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Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.2737 — Royal Bank Private Equity/Cinven/Chelwood Group) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2002-02-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: bank, building materials, economic concentration, exchange of information, financial institution, merger control

C 49/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

22.2.2002

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.2737 (cid:151) Royal Bank Private Equity/Cinven/Chelwood Group)

(2002/C 49/11)

(Text with EEA relevance)

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On 12 February 2002 the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97 (2),
by which the United Kingdom-based undertakings Royal Bank Private Equity Limited (RPBE), belonging to
the Royal Bank of Scotland plc group, and Cinven Limited (Cinven), controlled by the Cinven Group
Limited, acquire, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Regulation,
joint control of the United
Kingdom-based undertaking Chelwood Group Limited (Chelwood), currently controlled by Cinven, by way
of purchase of shares in a newly created company constituting a joint venture, Galileo Brick Limited
(Galileo).

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The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

(cid:151) RBPE: banking, financial and finance-related,

(cid:151) Cinven: investment management services,

(cid:151) Chelwood: manufacture and supply of bricks.

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified concentration could fall within

3.
the scope of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit

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proposed operation.

their possible observations on the

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication.
Observations can be sent by fax (No (32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post, under reference
COMP/M.2737 (cid:151) Royal Bank Private Equity/Cinven/Chelwood Group, to:

European Commission,
Directorate-General for Competition,
Directorate B (cid:151) Merger Task Force,
J-70,
B-1049 Brussels.

(1) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 257, 21.9.1990, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.