CELEX: 32021M10038
Language: en
Date: 2021-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13/01/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10038 - ALLIED UNIVERSAL TOPCO / G4S) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 13.1.2021
                                                                C(2021) 263 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.10038 – ALLIED UNIVERSAL TOPCO / G4S
                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
                Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 9 December 2020, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Allied
        Universal Topco LLC (‘Allied Universal’, USA), controlled by Warburg Pincus LLC
        (USA) and Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (‘CDPQ’, Canada) acquires
        within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the
        whole of G4S plc (‘G4S’, United Kingdom).3 The concentration is accomplished by
        way of public bid announced on 8 December 2020.
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for G4S: a global integrated security business, offering a broad range of security
              services around the world including guarding, integrated security solutions,
              custodial and detention services, immigration, and policing, as well as a broad
              range of other services, such as health services, crisis planning, facilities
              management, employment services, and cash solutions,
             for Allied Universal: a security services and facilities management company
              which provides: (i) integrated security solutions incorporating manned guarding
              and security technologies, (ii) cleaning and maintenance services, (iii) risk
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       For the purposes of this Decision, although the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union as
        of 1 February 2020, according to Article 92 of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United
        Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic
        Energy Community (OJ L 29, 31.1.2020, p. 7), the Commission continues to be competent to apply
        Union law as regards the United Kingdom for administrative procedures which were initiated before the
        end of the transition period.
3       Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 436, 17.12.2020, p. 23.
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---         advisory and consulting services, and (iv) temporary and permanent staffing
        solutions, to customers across a variety of business sectors. It is mainly active in
        the United States, and to a lesser extent, in other countries, including the United
        Kingdom. It is an existing full-function joint venture, jointly controlled by
        Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm and CDPQ, an institutional investor.
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)
                                                    Olivier GUERSENT
                                                    Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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