# Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A07-4969 ## Record - **Collection:** Federal Register - **Document type:** Notice - **Published:** October 10, 2007 - **Citation:** 72 FR 57577 ## Text FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, requires persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General advance notice and to wait designated periods before consummation of such plans. Section 7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, in individual cases, to terminate this waiting period prior to its expiration and requires that notice of this action be published in the Federal Register . The following transactions were granted early termination of the waiting period provided by law and the premerger notification rules. The grants were made by the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Neither agency intends to take any action with respect to these proposed acquisitions during the applicable waiting period. Trans # Acquiring Acquired Entities Transactions Granted Early Termination—09/24/2007 20072076 UniCredito Italiano S.p.A Capitalia S.p.A Capitalia S.p.A. 20072122 Explorer Pipeline Company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. 20072129 Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC Pioneer Natural Resources Company Pioneer Natural Resources Canada Inc. 20072145 Great Hill Equity Partners III, L.P Mark Towfiq and Carol Nakahara InteleNet Communications, Inc. 20072152 Eugene M. Isenberg Nabors Industries Ltd Nabors Industries Ltd. 20072153 Energy Transfer Partners, L.P MSCP IV CRDI, LLC Canyon Gas Resources, LLC 20072155 Copano Energy, L.L.C MSCP IV CRDI, LLC Cantera Natural Gas, LLC Transactions Granted Early Termination—09/25/2007 20072101 Infineon Technologies AG LSI Corporation LSI Corporation 20072109 Audax Private Equity Fund II, L.P Bill D. Brady, as Trustee of the Bill D. Brady Trust Brady Holdings, LLC 20072136 S-Process Equipment International S.a.r.l Schenck Process SA Schenck Process Holding GmbH 20072156 AEGON N.V Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc Merrill Lynch Life Insurance Company, ML Life Insurance Company of New York 20072160 FleetCor Technologies, Inc Chevron Corporation Chevron U.S.A. Inc. 20072163 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co Sud Chemie AG Sud Chemie AG 20072165 NTR plc Edgewater Growth Capital Partners, LP Recycled Holdings Corporation 20072167 Babcock & Brown Limited Bill Sjolander CMC Industries, Inc., CMC Railroad, Inc. 20072168 Lydian Capital Partners LP Trilogy Investors, LLC Trilogy Investors, LLC 20072171 Management Consulting Group PLC Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc. 20072185 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc Priority Air Holdings Corp Priority Air Holdings Corp. Transactions Granted Early Termination—09/26/2007 20071496 Mylan Laboratories Inc E. Merck oHG EMD, Inc., Merck dura GmbH, Merck Genericos S.L., Merck Generics Belgium B.V.B.A., Merck Generics Group B.V. 20072098 RF Micro Devices, Inc Sirenza Microdevices, Inc Sirenza Microdevices, Inc. 20072166 Knoll, Inc Mr. John Edelman Teddy & Arthur Edelman, Limited 20072172 Industrial Growth Partners III, L.P Russell W. and Pamela C. Lane Atlas Material Testing Technology, LLC 20072174 New Mountain Lake Holdings, LLC U.S. Express Enterprises, Inc U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc. 20072188 Gildan Activewear Inc V.I. Prewett & Son, Inc. V.I. Prewett & Son, Inc. Transactions Granted Early Termination—09/27/2007 20070861 FirstGroup plc Laidlaw International, Inc Laidlaw International, Inc. 20071415 Maruha Group Inc Nichiro Corporation Nichiro Corporation Transactions Granted Early Termination—09/28/2007 20072179 BB&T Corporation Collateral Holdings, Ltd Collateral Management, LLC, Collateral Real Estate Capital, LLC 20072184 Carlyle Europe Partners III, L.P Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona, S.A. (“Abgar”) APPLUS Servicios Technologicos, S.L. 20072186 Iconix Brand Group, Inc Official Pillowtex, LLC Official Pillowtex, LLC 20072187 Yahoo!, Inc Zimbra, Inc Zimbra, Inc. 20072190 American Capital Strategies, Ltd Wells Fargo & Company Imperial Supplies LLC 20072195 Warburg Pincus Private Equity IX, L.P Integra Telecom, Inc. Integra Telecom, Inc 20072198 Pfingsten Executive QP Fund III, L.P Tropitone Furniture Co., Inc Tropitone Furniture Co., Inc. 20072201 ABRY Partners V, L.P EHR Holdings, LLC Executive Health Resources, Inc. 20072204 GSCP Sigma (Lux) S.a.r.l Sajjan Kumar Agarwal Gampak Products Corporation, Roemed Holdings, Inc., Semco Electric Private Limited, Sigma Electric Manufacturing Corporation, Ultratech Metals (India) Private Limited 20072205 SECOM Co., LTD Gordon Crane Apple & Eve, LLC 20072208 SECOM Co., LTD Weston Presidio Capital III, LP Apple & Eve, LLC 20072212 Francois Pinault United Retail Group, Inc. United Retail Group, Inc FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra M. Peay, Contact Representative or Renee Hallman, Contact Representative. Federal Trade Commission, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Room H-303, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326-3100. By direction of the Commission. Donald S. Clark, Secretary. [FR Doc. 07-4969 Filed 10-9-07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750-01-M --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A07-4969. Public record. Not legal advice.