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On January 22, 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its annual update to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act thresholds in the Federal Register. The HSR Act governs certain deals that must be reported to the FTC...more
The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) requires parties to transactions meeting certain size thresholds to make notification filings with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the annual revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act) thresholds and HSR filing fees, which will become effective on February 21, 2025. The revised...more
Primary HSR Filing Threshold will be Increased to $126.4 Million - The Federal Trade Commission has announced revisions to HSR Act and Clayton Act Section 8 thresholds, which are indexed annually in alignment with prior...more
These announcements come alongside the impending overhaul of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act filing process scheduled to take effect on February 10, 2025—subject to potential delay based on President Trump’s January 20, 2025...more
On 10 January 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced new, increased reporting thresholds and filing fees for transactions requiring premerger notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of...more
There is a lot of uncertainty in the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) world. The new rules on what must be included in an HSR filing have been issued and are due to take effect on February 10, 2025, but that could be derailed or...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on January 10, 2025, changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds and filing fees. The 2025 HSR reporting threshold will increase from $119.5 million to...more
On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its adjusted reporting thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (HSR Act). The FTC revises the HSR Act thresholds...more
On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published new, higher notification thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the “HSR Act”). The HSR Act requires the FTC to adjust...more
The Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act thresholds, which determine whether mergers and acquisitions must be reported to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), will increase by nearly 6% in February...more
The initial days of 2025 ushered in a trifecta of significant antitrust updates for dealmakers. First, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced its annual adjustment to the monetary thresholds that apply to...more
On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission announced revised jurisdictional thresholds and a revised filing fee schedule under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”). Also on January 10,...more
On Jan. 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission announced the 2025 adjusted thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”). The HSR Act notification requirements apply to transactions...more
Transactions valued at over $126.4 million will require HSR premerger notification in 2025. The updated thresholds are expected to take effect for transactions closing in mid- to late February 2025. These annual updates come...more
On Jan. 10, the FTC announced the 2025 filing thresholds under the HSR Act, as well as the 2025 filing fees. The new thresholds will be published in the Federal Register in the coming days and will apply to transactions...more
FTC adjusts the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act size thresholds, raising the minimum size for reportable acquisitions to $126.4 million. On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced new jurisdictional...more
Each year, the FTC adjusts the reporting thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the HSR Act) based on changes in the gross national product...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unanimously passed a landmark rulemaking that significantly alters reporting requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended. Though less...more
The Federal Trade Commission has announced new, nearly 10 percent higher premerger notification thresholds that will take effect February 23, 2022, and thus apply to transactions closing on or after that date. The new minimum...more
As required by the HSR Act, on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released its annual adjustments to the reporting thresholds. The key number to remember is now $101 million. Note, this is an increase...more
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced reporting thresholds under Section 7A of the Clayton Act, known as the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the Act), will decrease. The Act...more
On February 1, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds. The FTC is required by law to revise the jurisdictional thresholds...more
The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”) requires that parties to significant mergers, acquisitions, or other transactions notify the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Department of Justice...more
The Situation: Previously, neither the Federal Trade Commission nor the Department of Justice has provided clear guidance on whether side letters must be submitted with filings associated with the Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust...more