Iron Mountain Will Offer Undertakings to UK Competition and Markets Authority To Address Concerns Over Proposed Acquisition of Recall

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Iron Mountain Incorporated IRM, the storage and information management services company, reports that the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (the "CMA") has announced its decision to refer Iron Mountain's proposed acquisition of Recall Holdings Limited REC by way of scheme of arrangement (the "transaction") for an in-depth ("Phase 2") investigation, unless Iron Mountain offers acceptable undertakings to address competition concerns preliminarily identified by the CMA.

Iron Mountain is cooperating fully with the CMA and intends to offer acceptable undertakings in order to address the CMA's concerns. As required under the Scheme Implementation Deed, Iron Mountain will make any divestments that are required in order to obtain the approval of the CMA.

Iron Mountain has until January 7, 2016 to submit its proposed undertakings and the CMA will then have until January 14, 2016 to consider whether there are reasonable grounds for believing that the undertakings offered, or a modified version of them, might be accepted. If the CMA believes that the proposed undertakings will resolve its concerns, the agency will make a formal decision to accept the undertakings in lieu of a Phase 2 investigation, following a period of public consultation.

Further details regarding the CMA's media release can be found by clicking HERE.

Iron Mountain continues to work closely with other regulatory authorities around the world and Iron Mountain and Recall continue to expect the transaction to close early in the second quarter of 2016.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated IRM is a leading provider of storage and information management services. The company's real estate network of more than 67 million square feet across more than 1,000 facilities in 36 countries allows it to serve customers around the world. And its solutions for records management, data management, document management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including business documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

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