CELEX: 32020M9975
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 09/11/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9975 - WARBURG PINCUS / VISTA EQUITY PARTNERS MANAGEMENT / INFOBLOX) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 9.11.2020
                                                                C(2020) 7892 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.9975 – WARBURG PINCUS / VISTA EQUITY PARTNERS
                MANAGEMENT / INFOBLOX
                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 15 October 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Warburg
        Pincus LLC (“Warburg Pincus”, United States of America) and Vista Equity Partners
        Management, LLC (“Vista”, United States of America), acquire within the meaning of
        Articles 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control over the whole of
        Infoblox, Inc. (“Infoblox”, United States of America), currently solely controlled by
        Vista, by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              for Warburg Pincus: private equity investment firm, primarily investing in
                 companies in a variety of sectors, including consumer, industrial and business
                 services, energy, financial services, healthcare, real estate, and technology,
                 media and telecommunications,
              for Vista: private investment firm that manages a number of portfolio
                 companies active in the provision of IT services,
                 for Infoblox: provider of IT automation and security services, including
                 software and appliances that automate the assignment of IP addresses and
                 manage the Domain Name System (“DNS”) and DNS security and cloud
                 network automation solutions.
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 352, 22.10.2020, p. 15.
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--- 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
   paragraphs 5(a) and 5(c) 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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