ASSA ABLOY

Major Shareholding Notification • Sep 21, 2016

Issuer ASSA ABLOY AB

Holder

BlackRock Inc.

Instrument

Instrument	Common stock
Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Buy
Date	20/09/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	55,797,121
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	55,797,121
Percentage
Directly held shares	5.02 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	3.42 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	3.42 %	55,797,121
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.02 %	289,548
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.04 %	657,781
Total	3.48 %	56,744,450

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
22,918,812 1.41		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
832,170	0.05	BlackRock Asset Management Deutchland AG
301,392	0.02	BlackRock Financial Management Inc.
5,342,540 0.33		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
430,711	0.03	BlackRock International Limited
154,982	0.01	BlackRock (Netherlands) BV
5,004	0	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
1,341,972 0.08		BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd
266,205	0.02	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
441,202	0.03	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
1,289,277 0.08		BlackRock Advisors, LLC
7,776,708 0.48		BlackRock Fund Advisors
14,553,738 0.88		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
1,042,033 0.06		BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
47,704	0	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited

Group total holdings

Voting rights 56,744,450

Percentage of voting rights 3.48

Published

21/09/2016 17:59

Contact

Name Laurel Clark

Phone +44 20 7743 3650 Email emeadisclousures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data