Skip navigation
Newswire

EU mergers and takeovers (updated May 17)

BRUSSELS, May 17 (Reuters) - The following cases have been added or deleted to the takeovers, mergers, buy-outs and joint ventures that are under review by the European Commission. (See at the end for a guide to the EU merger processes)

DELETIONS

-- Plans by German car part makers Hella and Behr and French peer Plastic Omnium for three-way joint venture to build auto part modules (cleared May 14)

ADDITIONS

-- Plans by tire maker Continental AG to take over German automotive supplier Phoenix AG (notified May 12/deadline June 17)

-- Plans by meat packer Danish Crown's British subsidiary Tulip to acquire Britain's Flagship Foods (notified May 13/deadline June 17)

-- Plans by private equity houses Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P., Change Capital Partners L.L.P. and AlpInvest Partners N.V., to buy Dutch retail group Vendex (notified May 7/deadline June 17) .

ONGOING ONE-MONTH REVIEWS:

-- Plans by the United States' Lyondell Chemical Co. to acquire joint venture partner Millennium Chemicals Inc. for $1 billion in stock (notified May 5/deadline June 10)

-- Plans by Spanish bank BBVA and Italian partner BNL to set up a consumer finance unit in Italy (notified May 3/deadline June 9/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by French undertakings Thales S.A. and German Diehl Stiftung & Co. to acquire joint control of German undertaking Diehl Luftfahrtelektronik GmbH, currently solely controlled by Diehl (notified April 30/deadline June 8/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by Container-Terminal GmbH Rhein-See-Land-Service, controlled by Imperial Holding Ltd, Hafen-und Guterverkehr Koln AG, controlled by Stadtwerke Koln GmbH, and InfraServ GmbH&Co Knapsack KG, controlled by BASF GmbH, Royal Dutch Shell Group , Celanese AG and Clariant AG to acquire joint control of the undertaking Knapsack Cargo GmbH (notified April 30/deadline June 8/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by British NYK Reefers Limited, belonging to the Japanese NYK Group, to acquire joint control of Swedish LauritzenCool Logistics AB by purchasing of 50 percent of the shares in LCL from LauritzenCool AB (notified April 30/deadline June 8/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by French publisher Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault, controlled by the family Dassault, to acquire control of the French Socpresse (notified April 30/deadline June 8)

-- Plans by Hamilton Sundstrand, a unit of United Technologies , and EADS Sogerma Services Announce for a joint venture to repair aircraft auxiliary power units (notified April 28/deadline June 3/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by Total Lubrifiants and Suez unit Endel for a joint venture for lubrication services, to be known as Daenerys (notified April 28/deadline June 3/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by CRH of Ireland to purchase Companhia Geral de Cal e Cimento of Portugal -- Secil -- from Semapa of Portugal in an all-share purchase (notified April 26/deadline June 1/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by private equity firm Advent International to buy a 46.4 percent stake in sports rights firm Sportfive from France's Vivendi Universal and some of the stake owned by French broadcaster RTL (notified April 26/deadline June 1/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by world's second-largest security services company Group 4 Falck of Denmark to merge with Britain's Securicor (notified April 13/deadline May 14/extended by two weeks on May 10/new deadline May 28)

-- Plans by U.S. military contractor General Dynamics Corp. to buy Alvis Plc , its only British rival in the tank business. (notified April 20/deadline May 26)

-- Plans by U.S. company Owens-Illinois Inc. to buy BSN Glasspack S.A. of France, a maker of glass bottles (notified April 22/deadline May 26)

-- Plans by Ciba Specialty Chemicals to buy Finland's Raisio Group chemicals unit (notified April 21/deadline May 26)

-- Plans by Kabel Deutschland agreed to buy its three main rival TV cable operators, regional operators ish, iesy and Kabel Baden-Wuerttemberg, to create a single German cable television network (notified April 20/deadline May 26)

-- Plans by the Carlyle Group of Luxembourg to purchase Spain's Saprogral, a maker of animal feed and pet food (notified April 22/deadline May 26/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by Britain's GlaxoSmithKline Plc to purchase parts of France's Sanofi-Synthelabo's , which it needs to divest (notified April 19/deadline May 25/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by French undertaking Accor S.A. and three undertakings controlled by U.S. Colony Capital and family Barriere-Desseigne, Luxembourg ColAce S.a.r.l., French ColEven S.A.S. and French Colony capital S.A.S., to acquire joint control of French undertaking Groupe Lucien Barriere (notified April 19/deadline May 25)

-- Plans by U.S. undertaking JP Morgan Partners Capital Corp, belonging to JP Morgan Chase & Co. Group, and British Bridgepoint Capital Ltd, belonging to Bridgepoint Capital Group Limited, to acquire joint control of the Spanish undertaking Servicio e Informacion Urgente de Transportes S.A. (notified April 16/deadline May 19/candidate for simplified procedure)

-- Plans by UnitedGlobalCom Inc , a unit of Liberty Media Corp , to Noos, France's biggest cable TV operator, from French utility group Suez (notified April 14/deadline May 17)