Press Release: Mergers: Commission approves acquisition of medical device company BSN Medical by Guernsey based investment fund EQT VI.

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of the Dutch and German medical device company BSN Medical by the Guernsey based investment fund EQT VI, part of the EQT group of private equity funds. The Commission's investigation confirmed that the operation would not raise competition concerns because the parties have no overlapping activities.

The Commission's investigation showed that no horizontal overlaps arise from the transaction, since neither EQT VI nor any company that EQT controls are active in the same field as BSN Medical.