CELEX: 32010M5947
Language: en
Date: 2010-08-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16/08/2010 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.5947 - SILVER LAKE  / CIE / MULTIPLAN HOLDINGS) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32010M5947

Commission Decision of 16/08/2010 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.5947 - SILVER LAKE  / CIE / MULTIPLAN HOLDINGS) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

         (.PICT.) |EUROPEAN COMMISSION     |
            Brussels , 16.8.2010
             SG-Greffe(2010) D/12512 / 12513
            C(2010)  5774
             PUBLIC VERSION
             MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION
             SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE
             |To the notifying parties |
             Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.5947 - SILVER LAKE/ CIE/ MULTIPLAN HOLDINGS Notification of 20.07.2010 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 204,28.07.2010, p.14
            1.  On 20.07.2010, the European Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which the undertakings Silver Lake Group L.L.C.  ("Silver Lake", USA) and certain Limited Partnerships of BC European Capital VIII managed by CIE Management II Limited (“CIE", Channel Islands) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the  Merger Regulation joint control of the whole of the undertaking  MultiPlan Holdings, Inc., the parent company of MultiPlan, Inc. (“MultiPlan”, USA).
            2.  The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              - for undertaking Silver Lake: investment into firms in the technology, technology-enabled and related growth industries;
              - for undertaking CIE: investment into firms;
              - for undertaking MultiPlan: providing access to an independent network of health care providers in the U.S.
            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(a) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 [2]  .  
            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] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p. 32.