CELEX: 32019M9562
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29/10/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9562 - ALIGHT SOLUTIONS / NGA HUMAN RESOURCES) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 29.10.2019
                                                                C(2019) 7957 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.9562 – ALIGHT SOLUTIONS / NGA HUMAN RESOURCES
                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 7 October 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Tempo
        Holding Company LLC (“Alight Solutions”, United States of America), which is a
        controlled portfolio company of Blackstone Group Inc. (“Blackstone”, United States),
        acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation indirect sole
        control of Northgate Information Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries (“NGA
        Human Resources”, United Kingdom) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             Alight Solutions: provider of cloud-based human resources (“HR”) management
              systems, controlled by Blackstone, a global asset manager;
             NGA Human Resources: provider of integrated software, outsourcing and IT
              technology solutions and services for payroll and HR management.
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(c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of
        certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.4
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 350, 16.10.2019, p. 6.
4       OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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--- 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)
                                                  Cecilio MADERO VILLAREJO
                                                  Acting Director-General
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