Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Tikehau Capital SCA; Amarenco Solar Limited; Arjun Infrastructure Partners Ltd.
BWB/Z-6157
On 20.12.2022 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Tikehau Capital SCA, France, intends to indirectly acquire sole control of Amarenco Solar Limited, a company incorporated in Ireland, and its subsidiaries and affiliates. The current shareholders (historical investors, the founding partners and members, Crédit Agricole) will retain non-controlling minority shareholdings and a new minority shareholder, Arjun Infrastructure Partners Ltd, United Kingdom, will concurrently indirectly acquire a non-controlling minority shareholding.
The transaction relates to the production and wholesale of photovoltaic electricity.
Industry sector: D - Energieversorgung
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 17.01.2023.
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 not applied for examination of the merger by the Cartel Court. The standstill obligation (§ 17 (1) Cartel Act) ends with effect from 18.01.2023 .