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Case No COMP/M.4595 - VESTAR / CARLYLE / AZ
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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE
Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 27/03/2007
In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32007M4595
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Brussels, 27.03.2007
SG-Greffe(2007) D/201779/201778
PUBLIC VERSION
MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION
SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE
To the notifying parties:
Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
1.On 22.02.2007, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 by which the undertakings Vestar Capital Fund V, a fund managed by Vestar Capital Partners ("Vestar" United States of America) and Carlyle Europe Partners II, a fund managed by the Carlyle Group ("Carlyle", United States of America) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of the undertaking AZ Electronic Materials ("AZ", Luxembourg), by way of purchase of shares
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :
-- for Vestar : Private equity investment fund.
1OJ L 24, 29.1.2004 p. 1
Commission europÈenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11.
-- for Carlyle : Private equity investment fund
-- for AZ : Specialty chemicals for semi-conductors, flat panel displays and offset printing..
2.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(b) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain
concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004.
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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