Swedish Match — Major Shareholding Notification 2022

May 17, 2022

Issuer Swedish Match AB

Holder

BlackRock, Inc.

Instrument

Instrument	Common Stock
Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Sell
Date	16/05/2022
Limit for number of shares	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	69,432,012
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	69,432,012
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.55292 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	4.55292 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	4.55292 %	69,432,012
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.03915 %	597,016
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.18673 %	2,847,684
Total	4.7788 %	72,876,712

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
2,886,989 0.18931		BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.
4,518,998 0.29633		BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
2,682,447 0.1759		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
207,046	0.01358	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
185,384	0.01216	BlackRock International Limited
24,228,191 1.58873		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
22,044,178 1.44552		BlackRock Fund Advisors
872,695	0.05723	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
11,150	0.00073	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
1,195,513 0.07839		BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
1,813,334 0.11891		BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
3,041,956 0.19947		BlackRock Advisors, LLC
8,840,033 0.57967		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
5,501	0.00036	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited
343,297	0.02251	Aperio Group, LLC

Group total holdings

Voting rights 72,876,712

Percentage of voting rights 4.7788

Notes (other relevant informations according to law)

The disclosure obligation arose due to total holdings in shares and voting rights for BlackRock, Inc. going below 5%.

Published

17/05/2022 18:29

Contact

Name Jana Blumenstein

Phone +44 20 7743 36 Email EMEAdisclosures@blackrock.com

rapportering@fi.se Tfn 08-408 980 37 Fax 08-24 39 25