CELEX: 32013M6906
Language: en
Date: 2013-07-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 05/07/2013 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6906 - KKR / GARDNER DENVER) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32013M6906

Commission Decision of 05/07/2013 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.6906 - KKR / GARDNER DENVER) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

          |EUROPEAN COMMISSION      |
             Brussels, 05/07/2013
             C(2013) 4407
             PUBLIC VERSION
             SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE
             To the notifying party: 
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             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.6906 - KKR/ GARDNER DENVER Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  
            1.  On 04 June 2013, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertaking KKR & Co. L.P. (“KKR”, USA) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the undertaking Gardner Denver, Inc. (“GDI”, USA) by way of purchase of securities [2]  .
            2.  The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              for KKR: the provision of a broad range of alternative asset management services to public and private market investors and capital markets solutions for the firm, its portfolio companies and clients;
              for GDI: manufacture and sale of industrial compressors, blowers, pumps, loading arms and fuel systems. 
            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 the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 [3]  . 
            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.
             For the Commission (signed) Alexander ITALIANER Director General
            [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]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 167, 13.06.2013, p. 18
            [3] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.