BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The following mergers and joint-venture
agreements have been notified to the European Commission for regulatory
clearance:
RECENT NOTIFICATIONS
March 5 -Proposed acquisition by Royal Philips Electronics NV of Respironics Inc
PHASE ONE INVESTIGATIONS
Feb 4 -Proposed acquisition by Basell of Royal Dutch Shell's Compagnie de
Distribution des Hydrocarbures
Feb 5 -Proposed acquisition by Triton of Evonik Industries AG's Ruetgers tar
chemicals unit (Candidate for simplified procedure)
-Proposed bancassurance joint venture between Aviva, Bank Zachodni
-Proposed acquisition by Bouygues, Artemis for joint control of Serendipity
Investment (Candidate for simplified procedure)
Feb 6 -Proposed acquisition by Mercapital, Carlyle Group of Arsys Internet
(Candidate for simplified procedure)
Feb 8 -Proposed acquisition by Rexel of Hagemeyer
-Proposed acquisition by Sonepar of Rexel's German operations
-Proposed acquisition by CVC Capital Partners of Katope International
Feb 11 -Proposed acquisition by Sonepar of selected Hagemeyer businesses
-Proposed acquisition by Norges Stadsbaner (NSB) of 20 pct stake in Travel
AS (Candidate for simplified procedure)
Feb 12 -Proposed joint venture between ProSiebenSat1 Media's SevenOne,
Holtzbrinck (Candidate for simplified procedure)
Feb 13 -Proposed acquisition by EQT of Advent International's SAG
Feb 14 -Proposed acquisition by REWE of UAB Palink (Candidate for simplified
procedure)
Feb 15 -Proposed acquisition by Henkel of Akzo Nobel's adhesives and electronic
materials businesses
-Proposed acquisition by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts of Northgate Information
Solutions (Candidate for simplified procedure)
-Proposed acquisition by Sagard, Barclays Private Equity of capital in Flakt
Woods JV (Candidate for simplified procedure)
Feb 19 -Proposed acquisition by Cookson Group of Foseco
-Proposed acquisition by Saint-Gobain of HeidelbergCement's maxit
-Proposed joint venture between Bank Sarasin, AIG Private Bank (Candidate
for simplified procedure)
Feb 22 -Proposed acquisition by Rank of Alcoa Inc's packaging and consumer
businesses (Candidate for simplified procedure)
Feb 25 -Proposed acquisition by Permira of Arysta Lifescience
-Proposed acquisition by JBS SA of 50 pct stake in Cremonini SpA's Inalca
(Candidate for simplified procedure)
-Proposed acquisition by ArcelorMittal of ferro-alloy maker OFZ (Candidate
for simplified procedure)
Feb 26 -Proposed acquisition by Ineos of BP's acetate businesses (Candidate for
simplified procedure)
Feb 27 -Proposed acquisition by Acer of Packard Bell
Feb 28 -Proposed acquisition by Swiss Life of AWD Holdings (Candidate for
simplified procedure)
Feb 29 -Proposed acquisition by Gaz de France's Cofathec of 7 Edison power
plants
-Proposed acquisition by Investitori Associati, Cognetas Fund of Argenta
Group (Candidate for simplified procedure)
March 3 -Proposed acquisition by Schwenk Gryppe of Paul Hartmann (Candidate for
simplified procedure)
March 5 -Proposed acquisition by Royal Philips Electronics NV of Respironics Inc
March 6 -Proposed acquisition of MOL by OMV AG
The commission launches first-phase inquiries into all deals that meet EU merger
thresholds. These inquiries last one month but are extended by two weeks when
companies offer remedies or when a national competition authority asks to rule
on the deal. A deal that is not expected to raise competition concerns may be
submitted as a candidate for the EU's simplified merger procedure, a reduced
regulatory process. The commission is entitled to transform a simplified inquiry
into a full first-phase inquiry.
IN-DEPTH SECOND-PHASE INVESTIGATIONS
Mar 10 -Proposed acquisition by Thomson Corp of Reuters Group
Mar 19 -Proposed acquisition by IBM Corp of Telelogic AB
Apr 2 -Proposed acquisition by Google of DoubleClick
May 5 -Proposed acquisition by TomTom NV of Tele Atlas NV
May 15 -Proposed acquisition by STX Shipbuilding of stake in Aker Yards ASA
May 23 -Proposed acquisition by Arjowiggins of M-Real Zanders Reflex mill
The commission opens in-depth probes lasting up to four months if competition
concerns cannot be resolved during the first-phase inquiry.
nina.chestney@thomson.com
pam/ajb/pam/vlb/nc/rfw/nc/jlc
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