Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Insight Venture Management, LLC; Delta Software Group Limited
BWB/Z-7103
On 16.10.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Delta Software Group Limited (UK), which is solely controlled by Insight Venture Management, LLC (US), intends to (directly or indirectly via a wholly owned subsidiary) acquire sole control over Bookwire Holding GmbH (DE) and its subsidiaries. The proposed concentration concerns digitization services, business operations and analytics software for book publishers.
Affected industries: Other publishing activities, except software publishing. other software publishing.
J - PUBLISHING, BROADCASTING, AND CONTENT PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION ACTIVITIES J 58 - Publishing activities, J 58.1 - Publishing of books, newspapers and other publishing activities, except software publishing, J 58.19 - Other publishing activities, except software publishing, J 58.2 - Software publishing, J 58.29 - Other software publishing
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 13.11.2025.
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 14.11.2025 .