Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act

OEP Lscape Coöperatief U.A.; Norit Americas Holding Inc. - BWB/Z-5817 | Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde

OEP Lscape Coöperatief U.A.; Norit Americas Holding Inc.

BWB/Z-5817

23.12.2021

On 22.12.2021 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:

Planned purchase process

OEP Lscape Coöperatif U.A. (Amsterdam / The Netherlands), indirectly wholly-owned and solely controlled by One Equity Partners VIII, L.P. (Ontario / Canada) and affiliated funds, a group of funds ultimately managed by affiliates of OEP Capital Advisors, L.P. (New York / USA), intends to acquire indirectly, through OEP Lscape B.V. (Amsterdam / The Netherlands), 100% of the shares in and sole control over Norit Americas Holding Inc. (Boston / USA) and Cabot Activated Carbon B.V. (Amersfoort / The Netherlands), including their direct and indirect subsidiaries. The proposed transaction concerns activated carbon products as well as sale-related services and reactivation processes. 
Affected industry: Manufacture of other chemical products

Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren

Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 19.01.2022.

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 20.01.2022 .

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