CELEX: 32009M5630
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25/09/2009 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.5630 - MD INVESTORS / METALDYNE) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

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32009M5630

Commission Decision of 25/09/2009 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.5630 - MD INVESTORS / METALDYNE) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)  

Official Journal 237 , 02/10/2009 P. 0002 - 0002

          |COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES     |
            Brussels , 25.9.2009
             SG-Greffe(2009) D/5652
             C(2009) 7516
             PUBLIC VERSION
             MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE
              
              To the notifying party: 
             Dear Madam and Sirs,
             Subject: Case No COMP/M.5630 – MD INVESTORS/ METALDYNE  Notification of 27/08/2009 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004  [1]  Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 208, 03/09/2009, p. 18.
            1.  On 27/08/2009, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which MD Investors Corporation (USA), indirectly solely controlled by The Carlyle Group (USA), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of parts of Metaldyne Corporation as specified in the Purchase Agreement of 7 August 2009 ("the Target", USA) by way of purchase of assets.
            2.  The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
            -  for The Carlyle Group: private equity investment
            -  for MD Investors Corporation: private equity investment
            -  for the Target: manufacture and sale of metal components for light-duty motor vehicles to automotive OEM and Tier 1 automotive suppliers.
            3.  After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 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 [2]  .  
            4.  For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement.  This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.
             For the Commission (signed) Philip LOWE Director General
            [1] OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
            [2] OJ C 56, 05.3.2005, p. 32.