Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Grünenthal GmbH; Kyowa Kirin International Plc
BWB/Z-6596
On 28.05.2024 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Grünenthal GmbH intends to indirectly acquire the intellectual property rights relating to Abstral, Adcal / Adcal D3, Sancuso and PecFent currently owned by Kyowa Kirin International HoldCo Ltd.
Economic sector: Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations.
C - MANUFACTURING
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 25.06.2024.
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 26.06.2024 .