Daniel Calkins - 16 May 2025 Form 4 Insider Report for Verastem, Inc. (VSTM)

Signature
/s/ Daniel Calkins
Issuer symbol
VSTM
Transactions as of
16 May 2025
Net transactions value
-$90,593
Form type
4
Filing time
20 May 2025, 19:54:08 UTC
Previous filing
24 Mar 2025
Next filing
24 Jun 2025

Reporting Owners (1)

Name Relationship Address Signature Signature date CIK
Calkins Daniel Chief Financial Officer C/O VERASTEM, INC.,, 117 KENDRICK ST., SUITE 500, NEEDHAM /s/ Daniel Calkins 20 May 2025 0001951861

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction VSTM Common Stock Award $0 -38,850 -24% $0.000000 125,198 16 May 2025 Direct F1
transaction VSTM Common Stock Sale $90,593 -11,143 -8.9% $8.13 114,055 20 May 2025 Direct F2
* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Buy Plan / Sale Plan: These are also open market purchases/sales of shares, but in this case the transaction is part of a trading plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders to setup a trading plan to buy/sell stocks over a certain period of time. Since the purchases/sales are predetermined, this protects the insiders from violating insider trading law.

Transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of equity securities of the issuer that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).

Explanation of Responses:

Id Content
F1 The reported securities were subject to a performance RSU award that was granted on June 18, 2024. 150,000 RSUs vested on May 16, 2025, upon the Issuer's Compensation Committee of the board of directors determining the performance criteria of approval by the FDA of an NDA for the Company's combination therapy of avutometinib and defactinib for the treatment of low-grade serous ovarian cancer had occurred.
F2 The sale reported on this Form 4 represents shares sold by the Reporting Person to satisfy statutory withholding requirements in connection with the vesting of restricted stock units.