ASSA ABLOY — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Oct 31, 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 Sell
Date	27/10/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	55,580,713
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	55,580,713
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.9956 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	3.4092 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	3.4092 %	55,580,713
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.0106 %	173,792
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.0859 %	1,400,753
Total	3.5057 %	57,155,258

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
22,302,738 1.3201		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
1,014,572 0.0622		BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
271,216	0.0166	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
5,429,428 0.333		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
398,227	0.0244	BlackRock International Limited
154,982	0.0095	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
5,004	0.0003	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
1,356,691 0.0832		BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.
308,480	0.0189	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
449,595	0.0275	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
1,344,855 0.0824		BlackRock Advisors, LLC
7,874,618 0.483		BlackRock Fund Advisors
15,110,291 0.8786		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
1,086,857 0.0666		BlackRock Investment Management, LCC
47,704	0.0029	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited

Group total holdings

Voting rights 57,155,258

Percentage of voting rights 3.5057

Published

31/10/2016 11:28

Contact

Name Laurel Clark

Phone +442077433650 Email emeadisclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data