• Vericel COO Michael Halpin exercised stock options for 10,000 common shares on Aug. 3 at $16.66.
• He sold 10,000 common shares the same day at $46.84.
• Directly held common shares ended at 16,394 following the transactions.
• Directly held stock options ended at 26,250.

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