The 2024 adjusted HSR threshold is $119.5 million and goes into effect on March 6, 2024. All transactions valued below that amount will be exempt from the HSR filing requirement.
The 2024 adjusted Size of Party thresholds...more
2/6/2024
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Antitrust Division ,
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Premerger Notifications ,
Size of Persons Test ,
Size of Transaction Test ,
Threshold Requirements
On January 23, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its annual adjustment of the jurisdictional thresholds for pre-merger notification filings under the Hart‐Scott‐Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR...more
1/25/2023
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
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Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Interlocking Directorate ,
Mergers ,
Pre-Merger Filing Requirements ,
Size of Persons Test ,
Size of Transaction Test ,
Threshold Requirements
A recent post on Foley Hoag’s State AG blog about New York’s proposed pre-merger notification legislation details the potential new notification requirement, but we wanted to dive a little deeper into the impact the proposed...more
3/1/2022
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New York ,
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Renewable Energy
On January 24, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its annual adjustment of the jurisdictional thresholds for pre-merger notification filings under the Hart‐Scott‐Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR...more
1/28/2022
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Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Filing Fees ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Mergers ,
Premerger Notifications ,
Size of Persons Test ,
Size of Transaction Test ,
The Clayton Act ,
Threshold Requirements
On February 18, 2021, the Fourth Circuit upheld a District Court’s first-of-its-kind divestiture order against Jeld-Wen Inc., which was seeking to overturn the lower court’s 2018 order requiring Jeld-Wen to spin off a factory...more
Updated from the November 9, 2020 Alert -
UPDATE: The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and Advanced Notice of Public Rulemaking (ANPRM) were published on December 1, 2020. Comments on the NPRM and the ANPRM must be...more
Starting this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will host three public Question and Answer sessions as part of its ongoing HSR Rulemaking initiative. The Q&A sessions will address the sweeping changes to the...more
On July 8, 2020, Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra released a statement criticizing the practice of “roll-up transactions” involving multiple non-reportable transactions, especially with regards to acquisitions of...more