Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act

EQT Fund Management S.à r.l.; Secna Natural Ingredients Group, S.L - BWB/Z-5413 | Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde

EQT Fund Management S.à r.l.; Secna Natural Ingredients Group, S.L

BWB/Z-5413

17.05.2021

On 12.05.2021 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:

Planned purchase process

EQT IX, an investment fund of EQT AB (Stockholm/Sweden), intends to acquire all of the shares in and sole control over Secna Natural Ingredients Group, S.L. (Valencia / Spain). The proposed concentration concerns natural colourants. 

Affected industry: industry sector; Manufacturing

Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren

Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 09.06.2021.

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 10.06.2021 .

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