CELEX: 32018M9073
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16/10/2018 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9073 - PAI Partners SAS / Asmodee) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 16.10.2018
                                                                C(2018) 6902 final
                                                                       PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party:
Subject:        Case M.9073 - PAI PARTNERS / ASMODEE
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC)
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                No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 11 September 2018, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which PAI Partners SAS
        (‘PAI Partners’, France), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger
        Regulation sole control of the whole of the Group Asmodee (‘Asmodee’, France) by way
        of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
                for PAI Partners: private equity company that manages and/or advises a number of
                 funds that own companies active in a variety of business sectors, such as business
                 services, food and consumer goods, general industries, healthcare, and retail and
                 distribution,
                for Asmodee: publishing and distribution of games (board games, card games and
                 their digital versions), and in the licensing of these games.
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 C329, 18.09.2018, p.6.
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(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)
                                                    Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                                    Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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