BRUSSELS, Oct 5 (Reuters) – The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process:

APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS

— Private equity fund Lone Star to acquire French company Imerys’ roofing tile business (approved Oct. 4)

NEW LISTINGS

— US investment management company Rhone Capital to acquire industrial company Maxam (notified Oct. 4/deadline Nov. 12/simplified)

— Private equity firm EQT and hearing aid maker Widex will establish a joint venture combining Widex with EQT’s hearing aid unit Sivantos (notified Oct. 4/deadline Nov. 12)

— Private equity firm BC Partners to acquire UK veterinary practice group VetPartners (notified Oct. 2/deadline Nov. 8/simplified)

EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES

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FIRST STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE

October 5th

— Boeing and car seat maker Adient to form a joint venture to make airplane seats (notified Aug. 31/deadline Oct. 5)

October 8th

— Swedish mobile operator Tele2 to acquire Swedish cable TV company Com Hem (notified September 3/deadline October 8)

October 11th

— Private investment firm SK Capital Partners to acquire US specialty chemicals company Schenectady International (notified Sept. 6/deadline Oct. 11)

October 15th

— US pet food maker Mars Petcare to acquire European veterinary company Anicura (notified Sept. 10/deadline Oct. 15)

October 16

— French-equity firm PAI Partners to acquire board game publisher Asmodee (notified Sept. 11/deadline Oct. 16/simplified)

— Japanese industrial gas supplier Taiyo Nippon Sanso to acquire European business of US industrial gas company Praxair (notified Sept. 11/deadline Oct. 16)

October the 17th

— Semiconductor company Broadcom to acquire technology company CA (notified September 12/deadline October 17/simplified)

— 3i Infrastructure and Danish pension company ATP to invest in telecom operator Tampnet (notified Sep 12/deadline Oct 17/simplified)

— Private equity firm Carlyle Group to acquire stake in US broadcast services company NEP Group (notified Sept. 12/deadline Oct. 17/simplified)

October 18

— Morgan Stanley Infrastructure to Acquire German Rail Logistics Group VTG (Notified Sept. 13/Deadline Oct. 18/Simplified)

October 19

— Italian and US private equity firms Carlyle Group and Investindustrial to acquire furniture maker B&B Italia and lighting companies Flos and Louis Poulsen (notified Sept. 14/deadline Oct. 19/simplified)

— German industrial gas company Messer Group and private equity group CVC to acquire certain assets of German chemical company Linde Group (notified September 14/deadline October 19/simplified)

— US software company Microsoft Corp to buy private coding website GitHub Inc (notified Sept. 14/deadline Oct. 19)

— Walt Disney Co to Buy Most of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc’s Movie and TV Assets (Notice Sept. 14/Deadline Oct. 19)

October 22

— US computer and printer maker HP Inc to buy UK-based office equipment distributor Apogee Corp (notified Sept. 17/deadline Oct. 22)

— The private equity fund Lone Star will buy the real estate assets of the Spanish company CaixaBank (notified September 17/deadline October 22)

— Shipping group CMA CGM to acquire freight and logistics firm Container Finance’s stake in Multi-Link Terminals Ltd and CD Holding Oy (notified Sep 17/deadline Oct 22)

— US aircraft parts maker Spirit Aerosystems Holdings Inc to acquire EU-based supplier Asco Industries NV (notified Sept. 17/deadline Oct. 22)

— German luxury carmakers Daimler and BMW to launch car-sharing joint venture (notified Sept. 17/deadline Oct. 22)

October 23

— US travel and restaurant reservations and related services company Booking Holdings Inc to buy Australian hotel metasearch site HotelsCombined (notified Sept. 18/deadline Oct. 23)

October 24th

— Hong Kong companies CK Asset Holdings Limited, infrastructure company CK Infrastructure Holdings Limited and energy investment company Power Assets Holdings Limited will acquire Australian energy infrastructure company APA (notified September 19/deadline September 24 October/simplified)

— Private equity firm Bain Capital Investors LLC to acquire Italian specialty chemicals company Italmatch Chemicals (notified Sept. 19/deadline Oct. 24/simplified)

October 25

— US private equity investor Bain Capital Private Equity to acquire UK insurance services company esure Group (notified September 20/deadline October 25/simplified)

— French investment bank Bpifrance and French energy company Vallourec Tubes to acquire joint control of Vallourec Umbilicals (notified September 20/deadline October 25/simplified)

— US private equity investor Advent International Corporation to acquire Irish telecom, energy and transport company KN Group (notified Sept. 20/deadline Oct. 25/simplified)

— US private equity firm Hellman & Friedman to acquire German payment systems company Concardis Payment Group (notified Sept. 20/deadline Oct. 25/simplified)

October 26th

— China Huaxin Post and Telecom Technologies Co., Ltd and Dutch company Juniper Networks International BV to establish a joint venture (notified on September 21/deadline on October 26/simplified)

— Private equity fund EQT Fund Management to acquire sole control of French water and wastewater management company Holding d’Infrastructures des Métiers de l’Environnement SAS, owner of Saur SAS (notified September 21/deadline on October 26/simplified)

— Japan’s Sony Corp. to acquire majority control of British music publisher EMI Music Publishing (notified Sept. 21/deadline Oct. 26)

— Canadian companies OMERS Administration Corporation, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, Alberta Investment Management Corporation, Dutch fund manager PGGM Vermogensbeheer BV and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will acquire joint control of US energy company Puget Sound Holdings (notified 21 September/October deadline). .26/simplified)

October 29th

— Irish aircraft and asset manager investor ORIX Aviation Systems Limited will acquire 30 per cent of Irish aircraft leasing company Avolon Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Chinese leasing group Bohai Capital Holding (notified 24 Sep/deadline on October 29/simplified)

— UK packaging company DS Smith to acquire Spanish corrugated packaging supplier Europac (notified 24 Sep/deadline 29 Oct)

30th of October

— Germany’s Thyssenkrupp and India’s Tata Steel to establish steel joint venture (notified Sep 25/deadline Oct 30)

NOVEMBER 6TH

— OEP ITS Coopertief Holding Private Participation Fund to Acquire Norwegian IT Consulting Services and Software Licensing Firm Crayon Group Holding (Notified Sept. 28/Deadline Nov. 6/Simplified)

— Shanghai-based travel and hospitality group Jin Jiang International Holdings to acquire Radisson Holdings Incorporated and 69.65% of hotel operator Radisson Hospitality (notified Sep 28/deadline Nov 6)

— Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited to Acquire Jersey Biotech Company Shire (Notified Sept. 28/Deadline Nov. 6)

NOVEMBER 7

— Power and thermal management solutions company Delta Electronics to acquire Thai electronics manufacturing company Delta Electronics Public Company Limited (Notified Oct. 1/Deadline Nov. 7/Simplified)

— SELP joint venture between Luxembourg industrial property and warehouse SEGRO European Logistics Partnership and Canadian pension fund investor Public Sector Pension Investment Board to acquire a Spanish distribution warehouse from French company ID Logistics Group (notified October 1/ deadline November 7/simplified )

NOVEMBER 8TH

— Dutch subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Oil Company IPO-ARMO.SEOverseas Holding Cooperatief UA, to acquire the remaining shares in the Netherlands-based specialty chemicals business of ARLANXEO Holding BV (notified 2 Oct/deadline 8 Nov/simplified)

NOVEMBER 9

— German auto parts maker Continental Automotive Holding and Chinese battery and power system maker Sichuan Chengfei Integration Technology Corporation will establish a battery system joint venture for electric vehicles, notified Oct. 1. 3/deadline November 9/simplified)

NOVEMBER 30

— Deutsche Telekom to acquire the Dutch unit of its Swedish peer Tele2 and merge it with its Dutch business T-Mobile Nederland (notified May 2/deadline November 30)

December 13th

— Copper company KME, which is part of Intek Group, to acquire German company MKM Mansfelder Kupfer and Messing GmbH (notified June 4/deadline December 13)

3 JAN

— German copper products maker Wieland-Werke to acquire flat-rolled products unit of German copper smelter Aurubis Products Schwermetall (notified June 13/deadline January 3)

JANUARY THE 8TH

— French aerospace and defense group Thales to acquire French-Dutch chipmaker Gemalto (notified June 18/deadline January 8)

11 JAN

— German company BASF to acquire Belgian chemical company Solvay’s global polyamides business (notified May 22/deadline extended to January 11)

28 JAN

— Siemens and Alstom to merge rail operations (notified June 8/deadline January 28)

GUIDE TO THE MERGER PROCESS IN THE EU

DEADLINES:

The European Commission has 25 working days after an agreement is submitted for a first stage review. You can extend that from 10 business days to 35 business days, to consider the remedies proposed by a company or the request of an EU member state to handle the case. Most mergers are approved, but occasionally the Commission opens a detailed second-stage investigation for up to an additional 90 business days, which can be extended to 105 business days.

SIMPLIFIED:

Under the simplified procedure, the Commission announces the authorization of undisputed first-stage mergers without giving any reason for its decision. Cases may be reclassified as non-simplified, that is, regular first-stage reviews, until they are approved. (Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis)