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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Biden Administration’s “Extensive Review of Interlocking Directorates Across the Entire Economy” May Put Your Board...

The identification, investigation and removal of persons who serve as directors or officers of two competing companies (i.e., “horizontal interlocks”) is a significant component of the Biden Administration’s antitrust...more

Hinckley Allen

Revised Hart-Scott-Rodino Thresholds for 2024

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On January 22, 2024, 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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

New HSR Act Size-of-Transaction Increasing to $119.5 Million; Filing Fee Increases Going Into Effect Soon

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

Hogan Lovells

New HSR and interlocking directorate thresholds announced for 2024

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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

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US Antitrust Regulators Continue to Crack Down on Interlocking Directorates, and the FTC Expands Scope of Clayton Act to...

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On August 16, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an agreement with natural gas producer EQT Corporation (EQT) and private equity firm Quantum Energy Partners (Quantum) to resolve concerns stemming from alleged...more

Cozen O'Connor

FTC Obtains Structural Relief to Protect Competition in Natural Gas Market

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The FTC has agreed to a consent order to resolve antitrust concerns surrounding a proposed $5.2 billion cash-and-stock deal that would make private equity firm Quantum Energy Partners one of the largest shareholders of...more

Paul Hastings LLP

FTC Plans Massive Revamp of HSR Act Reporting Requirements

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Big changes appear to be in store for the premerger notification program under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the “HSR Act”). The HSR notification process currently requires parties to transactions...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

DOJ Continues “Vibrant Section 8 Enforcement” to Purge Companies of Potentially Anticompetitive Interlocking Directorates

In March 2023, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) announced that five additional directors have resigned from four corporate boards in response to the DOJ’s efforts to enforce prohibitions against so-called...more

Epstein Becker & Green

DOJ’s Antitrust Division Continues Its Pursuit of Overlapping Directorates

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On March 9, 2023, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that five directors resigned from four separate corporate boards and that another corporation declined to exercise its board...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

FTC Announces Increase in Filing Thresholds Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for 2023 for Premerger Notifications and Interlocking...

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

New HSR Act Size-of-Transaction Increasing to $111.4 Million; New HSR Act Filing Fees Going Into Effect Next Month

On January 26, 2023, 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

Hogan Lovells

New HSR and interlocking directorate thresholds announced for 2023

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On 23 January 2023, 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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FTC Updates HSR Filing Fees and Revises Thresholds for 2023; Minimum Size for Reportable Transactions Increases to $111.4 Million

Key Points - The HSR Act requires parties that meet certain transaction size and other tests to file premerger notification forms for mergers and other transactions with both the Federal Trade Commission and Department of...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Antitrust and the Interlocking Directorate Rules: What They Are and What To Do About Them

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BACKGROUND: The Rule - What It Means and What It Prohibits - A somewhat little-known and obscure provision of U.S. antitrust law – Section 8 of the Clayton Act – makes it illegal in certain circumstances for the same person...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

DOJ Antitrust Division Ramping Up Enforcement Efforts Against Interlocking Directorates

In April 2022, Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) previewed the DOJ’s intent to more aggressively enforce the prohibition on interlocking directorates under...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Interlocking Directorates: The DOJ’s Latest Target

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In 2021, the Biden administration pledged to ramp up antitrust enforcement efforts through an executive order. The next year, the Department of Justice’s Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter announced the agency would...more

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Promise Made, Promise Kept: The Justice Department Follows Through With Interlocking Directorate Enforcement

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On October 19, 2022, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a press release heralding the resignation of seven directors from ten companies’ boards of directors in response to the government’s...more

Venable LLP

DOJ Makes Good on Promise to Actively Prosecute Interlocking Directorships

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​​​​​​​Back in April 2022, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Jonathan Kanter hinted very strongly that the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be looking at Section 8 violations of the Clayton Act. That...more

The Volkov Law Group

Antitrust Division Keeps on Pushing and Announces Initial Settlements of Potentially Illegal Interlocking Directorates

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The Antitrust Division announced last year that it intended to reinvigorate enforcement of Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits directors and officers serving simultaneously on the boards of competitors (with limited...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

How To Assess Interlocking Directorates In Antitrust Ramp-Up

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Recent activity and statements from the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission signal that the federal agencies are likely to be more aggressive in pursuing enforcement against what they identify as...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

DOJ Antitrust Targets Directors Serving on Boards of Competing Companies

Key Points - Seven directors have resigned from the boards of five companies in response to U.S. DOJ concerns that their positions potentially violated Section 8 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 19, which prohibits a...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

FTC Announces 2022 Thresholds Under HSR Act and Clayton Act

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Primary HSR filing threshold will be increased to $101 million - The Federal Trade Commission has announced revisions to HSR Act and Clayton Act Section 8 thresholds, which are indexed annually to account for prior year...more

Jones Day

U.S. Merger Notification Threshold Increases to $101 Million

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The lowest U.S. merger notification threshold will exceed $100 million for the first time effective February 23, 2022. The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced that the Hart-Scott-Rodino ("HSR") Act filing...more

A&O Shearman

FTC Increases HSR Thresholds in 2022

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On January 21, 2022, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”). The official publication is...more

Dechert LLP

Hart-Scott-Rodino annual adjustments announced for 2022; significant increase brings minimum threshold over US$100 million

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On January 21, 2022, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that the dollar-based thresholds applicable to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) premerger notification program will be raised about 9.7% percent from the...more

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