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Description of the company

Mylan N.V., along with its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company,” “Mylan,” “our” or “we”), is a leading global pharmaceutical company, which develops, licenses, manufactures, markets and distributes generic, brand name and over-the-counter (“OTC”) products in a variety of dosage forms and therapeutic categories. Mylan is committed to setting new standards in healthcare by creating better health for a better world, and our mission is to provide the world’s 7 billion people access to high quality medicine. To do so, we innovate to satisfy unmet needs; make reliability and service excellence a habit; do what's right, not what's easy; and impact the future through passionate global leadership.

Mylan offers one of the industry’s broadest product portfolios, including approximately 7,500 marketed products around the world, to customers in more than 165 countries and territories. We operate a global, high quality, vertically-integrated manufacturing platform around the world and one of the world’s largest active pharmaceutical ingredient (“API”) operations. We also operate a strong and innovative research and development (“R&D”) network that has consistently delivered a robust product pipeline including a variety of dosage forms, therapeutic categories and biosimilars.

Throughout its history, Mylan has been recognized as a leader in the United States (“U.S.”) generic pharmaceutical industry. Our leadership position is the result of, among other factors, our ability to efficiently obtain Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) approvals and our reliable high quality supply chain. Mylan is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world today in terms of revenue and is recognized as an industry leader because of our organic growth and transformative acquisitions beginning in 2007. Our most recent significant acquisitions are described below.

On June 15, 2016, we completed the acquisition of the non-sterile, topicals-focused business (the “Topicals Business”) of Renaissance Acquisition Holdings, LLC (“Renaissance”) for approximately $1.0 billion in cash at closing, including amounts deposited into escrow for potential contingent payments, subject to customary adjustments. The Topicals Business provides the Company with a complementary portfolio of approximately 25 products, an active pipeline of approximately 25 products, and an established U.S. sales and marketing infrastructure targeting dermatologists. The Topicals Business also provides an integrated manufacturing and development platform.

On August 5, 2016, we acquired approximately 94% of the total number of outstanding shares of Meda AB (publ.) (“Meda”). The total purchase price for Meda was approximately $6.92 billion, net of cash acquired. Subsequent to the August 5, 2016 closing, a compulsory acquisition proceeding was initiated in accordance with the Swedish Companies Act (Sw. aktiebolagslagen (2005:551)) to acquire the remaining Meda shares. On November 1, 2016, Mylan made an offer to the remaining Meda shareholders to tender all their Meda shares to Mylan for cash consideration of 161.31kr per Meda share (the “November Offer”) to provide such remaining Meda shareholders with an opportunity to sell their Meda shares to Mylan in advance of the automatic acquisition of their shares for cash in connection with the compulsory acquisition proceeding. At the end of November 2016, Mylan completed the acquisition of approximately 19 million Meda shares duly tendered into the November Offer. As of March 1, 2017, Mylan obtained full legal ownership to the remaining Meda shares pursuant to the compulsory acquisition proceeding, and now owns 100% of the total number of outstanding Meda shares. The Meda shareholders whose shares are subject to the compulsory acquisition proceeding, representing approximately 1% of the total number of outstanding Meda shares, will automatically receive cash consideration plus statutory interest for their Meda shares as determined in the compulsory acquisition proceeding.

The acquisition of Meda created a more diversified and expansive portfolio of branded and generic medicines along with a strong and growing portfolio of OTC products. Meda has a balanced global footprint with significant scale in key geographic markets, particularly the U.S. and Europe. We have significantly expanded and strengthened our presence in emerging markets including China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. These markets provide opportunities for future growth and expansion and are complemented by Mylan’s historical presence in India, Brazil and certain countries in Africa (including South Africa).

On February 27, 2015, we completed the acquisition of Mylan Inc. and Abbott Laboratories’ non-U.S. developed markets specialty and branded generics business (the “EPD Business”) in an all-stock transaction. The purchase price for the

EPD Business, which was on a debt-free basis, was $6.31 billion based on the closing price of Mylan Inc.’s stock as of the acquisition date, as reported by the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market (“NASDAQ”). The acquired EPD Business enhanced our already expansive product portfolio by more than 100 specialty and branded generic pharmaceutical products in five major therapeutic areas and included several patent protected, novel and/or hard-to-manufacture products. Additionally, we significantly expanded and strengthened our presence in Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

On November 20, 2015, we completed the acquisition of certain female healthcare businesses from Famy Care Limited (such businesses “Jai Pharma Limited”), a specialty women’s healthcare company with global leadership in generic oral contraceptive products, through our wholly owned subsidiary Mylan Laboratories Limited (“Mylan India”) for a cash payment of $750 million plus additional contingent payments of up to $50 million for the filing for approval with, and receipt of approval from, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) of a product under development with Jai Pharma Limited.

Through these transactions, along with our previous transformative acquisitions of Agila Specialties (‘‘Agila’’), Mylan India, Merck KGaA’s generics and specialty pharmaceutical business, Bioniche Pharma Holdings Limited (“Bioniche Pharma”) and Pfizer Inc.’s respiratory delivery platform (the “respiratory delivery platform”), we have created a horizontally and vertically integrated platform with global scale, augmented our diversified product portfolio and further expanded our range of capabilities, all of which we believe position us well for the future.

Today, Mylan has a robust worldwide commercial presence, including leadership positions in the U.S., Australia, several key European markets, such as France and Italy, as well as other markets around the world. Mylan’s global portfolio of approximately 7,500 marketed products around the world that covers a vast array of therapeutic categories. We offer an extensive range of dosage forms and delivery systems, including oral solids, topicals, liquids and semisolids while focusing on those products that are difficult to formulate and manufacture, and typically have longer life cycles than traditional generic pharmaceuticals, including transdermal patches, high potency formulations, injectables, controlled-release and respiratory products. In addition, we offer a wide range of antiretroviral therapies (“ARVs”), upon which approximately 50% of patients being treated for HIV/AIDS in the developing world depend. Mylan also operates one of the largest API manufacturers, supplying low cost, high quality API for our own products and pipeline, as well as for a number of third parties. With the acquisition of Meda, we gained access to an extensive portfolio of OTC products. OTC products are key complements to prescribed drugs because they are easily accessible, save patients’ time and reduce cost pressures on healthcare systems.

We believe that the breadth and depth of our business and platform provide certain competitive advantages in major markets in which we operate, including less dependency on any single market or product. As a result, we are better able to successfully compete on a global basis than compared to many of our competitors.

Mylan N.V. was originally incorporated as a private limited liability company, New Moon B.V., in the Netherlands in 2014. Mylan became a public limited liability company in the Netherlands through its acquisition of the EPD Business on February 27, 2015. Mylan’s corporate seat is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, its principal executive offices are located in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England and Mylan N.V. group’s global headquarters are located in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

The Company has made a number of significant acquisitions since 2015, and as part of the holistic, global integration of these acquisitions, the Company is focused on how to best optimize and maximize all of its assets across the organization and across all geographies. On December 5, 2016, the Company announced restructuring programs in certain locations representing initial steps in a series of actions that are anticipated to further streamline its operations globally. The Company continues to develop the details of the cost reduction initiatives, including workforce actions and other potential restructuring activities beyond the programs already announced. Refer to Item 7 and Note 16Restructuring included in Item 8 in this Form 10-K for additional information related to our restructuring initiatives.

As a result of our acquisition of Meda on August 5, 2016 and the integration of our portfolio across our branded, generics and OTC platforms in all of our regions, effective October 1, 2016, we expanded our reportable segments. We are reporting our results in three segments on a geographic basis as follows: North America, Europe and Rest of World. Our North America segment is primarily made up of our operations in the U.S. and Canada. Also included in our North America segment are the operations of our previously reported Specialty segment. Our Europe segment is made up of our operations in 35 countries within the region. Our Rest of World segment is primarily made up of our operations in India, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. Also included in our Rest of World segment are our operations in emerging markets, which includes countries in Africa (including South Africa) as well as Brazil and other countries throughout Asia and the Middle East.

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