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
1/23/2025
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On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released the final revised rules governing premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act. The new HSR filing requirements...more
10/25/2024
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On March 5, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly issued a Request for Information on Consolidation in Health Care...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) on December 21, 2023, released the FY 2022 HSR Annual Report (the Report). The Report covers the period October 1, 2021, through...more
On July 19, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) (collectively, the Agencies) released the long-anticipated updated draft Merger Guidelines1 (the Guidelines) for a...more
Since the mid-1990s, human resource (HR) professionals (and those advising them) have relied on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) “antitrust safety zone” articulated in Statement 6 of the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced new, higher premerger notification thresholds. The new minimum size-of-transaction threshold will be $111.4 million.
The FTC simultaneously announced implementation of the...more
On January 18, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ, and together with the FTC, Antitrust Agencies) announced that they are “seek[ing] public comment on how the...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