QIAGEN N.V. 21.03.2014 20:21 Dissemination of a Voting Rights Announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On March 18, 2014, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany has informed the AFM (the Netherlands Authority For the Financial Markets) that via shares its Voting Rights on QIAGEN N.V., Venlo, The Netherlands, have fallen below the 3% threshold of the Voting Rights on March 13, 2014 and on that day amounted to 2.73% (this corresponds to 6554341 Voting Rights). Those 2.73% (this corresponds to 6554341 Voting Rights) break down as follows - 1,18% Common Shares held directly (this corresponds to 2821036 Voting Rights) - 1,46% Convertible Bond held directly (this would correspond to 3501214 potential Voting Rights in the case of conversion) - 0,06% Options held directly (this would correspond to 153265 potential Voting Rights in the case of exercise) - 0,03% Warrants held directly (this would correspond to 78826 potential Voting Rights in the case of exercise) 21.03.2014 DGAP's Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: QIAGEN N.V. Spoorstraat 50 5911 KJ Venlo Netherlands Internet: www.qiagen.com End of Announcement DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------