For Immediate Release

Company name: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
Representative: Joji Nakayama, Representative Director, President and CEO
(Code no.: 4568, First Section, Tokyo Stock Exchange)
Please address inquiries to Noriaki Ishida, Executive Officer,
Vice President, Corporate Communications Department
Telephone: +81-3-6225-1126
http://www.daiichisankyo.com/

Daiichi Sankyo Addresses Erroneous Media Reports on Concurrent Positions Held by Outside Directors

TOKYO, Japan (March 2, 2016) – Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) today addressed erroneous media reports on Daiichi Sankyo outside directors holding concurrent positions as officers in other companies. Daiichi Sankyo announced that it is not the source of this information and, in actuality and as noted below, Daiichi Sankyo outside directors are in principle forbidden from holding concurrent positions as officers for other companies, but are not explicitly restricted from doing so. Consequently, the media reports in question are contrary to fact.

As noted under “Supplementary Principle 4.11.2 Concurrent Positions of Members of the Board and Members of the Audit & Supervisory Board Held at Other Listed Companies”of Daiichi Sankyo’s Corporate Governance Report, “With respect to concurrent positions as member of the board or member of the audit & supervisory board held at another company, Members of the Board and Members of the Audit & Supervisory Board excluding Members of the Board (Outside) and Members of the Audit & Supervisory Board (Outside), in principle shall not hold concurrent positions held at listed companies outside the Daiichi Sankyo Group. Moreover, if Members of the Board (Outside) and Members of the Audit & Supervisory Board (Outside) intend to accept a request to assume an appointment as a member of the board or member of the audit & supervisory board at a listed company, they are required to report this beforehand."

For the complete Daiichi Sankyo Corporate Governance Report, please see the URL below:

https://www.daiichisankyo.com/about_us/company_profile/governance/pdf/DS_CG_20160108_en.pdf