CELEX: 32022M10678
Language: en
Date: 2022-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 07/04/2022 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10678 - AIP / MACQUARIE / ABERDEEN / ONIVIA) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                               Brussels, 7.4.2022
                                                               C(2022) 2377 final
                                                                               PUBLIC VERSION
                                                               Arjun Infrastructure Partners Limited
                                                               50, Pall Mall,
                                                               London, SW1Y 5JH
                                                               United Kingdom
                                                               Macquarie Asset Holdings Limited
                                                               Ropemaker Place
                                                               28 Ropemaker Street
                                                               London, EC2Y 9HD
                                                               United Kingdom
                                                              Aberdeen Infrastructure (Holdco) IV
                                                              B.V.
                                                              Aberdeen Infrastructure (Holdco) IV-A
                                                              B.V
                                                              Zuidplein 166
                                                              1077 XV Amsterdam
                                                              Netherlands
Subject:        Case M.10678 - AIP / MACQUARIE / ABERDEEN / ONIVIA
                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
                Economic Area2
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 16 Machr 2022, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Arjun
        Infrastructure Partners Limited (‘AIP’, UK), belonging to the Arjun Infrastructure
        Partners Group, Macquarie Asset Holdings Limited (‘Macquarie’, UK), belonging to
        the Macquarie Group and Aberdeen Infrastructure (Holdco) IV B.V. and Aberdeen
        Infrastructure (Holdco) IV-A B.V (together ‘Aberdeen’, UK), belonging to the
        Aberdeen Group, will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the
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’).
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---    Merger Regulation joint control over the whole of Pentacom Investments (Spain)
   Opco S.L.U. and Ucles InfraCo, S.L. (together ‘Onivia’, Spain) by way of purchase of
   shares.3
2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned and the newly set-up joint
   venture are the following:
       for AIP: asset management company active in sectors including transportation,
        renewable energy, integrated power utility and energy distribution,
       for Macquarie: global investment bank and financial services provider covering
        resources and commodities, green energy, conventional energy, financial
        institutions, infrastructure and real estate,
       for Aberdeen: asset manager active in sectors including transportation, social
        infrastructure, waste and water treatment and clean energy production networks,
       for Onivia: wholesale supply of broadband access services in Spain.
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
3  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 134, 25.03.2022, p. 36.
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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