# C_2016037EN.01000401.xml

| 30.1.2016 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 37/4 |
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30.1.2016

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 37/4

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Prior notification of a concentration

(Case M.7861 — Dell/EMC)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2016/C 37/05)

| 1. | On 25 January 2016, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which Denali Holding, Inc. (‘Denali’, United States), the owner of Dell Inc. (‘Dell’, United States) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the EU Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of the undertaking EMC Corporation (‘EMC’, United States) by way of purchase of shares. |
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On 25 January 2016, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which Denali Holding, Inc. (‘Denali’, United States), the owner of Dell Inc. (‘Dell’, United States) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the EU Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of the undertaking EMC Corporation (‘EMC’, United States) by way of purchase of shares.

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| 2. | The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
  —   For Denali: holding company, parent of Dell. Denali is solely controlled by Michael S. Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell.
  —   For Dell: development, sales, repairs, and support for computers and related products and services. Dell was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.
  —   For EMC: data storage, information security, virtualisation, analytics, cloud computing, and other products and services that enable businesses to store, manage, protect and analyse data. Organised as a federation, EMC owns, inter alia, approximately 81 % of VMware, Inc., a publicly-traded provider of virtualisation software. |
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The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—   For Denali: holding company, parent of Dell. Denali is solely controlled by Michael S. Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell.

For Denali

—   For Dell: development, sales, repairs, and support for computers and related products and services. Dell was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.

For Dell

—   For EMC: data storage, information security, virtualisation, analytics, cloud computing, and other products and services that enable businesses to store, manage, protect and analyse data. Organised as a federation, EMC owns, inter alia, approximately 81 % of VMware, Inc., a publicly-traded provider of virtualisation software.

For EMC

| 3. | On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved. |
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On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

| 4. | The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed operation to the Commission.
  Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. Observations can be sent to the Commission by fax (+32 22964301), by email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number M.7861 — Dell/EMC, to the following address:





  European Commission |
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| Directorate-General for Competition |
| Merger Registry |
| 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel |
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The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed operation to the Commission.

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. Observations can be sent to the Commission by fax (+32 22964301), by email to COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu or by post, under reference number M.7861 — Dell/EMC, to the following address:

European Commission

Directorate-General for Competition

Merger Registry

1049 Bruxelles/Brussel

BELGIQUE/BELGIË

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(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’).

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