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  EUROPEAN COMMISSION  
Brussels, 18.3.2019  
C(2019 ) 2232 final  
PUBLIC VERSION  
 
 
To the notifying parties  
Subject : Case M. 9302  – CARLYLE / TA ASSOCIATES / WEIMAN  
Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) 
No 139/20041 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area2  
Dear Sir or Madam,  
1. On 22 February 2019 , the European Commission received notification of a proposed 
concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger  Regulation by which Carlyle U.S. Equity 
Opportunity Fund II, L.P., belonging to the Carlyle Group, L.P. (‘Carlyle’, United States of 
America) and TA Associates L.P. (‘TA Associates’, United States of America) acquire 
within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b)  of the Merger Regulat ion joint control of the whole 
of Wu Holdco, Inc., the holding company of Weiman group , (‘Weiman Group’, United 
States of America). The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.3 
2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:  
 Carlyle is an  alternative asset manager, which manages funds that invest globally 
across four investment disciplines: Corporate Private Equity  (buyout and growth 
capital);  Real Assets  (real estate, infrastructure and energy and renewable resources);  
Global  Credit  (leveraged loans and structured credit, opportunistic credit, energy 
credit, private credit and distressed credit);  and Solutions  (private equity fund of funds 
program and related co -investment and secondary activities).  
 TA Associates is active in the fields of private equity investments through various 
funds in five core sectors, namely technology, financial services, healthcare, 
consumer, and business services  industries in North America, Europe and Asia.  
                                                 
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 
througho ut this decision.  
2  OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p.  3 (the 'EEA Agreement '). 
3  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 83, 5.3.2019 , p. 13. 

2  Weiman Group is a manufacturer and distributor of surface cleaning products both for 
households and for commercial clients in food and health care services.  
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) 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 Agreem ent. 
For the Commission  
 
 
(Signed ) 
Johannes LAITENBERGER  
Director -General  
 
 
                                                 
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5 .