Handelsbanken's annual general meeting

The board
At the annual general meeting on 29 April 2009, the board of
Handelsbanken was re-elected, with the exception of Pirkko Alitalo
and Sigrun Hjelmqvist, who had declined re-election. Lone Fonss
Schroeder, chief executive of Wallenius Lines AB, and Jan Johansson,
chief executive of Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget, were elected to
the board as new members. Hans Larsson was elected chairman.

At the subsequent first board meeting, Anders Nyrén and Fredrik
Lundberg were appointed as vice chairmen of the board.

The board members are listed below.

Dividend
The annual general meeting adopted the board's proposal for a
dividend of SEK 7 per share. The record day for the dividend is
Tuesday, 5 May 2009. The dividend is expected to be distributed by
Euroclear on Friday, 8 May 2009.

Nomination committee
The nomination committee shall have five members. Four of the members
(the "Shareholders' Representatives") shall represent the Bank's four
largest shareholders/shareholder groups in terms of votes according
to shareholder information as at 31 August 2009 from Euroclear Sweden
AB (the "Largest Shareholders"); one of these members is to chair the
committee. However, the nomination committee must not include
representatives of companies which are significant competitors of the
Bank in any of its main areas of operations.

The annual general meeting assigns the chairman of the board to
contact the Largest Shareholders. These will each appoint one
representative who, together with the chairman, are to constitute the
nomination committee for the period until a new nomination committee
is appointed by mandate of the next annual general meeting. The
members of the nomination committee for the nomination of board
members for 2010 shall be announced at least six months before the
2010 annual general meeting.

Members of the board 2009
JON FREDRIK BAKSAAS, Sandvika
ULRIKA BOËTHIUS, Stockholm
PÄR BOMAN, Linköping
Tommy Bylund, Ljusdal
GÖRAN ENNERFELT, Upplands Väsby
JAN JOHANSSON, Stockholm
HANS LARSSON, Stockholm
FREDRIK LUNDBERG, Djursholm
SVERKER MARTIN-LÖF, Stockholm
ANDERS NYRÉN, Bromma
BENTE RATHE, Trondheim
LONE FONSS SCHROEDER, Copenhagen

Minutes
Minutes of the annual general meeting will be available on the Bank's
website http://www.handelsbanken.se/ireng approximately two weeks
from today's date.