Press Release: Mergers: Commission clears acquisition of iSOFT by CSC

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of the Australian healthcare software supplier iSOFT by the US IT services provider Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). After examining the operation, the Commission concluded that the integration of CSC and iSOFT would not significantly reduce competing IT service providers' access to healthcare software in particular in the UK, where the merging parties' market shares are the highest. iSOFT' competitors would also retain asufficient customer base.