Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Bain Capital Investors, LLC; TOMS Shoes Holdings, LLC
BWB/Z-2442
On the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Indirect acquisition of 50% of the companion's shares of TOMS Shoes Holdings, LLC, the USA, by which Bain Capital Investors, LLC, the USA, aquires sole control of the aim enterprise . The merger plan concerns the area of Lifestyle shoes.
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 07.10.2014.
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 07.10.2014 .