On January 17, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual indexing of the jurisdictional thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) pre-merger notification statute. The new thresholds will apply to all transactions that close 30 days after the notice is published in the Federal Register.
As a result of the indexing:
• The $70.9 minimum transaction value filing threshold has increased to $75.9 million.
• The $283.6 million transaction value, above which size-of-person tests are inapplicable, becomes $303.4 million.
• The $14.2 million and $141.8 million size-of-person tests become $15.2 million and $151.7 million tests, respectively...
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