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Town Hall talking points

 

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As many if not all of you may have noticed, today we announced that we have entered into an acquisition agreement with Merck

 

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Today’s news is an outstanding reason to celebrate

 

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This engagement with a preeminent, global pharma company is a great success for the team and a testament to everyone’s exceptional work and the drug programs you’ve helped to create

 

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Pandion is an attractive company for all the reasons you know, namely our...

 

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People

 

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Culture

 

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Quality of our work

 

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Science

 

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Innovation

 

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Great clinical data

 

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Merck has the expertise and resources available to fully realize the value of our programs

 

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Global clinical development

 

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Infrastructure to support large indications

 

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Salesforce around the world

 

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Financial resources

 

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Building out protein development capabilities

 

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In summary, Merck can develop our programs all the way to patients across many indications, and the Board believed this would maximize the potential for our programs and the TALON platform

 

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Specifically, PT101 is poised to enter patient clinical trials and there are many autoimmune diseases outside of UC and SLE for which Merck can rapidly expand the clinical development of PT101

 

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Many of the details of the transaction are still being worked out with Merck, but we are committed to being open and transparent throughout the process

 

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This includes topics like what happens to Pandion and our team

 

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We have been assured that Merck will use its resources available to make any transition go as smoothly as it can

 

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Your managers will be scheduling small group meetings and 1x1s

 

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Questions should go to Tony or other members of the senior management team

 

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We will be partnering with Merck in the next couple of weeks to get to know them as a company

 

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We acknowledge there are lots of unanswered questions for all of us, but we want to be as transparent as possible and will communicate with you frequently

 

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For now, it is business as usual and we should continue to drive our programs forward without hesitation or delay

 

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For the next several days, we are in a very restricted period in terms of our communications

 

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You should not have any written conversations about this transaction unless directed by a member of senior management

 

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Includes: emails, social media, chats on Teams


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If any questions come to you from external parties regarding the transaction, do not respond and please forward them to Vikas or Michelle

 

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Thank you for everything you have done to bring Pandion to this place. It is a testament to everyone’s exceptional work and the drug programs you’ve helped to create for patients.

 

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REVIEW FAQ [filed as Ex. 99.10]