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Document 32006M4148

Kommissionens beslutning af 30/03/2006 om en fusions forenelighed med det fælles marked (Sag COMP/M.4148 - NOUVEAUX CONSTRUCTEURS /GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP / DEUTSCHE BANK / LONE STAR / ZAPF) Rådets forordning (EF) nr. 139/2004 (Kun den engelske udgave er autentisk)

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Date of document:
30/03/2006
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30/03/2006; virkningstidspunkt meddelelsesdato
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Europa-Kommissionen, Generaldirektoratet for Konkurrence
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Directorate-General for Competition, COMPETITION
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Beslutning
Addressee:
THE GOLDMAN SACH GROUP, INC, DEUTSCHE BANK AG LONDON, LES NOUVEAUX CONSTRUCTEURS S.A.
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NACE=K .70 (See 32006R1893)
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32006M4148

Commission Decision of 30/03/2006 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No IV/M.4148 - NOUVEAUX CONSTRUCTEURS /GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP / DEUTSCHE BANK / LONE STAR / ZAPF) according to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (Only the English text is authentic)


| |Brussels, 30.03.2006

SG-Greffe(2006) D/201419

To the notifying parties

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

Subject : Case No. COMP/M.4148 – Les Nouveaux Constructeurs /Goldman Sachs Group /Deutsche Bank/ Lone Star V/Zapf

Notification of 28.02.2006 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 [1] Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 57 , 09.03.2006 , page 10.

1. On 28.02.2006, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004, by which Les Nouveaux Constructeurs S.A. (“LNC”, France), the Goldman Sachs Group Inc (“GS”, USA), Deutsche Bank AG London (“DB”, UK), and Lone Star Fund V (US) and Lone Star Fund V (Bermuda) (together referred to “Lone Star V”, USA and Bermuda) acquires, within the meaning of Article 3(1) (b) of the Council Regulation, joint control over Zapf GmbH (“Zapf”, Germany) by way of purchase of shares.

2. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

- for LNC: real estate development;

- for GS: investment banking and securities;

- for DB: universal banking business;

- for Lone Star V: private equity investment;

- for Zapf: development of real estate, pre-assembled garages, wholesale of construction materials and water storage and sewage systems.

3. After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 and of paragraph 5, subparagraph (c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004[2].

4. For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004.

For the Commission

(signed)

Neelie KROES Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.

[2] OJ C 56, 5.3.2005, p.32.

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE

ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

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