SEC FORM 4 SEC Form 4
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
 
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
LEIDEN JEFFREY M

(Last) (First) (Middle)
C/O VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
50 NORTHERN AVENUE

(Street)
BOSTON MA 02210

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC / MA [ VRTX ]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
X Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
Executive Chairman
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
02/01/2022
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Common Stock 02/01/2022 A 28,444(1) A $0.00 78,232 D
Common Stock 02/01/2022 A 20,928(2) A $0.00 99,160 D
Common Stock 02/01/2022 A 17,445(3) A $0.00 116,605 D
Common Stock 02/02/2022 F 6,279 D $243.63 110,326 D
Common Stock 440 I 401(k)
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
1. Represents earned performance shares with respect to a performance stock unit award granted on 02/06/2019 that contained performance-vesting requirements. The issuer's management development and compensation committee certified as to the level of performance-goal attainment on 02/01/2022 and the shares will vest on 02/24/2022.
2. Represents earned performance shares with respect to a performance stock unit award granted on 02/03/2021 that contained performance-vesting requirements. The issuer's management development and compensation committee certified as to the level of performance-goal attainment on 02/01/2022 and the shares will vest on 02/17/2022.
3. Restricted stock unit award that fully vested upon grant.
Remarks:
Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney
/s/ Sabrina Yohai, Attorney-in-Fact 02/03/2022
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
	The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Joy Liu, Sabrina Yohai,
Omar White, and Christiana Stevenson of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (the
"Company"), signing singly, with full power of substitution, the undersigned's
true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
1. execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer, director and/or 10% shareholder of the Company, forms and
authentication documents for EDGAR Filing Access;

2. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such forms and
authentication documents;

3. execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer, director and/or 10% shareholder of the Company, Forms 3, 4 and 5
in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the
rules thereunder;

4. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5
and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

5. take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the
best interests of, or legally required by the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in fact's discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of or transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
This Power of Attorney is intended to constitute a "confirming statement" for
presentation to the Securities and Exchange Commission as contemplated by
Instruction 7(a) of Forms 3, 4 and 5.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed this 16th day of January, 2022.

/s/ Jeffrey M. Leiden
Signature

Jeffrey M. Leiden
Print Name