Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
AlpInvest Partners B.V.; Harbour Vest Partners, LLC; Inflexion Private Equity Partners LLP
BWB/Z-6901
On 02.04.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
AlpInvest Partners B.V. (Netherlands), ultimately controlled by The Carlyle Group Inc. (United States), and Harbour Vest Partners, LLC (United States) intend to indirectly acquire a non-controlling stake (limited partnership interests) of more than 25 % each in an investment fund, which will be holding 50 % or more of the shares in (i) Rocky Topco Ltd and (ii) Solar Topco Group, advised and controlled by affiliates of Inflexion Private Equity Partners LLP (UK).
Economic Sector: 21.2 | Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations; 27.51 | Manufacture of electric domestic applicances; 28.25 | Manufacture of non-domestic air conditioning equipment
C - MANUFACTURING C 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations, C 21.2 - Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations, C 21.20 - Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations, C 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment, C 27.5 - Manufacture of domestic appliances, C 27.51 - Manufacture of electric domestic appliances, C 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c., C 28.2 - Manufacture of other general-purpose machinery, C 28.25 - Manufacture of non-domestic air conditioning equipment
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 30.04.2025.
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 01.05.2025 .