Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Partners Group AG; Healogics, Inc.; The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company; Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC
BWB/Z-5356
On 08.04.2021 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Partners Group AG, Switzerland, or its affiliates, intends to acquire 25 % or more shares of Healogics, Inc., USA.
Economic sector: Health care, not otherwise specified; Manufacture of pharmaceutical specialties and other pharmaceutical products.
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren Q - Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 06.05.2021.
Entrepreneurs whose legal or economic interests are affected by the merger can bring in a written statement at the Federal Competition Authority or the Federal Cartel Prosecutor within 14 days from publication date.
Note: The intervening party has no right to a certain treatment of the statement and will not gain a party position.
Non-prohibition of the merger
The Federal Competition Authority and the Federal Cartel Prosecutor have waived their right to apply for examination of the merger by the Cartel Court before the deadline. The standstill obligation (§ 17(1) Cartel Act) ends with effect from 26.04.2021 .