ABSTRACT
Chapter 3, section 1 A party who holds no shares or holds shares representing less than three-tenths of the voting rights for all shares in such a company as referred to in the second paragraph and who, through acquisition of shares in the company, alone or together with another closely related party pursuant to section 5, reaches a shareholding representing at least threetenths of the voting rights for all shares in the company shall:
1. immediately make public the extent of his or her shareholding in the company; and 2. within four weeks thereafter launch a takeover bid in respect of the remaining shares
in the company (a mandatory bid). The provisions of the first paragraph shall apply in conjunction with the acquisition of
shares in a Swedish limited company whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market or a comparable market outside the European Economic Area.
