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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced this year's revisions to the thresholds and filing fees under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR), which will apply to all transactions closing on or...more
The Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act requires parties to transactions that meet certain thresholds to notify the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and observe a waiting period prior to closing unless...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced new, higher, premerger Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds and higher filing fees for some transactions, which will take effect on February 21, 2025. The new...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
On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a unanimous 5-0 vote to finalize changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification program, including changes to the HSR form and associated...more
After an extension signed into law in mid-January 2024, the U.S. government’s funding bills are now set to expire on March 1 or March 8, 2024. It is therefore possible once again that there will soon be a government shutdown,...more
On June 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in collaboration with the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced a proposal to overhaul the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act premerger notification program. If adopted, the...more
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
On January 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) announced that it will (i) increase the dollar-based thresholds used to determine whether parties are required to notify federal antitrust authorities about a...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 March 6, 2024. The revised...more
Annually, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reviews and adjusts the premerger notification reporting thresholds for reporting acquisitions of voting securities, assets, or noncorporate interests (each a Transaction) under...more
On 22 January 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced new, increased thresholds and filing fees for transactions requiring premerger notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as...more
On January 22, 2024, 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
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Monday, January 22, 2024 that the jurisdictional thresholds for filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act) will increase in 2024, including an...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has revised the thresholds that govern pre-merger notification requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR Act”), and Section 8 of the...more
In January 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made three important announcements for M&A practitioners....more
On Jan. 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced new premerger filing thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) and new filing fee thresholds under the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022. The...more
On January 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual jurisdictional adjustments for premerger notification filings made pursuant to Section 7A of the Clayton Act, known as the Hart-Scott-Rodino...more
The annual revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act reporting thresholds have arrived. The new thresholds for notification will apply to all transactions that close on or after the effective date of the notice, which is...more
On January 26, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published in the Federal Register its annual adjustment for notification thresholds regarding proposed mergers and acquisitions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust...more
On January 23, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revised thresholds for merger notifications under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. Effective on February 27, 2023, the lowest size-of-transaction filing...more
HSR Notice Thresholds Have Increased. On January 26, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its revised annual threshold that determines whether companies may be required to notify federal antitrust authorities...more
On January 26, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the revised thresholds to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act)....more