CELEX: 32017M8690
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20/12/2017 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.8690 - TDR CAPITAL / ROSSINI HOLDING) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                        Brussels, 20.12.2017
                                                                        C(2017) 9073 final
                                                                         PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                        To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.8690 - TDR CAPITAL / ROSSINI HOLDING
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC)
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                No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 27 November 2017, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertaking
        TDR Capital LLP (United Kingdom) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the
        Merger Regulation control over the whole of the undertaking Rossini Holding SAS
        (France) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        — for TDR Capital LLP: private equity firm investing in sectors including motor fuels
        retail, gyms and health clubs, conveyor car washes, vacant property services, UK social
        housing refurbishment services, modular construction, pubs and restaurants, debt
        purchasing, logistic pallet return, coastal transport, life insurance and UK retirement
        income products.
        — for Rossini Holding SAS: operate and partly franchise a chain of restaurants under the
        Buffalo Grill brand.
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(c) of
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
        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 413, 05.12.2017, p. 7.
Commission européenne, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Bruxelles, BELGIQUE
Europese Commissie, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Brussel, BELGIË
Tel: +32 229-91111. Fax: +32 229-64301. E-mail: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu.
 ---pagebreak---    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)
                                                   Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                                   Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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