Merck KGaA 04.05.2015 11:05 Dissemination of a Voting Rights Announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On April 28, 2015 we have been notified pursuant to § 21 para. 1 WpHG of the following: The proportion of voting rights via shares of Sun Life Financial Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada in Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has exceeded the threshold of 5% of the voting rights on April 24, 2015 and at that time amounted to 5.76% (7,441,343 voting rights). 5.75% of these voting rights (that corresponds to 7,436,883 voting rights) were attributed to the company pursuant to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 in conjunction with § 22 para 1 sentence 2 WpHG. 0.003% of these voting rights (that corresponds to 4,460 voting rights) were attributed to the company pursuant to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 1 WpHG. The proportion of voting rights via shares of Sun Life Global Investments Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada in Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has exceeded the threshold of 5% of the voting rights on April 24, 2015 and at that time amounted to 5.75% (7,436,883 voting rights). 5.75% of these voting rights (that corresponds to 7,436,883 voting rights) were attributed to the company pursuant to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 in conjunction with § 22 para 1 sentence 2 WpHG. The proportion of voting rights via shares of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada - U.S. Operations Holdings, Inc., Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, USA in Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has exceeded the threshold of 5% of the voting rights on April 24, 2015 and at that time amounted to 5.75% (7,436,883 voting rights). 5.75% of these voting rights (that corresponds to 7,436,883 voting rights) were attributed to the company pursuant to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 in conjunction with § 22 para 1 sentence 2 WpHG. The proportion of voting rights via shares of Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Holdings, Inc., Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, USA in Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has exceeded the threshold of 5% of the voting rights on April 24, 2015 and at that time amounted to 5.75% (7,436,883 voting rights). 5.75% of these voting rights (that corresponds to 7,436,883 voting rights) were attributed to the company pursuant to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 in conjunction with § 22 para 1 sentence 2 WpHG. The proportion of voting rights via shares of Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Investments LLC, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, USA in Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has exceeded the threshold of 5% of the voting rights on April 24, 2015 and at that time amounted to 5.75% (7,436,883 voting rights). 5.75% of these voting rights (that corresponds to 7,436,883 voting rights) were attributed to the company pursuant to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 in conjunction with § 22 para 1 sentence 2 WpHG. The proportion of voting rights via shares of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Financial Services Holdings, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA in Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has exceeded the threshold of 5% of the voting rights on April 24, 2015 and at that time amounted to 5.75% (7,436,883 voting rights). 5.75% of these voting rights (that corresponds to 7,436,883 voting rights) were attributed to the company pursuant to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 in conjunction with § 22 para 1 sentence 2 WpHG. The proportion of voting rights via shares of Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS), Boston, Massachusetts, USA in Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has exceeded the threshold of 5% of the voting rights on April 24, 2015 and at that time amounted to 5.75% (7,436,883 voting rights). 3.56% of these voting rights (that corresponds to 4,600,132 voting rights) were attributed to the company pursuant to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 in conjunction with § 22 para 1 sentence 2 WpHG. 2.19% of these voting rights (that corresponds to 2,836,751 voting rights) were attributed to the company pursuant to § 22 para 1 sentence 1 no. 6 WpHG. 04.05.2015 The DGAP 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: Merck KGaA Frankfurter Str. 250 64293 Darmstadt Germany Internet: www.merck.de End of Announcement DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-PVR: Merck KGaA: Release according to Article 26, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] with the objective of Europe-wide distribution
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