[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 211 (Wednesday, November 2, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66435-66437]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-21812]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period
Under the Premerger Notification Rules
Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II
of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, requires
persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions to give the
Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General advance
notice and to wait designated periods before consummation of such
plans. Section 7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, in individual
cases, to terminate this waiting period prior to its expiration and
requires that notice of this action be published in the Federal
Register.
The following transactions were granted early termination of the
waiting period provided by law and the premerger notification rules.
The grants were made by the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant
Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of
Justice. Neither agency intends to take any action with respect to
these proposed acquisitions during the applicable waiting period.
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TRANS No. ACQUIRING ACQUIRED ENTITIES
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/03/2005
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20050527.......... DaVita Inc...... Gambro AB....... Gambro
Healthcare,
Inc.
20051592.......... Harrah's Ralph Engelstad Imperial Palace,
Entertainment, and Betty LLC.
Inc. Engelstad,
Family Trust
UTA 3/6/01.
20051630.......... Parthenon Medical Medical
Investors II, Consultants, Consultants,
L.P. Inc. Inc.
20051659.......... CRH plc......... Legg Mason Jolly Gardener
Capital Products, Inc.
Partners, LP.
20051662.......... Eye 1 S.a.r.l... Thales SA....... Avimo Europe
Limited, Avimo
North America
Inc., Thales
Electro-Optics
Pte Limited,
Thales Optics
Limited.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/04/2005
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20051587.......... Ventiv Health, R. Blane Walter. inChord
Inc.. Communications,
Inc.
20051610.......... Medimmune, Inc.. Cellective Cellective
Therapeutics, Therapeutics,
Inc. Inc.
20051627.......... Koninkliijke LumiLeds LumiLeds
Philips Lighting Lighting
Electronics N.V. International International
B.V. B.V.
20051668.......... GTCR Fund VIII, James Levoy Sorenson
L.P. Sorenson. Communications,
Inc.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/07/2005
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20051641.......... Kirk Kerkorian.. General Motors General Motors
Corporation. Corporation
20051655.......... J.C. Flowers I, Marsh & McLennan Crump Group,
L.P.. Companies, Inc.. Inc.
20051674.......... Nelnet, Inc..... The Education Chela Education
Financing Financing, Inc.
Foundation of
California.
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20051677.......... Open Solutions The BISYS Group, BIS LP Inc.
Inc. Inc.
20051681.......... Berkshire Walter Scott, Jr MidAmerican
Hathaway Inc. Energy Holdings
Company.
20051695.......... AECOM Technology EDAW, Inc....... EDAW, Inc.
Corporation.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/12/2005
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20051656.......... American Capital Vicki Value Plastics,
Strategies, Ltd. Rainsberger and Inc., VANM LLP.
Family.
20051671.......... Wexford Partners Thomas Drilling Thomas Drilling
VI, L.P. Company. Company.
20051672.......... TPG Partners IV. Certegy Inc..... Certegy Inc.
L.P.
20051676.......... Fidelity Certegy Inc..... Certegy Inc.
National
Financial, Inc.
20051678.......... Thomas H. Lee Certegy Inc..... Certegy Inc.
Equity Fund V,
L.P.
20051685.......... MarkWest Energy Javelina Company Javelina Company
Partners, L.P.
20051693.......... Norsk Hydro ASA. Spinnaker Spinnaker
Exploration Exploration
Company. Company.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/13/2005
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20050939.......... Adobe Systems Macromedia Inc.. Macromedia Inc.
Incorporated.
20051664.......... Schnitzer Steel Regional 939 Fortress
Industries, Recycling LLC. Investments,
Inc.. LLC, Fortress
Apartments,
LLC, Metal
Asset
Acquisition,
LLC, Regional
Recycling LLC.
20051675.......... Walgreen Co..... William M. Hait. Schraft's A
Specialty
Pharmacy, LLC.
20051688.......... General Electric Manulife Cathlamet Timber
Company. Financial Company, LLC,
Corporation. Rainier Mineral
Company, LLC,
Rainier Timber
Company, LLC.
20051692.......... Compania de Piazza Piazza
Cemento Argos, Acquisition Acquisition
S.A. Corp. Corp.
20051694.......... Hicks, Muse, Aon Corporation. J.H. Blade &
Tate & Furst Co., Inc.,
Equity Fund V, Sherwood
L.P. Insurance
Services,
Sherwood
Insurance
Services of
Washington,
Inc., The Swett
& Crawford
Group, Inc.
20051696.......... Atlas Pipeline OGE Energy Corp. Enogex Arkansas
Partners, L.P.. Pipeline
Corporation.
20051700.......... Infinite Energy, ECONnergy Energy ECONnergy Energy
Inc. Company, Inc. Company, Inc.
20060003.......... Nelnet, Inc..... Greater Texas LoanSTAR Funding
Foundation. Group, Inc.,
LoanSTAR
Systems, Inc.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/14/2005
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20051683.......... WF Holdings, Inc Carlyle Partners The Relizon
III, L.P. Company.
20051691.......... Triad Hospitals, Clarksville Clarksville
Inc. Health System, Health System,
G.P. G.P.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/17/2005
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20051665.......... HSBC Holdings Marathon Fund Claire-Sprayway,
plc. Limited Inc.
Partnership III.
20051679.......... Israel Solutia Inc..... Astaris LLC.
Corporation
Limited.
20051680.......... Israel FMC Corporation. Astaris LLC.
Corporation
Limited.
20060001.......... Merrill Lynch & AXA S.A......... The Advest
Co., Inc. Group, Inc.
20060006.......... The Garfield Protient, Inc... Protient, Inc.
Weston
Charitable
Foundation.
20060007.......... Cougar Holdings, CCC Information CCC Information
Inc. Services Group Services Group
Inc. Inc.
20060031.......... Value Act Per-Se Per-Se
Capital Master Technologies, Technologies,
Fund L.P. Inc. Inc.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/18/2005
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20050900.......... Cal Dive Stolt Offshore Stolt Offshore
International S.A. S.A.
Inc.
20060015.......... Olympus Growth Bain Capital Professional
Fund IV, L.P. Fund IV, L.P. Service
Industries
Holdings, Inc.
20060016.......... Johnson Electric SAIA-Burgess SAIA-Burgess
Holdings Electronics Electronics
Limited. Holding AG. Holding AG.
20060017.......... Hewlett-Packard ApplQ, Inc...... ApplQ, Inc.
Company.
20060025.......... Lindsay Goldberg GTCR Fund VII, ARG Holdings,
& Bessemer L.P. L.P. Inc.
20060040.......... Bruckmann, Brinker Brinker Corner
Rosser, International, Bakery II, LLC,
Sherrill & Co. Inc. Brinker Corner
II, L.P. Bakery I, LLC,
Brinker Corner
Bakery, L.P.,
Maggiano's/
Corner Bakery
Holding,
Maggiano's/
Corner Bakery,
L.P.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/19/2005
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20051661.......... TCV V, L.P...... Penson Penson
Worldwide, Inc. Worldwide, Inc.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/20/2005
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20051371.......... Cooper Cameron DEG Dresser, Inc.
Corporation. Acquisitions,
LLC.
20051634.......... KCP Income Fund. Satish Shah..... APG, Inc.
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TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION--10/21/2005
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20051007.......... First Data Great Hill GMT Group, Inc.
Corporation. Equity Partners
II, L.P.
20060002.......... Chicken American EPL Holdings,
Acquisition Securities Inc.
Corp. Partners II,
L.P.
20060033.......... Wind Point Kestrel Kestrel
Partners V, L.P. Acquisition Acquisition
Corp. Corp.
20060036.......... NEWStar Waste B III Capital North East Waste
Holdings Corp. Partners, L.P. Services, Inc.
20060038.......... Arend Oetker.... Madison Dearborn Milnot Holding
Capital Corporation.
Partners, L.P.
20060041.......... Perry Partners, Sears Holdings Sears Holdings
L.P. Corporation. Corporation.
20060042.......... Perry Partners Sears Holdings Sears Holdings
International, Corporation. Corporation.
Inc.
20060045.......... E*TRADE JPMorgan Chase & J.P. Morgan
Financial Co. Invest, LLC.
Corporation.
20060047.......... Blackstone ECC Jeffrey H. Emmis Television
Communications Smulyan. Broadcasting
Partners L.P. L.P., Emmis
Television
License, LLC,
SJL of Kansas
Corp.
20060050.......... Fenway Partners SK Equity Fund, Targus Group
Capital Fund L.P. International,
II, L.P. Inc.
20060051.......... Bruckmann, SAFE Boats SAFE Boats
Rosser, Delaware LLC. Delaware LLC.
Sherrill & Co.
II, L.P.
20060053.......... Check Point Sourcefire, Inc. Sourcefire, Inc.
Software
Technologies
Ltd.
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For Further Information Contact: Sandra M. Peay, Contact
Representative; or Renee Hallman, Contact Representative.
Federal Trade Commission, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of
Competition, Room H-303, Washington, DC 20580. (202) 326-3100.
By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-21812 Filed 11-1-05; 8:45 am]
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