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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 02/08/2017

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32017M8558

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 2.8.2017 C(2017) 5561 final

PUBLIC VERSION

To the notifying parties

Dear Sir or Madam,

1.1. On 07 July 2017, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertakings Digital Bridge Holdings, LLC (‘DB’, United States), Public Sector Pension Investment Board (‘PSPIB’, Canada), and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (‘TIAA’, United States) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint control of the undertaking Vantage Data Centers Holding Company (‘Vantage’, United States) by way of an exchange of shares.

2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

- for DB: owning interests in communications infrastructure companies.

- for PSPIB: managing pension investment of the pension plans of the Canadian Federal Public Service, the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Reserve Force. It manages a diversified global portfolio including stocks, bonds and other fixed-income securities as well as investments in private equity, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources and private debt.

- for TIAA: providing investment products and services to those who work in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields in the United States.

1OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the 'Merger Regulation'). With effect from 1 December 2009, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ('TFEU') has introduced certain changes, such as the replacement of 'Community' by 'Union' and 'common market' by 'internal market'. The terminology of the TFEU will be used throughout this decision.

2OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p. 3 (the 'EEA Agreement').

3Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 230, 15.07.2017, p. 52.

Commission européenne, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Bruxelles, BELGIQUE Europese Commissie, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Brussel, BELGIË

Tel: +32 229-91111. Fax: +32 229-64301. E-mail: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu.

 for Vantage: owning and operating five fully leased data centres across two campuses in: (i) Santa Clara, California; and (ii) Quincy, Washington, United States, for a total capacity of approximately 56 MW.

3.3. After examination of the notification, the European Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of the Merger Regulation and of paragraph 5(a) and 5(b) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.

4.4. For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the European Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the internal market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation and Article 57 of the EEA Agreement.

For the Commission

(Signed) Johannes LAITENBERGER Director-General

4OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.

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