Boliden — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Mar 29, 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 Buy
Date	23/03/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	13,709,106
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	13,709,106
Percentage
Directly held shares	5.01 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	5.01 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	5.01 %	13,709,106
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.29 %	792,911
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.06 %	173,797
Total	5.36 %	14,675,814

Chain of controlling companies

Voting rights % Voting rights Company

4,586,965 1.68		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
559,035	0.2	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
31,547	0.01	BlackRock Financial Managament Inc
1,599,265 0.58		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
234,440	0.09	BlackRock International Limited
53,184	0.02	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V
1.798	0	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
411,277	0.15	BlackRock Japan Co ltd
61,257	0.02	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
118,561	0.04	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
434,491	0.16	BlackRock Advisors LLC
2,358,310 0.86		BlackRock Fund Advisors
3,928,981 1.44		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
292,614	0.11	BlackRock Investment Management LLC
4,089	0	BlackRock Singapore Limited

Group total holdings

Voting rights 14,675,814

Percentage of voting rights 5.36

Published

29/03/2016 10:46

Contact

Name Tim Dudley Phone 00442077433650 Email emeadisclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data

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