CELEX: 32021M10142
Language: en
Date: 2021-02-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 12/02/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10142 - PAMPLONA CAPITAL / SIGNATURE FOODS) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 12.2.2021
                                                                C(2021) 1091 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                Pamplona Capital Management LLP
                                                                25 Park Lane
                                                                London W1K 1RA
                                                                United Kingdom
Subject:        Case M.10142 – PAMPLONA CAPITAL / SIGNATURE FOODS
                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 21 January 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertaking Pamplona Capital Management LLP (‘Pamplona Capital’, United
        Kingdom) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation
        sole control over the undertaking Signature Foods Holding B.V. (‘Signature Foods’,
        the Netherlands) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             − for Pamplona Capital: global private equity investment firm,
             − for Signature Foods: manufacturing, producing and distributing a variety of
                 branded and private label consumer and professional chilled and frozen food
                 products across Northern Europe.
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
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 32, 29.1.2021, p. 17.
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---    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
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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