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Case No COMP/M.4322 - MORGAN STANLEY / IHG / PORTFOLIO HOTELS
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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE
Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 01/09/2006
In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32006M4322
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Brussels, 01-IX-2006
SG-Greffe(2006) D/204927
MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION
SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE
PUBLIC VERSION
To the notifying parties
Dear Sirs,
Subject: Case No. COMP/M.4322 - Morgan Stanley/IHG/Porfolio Hotels Notification of 27.07.2006 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C182, 04.08.2006, page 10
1.On 27.07.2006, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 by which the undertakings Morgan Stanley Real Estate F International Funding, L.P. (“MSREF”, US) and InterContinental Hotels Group plc (“IHG”, UK) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of seven InterContinental-branded hotels located in the European Union (the “Portfolio Hotels”), currently owned by IHG, via purchase of shares and management contracts.
1OJ L 24, 29.1.2004 p. 1
Commission européenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11.
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
-- for MSREF : real estate investment and management.
-- for IHG: ownership, management and franchising of hotels on a world-wide basis.
3.After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 and of paragraph 5, subparagraph c, of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 .
4.For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004.
For the Commission signed Philip LOWE Director General
2OJ C 56, 05.3.2005 p.32
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