Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Mergers, Acquisitions, and Antitrust
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One hundred days ago, sweeping revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Premerger Notification Form took effect. The revisions have significantly increased the time and effort to prepare HSR filings and have led filing parties...more
Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), with concurrence from the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), issued a Final Rule implementing substantial changes to the pre-merger notification...more
Background Note: The Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act established the Premerger Notification Program, requiring certain mergers and acquisitions to be reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice...more
Effective July 27, 2025, any person that files a Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act Notification and Report Form (HSR Form) with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) must also submit an electronic...more
States’ merger review and enforcement initiatives continue to expand as Washington adopts the nation’s first “mini-HSR” rule. On April 4, 2025, the State of Washington passed the Antitrust Premerger Notification Act...more
On April 4, Washington became the first state to adopt the Uniform Premerger Notification Act (Act) when Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the bill into law. The new statute imposes state-level premerger filing...more
On April 4, 2025, Gov. Bob Ferguson of Washington state signed S.B. 5122, making Washington the first state to enact the Uniform Law Commission’s “Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act.” Overview of the New...more
New Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification rules, which took effect in February, require that companies now provide more information than ever before about their prospective mergers. Meanwhile, both federal and state...more
On April 4, 2025, Washington became the first state to enact the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (Model Act), requiring parties to certain notifiable transactions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust...more
Legislatures in several states have recently introduced bills that would require certain parties who submit Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger filings to the federal government to provide that same information to the state. On...more
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: The March 2025 Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filings dropped to 89 transactions, marking the lowest monthly total since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in April and May 2020. This...more
The federal premerger notification program administered under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act recorded just 89 transactions in March 2025, marking the lowest monthly filing total in nearly five years. This downturn is the...more
The members of BakerHostetler’s Antitrust and Competition Team are pleased to present these brief updates from the conference sessions on Day 2 at this week’s ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C....more
On Feb. 10, 2025, the new premerger notification and report forms under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act became effective. The new HSR forms make significant changes to the reporting obligations of both acquiring and acquired...more
This episode is part of our “Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation” series, where we discuss trends in consolidation and closures in higher education, and outline common characteristics of...more
Each year, the minimum jurisdictional thresholds associated with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) are adjusted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The 2025 adjustments went into effect on...more
On 10 February 2025, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) overhaul of the rules implementing the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) became effective. The new rules now apply to all reportable...more
The FTC’s new Hart-Scott-Rodino rule, which we described in a previous publication, took effect earlier this month. Below are five key takeaways for corporate counsel...more
The new Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Premerger Notification and Report Form (the “Form”) went into effect on February 10, 2025....more
The Federal Trade Commission, the agency that administers the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”), has announced the annual adjustments to its coverage, filing fee, and other dollar-denominated...more
We’re excited to be visiting Sydney next week to catch up with competition law colleagues on our way to the ABA 2025 Asia-Pacific Conference. This is a time of unprecedented activity and change in antitrust law and policy...more
Not every investment firm countersues the acting assistant attorney general of the United States for the Antitrust Division, the United States Department of Justice (Antitrust Division), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC),...more
In October 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its final rules governing pre-merger notification protocols under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act). The Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice quickly...more
The much-anticipated new rule expanding the requirements for Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) filings went into effect Feb. 10, 2025. The rule, which is projected to lead to a substantial increase in the time and effort required...more
The outlook for federal antitrust enforcement remains murky, at best, with uncertainty about whether the new federal HSR rules, merger guidelines, and existing enforcement actions. The forecast for state antitrust...more