ASSA ABLOY — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Aug 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	26/08/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	54,191,774
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	54,191,774
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.87 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	3.324 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	3.324 %	54,191,774
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.068 %	1,109,323
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.016 %	264,402
Total	3.408 %	55,565,499

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
22,612,944 1.387		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
796,285	0.048	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
320,673	0.019	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
5,215,724 0.319		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
391,504	0.024	BlackRock International Limited
153,000	0.009	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
5,004	0	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
1,336,065 0.081		BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.
260,684	0.015	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
441,202	0.027	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
1,269,369 0.077		BlackRock Advisors, LLC
7,741,714 0.474		BlackRock Fund Advisors
13,927,571 0.862		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
1,046,056 0.064		BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
47,704	0.002	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited

Group total holdings

Voting rights 55,565,499

Percentage of voting rights 3.408

Published

31/08/2016 11:27

Contact

Name Laurel Clark

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

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data