Article: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: COMMISSION CLEARS EIGHT DEALS.

- US investment fund Bain Capital Ltd has been given the go-ahead to acquire the European chemical intermediate business of France's Rhodia Group. The businesses to be divested are involved in the production of soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, phenol, acetone and hydrochloric acid training. The Commission investigation showed that Bain Capital does not hold any interest at the moment in the same product markets.

- Approval was granted for two joint ventures by Linde, a German firm active in medical and industrial gases, and Algerian gas company Sonatrach. The two ventures will produce helium from natural gas supplied by Sonatrach, which they will then market in the ...

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