The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on January 10, 2025 that it will raise the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. The increased thresholds will go into effect 30 days after...more
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The 2024 US election cycle underscored the strong and varied views of the American electorate. However, there is at least one federal government agency where Republicans and Democrats have seen eye-to-eye more than many might...more
On the same day it released its final Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) Rules,1 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released the Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2023 (the Report),2 which includes Hart-Scott-Rodino...more
More than a year after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first proposed far-reaching changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) pre-merger notification rules, the FTC—via a unanimous and therefore bipartisan vote of its...more
California enacted AB 853, which requires merging parties in retail grocery and pharmacy-related transactions (presumably with a nexus to California) that meet certain thresholds to notify the California attorney general and...more