Notification of a change in shareholding according to Securities Markets Act 2:9



Tekla Corporation                 Stock exchange release      July 7, 2011
                                         at 11:00 a.m.



Notification of a change in shareholding according to Securities Markets Act 2:9

According to the Securities Markets Act, Tekla Corporation has received the
following notification:

The extended offer period in the public tender offer by Trimble Finland Oy, a
wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Trimble Navigation Limited, for all of the
issued and outstanding shares in Tekla Corporation that are not owned by Tekla,
expired on June 27, 2011. The trades to complete the tender offer were executed
on July 5, 2011.

As a result of the completion of the tender offer, Trimble Finland Oy's
ownership in Tekla exceeds 2/3 of the shares and voting rights in Tekla. The
number of shares owned by Trimble Finland Oy is 22,368,148, which is about
99.46% of shares and votes included in the tender offer, and 99.03% including
own shares held by Tekla.

The stock of Tekla Corporation comprises a total of 22,586,200 shares.



Tekla Corporation

Timo Keinänen, CFO
phone  358 400 813 027,
firstname.lastname@tekla.com



Distribution: NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd, main media





Tekla Corporation

Tekla Corporation drives the evolution of digital information models with its
software, providing a growing competitive advantage to customers in the
construction, infrastructure and energy industries. Tekla's net sales for 2010
were nearly 58 million euros and operating result nearly 10 million euros.
International operations accounted for approximately 80% of net sales. Tekla has
customers in almost 100 countries, offices in 15 countries and a worldwide
partner network. Tekla Group currently employs approximately 500 persons, of
whom about 200 work outside of the headquarters in Finland. Tekla was
established in 1966, and is one of the longest-operating Finnish software
companies. www.tekla.com




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