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Increase in total number of shares and votes in Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson

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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) confirms that as of May 31, 2017, the company’s share capital amounts to SEK 16,670,758,678 and the total number of shares is 3,334,151,735; of which 261,755,983 are shares of series A and 3,072,395,752 are shares of series B. The total number of votes is 568,995,558.2, of which the series A shares represent 261,755,983 votes and the series B shares represent 307,239,575.2 votes.
Press release
May 31, 2017

The increase in the number of shares and votes is a result of the company’s recent issue of 3,000,000 shares of series C, shares which have subsequently been repurchased by the company and converted into shares of series B, by virtue of a conversion clause in the articles of association. This is in accordance with the resolution by the Annual General Meeting 2017 to expand the treasury stock as part of the financing of Ericsson's Long-Term Variable Compensation Program (LTV) 2017. The company currently holds 58,382,336 shares as treasury stock.

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