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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the &quot;Merger Agreement&quot;), dated as of July 14, 2015, by and among Receptos, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &quot;Company&quot;), Celgene Corporation, a Delaware corporation (&quot;Parent&quot;), and Strix Corporation, a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent, the reporting person disposed of 7,400 unvested time-based restricted stock units in exchange for $232.00 per share in cash (the &quot;Offer Price&quot;).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, each stock option of the Company, whether vested or unvested, was cancelled in exchange for a cash payment with respect thereto equal to the product of (A) the excess, if any, of (1) the Offer Price over (2) the exercise price per share of such option, and (B) the number of shares of common stock underlying such option.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The original vesting term of the option was as follows: the option vested in 36 equal monthly installments commencing on April 11, 2014.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">The original vesting term of the option was as follows: the option vested in 12 equal monthly installments commencing on June 3, 2014.</footnote>
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    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Mary Lynne Hedley, by Christian Waage, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2015-08-27</signatureDate>
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