ABB Ltd — Major Shareholding Notification 2018

Feb 6, 2018

Issuer ABB Ltd

Holder

UBS Group AG

Instrument

Instrument Ordinary Shares CH0012221716

Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Sell
Date	01/02/2018
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	49,211,100
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	49,211,100
Percentage
Directly held shares	2.27 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	2.27 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	2.27 %	49,211,100
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled

• Cash settled

Total	2.27 %	49,211,100

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
685,450	0.03	UBS AG
11,454	0.001	UBS Asset Management (Americas) lnc.
269,425	0.01	UBS Asset Management (Australia) Ltd
8,702	0.0004	UBS Asset Management (Deutschland) GmbH
1,140,549 0.05		UBS Asset Management (Hong Kong) Ltd
28,912	0.001	UBS Asset Management (Japan) Ltd
22,707	0.001	UBS Asset Management (Singapore) Ltd
185,567	0.01	UBS Asset Management (UK) Limited
632,301	0.03	UBS Asset Management Life Limited
75,090	0.003	UBS Asset Management Trust Company
635,040	0.03	UBS Financial Services Inc.
3,368,147 0.16		UBS Fund Management (Luxembourg) S.A.
41,802,761 1.93		UBS Fund Management (Switzerland) AG
12,200	0.001	UBS Gestión S.G.I.I.C., SA
332,795	0.02	UBS Third Party Management Company S.A.

Group total holdings

Voting rights 49,211,100

Percentage of voting rights 2.27

Published

06/02/2018 16:35

Contact

Name Jamie Bonney Konstantina Georgaki Phone +4144239 40 71 Email sh-gsp-emea@ubs.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data

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