Item 8.01 Other Events.

As previously announced, on November 20, 2019, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (the "Company") acquired Celgene Corporation ("Celgene") when it consummated the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of January 2, 2019 ("Merger Agreement"), among the Company, Burgundy Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and Celgene. In connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company assumed the contingent value rights related to Celgene's Abraxane® and Abraxis pipeline products granted by Celgene to certain holders thereof pursuant to that certain Contingent Value Rights Agreement, dated as of October 15, 2010 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the "CVR Agreement"), between Equiniti Trust Company (the "Trustee", as successor to American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC) and the Company (as successor in interest to Celgene).

On February 23, 2023, the Company notified the Trustee that the Net Sales (as defined in the CVR Agreement) in respect of Abraxane for the year ended December 31, 2022 is $908,974,933 and that there is no Net Sales Payment (as defined in the CVR Agreement) due in respect of the year ended December 31, 2022, in accordance with Section 3.1 of the CVR Agreement. The Company reserves the right, in accordance with the terms of the CVR Agreement, to disclose by means of its website at www.bms.com in the "Investors" section the Net Sales Payment due, if any, in respect of any subsequent Net Sales Measuring Period (as defined in the CVR Agreement).

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