ASSA ABLOY

Major Shareholding Notification • Apr 20, 2016

Issuer ASSA ABLOY AB

Holder

BlackRock, Inc.

Instrument

Instrument	Common stock/stock loan
Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Sell
Date	19/04/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	55,203,473
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	55,203,473
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.962 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	3.386 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	3.386 %	55,203,473
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.383 %	6,243,911
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.035 %	570,263
Total	3.804 %	62,017,647

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
28,735,222 1.763		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
860,881	0.053	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
263,207	0.016	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
5,529,470 0.339		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
521,827	0.032	BlackRock International Limited
181,163	0.011	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
6,153	0	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
1,286,570 0.079		BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd
259,007	0.016	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
399,102	0.024	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
972,435	0.06	BlackRock Advisors, LLC
7,846,322 0.481		BlackRock Fund Advisors
14,101,653 0.865		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
1,038,897 0.064		BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
15,738	0.001	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited

Group total holdings

Voting rights 62,017,647

Percentage of voting rights 3.804

Published

20/04/2016 16:42

Contact

Name Gareth Slade

Phone 00442077433650 Email emeadisclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data