Amendment: SEC Form SCHEDULE 13G/A filed by Beam Therapeutics Inc.

This statement is filed by the entities and persons listed below, all of whom together are referred to herein as the "Reporting Persons." (i) Farallon Capital Partners, L.P., a California limited partnership ("FCP"), with respect to the Shares held by it and the Shares that it currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants (as defined in Item 4); (ii) Farallon Capital Institutional Partners, L.P., a California limited partnership ("FCIP"), with respect to the Shares held by it and the Shares that it currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants; (iii) Farallon Capital Institutional Partners II, L.P., a California limited partnership ("FCIP II"), with respect to the Shares held by it and the Shares that it currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants; (iv) Farallon Capital Institutional Partners III, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership ("FCIP III"), with respect to the Shares held by it and the Shares that it currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants; (v) Four Crossings Institutional Partners V, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership ("FCIP V"), with respect to the Shares held by it and the Shares that it currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants; (vi) Farallon Capital Offshore Investors II, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership ("FCOI II"), with respect to the Shares held by it and the Shares that it currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants; (vii) Farallon Capital (AM) Investors, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership ("FCAMI"), with respect to the Shares held by it and the Shares that it currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants; (viii) Farallon Capital F5 Master I, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership ("F5MI"), with respect to the Shares held by it and the Shares that it currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants; and (ix) Farallon Healthcare Partners Master, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership ("FHPM"), with respect to the Shares held by it and the Shares that it currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants. FCP, FCIP, FCIP II, FCIP III, FCIP V, FCOI II, FCAMI, F5MI and FHPM are together referred to herein as the "Farallon Funds." (x) Farallon Partners, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (the "Farallon General Partner"), which is the general partner of each of FCP, FCIP, FCIP II, FCIP III, FCOI II and FCAMI and the sole member of each of the FCIP V General Partner (as defined below) and the FHPM General Partner (as defined below), with respect to the Shares held by each of the Farallon Funds other than F5MI and the Shares that each of the Farallon Funds other than F5MI currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants. (xi) Farallon Institutional (GP) V, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (the "FCIP V General Partner"), which is the general partner of FCIP V, with respect to the Shares held by FCIP V and the Shares that FCIP V currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants. (xii) Farallon F5 (GP), L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (the "F5MI General Partner"), which is the general partner of F5MI, with respect to the Shares held by F5MI and the Shares that F5MI currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants. (xiii) Farallon Healthcare Partners (GP), L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (the "FHPM General Partner"), which is the general partner of FHPM, with respect to the Shares held by FHPM and the Shares that FHPM currently has the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants. (xiv) The following persons, each of whom is a managing member or senior managing member, as the case may be, of the Farallon General Partner and a manager or senior manager, as the case may be, of the FCIP V General Partner, the F5MI General Partner and the FHPM General Partner, with respect to the Shares held by each of the Farallon Funds and the Shares that the Farallon Funds currently have the right to acquire upon the exercise of Warrants: Joshua J. Dapice ("Dapice"); Philip D. Dreyfuss ("Dreyfuss"); Hannah E. Dunn ("Dunn"); Richard B. Fried ("Fried"); Varun N. Gehani ("Gehani"); Nicolas Giauque ("Giauque"); David T. Kim ("Kim"); Michael G. Linn ("Linn"); Patrick (Cheng) Luo ("Luo"); Rajiv A. Patel ("Patel"); Thomas G. Roberts, Jr. ("Roberts"); Edric C. Saito ("Saito"); William Seybold ("Seybold"); Daniel S. Short ("Short"); Andrew J. M. Spokes ("Spokes"); John R. Warren ("Warren"); and Mark C. Wehrly ("Wehrly"). Dapice, Dreyfuss, Dunn, Fried, Gehani, Giauque, Kim, Linn, Luo, Patel, Roberts, Saito, Seybold, Short, Spokes, Warren and Wehrly are together referred to herein as the "Farallon Individual Reporting Persons."

By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the securities referred to above were not acquired and are not held for the purpose of or with the effect of changing or influencing the control of the issuer of the securities and were not acquired and are not held in connection with or as a participant in any transaction having that purpose or effect, other than activities solely in connection with a nomination under ?? 240.14a-11.