Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Permira Holdings Limited; Creganna-Tactx Medical; Precision Wire Components LLC
BWB/Z-2478
On the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Creganna-Tactx Medical, Ireland, an sole controlling port folio society of Permira Holdings Limited, the Channel Islands intends to acquire 100 % participation of and with it sole control about Precision Wire Components LLC, the United States. The merger concerns the development and production by medical devices.
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 19.11.2014.
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 19.11.2014 .