31/08/2011 (Agence Europe) - Mergers: Mitsubishi Corporation/Barclays Bank/Walney I Topco/Walney II Topco/ Sheringham Shoal Topco. On Wednesday 31 August, the European Commission cleared the proposed concentration by which Mitsubishi Corporation, (MC, Japan) will acquire joint control over Walney I Topco (W1 Topco), Walney II Topco (W2 Topco) and Sheringham Shoal Topco (SS Topco) with Barclays Bank plc (Barclays, England and Wales) by way of acquisition of shares from Macquarie Capital Group Limited. The business activities of the undertakings concerned are: - MC: the activities of this global trading company are related to energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, food and general merchandise; - Barclays: a global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management; - W1 Topco: a newly incorporated company which will acquire the offshore transmission activities of Walney I Wind Farm; - W2 Topco and SS Topco: companies that will be created to acquire the offshore electricity transmission assets of the wind farm projects Walney II and Sheringham Shoal. (O.L./transl.rt)