The Company’s operations could be also adversely affected by significant political,
economic and social uncertainties in the PRC and in relations between the PRC and United States.

Currency convertibility risk

A significant portion of the Company’s expenses, assets and liabilities are denominated in RMB. On
January 1, 1994, the PRC government abolished the dual rate system and introduced a single rate of exchange
as quoted daily by the People’s Bank of China (the PBOC). However, the unification of the exchange rates
does not imply that the RMB may be readily convertible into U.S. dollar or other foreign currencies. All
foreign exchange transactions continue to take place either through the PBOC or other banks authorized
to buy and sell foreign currencies at the exchange rates quoted by the PBOC. Approvals of foreign currency
payments by the PBOC or other institutions require submitting a payment application form together with
suppliers’ invoices, shipping documents and signed contracts.

Additionally, the value of the RMB is subject to changes in central government policies and international

economic and political developments affecting supply and demand in the PRC foreign exchange trading
system market.

Foreign currency exchange rate risk

Since July 21, 2005, the RMB is permitted to fluctuate within a narrow and managed band against a

basket of certain foreign currencies. For RMB against U.S. dollar, there was appreciation of approximately
2.3%, appreciation of approximately 6.3% and depreciation of approximately 1.3%, in the years ended
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019. It is difficult to predict how market forces or PRC or U.S. government
policy may impact the exchange rate between the RMB and the U.S. dollar in the future.

To the extent that the Company needs to convert U.S. dollar into RMB for capital expenditures and
working capital and other business purposes, appreciation of RMB against U.S. dollar would have an adverse
effect on the RMB amount the Company would receive from the conversion. Conversely, if the Company
decides to convert RMB into U.S. dollar for the purpose of making payments for dividends on ordinary
shares, strategic acquisitions or investments or other business purposes, appreciation of U.S. dollar against
RMB would have a negative effect on the U.S. dollar amount available to the Company. In addition, a
significant depreciation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar may significantly reduce the U.S. dollar equivalent
of the Company’s earnings or losses.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

New accounting standards which have been adopted

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting

for Income Taxes. This update simplifies the accounting for income taxes as part of the FASB’s overall

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

initiative to reduce complexity in accounting standards. The amendments include removal of certain
exceptions to the general principles of ASC 740, Income taxes, and simplification in several other areas such
as accounting for a franchise tax (or similar tax) that is partially based on income. Certain amendments in
this update should be applied retrospectively or modified retrospectively, and all other amendments should be
applied prospectively. The Company adopted this standard on January 1, 2021. There was no material impact
to the Company’s financial position or results of operations upon adoption.

New accounting standards which have not yet been adopted

In November 2021, the FASB issued ASU 2021-10, Government Assistance (Topic 832): Disclosures
by Business Entities about Government Assistance. This update requires certain annual disclosures about
transactions with a government that are accounted for by applying a grant or contribution accounting model
by analogy. This update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2021, and early
application is permitted. This guidance should be applied either prospectively to all transactions that are
reflected in financial statements at the date of initial application and new transactions that are entered into
after the date of initial application or retrospectively to those transactions. The Company does not expect the
impact of this guidance to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

3. Collaborative and Licensing Arrangements

The Company enters into collaborative arrangements for the research and development, manufacture
and/or commercialization of drug products and drug candidates. To date, these collaborative arrangements
have included out-licenses of and options to out-license internally developed products and drug candidates to
other parties, in-licenses of products and drug candidates from other parties, and profit- and cost-sharing
arrangements. These arrangements may include non-refundable upfront payments, contingent obligations for
potential development, regulatory and commercial performance milestone payments, cost-sharing and
reimbursement arrangements, royalty payments, and profit sharing.

Out-Licensing Arrangements

During the three years ended December 31, 2021, the Company’s collaboration revenue related to its out-

licensing collaborative agreements has consisted of upfront license fees, research and development services
revenue and right to access intellectual property revenue from its collaboration agreements with Novartis for
tislelizumab and ociperlimab and reimbursement of research and development costs, research and
development service revenue and termination fees from its collaboration with BMS for tislelizumab.

The following table summarizes total collaboration revenue recognized for the years ended December 31,

2021, 2020 and 2019:

Revenue from Collaborators

Year Ended December 31,

2021

2020

2019

$

$

$

License revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reimbursement of research and development costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

484,646 —

—
— — 27,634

Research and development service revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

53,671 — 27,982

Right to access intellectual property revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3,979 —

—

Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

— — 150,000

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

542,296 — 205,616

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Novartis

Tislelizumab Collaboration and License

In January 2021, the Company entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Novartis,

granting Novartis rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize tislelizumab in North America,
Europe, and Japan (the “Novartis Territory”). The Company and Novartis have agreed to jointly develop
tislelizumab in these licensed countries, with Novartis responsible for regulatory submissions after a transition
period and for commercialization upon regulatory approvals. In addition, both companies may conduct
clinical trials globally to explore combinations of tislelizumab with other cancer treatments, and the Company
has an option to co-detail the product in North America, funded in part by Novartis.

Under the agreement the Company received an upfront cash payment of $650,000 from Novartis. The

Company is eligible to receive up to $1,300,000 upon the achievement of regulatory milestones, $250,000
upon the achievement of sales milestones, and royalties on future sales of tislelizumab in the licensed territory.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Company is responsible for funding ongoing clinical trials of
tislelizumab, Novartis has agreed to fund new registrational, bridging, or post-marketing studies in its
territory, and each party will be responsible for funding clinical trials evaluating tislelizumab in combination
with its own or third party products. Each party retains the worldwide right to commercialize its propriety
products in combination with tislelizumab.

The Company evaluated the Novartis agreement under ASC 606 as all the material units of account

within the agreement represented transactions with a customer. The Company identified the following
material components under the agreement: (1) exclusive license for Novartis to develop, manufacture, and
commercialize tislelizumab in the Novartis Territory, transfer of know-how and use of the tislelizumab
trademark; (2) conducting and completing ongoing trials of tislelizumab (R&D services); and (3) supplying
Novartis with required quantities of the tislelizumab drug product, or drug substance, upon receipt of an
order from Novartis.

The Company determined that the license, transfer of know-how and use of trademarks are not distinct

from each other and represent a single performance obligation. The R&D services represent a material
promise and were determined to be a separate performance obligation at the outset of the agreement as the
promise is distinct and has standalone value to Novartis. The Company evaluated the supply component
of the contract and noted the supply will not be provided at a significant incremental discount to Novartis.
The Company concluded that, for the purpose of ASC 606, the provision related to providing clinical and
commercial supply of tislelizumab in the Novartis Territory was an option but not a performance obligation
of the Company at the outset of the Novartis collaboration agreement. A performance obligation for the
clinical and commercial supply will be established as quantities of drug product or drug substance are
ordered by Novartis.

The Company determined that the transaction price as of the outset of the arrangement was the

upfront payment of $650,000. The potential milestone payments that the Company is eligible to receive
were excluded from the transaction price, as all milestone amounts were fully constrained due to uncertainty
of achievement. The transaction price was allocated to the two identified performance obligations based
on a relative fair value basis. The standalone selling price of the license, transfer of know-how and use of
trademarks performance obligation was determined using the adjusted market assessment approach based on
the probability-weighted present value of forecasted cash flows associated with out-licensing tislelizumab
in the Novartis Territory. The standalone selling price of the R&D services was valued using a cost plus
margin valuation approach based on the present value of estimated tislelizumab clinical trial costs plus a
reasonable margin. Based on the relative standalone selling prices of the two performance obligations,
$484,646 of the total transaction price was allocated to the license and $165,354 was allocated to the R&D

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

services. The estimates of the standalone selling prices involved management’s key assumptions such as
revenue growth rate, estimated clinical trial costs, mark-up rate, probability of technical and regulatory
success, and discount rates. These significant assumptions are forward looking and could be affected by future
economic, regulatory and market conditions.

The Company satisfied the license performance obligation at a point in time when the license was

delivered and the transfer of know-how completed which occurred during the year ended December 31,
2021. As such, the Company recognized the entire amount of the transaction price allocated to the license
as collaboration revenue during the year ended December 31, 2021. The portion of the transaction price
allocated to the R&D services was deferred and is being recognized as collaboration revenue as the R&D
services are performed using a percentage-of-completion method. Estimated costs to complete are reassessed
on a periodic basis and any updates to the revenue earned are recognized on a prospective basis. The
Company recognized R&D service revenue of $53,421 during the year ended December 31, 2021.

Ociperlimab Option, Collaboration and License Agreement and China Broad Market Development Agreement

In December 2021, the Company expanded its collaboration with Novartis by entering into an option,
collaboration and license agreement with Novartis to develop, manufacture and commercialize the Company’s
investigational TIGIT inhibitor ociperlimab in the Novartis Territory. In addition, the Company and
Novartis entered into an agreement granting the Company rights to market, promote and detail five approved
Novartis oncology products, TAFINLAR® (dabrafenib), MEKINIST® (trametinib), VOTRIENT®
(pazopanib), AFINITOR® (everolimus), and ZYKADIA® (ceritinib), across designated regions of China
referred to as “broad markets.”

Under the terms of the option, collaboration and license agreement, the Company received an upfront
cash payment of $300,000 in January 2022 from Novartis and will receive an additional payment of $600,000
or $700,000 in the event Novartis exercises its exclusive time-based option prior to mid-2023 or between
then and late-2023, respectively. Following option exercise, the Company is eligible to receive up to $745,000
upon the achievement of regulatory approval milestones, $1,150,000 upon the achievement of sales milestones,
and royalties on future sales of ociperlimab in the Novartis Territory. Subject to the terms of the option,
collaboration and license agreement, during the option period, Novartis has agreed to initiate and fund
additional global clinical trials with ociperlimab and the Company has agreed to expand enrollment in two
ongoing trials. Following the option exercise, Novartis has agreed to share development costs of global trials.
Following approval, the Company has agreed to provide 50 percent of the co-detailing and co-field
medical efforts in the United States, and has an option to co-detail up to 25 percent in Canada and Mexico,
funded in part by Novartis. Each party retains the worldwide right to commercialize its propriety products
in combination with ociperlimab, as is the case with tislelizumab under the tislelizumab collaboration and
license agreement. The existing tislelizumab collaboration and license agreement was not modified as a
result of the ociperlimab option, collaboration and license agreement.

The Company evaluated the Novartis agreements under ASC 606 as the units of account within the
agreement represented transactions with a customer. The Company identified the following material promises
under the agreement: (1) exclusive option for Novartis to license the rights develop, manufacture, and
commercialize ociperlimab in the Novartis Territory; (2) Novartis’ right to access ociperlimab in its own
clinical trials during the option period; (3) initial transfer of BeiGene know-how; and (4) conducting and
completing ongoing trials of ociperlimab during the option period (R&D Services). The market development
activities are considered immaterial in the context of the contracts.

The Company concluded that, at the inception of the agreement, the option for the exclusive product

license constitutes a material right as it represents a significant and incremental discount to the fair value of
the exclusive product license that Novartis would not have received without entering into the agreement

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

and is therefore considered a distinct performance obligation. The Company determined that Novartis’ right
to access ociperlimab in its own trials over the option period and the initial transfer of know-how were not
distinct from each other, as the right to access ociperlimab has limited value without the corresponding know-
how transfer, and therefore should be combined into one distinct performance obligation. The R&D
Services represent a material promise and were determined to be a separate performance obligation at the
outset of the agreement as the promise is distinct and has standalone value to Novartis.

The Company determined the transaction price as of the outset of the arrangement was the upfront

payment of $300,000. The option exercise fee is contingent upon Novartis exercising its right and is
considered fully constrained until the option is exercised. Additionally, the milestone and royalty payments
are not applicable until after the option is exercised, at which point the likelihood of meeting milestones,
regulatory approval and meeting certain sales thresholds will be assessed. The transaction price was allocated
to the three identified performance obligations based on a relative fair value basis. The standalone selling price
of the material right for the option to the exclusive product license was calculated as the incremental discount
between (i) the value of the license determined using a discounted cash flow method adjusted for probability
of the option being exercised and (ii) the expected option exercise fee using the most-likely-amount method
at option exercise. The standalone selling price of the combined performance obligation for Novartis’ right
to access ociperlimab for its own clinical trials during the option period and the initial transfer of BeiGene
know-how was determined using a discounted cash flow method. The standalone selling price of the R&D
Services was determined using an expected cost plus margin approach. Based on the relative standalone selling
prices of the three performance obligations, $71,980 of the total transaction price was allocated to the
material right, $213,450 was allocated to Novartis’ right to use ociperlimab in its own clinical trials during
the option period and the transfer of BeiGene know-how, and $14,570 was allocated to the R&D Services.

The Company will satisfy the material right performance obligation at a point in time at the earlier of

when Novartis exercises the option and the license is delivered or the expiration of the option period. As
such, the entire amount of the transaction price allocated to the material right was deferred. The portion of
the transaction price allocated to Novartis’ right to access ociperlimab in its own clinical trials during the
option period and the initial transfer of BeiGene know-how was deferred and is being recognized over the
expected option period. The portion of the transaction price allocated to the R&D Services was deferred and
is being recognized as collaboration revenue as the R&D Services are performed over the expected option
period. The Company recognized collaboration revenue of $3,979 related to Novartis right to access
ociperlimab in clinical trials and the transfer of know how performance obligation and R&D service revenue
of $250 during the year ended December 31, 2021.

Celgene Corporation, a Bristol Myers Squibb company (BMS)

On July 5, 2017, the Company entered into a license agreement with Celgene Corporation, now a BMS

company, pursuant to which the Company granted to the BMS parties an exclusive right to develop and
commercialize the Company’s investigational PD-1 inhibitor, tislelizumab, in all fields of treatment, other
than hematology, in the United States, Europe, Japan and the rest of world other than Asia (the “PD-1
License Agreement”). In connection with the closing of the transactions on August 31, 2017, the Company
and BMS amended and restated the PD-1 License Agreement (the “A&R PD-1 License Agreement”) to,
among other things, clarify the parties’ responsibilities relating to the conducting and funding of certain
global registration clinical trials and clarify the scope of the regulatory materials transferred by BeiGene to
BMS. The Company entered into a mutual agreement with BMS to terminate the A&R PD-1 License
Agreement effective June 14, 2019 in advance of the acquisition of Celgene by BMS.

Under the terms of the A&R PD-1 License Agreement, BMS paid the Company $263,000 in upfront non-
refundable fees, of which $92,050 was paid in the third quarter of 2017 and the remaining $170,950 was paid
in December 2017. The Company allocated $13,000 of upfront fees to the fair value of assets related to the

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Company’s acquisition of Celgene Shanghai, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Celgene Holdings East
Corporation established under the laws of China, which was completed contemporaneously with the A&R
PD-1 License Agreement. The Company was also eligible to receive product development and commercial
milestone payments based on the successful achievement of development and regulatory and
commercialization goals, respectively, and potential royalty payments.

In addition to the exclusive right to develop and commercialize tislelizumab, the terms of the A&R
PD-1 License Agreement provided BMS with the right to collaborate with the Company on the development
of tislelizumab for specified indications, including required participation on a joint development committee
and a joint steering committee as well as a joint commercialization committee upon achievement of
commercialization. BMS reimbursed the Company for certain research and development costs at a cost plus
agreed upon markup for the development of tislelizumab related to the clinical trials that BMS opted into,
as outlined in the development plan.

Under ASC 606, the Company identified the following deliverables of the collaboration agreement as

distinct performance obligations: (a) the license provided to BMS for the exclusive right to develop and
commercialize tislelizumab, in all fields of treatment, other than hematology, in the United States, Europe,
Japan and the rest of world other than Asia (the “License”); and (b) the research and development services
provided to BMS to develop tislelizumab within specified indications (R&D services). For each deliverable,
the Company determined the stand-alone selling price and allocated the non-constrained consideration of
$250,000 to the units of accounting using the relative selling price method. The consideration allocated to
the License was recognized upon transfer of the License to BMS at contract inception and the consideration
allocated to the R&D services was deferred and recognized over the term of the respective clinical studies
for the specified indications. The payments associated with the defined developmental, regulatory, and
commercialization goals were considered variable consideration and were fully constrained at contract
inception through the date of termination.

In connection with the termination in June 2019, the Company regained full global rights to tislelizumab

and received a $150,000 payment from BMS. The payment was recognized as other collaboration revenue
upon termination as the Company had no further performance obligations under the collaboration. Upon
termination, the Company also recognized the remainder of the deferred revenue balance related to the upfront
consideration allocated to research and development services at the time of the original collaboration. The
Company’s license from BMS to distribute the approved cancer therapies ABRAXANE®, REVLIMID®, and
VIDAZA® in China was not affected by the termination of the tislelizumab collaboration. On March 25,
2020, the NMPA suspended the importation, sales and use of ABRAXANE® in China supplied to us by
BMS, and the drug was subsequently recalled by BMS and is not currently available for sale in China. This
suspension was based on inspection findings at BMS’s contract manufacturing facility in the United States.
Additionally, in October 2021, BMS provided 180-days’ notice to us, which we dispute, purporting to terminate
our license to market ABRAXANE® in China. We have not had any sales of ABRAXANE® since the
suspension and do not expect future revenue from ABRAXANE®. We have initiated an arbitration proceeding
against BMS asserting that it has breached and continues to breach the terms and conditions of the license
and supply agreement. For additional information, please see the section of this report titled “Legal
Proceedings”.

For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recognized collaboration revenue of $205,616

related to the BMS collaboration, which consisted of $27,634 of research and development reimbursement
revenue for the trials that BMS had opted into through the termination of the collaboration agreement;
$27,982 of research and development services revenue, which reflects the recognition of the remaining upfront
consideration that was allocated to research and development services at the time of the collaboration and was
recognized over the term of the respective clinical studies for the specified indications; and $150,000 of

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

other collaboration revenue related to the payment received from BMS in connection with the termination
of the collaboration agreement.

In-Licensing Arrangements — Commercial

Amgen

In October 2019, the Company entered into a global strategic oncology collaboration with Amgen (the
“Amgen Collaboration Agreement”) for the commercialization and development in China, excluding Hong
Kong, Taiwan and Macau, of Amgen’s XGEVA®, KYPROLIS®, and BLINCYTO®, and the joint global
development of a portfolio of oncology assets in Amgen’s pipeline, with BeiGene responsible for development
and commercialization in China. The agreement became effective on January 2, 2020, following approval
by the Company’s shareholders and satisfaction of other closing conditions.

Under the agreement, the Company is responsible for the commercialization of XGEVA®, KYPROLIS®

and BLINCYTO® in China for five or seven years. Amgen is responsible for manufacturing the products
globally and will supply the products to the Company at an agreed upon price. The Company and Amgen will
share equally in the China commercial profits and losses during the commercialization period. Following
the commercialization period, the Company has the right to retain one product and is entitled to receive
royalties on sales in China for an additional five years on the products not retained. XGEVA® was approved
in China in 2019 for patients with giant cell tumor of the bone and in November 2020 for the prevention
of skeletal-related events in cancer patients with bone metastases. In July 2020, the Company began
commercializing XGEVA® in China. In December 2020, BLINCYTO® was approved in China for injection
for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic
leukemia (ALL). In July 2021, KYPROLIS® was conditionally approved in China for injection in combination
with dexamethasone for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) multiple myeloma.

Amgen and the Company are also jointly developing a portfolio of Amgen oncology pipeline assets

under the collaboration. The Company is responsible for conducting clinical development activities in
China and co-funding global development costs by contributing cash and development services up to a total
cap of $1,250,000. Amgen is responsible for all development, regulatory and commercial activities outside
of China. For each pipeline asset that is approved in China, the Company will receive commercial rights for
seven years from approval. The Company has the right to retain approximately one out of every three
approved pipeline assets, other than LUMAKRAS™ (sotorasib), Amgen’s KRAS G12C inhibitor, for
commercialization in China. The Company and Amgen will share equally in the China commercial profits
and losses during the commercialization period. The Company is entitled to receive royalties from sales in
China for pipeline assets returned to Amgen for five years after the seven-year commercialization period.
The Company is also entitled to receive royalties from global sales of each product outside of China (with the
exception of LUMAKRAS™).

The Amgen Collaboration Agreement is within the scope of ASC 808, as both parties are active
participants and are exposed to the risks and rewards dependent on the commercial success of the activities
performed under the agreement. The Company is the principal for product sales to customers in China
during the commercialization period and will recognize 100% of net product revenue on these sales. Amounts
due to Amgen for its portion of net product sales will be recorded as cost of sales. Cost reimbursements
due to or from Amgen under the profit share will be recognized as incurred and recorded to cost of sales;
selling, general and administrative expense; or research and development expense, based on the underlying
nature of the related activity subject to reimbursement. Costs incurred for the Company’s portion of the
global co-development funding are recorded to research and development expense as incurred.

In connection with the Amgen Collaboration Agreement, a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) was

entered into by the parties on October 31, 2019. On January 2, 2020, the closing date of the transaction,

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Amgen purchased 15,895,001 of the Company’s ADSs for $174.85 per ADS, representing a 20.5% ownership
stake in the Company. Per the SPA, the cash proceeds shall be used as necessary to fund the Company’s
development obligations under the Amgen Collaboration Agreement. Pursuant to the SPA, Amgen also
received the right to designate one member of the Company’s board of directors, and Anthony Hooper joined
the Company’s board of directors as the Amgen designee in January 2020.

In determining the fair value of the common stock at closing, the Company considered the closing
price of the common stock on the closing date of the transaction and included a lack of marketability
discount because the shares are subject to certain restrictions. The fair value of the shares on the closing
date was determined to be $132.74 per ADS, or $2,109,902 in the aggregate. The Company determined that
the premium paid by Amgen on the share purchase represents a cost share liability due to the Company’s co-
development obligations. The fair value of the cost share liability on the closing date was determined to be
$601,857 based on the Company’s discounted estimated future cash flows related to the pipeline assets.
The estimation of future cash flows involved management assumptions of revenue growth rates and
probability of technical and regulatory success of the pipeline assets. The total cash proceeds of $2,779,241
were allocated based on the relative fair value method, with $2,162,407 recorded to equity and $616,834
recorded as a research and development cost share liability. The cost share liability is being amortized
proportionately as the Company contributes cash and development services to its total co-development
funding cap.

Amounts recorded related to the cash proceeds received from the Amgen collaboration for the year

ended December 31, 2020 were as follows:

Fair value of equity issued to Amgen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fair value of research and development cost share liability . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total cash proceeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Year Ended December 31,
2020

$

2,162,407

616,834

2,779,241

Amounts recorded related to the Company’s portion of the co-development funding on the pipeline

assets for the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

Research and development expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

115,464

117,005

Amortization of research and development cost share liability . . . . . . . . .

112,486

113,986

Total amount due to Amgen for BeiGene’s portion of the development

funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

227,950

230,991

Remaining portion of development funding cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

791,059

As of December 31, 2021

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the research and development cost share liability recorded in the

Company’s balance sheet was as follows:

As of December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

Research and development cost share liability, current portion . . . . . . . . . .

120,801

127,808

Research and development cost share liability, non-current portion . . . . . . .

269,561

375,040

Total research and development cost share liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

390,362

502,848

The net reimbursement due under the commercial profit-sharing agreement for in-line product sales is

classified in the consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 as
follows:

Year Ended December 31,

Cost of sales – product

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,893

Selling, general and administrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(45,152)

Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

423

2021

$

2020

$

(1,210)

(9,750)

(660)

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(42,836)

(11,620)

The Company purchases commercial inventory from Amgen to distribute in China. Total inventory

purchases amounted to $110,303 and $38,392, respectively, during the year ended December 31, 2021 and
2020. Net amounts payable to Amgen as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 were $106,790 and $122,828,
respectively.

In-Licensing Arrangements — Development

The Company has in-licensed the rights to develop, manufacture and, if approved, commercialize
multiple development stage drug candidates globally or in specific territories. These arrangements typically
include non-refundable upfront payments, contingent obligations for potential development, regulatory and
commercial performance milestone payments, cost-sharing arrangements, royalty payments, and profit
sharing.

Upfront and milestone payments made under these arrangements for the years ended December 31,
2021, 2020 and 2019 are set forth below. All upfront and development milestones were expensed to research
and development expense. All regulatory and commercial milestones were capitalized as intangible assets
and are being amortized over the remainder of the respective product patent or the term of the
commercialization agreements.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Payments due to collaboration partners

Classification

Year Ended December 31,

2021

2020

2019

$

$

$

Upfront payments . . . . . . . . . . Research and development expense

83,500 109,500 50,000

Development milestone

payments

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Research and development expense

15,000

15,800

Regulatory and commercial

milestone payments . . . . . . .

Intangible asset

43,394

—

—

—

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

141,894 125,300 50,000

Our significant license agreements are described below:

Shoreline Biosciences, Inc.

In June 2021, the Company entered into an exclusive worldwide strategic collaboration with Shoreline

Biosciences, Inc. (Shoreline) to develop and commercialize a portfolio of natural killer (NK)-based cell
therapeutics with Shoreline’s induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) NK cell technology and the Company’s
research and clinical development capabilities for different malignancies. Under the collaboration, the
Company and Shoreline are working jointly to develop cell therapies for four designated therapeutic targets,
with an option to expand the collaboration at a future date. Clinical development is being led by the
Company globally, with Shoreline responsible for clinical manufacturing. The Company has commercial
rights globally, with Shoreline having an option to retain commercialization rights in the United States and
Canada for two targets. Under the terms of the agreement, Shoreline received a $45,000 upfront payment in
January 2022 and is eligible to receive additional R&D funding, milestone payments and royalties based
upon the achievement of certain development, regulatory, and commercial milestones. The upfront payment
was expensed to research and development expense during the year ended December 31, 2021 in accordance
with the Company’s acquired in-process research and development expense policy.

Nanjing Leads Biolabs, Inc.

In December 2021, the Company entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Nanjing
Leads Biolabs, Inc. (Leads Biolabs) for worldwide research, development and manufacturing rights and
exclusive commercialization rights outside of China to LBL-007, a novel investigational antibody targeting
the LAG-3 pathway. Under the terms of the agreement, Leads Biolabs received an upfront payment of $30,000
in January 2022 and is eligible to receive up to $742,000 in clinical development, regulatory approval and
sales milestones. Leads Biolabs is also eligible to receive tiered royalties on future sales in the licensed territory.
The upfront payment was expensed to research and development expense during the year ended December 31,
2021 in accordance with the Company’s acquired in-process research and development expense policy.

EUSA Pharma

In January 2020, the Company entered into an exclusive development and commercialization agreement

with EUSA Pharma (EUSA) for the orphan biologic products SYLVANT® (siltuximab) and QARZIBA®
(dinutuximab beta) in China. Under the terms of the agreement, EUSA granted the Company exclusive rights
to SYLVANT® in greater China and to QARZIBA® in mainland China. Under the agreement, the Company
is funding and undertaking all clinical development and regulatory submissions in the territories, and
commercializing both products once approved. EUSA received a $40,000 upfront payment upon contract
execution and is eligible to receive additional payments upon the achievement of regulatory and commercial
milestones up to a total of $120,000. The upfront payment was expensed to research and development expense

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

during the year ended December 31, 2020 in accordance with the Company’s acquired in-process research
and development expense policy. In 2021, QARZIBA® and SYLVANT® were approved and launched in
mainland China and greater China, respectively. The approvals triggered regulatory milestone payments that
were capitalized as intangible assets and are being amortized over the remaining term of the license agreement.
EUSA is receiving tiered royalties on SYLVANT® product sales, which the Company records as cost of
sales in the period the respective sales are generated.

Assembly Biosciences, Inc.

In July 2020, the Company entered into a collaboration agreement with Assembly Biosciences, Inc.
(Assembly) for Assembly’s portfolio of three clinical-stage core inhibitor candidates for the treatment of
patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in China. Under the terms of the agreement, Assembly
granted BeiGene exclusive rights to develop and commercialize ABI-H0731, ABI-H2158 and ABI-H3733
in China, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. BeiGene is responsible for development, regulatory
submissions, and commercialization in China. Assembly retains full worldwide rights outside of the partnered
territory for its HBV portfolio. Assembly received an upfront payment of $40,000 and is eligible to receive
payments upon achievement of development, regulatory and commercial milestones up to a total of $503,750.
Assembly is also eligible to receive tiered royalties on net sales. The upfront payment was expensed to
research and development expense during the year ended December 31, 2020 in accordance with the
Company’s acquired in-process research and development expense policy.

Bio-Thera Solutions, Ltd.

In August 2020, the Company entered into a license, distribution and supply agreement with Bio-Thera
Solutions, Ltd. (Bio-Thera) for Bio-Thera’s POBEVCY® (BAT1706), a biosimilar to Avastin® (bevacizumab)
in China. The agreement became effective on September 10, 2020 upon approval of Bio-Thera’s shareholders,
and was subsequently assigned by the Company to its affiliate BeiGene (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. (BeiGene
Guangzhou) on September 18, 2020, as permitted by the agreement. Under the terms of the agreement,
Bio-Thera agreed to grant BeiGene the right to develop, manufacture, and commercialize POBEVCY® in
China, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Bio-Thera retained rights outside of the partnered
territory. Bio-Thera received an upfront payment of $20,000 in October 2020 and is eligible to receive
payments upon the achievement of regulatory and commercial milestones up to a total of $145,000. The
upfront payment was expensed to research and development expense during the year ended December 31,
2020 in accordance with the Company’s acquired in-process research and development expense policy. In
November 2021, POBEVCY® obtained regulatory approval, and was subsequently launched, in China,
triggering a milestone payment that was capitalized as an intangible asset that is being amortized over the
remaining term of the license agreement. Bio-Thera is also receiving tiered royalties on product sales, which
the Company records as cost of sales in the period the respective sales are generated.

Seagen, Inc.

In November 2019, the Company entered into a license agreement with Seagen, Inc. (formerly known

as “Seattle Genetics, Inc.”) for an advanced pre-clinical product candidate for treating cancer. The agent
utilizes a proprietary Seagen antibody-based technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Seagen retained
rights to the product candidate in the Americas (United States, Canada and Latin American countries),
Europe and Japan. The Company was granted exclusive rights to develop and commercialize the product
candidate in Asia (except Japan) and the rest of the world. Seagen will lead global development and BeiGene
will fund and operationalize the portion of global clinical trials attributable to its territories. BeiGene will
also be responsible for all clinical development and regulatory submissions specific to its territories. Seagen
received an upfront payment of $20,000 and is eligible to receive progress-dependent milestones and tiered
royalties on any product sales. Seagen is a related party due to a common shareholder, and that shareholder

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

has different representatives serving on each companies’ respective board of directors. The upfront payment
was expensed to research and development expense during the year ended December 31, 2019 in accordance
with the Company’s acquired in-process research and development expense policy.

Zymeworks Inc.

In November 2018, the Company and Zymeworks entered into collaboration and license agreements
whereby the Company acquired licenses to develop and commercialize Zymeworks’ clinical-stage HER2-
targeted bispecific antibody candidate ZW25 (zanidatamab) and its preclinical-stage bispecific antibody drug
conjugate (ADC) ZW49 in Asia (excluding Japan), Australia, and New Zealand. In addition, Zymeworks
granted BeiGene a license to Zymeworks’ proprietary Azymetric™ and EFECT™ platforms to develop and
commercialize globally up to three other bispecific antibodies using the platforms.

Under the collaboration agreements, BeiGene will be responsible for all clinical development and
regulatory submissions in the licensed territories. BeiGene and Zymeworks have also agreed to collaborate
on global development of zanidatamab and ZW49 in HER2-expressing solid tumors, including gastric and
breast cancer, with BeiGene enrolling patients and contributing clinical trial data from the licensed territories.
Zymeworks retains full rights to both zanidatamab and ZW49 outside of the specified countries and will
continue to lead global development of these drug candidates.

Under the terms of the license and collaboration agreements for ZW49 and zanidatamab, Zymeworks

received total upfront payments of $40,000 and is eligible to receive additional payments upon the achievement
of development and commercial milestones for both product candidates. In addition, Zymeworks will be
eligible to receive tiered royalties on future sales of zanidatamab and ZW49 in the licensed territory.

Under the terms of the research and license agreement for the Azymetric™ and EFECT™ platforms,
Zymeworks received an upfront payment of $20,000 and is eligible to receive additional payments upon the
achievement of development and commercial milestones for up to three bispecific product candidates
developed under the agreement. In addition, Zymeworks will be eligible to receive tiered royalties on future
global sales of bispecific products developed by BeiGene under the agreement.

The upfront payments were expensed to research and development expense during the year ended
December 31, 2018, in accordance with the Company’s acquired in-process research and development
expense policy. The Company recognized development milestone payments related to the development of
zanidatamab during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 within research and development expense.

Other

In addition to the collaborations discussed above, the Company has entered into additional collaborative

arrangements during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. The Company may be required to pay
additional amounts upon the achievement of various development and commercial milestones under these
agreements. The Company may also incur significant research and development costs if the related product
candidate were to advance to late-stage clinical trials. In addition, if any products related to these
collaborations are approved for sale, the Company may be required to pay significant milestones upon
approval and milestones and/or royalties on future sales. The payment of these amounts, however, is
contingent upon the occurrence of various future events, which have a high degree of uncertainty of
occurrence.

4. Restricted Cash

The Company’s restricted cash balance of $7,209 and $8,055 as of December 31, 2021 and 2020,
respectively, primarily consist of RMB-denominated cash deposits held in designated bank accounts for
collateral for letters of credit. The Company classifies restricted cash as current or non-current based on term
of restriction.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

5. Investments

Short-Term Investments

Short-term investments as of December 31, 2021 consisted of the following available-for-sale debt

securities:

U.S. treasury securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,245,662

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,245,662

Amortized
Cost

$

Gross
Unrealized
Gains

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

Fair Value
(Net Carrying
Amount)

$

—

—

$

3,700

3,700

$

2,241,962

2,241,962

Short-term investments as of December 31, 2020 consisted of the following available-for-sale debt

securities:

U.S. treasury securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3,267,875

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3,267,875

Amortized
Cost

$

Gross
Unrealized
Gains

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

Fair Value
(Net Carrying
Amount)

$

850

850

$

—

—

$

3,268,725

3,268,725

The Company does not consider the investments in U.S. treasury securities to be other-than-
temporarily impaired at December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2021, the Company’s available-for-sale
debt securities consisted entirely of short-term U.S. treasury securities, which were determined to have zero
risk of expected credit loss. Accordingly, no allowance for credit loss was recorded as of December 31, 2021.

Equity Securities with Readily Determinable Fair Values

Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (Leap)

In January 2020, the Company purchased $5,000 of Series B mandatorily convertible, non-voting
preferred stock of Leap in connection with a strategic collaboration and license agreement the Company
entered into with Leap. The Series B shares were subsequently converted into shares of Leap common stock
and warrants to purchase additional shares of common stock upon approval of Leap’s shareholders in
March 2020. In September 2021, the Company purchased $7,250 of common stock in Leap’s underwritten
public offering. As of December 31, 2021, the Company’s ownership interest in the outstanding common
stock of Leap was 8.3% based on information from Leap. Inclusive of the shares of common stock issuable
upon the exercise of the currently exercisable warrants, the Company’s interest is approximately 13.1%. The
Company measures the investment in the common stock and warrants at fair value, with changes in fair
value recorded to other income, net. During the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company
recorded an unrealized gain of $9,386 and $12,479, respectively, in the consolidated statement of operations.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the fair value of the common stock and warrants was as follows:

As of December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

Fair value of Leap common stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

23,809

10,810

Fair value of Leap warrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10,306

6,669

Private Equity Securities without Readily Determinable Fair Values

The Company invests in equity securities of certain companies whose securities are not publicly traded
and fair value is not readily determinable and where the Company has concluded it does not have significant
influence based on its ownership percentage and other factors. These investments are recorded at cost minus
impairment, if any, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions
for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer. The Company held investments of $43,722 and
$9,705 in equity securities without readily determinable fair values as of December 31, 2021 and 2020,
respectively. There were no adjustments to the carrying values of these securities for the year ended
December 31, 2021 and 2020.

Equity-Method Investments

MapKure

In June 2019, the Company announced the formation of MapKure, an entity jointly owned by the
Company and SpringWorks Therapeutics, Inc. (SpringWorks). The Company out-licensed to MapKure the
Company’s product candidate BGB-3245, an investigational oral, selective small molecule inhibitor of
monomer and dimer forms of activating B-RAF mutations including V600 BRAF mutations, non-V600
B-RAF mutations, and RAF fusions. The Company received 10,000,000 Series A preferred units of MapKure,
or a 71.4% ownership interest in exchange for its contribution of the intellectual property. SpringWorks
purchased 3,500,000 Series A preferred units, or a 25% ownership interest, and other investors purchased
250,000 Series A preferred units or 1.8% ownership each. Following the initial closing, the Company
consolidated its interests in MapKure under the voting model due to its controlling financial interest.

In June 2020, MapKure held a second closing under the existing terms of the SPA in which it issued
additional Series A preferred units to SpringWorks and the other investors that purchased units in the first
closing (the “Second Closing”), and the Company’s ownership interest decreased to 55.6%. As the requisite
Series A voting requirements in MapKure’s governing documents require 70% combined voting power for
certain actions, the Company determined that it lost its controlling financial interest after the Second Closing.
Therefore, the Company deconsolidated MapKure and recognized a gain of $11,307 for the excess of the
fair value of its 55.6% ownership interest in MapKure and carrying amount of the prior non-controlling
interest over the carrying amount of MapKure’s net assets within other income during the year ended
December 31, 2020.

Upon deconsolidation, the Company recorded an equity investment of $10,000, which represents the

estimated fair value of its 55.6% ownership interest in MapKure. Effective June 8, 2020, the Company is
accounting for the investment as an equity-method investment and records its portion of MapKure’s earnings
or losses within other income, net. The Company recognized losses of $1,176 and $491 for the years ended
December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the carrying amount of the
Company’s investment in MapKure was $8,333 and 9,509, respectively.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Guangzhou GET Phase I Biomedical Industry Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership)

In July 2020, BeiGene (Guangzhou) invested $11,782 (RMB80,000) in an existing investment fund,
Guangzhou GET Phase I Biomedical Industry Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) (GET Bio-
fund). The stated purpose of GET Bio-fund is to promote and upgrade the local industrial transformation
in Guangzhou and it is committed to invest at least 60% of the total fund in the biotechnology, medical device,
and medical information industries.

GET Bio-fund has six limited partners and one general partner, Guangzhou GET Biomedical Industry

Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. (GET Bio-fund Management). GET Bio-fund has an agreed
duration for seven years, with the first five years as the investment period and the following two years as the
projected payback period. The agreed upon duration may be extended for two additional years with the
approval of all of the partners. As of December 31, 2021, BeiGene Guangzhou, as a limited partner, holds
an ownership interest in the fund of 19.3%. The investment committee for the fund has seven members, and
requires resolutions to be approved by at least five of the seven members. BeiGene Guangzhou holds one
position on the investment committee and GET Bio-fund Management holds three positions. The Company
determined that it has the ability to exercise significant influence over the fund due to the Company’s
ownership interest and involvement on the investment committee, and the investment represents an equity
method investment. The Company recognized losses of $145 and $68 for its portion of the fund’s net loss for
the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the carrying
amount of the Company’s investment in the fund was $12,333 and $12,189, respectively.

Other Equity-Method Investment

In addition to the equity-method investments mentioned above, the Company made additional equity-

method investments during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 that it does not consider to be
individually significant to its financial statements. The Company recognized the equity-method investments
at cost and subsequently adjusted the basis based on the Company’s share of the results of operations. The
Company records its share of the investees’ results of operations within other income, net.

6. Inventories

The Company’s inventory balance consisted of the following:

As of December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

Raw materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Work in process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

78,140
9,397

19,330
1,378

Finished goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

155,089

68,585

Total inventories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

242,626

89,293

7. Manufacturing Facility in Guangzhou, China

Manufacturing legal entity structure

BeiGene Shanghai, originally established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of BeiGene (Hong Kong) Co.,

Ltd. (BeiGene HK), and currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of BeiGene Biologics, as described below,
provides clinical development services for BeiGene affiliates and is the clinical trial authorization (CTA)
holder and marketing authorization application (MAA) holder for tislelizumab in China.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

In March 2017, BeiGene HK, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and Guangzhou GET

Technology Development Co., Ltd. (now Guangzhou High-tech Zone Technology Holding Group Co.,
Ltd.) (GET), entered into a definitive agreement to establish a commercial scale biologics manufacturing
facility in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, PRC. BeiGene HK and GET entered into an Equity Joint
Venture Contract (the “JV Agreement”).

Under the terms of the JV Agreement, BeiGene HK made an initial cash capital contribution of
RMB200,000 and a subsequent contribution of one or more biologics assets in exchange for a 95% equity
interest in BeiGene Biologics. GET made a cash capital contribution of RMB100,000 to BeiGene Biologics,
representing a 5% equity interest in BeiGene Biologics. In addition, on March 7, 2017, BeiGene Biologics
entered into a contract with GET, under which GET agreed to provide a RMB900,000 loan (the “Shareholder
Loan”) to BeiGene Biologics. In September 2019, BeiGene Biologics completed the first phase of construction
of a biologics manufacturing facility in Guangzhou, through a wholly owned subsidiary, the BeiGene
Guangzhou Biologics Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (BeiGene Guangzhou Factory), to manufacture biologics
for the Company and its subsidiaries.

BeiGene HK and BeiGene Biologics subsequently entered into an Equity Transfer Agreement to
transfer 100% of the equity interest of BeiGene Shanghai to BeiGene Biologics, as required by the JV
agreement, such that the CTA holder and MAA holder for tislelizumab in China was controlled by BeiGene
Biologics. Upon the transfer of equity in BeiGene Shanghai, BeiGene HK’s equity interest in BeiGene
Shanghai became 95%.

In September 2020, BeiGene HK entered into a share purchase agreement (JV Share Purchase

Agreement) with GET to acquire GET’s 5% equity interest in BeiGene Biologics for a total purchase price
of $28,723 (RMB195,262). The transaction was finalized in November 2020 upon completion of the business
registration filing. The share purchase was recorded as an equity transaction. The carrying amount of the
noncontrolling interest balance of $9,116 was adjusted to nil to reflect the increase in BeiGene HK’s ownership
interest to 100%, and the difference in the fair value of the consideration paid and the carrying amount of
the noncontrolling interest of $19,599 was recorded to additional paid in capital. In connection with the JV
Share Purchase Agreement, BeiGene Biologics repaid the outstanding principal of the Shareholder Loan
of $132,061 (RMB900,000) and accrued interest of $36,558 (RMB249,140).

In connection with the JV share purchase, the Company entered into a loan agreement with China
Minsheng Bank for a total loan facility of up to $200,000 (Senior Loan), of which $120,000 was used to
fund the JV share repurchase and repayment of the shareholder loan and $80,000 could be used for general
working capital purposes. The Company may extend the original maturity date for up to two additional
twelve month periods. In October 2020, the Company drew down $80,000 of the working capital facility and
$118,320 of the acquisition facility to be used for the JV share repurchase. On October 9, 2021, the Company
repaid $198,320 and drew down $200,000 from the Senior Loan. In addition, the Company entered into a
loan agreement with Zhuhai Hillhouse Zhaohui Equity Investment Partnership (Zhuhai Hillhouse) for a total
loan facility of $73,640 (RMB500,000) (Related Party Loan), of which $14,728 (RMB100,000) can be
used for general corporate purposes and $58,912 (RMB400,000) can only be applied towards the repayment
of the Senior Loan facility, including principal, interest and fees. The Company has drawn down $15,693
(RMB100,000) of the Related Party Loan as of December 31, 2021. See Note 13 for further discussion of the
loans.

8. Leases

The Company has operating leases for office and manufacturing facilities in the United States,
Switzerland, and China. The leases have remaining lease terms of up to five years, some of which include
options to extend the leases that have not been included in the calculation of the Company’s lease liabilities

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

and ROU assets. The Company has land use rights, which represent land acquired for the biologics
manufacturing facility in Guangzhou, the land acquired for the Company’s research, development and
office facility in Changping, Beijing, and the land acquired for the Company’s research, development and
manufacturing facility in Suzhou. The land use rights represent lease prepayments and are expensed over the
remaining term of the rights, which is 50 years for the Guangzhou land use rights, 36 years for the Changping
land use right, and 30 years for the Suzhou land use right. The Company also has certain leases with terms
of 12 months or less for certain equipment, office and lab space, which are not recorded on the balance sheet.

The components of lease expense were as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

Operating lease cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

22,536

18,271

13,980

Variable lease cost

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Short-term lease cost

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4,892

1,823

2,465

1,018

1,784

1,001

Total lease cost

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

29,251

21,754

16,765

Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows:

As of December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

Operating lease right-of-use assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

60,762

41,850

Land use rights, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

56,669

48,731

Total operating lease right-of-use assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

117,431

90,581

Current portion of operating lease liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

21,925

13,895

Operating lease liabilities, non-current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

43,041

29,417

Total lease liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

64,966

43,312

Maturities of operating lease liabilities are as follows:

$

Year ending December 31, 2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Year ending December 31, 2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

24,225
20,072

Year ending December 31, 2024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

16,103

Year ending December 31, 2025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Year ending December 31, 2026 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8,272
1,546

Total lease payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Less imputed interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

70,218
(5,252)

Present value of lease liabilities

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

64,966

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Other supplemental information related to leases is summarized below:

Year ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

Operating cash flows used in operating leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

19,962

17,571

12,405

ROU assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease

liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

37,454

17,634

20,108

As of December 31,

2021

2020

Weighted-average remaining lease term (years)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3

3

Weighted-average discount rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5.15% 6.26%

9. Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

Property, plant and equipment, net are recorded at cost less accumulated depreciation and consisted of

the following:

As of December 31,

Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

65,485

Laboratory equipment

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

118,203

Leasehold improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

50,288

2021

$

2020

$

—

78,640

37,643

Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

144,083

111,527

Manufacturing equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

119,585

Software, electronics and office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

27,404

96,669

20,782

Property and equipment, at cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

525,048

345,261

Less: Accumulated depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(124,286)

(73,354)

Construction in progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

186,843

85,779

Property, plant and equipment, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

587,605

357,686

In November 2021, the Company purchased a 42-acre site located in Hopewell, NJ for $75,197. The

total purchase price was allocated between the land and an existing building on the property based on their
relative fair values. The Company plans to construct a biologics manufacturing facility and research and
development center on the land. Construction had not yet commenced as of December 31, 2021.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Construction in progress (CIP) as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 primarily related to the buildout of

additional capacity at the Guangzhou and Suzhou manufacturing facilities. CIP by fixed asset class are
summarized as follows:

As of December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

90,229

48,824

Manufacturing equipment

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

63,361

29,858

Laboratory equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

17,178

16,075

4,507

2,590

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

186,843

85,779

Depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 were $44,742, $30,943

and $17,291, respectively.

10. Intangible Assets

Intangible assets as of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 are summarized as follows:

December 31, 2021

December 31, 2020

Gross
carrying
amount

$

Accumulated
amortization

Intangible
assets, net

Gross
carrying
amount

Accumulated
amortization

Intangible
assets, net

$

$

$

$

$

Finite-lived intangible assets:

Product distribution rights . . .

7,500

(3,250)

4,250

7,500

(2,500)

5,000

Developed products . . . . . . . .

43,394

Trading license . . . . . . . . . . .

816

(965)

(816)

42,429

—

—

816

—

(816)

—

—

Total finite-lived intangible

assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

51,710

(5,031)

46,679

8,316

(3,316)

5,000

Product distribution rights consist of distribution rights for the approved cancer therapies licensed

from BMS as part of the BMS collaboration. The Company is amortizing the product distribution rights,
as a single identified asset, over a period of 10 years from the date of acquisition. Developed products
represent the post-approval milestone payments under the license agreement with Merck KGaA that was
terminated during the year ended December 31, 2018 and the license and commercialization agreements
with EUSA Pharma and Bio-Thera. The Company is amortizing the developed products over the remainder
of the respective product patent or the term of the commercialization agreements. Trading license represents
the Guangzhou drug distribution license acquired in September 2018. The Company amortized the drug
distribution trading license over the remainder of the initial license term through February 2020. The trading
license has been renewed through February 2024.

Amortization expense for developed products is included in cost of sales — product in the accompanying

consolidated statements of operations. Amortization expense for product distribution rights and trading
licenses is included in operating expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. The

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

weighted-average life for each finite-lived intangible assets is approximately 13 years. Amortization expense
is as follows:

Amortization expense – Cost of sales – product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

965 —

$

$

$

—

Amortization expense – Operating expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

750

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,715

846

846

1,326

1,326

Year Ended December 31,

2021

2020

2019

Estimated amortization expense for each of the five succeeding years and thereafter, as of December 31,

2021 is as follows:

Year Ending December 31,

Cost of Sales – Product Operating Expenses

Total

2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2026 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2027 and thereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

3,314

3,314

3,314

3,314

3,314

25,859

42,429

$

750

750

750

750

750

500

4,250

$

4,064

4,064

4,064

4,064

4,064

26,359

46,679

11. Income Taxes

The components of income (loss) before income taxes are as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

PRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(606,752)

(369,066)

(231,997)

U.S.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

34,923
(866,759)

33,608
(1,282,736)

24,478
(736,067)

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,438,588)

(1,618,194)

(943,586)

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

The current and deferred components of the income tax expense (benefit) from continuing operations

are as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

Current Tax Expense (Benefit):

PRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

15,252

16,121

16,368

U.S.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(9)

(5,678)

Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

805

68

65

12

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

16,048

10,511

16,445

Deferred Tax Expense (Benefit):

PRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7,516

(1,152)

(4,738)

U.S.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(47,094)

(27,030)

(4,715)

Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,704)

—

—

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(41,282)

(28,182)

(9,453)

Income Tax (Benefit) Expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(25,234)

(17,671)

6,992

The reconciliation of the statutory tax rate to our effective income tax rate is as follow:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

Loss before tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,438,588)

(1,618,194)

(943,586)

China statutory tax rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

25%

25%

25%

Expected taxation at China statutory tax rate . . . . . . . . . . .

(359,647)

(404,549)

(235,897)

Foreign and preferential tax rate differential . . . . . . . . . . . .

185,874

218,473

191,820

Non-deductible expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2,826)

8,436

(273)

Stock compensation expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(27,411)

(22,032)

(5,698)

Effect of tax rate change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Change in valuation allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Research tax credits and incentives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Taxation for the year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

—
210,306

(31,530)

(25,234)

(3,827)
209,085

(63,395)
146,118

(23,257)

(25,683)

(17,671)

6,992

Effective tax rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.8%

1.1%

(0.7)%

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Significant components of deferred tax assets (liabilities) are as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

Deferred Tax Assets:

Accruals and reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Net operating losses carryforward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Stock-based compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Research tax credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Depreciable and amortizable assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lease liability obligation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

84,766

625,114
14,982

82,060

937,069

11,571

33,512

27,304

358,425
13,981

155,499
12,651

58,835

33,979

724,779

575,128

9,066

7,864

Gross deferred tax assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,755,562

1,198,598

812,425

Less valuation allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,647,985)

(1,134,585)

(777,583)

Total deferred tax assets

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

107,577

64,013

34,842

Deferred tax liabilities:

Right of use lease asset

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total deferred tax liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Net deferred tax asset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(11,322)

(11,322)

96,255

(8,843)

(8,843)

(7,480)

(7,480)

55,170

27,362

Valuation allowances have been provided on deferred tax assets where, based on all available evidence,
it was considered more likely than not that some portion or all of the recorded deferred tax assets will not
be realized in future periods. After consideration of all positive and negative evidence, the Company believes
that as of December 31, 2021, it is more likely than not that certain deferred tax assets will not be realized
for our subsidiaries in Australia, Switzerland, the United States, and for certain subsidiaries in China. For
the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, there were increases in the valuation allowance of $210,306 and
$209,085, respectively. Adjustments may be required in the future if the Company estimates that the amount
of deferred tax assets to be realized is more or less than the net amount recorded.

As of December 31, 2021and 2020, the Company had net operating losses of approximately $3,644,005

and $2,230,857, respectively. As of December 31, 2021, net operating losses were primarily comprised of:
$942,541 from entities in the PRC which expire in years 2023 through 2031; $2,325,359 derived from
Switzerland which expires in years 2025 through 2028; and, $351,645 derived from entities in the United
States that have an indefinite carryforward. The Company has approximately $88,632 of U.S. research tax
credits which will expire between 2035 and 2041, if not utilized.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

The gross unrecognized tax benefits for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 were as

follows:

Beginning balance, as of January 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Additions based on tax positions related to prior tax years . . . . . . . . .

Reductions based on tax positions related to prior tax years . . . . . . . .
. . . . .
Additions based on tax positions related to the current tax year

Reductions based on lapse of statute of limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Year Ended December 31,

2021

2020

2019

$

$

$

7,123
—

—
2,802

—

4,633
—

—
2,497

2,295
46

(17)
2,435

(7)

(126)

Ending balance, as of December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9,925

7,123

4,633

Current and prior year additions include an assessment of U.S. federal and state tax credits and
incentives. None of the unrecognized tax benefits as of December 31, 2021 would impact the consolidated
income tax rate if ultimately recognized due to valuation allowances. The Company does not anticipate that
the amount of existing unrecognized tax benefits will significantly change within the next 12 months.

The Company has elected to record interest and penalties related to income taxes as a component of

income tax expense. For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, the Company’s accrued interest
and penalties, where applicable, related to uncertain tax positions were not material.

The Company conducts business in a number of tax jurisdictions and, as such, is required to file income

tax returns in multiple jurisdictions globally. As of December 31, 2021, Australia tax matters are open to
examination for the years 2013 through 2021, China tax matters are open to examination for the years 2011
through 2021, Switzerland tax matters are open to examination for the years 2018 through 2021, and U.S.
federal tax matters are open to examination for years 2015 through 2021. Various U.S. states and other
non-US tax jurisdictions in which the Company files tax returns remain open to examination for 2011 through
2021.

The Company qualifies for the Technology Advanced Service Enterprises (TASE) and High and New

Technology Enterprise (HNTE) status for certain subsidiaries in China, which expire at the end of 2022.
The income tax benefits attributable to this status for the year ended December 31, 2021 is approximately
$2,863, or less than $0.01 per share outstanding.

During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company completed intra-group transfers of
certain intangible assets in anticipation of potential commercialization, which resulted in the establishment
of deferred tax assets that were fully offset by valuation allowances.

As of December 31, 2021, the Company asserts indefinite reinvestment on the excess of the financial
reporting bases over tax bases in the Company’s investments in foreign subsidiaries to the extent reversal
would incur a significant tax liability. A deferred tax liability has not been established for the approximately
$1,844 of cumulative undistributed foreign earnings. Determination of the unrecognized deferred tax
liability is not practicable due to the uncertainty and overall complexity of the hypothetical calculation.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

12. Supplemental Balance Sheet Information

Changes in the allowance for credit losses related to trade accounts receivable consist of the following:

Year Ended December 31,

Beginning balance, as of January 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Provision charged to selling, general and administrative expenses . . . . . . .

Amounts written-off, net of recoveries of amounts previously reserved . . .
Exchange rate changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2021

$

112

309

—
(6)

Ending balance, as of December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

415

Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of the following:

2020

$

—

109

—
3

112

Prepaid research and development costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Prepaid taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Interest receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Prepaid insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Prepaid manufacturing cost

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

As of December 31,

2021

$

87,239

58,579

12,010

5,052

1,695

78,538

27,060

2020

$

71,341

30,392

12,651

6,619

1,347

25,996

11,666

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

270,173

160,012

Other non-current assets consist of the following:

Goodwill
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Prepayment of property and equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Payment of facility capacity expansion activities(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Prepaid VAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Rental deposits and other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

As of December 31,

2021

$

109
14,140
24,237
17,162

6,609

2020

$

109
16,984
29,778
10,913

5,962

Long-term investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

100,792

49,344

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

163,049

113,090

(1) Represents payments for facility expansion under commercial supply agreements. The payments are

providing future benefit to the Company through credits on commercial supply purchases.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Accrued expenses and other payables consisted of the following:

As of December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

Compensation related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
External research and development activities related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

139,966
213,922

106,765
143,302

Commercial activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Individual income tax and other taxes

Sales rebates and returns related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

71,560
45,661

59,639

27,307

66,131
14,373

11,874

3,699

Total accrued expenses and other payables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

558,055

346,144

Other long-term liabilities consist of the following:

Deferred government grant income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

46,352

49,139

Pension liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7,814

8,113

Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

68

177

Total other long-term liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

54,234

57,429

As of December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

13. Debt

The following table summarizes the Company’s short-term and long-term debt obligations as of

December 31, 2021 and 2020:

Lender

Agreement
Date

Line of Credit Term Maturity Date

China Construction Bank . . . . . . . . .

April 4, 2018

RMB580,000 9-year

April 4, 2027

China Merchants Bank . . . . . . . . . . .

January 22, 2020

(2)

9-year

January 20, 2029

China Minsheng Bank
(the “Senior Loan”)

Zhuhai Hillhouse

. . . . . . . . . . . September 24, 2020

$200,000

(the “Related Party Loan”)

. . . . . . . September 24, 2020 RMB500,000

Other short-term debt(5)

. . . . . . . . . .

Total short-term debt . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)

(4)

China Construction Bank . . . . . . . . .

April 4, 2018

RMB580,000 9-year

April 4, 2027

China Merchants Bank . . . . . . . . . . .

January 22, 2020

(2)

9-year

January 20, 2029

China Merchants Bank . . . . . . . . . . . November 9, 2020 RMB378,000 9-year November 8, 2029

Total long-term debt

. . . . . . . . . . . .

As of December 31,

2021

2020

$

1,255

1,569

RMB

8,000

10,000

$

307

—

RMB

2,000

—

Interest
Rate

(1)

(2)

4.5% 200,000 1,274,535 198,320 1,294,010

4.5% 15,693

100,000

15,326

100,000

209,048 1,332,197 121,062

789,918

427,565 2,724,732 335,015 2,185,928

(1)

(2)

(6)

89,444

570,000

88,584

578,000

53,353

340,000

53,641

350,000

59,316

378,000

41,412

270,206

202,113 1,288,000 183,637 1,198,206

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

(1) The outstanding borrowings bear floating interest rates benchmarking RMB loan interest rates of

financial institutions in the PRC. The loan interest rate was 4.9% as of December 31, 2021. The Company
repaid $312 (or RMB2,000) during the year ended December 31, 2021. The loan is secured by BeiGene
Guangzhou Factory’s land use right and certain Guangzhou Factory fixed assets in the first phase of
the Guangzhou manufacturing facility’s build out.

(2) On January 22, 2020, BeiGene Guangzhou Factory entered into a nine-year bank loan with China
Merchants Bank to borrow up to RMB1,100,000 at a floating interest rate benchmarked against
prevailing interest rates of certain PRC financial institutions. The loan is secured by Guangzhou Factory’s
second land use right and fixed assets that will be placed into service upon completion of the second
phase of the Guangzhou manufacturing facility’s build out. In connection with the Company’s short-term
loan agreements with China Merchants Bank entered into during the year ended December 31, 2020,
the borrowing capacity was reduced from RMB1,100,000 to RMB350,000. The loan interest rate was
4.4% as of December 31, 2021.

(3) $120,000 of the Senior Loan was designated to fund the JV share purchase and repayment of the

shareholder loan and $80,000 was designated for general working capital purposes. The Senior Loan
had an original maturity date of October 8, 2021, which was the first anniversary of the first date of
utilization of the loan. The Company may extend the original maturity date for up to two additional
twelve month periods. On October 8, 2021, the Company extended the maturity date for twelve months
to October 8, 2022 and repurposed the Senior Loan for general working capital purposes. On October 9,
2021, the Company repaid $198,320 and drew down $200,000 from the Senior Loan.

(4) RMB100,000 of the Related Party Loan was designated for general corporate purposes and

RMB400,000 was designated for repayment of the Senior Loan, including principal, interest and fees.
The loan originally matured at the earlier of: (i) November 9, 2021, which is one month after the Senior
Loan maturity date, if not extended, or (ii) 10 business days after the Senior Loan is fully repaid. On
October 8, 2021, the Company extended the maturity date of the Related Party Loan to the earlier of:
(i) November 9, 2022, which is one month after the Senior Loan maturity date, if not extended, or (ii) 10
business days after the Senior Loan is fully repaid. Zhuhai Hillhouse is a related party of the Company,
as it is an affiliate of Hillhouse Capital. Hillhouse Capital is a shareholder of the Company, and a
Hillhouse Capital employee is a member of the Company’s board of directors.

(5) During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company entered into additional short-term

working capital loans with China Industrial Bank and China Merchants Bank to borrow up to
RMB1,940,000 in aggregate, with maturity dates ranging from April 19, 2021 to December 15, 2022.
The Company drew down $206,449 (RMB1,332,197) during the year ended December 31, 2021. The
Company repaid $123,122 (RMB789,918) of the short-term loans during the year ended. December 31,
2021. The weighted average interest rate for the short-term working capital loans was approximately
4.2% as of December 31, 2021.

(6) The outstanding borrowings bear floating interest rates benchmarking RMB loan interest rates of

financial institutions in the PRC. The loan interest rate was 4.3% as of December 31, 2021. The Company
drew down $16,838 (RMB107,794) during the year ended December 31, 2021. The loan is secured by
fixed assets that will be placed into service upon completion of the third phase of the Guangzhou
manufacturing facility’s build out.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Contractual Maturities of Debt Obligations

The aggregate contractual maturities of all borrowings due subsequent to December 31, 2021 are as

follows:

Maturity dates

Amounts

$

Year ending December 31, 2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

427,565

Year ending December 31, 2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Year ending December 31, 2024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Year ending December 31, 2025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Year ending December 31, 2026 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Thereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

15,300

31,832

38,027

42,726

74,228

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

629,678

Interest Expense

Interest on bank loans and the Related Party Loan is paid quarterly until the respective loans are fully

settled. Interest expense recognized for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 amounted to
$29,263, $18,309 and $15,155, respectively, among which, $1,054, $338 and $4,857 was capitalized, respectively.

14. Product Revenue

The Company’s product revenue is primarily derived from the sale of its internally developed products

BRUKINSA® in the United States and China, and tislelizumab and pamiparib in China; REVLIMID® and
VIDAZA® in China under a license from BMS; and XGEVA® and BLINCYTO® in China under a license
from Amgen.

The table below presents the Company’s net product sales for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020

and 2019.

Product revenue – gross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Less: Rebates and sales returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

748,824
(114,837)

324,672
(15,798)

228,760
(6,164)

Product revenue – net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

633,987

308,874

222,596

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

The following table disaggregates net product revenue by product for the years ended December 31,

2021, 2020 and 2019.

Year Ended December 31,

Tislelizumab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BRUKINSA® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
REVLIMID® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
VIDAZA® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ABRAXANE® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
XGEVA® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BLINCYTO® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other

2021

$

2020

$

255,119
217,987
70,065

163,358
41,702
47,372

19,591

29,975
— 17,770
8,496
—

45,956
12,515

2019

$

—
1,039
78,044

32,234
111,279
—
—

12,754

201

—

Total product revenue – net

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

633,987

308,874

222,596

The following table presents the roll-forward of accrued sales rebates and returns for the years ended

December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020.

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

Beginning balance, as of January 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11,874

3,198

Accrual

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

114,837

15,798

Payment

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(67,072)

(7,122)

Ending balance, as of December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

59,639

11,874

Sales rebates accrued and paid during the year ended December 31, 2021 increased as a result of
compensating distributors for products previously sold at the pre-NRDL price, which remained in the
distribution channel, due to the first inclusion of tislelizumab, BRUKINSA® and XGEVA® in the NRDL
effective March 1, 2021 and additional indications for tislelizumab, BRUKINSA® and pamiparib effective
January 1, 2022. The impact of the NRDL price reductions on net revenue totaled $57,450 for the year
ended December 31, 2021. The majority of the accrued compensation related to sales of tislelizumab.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

15. Loss Per Share

Loss per share was calculated as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

Numerator:

Net loss

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,413,354)

(1,600,523)

(950,578)

Less: Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest

. . .

—

(3,617)

(1,950)

Net loss attributable to BeiGene, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1,413,354)

(1,596,906)

(948,628)

Denominator:

Weighted average shares outstanding for computing basic
and diluted loss per share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Net loss per share attributable to BeiGene, Ltd., basic and

1,206,210,049

1,085,131,783

780,701,283

diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1.17)

(1.47)

(1.22)

For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, the computation of basic loss per share using

the two-class method was not applicable, as the Company was in a net loss position.

The effects of all share options and restricted share units were excluded from the calculation of diluted
loss per share as their effect would have been anti-dilutive during the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020
and 2019.

16. Share-Based Compensation Expense

2016 Share Option and Incentive Plan

In January 2016, in connection with its U.S. IPO, the board of directors and shareholders of the
Company approved the 2016 Share Option and Incentive Plan (the “2016 Plan”), which became effective in
February 2016. The Company initially reserved 65,029,595 ordinary shares for the issuance of awards
under the 2016 Plan, plus any shares available under the 2011 Option Plan (the “2011 Plan”), and not subject
to any outstanding options as of the effective date of the 2016 Plan, along with underlying share awards
under the 2011 Plan that are cancelled or forfeited without issuance of ordinary shares. As of December 31,
2021, ordinary shares cancelled or forfeited under the 2011 Plan that were carried over to the 2016 Plan
totaled 5,166,510. The 2016 Plan provided for an annual increase in the shares available for issuance, to be
added on the first day of each fiscal year, beginning on January 1, 2017, equal to the lesser of (i) five percent
(5)% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s ordinary shares on the last day of the immediately
preceding fiscal year or (ii) such number of shares determined by the Company’s board of directors or the
compensation committee. On January 1, 2018, 29,603,616 ordinary shares were added to the 2016 Plan under
this provision. However, in August 2018, in connection with the Hong Kong IPO, the board of directors of
the Company approved an amended and restated 2016 Plan to remove this “evergreen” provision and
implement other changes required by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) rules. In December 2018,
the shareholders of the Company approved a second amended and restated 2016 Plan to increase the number
of shares authorized for issuance by 38,553,159 ordinary shares, as well as amend the cap on annual
compensation to independent directors and make other changes. In June 2020, the shareholders approved
an Amendment No. 1 to the 2016 Plan to increase the number of shares authorized for issuance by 57,200,000
ordinary shares and to extend the term of the plan through April 13, 2030. The number of shares available

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

for issuance under the 2016 Plan is subject to adjustment in the event of a share split, share dividend or
other change in the Company’s capitalization.

As of December 31, 2021, share-based awards to acquire 50,886,939 ordinary shares were available for

future grant under the 2016 Plan.

2018 Inducement Equity Plan

In June 2018, the board of directors of the Company approved the 2018 Inducement Equity Plan (the

“2018 Plan”) and reserved 12,000,000 ordinary shares to be used exclusively for grants of awards to
individuals who were not previously employees of the Company or its subsidiaries, as a material inducement
to the individual’s entry into employment with the Company or its subsidiaries, within the meaning of
Rule 5635(c)(4) of the NASDAQ Listing Rules. The 2018 Plan was approved by the board of directors upon
recommendation of the compensation committee, without shareholder approval pursuant to Rule 5635(c)(4)
of the NASDAQ Listing Rules. The terms and conditions of the 2018 Plan, and the forms of award agreements
to be used thereunder, are substantially similar to the 2016 Plan and the forms of award agreements thereunder.
In August 2018, in connection with the listing of the Company’s ordinary shares on the HKEx, the board
of directors of the Company approved an amended and restated 2018 Plan to implement changes required by
the HKEx rules.

As of December 31, 2021, share-based awards to acquire 9,344,659 ordinary shares were available for

future grant under the 2018 Plan.

2018 Employee Share Purchase Plan

In June 2018, the shareholders of the Company approved the 2018 Employee Share Purchase Plan (the

ESPP). Initially, 3,500,000 ordinary shares of the Company were reserved for issuance under the ESPP. In
August 2018, in connection with the Hong Kong IPO, the board of directors of the Company approved an
amended and restated ESPP to remove an “evergreen” share replenishment provision originally included in
the plan and implement other changes required by the HKEx rules. In December 2018, the shareholders of
the Company approved a second amended and restated ESPP to increase the number of shares authorized for
issuance by 3,855,315 ordinary shares to 7,355,315 ordinary shares. The ESPP allows eligible employees to
purchase the Company’s ordinary shares (including in the form of ADSs) at the end of each offering period,
which will generally be six months, at a 15% discount to the market price of the Company’s ADSs at the
beginning or the end of each offering period, whichever is lower, using funds deducted from their payroll
during the offering period. Eligible employees are able to authorize payroll deductions of up to 10% of their
eligible earnings, subject to applicable limitations.

The following tables summarizes the shares issued under the ESPP:

Issuance Date

August 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

February 26, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . .

August 31, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

February 28, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . .

August 30, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

February 28, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Number of Ordinary
Shares Issued

425,386

436,124

485,069

425,425

233,194

154,505

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Market Price(1)

Purchase Price(2)

ADS

Ordinary

ADS

Ordinary

Proceeds

$308.30

$23.72

$262.06

$20.16

$236.30

$18.18

$200.86

$15.45

$164.06

$12.62

$139.45

$10.73

$145.54

$11.20

$123.71

$ 9.52

$143.75

$11.06

$122.19

$ 9.40

$137.05

$10.54

$116.49

$ 8.96

$8,575

$6,738

$5,203

$4,048

$2,192

$1,385

BEIGENE, LTD.

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

(1) The market price is the lower of the closing price on the NASDAQ Stock Market on the issuance date

or the offering date, in accordance with the terms of the ESPP.

(2) The purchase price is the price which was discounted from the applicable market price, in accordance

with the terms of the ESPP.

As of December 31, 2021, 5,194,546 ordinary shares were available for future issuance under the ESPP.

Share options

Generally, share options have a contractual term of 10 years and vest over a three- to five-year period,
with the first tranche vesting one calendar year after the grant date or the service relationship start date and
the remainder of the awards vesting on a monthly basis thereafter. Restricted shares and restricted share units
generally vest over a four-year period, with the first tranche vesting one calendar year after the grant date or
the service relationship start date and the remainder of the awards vesting on a yearly basis thereafter, or
sometimes vest upon the achievement of pre-specified performance conditions.

The following table summarizes the Company’s share option activities under the 2011, 2016 and 2018

Plans:

Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date Fair
Value

Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term

Number of
Options

Aggregate
Intrinsic Value

Outstanding at December 31, 2018 . . . . . . .

116,082,647

Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12,641,590

Exercised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(16,730,441)

Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3,576,542)

Outstanding at December 31, 2019 . . . . . . .

108,417,254

$

3.21

9.38

2.60

5.09

3.96

Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8,999,536

13.54

7.15

Exercised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(29,707,587)

Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2,717,488)

Outstanding at December 31, 2020 . . . . . . .
Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

84,991,715
6,244,524

Exercised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(17,233,853)
(1,797,498)

Outstanding at December 31, 2021 . . . . . . .

72,204,888

Exercisable as of December 31, 2021 . . . . . .

55,576,828

2.82

7.22

5.27
26.46

4.52
13.27

7.08

4.31

Vested and expected to vest at December 31,

12.40

$

Years

$

5.06

171,429

416,509

367,110

5.81

5.08

1,026,958

919,118

2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

70,043,242

6.79

5.73

1,012,938

As of December 31, 2021, the unrecognized compensation cost related to 14,466,414 unvested share
options expected to vest was $88,394. This unrecognized compensation will be recognized over an estimated
weighted-average amortization period of 2.1 years.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

The total fair value of employee share option awards vested during the years ended December 31,

2021, 2020 and 2019 was $53,571, $55,127 and $58,670, respectively.

Fair value of options

The Company uses the binomial option-pricing model in determining the estimated fair value of the

options granted. The model requires the input of highly subjective assumptions including the estimated
expected stock price volatility and, the exercise multiple for which employees are likely to exercise share
options. For expected volatilities, the trading history and observation period of the Company’s own share
price is used in conjunction with historical price volatilities of ordinary shares of several comparable
companies in the same industry as the Company. For the exercise multiple, the Company was not able to
develop an exercise pattern as reference, thus the exercise multiple is based on management’s estimation,
which the Company believes is representative of the future exercise pattern of the options. The risk-free rate
for periods within the contractual life of the option is based on the U.S. Treasury Bills yield curve in effect
at the time of grant.

The following table presents the range of fair values and the assumptions used to estimate those fair

values of the share options granted in the years presented:

Fair value of ordinary share . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Risk-free interest rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expected exercise multiple . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expected volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expected dividend yield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contractual life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2021
$9.94 ~ $14.97
1.1% ~ 1.7%
2.8
51% ~ 59%
0%
10 years

Year Ended December 31,
2020
$4.95 ~ $11.89
0.6% ~ 1.1%
2.8
58% ~ 59%
0%
10 years

2019
$4.64 ~ $8.28
1.5% ~ 2.8%
2.2 ~ 2.8
58% ~ 60%
0%
10 years

Restricted shares

The following table summarizes the Company’s restricted share activities under the 2016 Plan:

Outstanding at December 31, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Outstanding at December 31, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Outstanding at December 31, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Outstanding at December 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expected to vest at December 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Numbers
of Shares

300,000
—
(75,000)
(150,000)
75,000
—
(75,000)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—

Weighted-Average
Grant Date
Fair Value
$
2.25
—
2.27
2.24
2.27
—
2.27
—
—
—
—
—
—
—

BEIGENE, LTD.

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

The Company had no non-employee restricted share activities during the year ended December 31,

2021 and 2020.

As of December 31, 2021, all compensation cost related to restricted shares was fully recognized.

Restricted share units

The following table summarizes the Company’s restricted share unit activities under the 2016 and 2018

Plans:

Numbers
of Shares

Weighted-Average
Grant Date
Fair Value

Outstanding at December 31, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

14,102,452

Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

18,637,333

Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3,474,068)

Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2,413,450)

Outstanding at December 31, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

26,852,267

Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

18,820,581

Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(7,302,828)

Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3,493,048)

Outstanding at December 31, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

34,876,972

Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

17,173,767

Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(10,703,381)

Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5,264,376)

Outstanding at December 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

36,082,982

Expected to vest at December 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

31,392,194

$

11.85

10.10

11.75

11.07

10.72

14.20

10.88

11.36

12.50

25.58

12.23

15.82

18.33

18.33

As of December 31, 2021, the unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested restricted share units
expected to vest was $469,862. This unrecognized compensation will be recognized over an estimated weighted-
average amortization period of 2.6 years.

The following table summarizes total share-based compensation cost recognized for the years ended

December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019:

Year Ended December 31,

Research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

114,357

Selling, general and administrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

126,355

2021

$

2020

$

92,999

90,482

2019

$

76,293

57,861

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

240,712

183,481

134,154

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BEIGENE, LTD.

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

17. Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)

The movement of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) was as follows:

Foreign Currency
Translation
Adjustments

$

December 31, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(9,291)

Other comprehensive income (loss) before

reclassifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

23,475

Unrealized
Gains/Losses on
Available-for-Sale
Securities

$

1,290

1,073

Pension Liability
Adjustments

$

—

Total

$

(8,001)

(8,113)

16,435

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other

comprehensive income (loss)(1) . . . . . . . . . . .

Net-current period other comprehensive (loss)

income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

December 31, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other comprehensive income (loss) before

—

(1,492)

—

(1,492)

23,475

14,184

(419)

871

(8,113)

(8,113)

14,943

6,942

reclassifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

13,714

(4,504)

309

9,519

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other

comprehensive income (loss)(1) . . . . . . . . . . .

Net-current period other comprehensive (loss)

income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

December 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

—

(67)

1,556

1,489

13,714

27,898

(4,571)

(3,700)

1,865

(6,248)

11,008

17,950

(1) The amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income were included in other

income, net in the consolidated statements of operations.

18. Shareholders’ Equity

During the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, the Company completed the following

equity offerings:

In January 2020, the Company sold 15,895,001 ADSs, representing a 20.5% ownership stake in the
Company, to Amgen for aggregate cash proceeds of $2,779,241, or $174.85 per ADS, pursuant to the Share
Purchase Agreement executed in connection with the Amgen Collaboration Agreement. On March 17,
2020, BeiGene, Ltd. and Amgen entered into an Amendment No. 2 (the “Second Amendment”) to the Share
Purchase Agreement in order to account for periodic dilution from the issuance of shares by the Company,
which was restated in its entirety on September 24, 2020 (the “Restated Second Amendment”). Pursuant
to the Restated Second Amendment, Amgen has an option (the “Direct Purchase Option”) to subscribe for
additional ordinary shares of the Company in the form of ADSs (the “Additional Shares”) in an amount
necessary to enable it to increase (and subsequently maintain) its ownership at approximately 20.6% of the
Company’s outstanding shares. The Direct Purchase Option is exercisable on a monthly basis, but only if
Amgen’s interest in the outstanding shares of the Company at the monthly reference date is less than
20.4%. The Direct Purchase Option (i) will be exercisable by Amgen solely as a result of dilution arising
from issuance of new shares under the Company’s equity incentive plans from time to time, and (ii) is subject
to annual approval by the Company’s independent shareholders each year during the term of the Restated
Second Amendment. The exercise period of the Direct Purchase Option commenced on December 1, 2020

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

and will terminate on the earliest of: (a) the date on which Amgen and its affiliates collectively own less than
20% of the outstanding share capital of the Company as a result of Amgen’s sale of shares; (b) at least
60-day advance written notice from either Amgen or the Company that such party wishes to terminate the
Direct Purchase Option; or (c) December 1, 2023. The Direct Purchase Option has no vesting period.

In July 2020, the Company issued 145,838,979 ordinary shares, par value $0.0001, to eight existing
investors, including entities associated with Hillhouse Capital and Baker Bros. Advisors LP, as well as Amgen,
in a registered direct offering under the Company’s effective Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No.
333-238181). Each ordinary share was sold for a purchase price of $14.2308 per share ($185.00 per ADS),
resulting in net proceeds, after offering expenses, of $2,069,610. Amgen purchased 29,614,832 ordinary
shares for $421,443 as part of this offering. The offering was made without an underwriter or a placement
agent, and as a result the Company did not pay any underwriting discounts or commissions in connection
with the offering.

In September 2021, upon Amgen’s exercise of its Direct Purchase Option, the Company issued an
aggregate of 165,529 ADSs, representing 2,151,877 ordinary shares, to Amgen Inc. for a total consideration
of $50,000, in a private placement pursuant to a Share Purchase Agreement dated October 31, 2019, as
amended on December 6, 2019 and September 24, 2020 by and between Amgen and Company.

In December 2021, the Company completed an initial public offering of (STAR Offering) on the Science

and Technology Innovation Board (STAR Market) of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE). The shares
offered in the STAR Offering were issued to and subscribed for by permitted investors in the People’s Republic
of China (PRC) in Renminbi (RMB Shares). The public offering price of the RMB Shares was RMB192.60
per ordinary share, or $391.68 per ADS. In this offering, the Company sold 115,055,260 ordinary shares.
Net proceeds after deducting underwriting discounts and commission and offering expenses were $3,392,616.
As required by the PRC securities laws, the net proceeds from the STAR Offering must be used in strict
compliance with the planned uses as disclosed in the PRC prospectus as well as the Company’s proceeds
management policy for the STAR Offering approved by the board of directors.

19. Restricted Net Assets

The Company’s ability to pay dividends may depend on the Company receiving distributions of funds

from its PRC subsidiaries. Relevant PRC laws and regulations permit payments of dividends by the
Company’s PRC subsidiaries only out of its retained earnings, if any, as determined in accordance with PRC
accounting standards and regulations. The results of operations reflected in the consolidated financial
statements prepared in accordance with GAAP differ from those reflected in the statutory financial statements
of the Company’s PRC subsidiaries.

In accordance with the company law of the PRC, a domestic enterprise is required to provide statutory

reserves of at least 10% of its annual after-tax profit until such reserve has reached 50% of its respective
registered capital based on the enterprise’s PRC statutory accounts. A domestic enterprise is also required to
provide discretionary surplus reserve, at the discretion of the Board of Directors, from the profits determined
in accordance with the enterprise’s PRC statutory accounts. The aforementioned reserves can only be used for
specific purposes and are not distributable as cash dividends. The Company’s PRC subsidiaries were
established as domestic invested enterprises and therefore were subject to the above-mentioned restrictions
on distributable profits.

During the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, no appropriation to statutory reserves was

made, because the PRC subsidiaries had an accumulated deficit as of the end of such periods.

As a result of these PRC laws and regulations, including the requirement to make annual appropriations

of at least 10% of after-tax income and set aside as general reserve fund prior to payment of dividends, the
Company’s PRC subsidiaries are restricted in their ability to transfer a portion of their net assets to the
Company.

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BEIGENE, LTD.

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Foreign exchange and other regulations in the PRC may further restrict the Company’s PRC subsidiaries
from transferring funds to the Company in the form of dividends, loans, and advances. As of December 31,
2021 and 2020, amounts restricted were the net assets of the Company’s PRC subsidiaries, which amounted
to $799,574 and $119,776, respectively.

20. Employee Benefit Plans

Defined Contribution Plans

Full-time employees of the Company in the PRC participate in a government mandated defined
contribution plan, pursuant to which certain pension benefits, medical care, employee housing fund and
other welfare benefits are provided to employees. Chinese labor regulations require that the Company’s PRC
subsidiaries make contributions to the government for these benefits based on certain percentages of the
employees’ salaries. The Company has no legal obligation for the benefits beyond the contributions made.
The total amounts for such employee benefits, which were expensed as incurred, were $63,772, $23,717 and
$23,282 for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

The Company maintains a defined contribution 401(k) savings plan (the “401(k) Plan”) for U.S.
employees. The 401(k) Plan covers all U.S. employees, and allows participants to defer a portion of their
annual compensation on a pretax basis. In addition, the Company has a matching contribution to the 401(k)
Plan, which, in the 2021 plan year, matched dollar for dollar of eligible contributions up to 4%. Company
contributions to the 401(k) plan totaled $7,483, $4,840 and $2,389 in the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020
and 2019, respectively.

The Company maintains a government mandated program to cover its employees in Switzerland for
pension, death, or disability. The program is considered a defined contribution plan. Employer and employee
contributions are made based on various percentages of salaries and wages that vary based on employee
age and other factors. Company contributions into the program amounted to $2,986, $2,960, and $528 in
the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Employee benefit expenses for the remaining subsidiaries were immaterial.

Defined Benefit Plan

The Company maintains a defined benefit pension plan covering its employees in Switzerland (the
“Swiss Plan”). This plan is a government mandated fund that provides benefits to employees upon retirement,
death, or disability. Contributions are made based on various percentages of participants’ salaries and
wages determined based on participants’ age and other factors. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the
projected benefit obligations under the Swiss Plan were approximately $34,517 and $23,566, respectively,
and plan assets were approximately $26,703 and $15,453, respectively. The funded status of the Swiss Plan
is included in other long-term liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. The initial
determination of the pension liability was recorded as other comprehensive loss during the year ended
December 31, 2020 and subsequently amortized as a component of net periodic pension cost (see Note 17).

The Company’s annual contribution to the Swiss Plan is estimated to be approximately $1,604 in 2022

and is expected to evolve thereafter proportionally with changes in staffing and compensation levels, actuarial
assumptions and actual investment returns on plan assets.

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BEIGENE, LTD.

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

The following table reflects the total expected benefit payments to Swiss Plan participants and have
been estimated based on the same assumptions used to measure the Company’s benefit obligations as of
December 31, 2021:

Year(s)

2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2026 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2027 – 2031 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amounts

$

44
68

528

271
197

3,760

4,868

21. Commitments and Contingencies

Purchase Commitments

As of December 31, 2021, the Company had purchase commitments amounting to $168,687, of which

$75,976 related to minimum purchase requirements for supply purchased from contract manufacturing
organizations and $92,711 related to binding purchase order obligations of inventory from BMS and Amgen.
The Company does not have any minimum purchase requirements for inventory from BMS or Amgen.

Capital commitments

The Company had capital commitments amounting to $42,394 for the acquisition of property, plant
and equipment as of December 31, 2021, which were mainly for the Company’s biologics manufacturing
facility in Guangzhou, China, small molecule manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China, and research and
development operations at the Changping facility in Beijing, China.

Co-development funding commitment

Under the Amgen Collaboration Agreement, the Company is responsible for co-funding global clinical
development costs for the Amgen oncology pipeline assets up to a total cap of $1,250,000. The Company is
funding its portion of the co-development costs by contributing cash and/or development services. As of
December 31, 2021, the Company’s remaining co-development funding commitment was $791,059.

Research and Development Commitment

The Company entered into long-term research and development agreements, which include obligations
to make upfront payments and fixed quarterly payments over the next five years. As of December 31, 2021,
the total research and development commitment amounted to $27,985.

Funding Commitment

The Company had committed capital related to an equity method investment in the amount of
$15,000. As of December 31, 2021, the remaining capital commitment was $12,750 and is expected to be
paid from time to time over the investment period.

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BEIGENE, LTD.

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021, 2020 AND 2019
(Amounts in thousands of U.S. Dollar (“$”) and Renminbi (“RMB”),
except for number of shares and per share data)

Other Business Agreements

The Company enters into agreements in the ordinary course of business with contract research

organizations (CROs) to provide research and development services. These contracts are generally cancellable
at any time by the Company with prior written notice.

The Company also enters into collaboration agreements with institutions and companies to license

intellectual property. The Company may be obligated to make future development, regulatory and
commercial milestone payments and royalty payments on future sales of specified products associated with
its collaboration agreements. Payments under these agreements generally become due and payable upon
achievement of such milestones or sales. These commitments are not recorded on the consolidated balance
sheet because the achievement and timing of these milestones are not fixed and determinable. When the
achievement of these milestones or sales have occurred, the corresponding amounts are recognized in the
consolidated financial statements.

22. Segment and Geographic Information

The Company operates in one segment: pharmaceutical products. Its chief operating decision maker is

the Chief Executive Officer, who makes operating decisions, assesses performance, and allocates resources
on a consolidated basis.

The Company’s long-lived assets are substantially located in the PRC, with the exception of land which

is in the U.S.

Net product revenues by geographic area are based upon the location of the customer, and net
collaboration revenue is recorded in the jurisdiction in which the related income is expected to be sourced
from. Total net revenues by geographic area are presented as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

2021

$

2020

$

2019

$

PRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

517,173

290,646

221,557

U.S.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ROW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

495,265

163,845

18,228

134,689

— 71,966

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,176,283

308,874

428,212

PRC revenues for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2021 consisted entirely of
product sales. U.S. revenues for the year ended December 31, 2021 consisted of collaboration revenues of
$379,607 and BRUKINSA® product sales of $115,658, respectively. U.S. revenues for the year ended
December 31, 2020 consisted entirely of BRUKINSA® product sales. U.S. revenues for the year ended
December 31, 2019 consisted primarily of collaboration revenues. Rest of world revenues for each of the
three years in the period ended December 31, 2021 consisted primarily of collaboration revenues.

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Exhibit Index

Exhibit
No.

3.1

4.1

.1

.2

.3

.4

.1

.2

4.2

4.3

4.4

4.5

.1

.2

Exhibit Description

Sixth Amended and Restated
Memorandum and Articles of
Association of the Registrant, as
currently in effect
Deposit Agreement dated
February 5, 2016 by and among
the Company, the Depositary
and holders of the American
Depositary Receipts
Amendment No. 1 to Deposit
Agreement, dated April 11, 2016,
by and among the Registrant,
Citibank, N.A. and holders of
the American Depositary
Receipts
Letter Agreement, dated as of
July 11, 2016, between the
Registrant and Citibank, N.A.
Form of Letter Agreement
between the Registrant and
Citibank, N.A.
Form of American Depositary
Receipt (included in
Exhibit 4.1.1)
Specimen Certificate for
Ordinary Shares
Second Amended and Restated
Investors’ Rights Agreement,
dated as of April 21, 2015, by
and among the Registrant and
certain shareholders named
therein
Amendment No. 1 to Second
Amended and Restated
Investors’ Rights Agreement,
dated January 26, 2016, by and
among the Registrant and
certain shareholders named
therein
Registration Rights Agreement,
dated as of November 16, 2016,
by and among BeiGene, Ltd. and
the investors named therein
Amendment No. 1 to
Registration Rights Agreement,
dated December 1, 2020,
between the Company and the
Investors

Filed/
Furnished
Herewith

Incorporated by
Reference
Herein from
Form or Schedule
8-K
(Exhibit 3.1)

Filing Date
12/17/2021

SEC File/
Reg. Number
001-37686

8-K
(Exhibit 4.1)

2/11/2016

001-37686

8-K
(Exhibit 4.1)

4/11/2016

001-37686

10-Q
(Exhibit 4.7)

10-Q
(Exhibit 4.9)

8/10/2016

001-37686

5/10/2017

001-37686

S-1
(Exhibit 4.3)
S-1
(Exhibit 4.4)

12/9/2015

333-207459

10/16/2015

333-207459

S-1
(Exhibit10.21)

1/27/2016

333-207459

8-K
(Exhibit 4.1)

11/17/2016

001-37686

8-K
(Exhibit 10.1)

12/2/2020

001-37686

154

Exhibit
No.

4.6

Exhibit Description

Description of BeiGene, Ltd.’s
Securities Registered Pursuant to
Section 12 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934

Incorporated by
Reference
Herein from
Form or Schedule

Filed/
Furnished
Herewith
X

Filing Date

SEC File/
Reg. Number

Collaboration, License and Commercial Agreements
10.1#

.1#

License and Supply Agreement,
dated July 5, 2017, by and
between the Registrant and
Celgene Logistics Sàrl
.2# Assignment and Assumption

10.2

10.3##

Agreement, dated December 29,
2017, by and between the
Registrant and BeiGene
Switzerland GmbH
Share Subscription Agreement,
dated July 5, 2017, by and
between Celgene Switzerland
LLC and the Registrant
Letter Agreement, dated June 14,
2019, by and among the
Registrant, BeiGene Switzerland
GmbH, Celgene Corporation
and Celgene Switzerland LLC,
to terminate the Amended and
Restated Exclusive License and
Collaboration Agreement, dated
August 31, 2017

10.4## .1## Share Purchase Agreement,

dated October 31, 2019, by and
between the Registrant and
Amgen Inc.

.2## Amendment No. 1 to Share
Purchase Agreement, dated
December 6, 2019, by and
between the Registrant and
Amgen Inc.

.3## Restated Amendment No. 2 to

Share Purchase Agreement,
dated September 24, 2020, by
and between the Registrant and
Amgen Inc.
Collaboration Agreement, dated
October 31, 2019, by and among
the Registrant, BeiGene
Switzerland GmbH and Amgen
Inc.
Guarantee, dated October 31,
2019, by and between the
Registrant and Amgen Inc.

10.5##

10.6

155

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.3)

11/13/2017

001-37686

10-K
(Exhibit10.6.1)

3/2/2020

001-37686

8-K
(Exhibit 10.1)

7/6/2017

001-37686

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.1)

8/8/2019

001-37686

10-K
(Exhibit 10.9)

3/2/2020

001-37686

10-K
(Exhibit10.10)

3/2/2020

001-37686

8-K
(Exhibit 10.1)

9/24/2020

001-37686

10-K
(Exhibit10.11)

3/2/2020

001-37686

10-K
(Exhibit10.12)

3/2/2020

001-37686

Exhibit
No.

Exhibit Description

10.7## .1## Collaboration and License

Agreement, dated January 11,
2021, by and between BeiGene
Switzerland GmbH and Novartis
Pharma AG

.2## Option, Collaboration and
License Agreement, dated
December 19, 2021, by and
between BeiGene Switzerland
GmbH and Novartis Pharma
AG
Equity and Other Compensation Plans
10.8†

2011 Option Plan, as amended
and form of option agreements
thereunder
Second Amended and Restated
2016 Share Option and Incentive
Plan

10.9†

.1†

.2† Amendment No. 1 to the Second

Amended and Restated 2016
Share Option and Equity Plan
Form of Global Restricted Share
Unit Award Agreement for
Non-Employee Directors under
the Second Amended and
Restated 2016 Share Option and
Incentive Plan
Form of Global Restricted Share
Unit Award Agreement for
Employees under the Second
Amended and Restated 2016
Share Option and Incentive Plan
Form of Global Restricted Share
Unit Award Agreement for
Consultants under the Second
Amended and Restated 2016
Share Option and Incentive Plan
Form of Global Non-Qualified
Share Option Agreement for
Employees under the Second
Amended and Restated 2016
Share Option and Incentive Plan
Form of Global Non-Qualified
Share Option Agreement for
Non-Employee Directors under
the Second Amended and
Restated 2016 Share Option and
Incentive Plan
Form of Global Non-Qualified
Share Option Agreement for

.3†

.4†

.5†

.6†

.7†

.8†

156

Filed/
Furnished
Herewith

Incorporated by
Reference
Herein from
Form or Schedule
10-Q
(Exhibit 10.1)

Filing Date
5/6/2021

SEC File/
Reg. Number
001-37686

X

S-1
(Exhibit 10.1)

8-K
(Exhibit 10.1)

8-K
(Exhibit 10.1)

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.2)

10/16/2015

333-207459

12/12/2018

001-37686

6/17/2020

001-37686

8/5/2021

001-37686

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.1)

8/5/2021

001-37686

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.3)

8/5/2021

001-37686

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.4)

8/5/2021

001-37686

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.5)

8/5/2021

001-37686

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.6)

8/5/2021

001-37686

Exhibit
No.

Exhibit Description

Non-Employee Consultants
under the Second Amended and
Restated 2016 Share Option and
Incentive Plan

10.10†

.1† Amended and Restated 2018

.2†

.3†

10.11†

.1†

10.12†

10.13†

Inducement Equity Plan
Form of Non-Qualified Share
Option Agreement under the
2018 Inducement Equity Plan
Form of Restricted Share Unit
Award Agreement under the
2018 Inducement Equity Plan
Third Amended and Restated
2018 Employee Share Purchase
Plan
Senior Executive Cash Incentive
Bonus Plan
Independent Director
Compensation Policy, as
amended

Agreements with Executive Officers and Directors
10.14†

10.15†

10.16†

.1†

.2†

10.17†

10.18†

Form of Indemnification
Agreement, entered into between
the Registrant and its directors
and officers
Employment Agreement, dated
April 25, 2017, by and between
the Registrant and John V. Oyler
Executive Employment
Agreement, dated April 28, 2018,
by and between BeiGene
(Beijing) Co., Ltd. and Xiaobin
Wu
Employment Apportionment
Agreement, dated March 1,
2020, by and between BeiGene
(Beijing) Co., Ltd., BeiGene
Guangzhou Biologics
Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and
Xiaobin Wu
Offer letter, dated May 29, 2020,
by and between the Registrant
and Julia Wang
Employment Agreement, dated
as of August 19, 2016, by and
between BeiGene USA, Inc. and
Jane Huang

Filed/
Furnished
Herewith

Incorporated by
Reference
Herein from
Form or Schedule

Filing Date

SEC File/
Reg. Number

8-K
(Exhibit 10.1)
8-K
(Exhibit 10.3)

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.5)

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.7)

S-1
(Exhibit10.19)
8-K
(Exhibit 10.1)

8/13/2018

001-37686

6/8/2018

001-37686

8/9/2018

001-37686

8/5/2021

001-37686

1/19/2016

333-207459

2/22/2022

001-37686

S-1
(Exhibit 10.3)

1/19/2016

333-207459

8-K
(Exhibit 10.1)

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.1)

4/26/2017

001-37686

8/9/2018

001-37686

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.2)

5/11/2020

001-37686

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.9)

10-Q
(Exhibit 10.2)

8/5/2021

001-37686

11/10/2016

001-37686

157

Exhibit
No.
10.19†

10.20†

21.1

23.1

31.1

31.2

32.1*

101.INS

101.SCH

101.CAL

101.LAB

101.PRE

Exhibit Description

Consulting Agreement, dated
February 24, 2021, by and
between the Registrant and
Xiaodong Wang
Employment Agreement, dated
December 30, 2021, by and
between BeiGene (Shanghai)
Co., Ltd. and Lai Wang
List of Subsidiaries of the
Registrant
Consent of Ernst & Young Hua
Ming LLP
Certification of Principal
Executive Officer pursuant to
Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-
14(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as adopted
pursuant to Section 302 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Certification of Principal
Financial Officer pursuant to
Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-
14(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as adopted
pursuant to Section 302 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Certification of Principal
Executive Officer and Principle
Financial Officer pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted
pursuant to Section 906 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
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Filed/
Furnished
Herewith

Incorporated by
Reference
Herein from
Form or Schedule
10-K
(Exhibit10.20)

Filing Date
2/25/2021

SEC File/
Reg. Number
001-37686

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

158

Incorporated by
Reference
Herein from
Form or Schedule

Filing Date

SEC File/
Reg. Number

Exhibit
No.
101.DEF

104

Filed/
Furnished
Herewith
X

X

Exhibit Description
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†

Indicates a management contract or any compensatory plan, contract or arrangement.

# Confidential treatment has been granted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as to certain

portions of this exhibit omitted and filed separately.

## Certain portions of the exhibit have been omitted by means of redacting a portion of the text and

replacing it with “[…***…]”. BeiGene, Ltd. (the Registrant) has determined that the omitted information
(i) is not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful if publicly disclosed.

*

Furnished herewith.

159

Pursuant to the requirements of the Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this Form 10-K to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized.

SIGNATURES

Date: February 28, 2022

BEIGENE, LTD.

By:

/s/ JOHN V. OYLER
John V. Oyler
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
(Principal Executive Officer)

160

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose individual signature appears below hereby authorizes and appoints John V. Oyler,

Julia Wang, and Scott A. Samuels, and each of them, with full power of substitution and resubstitution and
full power to act without the other, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent to act in his or
her name, place and stead and to execute in the name and on behalf of each person, individually and in each
capacity stated below, and to file any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K and to file
the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing, ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-
fact and agents or any of them or their or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this Annual Report on Form 10-K

has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated below and on the dates indicated:

Signature

Title

Date

/s/ JOHN V. OYLER
John V. Oyler

/s/ JULIA WANG
Julia Wang

/s/ TIMOTHY CHEN
Timothy Chen

/s/ DONALD W. GLAZER
Donald W. Glazer

/s/ MARGARET DUGAN
Margaret Dugan

/s/ MICHAEL GOLLER
Michael Goller

/s/ ANTHONY C. HOOPER
Anthony C. Hooper

/s/ RANJEEV KRISHANA
Ranjeev Krishana

/s/ THOMAS MALLEY
Thomas Malley

/s/ XIAODONG WANG
Xiaodong Wang

/s/ ALESSANDRO RIVA
Alessandro Riva

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
(Principal Executive Officer)

February 28, 2022

Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

February 28, 2022

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

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Title

Date

/s/ CORAZON (CORSEE) D.
SANDERS
Corazon (Corsee) D. Sanders

/s/ QINGQING YI
Qingqing Yi

Director

Director

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CORPORATE OFFICERS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

SHAREHOLDER MEETING

John V. Oyler
Chairman, Co-Founder & CEO

John V. Oyler
Chairman, Co-Founder & CEO

Xiaobin Wu
President, Chief Operating Officer 
and General Manager  of  China

Timothy Chen
Deputy Chairman of Suirui Technology
Group Limited

Julia Wang
Chief Financial Officer

Lai Wang
Global Head of R&D

Scott A. Samuels
Senior Vice President, General
Counsel

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Margaret Dugan
Dracen Pharmaceuticals

Donald W. Glazer
Chairman of the Board of GMO
Trust

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Baker Brothers Investments

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Consultant of Amgen Inc.

Ranjeev Krishana
Baker Brothers Investments

Thomas Malley
Mossrock Capital, LLC

Alessandro Riva
Intima Bioscience

Corazon (Corsee) D.
Sanders
Formerly of Bristol Myers
Squibb Corporation

Xiaodong Wang
Chairman of Scientific Advisory
Board & Co-Founder

Michael Qingqing Yi
Hillhouse Capital