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REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 16/07/2008

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32008M5186

Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 16/07/2008 SG-Greffe(2008) D/204620 C(2008)3876

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying parties

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

1.On 11/06/2008, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 by which the undertakings Investor AB ("Investor", Sweden), and Altor Fund II and Altor 2003 (together "Altor", Sweden) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation joint control of the undertaking Lindorff Group AB ("Lindorff", Sweden), currently solely controlled by Altor 2003 Fund, by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

-- for Investror : Investment holding company, listed on the Stockholm Stock exchange;

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-- for Altor : Private equity investment funds, with portfolio companies active in a variety of industrial sectors;

-- Lindorff : Debt collection services to clients in the banking, finance, telecommunications, commerce, utilities and the public sector.

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(c) 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

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