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SAF-HOLLAND S.A.:Release according to Article 26, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] and Art. 8 and 9 of Transparency Law of Great-Duchy of Luxembourg

SAF-HOLLAND S.A.

25.01.2017 / 09:25
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ESMA/2015/1597

Standard form for notification of major holdings

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS (to be sent to the relevant issuer and to the competent authority) (i)

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached (ii):

SAF-HOLLAND S.A.

2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

[X] An acquisition or disposal of voting rights [ ] An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments [ ] An event changing the breakdown of voting rights [ ] Other (please specify) (iii):

3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation (iv):

Name: JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings Inc.

City and country of registered office (if applicable): New York/ U.S.A.

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.) (v): JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited

5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached (vi): 19 January 2017

6. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:

		% of voting
	% of voting	rights	Total of	Total number
	rights attached	through	both in %	of voting
	to shares (total	financial	(7.A +	rights of
	of 7.A)	instruments	7.B)	issuer (vii)
		(total of
		7.B.1 +
		7.B.2)
Resulting situation
on the date on
which threshold	5.08%	0.00%	5.08%	45,361,112
was crossed or
reached
Position of
previous
notification (if
applicable)

7. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached (viii):

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of
shares	Number of	voting rights (ix)	% of	voting rights
	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
ISIN code (if
possible)	(Art 9 of	(Art 10 of	(Art 9 of	(Art 10 of
	Directive	Directive	Directive	Directive
	2004/109/EC)	2004/109/EC)	2004/109/EC)	2004/109/EC)
LU0307018795		2,306,047		5.08%
SUBTOTAL A	2,306,047		5.08%

B 1: Financial Instruments according to Art. 13(1)(a) of Directive 2004/ 109/EC

			Number of voting
			rights that may be
Type of	Expirat-	Exercise/	acquired if the	% of voting rights
financial	ion	Conversion	instrument is exer-
instrument	date (x)	Period (xi)	cised/ converted.
		SUBTOTAL B.1

B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to Art. 13(1)(b) of Directive 2004/109/EC

		Exercise/
Type of	Expiration	Conversion	Physical or	Number of	% of voting rights
financial	date(x)	Period(xi)	cash	voting
instrument			settlement(xii)	rights
			SUBTOTAL B.2

8. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation (please tick the applicable box):

[] Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does not control any other undertaking(s)holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) issuer. (xiii)

[X] Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity (xiv):

		% of voting rights
	% of voting rights	through financial in-	Total of both if
	if it equals or is	struments if it equals	it equals or is
Name xv	higher than the	or is higher than the	higher than the
	notifiable threshold	notifiable threshold	notifiable
			threshold
See section 10

9. In case of proxy voting: [name of the proxy holder] will cease to hold [% and number] voting rights as of [date]

10. Additional information (xvi):

This notification is made pursuant to the implementation of the Amended Transparency Directive and is not necessarily the result of a transaction.

Chain of controlled undertakings:

JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings Inc.
JPMorgan Asset Management International Limited (100%)
JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings (UK) Limited (100%)
JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited (100%)

Done at London on 24 January 2017

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Language:	English
Company:	SAF-HOLLAND S.A.
	68-70, boulevard de la Pétrusse
	L-2320 Luxembourg
	Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Internet:	www.safholland.com

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