Boliden — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Mar 21, 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	16/03/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	13,599,984
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	13,599,984
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.97 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	4.97 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	4.97 %	13,599,984
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2 Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2,	0.32 %	867,950
first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.06 %	179,128
Total	5.35 %	14,647,062

Chain of controlling companies

Voting rights % Voting rights Company

4,586,965 1.68		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
570,365	0.21	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
37,932	0.01	BlackRock Financial Managament Inc
1,585,279 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
123,694	0.04	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
434,491	0.16	BlackRock Advisors LLC
2,350,823 0.86		BlackRock Fund Advisors
3,898,854 1.42		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 14,647,062

Percentage of voting rights 5.35

Published

21/03/2016 13:44

Contact

Name Gareth Slade Phone 00442077433650 Email emeadisclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data

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