Clearance: The French Competition Authority clears the acquisition of sole control of a group of private hospitals by one of its competitors under conditions of behavioral and structural commitments (MédiPôle-Partenaires / Elsan)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Through the Decision No 17-DCC-95 of 23 June 2017 Following the referral of the transaction by the European Commission, the French Competition Authority has authorised the acquisition of MédiPôle-Partenaires, the third largest private group of clinics in France, by the Elsan group, the second largest, subject to commitments of a structural nature on the one hand and of a behavioural nature on the other. In the light of its analysis, the Competition Authority comes to the conclusion that this approximation,