Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Volkswagen Pension Trust e.V.; Reserved Alternative Investment Fund; Allianz Global Diversified Infrastructure Equity Fund III SCSp
BWB/Z-6832
On 23.01.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Volkswagen Pension Trust e.V., Germany, intends to acquire a non-controlling participation in a Reserved Alternative Investment Fund in the legal capacity of a Fonds Commun de Placement, Luxemburg, and thereby indirectly more than 25 % of the limited partnership interests in the infrastructure fund Allianz Global Diversified Infrastructure Equity Fund III SCSp, Luxemburg.
The proposed transaction concerns asset management.
L 64.3 - Activities of trusts, funds and similar financial entities L 66.3 - Fund management activities
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 20.02.2025.
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 21.02.2025 .