ASSA ABLOY

Major Shareholding Notification • Jun 27, 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	22/06/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	55,384,017
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	55,384,017
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.9779 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	3.3971 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	3.3971 %	55,384,017
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.1669 %	2,721,149
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.0462 %	753,361
Total	3.6102 %	58,858,527

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
25,672,426 1.5746		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
896,652	0.0549	BlackRock Asset Management Deutshland AG
228,174	0.0139	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
5,353,612 0.3283		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
469,370	0.0287	BlackRock International Limited
182,394	0.0111	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
6,153	0.0013	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
1,286,982 0.0789		BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd
239,761	0.0147	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
421,295	0.0258	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
1,406,281 0.0862		BlackRock Advisors, LLC
7,788,578 0.4777		BlackRock Fund Advisors
13,815,217 0.8473		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
1,036,235 0.0635		BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
55,397	0.0033	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited

Group total holdings

Voting rights 58,858,527

Percentage of voting rights 3.6102

Published

27/06/2016 12:48

Contact

Name Laurel Clark

Phone 00442077433650 Email emeadisclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data