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  EUROPEAN COMMISSION  
Brussels, 10.08.2021  
C(2021 ) 6048 final  
PUBLIC VERSION  
KKR & Co. Inc.  
30 Hudson Yards   
New York , NY  10001  
United States of America  
 
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund XI, 
L.P.  
375 Park Avenue  
New York , NY 10152  
United States of America  
Subject : Case M.10362  – KKR/CD&R/Cloudera  
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 16 July 2021 , the European Commission received notification of a proposed 
concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger  Regulation by which  KKR & Co. 
Inc. (“KKR”,  United States of America ) and  Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Fund XI, L.P. 
(“CD&R”,  United States of America ) intend to acquire, within the meaning of Article 
3(1)(b)  of the Merger Regulation , joint control of the whole of Cloudera, Inc. 
(“Cloudera”, United States of America ) by way of contract .3 
2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:  
 for KKR : a global investment firm that offers alternative asset management and 
capital markets and insurance solutions,  
                                                 
1 OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 ( the ‘Merger Regulation ’). With effect from 1 December 2009,  the Treaty on 
the Funct ioning 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  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 293, 23.7.2021, p. 8. 

2  for CD&R : a private equity investment firm which originates, structures and acts 
as a lead equity investor in management buyouts, strategic minor ity equity 
investments and other strategic investments,  
 for Cloudera : a provider of multi -function data management and analytics 
software, including flow management, streams management, data engineering, 
data warehousing, streaming analytics, operational d atabases and machine 
learning . 
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(b) 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 Agreement . 
For the Commission  
 
 
(Signed)  
Olivier GUER SENT  
Director -General  
 
 
                                                 
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5 .