CELEX: 32019M9513
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23/09/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9513 - Apax Partners LLP / ADCO Umweltdienste Holding GmbH) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 23.9.2019
                                                                C(2019) 6924 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.9513 – APAX PARTNERS / ADCO
                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 30 August 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertaking Apax Partners LPP (‘Apax Partners’, United Kingdom) acquires within
        the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control over the whole of
        the undertaking ADCO Umweltdienste Holding GmbH (‘ADCO’, Germany) by way
        of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for Apax Partners: parent company of a number of entities providing investment
              advisory services to private equity funds investing in a range of industry sectors
              globally,
             for ADCO: company primarily active in the manufacturing, sale and rental of
              mobile sanitary facilities and to a lesser extent, rental of mobile office containers
              and fences in Germany, as well as in other European countries, Asia and in the
              United States.
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 302, 06.09.2019, p. 7.
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(c) 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)
                                                  Cecilio MADERO VILLAREJO
                                                  Acting Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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