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The 2024 adjusted HSR threshold is $119.5 million and goes into effect on March 6, 2024. All transactions valued below that amount will be exempt from the HSR filing requirement. The 2024 adjusted Size of Party thresholds...more
On January 22, 2024, 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
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced revisions to the thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR), which will apply to all transactions closing on or after March 6, 2024....more
Effective on March 6, 2024, the mandatory notification thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”), will be increasing. The Size of Transaction threshold will jump...more
The size-of-transaction threshold under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act will increase to $119.5 million, and the largest filing fee will increase to $2.335 million. As a result of the increase in the U.S. Gross National Product...more
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 (FTC) and...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds. The HSR Act requires all persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions, which meet or exceed...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Monday, January 22, 2024 that the jurisdictional thresholds for filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act) will increase in 2024, including an...more
On January 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its annual adjustments to the filing thresholds and fees under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act). Because of this year's...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has revised the thresholds that govern pre-merger notification requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR Act”), and Section 8 of the...more
The Federal Trade Commission announced the annual revised thresholds for merger notifications under the Hart Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR Act”). The thresholds are revised annually based...more
On January 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revised thresholds for merger notifications under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. Effective 30 days after the official publication date in the Federal...more
As required by the HSR Act, on January 22, 2024, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released its annual adjustments to the reporting thresholds and filing fees. The key number to remember is now $119.5 million. ...more
FTC adjusts the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act size thresholds, raising the minimum size for reportable acquisitions to $119.5 million. On January 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced new jurisdictional...more
In January 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made three important announcements for M&A practitioners....more
On Jan. 22, the FTC announced the 2024 filing thresholds under the HSR Act, as well as the 2024 filing fees. The new thresholds will be published in the Federal Register in the coming days....more
On Jan. 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced new premerger filing thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) and new filing fee thresholds under the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022. The...more
Tracking the economy’s continued growth and the resulting increase in GNP, the HSR filing thresholds increased by about 7.3 percent. The new minimum size-of-transaction threshold increased from US$111.4 million to...more
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
On January 23, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released the revised Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act jurisdictional thresholds for 2023. The FTC is required by law to revise the HSR Act monetary jurisdictional thresholds...more
The Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act requires parties to transactions that meet certain thresholds to notify the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and observe a waiting period prior to closing unless...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced this year's revisions to the thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR), which will apply to all transactions closing on or after Feb. 27,...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds – effective for deals closing on or after February 27, 2023 – and the new HSR merger filing fees....more
On January 23, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced increased reporting thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the Act). The new thresholds will go into effect on...more
The new Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”) thresholds will go into effect on February 27, 2023 and will apply to all transactions closing on or after that date. As previewed in...more