LANXESS Aktiengesellschaft: Release according to Article 26, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] with the objective of Europe-wide distribution

LANXESS Aktiengesellschaft 

26.06.2015 16:53

Dissemination of a Voting Rights Announcement, transmitted by
DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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BlackRock, Inc., Wilmington, DE , United States has informed us according
to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via shares its Voting Rights on
LANXESS Aktiengesellschaft, Cologne, Germany, have exceeded the 5%
threshold of the Voting Rights on June 24, 2015 and on that day amounted to
5.09% (this corresponds to 4660427 Voting Rights).

2.26% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 2072645 Voting Rights) are
attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 1 of the WpHG (German Securities Trading Act).
3.16% of Voting Rights (this corresponds to 2892715 Voting Rights) are
attributed to the company in accordance with Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 6 in connection with sentence 2 of the WpHG (German
Securities Trading Act).
 
Please note that the total amount stated above does not necessarily equal
the sum of the detailed attributed holdings. This results from voting
rights having multiple attributions within the BlackRock group structure.



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Language:     English
Company:      LANXESS Aktiengesellschaft
              Kennedyplatz 1
              50569 Köln
              Germany
Internet:     www.lanxess.com
 
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