Effective mid-January 2025, the FTC’s new HSR notification process will significantly increase the burden and cost of filing M&A notifications under the HSR Act.
On October 10, 2024, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved new requirements for reporting qualifying M&A transactions to the FTC and US Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act (the HSR rules). The new HSR rules significantly expand the amount of information parties must submit to the FTC and DOJ to file under the HSR Act as compared to the decades-old HSR notification form.
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