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Cofinimmo — Major Shareholding Notification 2019
Jul 3, 2019
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Major Shareholding Notification
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PRESS RELEASE
REGULATED INFORMATION Brussels, embargo until 03.07.2019, 05:40 PM CET
Publication of a transparency notification (article 14, first paragraph of the Law of 2 May 2007 on disclosure of major holdings)
1. Summary of the notification
Cofinimmo has received a transparency notification dated 02.07.2019 indicating that the group BlackRock, Inc. with registered offices at 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10055, USA now holds, by virtue of the issue of shares on 26.06.2019, 4.79% of the voting rights of the company. It has therefore crossed the 5% threshold downwards.
2. Content of the notification
The notification dated 02.07.2019 contains the following information:
- Raison for the notification: Passive crossing of a threshold. Downward crossing of the lowest threshold.
- Notification by: a parent undertaking or a controlling person
Persons subject to the notification requirement:
| BlackRock, Inc. | 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10055, USA | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V. | Rembrandt Tower, 7th floor, Amstelplein, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited | 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, UK | ||
| BlackRock Advisors, LLC | 100 Bellevue Parkway, Wilmington, DE, 19809, USA | ||
| BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited | 161 Bay Street, Suite 2500, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2S1, Canada | ||
| BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG | Lenbachplatz 1 1st Floor, Munich, 80333-MN3, Germany | ||
| BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited | 15/F, 16/F, 17/F Citibank Tower & 17/F ICBC Tower, 3 Garden Road, | ||
| Central, Hong Kong | |||
| BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. | 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10055, USA | ||
| BlackRock Fund Advisors | 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA | ||
| BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National | |||
| Association | 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA | ||
| BlackRock International Limited | Exchange Place One, 1 Semple Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8BL, UK | ||
| BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) | Level 26, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia | ||
| Limited | |||
| BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited | 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, UK | ||
| BlackRock Investment Management, LLC | 1 University Square Drive, Princeton, NJ, 8540 USA | ||
| BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. | 1-8-3 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Trust Tower Main, Tokyo, 100-8217 | ||
| Japan |
Transaction date: 28.06.2019
Threshold that is crossed: 5%
Denominator: 25,849,283

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Brussels, embargo until 03.07.2019, 05:40 PM CET
Notified details:
A) Voting rights
| Holder | Number of voting rights linked to shares before the transaction |
Number of voting rights linked to shares after the transaction |
% of voting rights |
|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0.00% |
| BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V. | 2,501 | 18,181 | 0.07% |
| BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited | 373,280 | 425,534 | 1.65% |
| BlackRock Advisors, LLC | 21,035 | 26,604 | 0.10% |
| BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited | 29,632 | 26,805 | 0.10% |
| BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG | 55,527 | 54,752 | 0.21% |
| BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited | 10,175 | 3,218 | 0.01% |
| BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. | 5,435 | 5,268 | 0.02% |
| BlackRock Fund Advisors | 186,499 | 226,716 | 0.68% |
| BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association |
356,940 | 339,541 | 1.31% |
| BlackRock International Limited | 6,980 | 11,453 | 0.04% |
| BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited |
6,846 | 5,990 | 0.02% |
| BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited | 40,025 | 61,209 | 0.24% |
| BlackRock Investment Management, LLC | 0 | 108 | 0.00% |
| BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. | 1,163 | 19,302 | 0.07% |
| Subtotal | 1,096,038 | 1,224,681 | 4.74% |
B) Equivalent financial instruments
| Holder | Type of financial instrument |
Number of voting rights linked to equivalent financial instruments after the transaction |
% of voting rights |
Settlement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited | Securities lent | 12,024 | 0.05% | Physical |
| BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited |
Securities lent | 2,000 | 0.01% | Physical |
| Subtotal | 14,024 | 0.05% | ||
| TOTAL A + B | 1,236,705 | 4,79% |
- Chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held: the full chain of controlled undertakings was added to the notification.
- Additional information: -

REGULATED INFORMATION Brussels, embargo until 03.07.2019, 05:40 PM CET
PRESS RELEASE
3. Miscellaneous
- This press release can be consulted on Cofinimmo's website under www.cofinimmo.com/news-andmedia/press-releases/.
- The full notification can be consulted on Cofinimmo's website under www.cofinimmo.com/investors/shareholder-information/ownership/.
For more information:
Gunther De Backer Kenneth De Kegel Head of External Communication Communication & Shareholder Officer & Investor Relations Tel.: +32 2 373 94 21 Tel.: +32 2 373 00 00 [email protected] [email protected]
About Cofinimmo:
Cofinimmo has been acquiring, developing and managing rental properties for over 35 years. The company has a portfolio spread across Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany, with a value of 4 billion EUR. With attention to social developments, Cofinimmo has the mission of making high-quality care, living and working environments available to its partners-tenants, from which users benefit directly. "Caring, Living and Working - Together in Real Estate" is the expression of this mission. Thanks to its expertise, Cofinimmo has built up a healthcare real estate portfolio of more than 2 billion EUR in Europe.
As an independent company that applies the highest standards of corporate governance and sustainability, Cofinimmo offers its tenants services and manages its portfolio through a team of over 130 employees in Brussels, Paris, Breda and Frankfurt.
Cofinimmo is listed on Euronext Brussels (BEL20) and benefits from the REIT system in Belgium (RREC), France (SIIC) and the Netherlands (FBI). Its activities are supervised by the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), the Belgian regulator.
On 28.06.2019, Cofinimmo's total market capitalisation stood at approximately 3 billion EUR. The company applies an investment policy aimed at offering a socially responsible, long-term, low-risk investment that generates a regular, predictable and growing dividend.
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