alks-defa14a_20200513.htm

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Email to Employees of Alkermes:

 

Subject: Please VOTE Your ALKS Shares

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

I hope this email finds you and your families healthy and well during these difficult times.

 

I am writing to encourage you to exercise your rights as a shareholder of Alkermes and vote your Alkermes shares before our annual meeting of shareholders on May 20, 2020. All employees who owned shares of Alkermes on March 17, 2020 are entitled to vote.

 

Your vote is very important to the company, and we encourage you to vote as soon as possible. To be counted, your vote must be received by May 18, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. ET (4:59 a.m. on May 19, 2020, Irish Standard Time).

 

We have a number of important proposals on the ballot this year. Information about each of these proposals can be found in the Alkermes plc 2020 Proxy Statement, a copy of which you can access by clicking here.

 

How do you vote?

 

You should have received instructions in the mail or electronically from your bank or broker about how to vote your shares. The materials you received from your broker include a control number that is specific to your account. You can vote online using your control number at www.proxyvote.com.

 

If you do not have your control number, you can still vote as follows:

 

 

a.

if your shares are held in a Merrill Lynch account, you can vote by accessing www.benefits.ml.com, as follows:

 

i.

login to your Merrill Lynch account;

 

ii.

click on the ‘Alkermes plc’ link under ‘My Accounts’;

 

iii.

select the ‘Brokerage Account’ tab at the top right of the page and then click on ‘MyMerrill Statements & Documents’ in the dropdown menu. This will take you to an external MyMerrill site;

 

iv.

when on this new site, click on the ‘Shareholder Notices’ tab and then within that tab, click on ‘Annual Meeting’ and a window will pop up that allows you to vote with your control number pre-populated);

 

 

b.

if your shares are held with a broker other than Merrill Lynch, please contact your broker for further assistance.

 

Thank you.