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BRUSSELS, March 11 (Reuters) - The following are mergersunder review by the European Commission and a brief guide to theEU merger process:
APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS
None
NEW LISTINGS
-- Spanish oil company Repsol to acquire Canadianoil and gas producer Talisman Energy Inc. (notifiedMarch 10/deadline April 17/simplified)
-- Private equity firm Riverstone and British bankBarclays to jointly acquire oil producer Origo(notified March 6/deadline April 15/simplified)
EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES
-- Telecoms group Altice to acquire Brazilian peerGrupo Oi's Portuguese assets (notified Feb.25/deadline April 20/concessions offered April 20/Portuguesecompetition authority asked to review the case on March 5)
FIRST-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE
MARCH 12
-- German car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen to buyU.S. peer TRW Automotive Holdings Corp (notified Jan.22/deadline extended to March 12 from Feb. 26 after ZF submittedconcessions)
MARCH 13
-- British insurer Aviva to acquire rival FriendsLife (notified Feb. 6/deadline March 13)
-- U.S. medical equipment supplier Becton Dickinson & Co to purchase U.S. maker of infusion pumps and othermedical devices CareFusion Corp (notified Feb.6/deadline March 13)
MARCH 16
-- Irish building products group Kingspan to acquireBelgian holding company Steel Partners NV, which owns Belgianinsulated panels maker Joris Ide Group (notified Feb. 9/deadlineMarch 16)
-- Irish drugmaker Actavis to acquire botox makerAllergan (notified Feb. 9/deadline March 16)
MARCH 17
-- Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp andholding company Ficosa Inversion, which currently has solecontrol of Ficosa International, to acquire joint control ofSpanish car parts maker Ficosa International (notified Feb. 10/deadline March 17/simplified)
MARCH 18
-- Abellio, the international unit of Dutch state-owned railcompany NS, to take control of the ScotRail rail services inScotland (notified Feb. 11/deadline March 18)
-- British support services group DCC to buy Esso's French motorway retail network (notified Feb.2/deadline March 18/simplified)
MARCH 20
-- Luxembourg-based steel producer ArcelorMittal and Italian peer Coils Lamiere Nastri SpA to form a jointventure (notified Feb. 13/deadline March 20)
MARCH 23
-- French investment company Wendel S.A. to aquire Austrian packager Constantia Flexibles (notified Feb.16/deadline March 23/simplified)
MARCH 24
-- The Carlyle Group and Chinese state-ownedfinancial group Citic to jointly acquire AsiaSat(notified Feb. 17/deadline March 24/simplified)
MARCH 25
-- IFM Global Infrastructure Fund and Mexican builder OHLMexico S.A.B. de C.V. to jointly control Mexicantoll road operator Concesionaria Mexiquense (ConMex) (notifiedFeb. 18/deadline March 25/simplified)
MARCH 30
-- China Shipbuilding Power Engineering Institute, which ispart of Chinese group China State Shipbuilding Corporation, andFinnish ship engine and power plant maker Wartsila toset up a joint venture (notified Feb. 23/deadline March30/simplified)
MARCH 31
-- German publishers Holtzbrinck Publishing Group andSpringer Science+Business Media, which is owned by privateequity investor BC Partners, to set up a joint venture (notifiedFEb. 24/deadline March 31)
APRIL 7
-- Investment fund Apax Partners to acquire chemicalsdistributor Azelis (notified Feb. 26/deadline April7/simplified)
-- Private equity firms the Blackstone Group and TPGGlobal to jointly acquire British financial services providersAcenden Ltd and AMS Decisions Advisers (notified Feb.26/deadline April 7/simplified)
-- South African furniture retailer Steinhoff toacquire local apparel firm Pepkor (notified Feb. 26/deadlineApril 7/simplified)
-- German insurer Talanx and PortugueseMota-Engil to jointly acquire Portuguese companyIndaqua Industry and Water Management SA (notified Feb.26/deadline April 7/simplified)
APRIL 8
-- Norwegian telecoms company Telenor and Swedishpeer TeliaSonera to combine their Danish mobilebusinesses (notified Feb. 27/deadline April 8)
APRIL 9
-- Private equity firm PAI to acquire Dutch clothing andfootwear retailer Lion Adventure (notified March 2/deadlineApril 9/simplified)
-- U.S. flooring products maker Mohawk Industries Inc to acquire Luxembourg-based International FlooringSystems (notified March 2/deadline April 9)
APIRL 10
-- Chinese state-owned steelmaker Hebei Iron & Steel Groupto acquire a controlling stake in Swiss steel product traderfrom DPH Duferco International Trading Holding (notified March3/deadline April 10/simplified)
-- U.S. card payment services provider American Express and Swiss bank Credit Suisse to restructuretheir Swiss and Liechtenstein joint venture (notified March3/deadline April 10/simplified)
APRIL 14
-- German insurer Allianz, Canadian investmentfund manager Alberta Investment Management Corp and UtilitiesTrust of Australia to acquire joint control of railway rollingstock producer Porterbrook (notified March 5/deadline April14/simplified)
APRIL 15
-- AR Packaging Group to buy U.S. packaging companyMeadWestvaco Corp's European tobacco and generalpackaging folding carton operations (notified March 6/deadlineApril 15/simplified)
APRIL 16
-- Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd to purchase British rail rolling stock companyEversholt Rail (notified March 9/deadline April 16/simplified)
-- German refiner Varo Energy Holding GmbH to acquire Germanoil products distributor Gekol (notified March 9/deadline April16/simplified)
APRIL 30
-- French telecoms operator Orange to acquireSpanish provider Jazztel (notified Oct. 16/deadlineextended to April 30 from April 24 after the Commission resumedits scrutiny after a four-day halt/Orange offered commitments onMarch 6)
MAY 26
-- U.S. orthopaedic products maker Zimmer Holdings to acquire rival Biomet Inc (notified Aug.29/deadline May 26 after the companies revised theirconcessions)
JUNE 1
-- Mondelez International Inc and competitor D.EMaster Blenders to merge their coffee businesses innew company called Jacobs Douwe Egberts (notified Oct.27/deadline extended for the fourth time to June 1 from May 13)
JUNE 26
-- PRS for Music Ltd (PRSfM), Foreningen Svenska TonsattaresInternationella Mysikbyra (Stim) and Gesellschaft fürmusikalische Aufführungs- und mechanischeVervielfältigungsrechte (Gema) to set up a joint venture toadminister mechanical and performing rights (notified Nov.28/deadline extended for the third time to June 26 from May 29)
JULY 8
-- U.S. conglomerate General Electric to acquire mostof French engineering group Alstom's power equipmentbusiness (notified Jan. 19/deadline extended to July 8 from Feb.23 after the European Commission opened an in-depthinvestigation)
-- Commodities trader Cargill to buy rival ArcherDaniels Midland Co's global chocolate business (notifiedJan. 19/deadline extended to July 8 from Feb. 23 after theEuropean Commission opened an in-depth investigation)
JULY 14
-- German conglomerate Siemens to purchase U.S.oilfield equipment maker Dresser-Rand Group Inc (notified Jan. 9/deadline extended for the second time to July14 from June 30)
SUSPENDED
-- SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state energy company, to buy stakesin Greek natural gas grid operator DESFA from Greek natural gasutility DEPA (notified Oct. 1/deadline suspended on Jan. 21)
GUIDE TO EU MERGER PROCESS
DEADLINES:
The European Commission has 25 working days after a deal is filed for a first-stage review. It may extend that by 10 workingdays to 35 working days, to consider either a company's proposedremedies or an EU member state's request to handle the case.
Most mergers win approval but occasionally the Commission opens a detailed second-stage investigation for up to 90 additional working days, which it may extend to 105 working days.
SIMPLIFIED:
Under the simplified procedure, the Commission announces theclearance of uncontroversial first-stage mergers without givingany reason for its decision. Cases may be reclassified asnon-simplified - that is, ordinary first-stage reviews - untilthey are approved. (Compiled by Philip Blenkinsop)
