Document ID: docfile:89859860-0b75-48cb-b4e7-a03e6199f870
Source Database: euc_mergers
Source URL: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m4158_20060421_20310_en.pdf
Title: TOWERBROOK INVESTORS / GSE
Date: 2006-04-21T00:00:00.000+02:00
Metadata: {"caseNumber": "M.4158", "caseInstrument": "M", "caseTitle": "TOWERBROOK INVESTORS / GSE", "caseLastDecisionDate": "2006-04-20T22:00:00.000Z", "caseCompanies": ["TOWERBROOK INVESTORS / GSE"]}

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# Case No COMP/M.4158 - TOWERBROOK INVESTORS / GSE

Only the English text is available and authentic.

#### **REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE**

#### Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 21/04/2006

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32006M4158

[^]: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg

#### **COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES**

#### Brussels, 21/04/2006

[^]: SG-Greffe(2006) D/202143

#### **MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION**

#### **SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE**

#### **PUBLIC VERSION**

To the notifying party

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

**Subject: Case No. COMP/M.4158 ñ TowerBrook Investors / GSE Notification of 16.03.2006 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 075, 28.03.2006, page 5**

    On 16.03.2006, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 by which the undertaking TowerBrook Investors II LP (Cayman Islands) controlled by TowerBrook Investors Group (together TowerBrook Investors) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking GSE SA (France) including its subsidiary Compagnie des Contractants Regionaux (together GSE) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are :

    - for TowerBrook Investors : investment fund;

    - for GSE : real estate.

[^1]: OJ L 24, 29.1.2004 p. 1

[^]: Commission europÈenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11.

    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, subparagraph b of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004.

    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 Neelie KROES Member of the Commission

[^2]: OJ C 56, 05.3.2005 p.32

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