Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
EQT Mid Market US Limited Partnership; TP Group-CI Inc.
BWB/Z-3643
On 14.09.2017 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
EQT Mid Marke US Limited Partnership, acting by its general partner EQT Mid Market US GP B.V. (Schiphol, Netherlands) intends to indirectly acquire sole control over TP Group-CI Inc. (Murray, United States) and its subsidiaries. The intended concentration concerns the manufacturing and distribution of single-use products for hospital´s Labor & Delivery and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit departments.
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 12.10.2017.
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 13.10.2017 .