ASSA ABLOY — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Apr 28, 2016

Issuer ASSA ABLOY AB

Holder

BlackRock Inc.

Instrument

Instrument	Stock loan
Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Buy
Date	25/04/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	60,086,231
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	60,086,231
Percentage
Directly held shares	5.4 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	3.69 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	3.69 %	60,086,231
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.05 %	818,566
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.01 %	239,472
Total	3.75 %	61,144,269

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
28,079,997 1.72		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
899,301	0.06	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
263,207	0.02	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
5,487,753 0.34		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
472,369	0.03	BlackRock International Limited
181,163	0.01	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
6,153	0	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
1,286,570 0.08		BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd
249,845	0.01	BlackRock Investment Management Canada Limited
407,791	0.03	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
1,464,341 0.09		BlackRock Advisors, LLC
7,854,867 0.48		BlackRock Fund Advisors
13,440,342 0.82		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
1,034,832 0.06		BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
15,738	0	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited

Group total holdings

Voting rights 61,144,269

Percentage of voting rights 3.75

Published

28/04/2016 17:24

Contact

Name Gareth Slade

Phone 00442077433650 Email emeadisclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data