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&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:start; BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;border:0;width:100%"&gt;
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&lt;td style="width:4%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"&gt;(1)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"&gt;These shares may be represented by the American Depositary Shares (&#x201c;ADSs&#x201d;) of Legend Biotech Corporation (the &#x201c;Registrant&#x201d;). Each ADS represents two Ordinary Shares. ADSs issuable upon deposit of the Ordinary Shares registered hereby were registered pursuant to the separate Registration Statement on Form &lt;div style="white-space: nowrap; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"&gt;F-6&lt;/div&gt; (File &lt;div style="white-space: nowrap; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"&gt;No.&#160;333-238581).&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:start; BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;border:0;width:100%"&gt;
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&lt;td style="width:4%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"&gt;(2)&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="width:4%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"&gt;(3)&lt;/td&gt;
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