Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Co-Investor Blocker, LLC; The Blackstone Group Inc.; The Carlyle Group Inc.; Hellman & Friedman LLC; Medline Industries, Inc.
BWB/Z-5510
On 05.07.2021 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Acquisition of indirect non-controlling stakes in Medline Industries Inc., USA, by Co-Investor Blocker LLC, USA, The Blackstone Group Inc., USA, The Carlyle Group, Inc., USA, and Hellman & Friedman LLC, USA."
Economic Sector: Manufacture of medical and dental apparatus and materials
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 02.08.2021.
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 03.08.2021 .