Marijn E. Dekkers - Mar 11, 2022 Form 4 Insider Report for Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. (DNA)

Role: Director
Signature: /s/ Karen Tepichin, Attorney-in-fact
Stock symbol: DNA
Transactions as of: Mar 11, 2022
Transactions value $: $0
Form type: 4
Date filed: 3/14/2022, 09:33 PM
Previous filing: Sep 28, 2021
Next filing: May 13, 2022

Transactions Table

Type	Sym	Class	Transaction	Value $	Shares	Change %	* Price $	Shares After	Date	Ownership	Footnotes
transaction	DNA	Class A Common Stock	Award	$0	+1.75M	+465.84%	$0.00	2.12M	Mar 11, 2022	Direct	F1
holding	DNA	Class A Common Stock						5.78M	Mar 11, 2022	By Novalis LifeSciences Investments I, L.P.	F2

* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Explanation of Responses:

Id	Content
F1	The reporting person was previously granted awards of restricted stock units covering Class A Common Stock, which vest based upon the Issuer's achievement of an event condition (i.e., an underwritten initial public offering or a change in control), subject to additional time based vesting conditions in accordance with the terms of the award. On March 11, 2022, the Compensation Committee of the Issuer's Board of Directors, after consideration of the completion of the initial business combination, modified the event condition, resulting in the immediate vesting of 1,390,938 restricted stock units for which the time based vesting requirements had been satisfied as of December 31, 2021 and the issuance of a corresponding number of shares of Class A Common Stock. The remaining restricted stock units will continue to vest in accordance with the terms of the award.
F2	The reporting person is the manager of the general partner of Novalis LifeSciences Investments I, L.P. ("Novalis LifeSciences"), and as such, has sole voting and dispositive power over the shares held by Novalis LifeSciences and, as a result, may be deemed to share beneficial ownership of the shares held by Novalis LifeSciences.

Content

The reporting person was previously granted awards of restricted stock units covering Class A Common Stock, which vest based upon the Issuer's achievement of an event condition (i.e., an underwritten initial public offering or a change in control), subject to additional time based vesting conditions in accordance with the terms of the award. On March 11, 2022, the Compensation Committee of the Issuer's Board of Directors, after consideration of the completion of the initial business combination, modified the event condition, resulting in the immediate vesting of 1,390,938 restricted stock units for which the time based vesting requirements had been satisfied as of December 31, 2021 and the issuance of a corresponding number of shares of Class A Common Stock. The remaining restricted stock units will continue to vest in accordance with the terms of the award.

The reporting person is the manager of the general partner of Novalis LifeSciences Investments I, L.P. ("Novalis LifeSciences"), and as such, has sole voting and dispositive power over the shares held by Novalis LifeSciences and, as a result, may be deemed to share beneficial ownership of the shares held by Novalis LifeSciences.