CELEX: 32021M10121
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18/03/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10121 - PLATINUM EQUITY GROUP / INGRAM MICRO) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 18.3.2021
                                                                C(2021) 1948 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                Platinum Equity, LLC
                                                                360 North Crescent Drive
                                                                South Building
                                                                Beverly Hills
                                                                California 90210
                                                                United States of America
Subject:        Case M.10121 – PLATINUM EQUITY GROUP / INGRAM MICRO
                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 23 February 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Platinum
        Equity, LLC (United States of America) intends to acquire within the meaning of
        Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control over Ingram Micro Inc. (“IM”,
        United States of America) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        −     for Platinum Equity Group: merger, acquisition and operation of companies that
              provide products, services and solutions in a broad range of businesses, including
              information technology, telecommunications, logistics, metal services,
              manufacturing and distribution,
        −     for IM: IT company that specialises in technology distribution and logistics, cloud
              solutions and e-commerce supply chain services.
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 (the ‘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 73, 2.3.2021, p. 4.
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
   paragraph 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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