Boliden — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Apr 15, 2016

Issuer Boliden 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	12/04/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	13,653,141
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	13,653,141
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.99 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	4.99 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	4.99 %	13,653,141
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.32 %	893,021
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.06 %	167,448
Total	5.37 %	14,713,610

Chain of controlling companies

Voting rights % Voting rights Company

4,585,956 1.68		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
544,422	0.19	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
31,547	0.01	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
1,594,252 0.58		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
234,440	0.09	Blackrock International Limited
46,662	0.02	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
1,789	0	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
421,475	0.15	BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.
70,943	0.02	blackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
119,228	0.04	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
441,676	0.16	BlackRock Advisors, LLC
2,375,083 0.87		BlackRock Fund Advisors
3,953,467 1.45		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
288,572	0.11	BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
4,089	0	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited

Group total holdings

Voting rights 14,713,610

Percentage of voting rights 5.37

Published

15/04/2016 11:40

Contact

Name Gareth Slade Phone 442077433650 Email emeadisclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data

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