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Change of Control Agreement • November 9th, 2007 • Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc / Ma • Pharmaceutical preparations • Massachusetts

• Contract Type
  Change of Control Agreement
• Filed
  November 9th, 2007
• Company
  Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc / Ma
• Industry
  Pharmaceutical preparations
• Jurisdiction
  Massachusetts

Your expertise, reputation and position make you a key member of the senior management team of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (the "Company"). As a result, the Company would like to provide you with the following "change of control" benefit to help ensure that in the event the Company becomes involved in a "change of control" transaction, there will be no distraction from your attention to the needs of the Company.