ASSA ABLOY

Major Shareholding Notification • Sep 1, 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	30/08/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	54,479,822
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	54,479,822
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.9 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	3.34 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	3.34 %	54,479,822
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.05 %	743,162
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.03 %	459,269
Total	3.42 %	55,682,253

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
22,730,853 1.39		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
796,285	0.05	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
320,673	0.02	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
5,215,724 0.32		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
408,243	0.03	BlackRock International Limited
153,000	0.01	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
5,004	0	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
1,336,065 0.08		BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.
260,684	0.02	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
441,202	0.03	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
1,269,369 0.08		BlackRock Advisors, LLC
7,741,714 0.47		BlackRock Fund Advisors
13,909,677 0.86		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
1,046,056 0.06		BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
47,704	0	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited

Group total holdings

Voting rights 55,682,253

Percentage of voting rights 3.42

Published

01/09/2016 12:01

Contact

Name Laurel Clark

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

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data