[Form 4] BeOne Medicines Ltd. American Insider Trading Activity
Wu Xiaobin, President and COO of BeOne Medicines Ltd. (ONC), reported multiple transactions on 08/13/2025 and 08/14/2025 involving the company’s American Depositary Shares (ADS) and stock options. The filing states each ADS represents 13 ordinary shares. The reporting person sold multiple blocks of ADS under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted May 13, 2024 (amended May 14, 2025), with reported weighted-average sale prices ranging roughly from $300.00 to $308.12 across the transactions. The filing also shows a series of option grants/rights: 296,049, 352,105, 399,828, and 119,340 ordinary-share equivalents (various exercise prices and vesting schedules), and indicates direct and indirect ownership entries including shares held by the reporting person’s wife.
- Trades executed pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan, providing a documented, preplanned framework for the sales
- Full disclosure of weighted-average sale prices and price ranges across transactions
- Detailed disclosure of option holdings and vesting schedules, showing continued insider exposure to equity performance
- Large insider ADS sales on 08/13/2025 and 08/14/2025 at prices roughly between $300.00 and $308.12 could be viewed negatively by some investors
- Significant reduction in direct ADS holdings recorded in the filing (multiple disposals listed)
Insights
TL;DR: Significant insider ADS sales executed under a 10b5-1 plan; large option holdings remain.
The Form 4 discloses material insider selling by the company’s President and COO across 08/13/2025 and 08/14/2025 via a Rule 10b5-1 plan, with weighted-average sale prices in the ~$300–$308 range. Sales were broken into multiple tranches and fully disclosed with price ranges. While the sales reduce reported ADS holdings, the filing also shows substantial outstanding option positions totaling several hundred thousand ordinary-share equivalents with staggered vesting schedules, which preserves ongoing insider exposure to future equity performance. For investors, this is a clear disclosure of liquidity events rather than a corporate action or financial restatement.
TL;DR: Insider complied with disclosure rules and used an established 10b5-1 plan to execute sales.
The filing explicitly notes the use of a pre-established Rule 10b5-1 trading plan (adopted May 13, 2024; amended May 14, 2025), which provides an affirmative defense for trades executed while potentially in possession of material nonpublic information. The Form 4 also provides detailed weighted-average price disclosures and identifies indirect holdings (spouse). From a governance perspective, the itemized and documented nature of these transactions aligns with best practices for transparent insider trading disclosure.