Stabilus SE

Major Shareholding Notification • Sep 29, 2016

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Voting Rights Announcements | 29 September 2016 15:53

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DGAP Voting Rights Announcement: Stabilus S.A.

2016-09-29 / 15:53

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Standard form for notification of major holdings

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS (to be sent to the relevant issuer and to
the competent authority)i
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to
which voting rights are attachedii:
Stabilus S.A.
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
[X] An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
[ ] An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments
[ ] An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
[ ] Other (please specify)iii:
3. Details of person subject to the notification obligationiv :

Name:	City and country of registered office
Marathon Asset Management LLP	(if applicable):
	London, UK

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)v:
See attached breakdown.
5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reachedvi:
27 September 2016
6. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:

	% of voting	% of voting	Total of	Total number
	rights	rights through	both in %	of voting
	attached to	financial	(7.A +	rights of
	shares	instruments	7.B)	issuervii
	(total of	(total of 7.B.1
	7.A)	+ 7.B.2)
Resulting	5.91	0.00	5.91	1,459,614
situation on the
date on which
threshold was
crossed or
reached
Position of	N/A	N/A	N/A
previous
notification (if
applicable)

7. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the
threshold was crossed or reachedviii:
A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of	Number of	voting rightsix	% of voting	rights
shares	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
ISIN code (if	(Art 9 of	(Art 10 of	(Art 9 of	(Art 10 of
possible)	Directive	Directive	Directive	Directive
	2004/109/EC)	2004/109/EC)	2004/109/EC)	2004/109/EC)
Ordinary	1,745,599	1,459,614	7.07	5.91
shares
(ISIN:
LU1066226637)
SUBTOTAL A		1,459,614		5.91
B 1: Financial	Instruments	according to Art.	13(1)(a) of	Directive
2004/109/EC

Type of	Expiration	Exercise/	Number of	% of voting
financial	datex	Conversion	voting rights	rights
instrument		Periodxi	that may be
			acquired if the
			instrument is
			exercised/
			converted.
None
		SUBTOTAL B.1

B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to Art.
13(1)(b) of Directive 2004/109/EC

Type of	Expiration	Exercise/	Physical or	Number	% of
financial	datex	Conversion	cash	of	voting
instrument		Period xi	settlementxii	voting	rights
				rights
None
			SUBTOTAL B.2

8. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification
obligation (please tick the applicable box):
[ ] Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any
natural person or legal entity and does not control any other
undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an interest in the
(underlying) issuer.xiii
[ ] Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights
and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate
controlling natural person or legal entityxiv:

Namexv	% of voting	% of voting rights	Total of both if
	rights if it	through financial	it equals or is
	equals or is	instruments if it	higher than the
	higher than the	equals or is	notifiable
	notifiable	higher than the	threshold
	threshold	notifiable
		threshold
William Arah
Jeremy Hosking
Neil Ostrer
Marathon Asset	5.91	0	5.91
Management LLP

9. In case of proxy voting: [name of the proxy holder] will cease to hold
[% and number] voting rights as of [date]

10. Additional informationxvi:

Breakdown of Holdings:

Custodian	Nominal
Bank of New York Mellon	312,830
BNP Paribas Securities Services	11,875
Brown Brothers Harriman	17,568
HSBC	28,668
JP Morgan Chase	92,580
Northern Trust	762,260
Royal Bank of Canada	2,558
State Street Bank & Trust Company, Boston	517,260
Total	1,745,599

The provided breakdown of holdings refer to the total number of shares in Stabilus S.A. managed by the portfolio managers of Marathon Asset Management LLP. No portfolio manager controls directly a disclosable position. The total includes 285,985 shares for which clients have retained the right to vote.

Done at London on 29th September 2016.

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Language:	English
Company:	Stabilus S.A.
	2, rue Albert Borschette
	L-1246 Luxemburg
	Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Internet:	www.stabilus.com

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