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In a merger control environment that has been steadily evolving over the past several years, M&A parties can less and less rely solely on traditional notification thresholds to assess filing obligations and antitrust risk....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
Nearly two years ago, and as previously discussed in a Proskauer alert, New York enacted Public Health Law Article 45-A (the “Material Transactions Law”), which requires reporting of certain material health care transactions....more
On 28 March 2025, the Australian Government (the Government) published its draft Determination providing the beginnings of detail about the acquisitions that are the subject of mandatory notification, some of the exceptions...more
March 31, 2025 marks the first day of implementing the UAE's mandatory and suspensory new Competition Law regime, which entered into force in 2023 and was supplemented by a Ministerial Decree earlier this year. As of today,...more
Earlier this month, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) released its first formal guidance under Public Health Law (PHL) Article 45-A, the state’s recently enacted healthcare transaction notice law. Issued in the...more
In February 2024, we shared an update on the UAE’s competition landscape in which we summarised the changes brought by Federal Decree-Law No. 36 of 2023 on the Regulation of Competition (the New Law). Notably, in the update...more
The United Arab Emirates (“UAE”) recently announced a turnover-based threshold for merger control filings that supplements the Federal Decree-Law No. 36 of 2023 (“UAE 2023 Competition Law”). The 2023 law stated that a...more
The United Arab Emirates enacted a new competition law in December 2023, which revamped the country's merger control regime and adopted a turnover-based threshold in addition to a market-share threshold... The UAE government...more
On January 10, 2025, 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
On January 22, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published in the Federal Register its annual adjustments for notification thresholds regarding proposed mergers and acquisitions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust...more
On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) announced revised statutory thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the “Hart-Scott-Rodino Act” or “HSR”). These thresholds, which...more
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
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
By means of Resolution No. 81005 of 2024, the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio or SIC) of Colombia established the new economic thresholds that will govern the notification of...more
On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revised notification thresholds and filing fees under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act), as required by Section 7A of the Clayton Act. If a proposed merger,...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
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
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
Merger control: The merger control thresholds in the UK have been broadened to capture ‘vertical’ and ‘conglomerate’ transactions (transactions involving parties that do not have overlapping activities). New SMS regime: A...more
On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced adjusted thresholds for merger notifications under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. Effective 30 days after the official publication date of the adjusted...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
As a result of the increase in the U.S. Gross National Product (GNP) for 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced an increase in the jurisdictional filing thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust...more
The FTC just announced its annual changes to both certain thresholds which govern the need to make an HSR filing, the fees associated with required filings and which dictate the legality of interlocking directorates. The...more