EU mergers and takeovers (Sept 13)

BRUSSELS, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process:

APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS

-- Real estate investment fund DV4, Dutch pension fund ABP and Canada's Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System Primary Pension Plan to set up a British property joint venture (notified Aug. 20/deadline Sept. 24/simplified)

-- Private equity (IOB: 0QLS.IL - news) firm Advent International to acquire General Electric (Euronext: GNE.NX - news) 's distributed power business (notified Aug. 20/deadline Sept. 24/simplified)

-- French energy company Total (LSE: 524773.L - news) to acquire gasd turbine power plant operators Pont Sur Sambre Power and Toul Power (notified Aug. 20/deadline Sept. 24/simplified)

NEW LISTINGS

-- Semiconductor company Broadcom (Frankfurt: 28425279.F - news) to acquire technology company CA (notified Sept. 12/deadline Oct (Shenzhen: 000069.SZ - news) . 17/simplified)

-- 3i Infrastructure and Danish pension company ATP to invest in telecoms operator Tampnet (notitied Sept. 12/deadline Oct. 17/simplified)

-- Private equity company the Carlyle Group to acquire interest in U.S. broadcast services company NEP Group (notified Sept. 12/deadline Oct. 17/simplified)

-- U.S. investment firm KKR to acquire joint control over Singapore property website Property Guru (notified Sept. 5/deadline Oct. 10/simplified)

EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES

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FIRST (Other OTC: FSTC - news) -STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE

SEPT 19

-- Private equity firm KKR to acquire U.S. business software company BMC Software (notified Aug. 14/deadline Sept. 19/simplified)

-- French carmaker PGA Motors and Fiber to acquire joint control of auto dealer and car parts distributor Bernard Participations (notified July 31/deadline extended to Sept. 19 from Sept. 5 after the French competition authority asked to take over the case)

SEPT 21

-- Norwegian aluminium maker Norsk Hydro (LSE: NHY.L - news) to acquire some of Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto (Hanover: CRA1.HA - news) 's aluminium production assets (notified Aug. 17/deadline Sept. 21)

SEPT 25

-- German alphalt maker Deutsche Asphalt, which is a subsidiary of Austrian construction company Strabag (IOB: 0LB5.IL - news) , and German road construction company Bunte to set up a joint venture (notified Aug. 21/deadline Sept. 25/simplified)

SEPT 26

-- U.S. private equity fund Charlesbank Partners Group to acquire joint control of contract food maker H-Food Holdings and the Hearthside group of companies (notified Aug. 22/deadline Sept. 26/simplified)

SEPT 27

-- Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund Kuwait Investment Authority to acquire oil and gas pipeline firm North Sea Midstream Partners from private equity firm ArcLight Capital (notified Aug. 23/deadline Sept. 27/simplified)

-- U.S. planemaker Boeing (NYSE: BA - news) and French aerospace company Safran (LSE: 0IU8.L - news) to set up a joint venture to make and service aircraft auxiliary power units (notified Aug. 23/deadline Sept. 27)

SEPT 28

-- Private equity firm KKR and French telecoms provider Altice (Other OTC: ATSVF - news) to acquire joint control of Altice's French subsidiary SFR Filiale (notified Aug. 24/deadline Sept. 28/simplified)

-- U.S. management company Abry Partners to acquire Norwegian A2P messaging company Link Mobility ASA (LSE: 0QJ8.L - news) (notified Aug. 24/deadline Sept. 28/simplified)

OCT 1

-- Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Canadian institutional investor British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) to acquire joint control of Canadian forest product company Island Timberlands (notified Aug. 27/deadline Oct. 1/simplified)

-- Private equity firm EQT Fund Management to acquire Luxembourg specialty chemicals and food ingredients distributor Azelis (notified Aug. 27/deadline Oct. 1/simplified)

OCT 3

-- U.S. plane maker Boeing to acquire aerospace parts company KLX (notified Aug. 29/deadline Oct. 3)

-- Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS-PB - news) and Japanese financial services group Orix Corp to acquire shares in Japanese pharmaceutical company ILS Inc

OCT 4

-- Private equity fund Lone Star to buy roof tiles business of France's Imerys (notified Aug. 30/deadline Oct. 4/simplified)

-- German project group Steag and German engineering company Siemens (BSE: SIEMENS.BO - news) take joint control of power plan in Herne, western Germany (notified Aug. 30/deadline Oct. 4)

-- Germany's Vossloh (IOB: 0N2Z.IL - news) and Austria's Rhomberg Sersa Rail Holding form joint venture in railway technology (notified Aug. 30/deadline Oct. 4/simplified)

OCT 5

-- Boeing and automotive seat maker Adient to form joint venture to make airline seats (notified Aug. 31/deadline Oct. 5)

-- Japanese beverages and pharmaceutical group Kirin Holdings and Japanese trading house Mitsui to acquire joint control of nutritional supplements company Thorne Holding Corp (notified Aug. 31/deadline Oct. 5/simplified)

OCT 8

-- Swedish mobile operato Tele2 (LSE: 0QE6.L - news) to buy Swedish cable TV company Com Hem (LSE: 0QV0.L - news) (notified Sept. 3/deadline Oct. 8)

-- Chinese conglomerate CITIC Group to require a majority stake in Czech holding group European Bridge Travel, which controls travel services companies (notified Sept. 3/deadline Oct. 8/simplified)

OCT 9

-- Alphabet (Xetra: ABEA.DE - news) 's Verily forms a joint venture with ResMed (NYSE: RMD - news) to study sleep apnea (notified Sept. 4/deadline Oct. 9/simplified)

-- Canadian auto parts maker Magna to acquire Italian lighting products maker Olsa (notified Sept. 4/deadline Oct. 9/simplified)

OCT 10

-- U.S. investment firm KKR to acquire joint control over Singapore property website Property Guru (notified Sept. 5/deadline Oct. 10/simplified)

OCT 11

-- Private investment firm SK Capital Partners to buy U.S. specialty chemical company Schenectady International (notified Sept. 6/deadline Oct. 11)

OCT 12

-- Business process services company Synnex Corp to buy call center operator Convergys Corp (notified Sept. 7/deadline Oct. 12/simplified)

-- Buy-out firm Cinven, through its controlled portfolio company Viridium Holding, to acquire sole control of insurance company Generali Lebensversicherung (notified Sept. 7/deadline Oct. 12/simplified)

-- German gaming and gambling company Gauselmann to take a 33 percent stake and joint control of casino operator Spielbank Mainz (notified Sept. 7/ deadline Oct. 12/simplified)

-- Investment company Bregal to buy travel firm Trendtours Touristik (notified Sept. 7/deadline Oct. 12/simplified)

OCT 15

-- U.S. pet food maker Mars Petcare to buy European veterinary business Anicura (notified Sept. 10/deadline Oct. 15)

-- Qatar Petroleum to acquire a 30 percent stake in two of Exxon Mobil (Swiss: XOM-USD.SW - news) 's affiliates in Argentina (notified Sept. 10/deadline Oct. 15/simplified)

OCT 16

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

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

OCT 17

-- Semiconductor company Broadcom to acquire technology company CA (notified Sept. 12/deadline Oct. 17/simplified)

-- 3i Infrastructure and Danish pension company ATP to invest in telecoms operator Tampnet (notitied Sept. 12/deadline Oct. 17/simplified)

-- Private equity company the Carlyle Group to acquire interest in U.S. broadcast services company NEP Group (notified Sept. 12/deadline Oct. 17/simplified)

NOV 30

-- Deutsche Telekom (IOB: 0MPH.IL - news) to acquire Swedish peer Tele2's Dutch unit and merge it with its Dutch business T-Mobile Nederland (notified May 2/deadline Nov. 30 after deadline suspension ended Aug. 6)

DEC (Shanghai: 600875.SS - news) 13

-- Copper company KME, which is part of Intek Group , to acquire German peer MKM Mansfelder Kupfer and Messing GmbH (notified June 4/deadline extended to Dec. 13 from Nov. 29 after the companies asked for more)

DEC 18

-- German company BASF to acquire Belgian chemicals company Solvay (LSE: 0NZR.L - news) 's worldwide polyamide business (notified May 22/deadline Dec. 18)

JAN 3

-- German copper products maker Wieland-Werke to acquire German copper smelter Aurubis (IOB: 0K7F.IL - news) ' flat rolled products unit Products Schwermetall (notified June 13/deadline extended to Jan. 3 from Dec. 10 after the companies asked for more time)

JAN 8

-- French aerospace and defence group Thales (LSE: 0IW5.L - news) to acquire Franco-Dutch chipmaker Gemalto (Swiss: GMT.SW - news) (notified June 18/deadline extended to Jan. 8 from Nov. 29 from July 23 after the companies asked for more time)

JAN 28

-- Siemens and Alstom (LSE: 0J2R.L - news) to merge their railway operations (notified June 8/deadline set at Jan. 28 on Sept. 7)

SUSPENDED DEADLINE

GUIDE TO EU MERGER PROCESS

DEADLINES:

The European Commission has 25 working days after a deal is filed for a first-stage review. It may extend that by 10 working days to 35 working days, to consider either a company's proposed remedies or an EU member state's request to handle the case. Most mergers win approval but occasionally the Commission opens a detailed second-stage investigation for up to 90 additional working days, which it may extend to 105 working days.

SIMPLIFIED:

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