Robert Baldwin

Jan 14, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Robert Baldwin |John Hamilton |Michele Harrington

On 10 January 2025, 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 Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act). The FTC also published an updated HSR filing fee schedule.

Oct 14, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Robert Baldwin |John Hamilton |Michele Harrington

On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its final rule revising the requirements for premerger filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act).

Feb 27, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Robert Baldwin |Logan Breed |Ken Field

In late January 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released an updated operating plan in the event Congress does not pass a funding bill and the government shuts down. In a dramatic departure from prior practice, the FTC for the first time plans to also close down its premerger filing operations during such a scenario.  This change will prevent merging parties from making required Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) filings and starting required HSR pre-closing waiting periods during the shutdown.

Jan 24, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Robert Baldwin |John Hamilton |Michele Harrington

Under the HSR Act, certain acquisitions of assets, voting securities, or interests in noncorporate entities (such as partnerships or limited liability companies) are subject to preclosing notification to the U.S. antitrust agencies and waiting period requirements if the applicable jurisdictional thresholds are satisfied and no exemption applies. Each year the FTC adjusts the HSR jurisdictional threshold tests based on changes to the U.S. gross national product.

Dec 20, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Robert Baldwin |Justin Bernick |Logan Breed

On December 18, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) (“the Agencies”) released the 2023 Merger Guidelines (the Merger Guidelines). The substance of the new guidelines does not stray significantly from the Agencies’ Draft Merger Guidelines published in July 2023, and contains most of the same expanded theories of harm first laid out there by the Agencies.