AXA — M&A Activity 2018

Feb 21, 2018

Paris, February 21, 2018

AXA to sell its operations in Azerbaijan

AXA announced today it had entered into an agreement with Mr. Elkhan Garibli to sell all its insurance operations in Azerbaijan. Under the terms of the agreement, Mr. Elkhan Garibli would acquire 100% of the nonlife entity (AXA MBask Insurance Company OJSC).

The parties agreed not to disclose the terms and conditions of the transaction.

Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals.

ABOUT THE AXA GROUP

The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 165,000 employees serving 107 million clients in 64 countries. In 2016, IFRS revenues amounted to Euro 100.2 billion and IFRS underlying earnings to Euro 5.7 billion. AXA had Euro 1,429 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2016.

The AXA ordinary share is listed on compartment A of Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol CS (ISN FR 0000120628 – Bloomberg: CS FP – Reuters: AXAF.PA). AXA's American Depository Share is also quoted on the OTC QX platform under the ticker symbol AXAHY.

The AXA Group is included in the main international SRI indexes, such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and FTSE4GOOD.

It is a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.

This press release and the regulated information made public by AXA pursuant to article L. 451-1-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code and articles 222-1 et seq. of the Autorité des marchés financiers' General Regulation are available on the AXA Group website (axa.com).

THIS PRESS RELEASE IS AVAILABLE ON THE AXA GROUP WEBSITE axa.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Investor Relations:	+33.1.40.75.48.42
Andrew Wallace-Barnett:	+33.1.40.75.46.85
François Boissin:	+33.1.40.75.39.82
Aayush Poddar:	+33.1.40.75.59.17
Aurore Chaussec:	+33.1.40.75.96.20
Shantanu Priya:	+33.1.40.75.58.44
Mathias Schvallinger:	+33.1.40.75.39.20
Alix Sicaud:	+33.1.40.75.56.66

Individual Shareholder Relations: +33.1.40.75.48.43

Media Relations:	+33.1.40.75.46.74
Julien Parot:	+33.1.40.75.59.80
Nicolas Feltrin:	+33.1.40.75.56.48
Shruti Dhanda:	+33.1.40.75.72.58

Corporate Responsibility strategy:

axa.com/en/about-us/strategy-commitments

SRI ratings:

axa.com/en/investor/sri-ratings-ethical-indexes

IMPORTANT LEGAL INFORMATION AND CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements contained herein may be forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements that are predictions of or indicate future events, trends, plans, expectations or objectives. Undue reliance should not be placed on such statements because, by their nature, they are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties and can be affected by other factors that could cause AXA's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to Part 4 - "Risk factors and risk management" of AXA's Registration Document for the year ended December 31, 2016, for a description of certain important factors, risks and uncertainties that may affect AXA's business and/or results of operations. AXA undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any of these forward-looking statements, whether to reflect new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise, except as part of applicable regulatory or legal obligations.