Atlas Copco — Major Shareholding Notification 2008

Oct 23, 2008

Issuer Atlas Copco Aktiebolag

Holder

Capital Research and Management Company

Instrument

Instrument	A SE0000101032
Before the transaction
Shares	44,926,405
Voting rights	44,893,105
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Sell
Date	17/10/2008
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	42,116,739
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	42,083,439
Percentage
Directly held shares	3.43 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	4.79 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

Percentage of voting
rights:

Number of underlying

shares:

Shares

Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2 Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3

• Physically settled

• Cash settled

Total

Published 23/10/2008 08:09

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