CELEX: 32021M10207
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 26/04/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10207 - ICG / DR. AXEL PAEGER / AMEOS) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 26.4.2021
                                                                C(2021) 3022 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                Intermediate Capital Group plc
                                                                Procession House, 55 Ludgate Hill
                                                                EC4M 7JW – London
                                                                United Kingdom
                                                                Dr. Axel Paeger
                                                                Bahnhofplatz 14
                                                                CH-8021 – Zurich
                                                                Switzerland
Subject:        Case M.10207 – ICG / DR. AXEL PAEGER / AMEOS
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
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                (EC) No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
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                Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 29 March 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Intermediate
        Capital Group plc (“ICG”, United Kingdom) and Dr. Axel Paeger (“Dr. Paeger”, a
        German national) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the
        Merger Regulation joint control of AMEOS Gruppe AG (“AMEOS”, Switzerland) by
        way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        −     for ICG: investment firm active in the structuring and provision of mezzanine
              finance, leveraged credit and minority and majority equity in companies across
              Europe, Asia Pacific and the US,
        −     for Dr. Paeger: founder and Chief Executive Officer of AMEOS,
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 125, 12.4.2021, p. 3.
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---    −    for AMEOS: private operator of acute general hospitals and acute psychiatric
        hospitals, as well as long-term elderly care and long-term mental care facilities in
        Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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 GUERSENT
                                                    Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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