CELEX: 32020M9825
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 15/06/2020 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9825 - CPPIB / TÉTHYS INVEST / GALILEO GLOBAL EDUCATION) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 15.6.2020
                                                                C(2020) 4074 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.9825 – CPPIB / TÉTHYS INVEST / GALILEO GLOBAL
                EDUCATION
                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 18 May 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertakings Canada Pension Plan Investment Board ("CPPIB", Canada), and Téthys
        Invest SAS ("Téthys", France), subsidiary of the holding company Téthys SAS
        (France), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation joint
        control of the undertaking Galileo Global Education Group ("Galileo", France) by
        way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for CPPIB: global investment management organisation that invests the funds
              transferred to it by the Canada Pension Plan Fund,
             for Téthys: direction of long term investments in entrepreneurial projects
              globally,
             for Galileo: international provider of private post-secondary training and
              education services which operates a number of institutions around the world. In
              the EEA, Galileo is primarily active in France, Italy, Cyprus, Germany and the
              United Kingdom.
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 177, 27.05.2020, p. 3.
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)
                                                  Olivier GUERSENT
                                                  Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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