CELEX: 32018M8943
Language: en
Date: 2018-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28/06/2018 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.8943 - INTERMEDIATE CAPITAL GROUP / MINIMAX VIKING) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 28.6.2018
                                                                C(2018) 4193 final
                                                                        PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.8943 — Intermediate Capital Group/Minimax Viking
                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 6 June 2018, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Intermediate
        Capital Group (‘ICG', United Kingdom) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of
        the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of MV Holding GmbH (‘MV Holding',
        Germany) by way of a purchase of shares. MV Holding holds 100% of the issued share
        capital of Minimax Viking Group ('MVG', Germany).3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        −     for Intermediate Capital Group: UK-based investment firm active in the structuring
              and provision of mezzanine finance, leveraged credit and minority equity and
              managing assets, with investment porfolios in Europe, Asia Pacific and the US,
        −     for Minimax Viking Group: manufacture, supply, and integration of fire suppression
              and related detection and control systems; manufacture and supply of portable fire
              exinguishers; and supply and installation of equipment for fire trucks.
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 205, 14.6.2018, p. 33.
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(d) 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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