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Cofinimmo Major Shareholding Notification 2022

Jul 4, 2022

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Major Shareholding Notification

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REGULATED INFORMATION Brussels, embargo until 04.07.2022, 5:40 p.m. CET

PRESS RELEASE

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

On 01.07.2022, Cofinimmo has received a transparency notification dated 30.06.2022 from the group BlackRock, Inc. with registered offices at 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10055, USA. By virtue of the acquisition or disposal of voting rights, the group now holds 4.92% of voting securities and 0.36% of equivalent financial instruments (compared to 5.04% and 0.25%, respectively, during the previous notification dated 21.06.2022).

The group BlackRock, Inc. now holds 5.28% of the voting rights in the company, including the equivalent financial instruments.

2. Content of the notification

The notification dated 30.06.2022 contains the following information:

  • Raison for the notification: acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights
  • 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, U.S.A.
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K.
BlackRock Advisors, LLC 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10055, U.S.A.
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, U.S.A.
BlackRock Fund Advisors 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, U.S.A.
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, U.S.A.
Association
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Level 37 Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Limited
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K.
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. 1-8-3 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Trust Tower Main, Tokyo, 100-8217, Japan

REGULATED INFORMATION

Brussels, embargo until 04.07.2022, 5:40 p.m. CET

  • Transaction date: 29.06.2022
  • Threshold that is crossed: 5%
  • Denominator: 32,251,549
  • 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 Advisors (UK) Limited 504,451 467,633 1.45%
BlackRock Advisors, LLC 39,191 39,191 0.12%
BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited 47,775 46,924 0.15%
BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG 68,090 68,909 0.21%
BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited 2,300 2,300 0.01%
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. 6,135 6,135 0.02%
BlackRock Fund Advisors 392,184 395,045 1.22%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National
Association
406,175 406,914 1.26%
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia)
Limited
15,277 15,439 0.05%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited 141,588 137,228 0.43%
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. 1,135 1,100 0.00%
Subtotal 1,624,301 1,586,818 4.92%

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 107,464 0.33% Physical
BlackRock Investment Securities Lent 7,567 0.02% Physical
Management (UK) Limited
Subtotal 115,031 0.36%
TOTAL A + B 1,701,849 5.28%
  • Chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held: the full chain of controlled undertakings was added to the notification.
  • Additional information: the disclosure obligation arose due to voting rights attached to shares for BlackRock, Inc. going below 5%.

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PRESS RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE

REGULATED INFORMATION Brussels, embargo until 04.07.2022, 5:40 p.m. CET

3. Miscellaneous

For more information:

Philippe Etienne Lynn Nachtergaele Head of External Communication Head of Investor Relations Tel.: +32 2 373 60 32 Tel.: +32 2 777 14 08 [email protected] [email protected]

About Cofinimmo:

Cofinimmo has been acquiring, developing and managing rental properties for almost 40 years. The company has a portfolio spread across Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom with a value of approximately 5.9 billion EUR. Responding to societal changes, Cofinimmo's mission is to provide highquality care, living, and working spaces to partner-tenants for their occupants to enjoy. 'Caring, Living and Working - Together in Real Estate' is the expression of this mission. Thanks to its expertise, Cofinimmo has assembled a healthcare real estate portfolio of approximately 4.0 billion EUR in Europe.

As an independent company applying the highest standards of corporate governance and sustainability, Cofinimmo offers tenant services and manages its portfolio through a team of approximately 150 employees in Brussels, Paris, Breda, and Frankfurt and Madrid.

Cofinimmo is listed on Euronext Brussels (BEL20) and benefits from the REIT status 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 30.06.2022, Cofinimmo's total market capitalisation was approximately 3.3 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 dividends.