EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG Competition

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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 22/11/2024

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32024M11736

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 22.11.2024 C(2024) 8396 final

PUBLIC VERSION

The Carlyle Group Inc. th 2, avenue Charles de Gaulle, 4floor L-1653 Luxembourg Luxembourg

Dear Sir or Madam,

(1) On 30 October 2024, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation, by which The Carlyle Group Inc. (“Carlyle”, USA), will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control over Seidor Solutions S.L. and Seidor Logistics S.L. (jointly “Seidor Solutions and Logistics”, both from Spain), controlled by 3Seidor S.A. (Spain) by way of purchase of shares. ()

(2) The business activities of the undertakings concerned are the following:

– Carlyle is a global alternative asset manager, which manages funds that invest globally across three investment disciplines: (i) Global Private Equity (including corporate private equity, real estate and natural resources funds); (ii) Global Credit (including liquid credit, illiquid credit and real assets credit); and (iii) Investment Solutions (private equity fund of funds program, which include primary fund, secondary and related co-investment activities),

– Seidor Solutions and Logistics is primarily active in (i) the creation, development, commercialization, installation, launching and maintenance of computer software, programming and technical assistance, (ii) the commercialization, installation, repair and maintenance of computer hardware and auxiliary materials and (iii) the provision of IT services, including consulting services.

1() OJ 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.

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

3() OJ C, C/2024/6836, 11.11.2024.

(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(d) of the Commission Notice on a simplified treatment for certain 4concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004. ()

(4) For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified treatment, 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) Olivier GUERSENT Director-General

4() OJ C 160, 5.5.2023, p. 1 (the ‘Notice on a simplified treatment’).

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