SEQUENOM SHAREHOLDER NOTICE: Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces the Investigation of Sequenom, Inc. (SQNM) Over the Proposed Sale of the Company to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings

NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2016

The Company's stockholders will only receive $2.40 in cash for each share of Company common stock they own. However, this consideration is below at Squenom's 52-week highof $2.84 per share.

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The investigation focuses on whether Sequenom's Board of Directors breached their fiduciary duties to the Company's stockholders by failing to conduct a fair sales process and whether and by how much this proposed transaction undervalues the Company to the detriment of Sequenom's shareholders.

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Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP is working together in this investigation with Juan E. Monteverde from Monteverde & Associates PC.

If you own common stock in Sequenom and wish to obtain additional information and protect your investments free of charge, please visit us at www.faruqilaw.com/SQNM or contact Nadeem Faruqi, Esq. either via e-mail at nfaruqi@faruqilaw.com or by telephone at (877) 247-4292 or (212) 983-9330.  You may also contact Juan E. Monteverde, Esq.  either via email at jmonteverde@monteverdelaw.com or by telephone at (212) 971-1341.