EU Clears KOHLBERG/MONTAGU/TELEFLEX OEM Concentration (M.12301)
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The European Commission decided on 20 April 2026 not to oppose the notified concentration in Case M.12301 – KOHLBERG / MONTAGU / TELEFLEX OEM BUSINESS and declared it compatible with the internal market. The decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (EC Merger Regulation). The full decision text will be made publicly available only in English after business secrets are removed.
“On 20 April 2026, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market.”
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The European Commission cleared the notified concentration in Case M.12301 involving KOHLBERG, MONTAGU, and TELEFLEX OEM BUSINESS. The Commission decided not to oppose the concentration and declared it compatible with the internal market under Article 6(1)(b) of the EC Merger Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004).
The parties to the concentration may proceed with completing the transaction. The full decision will be published in English in the merger section of the Commission's Competition Policy website once business secrets are removed. This is a standard Phase I clearance with no conditions, obligations, or remedies attached.
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Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.12301 – KOHLBERG / MONTAGU / TELEFLEX OEM BUSINESS)
C/2026/2693
OJ C, C/2026/2448, 27.4.2026, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/2448/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.12301 – KOHLBERG / MONTAGU / TELEFLEX OEM BUSINESS)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2026/2448)
On 20 April 2026, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (the EC Merger Regulation) (1). The full text of the decision is available only in English and will be made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:
| — | in the merger section of the ‘Competition policy’ website of the Commission (https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/search). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company name, case number, date and sectoral indexes, |
| — | in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32026M12301. EUR-Lex is the online point of access to European Union law. |
(1) OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2004/139/oj.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/2448/oj
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